Detective Jake Jackson moved to the countryside for a quieter life. And he finally seems to have his wish - spending his days immersed in nature, and his evenings lazing by the fire. But the return of an old case shatters the calm, and pulls him into the shadowy world of a secretive group serving the extravagant whims of the elite. As the web around Jake tightens, he must determine who he can really trust in his small community.

After Amy Gibson's mother is brutally murdered by her boyfriend, Amy's world is completely undone. Until her estranged half-brother, Oliver, saves her, pulling her back into her life and giving her family. Eight years later, she's the host of a popular true crime podcast that focuses on crimes against women committed by their partners and is finding purpose and healing through helping women in ways she couldn't help her mother.And then Oliver is accused of the unthinkable - something that is so unlike him. And she sets out to prove her brother's innocence...

After Addison McKellar's husband goes missing, she turns to her father's old friend, legendary Memphis PI Porter Hayes. Porter and Addison begin to dig deeper into Dean's affairs and quickly discover that he was never the hardworking business owner and family man he pretended to be. As they piece together the connections between a hook-handed mercenary, one of Elvis's former leading ladies, and a man posing as an FBI agent, it becomes clear that Dean was deeply enmeshed in a high-stakes web of international intrigue, and Porter and Addison aren't the only ones looking for him.

Carlene O'Connor, Liz Ireland and Carol J. Perry each contribute a Halloween mystery.

A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods-with an arrow in his chest and trousers round his ankles. Her old adversary, DCI Wilkes, believes the victim has been hit by a stray arrow from an archery demonstration. Agatha convinces him that it was foul play. She is shocked when Wilkes eventually agrees - but with her as his prime murder suspect.

The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he'll be damned if he's going to let the hitters escape justice. He's got just one lead - a meeting the victim was going to. When Jack shows up instead, he's drawn into the seedy underbelly of a small, Texas town and the cold case of a college student who vanished from its streets.

In a Berlin hotel a man is beaten up, but it's more than a random assault and the attacker escapes undetected. When the trail leads to Freiburg, Chief Inspector Louise Boni is sent to investigate. It's a complex case, a professional job. The victim is a secret service informer, the only witness knows more than she's saying, and the intelligence service is hovering in the background, refusing to cooperate.

After five years in hiding from their murderous father, the day Kristen and Ryan McIntyre have been dreading has arrived. The head of a Los Angeles crime family has at last tracked his kids to a small Montana town. They barely escape in a small plane, but gunfire hits the fuel line and they crash. Now they must not just elude pursuit, but survive the wilderness.

Estranged from her PI family, Margo Angelhart does what she must to get by - including taking on sordid cases that pay the bills, even if she'd rather be helping those the justice system has failed. That is, until a cheating husband case she's working intersects with her siblings' corporate espionage investigation, forcing Margo to cooperate with the Angelhart firm. Now, as the siblings compare notes, it's clear they need to work together before a white-collar crime escalates to murder.

When a set of rare, impossible-to-find yoga books are stolen from a West London ashram, its leaders turn to Cordelia, the paperback sleuth, to recover them - a set-up that's a little awkward as they've previously barred her from yoga classes for selling marijuana to their students. But what begins as a hunt for missing paperbacks soon becomes a murder investigation as those involved with the ashram can't seem to stop dropping down dead - murdered with a whisky bottle to the head or a poisoned curry.

When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart. Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side. It looks like a straightforward murder-suicide but DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent soon discover nothing about this case is straightforward. The Marshalls have been keeping secrets. And someone is prepared to kill to hide the truth.

With Lana Lee as his right-hand woman and head event planner, Ian Sung orchestrates an extravagant Chinese New Year celebration. But at the end of the night, during an elaborate firework show in the parking lot, a member of the lion dance performance team is found dead backstage with a single bullet hole through the heart and a red envelope in their pocket containing four one-dollar bills - an omen of death.

1992. Eight respectable, upstanding people have been found dead across the United States. These deaths look like accidents and don't appear to be connected until one body - the victim of a fatal fall from a hospital window - generates some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense, who promptly calls for an interagency task force to investigate. Jack Reacher is assigned as the army's representative.

Theodosia's Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston's new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests, the party erupts in chaos. Worse yet, a shot rings out and Osgood Claxton III, candidate for state legislature, falls to the ground - dead.

Wilde is a man with a childhood shrouded in mystery, who appeared one day in the Ramapo Mountains with no memory of how he got there or the mother and father who abandoned him. He has uncovered a major break in the case that may hold the key to revealing the truth of his origins. But the discovery links him with a present-day disappearance and presumed suicide that is much more than it first appears.

Spain, 1812. Two French armies march towards each other. If they meet, the British are lost.And only Richard Sharpe - with just his cunning, his courage and a small band of rogues to rely on - stands in their way...

Former investment banker Johan Golding - Joe to his friends - is the newest member of the Hartley and Edwards Investigations team. But Joe finds himself thrown in at the deep end when a man known as Ralph Holmes goes missing on the outskirts of Carlisle. Police are refusing to investigate, as his disappearance seems voluntary, but his niece, Carly Lewis, is determined to find out what really happened.

Ben Koenig once headed the US Marshal's elite Special Operations Group. Then one day Koenig disappeared. But now, suddenly, his face is on every television screen in the country and his cover is blown. A woman has gone missing, and her father wants Koenig to discover what happened, no matter the cost. The trail leads Koenig to a small town in the burning heat of the Chihuahuan Desert.

When a shocking murder and abduction on the streets of London leads investigators to open a safe in Langley for the first time in ten years, they find a note directing them to a few key individuals. Three of the people on the list are dead. The fourth is Ben Koenig. Koenig has no idea why his name is on the list. Then he realizes that he knows the woman who carried out the killings. Ten years earlier, without being told why, he was tasked with helping her disappear.

A rainy July weekend in Westham means the beaches are empty and business is dead at Mac's Bikes but couldn't be livelier inside the Rusty Anchor Pub. But come Monday morning one patron is not so lively when the chef opens up and finds a body behind the bar. It's last call for Bruce Byrne, an elderly high school teacher who has been around so long it seems like he taught everybody.

Tuva's been living clean in southern Sweden for four months when she receives horrifying news. Her best friend Tammy Yamnim is missing. Racing back to Gavrik at the height of Midsommar, Tuva fears for Tammy's life. Who has taken her, and why? And who is sabotaging the small-town search efforts? Surrounded by dark pine forest, the sinister residents of Snake River are suspicious of outsiders. Unfortunately, they also hold all the answers.

Rose Farm is home to a group of survivalists, completely cut off from the outside world. But a young woman goes missing within the perimeter of the farm compound. Can Tuva talk her way inside the tight-knit group to learn what happened? Soon she finds herself in danger of the pack turning against her.

Now in forced retirement from his last job as a Federal Agent with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group, John Corey is ready for a new challenge when his former lover in PLUM ISLAND, Detective Beth Penrose, appears with a job offer. Now Corey will begin a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered nine - and maybe more - prostitutes and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a lonely stretch of beach.

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harbouring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead, the first to go.

After a very long dry spell that followed her network hit series Pastor Fran Investigates, Hollywood has come calling and they want Miranda back. This time to be the female lead in an oddly expensive movie of the week, filming right here in Happy Rock! Miranda signs on the dotted line, but her trusty assistant Andrew, a whiz with apps and clouds, thinks this all seems a bit fishy. When Miranda's co-star makes a grand entrance by crashing through the atrium window at the Duchess Hotel and being very much dead, things go from bad to worse.

Midnight Jones is an analyst trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K's file. Midnight knows what Profile K is capable of before he even commits his first crime. But as the news rolls with the brutal murder of a local woman, no one believes her when she tells them that he's capable of so much more.

The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up. A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end - and, considering the rumors swirling about his past, the list of suspects could fill a small stadium.

Liv Reese wakes up in the back of a taxi with no idea where she is or how she got there. When she's dropped off at the door of her Brooklyn apartment, a stranger answers, claiming to live there. She reaches for her phone to call for help, only to find a bloodstained knife and a scribbled message on her hand: STAY AWAKE.

DSI William Lorimer and his wife head to Zimbabwe on holiday. Back in Glasgow, PC Daniel Kohi, former inspector with the Zimbabwean police, finds himself uncomfortably close to a murder investigation. Why did the murdered man appear at Daniel's house just hours before he was killed? And in Zimbabwe, rumours are circulating about Daniel Kohi, and the couple from Scotland who appear to know him.

Josh Duffy and his wife Nikki have come to Ghana with a team of US embassy personnel for dedication of a new dam. Since Ghana is a stable democracy, the Duffy children have come along. But stability proves to be fleeting when a Chinese plan to embarrass the US means the destruction of the dam. Now Josh and his protectees are on the run caught between a Chinese hit squad and a rebel army.

It is now fifteen years after the events of THE FIRM, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favour that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications - and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family.

Three years ago police officer Georgina Ioannau was murdered, her killers never brought to justice. Now the prime suspects have been shot dead within hours of their return to the UK. Has someone finally taken the law into their own hands? Seeking out the truth will force Kate Daniels to confront her own past mistakes, and put her career, and her team's lives, on the line.

Camryn Lane's first novel has finally been published. She's on top of the world - until she receives a disturbing message from an unknown sender. Then when she checks her ratings on a popular book site, she finds a scathing one-star review. The reviewer is so articulate and convincing that soon, Camryn's book is flooded with bad reviews. Could the reviewer be the same person who sent the ugly email? And why do they want to ruin her?

Nikki Serafino is enjoying the sunset from her boat in her beloved port city of Naples, Italy, when she discovers the body of a man in the warm waters of the bay. An investigator working as the liaison between local police and American troops, Nikki is certainly no stranger to violence and organized crime, but this case grows complicated when the victim turns out to be a U.S. Navy captain stationed at the nearby military base - and the autopsy reveals foul play.

Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service. When Ren, hiking through the backcountry on his day off, encounters a tall man with a dog and a gun chasing a small black bear up a hill, his hackles are raised. But what begins as an investigation into the background of a local poacher soon opens into something far murkier.

Arnold Clover is recruited by Lizzie Hawker to help her look into her family inheritance. Lizzie's mother, an Italian countess, disappeared thirty years ago, presumed dead. Her father has just died and now the family home, a leaning palazzo in Dorsoduro that is full of secrets, has fallen to Lizzie. When her mother vanished so too did a priceless painting of Lucrezia Borgia - but it quickly becomes apparent that Lizzie and Arnold are not the only ones interested in finding it.

