Orkney's Skaill Bay is the scene of a whale rescue mission. When forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod joins the rescue efforts as a volunteer, she uncovers more than she bargained for: a human skeleton entombed in a stone crypt. The grave is believed to hail from the Viking Age, but Rhona's analysis of the content points to more recent and sinister evil.

Two of Meg's cousins, members of Mother's vast Hollingsworth clan, are getting married, and both have chosen Caerphilly for their Christmas destination wedding - on the same day, in the same venues. But while they're cousins they're also lifelong enemies. So Meg steps in to keep the peace. And it was going badly even before she stumbles over the murdered body of the wedding photographer.

Travis Devine travels to Seattle to aid the FBI in escorting orphaned, 12-year-old Betsy Odom to a meeting with her uncle, who is under investigation for RICO charges. He's hoping to lie low and keep off the radar of an enemy that he evaded on a train in Switzerland and who has been after him ever since - the girl on the train. But as Devine gets to know Betsy, questions begin to arise around the death of her parents. Betsy is adamant that they had never used drugs, but the police in the small rural town where they died insist the Odoms died of an overdose.

When a series of deaths within the small Cotswolds birdwatching community begins to unravel her village, Agatha and her team at Raisin Investigators are certain there has been foul play involved. Now, they must dig up decades' worth of tempestuous relationships and simmering secrets among the birdwatching enthusiasts of the village in order to prevent any further deaths.

When an old man dies and leaves a bequest to investigate the mysterious death of his son, English detective Daniel Leicester follows a trail leading to one of Bologna's wealthiest families - makers of some of the world's most coveted supercars. He soon discovers that beneath the glitz and glamour of the Formula One circuit lurk certain people, with sinister interests, who may just be prepared to kill to keep their secrets.

Maggie has always loved gardening, so it's only natural to sign on to help Violet Bloom set up a community garden. When opening day arrives, Violet is nowhere to be found, and the gardeners are restless. Things go from bad to worse when Maggie finds a boot buried in one of the plots... and there's a body attached to it.

In the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible - the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.

Ruby Young's new Boston apartment comes with all the usual perks. Windows facing the brick wall of the next-door building. Heat that barely works. A malfunctioning buzzer. Noisy neighbors. A dead body on the sidewalk outside. And of course, a ghost. When Ruby's across-the-hall neighbor, Jake Macintyre, is shot and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their building, ghost Cordelia is convinced there's more to it and is determined to bring his killer to justice - and must therefore enlist the help of the obnoxiously perky, living tenant of her apartment.

Ruby Young is slowly adjusting to her new life in Boston. A big part of that is her unexpected roommate - the ghost of Cordelia Graves, the woman who lived there before. They're both happy they've managed to become friends, which is a miracle considering they struggle to communicate with each other. But when Ruby discovers the body of a delivery guy at work, the new life she's been building hangs in the balance.

Amateur sleuth Joanne Shreve finds herself caught in the middle when her friend Vera Wang, the owner of a discreet escort service, The Right Woman, calls in a favour. Howard Dowhanuik, another long-time friend of Joanne's and the former premier of Saskatchewan, has been a loyal client for years. That is until he started badgering Vera's employees, trying to discourage them from performing their "meaningless" work.

Late 1936, and King Edward has fallen in love with the scandalously divorced (and even more scandalously American) Wallis Simpson. Edward confides in his dear friend Darcy, Georgie's husband, and the couple agrees to hide Wallis in their home while Edward figures out what to do. But the owner of the estate has given a film crew permission to shoot a motion picture about Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn on the grounds. Trying to keep Mrs. Simpson hidden while raising a newborn baby seems like enough stress for the Rannochs, until one of the stars of the film is found murdered on set.

"Sister" Jane Arnold and her friend Tootie Harris are helping to lure home hunt club member Cindy Chandler's two escaped cows, Clytemnestra and Orestes, when they discover an expensive watch carelessly abandoned on an overgrown path. Days later, a young man is murdered, one with seemingly no connection to the pricey jewelry or a life of crime.

When Minnie and Eddie and the Chilson library bookmobile take their scenic detour by side-by-side identical Victorian houses owned by twin siblings, Eddie uncharacteristically escapes from the bookmobile - and finds a woman in the woods, horribly wounded with an arrow.

Twenty short stories, never before collected.

March, 1605. Country doctor and former ship's surgeon Gabriel Taverner has taken a position on a ship bound for Eastern seas. As the months and years of his absence continue, his family and friends struggle with the replacement physician he engaged. Doctor Maudsley Cheverell has turned out to be incompetent, arrogant and self-serving. Then one morning his dead body is found in a ditch, tortured by the application of a specific method from the East. Is there a connection to Gabriel and his time in Asia? And where is Gabriel?

When a violent storm descends upon the Orkney Islands, the body of Archie Stout is left behind in its wake. An unusual murder weapon, a Neolithic stone bearing ancient inscriptions, is found discarded nearby. Detective Jimmy Perez counted Archie as a childhood friend, making this case more personal than most.

Mickey Haller turns to public interest litigation, filing a civil lawsuit against an AI company whose chatbot told a 16 year old boy that it was okay for him to kill his ex-girlfriend for her disloyalty. Representing the victim's family, Mickey joins up with a journalist named Jack McEvoy, who wants to be a fly on the wall during the trial in order to write a book about it. But Mickey puts him to work going through the mountain of printed discovery materials in the case. McEvoy's digging ultimately delivers the key witness, a whistleblower who has been too afraid to speak up.

Renee Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet twenty years ago. It is the arrested man's father who was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. When Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen she goes to Harry Bosch for help, and ends up taking on a new volunteer to the cold case unit - Bosch's daughter Maddie.

During the early hours of Christmas morning, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta learns that the serial killer known as the Phantom Slasher has struck again. His pattern is to stalk with a sophisticated technology that enables him to invade his victims' homes and watch their every move. They wake up to a ghost-like hologram before being murdered in their beds. Scarpetta is summoned to Mercy Island, the site of a notorious psychiatric hospital where two people have been brutalized, one of them from Scarpetta's past.

You've been invited to an exclusive, luxury event in Norway, hosted by a billionaire. But you're not going for the canapes and champagne. You're going for revenge. You've spent months preparing for this moment. Because you know that beneath the host's polished public persona, he's a vicious killer who has murdered several innocent people, including your sister.Even murder...Then a guest dies in mysterious circumstances, and you begin to wonder... is this a trap? Why does it feel like you're being watched? And will you ever escape?

A deaf teenager goes missing in Esseberg. Mountain rescue are launching a search party but conditions hinder their efforts. The tunnel is being kept open all night as an exception. When journalist Tuva Moodyson reads this news alert she knows she must join the search. If this teenager is found, she will be able to communicate with him in a way no one else can. Esseberg lies on the other side of a mountain tunnel: there is only one way in and one way out. When the tunnel closes at night, the residents are left to fend for themselves. And as more people go missing, it becomes clear that there is a killer among them ...

