Bad tidings come to Scotland Yard's Richard Jury and sidekick Melrose Plant when clues from two corpses lead them to a remote country inn-where holiday cheer turns to holiday fear.

A teenage girl wakes up alone in a bed and breakfast in Santa Fe with no memory of who she is or how she got there. The innkeeper explains that the man who brought her there said he was her father. But the one thing she knows for sure...

"A thoughtful twist on the recovery memoir" (O, The OprahMagazine) that explains the different ways bestselling author Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, recognized and overcame their addictions, now with two new chapter...

Inspector Richard Jury and his friend, Melrose Plant, investigate the murders of two women in the Lincolnshire fens, with one of the victims being the ex-wife of the Fengate estate's owner, and the other the estate's kitchen maid. Rep...

In this addition to the long-running Richard Jury series, the New Scotland Yard detective follows a tangled trail of missing, sexually abused, and murdered children. The death of a five-year-old girl is linked to a pedophile ring cont...

Scotland Yard Inspector Richard Jury and his trusty partner Melrose Plant arrive in a tiny English seaside village to investigate the murder of a costumed woman who is linked to one of the most wealth and influential families in town....

Superintendent Richard Jury has been wrong before. But when stating that 'nothing ever happens in Stratford,' he never imagined just how wrong he could be. Besides the stage murders committed nightly at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, ...

When a series of 'accidents' befalls both animals and humans in the village of Ashdown Dean, Superintendent Richard Jury, his aristocratic assistant, Melrose Plant, the local police, and a fifteen-year-old animal lover join the search...

The garroting death of a young woman near Berkeley Square may be connected to the year-old murder of another woman, a connection that leads Superintendent Richard Jury to look for a sinister stranger who might be planning another kill...

There is "suspense on every page"(Cleveland Plain Dealer) in this follow-up to Biting the Moon— now available in paperback. In Martha Grimes's acclaimed novel Biting the Moon, amnesiac drifter Andi Oliver sought the one ma...

Classic Richard Jury from the New York Times bestselling series. Near Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered. Now Richard Jury must join forces with a hot-tempered constab...

Superintendent Richard Jury's investigation into the seemingly unrelated crimes of a London mugging and murder in the town of Littlebourne takes him to the local pub, the Anodyne Necklace, which is inhabited by a variety of colorful v...

Coming in January—Richard Jury returns to the back streets and back rooms of London in The New York Times bestselling series When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not...

Based on author Martha Grimes’s own childhood memories, BELLE RUIN is the third in a series starring 12-year-old Emma Graham, waitress at her mother’s rundown hotel and part-time investigative reporter/amateur sleuth. This...

Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series-now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Mel...

Martha Grimes's Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as 'superb...beyond genre...one of the year's best.' Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young g...

'The dog came back.' 'This is a joke, right?' 'No, it isn't. . . . So do you want to hear the rest of it?' Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinki...

"Intricate and entertaining . . . A delicious puzzle." The Boston GlobebrThe murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and ...

With their signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, Martha Grimes's New York Times bestselling Richard Jury mysteries are "utterly unlike anyone else's detective novels" (Washington Post). In the lates...

"Once again, Grimes hooks her readers with the engaging Jury and friends and with skillful tucking of hints into unexpected corners."br--Publishers Weekly (starred review)brWhen three women die of "natural causes" ...

Richard Jury returns in the 5-week New York Times bestseller A strange and unsolved case of abduction is reopened by Melrose Plant, reexamined by Richard Jury-and revisited by a killer...

"ONLY THE MAGNIFICENT MARTHA GRIMES COULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS BOOK. . . . BRILLIANTLY RENDERED AND SUPERBLY TEXTURED."br--Andrew VachssA neglected lake, covered with water lilies. A once fashionable, now faded resort. A dereli...

"The author keeps us enthralled with the rich interior and exterior lives of her characters in this emotionally stormy family saga."brTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWbrWhen Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn in...

The inimitable Richard Jury returns in the latest in the bestselling mystery series: "Martha Grimes has written a whodunit with terrific characters and a grand plot mixed with her unique droll wit. Vertigo 42 is one smart mystery...

For waitress and cub reporter Emma Graham, tragedy defines where she lives. Spirit Lake, La Porte, and Lake Noir have been held in thrall by intertwined crimes: the murders of Mary-Evelyn Devereau, Rose Queen, and Fern Queen; the sup...

Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury recruits a reluctant Melrose Plant to solve a case of mistaken identity revolving around London's last bomb site-where once stood a pub called the Blue Last.

Unabridged CDs, 8 CDs, 10 hoursThe inimitable Richard Jury returns in a thrilling tale of mystery, madness, and mistaken identity.

In a sleepy resort town, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her confidant is Sheriff Sam DeGheyn and what they have in common is obsession. Maude doesn't want her son to leave home, and Sam cannot let go of the unsolved m...

Martha Grimes deserts her usual English crime milieu and her perennial hero Richard Jury, and sets this novel in New York's East Village. When crime writer Paul Giverny becomes a hot property, he uses the opportunity to engineer some ...

The author of the Richard Jury mysteries presents two novellas, including Hotel Paradise, an exploration of the emotional isolation and identity quest of adolescence, and The Train Now Departing, in which the female protagonist is emb...