Los Angeles, 1946. The Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California. Aki is working as a nurse's aide at the Japanese Hospital in Boyle Heights when an elderly Issei man is admitted with suspicious injuries. When she seeks out his son, she is shocked to recognize her husband's best friend, Babe Watanabe. Could Babe be guilty of elder abuse?

Across the country, a madman is carefully choosing his victims. Once he has you in his sights, he won't let go. He will make you pay. You think you're in control of your own life? Think again. Because the Puppet Master is coming for you, and he won't stop until you're dead...

October 1832. Kiera, Sebastian, and their infant daughter have accompanied her father-in-law, Lord Gage, home so that he can recuperate from the injuries he sustained in a foiled attempt on his life. But as the chill of autumn sweeps across the land, they receive a summons from an unexpected quarter. Lord Gage's estranged uncle - a member of the notorious Roscarrock family - has been murdered, and his family is desperate for answers.

When a young farmer confronts intruders in the middle of the night he has no idea that just minutes later he will be left dying in a pool of blood. What's more chilling is what the perpetrators were willing to kill for. At the scene of the crime, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace soon realizes this is no isolated robbery gone wrong but the tip of the iceberg of a nationwide crime wave, in which ruthless organized gangs are making more money from the illegal trade in dogs than drugs.

A manor house available rent-free to house-sitters is an offer too good to miss for Cass and James, who have been saving for a deposit on their own home for so long. Although it had been abandoned for almost thirty years, after a home invasion left almost all the inhabitants dead, it is an amazing chance for them to build their future. But shortly after moving in things take a sinister turn.

In the summer of 1964, recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear enlist for Vietnam. In California to catch a few waves before reporting, a sudden storm capsizes a nearby cargo boat. It turns out the boat carried valuable contraband from underground sources. Back in the present day, Walt is forced to speak before a Judge following the fatal events of THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE. With powerful enemies lurking behind the scenes, the sheriff of Absaroka County must consider his options if he wishes to finish the fight he started.

After Kristallnacht, Daniel Lohr was lucky enough to have escaped the Gestapo when his colleagues in the resistance were caught, lucky to have an uncle waiting in Shanghai, lucky to find a casual shipboard flirtation turn unexpectedly passionate. As Daniel tries to navigate his way through his uncle's world in Shanghai's fabled nightlife, he finds himself increasingly ensnared in a maze where politics and crime are two sides of the same shiny coin.

Bombay, 1950. James Whitby has been sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar. His arch-colonialist father forces a new investigation, and Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police goes to Calcutta, where she finds a link to a second case, the brutal murder of an African-American G.I. during the Calcutta Killings of 1946.

After discovering seven men murdered aboard their yacht, including two Senate rivals, Israel Pike is regarded as a prime suspect. A troubled man infamous on Salvation Point Island for killing his own father a decade before,Israel has few options, no friends, and a life-threatening secret. Elsewhere on the island, 12-year-old Lyman Rankin seeks shelter from his alcoholic father in an abandoned house only to discover that he is not alone. A mysterious woman greets him with a hatchet and a promise, "Make a sound and I'll kill you."

A Gulf War vet and ex-con, Joe Hustle manages to scrape together enough money from various jobs to eke out a precarious existence on the darker fringes of Los Angeles. When he meets Emily, the black-sheep daughter of a wealthy family, the two spark an instant connection - she seems like the best thing to happen to him in a while. But their whirlwind romance is put to the test when what starts out as a simple favor for a friend leaves Joe homeless, unemployed, and on the wrong side of a vengeful drug dealer.

Minnie Polson is dead. Burned to a crisp in a fire so big and bad it had to be deliberate. The only thing worse is that Hap and Leonard could have prevented it. Maybe. Minnie had a feeling she was being targeted, shaken down by some shadowy force. However, when she'd solicited Hap & Leonard, all it took was one off color joke to turn her sour and she'd called them off the investigation.

Around 1 AM on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that twenty years earlier Monforte had been publicly celebrated as the hero of a devastating bombing of the Italian military compound in Iraq. Yet Monforte had never been awarded a medal either by the Carabinieri, his service branch, or by the Italian government.

The unusual death of local herb farmer, Ginger Reed, is the talk of Yoder, Kansas. Naturally, Sissy is intrigued. The official report classifies Ginger's demise as an accident, concluding that she ran herself over with a tractor. But Sissy's cousin, Naomi, a friend and longtime employee of Ginger's, insists that's impossible. When she asks for Sissy's help in unearthing the truth, Sissy's on the case--accompanied as ever by her loyal Yorkie companion, Duke...

Amber Glass fears returning to Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be known as "Prom Mom" - the girl who allegedly killed her baby on the night of the prom after her date, Joe Simpson, abandoned her to pursue the girl he really liked. When she does return, she resolves to stay away from Joe, now a successful commercial real estate developer, married to a plastic surgeon, Meredith, to whom he is devoted. The problem is, Amber can't stay away from Joe.

Oldcastle DC Angus MacVicar is assigned to the murder investigation that hunts the "Fortnight Killer". Every two weeks the killer leaves one corpse at the scene, and the second body is never seen again. But instead of working on the investigation's front line, Angus is lumbered with the forensic psychologist from hell - a jetlagged, sarcastic, know-it-all American, on loan from the FBI, who seems determined to alienate everyone while dragging Angus into a shadowy world of conspiracies, lies, and violence.

1607. Daniel Pursglove rides north from London to his childhood home in Yorkshire - with his own score to settle. The locals have little reason to trust a prying stranger, and those who remember Daniel do so with contempt. When a body is found with rope burns about the neck, Daniel falls under suspicion. On the run, across the country, he is pursued by a ruthless killer whose victims all share the same gallows mark.

Celebrity Zara Fanshaw has gone missing in Oxford. Who will lead the investigation and cope with the media frenzy? Suave, prize-winning, Oxford-educated DI Ray Wilkins is passed over in favour of his partner, gobby, trailer-park educated DI Ryan Wilkins (no relation).

Early 1960s. News of his kid sister Barbara's sudden disappearance brings Ray Lansdale back from Vietnam. During a short leave before returning to active duty and another deployment, he embarks on a search that takes him from majestic Montana ranchlands and glittering Hollywood to the mean streets of LA, where Ray is forced to confront his worst nightmare.

Young and idealistic lawyer Edmund Ibbs, defending a woman accused of murdering her husband at the top of a ferris wheel, soon finds himself implicated in not one but two other seemingly impossible crimes. First, a corpse appears out of thin air during a performance by a famed illusionist, then a second victim is mortally wounded in a locked dressing room backstage. Edmund is in exactly the wrong place at the wrong time, attracting the suspicion of Scotland Yard inspector George Flint. His only hope comes in the form of retired stage magician Joseph Spector, a man steeped in the art of misdirection, who happens to be in the audience for the deadly show.

Just as amateur sleuth Jen gets to work on her next book, the owner of the town's rival bookstore is found murdered. Suspicions quickly turn to Jen, and she is forced to get back to sleuthing to clear her own name. To make matters worse, customers for Ravenous Readers are slipping away as they hear of Jen's alleged misdeeds. But what will strike Jen first? Inspiration - or the killer?

When Maisie receives a letter from the lady of the manor asking for her help in the little village of Bunting, she is curious enough to accept. She is then shocked to discover that the very woman requesting her assistance is her estranged Aunt Phyllis, who believes that someone is out to kill her. As Maisie investigates alongside handsome Sergeant Wingard, she starts to wonder... Why would someone want Aunt Phyllis dead?

After Jen Stonebreaker witnessed her husband's tragic death 25 years ago at a big-wave surfing competition, she has stayed away from competitve surfing. Now she is ready to try again, with her twin sons Casey and Brock. Casey's love for the ocean and his willingness to expose illegal poachers on social media has put him on a collision course with a crime syndicate eager to destroy anyone threatening their business. His brother Brock leads a church and rescue mission that not everyone appreciates, and threats to destroy his mission - and his family - swirl around him.

October 1944, in the Republic of Salo, a German puppet state in the north of Italy and the last fascist stronghold in the country. Here Wehrmacht colonel Martin Bora must investigate the theft of a precious painting of Venus by Titian. While Bora's inquiry proceeds among many difficulties, discovering the dead bodies of three beautiful women throws an even more sinister light on the scene.

A new singer arrives in Nashville. She calls herself AnnieLee Keyes, and she has more beauty, talent, and ambition than most - and a dangerous past that she's running from. Her performance of original songs at open-mic night at the Cat's Paw Saloon downtown transfixes Ethan Blake, back-up musician for country star Ruthanna Ryder. When Ruthanna hears AnnieLee sing, the legend decides to help the ingenue. But now AnnieLee may not live long enough to realize her dreams of stardom - or for the world to learn her true identity.

US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided.

Penzler collects 15 of the finest American whodunits of the era, including household names and welcome rediscoveries. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ellery Queen, and Mary Roberts Rinehart are all included, as are Ring Lardner, Melville Davisson Post, and Helen Reilly.

Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam. By morning, Mrs. Plansky has lost everything. Law enforcement tells her that it's hopeless to find the scammers behind the heist. First humiliated, then furious, Loretta Plansky follows her only clue on a whirlwind adventure to a small village in Romania to get her money and her dignity back.

Can an ace detective outwit a thief with many faces? They call him 'Gold Mask' - a fiendishly clever master of disguise whose crime spree has shocked Tokyo. The dogged detective Akechi Kogoro is on the trail, and soon the two become locked in a frenzied battle of wits as his seemingly superhuman nemesis leads a chase across Japan, gleefully tricking the police at every turn.

Called in to examine what is left of a body struck by lightning, Temperance Brennan traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in a much larger case. Young men - tourists - have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found in a strange location with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace.

September 1943. Berlin is the last place Dr. Elin Lund wishes to be. An expert in psychological profiling, she's been summoned from Copenhagen to investigate the gruesome murders of eight young women. Even in the midst of unspeakable evil, these killings stand apart. And with her homeland now under Nazi occupation and a young son to protect, Elin can't refuse such a request. Homicide Detective Kurt Schneider, head of the criminal police unit, is grudging in his welcome. Yet the pair, trapped in an uneasy partnership, each has expertise the other needs.

A young woman is at a New York club, watching the band, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Minutes later, the woman is dead. Someone has jabbed her with a needle and lab results show a toxic mix of substances in the victim's body - and for an extra touch of viciousness, the needle was teeming with infectious agents.

As a child, Evie Cormac was discovered hiding in a secret room where a man had been tortured to death. Many of her captors and abusers escaped justice, unseen but not forgotten. Now, on a hot summer's day, the past drags Evie back as she watches the bodies of 17 migrants wash up on a Lincolnshire beach. There is only one survivor, a teenage boy, who tells police their small boat was deliberately rammed and sunk. Psychologist Cyrus Haven is recruited by the police to investigate the murders - but recognizes immediately that Evie has some link to the tragedy.

