When a young Vietnamese girl goes missing in Scotland, DI Birch's colleagues won't take it seriously - but Helen's instinct tells her that Linh is in mortal danger. The psychic Beatrice can see in her mind's eye that something terrible has happened to three young people in Edinburgh. Ever since she was a child, she's had visions of the future - and she's ignored them before, with dangerous consequences. This time, she must help the police find Linh. When a second woman goes missing, DI Birch is forced to pay attention to what Beatrice is saying.

Gravesend, Brooklyn, 1986: Risa Franzone lives in a ground-floor apartment on Saint of the Narrows Street with her bad-seed husband, Saverio, and their eight-month-old baby, Fabrizio. On the night Risa's younger sister, Giulia, moves in to recover from a bad breakup, a fateful accident occurs. Risa, boiled over with anger and fear, strikes a drunk, erratic Sav with a cast-iron pan, killing him on the spot. The sisters are left with a choice of notifying the authorities and make a case for self-defense, or burying the man's body and go on with their lives as best they can.

Tom Blackburn is fresh out of jail and not sure where his future lies. He's left his old life and his old name behind. But his options aren't great. He knows sleeping on the streets is the quickest way back to a cell. And then, his luck turns around. A chance encounter leads to a job and somewhere to stay. A place in the dead centre of Melbourne. Eden, his new boss calls it. Honest, physical work. Bit of gardening, bit of gravedigging, bit of whatever he's told to do. Fresh air, currawongs, a bed and some peace and quiet. It's the perfect place to save some money and make some plans. But trouble finds him. Serious trouble. He's missed the signs, again. Going back to jail might be the safest option. Unless he can figure some way out of the danger he's in.

Fifteen years ago, five vulnerable teenagers took part in a life-changing study of OCD. Now, their psychologist has been brutally stabbed and left for dead. DCI Liz Field and her team have barely started their investigation when there is another frenzied attack. This time, the victim is one of the former patients. Are the others now in grave danger -- or dangerous? But as the DCI is pulled deeper into the disturbing case, it starts to hits too close to home. To outwit the murderer, Field must venture into the last place she wants to -- her own buried past...

While Katie is on a run in the local marshland preserve to de-swamp her jumbled thoughts, she encounters the shocking sight of her friend, reporter and druid Steve Dawes, standing over a dead body. The way the victim was killed suggests a magical ritual may have been involved. It turns out that the deceased was a true crime podcaster who covered paranormal cases in Savannah. The situation gets stickier than a pecan bun when Katie discovers Steve knew the victim.

Cindy Kwan, owner of Asia Village's bookshop, the Modern Scroll, is privileged to host bestselling author, Charlene Chan for a signing in honour of the writer's latest book, the Mystery of General Tso. Lana Lee is equally excited for the appearance of her favorite author and even more so when Cindy asks her to be Charlene's "handler" for the event. With a line out the door and stretched through the plaza, Cindy is overjoyed at what a success this is for her shop - until the author is found dead in the mystery aisle, clutching a copy of her own book.

Ursula Ottway's beautiful cottage is wanted by her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, so he can convert it into a holiday residence. So when Ursula discovers that the illegal use of poisoned bait on Grenville's land has killed not only a rare bird of prey but also her two beloved cats, she storms to his house and threatens revenge. Shocked and saddened to find her aunt Ursula's body the morning after this conflict, Molly and her husband George decide to piece together a picture of Ursula's last days.

Reuniting all the surviving members of the original cast alongside femme fatales, crooked collectors, and greedy gangsters for one more thrilling, deadly chase through the streets, wharves, morgues, bars, and back alleys of 1920s San Francisco here at last is the answer to the question. Whatever became of the Maltese falcon...?

Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book, Dante's Divine Comedy. So begins an investigation that will haunt her for the rest of her life, and lead Rachel on a descent into an obsession that upends everything she thought she knew about justice. As the killings unfold over the decades, Rachel's obsession will drive her from small-town America through the streets of NYC, to a revelation that will cost her everything.

London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong places, at all the wrong suspects. But three women refuse to stay silent. Emma, the chief detective's sharp-witted wife, sees the investigation failing. Maggie, a private investigator, exposes men's darkest secrets. Bet, a police station cleaner, overhears what others ignore. Together, they form an alliance to hunt down the killer dubbed Jack the Ripper. But as the women weave through the slums, brothels, and smoke-filled parlours of London's underworld, they uncover corruption more sinister than they ever imagined.

Emersyn Gray is an unemployed 28-year-old raising her beloved niece in the only place she can afford after her ex-boyfriend ran off with her life savings: a run-down, seniors-only apartment complex that was desperate for tenants. So, the idea was to get the money back by scaring the thieving ex with a fake private investigator - a fabricated business card from Wyatt Investigations - and a ridiculously hot stranger who steps in to play the part. But the day after they set their plan in motion, the superintendent of Emersyn's apartment building winds up dead, and her neighbours turn to her fake detective for help after finding one of the phony business cards.

High in the secluded Swiss Alps, the Elan Peak Wellness Retreat promises luxury, rejuvenation, and exclusivity -- an influencer's paradise. A select group of celebrities, corporate bosses and social media stars arrive, eager to detox, meditate, and document their curated journey to enlightenment. But when they arrive and have their technology confiscated, they're horrified. To make matters worse, an avalanche traps them in the remote lodge overnight. When they awake in the morning, one of their own has vanished, and the idyllic retreat turns into a nightmare.

A single accusation, a neighbour's grudge, and suddenly the Lamberts are trapped in a nightmare with no escape. Unless they make one. Most people would never run. Most people would never leave behind everything they know to protect an animal who can't defend himself. But for Sally, Champ is more than a dog - he's one of her children. And most people aren't the Lamberts. No one has ever done this before. No one has ever gone this far. But the Lamberts have never been quite like any other family...

The Navajo Nation police are on high alert when a U.S. Cabinet Secretary schedules an unprecedented trip to the little Navajo town of Shiprock, New Mexico. The visit coincides with a plan to resume uranium mining along the Navajo Nation border. Tensions around the official's arrival escalate when the body of a stranger is found in an area restricted for the disposal of radioactive uranium waste. Is it coincidence that a cult with a propensity for violence arrives at a private camp group outside Shiprock the same week to celebrate the summer solstice?

15 years ago, Simon Meier walked out of his house and was never seen again. With no leads, the case quickly ran cold. Until now. Because one day ago, politician Bernard Clausen died. And in his cabin on the Norwegian coast, police make a shocking discovery. Boxes of bank notes, worth millions of dollars. Collecting dust. Chief Inspector William Wisting thinks it could link to Meier's disappearance. But solving both cases will mean working with an old adversary, and delving into a dark underworld.

World-renowned forensic sculptor Eve Duncan's skills frequently make her a target. And in this epic adventure, they make her the first choice to create an Egyptian death mask for a nefarious potential client. But Eve cannot be bought, not for all the riches in a gold mine. Her would-be employer soon realizes that he must threaten the lives of those she holds dear to procure Eve's services and force her to travel to Africa to mold the priceless mask.

