The Sunday Times number one bestselling author delivers a shocking thriller that proves that a well-placed lie can help build a comfortable life - and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it.
Contains thirteen mystery stories, written between 1841 and 1920, and includes "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," by Edgar Allan Poe, "Three Detective Anecdotes," by Charles Dickens, and "The Leopard Man's Story," by Jack London.
Colorful characters with murderous motives populate this illustrated mystery in which the heated rivalry between a pair of cartoonists ends in homicide and a stripper-turned-detective and her stepson-partner seek the killer. "Great fun." — Mystery Scene.
Disaster, Melanie Barrick was once told, is always closer than you know.
It was a lesson she learned the hard way growing up in the constant upheaval of foster care. Amy's boss wants to make an example out of Melanie, who the local media quickly christens 'Coke Mom'.
What really happened to Sarah Cook? A beautiful blonde teenager, Sarah Cook disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and sits on death row, though he always maintained his innocence.
Winner of the Shamus Award for Best PI Hardcover novel 2019
Shaken by the outcome of her last big case, PI Roxane Weary is keeping a low profile. Certain - and scared - that things aren't so straightforward, Roxane starts to follow a paper trail that gets more dangerous the farther it goes.
When an elderly recluse discovers a corpse on his land, Officer Henry Farrell follows the investigation to strange places in the countryside, and into the depths of his own frayed soul. In Wild Thyme, Pennsylvania, secrets and feuds go back generations.
The dramatic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Vicki Pettersson's critically acclaimed Celestial Blues series-an inventive blend of paranormal romance, noir mystery, and urban fantasy-involving a fallen angel and a flesh-and-blood rockabilly reporter. After learning his wife survived the ...
Originally published in Household World in 1855 as 'The Ostler', but recast and expanded two decades later, The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre and the author of some of the most enduringly popular novels of the Victorian era.
Peony Red tells a story of how the flames of political conflict are fanned and kept alive behind the scenes because Serbs and Kosovars profit from that conflict.
A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush. But Stalin refuses to believe that the indomitable Pekkala is dead.
Darkly comic, fast-paced and full of twists Viva la Madness is packed with sex, scams, drugs and enough dirty money to fill a few offshore bank accounts.
Poe and Dupin return for another addictive historical mystery
'Deliciously morbid...full of shuddersome gothic effects' Ripperologist magazine
Philadelphia, early 1844. As violent tensions escalate between 'nativists' and recent Irish immigrants, Edgar Allan Poe's fears for the safety of his wife Virginia ...
