St. Martin's Press / Collection : Minotaur Books

Family Practice

Susan Wren #3

by Charlene Weir

For Chief of Police Susan Wren, investigating a homicide comes with the territory, but when a young friend gets caught in the crossfire, the former big-city cop's routine work becomes a personal mission.

When...

Consider the Crows

Susan Wren #2

by Charlene Weir

A phone call announcing murder rudely interrupts a quiet Sunday morning for chief of police Susan Wren.  The body of Lynelle Hames, a quiet young woman newly arrived in Hampstead, Kansas, has been found near...

Edge of Midnight

Susan Wren #7

by Charlene Weir

A heat wave has struck Hampstead, Kansas, and Susan Wren, police chief of the sweltering town, has a vile flu. She struggles to keep up with work piling on her desk, while also dealing with a troubled teenage...

Murder Take Two

Susan Wren #4

by Charlene Weir

The last place that Chief of Police Susan Wren expects to find herself is in the middle of a real-life soap opera. But when a Hollywood film crew comes to the small town of Hampstead, Kansas, there seems to...

The Resistance

Louis Morgon #4

by Peter Steiner

“Literate crime thrillers don’t get much better than this.” —Publishers Weekly (starred) on L’Assassin 

Peter Steiner has thoroughly impressed sophisticated thriller mavens everywhere with his critically...

The Viper

Fredrik Broman #4

by Håkan Östlundh

 "Another Scandinavian star has been born into the world of crime fiction. Don't miss out on Hakan Ostlundh!"

 --Stephen Booth, author of The Devil’s Edge

Published in nine countries worldwide, Håkan Östlundh...

The Singapore School of Villainy

Inspector Singh Investigates #3

by Shamini Flint

"Inspector Singh is Singapore's answer to Dirty Harry—in a turban."

—Tarquin Hall, author of The Case of the Missing Servant  

Homicide detective Inspector Singh has returned home to Singapore to rest his...

Blind Faith

Caitlyn Tierney #1

by CJ Lyons & C. J. Lyons

Sarah Durandt knows the killer is dead. She watched him die from a lethal injection in the execution chamber. But Sarah finds little comfort in knowing that the deranged psychopath who murdered her husband and...

The Portrait of Doreene Gray

Gigi Chihuahua #2

by Esri Allbritten

“A little bit X-Files, a little bit Agatha Christie and a whole lotta charming. If you like your mysteries baffling, bizarre and, above all, fun, you're going to love it.”

--Steve Hockensmith, author of Holmes...

Zen and The Art of Murder

Zen Moses #1

by Elizabeth M. Cosin

To live and die in L.A.

Zen Moses is either having a bad day or bad karma. Her cat is dead. The IRS wants to talk to her. And she just found her long-lost cousin's body bound to a beer keg at her favorite neighborhood...

Amnesia

by G. H. Ephron

If the only witness to a murder has amnesia, how do you catch the killer?

Instead of matching fingerprints or DNA, forensic psychologist Dr. Peter Zak solves cases by studying psychological clues and phenomena....

Acts of Vengeance

Chief Inspector Neil Paget #5

by Frank Smith

On a stormy night in Broadminster, DCI Neil Paget walks a young constable to her car in a dark parking lot. As she roars past on her way home, Paget is attacked from behind, his throat viciously slit from ear...

Deep Pockets

Carlotta Carlyle #10

by Linda Barnes

Harvard professor Wilson Chaney's position in life is hanging by a thread; his marriage, his reputation, not to mention his tenure at Harvard are in the hands of a blackmailer, someone threatening to sell Chaney's...

Murder Makes a Pilgrimage

Sister Mary Helen #5

by Carol Anne O'Marie

Vivacious and outgoing, Lisa Springer was the most unlikely member of the free pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the birthplace of Christianity in Spain. And Sister Mary Helen soon had reason to suspect...

Murder in Ordinary Time

Sister Mary Helen #4

by Carol Anne O'Marie

Just one bite of that irresistible Christmas cookie and Christina Kelly, Channel 5's leading investigative reporter, was on the air--dead. The odor of bitter almond told Sister May Helen the cause of the death:...

The Heat of Lies

Julian Palmer #2

by Jonathan Stone

Young, beautiful, police detective Julian Palmer is growing up. Just a few years out of the New York Police Academy, she's earning her stripes fast. Julian has solved high profile murder cases, and been promoted...

Heart of the World

Carlotta Carlyle #11

by Linda Barnes

When private investigator Carlotta Carlyle is wakened by a late-night phone call, she discovers that her “little sister,” Paolina, the child with whom she was paired years ago by a local mentoring program,...

A Weekend at Blenheim

by J. P. Morrissey

In this enthralling and atmospheric tale of murder, revenge and redemption, a young American struggles to make sense of a world he does not understand, where the price of acceptance may be murder.

John Vanbrugh...

Judgment of the Grave

Sweeney St. George Mysteries #3

by Sarah Stewart Taylor

As gravestone expert Sweeney St. George tours burial sites of the Civil War, she stops to watch a battlefield reenactment in Massachusetts. There, she meets Pres Whiting, a boy whose family is in the gravestone...

Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham

Agatha Raisin #8

by M. C. Beaton

After a home dye job ruins her hair, Agatha Raisin, the prickly yet lovable amateur sleuth, turns to the wonderful new hairdresser in the neighboring town for help. And as Agatha soon learns, Mr. John is as...