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England 1819. Thomas Shield, a master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the child’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Helplessly drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Shield becomes entwined in their family’s affairs. When a brutal murder takes place in London’s seedy backstreets, all clues lead to the Frant family, and Shield is tangled in a web of lies, money, sex and death that threatens to tear his new life apart. Soon, it emerges that at the heart of these macabre events lies the strange American boy. 

Undercover Pinkerton agent Clare Wright must find a killer in this gripping historical mystery from New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenow. June, 1890. Clare Wright, Pinkerton agent, is investigating an elaborate plot in New Mexico. Her cover job is working as a waitress at one of Fred...

A fiendish, twisty London-set mystery, based on real-life unsolved crime, that sees Holmes and Watson trawl the shabby districts of the East End as they try to uncover who is snatching girls from the streets, and why. It is 15 February 1890, and Doctor Watson receives a summons from his old...

Frances Lunn grew up running free on Assateague Island, a place made famous by wild horses, white-sand beaches, and whispers of lost treasure. Years later, she transformed that childhood into a best-selling memoir, until her sister Maeve publicly dismantled it, calling the story a fabrication and leaving Frances in personal and professional ruin.

With the lush atmosphere and timeless appeal of WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING, and the suspense of BROKEN COUNTRY, EMERALD LAKE tells the story of one halcyon summer that ends in tragedy, and the impact for one woman into the present day. One summer, one family, and one mystery that ripples through...

Miss Dainty knows her place--and refuses to stay in it. When Clarissa Dainty, an impoverished governess, discovers the dead body of her friend and fellow lodger, she's thrust into a mystery that no one seems eager to solve. With Bow Street indifferent to the demise of a penniless single woman...

Dr. Lydia Weston undertakes to clear the name of a woman surgeon embroiled in an ever-deepening medical scandal, set against the backdrop of the 1876 World’s Fair, in the riveting next book from the author of Murder by Degrees. The year is 1876 and the World’s Fair has come to Philadelphia...

The Bookbinder’s Code, a new HQ book, full description to follow when available...

If this pup doesn't get found fast, her feisty younger sister could be on the hook for a life-threatening crime . . . Manchester, England, 1960s. Miss Riddell has no taste for modern fashions. Which gives her yet another bone to pick with the youngest and wildest family member whom she blames...

When a celebrity bad boy is murdered in Jazz Age New York, a reporter, a detective, and a wife must navigate the dangerous gap between truth and power. Based on a real-life crime, The Ace of Spades is a gripping tale of genius, ambition, and deception. New York City, 1920. On a bright June...

There's more than one violent storm brewing at St. Ann's hospital in the legendary Mignon Eberhart's first book.Nothing prepared nurse Sarah Keate for the murder of a wealthy patient in his hospital bed during a fierce thunderstorm. Was the killer's motive the theft of the very expensive radium...

In this charming historical mystery, three women with family ties to Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, and Dorian Gray become unlikely detectives when the resident gossip at their boarding home dies under mysterious circumstances—from nationally bestselling author Christy Carlyle. London, 1901...

Thomas Finbow is sent to London by Lady Margaret on a sensitive mission - to seek out and persuade her husband - his master - Sir Robert to give up his foolish infatuation with Lady Imogen - a notorious woman of the Court. But once there, Thomas is thrown into a much graver situation - the body of a young woman is found washed up beside the Thames, terribly mutilated, and soon Thomas becomes caught up in a bizarre series of events including the theft of a corpse, and even his own imprisonment.

New York Times bestselling, Edgar Award–winning author Laurie R. King returns to the 1920s of Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, but then sets off into fabulous new worlds in this dynamic collection of thirteen suspense, crime, and speculative fiction stories, some beloved and others brand-new...

Basel 1890. Der Tod eines englischen Reisenden wirft Fragen auf. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson nehmen sich des Falles an und reisen auf den Kontinent. Während ihrer Ermittlungen zeigt sich, dass der Basilisk, ein mythisches Fabelwesen, welches dem Betrachter angeblich den Tod bringt, eine wichtige Rolle spielt.

A Gothic abbey, an eccentric family and a body in the great hall? Sounds like a case for Polly Hope! Yorkshire, December 1941. Polly Hope and her friend Freddie Fairbank are looking forward to visiting Westerby Abbey—a vast, stone-dark manor on the Yorkshire moors—to see if it will be...

*PREORDER NOW* The latest instalment in the Sunday Times bestselling Ali Dawson Mysteries sees Ali investigating the case of a boy who vanished twenty-seven years ago and finding herself in the past once again - only this time she's in the middle of the Blitz of 1940 Praise for the Ali Dawson...

'GRIPPING...I LOVED IT' Lisa Jewell 'A DELICIOUS TALE OF RIVALRY AND SISTERHOOD' Laura Shepherd-Robinson 'SEAMLESSLY TAUT AND TENSE' Emma Flint 'A VIVID AND RIVETING MYSTERY' Anna Mazzola IN A WORLD THAT WANTED WOMEN GROUNDED, THEY TOOK TO THE SKIES. It's the turn of the 20th Century, and the...

DEVILWOOD opens in 1994, where Wilbur Miller, a veteran cop, has been assigned to the gentler beat of the Alabama Agricultural and Rural Crimes Unit. What begins with him looking for a missing calf amidst rumours of a “painter” (the American word for panther) at large, finds him stumbling...

In the new Bangalore Detectives Club Mystery, Kaveri Murthy is enjoying herself in Mysore, India, surrounded by the beautiful city's palaces, temples, and lakes—filled with sacred crocodiles—until an old friend from Bangalore turns up dead. When Bangalore's most famous lady detective, Kaveri...