On July 2, 2022, two criminals set out to rob ajewelry shop in Geneva. 20 days earlier, on a luxurious estate along the shores of Lake Geneva, Sophie Braun prepares to celebrate her 40th birthday. Her idyllic world is about to crumble. Her husband is becoming embroiled in petty schemes. Her neighbour, a policeman with a spotless reputation, is obsessed with her and spies on the most intimate moments of her life. Then, on her birthday, she receives a gift from a mysterious prowler that endangers her life.

Normandy, 1358: The Free Company of the 'Via Crucis - the Way of the Cross' sweeps into the peaceful village of Avranches, leaving nothing but death and hellish destruction in their wake. London, 1382: Brother Athelstan is summoned to unpick the ugly truth behind killings bearing the message 'Justitia Fiat. The victims all have one thing in common - they were all once members of Via Crucis. With every new gruesome discovery, Brother Athelstan, with the help of Coroner Cranston, uncovers more clues.

Six down-on-their-luck people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust. Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer in a remote but atmospheric village in north Yorkshire to win a prize that will change your fortunes for good. Six members of staff from the shadowy Trust are there to make sure everyone plays fair. The contestants have been meticulously vetted, and with the village about to be cut off by a snow storm, everyone needs to be extra vigilant. But playing fair isn't on everyone's Christmas list.

Bookstore owner Addie Greyborne is donating a first edition of O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi for a Christmas promotion. But on the night Addie delivers the book to the museum, someone posing as one of Santa's Little Helpers swipes it - and the rest of the charity gifts. As if the theft wasn't bad enough, a body is found on the rocks outside the lighthouse, believed to be murdered.

In Gallup, New Mexico, where violent crime is five times the national average, a serial killer is operating unchecked, his targets indigent Native people whose murders are easily disguised as death by exposure on the frigid winter streets. Gallup detectives consider calling in a controversial specialist to help. Rita Todacheene, Albuquerque PD forensic photographer, is at a crisis point in her career. Her colleagues are watching her with suspicion after the recent revelation that she can see the ghosts of murder victims. Her unmanageable caseload is further complicated by the fact that half the department has blacklisted her for ratting out a corrupt fellow cop.

Shiloh is thankful for her thriving farm, her budding romance with Sheriff Milan Penbrook, and even her drama-free relationship with her family - well, for now. But the holiday feast takes a sinister turn when Shiloh's mischief-loving pug, Huckleberry, spooks the chickens and uncovers something far darker than buried treasure: human remains. The skeleton's decades-old secrets rattle Cherry Glen, threatening to tarnish the reputation of Shiloh's beloved late grandmother.

April 2011: On a remote mountaintop overlooking the remains of the Iranian nuclear weapons program, Azad Ashani witnesses the successful demonstration of a new weapons system meant to upend the American-led war in Afghanistan. Preventing a looming war in the Middle East while delivering justice for the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on 9/11 would be a big ask for anyone but Mitch Rapp isn't just anyone.

Rose is in her late 70s, living out her golden years at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home. When one of her friends dies alone in her apartment, Rose isn't too concerned. But then the bodies start stacking up and Rose can't help but wonder. Together with her best friend Miller, Rose begins to investigate. The further she digs, the more convinced she becomes: there's a killer on the loose at Autumn Springs, and if she isn't careful, Rose may be the next victim.

A collection of 11 Hanukkah capers, plus a foreword and story by Tod Goldberg.

At first, Inspector Jess Campbell and Superintendent Ian Carter aren't sure of the identity of the victim found dead at the remote Cotswold cottage, but it's not long before a neighbour, Eleanor Holder, comes forward with her opinions on the deceased. Jerry Harrison was not a popular man in the village of Weston St Ambrose. His aunt's tragic death led to him inheriting her cottage and many of the locals still see him as an outsider. But before long, another villager is attacked and left for dead...

Simon Latch is a lawyer in rural Virginia, making just enough to pay his bills while his marriage slowly falls apart. Then into his office walks Eleanor Barnett, an elderly widow in need of a new will. Apparently, her husband left her a small fortune, and no one knows about it. Once he hooks the richest client of his career, Simon works quietly to keep her wealth under the radar. But soon her story begins to crack. When she is hospitalized after a car accident, Simon realizes that nothing is as it seems, and he finds himself on trial for a crime he swears he didn't commit: murder.

Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft: three NASA astronauts and three cosmonauts, joining to celebrate a new dawn of Soviet-American cooperation. But as NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, a deadly accident changes everything. Meanwhile, from a remote location in East Asia, the first Chinese spacecraft secretly launches. On board is China's first astronaut, Fang Guojun, whose mission puts him on a collision course with the Apollo crew. As Kaz races against an enemy on the ground and for answers beyond the sky, the safety of the remaining crew hangs in the balance...

By Le Carre's son. It is spring in 1963 and George Smiley has left the Circus. With the wreckage of the West's spy war with the Soviets strewn across Europe, he has eyes only for a more peaceful life. But Control has other plans. A Russian agent has defected, and the man he was sent to kill in London is nowhere to be found. Smiley reluctantly agrees to one last simple task: interview Szusanna, a Hungarian emigre and employee of the missing man, and sniff out a lead.

An isolated Scottish island, accessible to the mainland only twelve hours a day. A famous (some might say infamous) artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared after visiting her twenty years ago. A present-day discovery that intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies.

From his well-loved detective duo, DCI Dalziel and DI Pascoe to his own reimagining of Sherlock Holmes, Reginald Hill's unforgettable characters and unique blend of humour and suspense made him one of Britain's greatest crime writers. With a foreword by Mick Herron.

The relationships between bad-tempered Tom Farley and his neighbors are as bitter as a bowl of raw cranberries, but would one of them have taken it far enough to replace birdshot with a real bullet and make him a target at a shooting competition? That's what the injured turkey farmer is claiming from his hospital bed - in between terrorizing the nurses - and he insists it's because a property developer is looking to buy them all out for big money. But Tom says he was born on that land, and he intends to die on it. Sadly, that happens sooner than he expects.

In the frying pan of a drought-scorched 1890s Southwest, an old man shows up at the region's only prosperous spread, the Callahan ranch, seeking work. As an incentive to be taken on at his age, he shows the foreman an uncanny skill with one of Mr. Winchester's latest models. But he has his own mission. Aware that a young cowboy on the ranch has died mysteriously, Jack begins to investigate.

A woman is found murdered in her Reykjavik home, her apartment ransacked. On her desk lies a note with retired detective Konrad's phone number. Days earlier, she had begged him to find the child she gave up nearly fifty years ago. But Konrad, reluctant to reopen old wounds, turned her away. Now, haunted by guilt, he vows to uncover the truth - for her and for himself.

Her Majesty, Queen Camilla, is aboard the Royal Train heading to a charity event in Sussex when disaster strikes - the train is derailed. Minutes later, a trusted aide is shot dead by a sniper. Despite all the evidence, Roy Grace is not convinced the Queen was the intended target. But when there is a second murder, the stakes rise even higher, and Grace is at risk of being embroiled in a very public catastrophe - and in mortal danger.

