Minotaur Books imprint: 2042 books
Pagan Spring
A Max Tudor Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
"There are certain things you want in a village mystery: a pretty setting, a tasteful murder, an appealing sleuth . . . Malliet delivers all that*.*" —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lovers, cozy fans, and Agatha Christie devotees everywhere...
A Ghost in the Machine
A Chief Inspector Barnaby Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
When a bloody, pulverized body is found lying beneath the rustic timbers of an authentic torture device so vicious and complicated as to be blood-curdling, there's sufficient unrest in tiny Forbes Abbot to call in Chief Inspector Barnaby. Was Dennis Brinkley done in by crooked business partners, a...
Die Laughing
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2003
One morning in April 1924, The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher finds herself in a most unenviable position. Despite her best attempts to elude the inevitable, she must face her darkest fears and with all strength and courage she can muster, must confront the one person she has tried hardest to...
Sick of Shadows
An Edwardian Murder Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
From New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton: Imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murder.
Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience-convenient for Rose, who wants to avoid being sent to India with all...
An Old Betrayal
A Charles Lenox Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In An Old Betrayal, the seventh book of Charles Finch's bestselling series of Victorian mysteries, a case of mistaken identity has Charles Lenox playing for his highest stakes yet: the safety of Queen Victoria herself.
On a spring morning in London, 1875, Charles Lenox agrees to take time away...
Black Ship
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle). Set in a small...
A Letter of Mary
A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The third book in the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes series.
It is 1923. Mary Russell Holmes and her husband, the retired Sherlock Holmes, are enjoying the summer together on their Sussex estate when they are visited by an old friend, Miss Dorothy Ruskin, an archeologist just returned from...
The Bone Orchard
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
"The Bone Orchard [is] both a rich exploration of character and a satisfying mystery." —Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press"Excellent . . . Thoughtful plotting and strong characters raise this above the crime novel pack." **—**Publishers weekly
In the aftermath of a family...
Knife Creek
A Mike Bowditch Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery — a dead baby buried in a shallow grave.
Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was...
Evan Only Knows
A Constable Evans Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2003
From the author of In Farleigh Field...
When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancée decide to travel south from home in Llanfair, Wales, to visit his mother in Swansea, they're not expecting the disturbing news that greets them on their arrival: the young thug convicted of murdering Evan's...
Evan's Gate
A Constable Evans Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2004
From the author of In Farleigh Field...
When Constable Evan Evans discovers a beautiful shepherd's cottage in the mountains of Llanfair, Wales, he and his fiancée are thrilled. It's only months before their wedding and they are eager to begin their new life together. The cottage is in need...
The Precipice
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
In this riveting new novel from Edgar finalist Paul Doiron, Bowditch joins a desperate search for two missing hikers as Maine wildlife officials deal with a frightening rash of coyote attacks.
When two female hikers disappear in the Hundred Mile Wilderness-the most remote stretch along the...
Who Let the Dog Out?
An Andy Carpenter Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
A lawyer by day-and then only when he's forced to take on new cases-Andy Carpenter's true passion is the Tara Foundation, the dog rescue organization he runs with his friend Willie Miller. So it's frightening when Willie calls him to say the alarm has gone off at the foundation building, and there's...
by Cassandra Chan
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Ambitious Scotland Yard detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons hears about his latest case---the death of a middle-aged widower in Chipping Chedding, a small town in the English Cotswolds---and can't believe his good luck. His best friend, wealthy man-about-town Phillip Bethancourt, just so happens to be...