London, 1817. A city teeming with life, yet lacking a professional police force. When a wealthy young woman is brutally murdered in an alley frequented by prostitutes, a shadowy government bureau in Whitehall dispatches its "special emissary" - Captain Winter. A veteran of the Napoleonic Wars and a gentleman forged by chance and conflict, Winter is uniquely equipped to navigate the treacherous currents of London society, from aristocratic drawing rooms to the city's grimmest taverns.

Kirk Stevens and Carla Windermere of the joint BCA-FBI violent crime task force have handled shocking cases before, but this one is different. Stevens's daughter, Andrea, is distraught over a classmate's suicide, but what the two investigators find is even more disturbing - an online suicide club of unhappy teenagers, presided over by an anonymous presence who seems to be spurring them on. Soon, it becomes apparent that the classmate wasn't the first victim and won't be the last, either, unless they can hunt down this psychopath once and for all. [Vancouver author].

Birmingham, 1933. Private enquiry agent William Garrett facilitates divorces for the city's male elite. With the help of his best friend - charming, out-of-work actor Ronnie Edgerton - William sets up honey traps. But photographing unsuspecting women in flagrante plagues his conscience and William heaves up his guts with remorse after every job. His life changes when he meets the beautiful Clara Morton and falls in love. Little does he know she is the wife of a client - a leading fascist with a dangerous obsession. Soon, what should have been another straightforward job turns into something far more deadly.

Arbuthnot 'Arbie' Swift arrives at Dashwood House, a glamorously modern hotel in the up-and-coming resort of Galton-next-the-Sea, but all plans for a relaxing stay are scuppered when one of the guests is found dead. The body is found in the writing room, the victim part of a set visiting the seaside town for an engagement party, which happens to include Arbie's old friend, Val. Familiar with Val and Arbie's previous experience in solving puzzling crimes, the bride asks the pair to investigate.

At 3:35 am, Greta Emmett wakes to a call from the Emergency Centre. Her husband's fall alarm had been activated five minutes ago and since then he's been unresponsive. He isn't in bed beside her and on further inspection she realizes he's not even in the house. By 6:00 am at St Aldates police station DCS Rebecca Wainwright, multi-decorated hero of celebrated investigations, is reading notes on her new team. Who best to put on the case?

Vinnie left behind a 25-year career in a blaze of scandal - working undercover to bust a sex trafficking ring in her own Homicide Unit. Nearly beaten to death by her former colleagues to prevent her testimony, Vinnie has found peace in the small town of Wills Harbor, Maryland. Or so she thought. When a local teenager goes missing and nobody in town seems concerned besides the girl's best friend, Vinnie can't help but take the case, even if it means returning to a world she's gone hundreds of miles to leave behind.

Cornwall, 1910.On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in feverish preparations for the apocalypse that he believes will accompany the passing of Halley's Comet. The Hall must be sealed from top to bottom - every window, chimney, and keyhole closed off before night falls. But what the pompous, dishonest Viscount has failed to take into account is the danger that lies within... By morning, he will be dead in his sealed study, murdered by his own ancestral crossbow. All eyes turn to Steven Pike, Tithe Hall's newest under-butler. His unlikely ally? Miss Decima Stockingham, the foul-mouthed, sharp as a tack, eighty-year-old family matriarch.

St Andrews, Scotland: When a woman's eviscerated body is found on the golf course close to the Fairmont Hotel, DCI Andy Gilchrist and his associate DS Jessie Janes are assigned the investigation. But the post-mortem examination uncovers a shocking detail that must be kept from the public... Who could carry out such a brutal murder? And what is the significance of the gruesome trophy? When DNA uncovers links to a murder committed thirty years earlier, Gilchrist fears a killer of old has resurfaced, or worse, a debut serial killer setting out to learn his murderous trade.

In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all, is found murdered, his throat cut. Detective Sam Wyndham is assigned to the case and finds himself thrust into the glamorous world of Indian cinema. Then Surendranath Banerjee learns his search for a missing photographer is linked to Sam's murder investigation, and the two men find themselves working together once again.

Inspector Mehmet Suleyman is on holiday in Romania when his distant cousin calls. Nurettin Suleyman has bought the Wooden Library, an ancient building in Istanbul once owned by their ancestor. He needs help cataloguing its priceless contents and who better for the job than Mehmet's old friend Cetin Ikmen? As Ikmen sets to work, he detects a terrible smell pervading the library that leads to the discovery of a rotting corpse. The dead body is that of Senol Ulusoy, the man who sold Nurettin the library.

1434: The Kalmar Union is cracking at its seams as a rebellion, led by miner Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, erupts in the north. Sent by his status-seeking family, young Mans Bengtsson must win Engelbrekt's trust no matter the cost. Back at his family's castle, his mother, father, and sister wait for news of his success. One is lost in longing, another forges plans for the throne and crown, and one might finally have the opportunity to rise from her brother's shadow.

When Carl and Roy Opgard learn that a new highway will bypass Os and leave their town cut off and isolated, they know their thriving businesses will die. Something has to be done about that, even if the methods need to be dirty. Fortunately, Roy and Carl have experience with dirty work. Meanwhile, the town sheriff has gotten his hands on new technology that will enable him to take a deeper look at a spate of unsolved murders from years past - including that of his own father.

Lalla Rook is happily in possession of an adoring husband, two beautiful children and a beautiful house. (Tick, tick, tick). She's even stopped killing people (double tick). Or had, until she found an uninvited man snooping through her living room. Now she has a dead body to dispose of amidst the stress of hosting a four-year-old's birthday party. But the show must go on - you can't cancel key social events without difficult questions being asked, not even for an unidentified corpse in your front room.

When Libby receives an invitation to train with an elite group of figure skaters, deep in the Bavarian Forest, it seems almost too good to be true. Masterminded by the reclusive Lukas Wolff, a man notorious for his controversial methods, the skaters will be competing to learn the most dangerous move in history. The last one standing is promised fame and fortune, but at what cost? When one of the skaters dies in mysterious circumstances, the trainees start to question Lukas's motives. And with a blizzard raging and communications down, they are completely cut off from the outside world.

December, 1914. After the death of her aunt, Alma Timperley is surprised when she suddenly finds herself the heiress to the Timperley Spiritualist Hotel in a pretty coastal town in Cornwall. But not everything is as it seems... the hotel offers guests a very special service: the chance to communicate with the dead. When the body of one of the hotel's maids is found, it is considered a tragic wartime accident. But the more Alma and the local police try to fathom what happened, the more they begin to realize this is much more than just a death - there might be a German spy in Falmouth.

Actress Anna Vaughn tends to play doomed brunettes with a badass streak, and has put in countless hours training for parts and learning how to fight, shoot, and drive like a pro. She likes to believe she is as tough as her characters, but off-camera she leads a far quieter life. When her best friend Natalie, her rock, disappears after a night out with a mysterious new man, the signs point to foul play and a circle of spies operating in Manhattan. Anna must use all the tricks she's learned for her roles to hunt for her missing friend.

[BC author]. Over one terrible weekend, two teenage girls are found dead in a wealthy Chicago suburb. As the community mourns, Abby Rosso, the girls' high school counselor, begins to suspect that her son, Benjamin, was secretly involved in their lives - and possibly their deaths. Abby doesn't want to believe Benjamin would hurt anyone. But she's seen the warning signs before. Two decades ago, her brother was imprisoned for a disturbing crime - he was only a little older than Benjamin is now.