Arizona County Sheriff Joanna Brady is looking forward to the holidays with her busy family, and to celebrating her daughter Jenny's graduation from the police academy. But the family is interrupted when a body is discovered beneath a flooded bridge in the Arizona desert, and Joanna is called onto the case. A young boy was murdered, and the details of the crime scene tell Joanna two things. This was not the killer's first murder. And it's only a matter of time before he kills again.

As the summer sun beats down on the ancient Sicilian town of Acitrezza, a folk festival plays out in the picturesque harbour. For rookie journalist Nedda Leonardi, it's just another day. Until that is, the performers dive in the sparkling Ionian Sea for their finale... and emerge with a corpse. Could this be Nedda's big break? After one trick too many, Calogero Maugeri, self-styled Magus and con artist, is a wanted man. But his attempts to clean up his act and keep a low profile are thwarted when it's revealed he has a suspicious connection to the dead man pulled from the sea.

Anna Williams-Bonner has taken care of business. That is to say, she's taken care of her husband, bestselling novelist Jacob Finch Bonner, and laid to rest those anonymous accusations of plagiarism that so tormented him. But when Anna publishes her own book and indulges in her own literary acclaim, she begins to receive excerpts of a novel she never expected to see again, a novel that should no longer exist. That it does means something has gone very wrong, and someone out there knows far too much.

Chino and Paco Rojas seem well-mannered, at least for Chicanos, to the white cops that pull them over for littering on the long drive from California to Trinity, Texas. So well-mannered, in fact, that Captain Frank McKellan lets them off with a warning and recommends them for a job at Stanzik Farms, the largest independent melon grower in the area. But Chino and Paco didn't drive all this way for work. Instead, Chino is looking for a mysterious man,Vincent Mora, whose new Valley Agricultural Workers Association is causing a scene striking against the farm owners.

London, April 1929. As the sun rises one crisp spring morning, it reveals a body lying in the centre of Bookseller's Row, a narrow alleyway in the West End famed for its bookshops. DI Waterstone soon arrives on the scene and discovers the body belonged to James R. MacMillan, a property developer who planned to level Bookseller's Row to build luxury apartments. It appears every shop keeper on the street had motive to murder MacMillan, but who committed the crime?

After escaping the cult surrounding the charismatic but cruel Franz Oswald 15 years earlier, Sofia Bauman has found peace with her husband and their young daughter. But when a hurricane sweeps through Sweden, it leaves a path of destruction in Sofia's small community. The bridges are closed, trees felled, and her refuge for cult escapees is flattened. Then Franz Oswald reaches out, offering her money she desperately needs to rebuild. But his obsession with Sofia hasn't waned, and now he has his sights on Sofia's teenage daughter Julia.

Pony has been passed from owner to owner for longer than he can remember. Fed up, he busts out and goes on a cross-country mission to reunite with the only little girl he ever loved, Penny, who he was separated from and hasn't seen in years. Penny, now an adult, is living an ordinary life when she gets a knock on her door and finds herself in handcuffs, accused of murder and whisked back to the place she grew up.

Henry Jekyll and Muriel Carew infiltrate a Christmas artists' retreat to investigate a series of death threats. Though the country manor is filled with festive cheer, stage rehearsals and jolly games, its colourful guests harbour dark secrets. Henry's transformations into the brutish Edward Hyde are more frequent than ever, and Edward is as likely to create new problems as he is to aid the investigation.

Harlow Hayes, the pop star, is a global sensation adored by millions, and her star only seems to keep rising. Then, at the height of her fame, she is arrested on suspicion of murder. Entertainment reporter Naomi Barnes heads to New York City to investigate, burdened by the recent death of her sister, a huge fan of Harlow Hayes.

On her last day as a detective, Midge McGowan is given the retirement present from hell: a ticket to a haunted house tour. She'll have to spend a weekend ghost-hunting in an isolated mansion with a group of misfits, including a know-it-all paranormal investigator and a has-been pop star. An eerie figure appears on the property, and then the unthinkable happens: someone is murdered in a room that's been locked from the inside.

In 2020 there was a spate of murders of Black sex workers in northern cities. One was Ella Bailey, last seen talking to a punter in a Sheffield alley. Although no trace of her was ever found, the punter, Michael Godley, soon confessed to all three murders. But five years later, as another sex worker is murdered in the same district, the bag Ella had been carrying with her reappears, hanging on the door handles of a cafe. South Yorkshire Police call in the Finder.

Inner-city Cork is going about its day when a bomb goes off. A house blown to pieces with two people inside suggests a gas explosion. But the target is clear: the Dripsey Dozen, a group created by descendants of five local IRA soldiers who were executed for their crimes in 1921. Other memvers of the Dozen are moved to safe houses, but the bombing continues -- which means a leak at Anglesea Street Garda station. This is suspended officer DS Katie Maguire's chance to get back on the force...

CIA officers Sam Joseph and Artemis Procter discover that there is a Russian mole burrowed deep within the highest ranks of the CIA. They arrive at a shortlist of suspects made up of both Procter's closest friends and fiercest enemies. The hunt requires Procter to dredge up her checkered past in the service of the CIA, placing the pair in the sights of a savvy Russian spymaster who will protect Moscow's mole in Langley at all costs.

Kamran Esfahani, a Stockholm dentist, is recruited by Mossad to return to his native Tehran and open a practice there, using it as a cover for Israeli intelligence. Kam proves to be a skillful and valuable asset -- until he tries to recruit an Iranian widow seeking to avenge the death of her husband at the hands of the Mossad. Now, after three years of torture in captivity, Kamran Esfahani sits in an interrogation room preparing to write his final confession. He has one secret left.

Lexy Campbell is getting married! But in the six months of planning it took to arrive at the big day, she has become - a challenge. Friendships are strained to breaking point, Lexy's parents are tiptoeing around her, and even Taylor, her intended, must be having second thoughts. But before the happy couple can exchange vows, Sister Sunshine, the wedding celebrant, is discovered dead behind the cake, strangled with the fairy lights.

NEW YEAR'S EVE MURDER and CHRISTMAS CAROL MURDER in one volume.

The Pallanders seem to have it all - a castle in the Scottish Highlands and an island in the Caribbean - but first Sebastian Pallander dies, leaving a pitiful amount of money for his relatives to fight over. Then his son is killed in mysterious circumstances, and everyone suspects foul play. The family gather at their estate and begin to wonder: who will be next? Where has all their money gone? And will anyone get what they truly deserve?

Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village where she grew up for the last twenty years. That is, until her eccentric Aunt Carole breaks the news that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya's estranged mentor, has unexpectedly died. Then Freya receives a letter from Arthur, sent just days before his death, warning her that she is in danger. Suspecting he may have been murdered, she and Carole begin to investigate.