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West.

Art restorer and legendary spy Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into London to attend a reception at the Courtauld Gallery celebrating the return of a stolen self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh. But when an old friend from the Devon and Cornwall Police seeks his help with a baffling murder investigation, he finds himself pursuing a powerful and dangerous new adversary.

Lisbeth Salander arrives in the small northern town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear. Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager - and she's being watched. Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. There are troubling rumours surrounding the man his daughter is about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist's last hope.

Set in Toronto's Parkdale during the tumultuous '60s. Police academy burnout turned private eye Patrick Bird works divorce cases. But now 16-year-old Abbie Linklater hasn't been home for three days. Before the sun sets on the first day of his investigation, as Bird roams the streets looking for the runaway, he's caught a drifter prowling in the Linklater's backyard, stumbled into a creepy church with a belligerent minister, sparred with the client, been hit by a car, and discovered some loose ends in a bank robbery gone wrong a decade earlier. And that was before he found the body.

In the shadowy stairwell of a New York City brownstone, a man stealthily begins to climb. In the pocket of his coat, a loaded revolver. At the top of the stairs, a woman he intends to kill. As William Sidney climbs the stairs, you'll dive deep into his troubled past, uncovering scandalous secrets and deceptions. And all the while, step by creeping step, he draws closer to a shocking act of violence...

Once upon a time, there was a writer named Fern. She was a bestseller. An award-winner. Loved by readers and critics alike. With her words, she changed the world. Until her story took a turn. Now Fern is a cleaner in a hospital. Condemned to anonymity. Because reading books is now a crime. Only, Fern doesn't plan on going down without a fight. She'll keep writing, no matter the consequences. She will make her voice heard. Because Fern's story is only beginning.

1977. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in with the wealthy, shady British family that owns the newspaper.

Conducting a routine cover development trip to Tajikistan, Pike and Jennifer learn that Afghanistan has fallen, and there's a man on the run. One that has done more for the United States in Afghanistan than anyone else. Pulled in to extract him, Pike collides headlong into a broader mystery. His covert company, along with every other entity in the Taskforce, has been hit with a ransomware attack, and there's some connection between the Taliban and the hack.

Lord Bancroft Ashburton, disgraced and imprisoned as a result of Charlotte's prior investigations, nevertheless manages to press Charlotte into service. Underwood, his most loyal henchman, is missing and Lord Bancroft wants Charlotte to find Underwood, dead or alive. But then Lord Bancroft himself turns up dead and Charlotte, more than anyone else, meets the trifecta criteria of motive, means, and opportunity.

1941. Rupert and Adelaide Stride are raising their two daughters, Clare and Rosa, in the midst of war. When Rupert is called to fight, he dies on the beaches of Dunkirk, leaving his family to fend for themselves. 2023. Decades later, Clare and Rosa have retreated to the annex, trapped in the place where they were raised - Yew Tree House. When the rooms are put up for rent, Jack Harmon sees the perfect spot for a family holiday with his twins and detective Stella Darnell. But then the children discover a skeleton with a hole in its skull hidden in the brambles of a decommissioned WWII pill box.

Adele Friar knows better than most that something dangerous lurks in the forest. So when her sister Maddie goes missing, she fears that the woods may hold the answers. With help from Adele and DCI Tannahill Khan back in London, forensic specialist Laughton Rees is determined to find Maddie and dispel the dangerous ghost stories once and for all. But something strange is going on in the forest - the police seem reluctant to investigate the disappearances, and the locals aren't talking.

The town of Sarlat is staging a reenactment of its liberation from the British in the Hundred Years' War when the play's French hero, Brice Kerquelin, is stabbed and feared fatally wounded. Is it an unfortunate prop malfunction - or something more sinister? The stricken man happens to be number two in the French intelligence service, in line for the top job. Bruno is tasked with the safety of the victim's daughter Claire, as well as his old Silicon Valley buddies, ostensibly in town for a reunion.

London, 1945. Four adolescent orphans are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners and discovers that a demobilized soldier, gravely ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, has taken shelter with the group. Her quest to bring comfort to the group brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental fighter aircraft.

Meet the Bang-Bang Sisters: Brea, Jessie, and Flo. Together, they're a kick-ass rock band with an unbreakable bond. But that's only half the story. Offstage, they're highly skilled vigilantes, traveling the country in their beaten-up tour van to exact justice on criminals who have slipped through the system. Drawn by a tantalizing lead, they head to Reedsville, Alabama - a city crawling with destitution and corruption - where they close in on a notorious serial killer known as "the wren." But they soon discover that they have walked straight into a trap set by Chance Kotter, a ruthless mobster with a personal vendetta.

A renovation crew is at work on the Smetkamps' old house when Caerphilly's resident flock of feral turkeys moves into the yard. The turkeys are huge, territorial, cranky and aggressive - and impossible to move! Then the body of Mrs. Smetkamp is found in her backyard. Someone stabbed her, and then tried to make it look as if she was attacked by one of the turkeys, but Meg, the Chief, and the Sheriff are not fooled.

Reporter Freya Sinclair uproots her life in Glasgow, quitting her job at one of Scotland's top broadsheets and taking a local beat in her childhood home of Orkney. But her plans for a quiet life are shattered when human remains are unburied by a winter storm on Orkney's wild Atlantic coast. The identity of the bones opens old wounds in the islands, and sheds light on a darker truth nobody wants to accept.

Amos Decker is called to South Florida after a federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out. But not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count, the bodyguard presents additional conundrums.

Elise King was a successful detective before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. Now she spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing between weekenders and locals, conflict brought to a boil when a newcomer wants to put the town on the map with a giant music festival, and two teenagers overdose on drugs. When a man disappears the first night of the festival, Elise is drawn back into her detective work.

Norfolk, England, November 1944. US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country estate of Sir Richard Seaton, the father of Billy's British lover, Diana. Unfortunately, his leave is cut short when a crashed German bomber resurfaces off the coast with the corpse of a British officer in the pilot seat.

Florence. Autumn, 1539. Cesare Aldo is back in his beloved city working for its powerful criminal court. But he remains demoted to constable, enduring the purgatory of curfew night patrol when only the drunken, deceitful and the dangerous are outside. Pursuing a fugitive in the rain, Aldo discovers a garrotted male body near Michelangelo's statue of David. The corpse is posed as if crucified, with ashes smeared across the forehead and the dead man's tongue cleft in two.

DI Tess Fox's first murder scene has two big problems. One, the victim was thrown from the balcony of a flat locked from the inside. Two, Tess knows him. But the biggest problem of all is Tess's half-sister, Sarah. She has links to the deceased and has the skills and criminal background to mastermind a locked-room murder. But she's a con-artist, not a killer. When two more bodies turn up, Tess now has three locked room mysteries to solve and even more reason to be suspicious of Sarah.

Everything is peaceful in Tommerup, Denmark, until a young mother disappears in the middle of an idyllic summer day. There's no trace of the missing woman when Chief Superintendent Liam Stark and Superintendent Dea Torp are called to investigate. The small town is on edge, rumours begin to fly, and blame is cast on Charlotte's husband, who was the last to see her.

When a heat wave hits northern Michigan, Minnie, Eddie, and their bookmobile head to the beach to catch some rays and some customers. But library business is put on hold when Minnie's restaurant-owning best friend, Kristen, calls. The specialty ice cream cone treat she'd been serving to patrons was sabotaged, making some customers horribly sick.

Inspector Stephen Ramsay is called to investigate the suspicious death of headmaster Harold Medburn in a close-knit Northumberland community. Who could have hanged the headmaster in the school playground on the night of the Halloween Party? And why? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn. Inspector Ramsay is convinced the headmaster's enigmatic wife is the culprit, but the school caretaker, Jack Robson, is determined to prove her innocence.

Twins Ana and Nan believe they keep no secrets from one another. They both think they know what pushed their mother to suicide. Only one of them does. They both think they know how their revenge plot will play out. Only one of them does. They both think they know what's really happening at the library. Only one of them does. But neither of them know what will unfold once the library doors close and the chaos begins.

112 pages. Martin Watts, a bookseller, is captured by Royalists. Jane Afton's brother Nat is taken too. They suffer inhumane treatment as prisoners-of-war. In Oxford Castle jailor William Smith tortures, beats, starves and deprives his helpless victims. Can Jane rescue her sick brother before he dies of neglect? Will Martin dare to escape?

Amersterdam 1980 is a city in turmoil, rife with drug abuse, riots and terror threats in the run-up to the coronation of Queen Beatrix. Detective Lotte Meerman doesn't want to hear about her father Piet Huizen's past because his month as a policeman in Amsterdam in 1980 led directly to her parents' divorce. Then two men die. Their deaths are not treated as suspicious but Lotte realizes there is something that links the deceased men. They were both children of her father's former team-mates.

Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium, and surviving in hot, close quarters. Then one of them is found dead in his bunk. With four days of decompression to go before the locked hatch to the chamber can be safely opened, the group must watch one another's backs at all times.

With the houses of Arborville, New Jersey, decked out in festively frightening decorations, it's easy to mistake a real dead body for a fake. But Pamela and Bettina are alerted by the screams of teenage trick-or-treaters to the corpse next door. Their neighbour Adrienne's sister, visiting from New York City, is slumped on the porch, fatally stabbed.

Since attempting the art of blending herbs at her popular shop, Crystals & CuriosiTeas, Shay is set on growing ingredients in the mysterious greenhouse on the second floor - if only she can separate the medicinal plants from the deadly ones. Her new skills are put to the test when she meets pub owner and ex-detective Liam Madigan's Gran. Gran encourages Shay to hold a group psychic reading. At first, the evening goes off without a hitch - until a customer goes from chatty to dead in a flash, poisoned after sipping a toxic substance recently grown in the greenhouse.

The body of Patrick North was found in woodland connected to Nesbaraton Hall, a grand estate dating back to the eighteenth century. North, shot dead, worked for the Smithson family who now own the estate. However, the family are away on holiday. When an anonymous letter threatening to abduct the Smithson son is uncovered, DI Wesley Peterson fears North's death might have been collateral damage in a kidnap plot.

Jonathan Grave long ago lost faith with the so-called war on drugs, a futile campaign that enables cartels to make billions under the protection of corrupt officials on both sides of the border. But when a twelve-year-old dies after consuming fentanyl disguised as candy inside the dormitory at Resurrection House, the school he created for the children of incarcerated parents, Jonathan knows it's time to use his special talents to change the game.