Pomona Afton, Upper East Side hotel heiress, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmother's murder. Her grandmother was mean, greedy, and paranoid - so paranoid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that, should she die an unnatural death, all the family assets get frozen. Pom needs someone to solve this murder, like, yesterday, so she can get her trust fund back. But she quickly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back, she's going to have to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herself...

When Delaney wins a special Hidden Door Festival invitation to artist Ryory Bennigan's studio, she isn't quite sure what to expect. What she finds is an elusive fellow obsessed with the Picts - complete with his own versions of their blue tattoos and vibrant red hair - recreating the stones they left behind. She also meets a visiting paleontologist, Dr. Adam Pace, from the University of Kansas attempting to sell an artifact that might just explain what the Picts' language really sounded like. Or at least that's what he claimed the artifact was for. Before the deal can close and Ryory can get a closer look at it, Dr. Pace is found dead.

Tetisheri is surprised - and suspicious - when Cleopatra grants her permission to visit the Kingdom of Cyrenaica. A middleman in Cyrenaica has ceased communication and Tetisheri's uncle, a master trader, is on a mission to find out why. But there are others in Cyrenaica with hidden agendas: Julius Caesar's spies, Caesar's sworn enemy Metellus Scipio, and the ever duplicitous King Juba I.

Ever since her beloved Jed died, all Virginia wants is to be left alone. But the little girl who lives down the street is so sweet, that even in her grief-fuelled state Virginia's heart softens whenever she sees her. And that's why Virginia knows there's something wrong in the little girl's house. So when the mother asks Virginia to take her child far away, somewhere safe, Virginia says yes.

Nadine Walsh's summer garden party is in full swing. The neighbors all have cocktails, the catered food is exquisite - everything's going according to plan. But Nadine - devoted wife, loving mother, and doting daughter - finds herself standing over a dead body in her basement while her guests clink glasses upstairs. What happened? How did it come to this? Rewind to that morning...

Daphne Brewster is settling into her family's new life in rural Norfolk, planting broad beans in raised beds and vintage hunting for their farmhouse. But when the local headmaster is found dead in his potting shed, amongst his allotment cabbages, the village is ablaze. Who would kill beloved Mr Papplewick, pillar of the community? When the headmaster's widow points her finger at Minnerva, Daphne's new friend, Daphne vows to clear her name.

Joining a boat trip to the remote islands of St Kilda with sailing sleuth Cass Lynch and her partner DI Gavin Macrae, the young woman seems more concerned with her phone than the scenery. But when it's time to leave, there's no sign of her. Despite mounting a desperate search, she's seemingly vanished without trace - from a small island in the middle of the sea. As a puzzling investigation gathers pace, there are more questions than answers...

A eucalyptus farm worker named Pedro starts coughing. Several of his coworkers die of a strange fungal disease, which has jumped to humans for the first time, but Pedro, miraculously, awakes. His survival fascinates a foreign mycologist, as well as a local priest, who dubs his mysterious mutterings to be the words of a prophet. Meanwhile Pedro's kids are left to fend for themselves: the young Cata, whose creepy art projects are getting harder and harder to decipher, and Patricio, who wasn't ready to be thrust into the role of father. Their competing efforts to reckon with Pedro's condition eventually meet in a horrifying climax.

A high society Christmas Eve wedding at a remote Scottish castle sounds like the perfect winter getaway for the three Dahlias and their partners - until a snowstorm hits, cutting them off from the mainland, and civilization. Of course, that is when the dead body of one of the other guests turns up in the snow outside the family chapel. A dead body wearing a wedding dress and a stolen diamond necklace...

Against all odds, Jim Brennan is a big man at the university, tipped for the head job and an office at the top of the ivory tower. But when his son Elliot is arrested on drugs charges, Jim is approached by men he thought he had left safely in his past. Their demands threaten his family, students and reputation. As the pressure mounts, Jim discovers he is more like his hardman father than he thought. The question is, how far will Professor Jim Brennan go to save the life he built?

1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a 'double-dipper' the Americans believed to be one of their own. But Henry Bone sends him to Marseille, ostensibly to report on dockers' strikes and keep tabs on the errant wife of a British diplomat. Soon Catesby is caught between the CIA and the Mafia, who are colluding to fuel the war in Indochina. Swept eastwards to Laos, he suspects that Bone wants him to target a former comrade from his SOE days. The question is, which one?

Re-title of THE FINAL SCORE: Don Winslow's acclaimed fiction collection, featuring "Crime 101". Six intense short novels with characters - some familiar, some new - connected by the themes of crime, vengeance, guilt, and redemption.

Tony Malik, a half-Irish, half-Arab FBI agent based in New York, specializes in tracking money from drug and arms deals. He decides to visit his ancestral homeland for his niece's wedding, accepting a seemingly simple FBI assignment along the way. Upon arrival in the West Bank, Malik's world is upended when the Israeli police chief is murdered. Initially a suspect, Malik's investigative prowess soon earns him a place in the Israeli investigation. At the heart of the story is Malik's complex relationship with Yossi, the hardline anti-Arab Israeli police officer leading the case.

[Canadian author]. New York City and Washington, DC, 1951. Previously fired for speaking out against workplace injustices, 25-year-old Kay Thompson finds her true calling once appointed to support Eleanor Roosevelt, a champion of human rights known as ER among those in her inner circle. Kay fully embraces her new role as the former First Lady's right hand - typing up daily columns and juggling a blur of political meetings, ribbon cuttings, and charitable dinners. It's not until a dead body is discovered on a train that her most compelling task comes into focus...

Lance Rousseau, Ashland's renowned theater director and one of Jules' closest friends, has put his own spin on a production of the Broadway classic Perfect Crime, drawing the audience into a cozy New York apartment as a nefarious set of suspects pulls off the perfect murder. After the actors take their final bow, the cast trickles into Carpenter Hall, ready for a night of frivolity. But when an actor is discovered dead in his dressing room, Jules wonders if she's just witnessed the real perfect murder.

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth can handle the cold weather, but not a surprise influx of high-society visitors for a Valentine's Day wedding at Tommel Castle Hotel that includes not one, but two women from his own romantic past! Moreover, the groom, the supposedly suave and sophisticated Darius Palmerston, is involved in a series of incidents in the local pub. Tensions between guests and villagers escalate until, on the night of the wedding, Darius is found dead in the dining room - the cake-cutting sword plunged into his chest.

Driving back through Wales in a fierce winter storm, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is forced to seek shelter at a remote village in the Eryri mountains. But a one night stopover becomes something very different after a gruesome discovery in the depths of the local forest. With communications down and the only road washed out by the storm, Hunter is unsure who - if anyone - he can trust.

London, 1930. Led by the formidable Dorothy L. Sayers, the Queens of Crime includes Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham and Baroness Emma Orczy. Their plan? Solve an actual murder. May Daniels, a young English nurse on an excursion to France with her friend, seemed to vanish into thin air as they prepared to board a ferry home. Months later, her body is found in the nearby woods.

Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn't expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future.Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film crew are busy shooting the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a terrible crime has been committed. And Miss Darcy - newly arrived, impeccably dressed, and thoroughly confused - is the only witness.It soon becomes clear that, somehow, Georgiana was meant to solve this riddle.

Marybeth Pickett gets the call she has always dreaded: her husband Joe is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Joe was found in his pickup at Antler Creek Junction, a crossroads connecting three ranches. Each road leading to a dangerous family. Each family with a different bone to pick with the local game warden. With Joe unconscious and fighting for his life with Marybeth at his side, Sheridan, April, and Lucy split up and investigate each of the families to uncover the truth of what happened to their father, before it's too late.

When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows his world and family are about to change. With Valerie Benoit, a detective new to the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department who is grappling with sexist and racist harassment from colleagues, and the volatile but fiercely loyal Clete Purcel, Dave embarks on an investigation that brings him into the most dangerous moments of his career and threatens the lives of Valerie and his daughter Alafair.

Englishman Richard Hughes has survived a stint as a galley slave and is now a free man in Venice, where he enjoys a modest life as a fencing master. He believes he has long-since left behind the ideals that landed him in slavery...until he stumbles across an attempted murder close to home. As he hunts for the red-masked assassin who is picking off the city's Libertini, Richard and his new rescued friend 'Philip' are drawn into a conspiracy that stretches from Venice to the Vatican and beyond...

Championed by Bute Stafford, candidate for mayor, a group of ex-cops from Missouri - as corrupt as they are brutal -aim to run the Baxter P.D. and, through it, the entire city. Captain Delia Mariola's not afraid - not of these crooked cops nor of the higher-ups who protect them. But she surely needs help and finds it in the form of Tom Carney. An experienced undercover from faraway Philadelphia, his status is known only by Delia and the commissioner.

Theodosia Browning and her tea sommelier, Drayton Conneley, are tapped to cater the elegant wedding of Bettina and Jamie. Theodosia and Drayton are setting up when they hear a crash from the greenhouse. Shockingly, they discover that part of the roof has collapsed, trapping a bridesmaid and the groom. He will pull through but the bridesmaid is no more. Theodosia is convinced it was murder.

A group of high school alumnae reunite years later and reserve rooms at Pixie Inn for an extended retreat. As part of their pampering package, Felicity delivers a scrumptious assortment of enchanted pastries, including her new almond cookies. But the queen bee of the group is soon found dead in her bathroom, drowned in the tub, and she recently sampled the delicious baked goods. Could Felicity's almond cookies have set off a fatal nut allergy?

When his boss asks him to go to India to investigate the murder of a British engineer who was found with eighteen arrows stuck in his body, Detective Kamil Rahman agrees to take the case, as long as his Anjoli can accompany him. When they arrive in Mumbai, they find someone is on a gruesome killing spree, striking down those connected to the engineer in increasingly macabre ways.

When the manager of The Quaint Bookshop is found slumped between the shelves, the four members of the shop's reading group decide to put into action all the skills they've picked up from their favourite fictional detectives. If anyone knows how to solve a killer of a crime, it's a team of murder-mystery superfans. The police might be investigating but the reading group are on the case...

When one of the ladies in residence at Hampton Court Palace fails to answer her maid's call in the morning, Mrs Lydia Bramble, palace housekeeper, is called in to investigate. What Mrs Bramble finds sends shockwaves through the whole palace: Miss Philomena Franklin, slumped over her desk, a knife in her back. With the police determined to bark up the wrong tree, Mrs Bramble decides to take up her own investigation with the help of Miss Franklin's maid.

After discovering that her fiance has left her without so much as a goodbye, Las Vegas hairdresser Lucy Reyfinds herself short on funds and desperate for a change of scenery. Enter a most unusual job opportunity: a Bearer of Bad News. Sure, it's a little strange - the job description has few details, and the bad news is more like a vaguely worded threat - but Lucy can't say no to the perks: an all-expenses-paid trip to the Italian Dolomites, plus a generous bonus if she proves she's delivered the message. Then she learns that her task is just the tip of the iceberg.

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. James Willoughby is studying surgery, and the university offers everything James desires - except the chance to work on a human cadaver. When he strikes a deal with Aneurin "Nye" MacKinnon, he rapidly descends into the underground ranks of the Resurrectionists - the body snatchers infamous for stealing fresh corpses from churchyards to be used as anatomical specimens. Before long, James and Nye soon find themselves in the crosshairs of a pair of opportunists known as Burke and Hare. These unsavoury characters will do anything to beat the competition for bodies. Even if it's cold-blooded murder...

Krissy is ready to provide one of the essential ingredients for Irish coffee this St. Patrick's Day - though without a liquor license, she'll have to team up with a local bar owner to complete the recipe. It's a perfect chance to distract herself from her upcoming wedding - and her worries about how her beloved cat will get along with his new canine stepsiblings. As she doles out some much-needed caffeine the day after the festivities, she learns that the town is dealing with something worse than a hangover: homicide. Like many a reveler before him, the bar owner ended up green around the gills, but after he passed out, he never woke up.

Tyler Green, convicted of murdering his friend Leo at a student house party in 1993, has been released after almost three decades in prison. He has always protested his innocence. On a warm evening in London, Tyler summons eight of his university friends who were present on that fateful night. Is it just a reunion - or something else? With wine - and accusations - flowing liberally, the reunion descends into violent chaos, and one friend will end the night with their throat slit in the upstairs bedroom...the same way that Leo's was in 1993. When Detective Inspector Maud O'Connor gets called to investigate, she has her own doubts about Tyler's guilt, despite what his old friends, the rest of the Metropolitan Police Force, and even the Home Secretary would like her to believe...

A woman is found face-down in a pool of blood. Detective Lottie Parker is called to the remote farmhouse in the bleak Irish countryside. Inside, she finds a scene that speaks of uncontrollable rage: glasses smashed, chairs ripped apart, the woman's body broken. A black rain jacket makes Lottie think she knows the killer's identity, but then she finds a disturbing clue. Is the murder linked to an old case at St Declan's asylum - a case investigated by her own father, just before he took his life?

Disgraced U.S. President Darmond has been ousted from office, but his minions have taken aim at everyone they perceive to be enemies. Off-the-record contractors on a secret list are being eliminated, one by one. Jonathan Grave and his Security Solutions team manage to turn the tables when the assassins come for them. But the ultimate attack will strike deep at the heart of what's best about American values. High-tech weapons, terror-driven fanatics, and top-level betrayal shred a peaceful gathering in the rolling hills of rural North Carolina.

DSI William Lorimer first meets Meredith St Claire when he is giving a careers talk at his goddaughter's school. The popular and glamorous drama teacher is distraught, begging him to investigate her fiance's recent disappearance, but with a report already made to the relevant authorities, there's nothing more Lorimer can do. But then a body is discovered on the outskirts of Glasgow. Guy Richmond was a wealthy and charismatic actor, adored by everyone. Or so it first seems.

It starts with a blown safe house in Tunis. Then Court himself barely escapes from an ambush in the jungles of Nicaragua. Now key members of the U.S. counterintelligence community are being assassinated in their own neighbourhoods. With the feds compromised, it's up to Court and his team to stop the hit squads. But eliminating professional kill teams may be the least of the Gray Man's worries when he finds himself targeted by the legendary assassin codenamed Whetstone.

