Phryne Fisher is on holiday. She means to take the train to Sydney (where the harbour bridge is being built), go to a few cricket matches, dine with the Chancellor of the university, and perhaps go to
Part modern gothic, part ghost story, They Drown Our Daughters explores the depths of motherhood, identity, and the lengths a woman will go to hold onto them both.They say Cape Disappointment is haunted. That's why tourists used to flock there in droves to visit the rocky shoreline and the creaky old lighthouse, fishing shells from the icy water as they pretended to spot dark shapes in the surf. But the tourists are gone now, and when Meredith Strand returns to her childhood home on the eve of her divorce, young daughter in tow, the Cape seems more haunted by regret than any malevolent force.But her mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, is convinced the stories are real. Not only is there something in the water, but it's watching them. Waiting for them. Reaching out to Meredith's daughter the way it has to every woman in their line for generations―ready to reclaim what once was stolen.
The second in a new cozy series! The muensters have arrived in Balsam Dell when a body is discovered at the Grilled Cheese EateryThe muensters have arrived in quaint Balsam Dell, Vermont! Grinning jack-o-lanterns glow from front porches and Halloween spirit reigns. After a long hot summer, Carly Hale is delighted that her grilled cheese eatery is thriving and the upcoming food competition―the town's "Scary-Licious Smorgasbord"―is the perfect way to bring some additional traffic to the Eatery, along with a $500 cash prize.But Ferris Menard, the owner of Sub-a-Dub-Sub, is nursing a serious grudge against Carly. Two days before the competition, one of Carly's employees quit his part-time gig at Menard's sub shop, alerting the local health inspector to some unsavory cooking standards and sending Menard into a serious snit. In a confrontation witnessed by Carly's customers, Menard accused Carly of sabotage and vowed to expose her as a fraud.That's when Menard's body is found in his kitchen
Powerful men make a sport of hurting women. But now the game is up.We waited for the deafening thunder of flash grenades, the sickening barrage of gunshots, and the possible outcome that both hostage and hostage taker were dead.There's nothing journalist Geneva Chase hates more than predatory men. So when a local news anchor is arrested for holding his wife hostage to prevent her from releasing incriminating information about him, Geneva is more than ready to dig into the dirty details of the man's life. What she finds is worse than she expects. A long trial of blackmail and deception leads her to the doorstep of Whisper Room, an exclusive escort service―but it's unclear what exactly goes on inside. When young women working for the Whisper Room start turning up dead, however, Geneva digs deeper―and inadvertently puts her own life in danger.
An impossible locked-room mystery by a master of the genreFirst published in 1944, Till Death Do Us Part remains a pacey and deeply satisfying impossible crime story, championed by Carr connoisseurs as one of the very best examples of his mystery writing talents. This edition includes an introduction by CWA Diamond Dagger Award-winning author Martin Edwards.Crime author Dick Markham is in love again; his fiancée, the mysterious newcomer to the village, Lesley Grant. When Grant accidentally shoots the fortune teller through the side of his tent at the local fair―following a very strange reaction to his predictions―Markham is reluctantly brought into a scheme to expose his betrothed as a suspected serial husband-poisoner. That night the enigmatic fortune teller―and chief accuser―is found dead in an impossible locked-room setup, casting suspicion onto Grant and striking doubt into the heart of her lover. Lured by the scent of the impossible case, Dr. Gideon Fell arrives from London to exa
Three dead. And more to come.A triple homicide in a small Pennsylvania town is no small event. And when one of the locals is a writer with a hefty dose of curiosity, the secrets that people have been trying their best to hide never stay hidden for long...Acclaimed author Randall Silvis pushes the boundaries of crime fiction with The Deepest Black, a gripping and twisty novel written in the style of a true crime memoir that blends fact and fiction and leaves the reader guessing every step of the way.
The USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror brings to life fifteen chilling tales of gothic horror and suspensePush past the curtains of the rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience. This is the realm of monsters and shifting shadows, where a single wrong step can plunge you into a terrifying, irreversible fight for your life.
A new collection of classic mystery tales from the British Library, featuring all manner of animals, great and smallFeline friends, canine companions and aviary associates are often the truest reflections of their owners and have played a crucial role in classic crime fiction―be they detectives, or delinquents. Encompassing all creatures great and small―from tales of commonplace critters like bees and earthworms, to distinctly more exotic incidents involving primates, lions, and crocodiles (and the occasional red herring, of course)―sometimes the crime or the explanation goes beyond human comprehension and requires the acute perceptions of our animal counterparts.In this new anthology, series consultant Martin Edwards gathers the lion's share of animal tales from the Golden Age of Crime Fiction, with stories by Josephine Bell, Anthony Wynne, G.K. Chesterton and Arthur Conan Doyle.