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels. the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother and baby disappeared. Now, true crime author Amanda Bailey is looking to revive her career by writing a book on the case. The Alperton baby has turned eighteen; finding them will be the scoop of the year. But rival author Oliver Menzies is just as smart, better connected, and also on the baby's trail.

An unexpected death on a lonely road outside of Utah's Bears Ears National Park raises questions for Navajo Tribal Police officers Jim Chee and Bernadette Manuelito. Why would a seasoned outdoorsman and well-known paleontologist freeze to death within walking distance of his car? A second death brings more turmoil. Who is the unidentified man killed during a home invasion where nothing seems to have been taken? Why was he murdered?

The advantage of Abbey's aunt's bakery - aside from the deliciousness of its products - is the fact that it's the only bakery in the area. But it looks like that's about to change. The second wife of a wealthy businessman wants her own bakery - and money is no object. When murder unravels the plans for the competing shop, Aunt Sarah is an immediate suspect.

Isaiah Quintabe's first love, Grace, has been kidnapped by his sworn enemy, the professional hitman Skip Hanson. Skip is savage and psychotic, determined to punish Isaiah for sending him to prison and destroying his life. Isaiah and his sometimes partner, ex-hustler Juanell Dodson, together again, must track scant clues through L.A.'s perilous landscape as Grace's predicament grows more uncertain.

Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire is called to a crime scene like few others he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's grandfather's time in Wyoming, as the revelations he learns about his grandfather come back to offer clues and motives for Walt's investigation.

Battered by floods and crushed by overtourism, the city of Venice is about to elect a new Mayor. Andrea Mazzon, a controversial writer and historian, emerges as a strong candidate. Meanwhile, Nathan Sutherland traces a missing, elderly British academic to a remote Commonwealth war cemetery where, under the ice and snow, Nathan makes a discovery that links the terrible events of a century ago with the electoral campaign in La Serenissima.

One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head off on a much-anticipated day trip. But as night falls and the well-heeled parents, one or two of them famous, as well as wealthy, wait at the school to collect their weary offspring, it soon becomes clear that something has gone very wrong. The children and their teachers simply do not come back. What has happened doesn't seem possible. How can an entire class of children simply vanish?

It's been almost a year since Clay Edison was forced out of his job at the coroner's bureau. Now he's on his own, working as a private eye. When a client brings him a fraud case, Clay dives into a decades-old scheme targeting the vulnerable. His investigation leads him to a bizarre town buried in the remote California wilderness. The residents don't care much for outsiders. They certainly don't like Clay asking questions. And they'll do just about anything to shut him up.

As a heavy mist rolls into the Swedish coastal town of Fjallbacka, shocking violence shakes the small community to its core. Rolf Stenklo, a famous photographer, is found murdered in his gallery. Two days later, a brutal tragedy on a private island leaves the prestigious Bauer family devastated. With his boss acting strangely, Detective Patrik Hedstrom is left to lead the investigation.

The wedding of influencer Radhika Singh and hotel developer Raj Joshi, a week-long affair at a luxury resort in Cabos, won't just be the event of the season - it will also mark the union of two powerful and wealthy Indian-American families. Shaylee "Shay" Kapoor is an outsider with an agenda of her own, but she just so happens to be dating Raj's best friend, Caleb Prescott III, and is the unwelcome plus one at the wedding. Then, on the day before the ceremony, Raj and Radhika are found dead in their luxury villa, both with gunshots to the head.

Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to rescue a friend who has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, ancient coins - remnants of a Chinese casino buried for six hundred years - are starting to surface in Japan's clandestine underworld. Mason knows the coins and kidnapping are linked. Someone has finally unearthed the long-buried ancient casino, and its riches - both financial and archaeological - are now up for grabs.

Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers, traveling alone, on the train from Belgrade to Istanbul. Except this isn't the first time they have met. It's the 1960s and Louise is running. From her past in England, from the owners of the money she has stolen - and from Henri, the person who has been sent to collect it. Across the Continent - from Granada to Paris, from Belgrade to Istanbul - Henri follows, desperate to leave behind his own troubles.

Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England on a luxury liner in the summer of 1894. On their first evening aboard, Jim meets an intriguing Spaniard, a fellow soldier with whom he finds an instant kinship. But within 24 hours, Don Juan Nepomuceno is murdered, his body discovered shortly after he asks rather urgently to see Jim.

1901. Coal baron Edward Berwind throws a party to celebrate the completion of his new "cottage", The Elms -- despite the fact that the servants - with a single exception - have all gone on strike to protest their working conditions. Emma and Derrick are invited to the fete, which culminates not only in a fabulous musicale but an unforeseen tragedy - a chambermaid is found dead in the coal tunnel. In short order, it is also discovered that a guest's diamond necklace is missing and a labourer has disappeared.

An inmate at Tonsgrove prison is murdered in her cell, but no one is willing to talk to the police. DI Gareth Williams is receiving pressure from above to solve the case - and quickly. Then, a local 17-year-old girl vanishes from her home. With two major cases being investigated at the same time, the Beaumaris force is stretched thin. Frustrated at the lack of progress Gareth's colleague and fiancee, DI Laura Hart, decides to take action by going undercover at the prison.

Twenty classic authors from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction are brought together in the latest anthology of previously unpublished and uncollected stories of crime and suspense.

Just as Jen sits down to start writing her next murder mystery novel, she stumbles across a chilling real-life case - a man who claims he's been wrongly convicted for murder. Time is running out for Jaylon as he needs a kidney transplant to save his life, something he'll never receive while he's in prison for murder.

Looking to throw a New Year's Eve soiree for their clients, Sparks and Bainbridge scout an empty building - only to find a body contained in the walls. What they initially assume is a victim of the recent Blitz is uncovered instead to be a murder victim - stabbed several times. To make matters worse, the owner of the building is Sparks' beau, Archie Spelling, who has ties to a variety of enterprises on the right and wrong sides of the law, and the main investigator for the police is her ex-fiancee.

Maisie Cooper is looking for peace and quiet. But the arrival of a troupe of actors for a new production at the local theatre turn her best laid plans upside down. Among them is the young French actress, Adelaide Amour, who appeals to Maisie for help as she struggles to prepare for her new role. As opening night approaches, a terrible crime is committed, and a body is found concealed behind the scenes in the theatre.

November 1816. Emeline Fitzpatrick is desperate to escape her stifling life in foggy Halifax. She has her eyes set on a handsome lieutenant in the British navy, but when Emeline's hopes end in scandal, she finds herself with only one suitor left - the wealthy and enigmatic Captain Graves. Having already lost two wives to tragic circumstances, the unfortunate widower is seeking a new companion in his cloistered seaside manor, Faraday House. Or so Emeline is told. In fact, when she arrives at the manor she is horrified to discover that Georgina - the second Mrs. Graves - has not yet died.

When elderly Professor Mudgood is found dead in his Bangalore house one winter morning, it is considered a natural death. After all, he was 82 years old, but Gowda isn't so sure. All the evidence points to a political murder since the professor was a fervent critic of right-wing forces in India. But the more Gowda delves into the details, the more convinced he becomes that the professor's killing has been stage-managed.

Back in the hills of Kentucky after a two-year absence, Mick Hardin had planned to touch down briefly before heading to France, marking the end of his twenty-year Army career. But in Rocksalt, trouble is brewing. Mick's sister Linda, recently reelected as sheriff, and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver are investigating the murder of Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack.

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters - as well as heartache close to home - Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust.

The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head - thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge - if she can survive the killers all around her.

When a major studio arrives in Salem to shoot a witchcraft-themed movie, folks go Hollywood. But when the gorgeous lead actress is found dead on a set staged to replicate the room where suspected witches were tried in 1692 - and her on-screen lover, in full costume, is discovered sound asleep in her trailer - the hunt is on for a killer on the loose.

Los Angeles, 1916. Photographer Bill Ogden has opened a portrait studio in the seedy noir world of early Hollywood, where he is joined by his granddaughter, Flavia - a woman in need of a fresh start after bludgeoning her drunken, abusive husband to death in Wichita. Though his business is legit, Bill finds himself brushing up against the "blue movie" porn industry growing in the shadows of the motion picture mainstream.When a series of grisly murders take place across the city, Bill and his capable granddaughter are pulled into events as tricky and tangled as anything this side of The Big Sleep.

Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life. But she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. Unknown to Leng, Pendergast's brother, Diogenes, appears unexpectedly, offering to help - for mysterious reasons of his own. Disguised as a cleric, Diogenes establishes himself in New York's notorious Five Points slum, manipulating events like a chess master, watching Leng's every move...and awaiting his own chance to strike.

Winter 1940. Police Inspector Henri Lefort's wishes for a quiet holiday season are dashed when the Gestapo orders him to investigate the disappearance of Dr. Viktor Brandt, a neurologist involved in a secret project at one of Paris's hospitals. He connects this to another case, a Frenchman beaten to death in what appears to be a botched burglary - the victim's brother is a doctor who worked at the same hospital as the missing German.

Chet and Bernie's next door neighbor, Mr. Parsons, thought he was doing the right thing by loaning his ne'er do well son, Billy, some money to help get himself settled. But days later, Mr. Parsons has discovered that his entire life savings is gone. Valley PD is certain this is an impersonation scam, but Bernie isn't so sure.

Hamburg, 1947. A ruined city occupied by the British, who bombed it, experiencing the coldest winter in living memory. A killer is on the loose, and all attempts to find him or her have failed. Policeman Frank Stave is under increasing pressure to find out why - in the wake of a wave of atrocity, the grim Nazi past and the bleak attempts by his German countrymen to recreate a country from the apocalypse - someone still has the stomach for murder.

When an arson attack strikes in south London, leaving three people dead, it quickly becomes clear that the youngest victim, Danielle Low, was the intended target. Then another body is found in similar circumstances and DCI Banham knows that there is someone far more sinister at work.

Temperance Brennan is called to Washington, DC to analyze the victims of a building set ablaze amid mysterious circumstances. Teamed with telejournalist Ivy Doyle, she learns that back in the thirties and forties the property belonged to a member a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this fact seems irrelevant - until the son of a Foggy Bottom gang member is shot dead at his farm in Fairfax County, Virginia.

1943. Garda Inspector Stefan Gillespie, on a diplomatic mission for the Irish government, takes a train from the chaos of German-occupied Rome to the Reich itself. Late at night he waits for a long-delayed connection at an empty station in neutral Switzerland. He sees a train no one is meant to see. A train that shouldn't be there. A beating from the train's SS guards, who shouldn't be there either, leaves him badly injured.