Jack Swyteck's new client fled Iran to Miami with her daughter, and has been accused of kidnapping by her husband. The seasoned attorney must not only plan a winning defense to stop the father from taking the girl back to Tehran. Jack must build a case under international law and prove that returning the child would put her at risk. But everything in this case isn't what it seems, and Jack quickly learns that his client is really the child's aunt and that the biological mother may have been killed by Iran's morality police.

When public defender Amaya Fernando gets into Siriwathi Perera's cab, they make a quick connection through their shared Sri Lankan roots. Siri, whose social circle is limited to her grade-school best friend, Alex, thinks things might finally be looking up with this new potential friendship. But she's suddenly dropped into her own true crime when she discovers her next passenger murdered in the backseat, and she has to call Amaya sooner than she'd expected. Pinned as the obvious and only suspect, and desperate to clear her name, Siri chases down leads across the boroughs of New York City with Amaya's help.

A peaceful evening mass at the historic Chiesa del Gesu Nuovo is shattered when a young au pair is killed in one of the cathedral's quiet chapels. The daughter of the US Ambassador sees it happen - but she'll speak only to one person: Nikki Serafino. The murder investigation leads Nikki and her friend, Naples officer Valerio Alfieri, into a shadow architecture of power: built to protect the guilty and hide their secrets at any cost.

Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is tasked with locating jaguars on a vast desert preserve in New Mexico. Jaguars are now endangered, with only a handful remaining. Meanwhile, an archaeological team is excavating the gravesite of a 16th-century Spanish conquistador on a neighbouring piece of land. Curious about the dig, Alex meets the team and, while learning about their discoveries, she encounters a dangerous group of anti-immigrant vigilantes roaming the area, threatening the archaeology team, demanding they leave.

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.

Encouraged by their professor, Wael Shehadeh, a Palestinian human rights scholar, Detective Inaya Rahman's younger sisters set up a protest camp on the Blackwater Falls college quad with other students. As the atmosphere on campus becomes increasingly tense, Wael receives death threats - and ultimately meets a shocking end. Inaya is devastated by the news, knowing she failed to protect him. In a disturbing twist of fate, Wael's body is found by Lieutenant Waqas "Qas" Seif. Seif comes home one night to find a car on his driveway with Wael's body inside. The catch? The car belongs to his younger twin brothers, and one of the twins, Alireza, has suddenly disappeared.

When six human bodies are discovered, building work on a derelict site in Cork grinds to a halt. And then a seventh is discovered. Although the first six are men who died centuries ago, the seventh body is different - female, for a start, and much more recent. What began as a historic find is now a crime scene. Detective Garda Alice McCann is determined to track down the killer, even though she knows her superiors don't want her anywhere near such a high-profile case. Not after what happened before.

The husband of a prominent and infamously ruthless barrister is left in a coma after a robbery and brutal assault. Jessica Russell is given the case, putting together a team of three trusted officers, their expertise ranging from forensic DNA to blood spatter analysis, digital forensics and beyond. Now they must piece together a complex puzzle. If this was a robbery gone horrifically wrong, what was so important to have been stolen?

New York City, 1992 - Meet Parker Snow, the most tenacious reporter for a tabloid paper that thrives on juicy gossip over hard-hitting news, the New York Street. She also has a big black mark on her record from her last street crime story - and a habit of taking a few too many pills to erase the memory.Since the fall of the USSR, a new crop of Russian criminals have been arriving in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. It's now Parker's job to cover them. But her old beat keeps calling to her, especially when she learns of a murdered woman whose case the cops want to ignore.

January 12, 1917: An ocean liner docks in New York Harbor. Among the disembarking emigrants is one Lev Davidovich Bronshtein - better known by his nom de guerre, Leon Trotsky. In the weeks leading up to the February Revolution that will eventually see Lenin's Bolsheviks seize power, Bronshtein haunts the streets, newspaper offices, and socialist watering holes of New York City, wrestling with the difficult questions of his personal revolutionary ideology, his place in his own family, his relationship to Lenin, and, above all, his conscience.

DCI Jim Daley has been arrested for murder, and everyone saw him do it. The police have all the evidence they need to put him behind bars for life, but Detective Sergeant Brian Scott still believes he's innocent. Is someone trying to frame him? The search for answers takes Daley and Scott on a dark journey into their past, putting the people closest to them in immediate danger. And as the heartbreak takes its toll, Scott begins to wonder if this might be the end of the road. Is it time to call last orders?

Joe King Oliver's beloved Grandma B has a tumour, and at her age, treatment is high-risk. To satisfy her dying wish, King has to find his estranged father. Simultaneously, King finds himself in a moral bind. Marigold Hart, the wife of a powerful Californian billionaire, has gone missing, along with their seven-year-old daughter. Her husband is brutish and dangerous, and King realizes after locating her that it's in her best interest to stay hidden.

Minneapolis, 2016. When a small-time criminal and gun dealer is shot down in the street, all signs point to Tomas Gomez, a quiet man with a mysterious past - and deep connections to a notorious gang - who has seemingly vanished into thin air. Other murders soon follow, and Bob Oz, a down-and-out suspended police officer with a dubious past of his own, becomes fascinated by the case. Minneapolis, 2022. An enigmatic Norwegian with ties to Minneapolis, a self-described crime writer, has travelled to the United States to research the Gomez case, in the hopes of writing a book about it. But as his investigation progresses, the writer's seemingly neutral position reveals itself to be more complicated.

A 32-year-old sex worker is shocked when she's approached by undercover government agents to aid them in a top-secret plot to assassinate a politician known as Meat Neck. But once the deed is done, she realizes what made her the perfect recruit: She's 100% disposable. Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits, and a laptop to save her own life. She begins to send a series of emails, each a more subversive version of the story than the last...

While Siobhan studies for her Detective Sargeant exams, her brother, Eoin, prepares for the grand opening of his new restaurant, the O'Sullivan Six, and concocts a plan to enter Kilbane's Top Garden Contest to boost business. But trouble brews when Eoin hires a mercurial landscape designer known for her killer designs. His new partner's unflattering reputation and questionable practices nearly eclipse her talents - and plunge the prestigious competition into chaos. A lush and intricate winning garden emerges from the controversy, with a spectacular golden statue in the center of the display. But in a devastating twist, the work of art leads to the shocking discovery of a bold and brutal work of murder.

Originally published under the name "Rosamond Smith." A female serial killer seeks refuge in her twin sister's home in STARR BRIGHT WILL BE WITH YOU SOON, while a male serial killer murders for the woman he craves in SOUL/MATE - and the echoes continue in the rare short stories "The Murderess" and "An Unsolved Crime."

June, 1960. Rough weather at sea leaves a group of strangers stranded on the idyllic Greek island of Utakos, all guests of the only local hotel. Nothing could prepare them for what happens next. Edith Mander, a quiet British tourist, is found dead inside a beach cabana. What appears at first glance to be a clear suicide reveals possible signs of foul play to Ormond Basil, an out-of-work but still well-known actor who in his glory days portrayed the most celebrated detective of all time. Accustomed to seeing him display Sherlock Holmes' amazing powers of deduction on the big screen, the other guests believe that the actor is the best equipped to uncover the truth.

