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Home by Nightfall
A Charles Lenox Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
It's London in 1876, and the whole city is abuzz with the enigmatic disappearance of a famous foreign pianist. Lenox has an eye on the matter – as a partner in a now-thriving detective agency, he's a natural choice to investigate. Just when he's tempted to turn his focus to it entirely, however,...
by Margery Allingham
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Three Albert Campion mysteries in one volume reveal why “Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light” (Agatha Christie).
Flowers for the Judge
Scandal hits the prestigious publishing house of Barnabas when one of the directors is found dead in a locked cellar. All eyes are on the...
Heirs of the Body
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The Daisy Dalrymple series continues in Heirs of the Body—when one of four potential claimants to the title of Lord Dalrymple dies a sudden, nasty death, the question on everyone's mind is, "was it murder"?
In the late 1920's in England, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is...
Locked Rooms
A novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
“A truly bravura performance [with] all the magnetic appeal of the best of the original Conan Doyle novels.”—The Strand Magazine
En route to San Francisco to settle her family’s estate, Mary Russell, in the company of husband Sherlock Holmes, falls prey to troubling dreams—and even...
The Moor
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
In the eerie wasteland of Dartmoor, Sherlock Holmes summons his devoted wife and partner, Mary Russell, from her studies at Oxford to aid the investigation of a death and some disturbing phenomena of a decidedly supernatural origin. Through the mists of the moor there have been sightings of a spectral...
Gone West
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
A novelist has gone murdered and Daisy Dalrymple investigates— in a series that's "pleasantly reminiscent of the old-fashioned English mysteries of a bygone era." —The Denver Post on
Gunpowder Plot
In September 1926, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby,...
Brunswick Gardens
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
In London’s affluent Brunswick Gardens, the battle over Charles Darwin’s revolutionary theory of evolution intensifies as the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his beautiful assistant, Unity Bellwood—a “new woman” whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling....
A Christmas Hope
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Anne Perry’s “vastly entertaining” (The Star-Ledger) holiday novels are “as delicious as mince pie and plum pudding” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). A Christmas Hope is just as delectable—the gripping story of an unforgettable battle between goodness and evil in Victorian London—and a...
Bedford Square
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
The freshly dead body sprawled on the Bedford Square doorstep of General Brandon Balantyne is an affront to every respectable sensibility. The general denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has so rudely come to death outside his home, but Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot believe...
by Margery Allingham
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“The Tiger in the Smoke is a phenomenal novel.” —J. K. Rowling
A fog is creeping through the weary streets of London—so too are whispers that the Tiger is back in town, undetected by the law, untroubled by morals. And the rumors are true: Jack Havoc, charismatic outlaw, knife-wielding...
by Charles Todd
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Scotland Yard’s Ian Rutledge seeks a killer who has eluded Scotland Yard for years in this next installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series.
An astonishing tip from a grateful ex-convict seems implausible—but Inspector Ian Rutledge is intrigued and brings it to his superior...
The Inheritance
A Charles Lenox Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A mysterious bequest of money leads to a murder in this new novel in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series whose last installment The New York Times called “a sterling addition to this well-polished series.”
Charles Lenox has received a cryptic plea...
The Woman in the Water
A Prequel to the Charles Lenox Series
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This chilling new mystery in the USA Today bestselling series by Charles Finch takes readers back to Charles Lenox’s very first case and the ruthless serial killer who would set him on the course to become one of London’s most brilliant detectives.
London, 1850: A young Charles Lenox struggles...
by Catherine Aird
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan is called on to solve the coldest of cases in this thriller from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird
Berebury, England, did not have an easy go of it during the Second World War. This quaint Victorian town was destroyed when the Nazis dropped bomb after...