Crisis management expert Arden devotes her skill and determination - and maybe her final days on the job - to helping Cordelia Bannister and her husband Ned, a Boston real estate mogul. Though he was recently acquitted in a fatal drunk driving accident, his reputation is ruined, and the fallout is devastating not only to the Bannisters' lives, but the lives of their two adorable children. But soon, revelations begin to emerge about what really happened the night of the accident. And then - another car crash throws Ned back into the spotlight.

Tattooed, pierced, and a bit of a mess, Maggie Moore is a surprising genius when it comes to words, a savant able to solve any linguistic puzzle. The top student in her forensic linguistics class, she's tapped by local police to use her skills to decipher harrowing notes left by a stalker-turned-rapist - and succeeds brilliantly. But when the daughter of a local mayor is abducted, Maggie isn't sure she's the right person to help the police solve the crime.

Kalmann, the self-appointed sheriff of a small Icelandic village, is visiting his American father who takes him to the 2021 riots at the US Capitol Building, where he is arrested. Thanks to sympathetic FBI agent Dakota Leen, he is soon on a plane back to Iceland. But not before Dakota informs him that his recently deceased grandfather was on an FBI list of suspected Russian spies working in Iceland during the Cold War. Back home, Kalmann begins to suspect that his grandfather's death from "heart failure" was a murder.

Conrad the cat detective and retired police detective Lulu Lewis travel to Oxford on their canal boat. Lulu is planning nothing more stressful than attending a friend's birthday party. And drinking a few glasses of Chardonnay. But a brutal murder and a daring art theft means her plans are shattered - instead she and Conrad find themselves on the trail of a killer.A killer who may well strike again.

A man who lived in Hofn discovers he may have a sister he had never known. Meanwhile a search and rescue team in Hofn searches for two couples from Reykjavik, whose phones last registered on the road leading up into the highlands. Soon they find the first dead body. And the phone connected to the gate to the Stokksnes Radar Station rings for the first time in five months. On the other end there is only interference and what sounds like a child's voice asking for her mother.

For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it's the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain.

From the author of THREE BAGS FULL. It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they're currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith). It seems the answer to their little problem with Lillith may have fallen right into their lap. All they have to do is find out who murdered their neighbour, so they can pin Lillith's death on them, thus killing two (old) birds with one stone (cold killer). With their plan sorted, Agnes and her geriatric gang spring into action.

Elinor Bascombe, widowed and tied to an impoverished estate, has learned to ask little of life. With no hope of leaving, the years have passed her by. Lord Ryde, exiled abroad after a scandal, has returned to strip his estate and make a new start in America. A chance encounter changes their plans, plunging Elinor and Lord Ryde into adventure and not a little peril until, finally, they are forced to confront the mystery of what happened on That Night, all those years ago.

Maggie D'arcy is now officially a Garda. She's finally settling into life in Ireland and so is her teenage daughter, Lilly. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she's happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighbourhood. When she and her partner find former model and reality tv star Jade Elliot murdered - days after responding to a possible domestic violence disturbance at her apartment - they also discover Jade's toddler daughter missing.

The first time the narrator met Harold Challenor, he frisked him for weapons - he was ten years old. Bent is the explosive story of the rise and fall of SAS commando, and notorious Detective Sergeant, Harold 'Tanky' Challenor. During the Second World War, Challenor was parachuted behind enemy lines into Italy and France, performing remarkable feats of bravery. In the grimy underbelly of 1960s Soho, he was a ferocious and controversial presence, mediating between factions of club owners and racketeers, and cultivating informers. But just how far will he go to break the protection gang that has a grip on his manor?

She met him through a dating app, an intriguing picture on a screen. What she thought might be a hookup quickly became much more. She fell for him - hard. But then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared - profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted. But soon she learns there were others. Girls who thought they were in love, who later went missing.

Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's - catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. Who killed her? The blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair?

Close to Rome, set among ancient ruins and freshwater springs, languishes the magnificent Villa Rospo, a jewel in the Tode family portfolio, and one they had virtually forgotten - until Sir Ecgbert and Alice decide it's the perfect place for their honeymoon. Now professional freeloader and everyone's old school chum, Piers Slayer-Wilson-Tite, has his eye on making it his personal love-nest. When the body of Piers's wife, Elizabetta, is discovered floating among grapefruits in the spring at the bottom of Villa Rospo's famous gardens, there's only one thing everyone agrees on - that there's absolutely no need to call the police.

During a broiling heatwave, the inner circle of a high-profile charity attend a critical meeting at White Ash Ridge, a small hotel nestled in the Australian wilderness. As the temperature rises, a body is found lying in the thick bush, bludgeoned to death. One of the four remaining guests is a murderer - but who, and why, is a mystery. Detective Dana Russo knows the national spotlight will be sharply focused on the case.

Nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran have reached a crisis point, but there are several stumbling blocks, not the least of which is Lt Col Kasem Kahlidi, the former Iranian Quds Force intelligence officer the CIA has hidden away in one of its safe houses. As always, John and Meredith Dale are caught in the middle. Mossad wants Meredith's help to find a suspected cache of Quds tactical nukes, while John is in a desperate race to keep Kasem one step ahead of an Iranian hit squad.

1905. Lady Emily, husband Colin Hargreaves, and their three sons eagerly embark on a family vacation at Cairnfarn Castle, the Scottish estate of their friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge. But a high-spirited celebration at the beginning of their stay comes to a grisly end when the duke's gamekeeper is found murdered. What is the meaning of the curious runic stone left on Sinclair's forehead?

In one of the most luxurious cities on earth, a billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. Thousands of miles away, in the leafy Berkshire countryside, Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences. Two deaths. Continents apart. Completely unrelated. So why are they at the centre of a master criminal's plot for revenge?

When Jennie Whitmore arrives at her school reunion, she immediately regrets her decision. Why would she choose to surround herself with people who were never nice to her? Who still aren't, even now she's a police officer. The only person who truly looked out for her all those years ago was charming, beautiful Hannah. Until the day she disappeared. Jennie is ready to finally put White Cross Academy behind her, the old school building demolished the morning after the party. But with the demolition comes a call. A teenage girl's remains have been found on the grounds. Hannah's.

Marooned overnight by a snowstorm is a cast of characters and a setting that even Agatha Christie might recognize - a vicar, an Army major, a Dowager, a sleuth and his sidekick - except that the sleuth is Jackson Brodie, and the "sidekick" is DC Reggie Chase.

When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in her rural Maine hometown, government officials have immediate concerns. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that could endanger the lives of countless operatives. Ex-Army Ranger Travis Devine (from 6:20 MAN) is sent to solve the murder quickly and retrieve the missing information.

Ireland, 1957. Detective Inspector St. John Strafford has been summoned to County Wexford to investigate a murder. A parish priest has been found dead in Ballyglass House, the family seat of the aristocratic, secretive Osborne family. Strafford - flinty, visibly Protestant and determined to identify the murderer - faces obstruction at every turn, from the heavily accumulating snow to the culture of silence in the tight-knit community he begins to investigate.

In 1950s Dublin, Rosa Jacobs, a young history scholar, is found dead in her car. Renowned pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford begin to investigate the death as a murder, but it's the victim's older sister Molly, an established journalist, who discovers a lead that could crack open the case. One of Rosa's friends, it turns out, is from a powerful German family that arrived in Ireland under mysterious circumstances shortly after World War II.

The final volume of the series. In March 1817, when Jane Austen's nephew Edward brings chilling news of a death at his former school, Winchester College, not even her debilitating ailment can keep Jane from seeking out the truth. Arthur Prendergast, a senior pupil at the prestigious all-boys' boarding school, has been found dead in a culvert near the schoolgrounds - and in the pocket of his drenched waistcoat is an incriminating note.

When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine's Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met online. Karen was all over the dating apps, leading some townspeople to blame her for her own death, while others band together to protest society's violence against women. Into the divide comes Kiki Nunn, whose aggressive newsgathering once again antagonizes Elise.

Joanne Eris has a bad habit of marrying men that wind up dead. An unnamed private detective, simply known as "The Eye" is hired to investigate the death of her husband. The detective developes a dangerous obsession with the femme fatale as he pursues her across the United States.

Joe Egan is on the run. A mysterious blonde appears to him whenever someone close to him dies. He lives his life in fear of her, but at the same time develops a strange fascination with her. Who is the blonde woman? Is she a figment of his imagination, the angel of death, or even the devil incarnate?

Claire Hendricks can see ghosts, but she can't see herself having a fun vacation. Yet when her new friends/found family, Basher and Alex, insist, Claire and her dead BFF, Sophie, pack themselves off to a remote Irish island. This tempest-tossed isle is indeed full of noises. Not only is the hotel where the gang is staying double booked with a posh private party, the island's crumbling old fort is being fought over by rival ghost pirates.

21-year-old Hardy "Hardly" Reed - good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned - is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, with injuries that suggest someone is hurting them. As Hardly attempts to do something about it, he discovers that they are the children of a violent drug-dealing lawyer.

Detective Declan Miller has a problem. Still desperate to solve the murder of his wife, a young man has just appeared on his doorstep with a briefcase containing a pair of severed hands. Miller knows this case is proof of a contract killing commissioned by local ne'er do well Wayne Cutler - a man he suspects might also be responsible for his wife's death.

Professional assassin Joe Flood gets a cancer diagnosis giving him six months to live. He puts a contract out on himself - six million dollars from a Swiss bank account to the professional who will end his suffering quickly. The killer's game is on. But then Joe gets a follow-up from his doctors. He was misdiagnosed. It's not cancer; he should have many years to live. Except that now there's no way to call off the hit.

Flavia de Luce has taken on the mentorship of her odious, moon-faced cousin Undine, who has come to live at Buckshaw following the death of her mother. Undine's main talent seems to be getting underfoot, although in her best moments she shows potential for trespassing and trickery. When Major Greyleigh, a local recluse and former hangman, is found dead from ingesting poisonous mushrooms, suspicion fall on the de Luce family's longtime cook, Mrs. Mullet.

In 1983, Professor Robert Balfour was found floating in Airthrey Loch at the heart of Stirling University's campus. To mark the 40th anniversary of his father's death, Jonathan Rodriguez has travelled back to Stirling - and he's brought a camera crew with him. Rodriguez is convinced his father's death was no accident - and that at least one of the killers wore a uniform. Desperate to make the problem go away, DCI Malcolm Ford turns to Connor Fraser for help. And then another body is found at nearby Bannockburn.

London in the early nineties is a hotbed of political activism and intrigue, prey and predator, and times are changing fast - too fast for DCI Rick Bailey. When a young woman goes missing in the run-up to Christmas, he's convinced her disappearance is related to an unsolved murder that has haunted him for the last three years. He stumbles upon suspects connected to all the clues, among them a care worker facing betrayal and abuse, a cemetery worker hearing music that does not play, an activist running from himself and a blind man who sees more than anyone else.