LA attorney Charles Warren is skilled at the art of recovering assets that have been embezzled or hidden. A beautiful young widow comes to him to find the money missing from her late husband's investment accounts, and Charlie recognizes a familiar scheme. Within hours of starting his investigation, he is followed, shot at, and has his briefcase stolen. It's clear that someone doesn't want him following the trail of the missing money but, as Charlie continues to pursue answers, he quickly becomes too entangled in the web of fraud, betrayal, and career criminals surrounding the theft to escape its deadly snare.

Slim Parsons is all but burned. She's in hiding from her angry bosses in the Security Service, who have accused her of being overly violent and unsuitable for the role of an MI5 operative. But now she is asked to infiltrate a news website, Middle Kingdom, whose explosive articles clearly show that they've hacked into the most high-security government databases.

When the deadly repercussions of his younger brother's criminal mishaps send him on a whirlwind road trip across desolate Florida, mechanic James Hart must decide how much he is willing to risk in order to protect his family.

Vienna 1894. Opening an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, employees of Vienna's Museum of Art History have discovered the well- (and quite recently) preserved body of Alfons Strossner, famed professor of Egyptology. Some believe that the professor was the victim of an ancient curse. But neither Augustin Rothmayer, the oddball gravedigger from Vienna's Central Cemetery, nor Inspector Leopold von Herzfeldt, give credence to such superstitious rumours. They are certain it was murder.

Brand new FBI agent Pendergast pulls a stunt that gets him and his mentor, Special Agent Chambers, suspended. Pendergast and Chambers take the opportunity to head for Mississippi, where they uncover a string of grisly, ritualistic killings that defy any known serial killer profile. Thanks in large part to Pendergast's brilliance and unorthodox methods, they solve the case and find the killer... and that is when the true horror begins.

After more than a year of laying low, Billie, Helen, Mary Alice, and Natalie are called back into action. They have enjoyed their time off, but the lack of excitement is starting to chafe. A professional killer can only take so many watercolour classes and yoga sessions without itching to strangle someone...literally. When they receive a summons from the head of the elite assassin organization known as the Museum, they are ready tackle the greatest challenge of their careers.

A blow to the head with a block of amethyst has left multibillionaire Nathan Barrister dead, while nearby, a vault, its door ajar, sits filled with priceless paintings, jewelry, and other treasures. Lieutenant Eve Dallas's husband, Roarke - who misspent his youth in Ireland as a scrappy thief - recognizes at least two stolen pieces among the hoard. The crime scene suggests a burglar caught in the act. But only one item seems to be missing. Then it's revealed that the vault had actually belonged to the victim's late father, and no one in the household knew it was there until a recent remodeling project exposed it.

After the ritualistic murder of a British professor at the University of Exeter, all evidence points to Sharyn Karr - an American student. Prior to the professor's death, he had thrust a centuries-old book upon her, begging her to keep it safe and - trust no one. She is forced to cooperate with fellow postgrad Duncan Maxwell, who has already proven himself a savant with encryptions. Unfortunately, the pair clash at every level, but they both need one another.

Published over the six decades of Sallis's storied career, this complete collection contains 154 stories, 11 of which are exclusive to this volume.

NEW YORK CITY, 1947: Wealthy financier and ghoulish connoisseur of crime, Jessup Quincannon, is dead, and famed detective Lillian Pentecost is under arrest for his murder. Means, motive, and a mountain of evidence leave everyone believing she's guilty. Everyone, that is, except Willowjean "Will" Parker, who knows for a fact her boss is innocent. She just doesn't know if she can prove it. With Lillian locked away in the House of D--New York City's infamous women's prison--Will is left to root out the real killer.

Rusty is soon to be married again to Bea. Bea has a young adult son who is living under supervision while on probation for drug possession. He disappears and eventually turns up with a vague story about a camping trip with his troubled girlfriend, Mae, that ended in a fight and a long hitchhike home. Days later, when she still hasn't returned, suspicion falls on Aaron, and when Mae is subsequently discovered dead, Aaron is arrested and set for trial on charges of first degree murder.Faced with few choices and even fewer hopes, Bea begs Rusty to return to court one last time to defend her son.

Howie Temple is down on his luck and desperate for cash. Once an action movie star, he now lives off a crumbling reputation. On his way to film a new reality TV show, which casts a team of c-list celebrities as crew aboard a luxury yacht, he meets fellow contestant, influencer-of-the-moment Cassandra Troy. The duo take an immediate dislike to each other. After a hectic first day of filming, the pair are shocked to discover that the captain of the ship has been murdered and locked in his control room, slumped over the wheel, a knife in his back. Convinced by the show's ever-opportunistic director to keep the cameras rolling, the pair team-up to hunt the murderer.

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.

Beverley, Elsie, and Margot are not your average housewives. They are all wives of convicted killers. During the sun-drenched summer of 1966, the three women form an unlikely friendship after the discoveries of their husbands' brutal crimes. With their exes dead or behind bars, the women attempt to forge new futures for themselves. When a string of killings hits the news, the three women - underestimated, overlooked, shrewd - decide to get to work. After all, who better to catch a killer than those who have shared their lives and homes with one?

Winter, 1539. When Cesare Aldo learns of a conspiracy to assassinate Duke Cosimo de'Medici, he is hired to protect the ruler of Florence. But those behind the plot obtain a journal of the duke's which contains explosive secrets that, in the wrong hands, could destroy all of Florence. Aldo must hunt down those responsible and reclaim the journal. The trail leads him towards the one place Aldo has sworn to never return, Venice.

Molly's adopted daughter, Bridie, is called to replace a fired actress in a movie. Turns out she's a natural. Molly is skeptical about leaving Bridie alone on set, but her great friends, Sid and Gus, offer to chaperone her. But soon, special effects start to malfunction. After a few mishaps where no one is hurt, the special effects turn deadly. With rumours of a feud between studios, Molly believes these malfunctions are sabotage. She is invited to go undercover on set to investigate the burgeoning film war.

Jane Pye and Simon Mash, a millennial couple with a little extra time on their hands, sign up for a private detective class on a whim, but quickly realize they've bitten off more than they can chew. Their instructor, having a feeling his two worst students don't have a chance of solving anything beyond finding the classroom, assigns them the case of Nellie Thorne, a woman recently reported missing. But she's not the first Nellie Thorne to disappear. In fact, she's the fifth in fifty years. Jane and Simon set out to solve the case, armed with just a few days of notes, matching trench coats, and a feeling they should have enrolled in a different class.

Edge, a shadow organization made up of the most powerful figures in Galway society, exists to rid the city of criminals and abusers who have evaded the law. Long wary of the organization, the Vatican is not pleased when rumours start swirling that one of the Catholic Church's own priests has joined its ranks. And who better to ask to intercede than Jack Taylor, the whiskey-swigging ex-cop who always seems to have one foot in the pub and another among Ireland's clergy?

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...

Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn't know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts - and then he runs. 22 years later, Kierce, now a PI, is a new father who is working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night school in New York City. One evening, he recognizes a familiar face at the back of the classroom. Anna. It's unmistakably her. As soon as Kierce makes eye contact with her, she bolts.

