Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out wh...

Where: A quiet fishing village in northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors. It is accessible only via a small mountain tunnel.Who: Ari Thor is a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik. He h...

This audiobook includes a wonderful dedication to the long-time narrator of the series, Lorelei King, read by the author.In a small village in New York Charley Davidson is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or whe...

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.]''I'm here,'' came a familiar voice. I turned . . . and found myself looking at Bette Davis no more than a half a dozen feet in front of me. She strode forward around two couples and stood in fron...

The papers dubbed beautiful Thea Harper Westport a Black Widow. They said she lured Senator Simon Gallatin to her home for a night of deadly passion. But psychiatrists insisted it was a short circuit of the mind, a rare seizure di...

Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his be...

Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell.Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady's maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of ac...

In the latest mystery from the bestselling authors of Looking for Mr. Good Witch, the retired witches of Wilmington, North Carolina, are ready to kick up their heels...  With their coven's spell book still missing, Molly and Elsie—...

Embroidery shop owner Marcy Singer is about to have the rug pulled out from under her.... Marcy can't wait to see the new exhibit at the Tallulah Falls museum on antique tapestries and textiles, including beautiful kilim rugs. But her...

'The threads of Peter Lovesey's new Peter Diamond mystery, Upon a Dark Night, twist up so neatly they make a perfect hangman's noose-another triumph of plotting from this master of the classic puzzle form.'-Marilyn Stasio, The New Yor...

"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." — Kurt Vonnegut Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer eve...

When Archer is hired to get the goods on the Frenchman whos run off with his clients girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affectionsuntil he discovers the mysterious foreigner is connected to a seven-year-old suicide a...

In this latest riveting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal, England's most daring spy, Maggie Hope, travels across the pond to America, where a looming scandal poses a grave threat to the White House and...

Can a stolen violin lead secret agent and spy Maggie Hope to a serial killer terrorizing London? Find out as the acclaimed World War II mystery series from New York Timesbestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal continues. “A war...

Sorting through the estate of a wealthy recluse may sound like a fascinating task, but when the skeletons in the closets turn out to be real, Martha and her quilting pals wish they'd stuck to basting and batting. . .Martha Rose i...

For Newport, Rhode Island's high society, the summer of 1896 brings lawn parties, sailboat races…and murder. Having turned down the proposal of Derrick Andrews, Emma Cross has no imminent plans for matrimony—let alone motherhood. ...

“Crime writing of the very highest order … Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around” ―The Times (U.K.) There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her b...

When the call comes in that Mike Wilson, the unlikable owner of the fancy West Branch Lodge, has gone missing, Sheriff Bo Tully is delighted. He'll have to stay at the lodge and investigate in luxury! But when an avalanche traps him t...

When Deputy Ken Brody's sweetheart goes missing in the mountains outside Timber Creek, Mattie Cobb and her K-9 partner Robo are called to search. But it's mid-October and a dark snow storm is brewing over the high country. And they're...

Treasure hunting is not for the faint of heart. Luckily, Lucy St. Elmo, owner of the Cape Cod antiques shop St. Elmo Fine Antiques, has more than enough heart. What she needs to improve are her tracking skills-or else the wrong man co...

Both long-term fans of the Rumpole of the Bailey series as well as first-time readers will enjoy diving into this one, the long-awaited and oft-alluded to story of Horace Rumpole's first big case as a barrister in the 1950s. The young...

Rose Gold is two colors, one woman, and a big headache.In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell...

In the wake of a series of high-profile murders throughout the TV journalism world, an NYC detective struggles against and then teams up with a beautiful tabloid reporter while investigating two prime suspects. By the Emmy Award-winni...

For Kathryn Ardleigh and her newly Lorded husband Charles, a seaside holiday in Rottingdean is a needed rest. The cozy hamlet is built on a labyrinth of 100-year-old tunnels that once were used by smugglers. But when a coast guard's b...

Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never  good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news  arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena.  The fire that has just burned down a sleazy  SRO hotel has brought Elena t...

A rare chemical has shown up in the blood of several apparent suicides in Hartford, Connecticut. With nothing to tie the deaths together--except that all victims were wife-beaters--the cases are officially closed. But Detective Joe

In New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry, the glorious era when Britain reigned supreme has found its most brilliant modern interpreter. Perry's gripping new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel invites us back to Victorian London, ...

One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic 'message' consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss—as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously i...

A runaway pig is about as explosive a piece of news as there is to be found in Dacus. That's just one reason why Avery left her small Southern surroundings in the first place. But home is where the heart is, and since her high-profile...

Edgar Allan Poe is the undisputed "Father" of the Detective story and his Detective C. Auguste Dupin set the stage for eccentric, logic wielding sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. First collection of Poe's dete...