The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of the New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's writ...

Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle--everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh ...

A collection of mystery stories featuring the Tuesday Night Club illustrates the sleuthing talents of elderly spinster Miss Jane Marple, who solves the most intricate of crimes with the same methodical approach she applies to her knit...

Who could resist being hired for a simple break-in? Not Bernie. But then the item he's to collect is missing and a dead body isn't. Bernie must figure out, with the help of a lovely neighbor, who set him up.

Normally, a mere outbreak of petty thefts in a youth hostel wouldn't be enough to interest the great detective Hercule Poirot. However, the warden of the hostel is sister to Poirot's secretary Miss Lemon, and concern for her sister is...

Lord Peter Wimsey Clears the Family Name in this Classic Mystery! In Clouds of Witness, murder strikes close to home. Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey family retreat, and that Lor...

In addition to the title story, in which a nightmare may hold a terrifying premonition, this collection includes The Haunted Policeman, which features a house numbered thirteen on a street of even numbers; and Talboys, in which one of...

Hired to locate the complete text of Truman Capote's Answered Prayers, Archy McNally encounters a series of dead ends involving a pair of scorned lovers and a shady antiques dealer before finding the manuscript's owner murdered in a s...

Three single girls share a London flat. The first works as a secretary; the second is an artist; the third, who comes to Poirot for help, disappears believing she is a murderer. There are rumors of revolvers, flick-knives, and blood s...

A year after the beautiful Rosemary Barton's death, six of her closest friends and family members reunite to commemorate her passing. While all six of them loved Rosemary dearly, there was one whose relationship with her was unlike al...

"Bob Lee Swagger is a true American literary icon."--Mark Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Mission CriticalIn this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his...

Qwill's on top of the world when he rents a house on Big Potato Mountain. The owner, J.J. Hawkinfield, brought real estate development to the once-peaceful Potatoes. But Hawkinfield paid a steep price for his enterprise: He was pushed...

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things - dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a sparkling lobel...

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies ...

Three of Christie's top detectivesâ€"Hercule Poirot, Mr. Parker Pyne, and Harley Quinâ€"star in these entertaining short mysteries. Two do not involve detectives, but focus on the deceptions of men and women in relatio...

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz.When Ex-Detective Inspector ...

The Berlin Wall is toppled and the Iron Curtain has swept aside. The Secret Pilgrim is Ned, a decent, loyal soldier of the Cold War, who has been in British Intelligence all his adult life. Now, approaching the end of his career, he i...

When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare 19th-Dynasty mummy case, panic ensues. No one doubts that the guard s untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that t...

Reggie's new office space on Baker Street comes with the odd stipulation: to receive and respond to letters sent to Sherlock Holmes, who famously occupied the same address. When Reggie's brother Nigel becomes intrigued by one of the D...

When true–crime author Carolyn Rathbone arrives in Eastport to research a new book on the infamous Dodd murders, she's about as welcome as a spoiled clam. But no one would kill for civic pride—or would they? Jake Triptree gets inv...

Driving deep into the woods to her husband's cottage with her best friend in tow, Jake knows she has a challenging week ahead of her. Aside from saying goodbye to paved roads and indoor plumbing, Jake bet her husband that she could fi...

Sir Stafford Nye's journey home from Malaysia to London takes an unexpected twist in the passenger lounge at Frankfurt: a young woman confides in him that someone is trying to kill her. Their paths cross again and again, and each time...

Once it was a swamp. Now Foggy Bottom is swimming with real-estate sharks. When a man is found stabbed to death in this trendy D.C. neighborhood, it is major news. But within forty-eight hours the nation is gripped by a fear that leav...

Working with the British Secret Service on an undercover mission, Maisie Dobbs is sent to Hitler's Germany in this thrilling tale of danger and intrigue—the twelfth novel in Jacqueline Winspear's New York Times bestselling "ser...

Boston PI Spenser takes on a new case in this installment in Robert B. Parker's iconic New York Timesbestselling series. Carolina Garcia-Ramirez is a rising star in national politics, taking on the establishment with her progressiv...

The aromas of wild thyme and Highland heather waft through Lochdubh, home to M. C. Beaton's eccentric policeman, Hamish Macbeth. Yet what the irascible constable smells in his latest case is the acrid scent of fear as an entire town i...

Sergeant Hamish Macbeth--Scotland's most quick-witted but unambitious policeman--returns in M.C. Beaton's new mystery in her New York Times bestselling series.DEATH OF AN HONEST MANNobody loves an honest man, or that was what police s...

She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon . . . and keeps him on his toes. Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes-but they don't know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries...

[Read by Hugh Fraser]Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some r...

[Read by Hugh Fraser]The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings come full circle when they return to Styles, the rambling country house where they solved their first murder together.