Years ago, a group of accomplished writers used the shop's second-floor lounge to inspire each other, but the group disbanded when something dark occurred. Though that history is shrouded in mystery, Clare presses forward with a new version. Soon the Village Blend tables are filled with aspiring novelists, playwrights, and poets, all happy to be coaxed, cajoled, and caffeinated by her coffeehouse crew. Clare admires the stamina of these scribes, many of them toiling at night jobs - driving taxis, tending bar, ushering for Broadway - while penning projects during the day. Then one of their fictions turns fatal when a shocking secret leads to a deadly end.

1979 Glasgow. If it hadn't been for her wee stupid dog Sid Vicious, 12-year-old Janey Devine might never have stumbled upon the corpse of Samantha Watson. And then maybe she'd still be able to sleep at night. And maybe her nana wouldn't be so worried sick all the time. And maybe Billy "The Ghost" Watson, a notorious gangster, wouldn't be on her tail - for it's Billy's daughter who was left for dead on those train tracks, and now Billy wants answers.

Hannah Herbst is Germany's most experienced facial resonance expert. She can successfully 'read' a suspect through a tiny twitch of the lip or the flicker of a pupil. As a consultant to the police, she has already helped convict a number of violent criminals. Struggling with the effects of memory loss after an operation, Hannah is confronted with the most terrible case of her career. A woman has confessed on video to brutally murdering every member of her family, except for her young son. When the woman manages to escape from prison, the fear is she will go after the rest of her family... Only Hannah can tell if the video actually holds the truth. There is just one problem: the woman in the video is Hannah herself.

With tensions between the police and public at an all-time high, a music festival during a heatwave is the last thing DS Alice Washington needs. Then she learns that the headline act is infamous rock band the Dolls, appearing for the first time since the lead singer Ris was pushed to her death. It was an open-and-shut case. Ris's best friend was witnessed committing the crime by hundreds of people. But when the Dolls start receiving death threats, Alice is forced to re-examine the events leading up to Ris's murder. Was it really just teenage jealousy, or is there something more sinister beneath the surface?

In an exclusive resort on the Tuscan coast, the wealthy elite gather at their luxurious second homes for Christmas. Amid this frosty holiday idyll, a husband and wife vanish from their heavily guarded villa, and the body of Count Delaude, a dubious aristocrat, washes up on the shore, battered to death. The ensemble cast brims with intrigue. The Count, a sponger and a sham, had arrived under cover of dark with a beautiful young woman scheming to be a top model. Two comedians seclude themselves as they try to overcome a writing block. One depressive, Signor Monforti, a retired academic, tries to woo a beautiful divorcee, while another woman prepares to leave her husband. Two elderly spinsters and their Filipina maid are aghast at the awful predictions of their Tarot pack.

A professor named Cristina Rivera Garza stumbles upon the corpse of a mutilated man in a dark alley and reports it to the police. When shown a crime scene photo, she finds a stark warning written in tiny print with coral nail polish on the brick wall beside the body: "Beware of me, my love / beware of the silent woman in the desert."The professor becomes the first informant on the case, which is led by a detective newly obsessed with poetry and trailed by a long list of failures. But what has the professor really seen? As the bodies of more castrated men are found alongside lines of verse, the detective tries to decipher the meaning of the poems to put a stop to the violence spreading throughout the city.

As funeral mourners stand in silence at Ragmullin cemetery, a deafening cry cuts through the air. Lying crumpled at the bottom of an open grave is the bloodied body of a young woman, and Detective Lottie Parker is called in to investigate. Knowing the body can't have been there long, Lottie wonders if it could be Elizabeth Bryne, a young woman who vanished without trace just days earlier. And with a new boss who seems to have it in for her, Lottie is under pressure to solve both cases quickly.

One hot summer evening, 11-year-old Mikey Driscoll is on the way home from playing with friends. Two days later, his body is discovered on a bed of wildflowers by some local teenagers. The case is assigned to Detective Lottie Parker and this time it's personal. The victim was a close friend of her son, Sean, from the run-down Munbally estate on the other side of town. Sean tells his mother Mikey was behaving normally before he died, but Lottie can't help but feel that her son is keeping something from her... Then days later, another boy is found dead, surrounded by wild flowers next to beautiful Ladystown Lake.

When Amy Whyte and Penny Brogan leave a local nightclub in the early hours of Sunday morning and don't arrive home, their families are beside themselves with worry. Conor Dowling has just been released from prison, a man full of hatred for Amy, the girl who put him behind bars in the first place. The case is given to Detective Lottie Parker, when the girls' blood-soaked bodies are found, days later, in a derelict squat. Chillingly, both girls are clutching silver coins in their hands - what message is this killer leaving behind? All the signs point to Conor but his alibi is water tight.

Soon after Lila's arrival in Richmond's palatial Primrose building, the owner of the building's splendid penthouse has died and in his final days he set up a two-million-dollar reward for any resident who helps to solve the 21-year-old murder of his granddaughter at the Primrose. A fan of all detective stories and true-crime podcasts, Lila's daughter Bea is inspired to investigate. Lila's certain the killer is long-gone after all these years anyway. That is, until another resident is murdered... and Lila becomes the prime suspect.

[Vancouver author]. Sydney Lowe's life in New York is shattered when her husband, Curtis, admits to a meaningless affair with a client. Begging for forgiveness and vowing to prove his devotion, Curtis suggests the couple retreat to a remote hilltop house in Spain to repair their marriage. Sydney and Curtis are working on the isolated property and their relationship when a pair of Australian travelers turns up at their door in dire need of help. Inviting them to stay, however, turns out to be a mistake, and not everyone leaves the villa alive.

August 1816. A dead man is found hanging upside down by one leg in an abandoned chapel, his hands tied behind his back, recapitulating the tarot card known as Le Pendu, the Hanged Man. The victim was Lord Preston Farnsworth, the younger brother of one of the Regent's boon companions and a passionate crusader against what he called the forces of darkness, namely criminality, immorality, and sloth. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, will investigate.

Eight years ago, James McCready was convicted of killing his partner, Gary Meadows. But McCready has always claimed that the stabbing was a tragic accident and, when fresh evidence comes to light, he wins his appeal for a retrial. Detective Inspector Pat North is assigned to the reinvestigation. But when North discovers that her partner, DS Mike Walker, led the original police inquiry, their fledgling relationship is put to the test - particularly when she starts to suspect that he is covering something up. Could Walker have tampered with evidence to frame an innocent man? And if so, who is the real killer?

When her great-aunt Penelope passed away, Cordelia inherited the Chickadee Motel in Sarsaparilla Falls. When she got there Cordelia discovered the Chickadee isn't a motel - it's a brothel, housing three women in their sixties known as the Chicks. Cordelia doesn't want to be a hotel manager or a madam, but she can't just sell the only home the Chicks have known - especially not after the pastor is found poisoned in the bed of one of them. With the Chicks - and the town - on the verge of a breakdown, Cordelia steps up to mop up the mess and solve the pastor's murder.

