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False Alarm

by Rekha Ambardar

When Officer David Zellner is called in to investigate a burglary at a jewelry store, he soon discovers that although the employees and owner seem happy on the outside, each of them has their own motive for...


The The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes

by June Thomson

Murder, deception and the long shadow of Moriarty. All in a day’s work for the great Sherlock Holmes.

The unpublished manuscripts of Dr John Watson, concealed for years in the depths of a Charing Cross bank...


Slay Belles: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery (An eSpecial from New American Library)

by Nancy Martin

A classic Blackbird Sisters novella, available digitally for the first time!

Whoever coined the phrase “Shop till you drop” certainly never meant “Shop till you drop dead.” But premier personal shopper...


Arrow From Nowhere

by Robert Leslie Bellem

There was only one man on the set who could have shot the arrow, yet Dan hated to think Jeff could be guilty. Motive tumbles over motive, and suspect waltzes around with suspect-but there still remains the question:...


Knight of Swords

by Ian Breckon

Winter 1944: northern Italy is a battlefield, with Communist partisans locked in vicious conflict with the forces of Mussolini’s fascist Republic of Salò. Brookes, a wounded fugitive, finds shelter in an...


The Girl in the Portrait

by Rekha Ambardar

Peggy Maynard goes down to the basement one morning to find her husband working on the painting of a young woman. He covers the painting as if to conceal it from her. Then, one day, both Will and the painting...


Hardly Knew Her

by Laura Lippman

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular...


Framed

by Nancy Springer

For picture framer Veronica Phillips, the most dangerous thing that happens to her on a typical day is a sheet of glass breaking or getting cut by an errant wire. When a key comes out of the back of a picture...


The Precipice

by Ray Cummings

Finding the body was enough evidence to show just how the killer had worked in cold-blooded wickedness. (note: a short story) Excerpt Old Man Macpherson was dying. There was no argument on that. You could see...


Pardoner's Crime

by Keith Souter

It is 1322 and Sir Richard Lee, Sergeant-at-Law, has been sent to Sandal Castle by King Edward II to preside over the court of the Manor of Wakefield. Within hours of his arrival, Sir Richard and his assistant...


The Killings in Boulder Valley

by Arlen Blumhagen

The beautiful, majestic Boulder Valley. Where locals can enjoy everything that the Montana wilderness has to offer. Where tourists can "get away from it all," and relax beside a rushing mountain river. The Boulder...


Stone of Vengeance

by Vickie Britton & Loretta Jackson

Wealthy cattle baron Charles Kingsley is fatally shot in his home, a flat granite stone placed beneath his head. On the wall above his body among Western memorabilia, Kate Jepp notices an original invitation...


Avenging the Dead

by Guy Fraser

Superintendent Henry Jarrett, chief of the detective department at Glasgow Central, is under pressure from the Union Bank who are in the midst of a forgery scandal...but just as that investigation gets under...


A Study in Sherlock: Stories inspired by the Holmes canon

by Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King & Lee Child

BESTSELLING AUTHORS GO HOLMES—IN AN IRRESISTIBLE NEW COLLECTION edited by award-winning Sherlockians Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger

 

Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These are just three of eighteen...


Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

by Garrison Keillor

Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the page

On the 12th floor of the Acme Building, on a cold February day in St. Paul, Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver...


Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance

by Inc. Mystery Writers of America & Lee Child

When a different kind of justice is needed---swift, effective, and personal---a new type of avenger must take action. VENGEANCE features new stories by bestselling crime writers including Lee Child, Michael...


For the Good of the Clan

by Miles Archer

Ulat, the best hunter in the village, is dead. Ledeth, the aging shaman, must prepare the body so the victim's spirit may rest. Many of the Clan are lost to the innumerable hazards of their world, but when Ledeth...


Dead Letters: A MUSEUM MYSTERY SHORT STORY  (An eSpecial from Berkley Prime Crime)

by Sheila Connolly

Nell Pratt’s search into a family’s history may bring more than just dark secrets to light…

Nell Pratt, President of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society, is intrigued when Arthur Logan, elderly scion...


Fifty-Minutes Flaherty

by John A. Broussard

Fifty-Minutes Flahterty presents forty-one short stories in the tradition of Sherlock Holmes-with a difference. "Fifty-Minutes" Flaherty is Holmes brought up to date, accelerated, and sprinkled with humor. Homicide...


Cornelius Jubb

by Peter Robinson

In "Cornelius Jubb" author Peter Robinson tells the story of a young GI falsely accused of rape.