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Christopher Marlowe must discover who murdered the queen’s spymaster in this absorbing historical mystery. April, 1590. The queen’s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, is dead, leaving a dangerous power vacuum. His former right hand man, Nicholas Faunt, believes he was poisoned and has ordered...

Despatched to France to track down a traitor to the throne, Marlowe must work quickly to avoid an untimely exit stage left.   October, 1586. The queen’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College in Rheims where he suspects the Catholic traitor Matthew Baxter...

Intrepid 19th-century enquiry agents American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor bring their investigation skills to Washington DC. July, 1868. On receiving a commission from Matthew’s cousin Luther to look into the suspicious death of Lafayette Baker, Head of the US National Detective...

A charming, quick-witted woman of a certain age, Dorothy Martin once more finds herself embroiled in a most puzzling crime . . . and a saga of greed, jealousy and murder. The victim: a fellow American, her seat companion on a commuter train to London. Dorothy is convinced he was poisoned, yet the...

British detective Fran Harman must contend with a serial killer, unearthed skeletons, and a missing woman in this compelling mystery. When a child goes missing at the local tennis club on the same day as several skeletons are unearthed on a building site, Det. Chief Superintendent Fran Harman...

In this charming British mystery, antiques dealer Lina Townend must contend with a prankster that takes things dangerously too far.   Things in Lina Townend’s life could be better. Her love life is in a holding pattern and her business is faltering now that a new antiques center with very reduced...

A Lina Townend mystery - Antiques dealer Lina Townend – bright, sharp, and pretty – is making a name for herself as a restorer, with a national reputation for honesty. So when she spots a dead body in a field, she calls the police – only for it to promptly vanish. And it seems that her luck...

When a middle-aged woman enters Lina Townend's antiques shop wanting to sell a white Beswick china horse which she claims is a cherished heirloom, Lina's instincts tell her to avoid the sale. Suddenly, wherever she goes, Lina sees the supposedly rare white horses. Something strange is afoot, but it...

A Lina Townend mystery - Lina Townend is making a name for herself as an antiques dealer, in partnership with her old friend, Griff Tripp. When she is accused of stealing an item she is selling for her father, the disreputable Lord Elham, her plight attracts the attention of Piers, a handsome fellow...

British Detective Kate Power struggles to keep her personal life together while investigating a difficult cold case . . .   Still trying to find her feet in Birmingham, Det. Sergeant Kate Power is back in the Fraud Squad—under-staffed, under-funded, and under the leadership of a hostile boss...

When there is nothing to choose between accident, suicide, or murder, motive is the only clue . . . A rich Englishman is found dead at the foot of a steep wall of rock in Mallorca. Was it an accident, suicide or murder? Inspector Alvarez thinks only motive will provide the answer. But he quickly discovers...

Hired by another widow, Veronica Chastaigne, to return all the art treasures that her late husband accumulated in a long career of larceny, Mrs Pargeter is forced to find out more than she would wish about the deceased Mr P’s “business activities” as she recreates one of his most famous scams.

An ambitious executive is motivated by malice and murder in this darkly comic Edgar Award****nominated thriller by the author of the Charles Paris mysteries. Graham Marshall is a respectable husband and father and dedicated London businessman. He’s always played by the rules, believing that’s...

Although a trip to Corfu is not Mrs Pargeter’s usual idea of a holiday, keeping a recently widowed friend company overrules her misgivings. But when that friend starts behaving strangely and is then found having apparently committed suicide, Mrs Pargeter resolves to get to the bottom of the mystery.