18 festive stories of murder and mystery in the grand tradition of Christmas crime fiction, from the masters of the genre, including stories from J. T. Ellison, David Bell, Sarah Hilary, Claire McGowan, Sam Carrington, C. L. Taylor, Helen Fields, Tom Mead, Vaseem Khan and Belinda Bauer.

It's been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favorite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, she finds the thrill of the chase is ignited once again.

Located off the coast of South Australia, Kangaroo Island lies surrounded by violent seas harbouring deadly great white sharks and forgotten shipwrecks. Now multimillionaires from the mainland are building immense clifftop mansions and filling the skies with private planes and helicopters. A quiet paradise is being transformed into a bolthole for the rich and privileged. Richard Marlowe, a wealthy "blow-in" to the island, goes missing, last seen wading into the ocean for a dawn swim. Detective Sergeant Manolis and Senior Constable Sparrow arrive on the island to investigate.

Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former big-city lawyer who practices family law. When David jumps into Cotton River to save a drowning stranger, he's celebrated as a hero. His muscled physique, shaved head, and piercing blue eyes are broadcast on every news outlet. For most people, newfound fame is a lifeline. For David Bowers, it's a death sentence. For Marcie Bowers, it's a test. A wife knows the difference between a loving husband and father and a cold-blooded assassin. Right?

In New York City, three intriguing, smart, and stylish private investigators open Holmes, Marple & Poe Investigations.Who are these detectives with famous names and mysterious, untraceable pasts? Brendan Holmes - The Brain: Identifies suspects via deduction and logic. Margaret Marple - The Eyes: Possesses powers of observation too often underestimated. Auguste Poe - The Muscle: Chases down every lead no matter how dangerous or dark.

A group of friends gather in a country house for a birthday party. At their host's request, they each write a short mystery. They draw names from a hat. In each story, one of the group is the killer, and another the victim.Of course, when given such a task, it's only natural to use what you know. Secrets. Grudges. Illicit love.It's just that once you put it in a story, the secret is out. Oh, and just one more thing: this is a story that ends with a murder...

All Jay wants is to start again, to set himself up in a small, quiet town where no one knows him. Because here, no one will let him forget what they think he did the day his neighbour died in Flat 401. But when a threatening note makes its way into the hostel he's forced to call home - Jay fears that the secret he's fought so hard to hide, that he went to prison to protect, might finally come out.

It seems everyone in the divorce counselling group has been jilted by an ex-partner and struggling to cope. The six divorcees come up with the brilliant idea to get a little payback of their own - Strangers-on-a-Train style, with each getting even on another's behalf. But just when the group think they've pulled off the perfect petty crimes, one of the exes is found dead... and then another... and another...

Christmas-themed mysteries from the American authors active during the genre's Golden Age, including stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart, John Dickson Carr, Ellery Queen, and more.

Milwaukee 1932. Hicks McTaggart, a one-time strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he's found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, chasing the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who has taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he's been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there's no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement.

Private Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has been drawn back to the Lavender House estate for a missing person case. Pat, the family butler, has been volunteering for a book service, one that specializes in mailing queer books to a carefully guarded list of subscribers. With bookseller Howard Salzberger gone suspiciously missing along with his address book, everyone on that list, including some of Andy's closest friends, is now in danger.

In the year 2000 two sets of Teen Detectives were fighting crime in Edgar Mills, Massachusetts. But eventually a deadly miscalculation by the VanDyne twins led to the shocking and gruesome deaths of their father, Sheriff VanDyne. The killer, Bruce Phillip Kershaw - better known as The Janitor - was ultimately captured with the help of Joey O'Day, the twins' teen rival - but now Edgar Mills is shaken by a new murder that appears to follow The Janitor's MO.

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.

A particularly delicate situation, peculiar circumstances, unexpected new information, the truth more complicated that it seems at first. Mma Ramotswe investiages.

[BC author]. It's the summer of 1976 and Alice and Tom set out on the remote Canadian highways in their new RV, hoping to heal their broken hearts after a devastating tragedy. They've planned the trip perfectly, taken care of every detail. Then they meet two young hitchhikers down on their luck and offer them a ride. But Simon and Jenny aren't what they seem. Now Alice and Tom are trapped, prisoners in a deadly game, with nowhere to turn.

Seasonal novella. December 1921: Being single and a new Chief, Inspector Rutledge of Scotland Yard gets the short straw at Christmastime and is called upon by Chief Superintendent Markum to go to the Kentish home of a lord recovering from an attempt on his life. In bed with a concussion, the man is convinced someone is trying to kill him after he claims he was struck by the hoof of a running horse whose rider never stopped to check on him.

In the Mediterranean the megayacht Aurora is rocked with explosions, taken under siege by unknown assailants. On board are some of Europe's wealthiest and most powerful political players, including the secretary general of Interpol, a high-ranking Finnish diplomat, and Special Agent Alex Martel - whose lethal sniper skills kick in to bring them safely to shore. She pursues the villains from the waters off of Monaco to the Baltic Sea and home to American soil.

In a quaint village in the Cotswolds, Georgiana Radcliffe has become an amateur detective, helping solve four murders in a single year. Along with a reporter friend, she reaches out to a famous London detective to help learn why they have become a magnet for murder. But the fancy detective is simply too busy--or can't be bothered--to help, and instead dispatches his secretary, the posh womanizer Sebastian Fletcher-Ford.

Chilling murders terrorize a town. Jack Ludlum, who relies on his brawn to get things done, is now paired with his archenemy, Jill Jarred, a brilliant investigator with keen intuition. As they delve into the secret world of incels and white supremacists, and conflict between local authorities and the FBI rages, a media frenzy further complicates the mission.

Just because the most dangerous criminals in society are caught and locked up, doesn't mean they stop committing crime. That's where Kennedy Allardyce comes in - monitoring not just the prisoners, but also the staff. And she's just stumbled across her most dangerous foe yet - rumours of a corrupt guard with lethal influence. And what's worst, it seems they've already realised Kennedy is on their tail.

A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction.

Maggie McCabe, a highly skilled and renowned Army combat surgeon, is upside down after a devastating series of tragedies leads to her medical license being revoked. Maggie has lost her purpose, but not her nerve or her passion. At her lowest point, she is thrown a lifeline. Halfway across the globe, sequestered in the lap of luxury and cutting-edge technology, one of the world's most mysterious men requires unconventional medical assistance.

It's Christmas Eve at the Merry Monarch. Nestled amongst the Yorkshire Dales, the pub is preparing to host its annual festive games night for its rabble of regulars. But this year, they are interrupted by a knock at the door from a stranger, stranded by the snow storm that is closing in on the village. And this won't be the only surprise of the night. When the power is cut off and darkness descends, the games turn deadly...

New Chinese President Li Jian Jun is done fooling around. He's devised a secret military operation to take the island. Only one man knows how to stop Li's mad and bloody plan for reunification and that's Minister of Defense Qin Haiyu. Fearing for his life and the safety of his family, Qin covertly makes contact with the CIA in Beijing and signals his desire to defect to the West.

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?

