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A Gladiator Dies Only Once
The Further Investigations of Gordianus the Finder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Steven Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa series of novels, set in the late Roman Republic and featuring Gordianus the Finder, has garnered unusual acclaim from readers and reviewers alike, establishing him as one of the pre-eminent historical crime writers. In A Gladiator Dies Only Once, the second collection...
A Midsummer's Equation
A Detective Galileo Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as "Detective Galileo," has traveled to Hariguara, a once-popular summer resort town that has fallen on hard times. He is there to speak at a conference on a planned underwater mining operation, which has sharply divided the town. One faction is against...
The Corpse at the Crystal Palace
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in The Corpse at the Crystal Palace, the latest mystery in Carola Dunn’s beloved Daisy Dalrymple series.
April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see...
The Beautiful Mystery
A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
The brilliant new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live...
A Rule Against Murder
A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
"What happened here last night isn't allowed," said Madame Dubois.
It was such an extraordinary thing to say it stopped the ravenous Inspector Beauvoir from taking another bite of his roast beef on baguette.
"You have a rule against murder?" he asked.
"I do. When my husband...
The Nature of the Beast
A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
The Nature of the Beast is a New York Times bestselling Chief Inspector Gamache novel from Louise Penny.
Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three...
by Laura Joh Rowland
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A richly crafted novel set in seventeenth-century Japan, Laura Joh Rowland's The Concubine's Tattoo unfolds with all the excitement of a superb murder mystery and a sweeping, sensuous portrait of an exotic land. Sano Ichiro, the Shogun's most honorable investigator, is summoned to the imperial palace...
The Throne of Caesar
A Novel of Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
"What a marvel!...Saylor's masterful storytelling puts you right there, wonderstruck and wide-eyed. Deliciously immersive, captivating entertainment from a justly celebrated writer." —Margaret George
In The Throne of Caesar, award-winning mystery author Steven Saylor turns to the...
The Seventh Trumpet
A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
When a murdered corpse of an unknown young noble is discovered, Fidelma of Cashel is brought in to investigate, in Peter Tremayne's The Seventh Trumpet
Ireland, AD 670. When the body of a murdered young noble is discovered not far from Cashel, the King calls upon his sister, Fidelma, and her...
The Iris Fan
A Novel of Feudal Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Japan, 1709. The shogun is old and ailing. Amid the ever-treacherous intrigue in the court, Sano Ichiro has been demoted from chamberlain to a lowly patrol guard. His relationship with his wife Reiko is in tatters, and a bizarre new alliance between his two enemies Yanagisawa and Lord Ienobu has left...
Snow White Must Die
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus is a tremendous new contemporary mystery series and huge international bestseller—with more than 3.5 million copies in print!
On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident:...
Time of Fog and Fire
A Molly Murphy Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
From the author of In Farleigh Field...
Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a police captain in turn-of-the-century New York City, is in a precarious position. The new police commissioner wants him off the force altogether. So when Daniel’s offered an assignment from John Wilkie, head...
Silence of the Grave
An Inspector Erlendur Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
"Now Iceland has its own Mankell."
---Holger Kreitling, Die Welt (Germany)
Last year Jar City introduced international crime-writing sensation Arnaldur Indridason to rave reviews and a rousing welcome from American thriller fans. And now, Silence of the Grave, the next in this stunning...
Badger's Moon
A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
In October of 667 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel - sister to the one of kings of Ireland, a religieuse of the Celtic Church, and an advocate of the Brehon courts - is struggling with her most challenging role yet, that of mother to her infant son Alchu. So it is with mixed feelings that she receives the...