Mia's Morsels is chosen to host a fall festival event in their Idaho mountain town. There's a lot riding on the results of the Harvest Moon Festival - it's where the local coven leader is chosen for the following year. But after one contestant is found in a compromising position with a judge, and another drops out when her mother is killed in a freak hiking accident, the coven suspects magical meddling.

A metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's DCI Harry Taylor and his unconventional team from the Met who must hit the streets in search of a lead. They soon have two wildly different suspects, aristocratic art dealer Julian Smythe in London and oligarch Vladimir Voldrev in Barbados.

Twenty short stories, never before collected.

Back in 1988, a young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the center of a living nightmare as the serial killer Joshua Gallagher, known as "The Boogeyman", stalked his tranquil Maryland town. Afterward Chizmar gained some celebrity and notoriety himself, the only person that an incarcerated Josh Gallagher will speak to. But he eventually finds there's a price to be paid for dancing with the devil, when a masked figure with all the hallmarks of Gallagher's reign of terror from thirty years ago now leaves a horrifying calling card in front of Chizmar's home...

Hercule Poirot - "probably the greatest detective in the world" - is celebrated in the first official Agatha Christie calendar in the USA, comprising brand-new cover designs from the bestselling books.

A man's body is found in the early morning light by a local dog walker on the common outside Rosebank, a care home for troubled teens. The victim is Josh, a staff member who was due to work the previous night but never showed up for his shift. DI Vera Stanhope is called out to investigate. Her only clue is the disappearance of one of the home's residents, 14 year-old Chloe Spence.

In 1968, Nate Heller is there when Robert Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel. Heller takes it upon himself to investigate the murder when a friend of his and Bobby's raises doubts about the LAPD's investigation. Heller strongly suspects the involvement of Jimmy Hoffa (currently imprisoned), but Hoffa seems to be in the clear...

London, 1815. Lady Petra Forsyth, daughter of the Earl of Holbrook, has made a shocking proclamation. After losing her beloved fiancee in an accident three years earlier, she announces in front of London's loosest lips that she will never marry. But when ballroom gossip suggests that a longtime friend has died of a fit due to her "melancholia" while in the care of a questionable physician, Petra vows to use her independent status to dig deeper.

Libby Sarjeant is deep into rehearsals for the annual pantomime when a body is found in a doorway two weeks before Christmas. Libby and her friend Fran are called into action once again, when their investigation leads them to a local brewery and the sale of many of its pubs.With the help of a team of local publicans, can Libby and Fran unravel the case before it's too late?

Washington Poe has a story to tell. He'll tell you about a man who was tied to a tree and stoned to death, a man who had tattooed himself with a code so obscure, even the gifted analyst Tilly Bradshaw struggled to break it. He'll tell you how the man's murder was connected to a tragedy that happened fifteen years earlier when a young girl massacred her entire family. And finally, he'll tell you about the mercy chair. And why people would rather kill themselves than talk about it.

Martin Wade lived hard in his youth, but unlike many of his former bandmates and roadie friends, he didn't die young. Instead he hit the recovery path, cleaned up his life, and became a private investigator in a dying city in upstate New York. When his heavily tattooed and scarred assistant Valerie sets up an appointment with a young woman who needs help keeping her biological father away from her, none of the three realize that the father is Martin's old bandmate, still using, and on a destructive path that will soon be headed straight for Martin's clean life.

Jeannie is in trouble. After the loss of her husband, everyone around her is pressuring her to leave her precious farm, including an incredibly persistent realtor who won't name her client. But when that realtor ends up dead, killed by mistake when she borrows Jeannie's car, it becomes clear that her client won't take no for an answer. Who wants Jeannie's land so badly that they are willing to kill her for it? And why her farm when there are plenty around her for sale?

This collection of ten stories from the golden age of British crime writing features festive whodunits by Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. There are unexplained deaths by all manner of suspect means from famous writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Marjorie Bowen, and dastardly Christmas crimes to be solved from esteemed crime writers such as Robert Barnard, Nicholas Olde, and H. R. F. Keating.

Four pivotal events, fact and fiction. "The Bride from Bithynia" is set as the province of Britain explodes in the Boudican revolt. In "The Spook Who Spoke Again" Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus investigates a death in his birth mother's troupe of exotic performers. "Vesuvius by Night" is set as the volcano erupts. In "Invitation to Die" the Camillus brothers are invited to banquet by Emperor Domitian, and fear they will not survive the night..

A resident of small-town Visberg is found decapitated. A grim celebration in a cultish hilltop community after the apple harvest. As Visberg closes ranks to keep its deadly secrets, there could not be a worse time for Tuva Moodyson to arrive as deputy editor of the local newspaper. Powerful forces are at play and no one dares speak out. But Tuva senses the story of her career, unaware that perhaps she is the story...

April 1999. The body of Alaska Sanders is found on the shore of a lake near the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, New Hampshire. The young woman's death rocks the small community, but the murder is quickly solved. Within days, a suspect is identified and soon convicted. But 11 years later, Marcus Goldman, celebrity author and amateur sleuth, picks up a thread that will unravel not only the "open and shut" case of Alaska Sanders, but the very fabric of his friend Sergeant Perry Gahalowood's life. Gahalowood, who led the original Alaska Sanders investigation, is hell-bent on finding the truth and setting the record straight.

Violet Hamilton is no ordinary lady...She is a Lady Detective, who spends her time solving mysteries and unveiling scandals in the bustling seaside town of Hastings and St Leonards, a popular spot for the Victorian middle classes.But when the body of a local woman is found on the beach, Violet's efforts to investigate are blocked at every turn.Is that because, as a woman, she can't possibly be allowed to think or act for herself? Or is it because someone sinister has Violet in their sights?

The students at Father Brennan Burke's choir school have written a two-act play about the Halifax Explosion of 1917. The last thing Burke expects is a series of threats against his school and his students, designed to make sure they never perform act two. Then the body of a young woman, Trudi Ebbett, is found strangled in Halifax. A junior hockey player, a friend of one of the students, is the last person known to have seen her alive and is suspected of the murder.

Law professor Boady Sanden, working for the Innocence Project, looks at the file of Elijah Matthews. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. Broady is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death of his colleague and friend, Ben Pruitt, a man shot to death four years earlier in Boady's own home.

Rape and organised crime sully even the pretty streets of the small Yorkshire town DC Donna Morris is beginning to think of as home. The National Crime Agency inevitably gets involved but their methods put more people in danger. Guns - though she used one once in anger and fear - are really not how Donna would prefer to nail the guilty. And there are some people who believe their actions are always justified. Then there are others who will never get justice. Can DC Donna Morris negotiate some kind of resolution while dealing with betrayal in her own life?

1879. Aristocratic sleuth Charles Lenox makes a triumphant return to London from his travels to America to investigate a mystery hidden in the architecture of the city itself. Strolling around London, recuperating from the events of AN EXTRAVAGANT DEATH, he begins mapping odd markings on some buildings he encounters, clues that lead him to some unpleasant secrets.

Guido T has already confessed to two horrific child murders and led Berlin police to the bodies. The police are sure he is also the murderer of six-year-old Max, who disappeared without a trace a year ago. But now the killer is staying silent. One investigator makes an unbelievable offer. He can place Max's father, as a fake patient, inside the maximum security psychiatric hospital where Guido T is imprisoned. Max's father agrees. He plans to force the child killer into a confession. Because nothing is worse than uncertainty. Or so he thinks...

Dr. Suker is one of the best eye surgeons in the world. He is also a psychopath who abducts women and removes their eyelids. So far, all the victims of the twisted doctor's crimes have committed suicide shortly thereafter. The police are unable to proceed against him due to the lack of evidence. When another woman is abducted, her mother turns to Alina Gregoriev for help. Gregoriev, the blind physiotherapist, has been considered a medium since her abilities helped capture an infamous serial killer.

Jessica becomes somewhat concerned when her friend Bertha Mae starts to talk about her new neighbor, Martin Terranova, who teaches yoga and meditation in his pool house. Jessica attends one of his classes and does notice that Terranova is flirtatious with several elderly clients, especially Bertha Mae. A short while later, Martin turns up dead in his weight room.

The Syrian government has created a highly addictive new narcotic that it plans to distribute throughout Europe. It's a major threat to crime lord Damian Losa's business and he's determined to stop it by any means necessary. Mitch Rapp is the perfect choice for the mission. Not only does he have extensive experience operating in the Middle East, but he's also entirely expendable. As he crosses into war-torn Syria, Rapp quickly learns that the new drug was created by Russia's asymmetrical warfare unit as a weapon against the West.

Chester Newton has built his fortune organizing racehorse syndicates, where top horses are co-owned and managed by several parties. These joint enterprises are high risk and high reward - and for Chester, it's almost always been reward. After an anxious morning waiting for the results of the Epsom Derby, the premier flat race in the UK, Chester has an afternoon of explosive triumph - and an evening of total terror. Someone tries to take over one of his syndicates by force and by threats of serious harm to him and his family.

After a near-death experience, Sunny Randall is ready to lighten her load as a PI, that is until she is called upon by billionaire media magnate Bill Welch to investigate the disappearance of his son, Dylan, the cofounder of the Gonzo Energy Drink company. Lazy, unscrupulous and a notorious partier, Dylan isn't exactly reliable. But Dylan's mother, Lydia, insists this time is different.

Local girls' soccer coach Sven-Gunnar Erlandsson is practically a saint in the community, known for his good works and volunteering. So when his body is found in Stockholm's beautiful Herrang forest, shot at close range in the back of the neck while walking home from a late-night poker game, the police struggle to find a motive. Nothing has been taken from his pockets except his cell phone, and the only other clues left behind are a cryptic handwritten note and a handful of playing cards. The Hammarby murder squad, led by DCI Conny Sjoberb takes the case.

Emma Makepeace is headed to Edinburgh for the global G7 Summit when her team is tipped off about a high-profile assassination the Russians are planning - but they have no idea who the target is. Surrounded by the world's most powerful political leaders in a gridlocked city, Emma must set a trap and use herself as bait.

It is now fifteen years after the events of THE FIRM, and Mitch and Abby are living in Manhattan, where Mitch is a partner at the largest law firm in the world. When a mentor in Rome asks him for a favour that will take him far from home, Mitch finds himself at the center of a sinister plot that has worldwide implications - and once again endangers his colleagues, friends, and family.

