Severn House Publishers imprint: 631 books
Skeleton Blues
A dystopian thriller set in Edinburgh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
“As the stakes rise, Johnston keeps the logical twists coming while making his dystopian future plausible”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Ex-cop Quint Dalrymple discovers there is something very rotten in the independent city-state of Edinburgh in this near-future dystopian thriller.
Edinburgh,...
Louise's Lies
A 1940s spy thriller set in wartime Washington D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
“Shaber does a fine job portraying the plight of alien residents in wartime Washington, besides conveying the hectic atmosphere of a city whose resources are stretched to the limit by an influx of new workers”
Publishers Weekly Starred Review
When a body is discovered in a Washington bar,...
Stick or Twist
A contemporary romantic suspense
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
“Janes deftly, suddenly transforms her audience’s understanding of her protagonists several times without making delayed disclosures feel like literary trickery, keeping tension high to the very end” Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Wealthy heiress Jude Thackeray lost her trust in men...
Cold Bayou
A historical mystery set in New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Everyone at the family wedding was hoping someone would murder the bride … The intriguing new Benjamin January mystery.
“Don’t go to Cold Bayou, brother … Nuthin’ good waiting for you there.”
New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the...
Pilgrimage to Murder, A
A Medieval Mystery set in 14th Century London
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Summer, 1381. The Great Revolt has been crushed; the king’s peace ruthlessly enforced. Brother Athelstan meanwhile is preparing for a pilgrimage to St Thomas a Becket’s shrine in Canterbury to give thanks for the wellbeing of his congregation after the violent rebellion.
But preparations...
After the Exhibition
A classic British mystery set in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A church art exhibition turns deadly . . .
‘Art, my dear boy,’ said Mr Askern, ‘especially sacred art, needs tradition. Tradition is the bedrock of our art . . .’
He broke off, staring at the woman in front of him. Her face seemed to lose all definition and her skin turned an...
Dark Side of the Road, The
A country house murder mystery with a supernatural twist
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Ishmael Jones is someone who can’t afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He’s employed to search out secrets, investigate mysteries and shine a light in dark places. Sometimes he kills people. Invited by his employer, the enigmatic Colonel,...
by Rosemary Rowe
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Libertus accepts a contract to install a pavement for Genialis, a self-important citizen from a nearby town, in the house of the customer's intended but unwilling and young bride, Silvia. However, the winter is exceptionally severe, and although the mosaic is laid in time to earn the promised bonus,...
Fateful Day, The
A mystery set in Roman Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
A compelling new mystery for Libertus, set against the backdrop of the Roman Empire in turmoil and fighting for its survival . . .
Libertus is passing the villa of his patron, Marcus Septimus Aurelius, when he sees an elaborate travelling carriage which has pulled up outside and is now blocking...
by Elizabeth Gunn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The latest in the acclaimed Jake Hines detective series - A dead man is discovered in a suburban house that is being used as a drugs lab, and Captain Jake Hines pulls in all his detectives to investigate. The victim carried no identification but the discovery of a small Mass card written in the Cyrillic...
by Graham Masterton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A gala of gore from the “master of modern horror” (Library Journal) Award-winning horror writer and master of the macabre, Graham Masterton presents a blood-curdling array of treats: twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse. Marvel at the...
by Eric Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The theft of a painting takes crime-writer sleuth Donald Langham to a country house full of seething tensions, resentment and dark secrets. November, 1956. Lord Elsmere, an old friend of Donald Langham’s literary agent, Charles Elder, is in a pickle – his favourite painting, a Gainsborough, has...
To the Last Drop
A coffee house cozy mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Maggy Thorsen returns in this brand-new coffeehouse mystery, where the death of her ex-husband's colleague leads to events that hit Maggy close to home - in more ways than one . . .
Maggy Thorsen's shock at finding her ex-husband Ted in a fight with William Swopes, an oral surgeon at Ted's...
Importance of Being Urnest
A coffee house cozy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Maggy confronts a number of mysterious deaths and has an important decision to make about her future with Sheriff Jake Pavlik in the new Maggy Thorsen coffeehouse mystery.
The choice of an antique silver coffee urn as the final resting place for elderly Celeste Bouchard's ashes might seem a...