American heiress Ruby Vaughn still hasn't entirely forgiven her octogenarian employer and housemate Mr. Owen for bringing the occult into their lives during her recent trip to Cornwall. Now, at Manhurst Castle in the Scottish Borders there is to be a seance. Mr. Owen is desperate to speak to his son, killed in the Great War. When the seance - hosted by a trio of mediums billing themselves as the Three Fates - goes awry, Mr. Owen's secrets begin to unravel. When Ruby finds one of the Three Fates murdered the night of the seance, she and Mr. Owen quickly become the prime suspects.

Walter Nash, who has a very high-level position at Sybaritic Investments, is unexpectedly approached by the FBI in the middle of the night. They have an important request: become their inside man to expose an enterprise that is laundering large sums of money through Sybaritic. At the top of this illegal operation is Victoria Steers, an international criminal mastermind that the FBI has been trying to bring down for years. But Steers discovers that Nash is working with the FBI and turns the tables on him in a way he never could have contemplated.

1961, England. The Queen is spending a night on board the royal train with her entourage and her sister, Princess Margaret. But before they reach their destination, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from one of the carriages. The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw, get to work on their second joint investigation.

Nate Romanowski has dropped off the grid with his falcons in tow in order to prepare for vengeance. When his friend Joe Pickett gets a call from the governor asking for help finding his son-in-law, who has gone missing in the Sierra Madre mountain range, he enlists the help of a local, a rookie game warden named Susan Kany. As Nate and fellow falconer Geronimo Jones circle closer to their prey, Joe and Susan follow the nearly cold trail to Warm Springs. Little do Nate and Joe know that their separate journeys are about to converge... at Battle Mountain.

1963, Guatemala. The country is in turmoil, with a presidential election looming and a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and trade union leader predicted to win. Neither United Fruits, the giant American corporation, nor the CIA, is pleased. Travel writer/MI6 agent Gabriel Dax arrives and meets the local CIA agent. But when riots erupt, Dax returns to Europe, and is dispatched to West Berlin in advance of President Kennedy's upcoming visit.

Originally published separately as BUST, SLIDE, and THE MAX. When a small-time businessman who is a legend in his own mind (that would be Max) hatches a plan with his sexpot secretary (that's Angela) to murder his wife and live happily ever after, you might think everything would go smoothly - but an escalating series of bad decisions and worse luck plunges them into a tsunami of crime and depravity featuring IRA hitmen, an aspiring serial killer, a wheelchair-bound blackmailer, trigger-happy drug dealers, and the warring factions in one of the world's deadliest prisons.

Reacher makes his way towards the entrance of a coffee shop. A young, stressed-looking guy in a suit brushes against him. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There's no problem. Nothing is missing. But later in the day he finds something new has appeared in another pocket. A cryptic note. Impressed by the guy's technique and intrigued by the message, he decides to find out more...

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...

It is opening night at the London Palladium, and tensions are running high amongst the feuding cast of "Leopard Spots." Amongst them are an ageing lothario, a national treasure, an amateur psychic and a comedian-turned actor all vying for the spotlight. When an on-stage accident forces an unexpected intermission, it is clear only to dresser Jayne that the drama has turned deadly.

1815. Queen Charlotte has tasked Lady Petra with attending an event at the Asylum for Female Orphans and making inquiries surrounding the death of the orphanage's matron. What's more, there may be a link between the matron's death and a group of radicals with ties to the aristocracy, as evidenced by an intercepted letter. Then, Petra overhears a nefarious conversation with two other men about a plot to topple the monarchy, set to take place during three days of celebrations currently gripping London.

September, 1815. Lady Petra is to be a judge for Queen Charlotte's inaugural patisserie contest for the best bakers employed by England's finest houses. But upon arrival, Petra encounters a frantic housemaid pointing to a body of one of Her Majesty's guests - and to the valet still tugging at the silk ribbon used to strangle the victim. What's more, the valet turns out to be Oliver Beecham, the ne'er-do-well brother of Petra's own lady's maid, Annie.

Riv - poet, philosopher, private eye - arrives in Cali, Colombia from New York City. Running away from an unspeakable event surrounding his ex Jane, Riv accidentally connects with his cousin Mauro and family friend Carlotta, who asks him to find her daughter Angelica Alfa-Ochoa. No sooner is Riv on the trail when it becomes clear that not only are the cops not looking for Angelica, but they are actively preventing him from finding her.

Army CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are dispatched to Camp Hayden to investigate the death of Major Roger Ames, the chief scientist in charge of the top-secret war games being conducted between a platoon of Army Rangers and a fleet of "lethal autonomous weapons." Brodie and Taylor find themselves at ground zero of the next generation of warfare, and must untangle the complex web of alliances, animosities, and secret agendas among the men and women of the isolated facility.

Army Criminal Investigation Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are reunited in Berlin, tasked with investigating the murder of one of their own: CID Special Agent Harry Vance of the 5th MP Battalion, an accomplished counterterrorism agent who had been stationed in western Germany, and whose body was discovered in a city park in the heart of Berlin's Arab refugee community.

When a body is discovered in a picturesque South Devon village, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate. The victim, Barry Brown, is a celebrity ghostwriter and the theft of his laptop suggests that the motive for murder may lie in his work. While Wesley investigates Barry's famous clients, Wesley's teenage son Michael joins family friend, Dr Neil Watson, on an intriguing excavation of a crashed World War Two plane on Dartmoor.

The owner of Death by Coffee is startled to see a store called Death by Java. Her mean-girl high school rival Valerie has started a copycat business. It may not be grounds for a lawsuit - but when they stop in and witness a bitter argument with a health inspector, the whole scene leaves a bad taste in Krissy's mouth. Despite her irritation, Krissy finds herself trying to help the hapless Valerie. But her old classmate needs a different kind of help when the health inspector is found dead on the premises.

In Edinburgh's hospital, renowned surgeon Beth Waterfall is grieving. Her beloved only daughter fell prey to a vicious stalker a year previously - and now he's coming for her too. The police are desperate - after one body comes another, and then another. The brutal deaths are all seemingly unconnected, yet DS Lively and forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine know they are dealing with a serial killer - they just need to prove it. But time is running out, and Beth Waterfall already looks set to be the next victim.

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.

Cabot Cove Realtor Eve Simpson has found a buyer for the old Jarvis homestead - until Kenny Jarvis, who has been missing for years and presumed dead - returns to stop his sister from selling their childhood home. Eve organizes a dinner for buyer Bragdon and his wife, Rose Marie. But Kenny shows up and promises Rose Marie she will never live in his house. When Rose Marie is found dead a few days later, Kenny is the natural suspect.

Fifty years after revealing the secrets of Odessa, an underground organization of former Nazis angling to regain power, journalist Peter Miller has retired. But his grandson Georg begins to track Odessa's replacement, Medusa, fomenting a rise of the far-right throughout Germany and beyond.

