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The Shattered Tree: A Bess Crawford Mystery

Charles Todd · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background - and uncover his true loyalties - in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review) .At the foot...
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When the Music's Over: An Inspector Banks Novel

Peter Robinson · William Morrow
Pages: 432
Format: Print book

Inspector Alan Banks - hailed as "a man for all seasons" by Michael Connelly - must face the music when he becomes embroiled in one of his most perplexing and distressing cases in this haunting page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.Two women. Two crimes.The...
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Crowned and Dangerous: A Royal Spyness Mystery

Rhys Bowen · Berkley Prime Crime
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

Nothing is simple when you're thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, least of all marriage. But with love on their side, and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her beau Darcy O'Mara hope to bypass a few royal rules...With Darcy driving me out of London in a borrowed motor car,...
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Dust to Dust

Margaret Duffy · Severn House
Pages: 220
Format: Print book

Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley face their biggest challenge to date when senior NCA official Richard Daws is murdered. The murder of Richard Daws, 14th Earl of Hartwood and a senior official at the National Crime Agency at his home - the highly secure Hartwood Castle - has sent...
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The Baker Street Jurors: A Baker Street Mystery

Michael Robertson · Minotaur Books
Pages: 272
Format: Print book

Everyone must do jury duty. Even Sherlock Holmes.A nation's greatest sports hero has been accused of murder. The trial is approaching, and the public is clamoring -- both for and against. And in a desperate, computer-generated quest to fill its quota of jurors, the Crown Court has included...
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Arsenic with Austen: A Mystery

Katherine Bolger Hyde · Minotaur Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart 35 years before, and nearly lose her own life.Emily travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach,...
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Die Like an Eagle: A Meg Langslow Mystery

Donna Andrews · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

The brilliantly funny Donna Andrews delivers another winner in the acclaimed avian-themed series that mystery readers have come to love. The nineteenth book in her New York Times best-selling series continues to surprise and delight in this next knee-slapping adventure featuring Meg Langslow...
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A Time of Torment: A Charlie Parker Thriller

John Connolly · Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pages: 480
Format: Print book

"Connolly again displays his mastery at combining the hard-boiled with the supernatural." - Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) Dangerous and driven private investigator Charlie Parker returns in the latest gripping thriller of internationally bestselling author John...
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Vita Brevis: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire

Ruth Downie · Bloomsbury
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Ruso and Tilla's excitement at arriving in Rome with their new baby daughter is soon dulled by their discovery that the grand facades of polished marble mask an underworld of corrupt landlords and vermin-infested tenements. There are also far too many doctors--some skilled--but others positively...
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Breaking Cover: A Liz Carlyle Novel

Stella Rimington · Bloomsbury
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

A new Cold War is coming, and Liz Carlyle is about to find herself on very thin ice. Still reeling from the loss of the man she loved in a botched antiterrorist operation in Paris, Carlyle has been posted to MI5's counter-espionage desk, where her bosses hope the relative quiet might...
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