Told in emails, text messages, and essays. Gela Nathaniel, head of Royal Hastings University's new Multimedia Art course, must find six students from all walks of life across the United Kingdom for her new master's program before the university cuts her funding. The students are nothing but trouble from day one. And then there is the examiner, the man hired to grade students' final works - an art installation for a local cloud-based solutions company that may have an ulterior agenda - and who, in sifting through final essays, texts, and message boards, warns that someone is in danger...or already dead.

Summer 1979. In the idyllic suburban neighbourhood of Ridgefield, during a scorching heat wave, four couples gather for their weekly dinner party. When Frank Callaghan checks on the sleeping children, he finds an empty crib where his four-month-old daughter Megan should be sleeping. The party-goers swear they didn't see anything but each of them has something to hide. Forty years later, a stranger knocks at the Callaghan's door claiming to be Megan. The family are sceptical until they see what she is holding - the blanket she was wrapped in the night she disappeared.

An inquiry into the British Secret Service allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable First Desk managed to successfully thwart the inquiry at every turn. Now the inquiry is terminated and Griselda and Malcolm are on their way out when an MI5 case file appears without explanation, the buried history of a classified operation in 1994 Berlin.

A murder victim dumped at the dead end of a lonely country road, face and hands obliterated by a shotgun blast, is not the way sheriff's detective Nick Fourcade wants to start his week. His only lead takes him to the family of a hometown hero suddenly gone missing. Marc Mercier left his home for a weekend hunting trip and hasn't been seen since.

With the holiday season in full swing, food and cocktails columnist and restauranteur Hayley Powell has lots to check off her last minute to-do list. Not included is the sudden arrival of her father, who hasn't been in the picture since she believed in Santa Claus. Dwight Jordan's presence in Bar Harbor might just be the unwanted gift that keeps on giving - especially after he becomes the top suspect in a case of yuletide murder.

Authors include: Ace Atkins, Michael Bracken, Fleur Bradley, Shelley Costa, Doug Crandell, Jeffery Deaver, Brendan DuBois, John Floyd, Nils Gilbertson, Peter Hayes, Shells Legoullon, Victor Methos, Leonardo Padura, Dan Pope, Annie Reed, Cameron Sanders, Anna Scotti, Archer Sullivan, Andrew Welsh-Huggins and Stacy Woodson.

June 1920, Dublin. The streets seethe with revolution as the IRA clashes with British authorities. Roving assassination squads mean nowhere is truly safe, particularly for Verity Kent and husband Sidney. They must tread carefully to go unnoticed - nearly impossible when they are called upon to search for Verity's fellow spy and friend. Captain Alec Xavier has seemingly vanished after traveling to Dublin to infiltrate the IRA at its highest levels.

New York-born and Texas-bred Nia Adams always dreamt of becoming a Texas Ranger. As the first Black female ranger, she knows the politics, but she's never encountered a criminal like Desmond Bell. A Vietnam vet turned thief, Desmond steals more than money; he steals the secrets of the rich and powerful and blackmails them for millions.

An anthology of 20 CWA Dagger Award-shortlisted stories, featuring classic stories from such authors as Neil Gaiman, Ann Cleeves, Val McDermid, George Pelecanos, John Lawton, Ken Bruen, Mickey Spillane and Peter Robinson.

Former Seattle homicide cop J. P. Beaumont faces trouble in the small town of Ashland, as both his personal and professional lives are thrown into turmoil. Beau's daughter and son-in-law are having marital troubles, and his grandson, a senior in high school, shows up on his doorstep, wanting to live with Beau and his wife Mel as he finishes out the school year. Meanwhile, a friend from his past asks for Beau's help in looking into what appears to be an accidental death, a fentanyl overdose.

Jaleesa, Kai, Ilya and Dani are online best friends, and superfans of the hit TV show City Of Night. Fantasising about the show in their chatroom, they find an escape from their troubled small-town lives. Everything changes when Chloe, make-up artist to the show's star Alice Temple, enters the chat. When Chloe tells them Alice is in danger the four resolve to save her, and make their way to California. But fantasy is quickly overtaken by reality.

1999. As London prepares for the Millennium, a serial rapist is stalking the River Thames. A junior female police officer in a world dominated by men, Detective Constable Louise Mangan is desperate for the chance to prove herself, and when she brings in the culprit almost single-handedly, she believes the people of Hampton Court can rest easy at last. But the worst is yet to come.

1983. At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death. There, they discover five suspects: the chief physician, two junior nurses, a young doctor, and the caretaker, who is arrested following false testimony from one of the nurses, but subsequently released. But less than a week after the murder, the chief physician is also found dead, having apparently fallen from a balcony.

This novel, based on a true story, follows the criminal career of Alvin Karpis, a Chicago gangster in the 1930s. Karpis joins forces with the notorious Barker Gang as they set on a trail of bank robberies, murders, and kidnappings and become the most hunted men in America.

When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly reluctantly accepts the case. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability - married octogenarians, devoted to each other, and semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harbouring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie's disappearance.

With Duke out of commission following his wife's tragic death, Thumps is appointed temporary deputy sheriff, a role that makes him doubly eager for Duke's swift recovery. First, a myopic private investigator dies while in custody. The autopsy concludes that he died of natural causes; then an assault rifle is found in the trunk of the dead man's rental car, and the mystery woman he was investigating disappears.

Ever since Thanksgiving, when an engagement ring in a velvet box - and no gift tag - was left behind, Poppy and her pals have been left with an unsolved mystery. Then the body of a fish supplier is discovered in the kitchen of her ex's restaurant - and he's frozen, not fresh. The victim has a note taped to him reading "Get Poppy". Figures - an engagement ring isn't labeled, but the dead guy is addressed to her.

Newly promoted Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison has elbowed her way into the Area Major Incident Pool, or AMIP, an elite team investigating non-domestic murders. Her first assignment is a five-year-old cold case of a missing teenager no one else has any interest in investigating, and an assumed suicide Tennison suspects is, in fact, murder. But as Tennison gathers the crucial evidence to secure arrests, her new colleagues watch like vultures circling prey. And one by one the cases that she has built from the ground up are taken from her - and the glory along with them.

When Samuel Lidman spots his wife - who was confirmed dead 14 years ago - in the background of a friend's holiday photo, he brings it to disgraced former professor and government consultant Hans Rekke and his unofficial partner - and temporary roommate - Detective Micaela Vargas. Their initial skepticism gives way to cautious belief - but where will this case lead them?

1914. Sherlock Holmes has been murdered. Nobody knows who did it, but Wiggins, former Baker Street Irregular and Holmes' protege, suspects a German spy. However, Europe is descending into the chaos of the First World War. Captain Kell of Military Intelligence has limited resources, and more pressing matters on his mind. Wiggins is on his own. Almost. He pursues Holmes' killer across the continent, but as grief and rage close in it's not just the killer that eludes his grasp.

A list of regicides believed to be involved in the death of Charles I is drawn up. Although not a regicide, staunch Republican Damian Seeker is on a list of traitors to the king. Seeker has fled England but his beloved daughter Manon remains, married to Seeker's friend, the lawyer Lawrence Ingolby, and living in York. As the conduit to her father and to others on the Winter List and surrounded by spies and watchers, Manon lives in constant danger and fear of discovery.

London, 1608. Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission. He must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends. In the Serpents' den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.

When Muriel Carew attends a lavish society party, the last person she expects to bump into is her ex-fiancee Henry Jekyll, a man she's not seen for many years. When Jekyll turns out to be investigating a series of missing persons in London, Muriel is intrigued. But Jekyll is not working alone, and if Muriel wants to aid in the investigation, she must work with both Henry and his partner, the monstrous and uncouth Mr Hyde.

Inspector Isabel Reis, a Gifted Inspector with Portugal's Policia Judiciria, must assist Met's CID when everyone in the Portugese embassy suddenly dies. Two things quickly become very clear. This was a mass killing, and only one person escaped. The person the embassy was secretly protecting within its walls. The answers lie with the sole survivor.

When the lifeless body of 18-year-old Caitlin is discovered on a desolate beach by the Black Loch, questions of murder and secrecy shroud the tight-knit community. It soon emerges that the young woman was in an illicit relationship with Fionnlagh Macleod, a married teacher at the Nicholson Institute where she was a student. Her lover becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigation. He is also Fin Macleod's son.

It's April 2020 and Edinburgh is in lockdown, but that doesn't mean crime takes a holiday. It would seem like a strange time for a cold case to go hot - the streets all but empty, an hour's outdoor exercise the maximum allowed - but when a source at the National Library contacts DCI Karen Pirie's team about documents in the archive of a recently deceased crime novelist, it seems it's game on again.

When private detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York, he finds himself among a set of not-entirely-friendly strangers. Then the body of one of the members is found at the lake's edge; hours later, a major storm hits. By the time power is restored on Sunday, two more people will be dead.

The daughter of celebrity pop star Trist Jones goes missing and his ex-wife, Katie, is charged with kidnapping. Everyone from the police to the media believe Katie is guilty - her reputation was ripped to shreds in the tabloids during their divorce and subsequent custody battle. Call it mother's intuition, but Jilly has her doubts and takes the case.

A call in the night places Lady Dandy Gilver's oldest friend Daisy at the centre of a murder investigation. With her friend's future on the line, Dandy and her fellow sleuth Alec Osbourne must race to prove her innocence. But when they reach the idyllic Scottish village of Dirleton, residents confirm a woman was seen at the crime scene - an ancient stone called the louping stane, still spattered with the victim's blood. And the longer the detectives spend in the village the more they question Daisy's involvement.

June, 1916. Amid rebellion in Ireland and revolution in Russia, Germany has a secret plan to win the war and the British Secret Service dispatches two aging friends to uncover the scheme. In pursuit of a mysterious coded telegram sent from Berlin to an unknown recipient in Mexico, Holmes and Watson must cross the Atlantic, dodge German U-boats and assassination attempts, and evade the intrigues of young J. Edgar Hoover, while enlisting the help of a beautiful, eccentric Washington socialite as they seek to foil the schemes of Holmes's nemesis, the escaped German spymaster Von Bork.

Mid-winter, St. Andrews, Scotland. When a university lecturer fails to turn up for class, he is found dead at home, with evidence of having committed suicide. A female student reports to the police that she was having an affair with him and knows he would never commit suicide. Toxicology results turn up Class A drugs in his system, and DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate, DS Jessie Janes, are called in to investigate.

Arya Winters isn't one to take on residential gigs, but when she's invited to bake her cakes for a two-week art retreat in the dead of winter on a large estate, she can hardly turn it down. Yet Monk Hole is rife with secrets. Everywhere Arya turns, there are more people with problems, and they all want to talk to her. Could things get any worse? A corpse covered in her cupcakes might turn up perhaps. Or Branwell Beam, her ex, who seems to have a past she never knew about, might make an appearance - with a new girlfriend in tow.