London, 1917. When a man's body is found deep inside Room 40, a highly secretive organization within the Admiralty, intelligence agent Patrick Gallagher is brought in to investigate. The man has no identification and was discovered in a room locked from the inside with no other apparent exit. Moreover, a highly confidential telegram is found on the body. Few know about the death and to avoid raising further suspicion, Gallagher invites those involved to his family's home at Hartlake Hall for questioning.

The guards at Penal Colony IK22 are determined to take their misery out on the prisoners - chief among them, one Zoya Zakharova. Once a master spy for Russian foreign intelligence, then the partner and lover of the Gray Man, she has information the Kremlin wants, and they don't care what they have to do to get it. But if they think a thousand miles of frozen wasteland and the combined power of the Russian police state is enough to protect them, they don't know the Gray Man.

A collection of her stories.

New Year's Eve, 1932. Hercule Poirot and Inspector Edward Catchpool arrive on the tiny Greek island of Lamperos to celebrate the holiday with what turns out to be a rather odd community of locals living in a dilapidated house. A dark sense of foreboding overshadows the beautiful island getaway when the guests play a New Year's Resolutions game after dinner and one written resolution gleefully threatens to perform "the last and first death of the year." Hours later, one of the home's residents is found dead on the terrace.

Federal agent Grant Lukather works for an unknown department of Homeland Security called Predictive Analytics. They look for patterns in tips and chatter to prevent a terrorist event before it happens. A possible explosion in New Mexico leads Grant to a case with unimaginable consequences. He meets Sarah Newcomb, a past-life hypnosis therapist who has recently stumbled upon a phenomenon that seems to defy logic. Grant follows this thread to another crime: a copycat killer case in Colorado.

After returning from Vietnam, Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear are working in Alaska for an oil company. In the bitter cold of winter they encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it's not too long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their co-workers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.

Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift - a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her new book. But the train breaks down in the middle of the frigid Canadian woods and one of Agatha's fellow passengers dies quietly in his seat. Soon, a pleasant morning in transit turns into a fight for survival against an unknown and unseen enemy.

Clay Edison has left behind the Alameda County coroner's office to strike out on his own as a PI. He's perfectly happy working low-stakes embezzlement cases - that is, until PI Regina Klein calls him with a mystery only he can solve. The son of a wealthy couple has washed up dead on the shores of San Francisco Bay with a head injury and drugs in his system. The police are calling it an accident. But the parents are adamant something's not right.

In the wilds of Siberia, a top-secret Russian fighter goes missing on a test flight. The pilot, Colonel Maxim Primakov, has crash landed during an attempted defection.The new chief of CIA clandestine operations, David Slaton, wants desperately to find him, but only one man is in a position to reach Primakov - Tru Miller, a rookie operator. Slaton plots a rescue deep inside Russia, not realizing that he will have to outfox the one other man who knows the truth, a general in Russian intelligence.

Dovey Van Dalen has a gorgeous day planned for her 200th birthday: driving her new Porsche, admiring the cherry blossoms abloom in her adopted city of Washington, D.C., and a little pampering. But her boss has other ideas. A powerful artifact has been stolen, and he fears it's causing chaos in the unmagical world.

Spenser is waiting out the latest Boston snowstorm when he gets word that Rita Fiore has been shot. Both a pit bull in the courtroom and provocateur outside it, Rita is no stranger to controversy. But as one of the city's toughest lawyers, Spenser knows that there's no short list of suspects who might want to enact revenge. With Rita's life hanging in the balance, it's up to him to get to the bottom of things, even if it means unearthing some unsavory secrets that might just lead him into an age-old game of lies and deceit.

On a frigid, windswept day in Scotland's Western Hebrides, Eleanor Bruton's body is discovered on the shore. To her family Eleanor was an ordinary middle-aged woman. Little did they know she was harbouring a dark and all-consuming secret. A scrap of fraying embroidery that seems worthless at first glance. For over a century, two rival organizations of women have gone to deadly lengths to secure the valuable artifact in the hopes of finding the original medieval manuscript from which it was torn.

After Defense Attorney Karen Wyatt exposed corruption in the police force and the District Attorney's office while getting her client exonerated in court, Wyatt is interested in finding out who ordered her to be set-up on a fake drug charge - but the key figures were either killed or are in Witness Protection. In the meantime, Wyatt is a practicing defense attorney, whose current client is either guilty of a heinous murder, or is a too-trusting patsy...

Third-rate lawyer Charlie Webb gets by handling cases for dubious associates from his youth and some court appointed cases. Then he's appointed to be the attorney for a crackpot artist who has been arrested - again - for breaking into a restaurant and stealing back a painting he sold them. But while he was there, he stole a thumb drive from the owner's safe, and the contents of the flash drive threatens very powerful figures who are determined to retrieve it.

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.

It's Christmas 1936 and an eclectic list of guests and staff have gathered for the grand reopening of Maybridge castle, a newly renovated yet still crumbling hotel deep in the Cumbrian countryside. Amongst them are a doctor and his new wife, tarot readers, a journalist, an elderly amateur sleuth and her cat. By the time the first sherries have been drunk a person will be dead. An innocent game of murder-in-the-dark turns into a real game of life and death. Someone has changed the rules...but who?

Lew Gale, a former Marine sniper, now an Orange County California Sheriff's detective, is assigned to track and shoot a mountain lion that has killed a man in Caspers Park, located in the rugged country east of Laguna Beach, California. The victim is Bennet Tarlow, a rich developer and man-about-town in upscale coastal Orange County. The investigation takes a chilling turn when Lew and his new partner, Daniela Mendez, discover that Bennet was dead long before the lion got to him.

SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer, Medical Examiner Claire Washburn, Assistant DA Yuki Castellano, and crime writer Cindy Thomas gather at one of San Francisco's finest restaurants to celebrate exciting news: Cindy is getting married. Before they can raise their glasses, there's a disturbance in the restaurant. A woman has been assaulted. Claire examines the victim. Lindsay makes an arrest. Yuki takes the case. Cindy covers it. The legal strategy is complicated by gaps in the plaintiff's memory--and the shocking reason behind her ever-changing testimony.

Several weeks ago, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team uncovered and stopped a domestic terrorist attack in Montreal, arresting the person behind it, the Black Wolf. But something deeper and darker, more damaging, is planned. Did he in fact arrest the Black Wolf, or are they still out there? Still recovering from wounds received in stopping the first attack, Armand is confined to the village of Three Pines, leading a covert investigation from there.

Casa del Chocolate is one of Salem's most charming boutique candy shops, making it a perfect profile story. Lee agrees to interview the chocolatier. Mesmerized by the delightful chocolate scented aromas filling the air while touring the kitchen, Lee is shocked when she stumbles upon the murdered body of Barney Bingham, the owner's estranged husband.

Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men running their families' formidable businesses, they make up Saigon's most powerful group of friends in 1928 Vietnam's elite society. Until one of them is murdered. In a lavish mansion on a hill in Dalat, all four men have gathered for an evening of indulgence, but one of them won't survive the night.