India, 1922: Perveen Mistry, the only female lawyer in Bombay, has secured her biggest client yet: Champa Films, a movie studio run by director Subhas Ghoshal and his wife, Rochana, the biggest name in Indian cinema. To study Rochana's glamorous world, Perveen attends a special screening and brings her film fanatic best friend, Alice Hobson-Jones. But in the aftermath of the event, one of the guests is found dead, and to make matters worse, Rochana has disappeared.

When a car drives off a pier, an elderly man drowns, but his young wife survives. Her name is Kumako Onizuka, and with a past stained by yakuza entanglements and criminal activity, she is accused of orchestrating the accident for a large insurance payout. Her guilt seems obvious to local journalist Moichi Akitani, who portrays her as a devious femme fatale. But when a surprisingly scrupulous public defender takes on her case, Akitani begins to doubt himself, and he fears what might happen if Onizuka ever gets wind of the contempt he spread.

Liverpool, 1979: new CID recruit Leigh Borrowdale is seconded to a disturbing murder inquiry: a mysterious death in a decaying building, where the remains of a young man have been found. Tasked with looking into missing persons' cases to track down the identity of the victim, Leigh discovers a connection to two boys feared drowned in the Mersey and links to the murky Liverpool underworld.

Detectives Benny Griessel and Vaughn Cupido are languishing in Stellenbosch. Run-of-the-mill police work in the leafy university town is a far cry from their previous life in Cape Town fighting crime and government corruption at the highest level. Then a student is found dead on a mountain trail, and the key suspect, a local businessman, is found murdered in what looks like a professional hit delivering a message - suffocated by fast-action filler foam sprayed down his throat.

[THE ANTIQUE HUNTER'S GUIDE #3]. S&S, 25.99 tp. Following team member Bella to her last known location, Freya and Carole arrive in the wintry landscape of rolling Scottish hills, frozen lochs and snow tipped castles. There they discover a missing collection of Scottish silverware which belonged to a murdered Laird...and the police believe Bella was at the scene of the crime. It's clear something terrible has happened, but where is Bella now and is she safe?

In London, the police storm Heathrow Airport to bring in a father for questioning about his missing daughter. In Florida, a mother makes a connection between her son and a bomber, fearing he has been radicalized. And in Oregon, an unknown organization's conspiracy to bring America to its knees unfolds... On the run from the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to stop a catastrophe that will derail the country's future forever.

Paris, 1922. The marriage between the Auclair and the Picard families is the talk of the town. June can't wait to attend the engagement party with her friends, Nate and Jack. But Nate has an ulterior motive: he's there to stop the wedding. Before he can complete his task, he's stabbed in the chest with Jack's knife. Jack is arrested, but June knows he wouldn't hurt a fly.

Nearly simultaneously, as though the events were connected, people who are thousands of miles apart in vastly different circumstances start to move. Some of them are in terrible need of help finding a route to safety. Some are dedicated to serving justice. Others are determined to capture the woman who makes people disappear so they can force her to reveal where their potential victims are now. All of these travelers are soon on their way to the old house in western New York. And the people requiring Jane's special skills will now include Jane herself, her husband, and their newborn.

Now Head Maid and Special Events Manager of the Regency Grand Hotel, Molly's entire existence is upended when she brings a shoebox of her gran's old things to a reality TV art appraisal show. One piece turns out to be a rare and priceless treasure and Molly is briefly a multi-millionaire -- before the piece vanishes from the hotel in the boldest, brashest antiquities heist in recent memory.

London, 1924. Dee and Lao are at a lavish dinner party when British banking official A. G. Stephen argues about the tenuous state of Chinese nationalism - and is poisoned two days later. Dee knows this cannot be a coincidence, and suspects Stephen won't be the only victim. Sure enough, a young Chinese communist of Lao's acquaintance is killed not long after - and a note with a strange symbol is found by his body. Could these murders be related to rumors of a conspiracy regarding the Chinese Eastern Railway?

1890. The New Mexico Territory. In the new city of Montana Roja, Fred Harvey's growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. He needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask. Young Pinkerton agent Clare Wright travels west disguised as one of Harvey's famous hostesses. To get answers - and to get out alive - there are only two things she can trust: her instincts, and her derringer.

I've spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. I've never been a hostage before. The doors are chained shut. No one in or out. Which means that when someone in the bank is murdered, everyone is a suspect. Turns out, more than one person planned to rob the bank today. You can steal more from a bank than just money. Who is stealing what? Are they willing to kill for it? And can I solve the crime before the police kick down the door and rescue us?

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, retired marine biologist Delphine is on the brink of throwing in the towel. She has outlived her PI husband and feels like a burden to her son and his growing family. One night, while contemplating how to go on, Delphine witnesses a woman and her young child being victimized by her apparent boyfriend. When Delphine later discovers the woman has gone missing, she embarks on a quest to track her down and help her and the child.

A Hell of a Woman (1954) After Dark, My Sweet (1955), The Getaway (1959), The Grifters (1963) and Pop. 1280 (1964). Rounding out this deluxe edition is a selection of Thompson's early shorter works, including experimental nonfiction for the Federal Writers' Project.

July, 1921. When the murdered body of a local man washes ashore just south of Lindisfarne, the government and the Church of England are concerned about protecting both the reputation of the Church and the sacred sites that are a destination for hundreds of pilgrims at this time of year. With his ability to move in the highest social and political circles, Rutledge is sent by Scotland Yard to solve this crime and dispel any association with the Church.

A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison.... Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle. Look closely ... and you'll see that everything is connected. All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won't want to believe it.

Ana Blacksmith has gathered her closest friends and sister Vera for a brunch to celebrate her recent breakup from her boyfriend Paul. But when shocking news about Paul arrives, all eyes are on Ana, the angry ex with a bad reputation. Suspicions only intensify when Ana's best friend falls deathly ill after the brunch. But Ana is not the only one who had a score to settle with Paul. As the investigation unfolds, rumours of a secret network that uses ancient methods to obtain justice begin to emerge.

Delivery man Mercury Carter takes his job very seriously - he will stop at nothing to deliver a parcel directly to its intended recipient. Not even, as in the current case, when he finds a crew of violent men at the indicated address that threaten his life and take the woman who lives there hostage. After Carter dispatches the goons sent to kill him, he enters a home besieged by criminals - but the leader of the gang escapes with attorney Rachel Stanfield before the mailman can complete his assignment. He takes off in pursuit.

1922. Eleanor Mackridge is staring down the barrel of two equally depressing life choices - serving the upper classes or finding a husband - when she crosses paths with the notorious all-female gang, the Forty Elephants. These are women who society would rather forget. They are bold and vulgar, they steal diamonds and fur, drink champagne and gin. They give young women ideas above their station - and Eleanor wants in. Because women don't have to marry or serve to get ahead. They can steal.

[Local author]. On a dark night in False Creek, a distraught young woman jumps from the Granville Bridge. PI Dave Wakeland rescues Nicola Havoc from the water. Soon Wakeland and his partner Jeff Chen are pulled into a case that leads from Vancouver's back alleys to the hills of the Fraser Valley. Nicola may hold the key to unlocking a billion-dollar construction scandal and a gun-running ring - if Wakeland can protect her from her own violent family.

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.