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Sherlock Holmes meets Wyatt Earp meets Jack the Ripper meets Lucas Voigt in this Lucas Voigt mystery. Two loves stories run though the plot.  In present day London, boy genius and amateur detective Lucas Voigt befriends time travellers (or are they out of work actors?) Sherlock Holmes and...

There's a killer loose in Cherry Hills, and it's up to Kat Harper to bring the guilty party to justice. Furry Friends Foster Families is in the business of saving lives, not solving murders. Yet that's exactly what treasurer Kat Harper finds herself doing in the middle of the animal rescue...

Not Just Desserts the deli and catering firm owned by Olivia Beauman is under threat. Though many people hate Harry Oldritch it is his long suffering wife Queenie and his mistress Bettina who die after old fashioned pesticide is placed into meals Olivia has prepared. To any outsider Grevillea might...

The decades old, cold case disappearance of a transient near the trendy village of Boddington Bay was about to get warm…very, very warm. Angela Augustine loves life in Boddington Bay: her upscale shop, The Kitchen Sink is always buzzing with activity, her twin bakers Bonnie and Betty can...

The mansion Ten Acres, not far from Washington Cathedral, dates from the Colonial period and offers views over the entire city. The owner of the house is found murdered, and one of the weekend guests, David Curtis, a blind physician, undertakes to discover the murderer. The police suspect Anne Meredith,...

Sometimes murder is the only way to clean up the neighborhood. Kat Harper's leisurely Sunday afternoon at her police detective boyfriend Andrew's house comes to an abrupt halt when a stray cat leads them to a dead body next door. Tragic as it is, nobody is surprised to learn the neighborhood...

Bestseller Wambaugh's entertaining third Hollywood Station novel (after Hollywood Crows) provides lots of laughs and gasps from all of your favorite characters. There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit...

Available for the first time as an eBook, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey’s thrilling short story Harlem “People called me Harlem. I dubbed myself after that dangerous neighborhood that I’d never seen. I read life is rough in Harlem, and a black man isn’t expected...

In one fast-paced story, a strong and aggravated man considers the pretty woman at the bar while he fingers the knife in his pocket. But what becomes of his prey when they move to the bedroom? In another tale, a man remembers the victim of a ghastly murder who visited the same hair salon as he does....

MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block's new collection of short fiction written since the publication of his omnibus volume, Enough Rope: One of the most highly acclaimed novelists in the crime genre, Lawrence Block is also a master of the short story, with award-winning work ranging from the macabre...

The first three books in the multi-million copy number one bestselling series will have you absolutely hooked. A Detective hiding dark secrets, Detective Kim Stone will stop at nothing to protect the innocent. Silent Scream: Even the darkest secrets can’t stay buried forever… Five...

Lieutenant Luis Mendoza is faced with a crime close to home when his four-year-old twins are kidnapped. Not even Mendoza's crystal ball can help him while his colleagues explore every possible theory and lead. Are the twins being held for ransom? Or is the kidnapping a form of revenge? Mendoza...

The debut novel of an astonishing voice in psychological suspense As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find...

“The stakes are high, the characters rich, the action relentless” (Publishers Weekly) in this Lucas Davenport novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Sandford. The crime spree should have ended when Lucas Davenport killed the female bank robber during the shoot-out. But it’s...