Mystery & Detective

Cause of Death

by Jane A Adams

Life is looking up for Rina Martin, with the expected revival of her television career, but as her happy summer ends, storm clouds are on the horizon . . . Summer in Frantham has been long and lazy. In the Martin...

The Thing Itself

by Peter Guttridge

The gripping new thriller in Peter Guttridge's highly acclaimed Brighton series. The truth will out. Thriller writer Victor Tempest is dead and his son, the disgraced ex-Chief Constable Bob Watts, is discovering...

Where is the Baby

by Charlotte Vale-Allen

An act of courage leads to a small girl's fight to face the future against all odds in this disturbing and moving tale from an award-winning author. When little Humaby escapes from a locked van and runs for...

Brute Strength

by Susan Conant

The new 'Holly Winter' dog mystery - When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter rejects applicants who want to adopt homeless dogs, she makes a lot of enemies. In dogs Holly trusts, and the dogs she trusts most...

A Quiet Death

Hannah Ives #10

by Marcia Talley

The new Hannah Ives mystery - Hannah is returning from a charity luncheon in Washington, DC, when her train is involved in a horrific crash. Although her arm is broken, she remains at the side of her critically...

Louise's War

by Sarah Shaber

The first in a new series from the author of the 'Simon Shaw' books - 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work as a clerk for the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA. When,...

The Miser of Cherry Hill

by Scott Mackay

The new mystery featuring Dr Clyde Deacon - A gun that wasn't fired. A bridge that wasn't crossed. And a tack that wasn't used. These are the challenging clues Dr Clyde Deacon, a small-town physician in 1902...

Summer Session

by Merry Jones

The first in a new series from the author of the 'Zoe Hayes' books - Harper Jennings is an Iraqi war veteran with PTSD. Now a teaching assistant at Cornell, her life is rosy until, carrying out repairs on their...

I'm a Fool to Kill You

Rat Pack Mysteries #5

by Robert Randisi

A Rat Pack Mystery - When a rumour spreads that Frank Sinatra's ex-wife, Hollywood Goddess Ava Gardner, was seen in the Sands Hotel & Casino in a state of distress, sleuth Eddie G. is asked to check it out....

Fly Me To the Morgue

Rat Pack Mysteries #6

by Robert Randisi

The new Rat Pack mystery - Bing Crosby wants to buy a horse to indulge his other passion - when he's not playing golf with Bob Hope, that is. But when his trainer fails to show up in Vegas, and when he finds...

Red Leaves

Barry Best Novel 2006

by Thomas H. Cook

Eric Moore has reason to be happy. He has a prosperous business, a comfortable home, a stable family life in a quiet town. Then, on an ordinary night, his teenage son Keith is asked to babysit Amy Giordano,...

Valley of the Shadow

by Tom Pawlik

Conner Hayden is certain he survived his near-death experience for a reason. He thinks it's to save the life-and soul-of Mitch Kent. Mitch's body remains on life support while his spirit is trapped with the...

Hotspur

"Sister" Jane Foxhunting Mysteries #2

by Rita Mae Brown

In her well-received novel Outfoxed, Rita Mae Brown vividly and deftly brought to life the genteel world of foxhunting, where hunters, horses, hounds, and foxes form a tightly knit community amidst old money...

The Italian Affair

by Loren Teague

Gina Rosselini, the granddaughter of a wealthy fishing magnate, lives a charmed life—until her twin sister is shot and Gina is marked as the gunman’s next target. The Rosselini family hire Rick Caruso, an...

The Worcester Whisperers

by Kerry Tombs

A few weeks before the outbreak of the infamous Ripper murders in 1888, Detective Inspector Samuel Ravenscroft of the Whitechapel Constabulary is sent to the peaceful county town of Worcester to investigate...

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton

by Elizabeth Speller

When the body of an unknown woman is discovered on the grounds of the Easton manor house, World War I veteran Lawrence Bartram is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth where the family's secrets are lurking—and...

Beyond the Storm

by E. V. Thompson

When the fiercest storm in living memory pounds the shores of 19th century Cornwall, wrecking ships and bringing death and destruction to seafarers and coastal communities, a young girl is found, barely alive,...

Year of the Tiger: A wartime secret in Singapore triggers a global bioterrorism nightmare

by David Miller

During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army under General Tomoyuki Yamashita looted untold amounts of gold and other valuables from across its occupied colonies in Southeast Asia to fi nance the empire's...

Do Unto Others

Macavity Best First Mystery Novel 1995, Agatha Award for Best First Novel 1994

by Jeff Abbott

Jordan Poteet has left the big city to work as a librarian in his hometown of Mirabeau, Texas. But his dream of the quiet life is shattered when he locks horns with Miss Beta Harcher, the town's prize religious...

Time Will Tell

by Donald Greig

Andrew Eiger, an ambitious American musicologist, is stuck in a small college in the Midwest when fate delivers him an original fifteenth-century manuscript. It’s his calling card to the finest academic institutions,...