When a newborn baby is found drowned in the shallow waters of the Golden Horn, all-out warfare threatens to erupt between rival criminal gangs. Inspector Kerim Gursel is assigned to the case and he must tread carefully when DNA tests reveal that the baby's father is Gorkan Pasahan, Istanbul's most feared Mafia boss. But the identity of the infant's mother is yet to be discovered . . .Meanwhile, Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman attend the winter festival known as Bocuk Gecesi, held on the darkest night of the year, and witness a magic trick whereby a young man, Emir Kaya, disappears.

January 1922.The Bangalore Constabulary is on high alert as The Prince of Wales is scheduled to visit the city to redeem his reputation after disastrous visits marked by violent anti-British riots. Kaveri has just been given VIP tickets to the famous Bangalore circus. But when a celebrity magician, shackled in an iron cage filled with deadly snakes, disappears into thin air, she is stunned to discover her friend and favourite policeman, Inspector Ismail, is telling her to leave the case well alone.

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy's job now. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She's currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D'Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts...

Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers who grew up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoyed watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow.

Edinburgh, 1853. Body parts have been found at Surgeons' Hall, and they're not anatomy specimens. In a city still haunted by the crimes of Burke and Hare, Dr Will Raven is tasked with heading off a scandal. When further human remains are found, Raven is able to identify a prime suspect, and the hunt is on before he kills again. Unfortunately, the individual he seeks happens to be an accomplished actor, a man of a thousand faces and a renowned master of disguise.

Three novelettes, one each with collaborators Maxine Paetro, Andrew Bourelle and Loren D. Estleman.

If ex-Detroit street cop Kurt Argento sees a young girl being dragged into an alley, he's going to rescue her and cause some damage. When he does just that in a small corrupt Missouri town, he's brutally beaten and thrown into a maximum-security prison. So he's on hand when a malfunction in the security system releases a horde of prisoners just as Julie Wakefield, a grad student who happens to be the governor's daughter, is about to take a tour of the prison.

When a body is discovered in the water at the Falls of Lora, it looks like a straightforward suicide to DCI Christine Caplan. But when her superior officer alerts her to similarities with a locked case - and a legal minefield - she discovers that darker truths lurk beneath the surface.'Girl A' was convicted of murdering three people when she was a child. Now she's missing and a man is dead.

On a hot August night, Lt. Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke, speed through the streets of Manhattan to the Down and Dirty club, where a joyful, boisterous pre-wedding girls' night out has turned into a murder scene. The bride lies in a pool of blood, garroted in a private room where she was preparing a surprise for her fiancee - two scrimped and saved-for tickets to Hawaii.

Marjorie Crowe lives in Kilgoyne, Scotland. The locals put her age at somewhere between 55 and 70. They think she's divorced or a lifelong spinster; that she used to be a librarian, a pharmacist, or a witch. They think she's lonely, or ill, or maybe just plain rude. For the most part, they leave her be. Then local teenager Charlie McKee is found hanging in the woods, and Marjorie is the first one to see his body. When what she saw turns out to be impossible, the police have their doubts.

May 1940. In rural Sussex, war veteran John Cook has been tasked with preparing the resistance effort, should the worst happen. But even as the foreign threat looms, it's rumours of a missing child that are troubling Cook. A 12-year-old girl was evacuated from London and never seen again, and she's just the tip of the iceberg - countless evacuees haven't made it to their host families. As Cook investigates, he uncovers a dark conspiracy that reaches to the highest ranks of society.

Teetapur, an unassuming village just a few hours outside of bustling Delhi, is famous for nothing - until one of its children, 8-year-old Munia, is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor. Suspicion ignites like wildfire, fueled by religious tensions that simmer beneath the surface.The responsibility of uncovering the elusive truth - and prevent the lynching of the prime suspect - now rests on the weary shoulders of Sub-Inspector Ombir Singh.

When Captain Hyde, chief detective for the Edinburgh Police, finds himself at the scene of a heinous murder, with no idea of how he got there or the events leading up to the discovery, his alarm is triggered on two levels. First, the crime scene is brutal and involves the Threefold Death, an ancient Celtic rite of sacrifice entangled with dark Scottish spiritual mythology. Second, he immediately frets about his secret condition, a rare form of epilepsy that causes him such lapses.

Federal judge Alex Sand was spending the evening at home playing basketball with his two young sons when all three were shot in cold blood. With public pressure mounting and both the local police force and FBI hitting dead end after dead end, Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to do what others could not - find answers. With each potential lead flawed, Davenport and Flowers are determined to chase every theory until they figure out who killed the Sands.

One day while Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are enjoying their mid-morning tea break, an American client, Ruth, arrives seeking help finding her relatives and the village her beloved grandfather came from. Unfortunately, his stories, while remarkably charming and entertaining, were not very detailed, and so all she remembers is a few first names and some descriptions of his village.

Bergen, Norway. Teenaged girls, many from privileged backgrounds, are being drawn into drugs and prostitution at an astonishing rate. When the local magistrate is discovered dead in a luxury hotel, clad only in women's lingerie, the mystery deepens. Called in by anxious parents to search for a missing girl, private investigator Varg Veum uncovers clues that lead him deep into Bergen's criminal underworld.

Your house should be the safest place in the world. But imagine you rent out a room, and the unthinkable happens...someone is murdered in it. This is the nightmare Alfie Watson is plunged into. He can't go to the police, because he knows he'll be in danger too. But he can't just do nothing. Then Alfie receives a blackmail note - the killer is after him.

George Cross loves puzzles - he's good at them - and he immediately spots one when he begins investigating the death of former mayor Peggy Frampton. It looks like a burglary that went horribly wrong to most but George can see what others can't - that this was murder. After her political career ended, Peggy became a controversial blogger whose forthright opinions attracted a battalion of online trolls. And then there's her family: an unfaithful husband and a gambling-addicted son. With yet more enemies in her past, the potential suspects are unending.

When Edwina manages to slip onto Marshall's computer in an unobserved moment and promptly wins a stay in an exclusive coastal hotel in Cornwall, the Sunset Hall crew doesn't waste any time in deciding to join her. After all, Edwina can't be left unsupervised. But they've barely unpacked their bags when Agnes sees something unsettling from the terrace of the hotel. Two figures in hoods walk away from the hotel along the cliffs, but only one returns.

When a picture of two Danish girls who disappeared on a boat bound for England in 1985 emerges many years later in an old suitcase from a British second-hand dealer, journalist Nora Sand's professional curiosity is immediately awakened. Before she knows it, she is mixed up in the case of a serial killer serving a life sentence in a notorious prison.

Special Agent Alexandra Martel, charming and disarming, relentless and lethal, earned a reputation as one of the most renowned and decorated Army snipers in the service before stepping away. But when Alex, now an FBI special agent on loan to Interpol, learns that an old friend, an MI5 officer, has been killed under mysterious circumstances, she's pulled back into the dangerous world she left behind - a world where some people fear her, some want to recruit her, and everyone seems to want her dead.

Tennis bad boy Ziko Slade is serving 20 years for the grisly murder of a small-time criminal. What begins as a cursory review of the case as a favor to Dave Gurney's wife's friend soon spirals into something much more complicated. When Gurney's involvement threatens to expose a viper's nest of corruption, he finds himself framed for murder and pursued by a sensational media, a ruthless district attorney, and a cold-blooded killer.

When Abby, an American archaeologist, arrives in St. Denis on the heels of her divorce, she hopes to make a new life for herself as a specialist guide for visiting tourists. So when a local British couple discover a grave from World War II on their property, Abby is able to put her training to good use. As it turns out, in the grave are the remains of two German women and an Italian submarine officer who had a big secret to hide. The women are suspected of having had links to the German garrison in Bordeaux during the war.

On a quiet afternoon DI Lockyer receives a phone call from prisoner Hedy Lambert - a woman he put inside for murder 14 years ago. She informs him that the man she was originally accused of killing has turned up alive and well. She begs him to reopen her case. All those years ago, Lockyer had been the one to pin down Hedy's motive, but deep down he'd never wanted to believe she was guilty. The thought that he might have sent an innocent woman to prison disturbs him, so Lockyer agrees to investigate.

Flash floods bring something sinister to the surface in Wiltshire - a human skeleton. When forensic testing matches the bones to a man named Lee Geary, reported missing nine years earlier, the case is passed to DI Matt Lockyer. Geary was a known drug user, so it could be a simple case of misadventure, but Lockyer isn't so sure. Geary was a townie, and had learning disabilities, so what was he doing out on the Plain all alone?

Ray Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime. Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.

When Tanz is asked to help in the search for a missing woman, she finds herself at the Cross Bones Graveyard in London's Southwark. From the outset it's obvious there is unrest among the spirits who call this place their home, and now Tanz is right in the middle of it.

One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever. Her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. In hopes of jarring loose a new witness or buried clue, she agrees to be interviewed by a true-crime podcaster - but his interest in Isabelle's past makes her nervous. His incessant questioning paired with her severe insomnia has brought up uncomfortable memories from her own childhood, making Isabelle start to doubt her recollection of the night of Mason's disappearance, as well as second-guess who she can trust... including herself.

A suitcase of stolen cash has brought three criminals together. One has a bullet in his side. One has blood on his hands. One has vengeance on his mind. Each has run from their past. Each will now fight for their future.

Alfred Smettle's the Hitchcock Hotel is a sprawling Victorian house in the White Mountains dedicated to the Master of Suspense. There are round-the-clock film screenings, movie props and memorabilia in every room, plus an aviary with fifty crows. To celebrate the hotel's first anniversary, he invites his former best friends from his college Film Club for a reunion. He hasn't spoken to any of them in 16 years, not after what happened. But who better than them to appreciate Alfred's creation? And to help him finish it. After all, no Hitchcock set is complete without a body.

An old friend of Kindaichi's invites the detective to visit the remote mountain village of Onikobe, the site of a 20-year-old unsolved murder case. But no sooner is Kindaichi in the village than a new series of murders strikes - several bodies are discovered staged in bizarre poses, and it soon becomes clear that the victims are being killed using methods that eerily echo the lyrics of an old local children's song...

Singapore 1949. When all the angsana trees on the island bloom at the same time it's a glorious fragrant display that lasts only one day... and the next morning Su Lin comes across an old friend laughing hysterically while holding her dead lover on the thick carpet of yellow flowers by the quarry pool that was their childhood haunt. She instantly realizes her friend could not be the killer as she could not have sliced so cleanly through the man's throat with no weapon in sight.