Journalist Gordon Carver has uncovered something terrifying in his investigation into a local case. He's hurrying home from the pub, calling his contact at the police, DI James Walker, to tell him the news, when he's hit over the head from behind. But James missed the call. And Gordon Carver never wakes up from the brutal attack. When James is called to the scene of the murder, he quickly realizes that he was the last call from Gordon's phone.

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.

Pizza chef Delilah O'Leary is gearing up to celebrate her first Valentine's Day with hunky police detective Calvin Capone, great-grandson of the infamous Chicago mobster. But their romance is put on ice when a shocking discovery plunges them into a century-old crime with ties to Capone's notorious forefather. As old secrets surface, Delilah realizes that nearly everyone in town - from Capone's cagey cousin to her own quirky customers - has something to hide.

Small creatures - a rat, a rabbit, a squirrel - have been turning up throughout Charlotte, North Carolina, mutilated and displayed in the same bizarre manner. But one day, as Tempe is relaxing at home alongside her aimless, moody great-niece Tory, she's diverted by a disturbing call. Now, it seems, the perp is upping the ante. This find is larger. Could the remains be human? Tempe visits the scene and discovers that the victim is a dog.

Local librarian Josie Way's life is in shambles. Her magical abilities are on the fritz, and her relationship with sexy sheriff Sam has cooled way off since she told him she's a witch. On top of that, Josie senses a bad energy she can't explain, which seems to be interrupting her connection with the spellbound library books, usually her sure-fire way to get to the bottom of any mystery. When she wakes to a fierce pounding in the library's atrium, she hurries there--only to find a corpse.

Annie Bustamante is a cultural force like none other: an acclaimed filmmaker, an author, a comic book artist known for one of the all time best superhero comics in recent memory. But she's never been able to tackle her longtime favorite superhero, the Lethal Lynx. Only known to the most die-hard comics fans and long out of print, the rights were never available - until now.

A group of young professionals travel to the Westmann Islands off the coast of Iceland to attend an old friend's wake. Their reunion soon turns into a living nightmare, as the memories of a party they attended at university, and desperately tried to forget, come rushing back. When two bodies are found on a rocky beach close to the refurbished lighthouse keeper's house that the group had stayed in, medical examiner Idunn is sent to provide the local police assistance.

In January 1989, Birdie wakes to the news she's been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. Birdie leaves for London with a gun and a plan: to find him and make him pay. But there's another side to the story, and she's about to enter a world of family lies, worn-out loyalties, and long-buried betrayals. Did Jimmy kill Birdie's sister, or is he the only one she can really trust?

14-year-old Ava Bonney has an obsessive interest in the rate at which dead animals decompose. The motorway she lives by regularly offers up roadkill for her research - and so, one night, she stumbles across the body of classmate Mickey Grant. Fearing discovery of her morbid interest, she makes an anonymous call to the police. When Detective Seth Delahaye is given the case, Ava won't step back - not when teenagers in her sleepy South Birmingham town are going missing. How hard can it be to track a killer?

On the day after Christmas, head of Department Q, Detective Carl Morck, finds himself handcuffed in a police car headed for Copenhagen's Vestre prison. After fifteen years, a violent case from his past has caught up with him. Charges of drug trafficking and murder threaten to destroy his life and career. But he is being framed. Someone has a million-dollar bounty on his head to make sure he doesn't talk, putting him in grave danger among the prison's incarcerated criminals and corrupt officers. The question that remains is, Why?

It's 1985. 14-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom's new boyfriend is a Russian agent. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? But after another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits an unlikely pair of allies - a has-been pulp writer and muckraker named Dennis Hotchner and his drag performer buddy and heavy, Jackie Demure. Both soon become the target of an unhinged Russian hitman (Is it Gary? Maybe!) with a serious Phil Collins obsession. Meanwhile, Sylvia Weaver, a young, black FBI agent, investigates Scientific Atlanta in the wake of the employee's murder.

August 2022. Simon Sharman is out for revenge, pursuing the assassin of his former colleague across war-torn Ukraine. Back in London, a Russian spy ring at the heart of the British Establishment remains active, attempting to sabotage the West's support for Ukraine. In the fiercely contested Donbas region, Simon finds himself sucked into a terrifying shadow conflict between Russia and the West. Can a lone spy make a difference to the course of a conflict?

When the death of an old friend means a trip back to Northern Ireland, Connor Fraser welcomes the distraction from his troubles at home in Stirling. When he spots three familiar faces at the funeral, faces with ties to Northern Ireland's bloody past, Connor suspects his friend's death was more than a tragic accident. But before he can investigate, he's lured into a trap and attacked.Pursued by ruthless professionals who don't care if they bring Connor to their bosses alive or dead, he must go off-grid.

May has been reunited with childhood friends Lauren and Kelsey for the first time in years for a few days of sun and fun in the Hamptons. But a chance encounter with a pair of strangers leads to a drunken prank that goes horribly awry. Now May finds herself at the center of an urgent police investigation, wondering what Lauren and Kelsey are keeping from her.

Kirby Cornell needs a break from everything: - Her crumbling apartment in the sleepy town of Crowhurst (famous for its bucolic countryside and a second-rate serial killer from the '90s). - Her dead-end job. - Her sleazy landlord - Her messy roommates. - And, most of all, the terrible thing they all did. Luckily, that hasn't caught up with her just yet. Until a new message on their old group chat pops up: Everyone in the group chat dies. It's the first text her ex-roommate Esme has sent for ages, but that's not the really weird thing. The really weird thing is, Esme died twelve months ago.

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 shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. With the body count now at 17, people are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next. The police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw - the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground.

Electrical work and an outdoor security camera are needed in the wine bar, and so Cece has hired local electrician Karl Meier to do the job, along with the help of his nephew Ian. But then she witnesses Karl needlessy berating Ian in her presence. On top of that, Karl leers at her, then presents her with an inflated bill before the work is complete. Still, she's shocked when she gets a call from Karl's ex-wife, Josie, that she's found Karl - crushed to death beneath the lift in her automotive shop.

Summer 1312. The brutal murder of King Edward II's favourite, Peter Gaveston, unleashes a horde of demons. Sir Hugh Corbett, Keeper of the Secret Seal, hastens to the Dominican Priory at Blackfriars where Gaveston's corpse awaits burial. But, on arrival, Corbett discovers that a series of macabre murders has turned the priory into a mansion of death, and a killer is roaming free.

Still reeling from the scandal that cost him his badge, Randy Mayhill - fallen lawman, dog rescuer, Dr Pepper enthusiast - sees a return from community exile in the form of a dead hog trapper perched on a fence. The fence belongs to the late Van Woods, Mayhill's best friend and the reason for his spectacular fall. Determined to protect Van's land and family from another scandal, Mayhill ignores the sherriff who replaced him and investigates the death of the unidentified man.

She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancees and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone. While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice. Among them is Zoran - a laundromat manager by day and self-proclaimed vampire by night with a taste for the blood of pretty girls. When he shows up on Stephanie's doorstep, it's not for the meatloaf dinner.

