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Dangerous to Know
A Lillian Frost & Edith Head Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
A Seattle Times Best of 2017 Book!
Los Angeles, 1938. Former aspiring actress Lillian Frost is adjusting to a new life of boldfaced names as social secretary to a movie-mad millionaire. Costume designer Edith Head is running Paramount Pictures’ wardrobe department, but only until a suitable...
Chapel Noir
A Novel of Suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, and Jack the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2001
Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and the intellectual equal of most of the men she encounters, Irene is as much...
Crimson Lake
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
How do you move on when the world won’t let you?
12:46: Claire Bingleystands alone at a bus stop
12:47: Ted Conkaffey parks his car beside her
12:52: The girl is missing . . .
Six minutes in the wrong place at the wrong time—that’s all it took to ruin Sydney detective Ted Conkaffey’s...
Redemption Point
A Crimson Lake Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
#1 New York Times bestselling author Candice Fox delivers a compulsive new crime thriller in Redemption Point.
When former police detective Ted Conkaffey was wrongly accused of abducting Claire Bingley, he hoped the Queensland rainforest town of Crimson Lake would be a good place to disappear....
The Bughouse Affair
A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
In The Bughouse Affair, this first of a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations.
Sabina's...
Suspense and Sensibility or, First Impressions Revisited
A Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Fresh from the curious and unsettling matter of Caroline Bingley (as related in Pride and Prescience), Mr. and Mrs. Darcy have every intention of enjoying their still newlywed status at Pemberly until they are confronted with another mysterious situation, ... one of
Suspense and Sensibility
Elizabeth...
Night Work
A Michael Cassidy Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Night Work: the second book in David C. Taylor's transporting historical crime fiction series.
Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castro's successful revolution against the Batista dictatorship....
Castle Rouge
A Novel of Suspense featuring Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler, and Jack the Ripper
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2003
IRENE ADLER
Operatic diva. Femme fatale. Adventuress.
And one of the world's most intriguing detectives.
Before Caleb Carr, Anne Perry, and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a delightful look into Victoriana with one of the most impressive detective characters:...
The Difficult Saint
A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2000
In The Difficult Saint, Sharan Newman returns to medieval France and the murder-haunted Catherine LeVendeur, heroine of this acclaimed series. After a harrowing stay with Catherine's in-laws in Scotland, Catherine and her husband, Edgar, have returned home with their two small children to live a life...
The Wandering Arm
A Catherine LeVendeur Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2001
Heaven has a way of playing with mortals. When the mummified arm of St. Aldhelm is stolen from the Salisbury Cathedral in England, Catherine LeVendeur must find the lost reliquary to save those she loves -- and to do so, she must finally confront and come to terms with her family's Jewish heritage....
by Max Allan Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Long before November 22, 1963, Nathan Heller, "P.I. to the Stars," knows that a conspiracy is in the works. Several years earlier, Heller had been involved with the Kennedys, the Mob, and the CIA in the early stages of a plan to assassinate Fidel Castro. Shortly after, Heller's Mafia contact...
Better Dead
A Nathan Heller Thriller
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Better Dead: The latest Nathan Heller Thriller from Max Allan Collins!
It's the early 1950's. Joe McCarthy is campaigning to rid America of the Red Menace. Nate Heller is doing legwork for the senator, though the Chicago detective is disheartened by McCarthy's witch-hunting tactics. He's made...
The Plague of Thieves Affair
A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Sabina Carpenter and John Quinncannon are no stranger to mysteries. In the five years since they opened Carpenter and Quinncannon, Professional Detective Services, they have solved dozens, but one has eluded even them: Sherlock Holmes or, rather, the madman claiming his identity, who keeps showing...
by Sharan Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1997
A former novitiate in the Order of the Paraclete, Catherine LeVendeur has had more than her share of adventures. In fact, intrigue--and murder--seem to dog her path. When Catherine chose love over churchly devotion by falling in love with her Saxon nobleman, Edgar, her family as the earnest hope that...