Ten strangers wake up inside an old, locked house. They have no recollection of how they got there. In order to escape, they have to solve the disappearance of a young woman. But soon the body count starts to rise. Who are these strangers? Why were they chosen? Why would someone want to kill them? And who - or what - lurks in the cellar? Forget what you think you know. Because while you can trust yourself, can you really trust the Other People?

Millie and her friend Lois plan a girls' trip to the Amish community in sunny Pinecraft, Florida. On the tour bus that transports Ohio's Amish snowbirds to Florida every year, Millie and Lois strike up a friendship with a young woman traveling alone. But even before the end of their first day in Florida, tragedy strikes. Millie and Lois find their new friend dead on the beach, seemingly drowned.

The body of a young man is found floating in Tokyo Bay. But his death was no accident - Ryota Uetsuji was shot. He'd been reported missing the week before by his live-in girlfriend Sonoka Shimauchi, but when detectives from the Homicide Squad go to interview her, she is nowhere to be found. When the detectives learn that she was the victim of domestic abuse, they presume that she was the killer. But her alibi is airtight - she was hours away in Kyoto when Ryota disappeared...

End of the series. Detective Peter Diamond, chief of the Avon and Somerset Murder Squad, is brought to a village by former colleague Julie Hargreaves. The woman who owns the village's largest dairy farm has been convicted of manslaughter following a terrible accident in her grain silo. Julie's ex-investigator instinct tells her there has been a miscarriage of justice and a murderer is on the loose - but Julie's been keeping secrets of her own, and can't take her inquiry any further.

Scotland, 2025. When torrential winter rain causes a landslide on a motorway, it dislodges more than mud and asphalt - it reveals a skeleton, concealed when the road was built eleven years prior. Sam Nimmo, an investigative journalist who'd been poking his nose into the murky politics of the Scottish independence referendum, had become the prime suspect in the brutal murder of his girlfriend when he vanished. Now he's reappeared, buried under the motorway. It's the perfect cold case for DCI Karen Pirie, chief of Police Scotland's Historic Cases Unit.

Three estranged brothers - Michael, a priest, David, a policeman, and James, a career criminal - are brought suddenly face to face once more in a town on the Inishowen peninsula when Amir, a Syrian refugee, robs a restaurant and then claims sanctuary in the local church. Michael, the parish priest, offers the man refuge. Things become complicated when David, alongside Garda Maria Da Gama, discovers that Amir is an unwitting pawn in a much larger conspiracy and the restaurant he robbed was laundering stolen money for an organised crime gang led by David's brother.

Christmas, 1953. Grasby and Juggers are in the remote village of Uthley's Bay. A fisherman has been found dead on the beach, with a stocking wound tight round his throat. Hundreds of pairs of stockings, in neat cellophane bags, soon wash up on the shore. A blizzard cuts off Grasby and Juggers from help, and the local innkeeper is murdered. To make matters worse, Grasby can't stop thinking about stockings. Why does everyone seem to be enjoying strangely high standards of hosiery, even beneath their oilskins?

December 1937. Daphne King is attending the twentieth anniversary reunion at her secondary school, Midwinter Academy, a weekend that will see resurrected rivalries and alliances amidst the Christmas festivities. But a string of peculiar incidents prompts Daphne to suspect that she and her friends are being sent messages - or threats - related to the disappearance of a classmate twenty years ago.

Naples, 1943. Deep within a secret network of underground tunnels, a woman takes shelter from a wartime air raid and prays her husband will return home safe. Pacific Ocean, 1907. A girl embarks on a lonely journey to begin a new life far from home. Sydney, 1948. Billie Walker, recently returned from a stint as a wartime investigative journalist, has reopened her father's private inquiry office. One day, Billie is cleaning out old filing cabinets when she uncovers a dusty box whose contents just might upend everything Billie thought she knew about her late, beloved father.

Zoe Pascal has decided to live her dream: leave England and open up a bookshop in a small village in the south of France. She wants to spend her later years in life eating croissants, reading her beloved books, and getting to know her charming new hometown. But when the body of a tourist is found inside the local church, Zoe begins to discover that something is afoot in the village of Sainte-Catherine.

Gimiendo Hernandez Quinto once rode with Pancho Villa but now trains fighters for Chiang Kai-shek - and solves the odd murder on the side. At his side is the dangerously beautiful Mountain of Virtue (don't play poker with her), and rounding out the list is a collection of international characters: a hard-drinking English journalist, an American cowboy as handy with a six-shooter as he is inept at romance, a young Chinese soldier weighed down with worries for his country and the Brooklyn Dodgers, and a host of others. Any of them could have killed Harrow, an ambulance driver who appears to have died three different times.

Molly Kimball is to be maid of honour for the Shakespeare-themed wedding of her friend Daisy to be held at Hazelhurst House, Molly's boyfriend Kieran's family home. The Scotts are also hosting a Shakespeare troupe for the summer, and the actors have kindly agreed to be part of the festivities.B ut all goes awry with the discovery of Sir Nigel Peck, a famous actor with a checkered past and present-day misdeeds, floating dead in the moat with flowers strewn around him, a la Ophelia.

Berlin, June 1944. Hugo Fischer is forced to work for the Nazi secret service, though he keeps his own dangerous secret from the Third Reich. Faced with a series of high profile cases - the murder of a prominent Nazi couple, the suicide of a Reich journalist, and an accident in which 15 Hitler Youth children died - he begins to suspect the incidents are linked.

Some of the best one-liners, collected into one volume.

His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes...

An ice fisherman is savagely mauled to death in Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and an eyewitness claims the man was attacked by a hodag. But it's well known that the creature is not real and was created by a local hoaxer. The suggestion that a hodag killed someone isn't well received by the townsfolk because of the money it generates from tourist dollars. Due to this, people begin to suspect the witness is the real killer.

Twenty years after Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was found brutally stabbed to death, her terminally ill sister offers five million dollars for information on the crime. Dozens of true-crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and "clicks," and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead.

Berlin, Spring, 1940. When the owner of a nightclub is ambushed and gunned down in an alley, Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke faces a challenging investigation. The dead man is no innocent victim. He was a known gangster. As further murders follow, it becomes clear that the mobsters running Berlin's two most brutal crime rings are locked in a desperate struggle for control.

Sweetpea is coming home at last... Newly married, with a loving family surrounding her, everything's coming up roses for ex-serial killer Rhiannon Lewis, right? Wrong. Her husband has just been shot, and the daughter she left behind in the UK is desperately ill. She's got no choice but to flee the States and return home, back to her roots, where she's in danger of being recognised and arrested at any moment. Only nothing is quite as it seems...

Meet Tommy Two-Shoes, Ballroom Bev and their quirky troupe of dancers when the glamorous world of ballroom dancing comes to the seaside town of Scarborough. However, beneath the glitter balls and sequins, there's bitter rivalry between the dancers - both on and off the dance floor - and the dancing turns deadly when one of them ends up dead as Helen Dexter's Seaview Hotel plays host to the dance troupe.