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Aidan Marlowe just won the lottery. Is today the best day of his life... or the worst?Aidan Marlowe is the superstitious type―he's been playing the same lottery numbers for fifteen years, never hitting the jackpot. Until now. On the day of his wife's funeral.Aidan struggles to cope with these two sudden extremes: instant wealth and the emptiness of his life without the mother of his children. But the money gives him options, and he and his young twins leave everything behind for a new life.Even so, it's not long before Aidan realizes he's merely trading old demons for new ones. Because someone is watching him and his family very closely. Someone who knows exactly who they are, where they've come from, and what they're trying to hide. Someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want...

Harlem detective Perry Dart tackles nosy neighbors, supernatural rites, and murder.When the body of N'Gana Frimbo, the African conjure-man, is discovered in his consultation room, Perry Dart, one of Harlem's ten Black police detectives, is called in to investigate. Together with Dr Archer, a physician from across the street, Dart is determined to solve the baffling mystery, helped and hindered by Bubber Brown and Jinx Jenkins, local boys keen to clear themselves of suspicion of murder and undertake their own investigations.This groundbreaking mystery is the first ever to feature a Black detective and all Black characters, written by Black author Rudolph Fisher, who was a principal writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

Darcy Coates, the Queen of Horror, will haunt your dreams with this collection of fifty short, chilling storiesSomething mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods.One of the morgue's corpses is missing.Your friend wants to meet late at night, but they're not acting like themselves.Push 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. Immerse yourself in the macabre, the gothic, and the chilling with this collection of fifty short stories from USA Today bestselling horror writer Darcy Coates.

Frankenstein wasn't the only classic horror novel created by a woman...England, 2126.Edmund Montague is a national hero in the army, while his younger brother, Edric, is lazy but very intelligent. Edric yearns for notoriety of his own, albeit academic. So he hatches a plan with a German scientist – his tutor – Dr. Entwerfen, to resurrect a mummy. Is Edric a more rational Victor Frankenstein?Originally published in 1827, within a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, seventeen-year-old Jane Webb created Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century. A futuristic story of reanimation, robots, and the concept of a living, functional mummy with the wisdom of the ages eager to share his insights with humanity. This pioneering tale offers an engaging mix of comedy, politics, and science fiction.

A previously unpublished gem from one of the finest voices in British Golden Age crime fiction.Last year, Rosemary Reeve disappeared on the eve of the Hollydown Hunt Ball at Fordings. This year, bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball where the charming Dilys Maine and a party buzzing with rumours about Rosemary Reeve's disappearance awaits them. With thoughts of the mysterious case ringing in their ears, Dilys and Nicholas hit a body lying on the road on the drive home, launching a new investigation and unwittingly reviving the search for what really became of Rosemary Reeve.Written in the last years of the author's life, this previously unpublished novel is a tribute to Lorac's enduring skill for constructing an ingenious puzzle, replete with memorable characters and gripping detective work.

LA Confidential meets Harry Bosch in this cinematic, gritty police procedural. Hollywood's glittering past casts dark shadows, and some people will kill to keep their secrets out of the light.Shot dead and stripped of his valuables, the senior curator at the Huntington Library appears to be the victim of a mugging gone wrong―a case doomed to rot in an evidence locker. But scholar-turned- LAPD Detective Tully Jarsdel suspects something more sinister is afoot. An investigation that starts with disgruntled grad students and antique dealers soon reveals a history of theft and fraud, all leading to Hollywood's abandoned playground: Catalina Island.In his most dangerous investigation yet, can Jarsdel uncover LA's lost history before the conspiracy silences him forever?

How far would you go to hide a priceless secret?When Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis's longtime assistant, Maggie, returns to her ancestral home on Ikaria for her 104-year-old grandmother's funeral, she quickly realizes not only was Yiayia likely murdered, but that a series of other long-lived Ikariots had recently died under the same suspicious circumstances. Back in Athens, Andreas and his chief detective Yianni pursue a smuggling and protection ring embedded in the Greek DEA, and its possible involvement in the assassination of an undercover cop.These two cases don't appear to be related...but then Maggie and Yianni uncover a connection between their respective leads in the elder-killings on Ikaria and the DEA corruption case, and they realize that there are international intrigues far more dangerous at play than anyone had imagined.

How far would you go to hide a priceless secret?When Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis's longtime assistant, Maggie, returns to her ancestral home on Ikaria for her 104-year-old grandmother's funeral, she quickly realizes not only was Yiayia likely murdered, but that a series of other long-lived Ikariots had recently died under the same suspicious circumstances. Back in Athens, Andreas and his chief detective Yianni pursue a smuggling and protection ring embedded in the Greek DEA, and its possible involvement in the assassination of an undercover cop.These two cases don't appear to be related to each other...but then Maggie and Yianni uncover a connection between their respective leads in the elder-killings on Ikaria and the DEA corruption case, and they realize that there are international intrigues far more dangerous at play than anyone had imagined.

The perfect cozy Christmas murder mystery Imagine being stuck indoors with your family, waiting for something to happen... and then disaster strikes.Christmas 1938. The Westbury family and assorted friends have gathered together for another legendary Christmas at their Sussex mansion. As family tensions simmer on Christmas Eve, the champagne flows, the silver sparkles and upstairs the bedrooms are made up ready for their occupants. But one bed will lie empty that night...Come Christmas morning, guest David Campbell-Scott is found lying dead in the snow, with only a hunting rifle lying beside him and one set of footprints leading to the body. But something doesn't seem right to amateur sleuth Hugh Gaveston. Campbell-Scott had just returned from the East with untold wealth--why would he kill himself? Hugh sets out to investigate... and what he finds is more shocking than he ever could have expected.

Antonia’s new gig gives her killer access to some of the area’s most glamorous homes―and plenty of murder on the side!East Hampton innkeeper and chef Antonia Bingham has settled in to town and taken o

USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror, in print for the first time! He might be dead, but he's not gone...Elle is thrilled to spend a month minding the beautiful Gillespie proper

A sci-fi horror novel from a USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror, in print for the first time!When a guard discovers an unusual lifeform on her remote moon outpost, she disrega

The glamor and grit of the 1950s comes to life in Helen Harrison’s scandalous retelling of a murder that rocked the art worldOn the night of August 11, 1956, Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tre

USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror, in print for the first time! There's something in the lake...Sam is excited to spend a week at her uncle's remote lakeside cabin. It's a ch

It is Autumn, 1282. Edward I, more often hammering the Scots, is at war with Wales and it is not going as well as he wished. Everyone is edgy on both sides of the loosely defined border between Englan

The first book in a new mystery seriesWhen the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam turns up dead in his Greenwich Village studio, the investigation takes Detective Juanita Diaz and her new NYPD counterpart Bria

Murder is par for the course in this mystery anthology written by award-winning crime writer, Martin EdwardsDrawing upon Martin Edwards' expert knowledge of golden age crime and mystery short fiction,

Gourmet chef and innkeeper Antonia Bingham will have to add ‘detective’ to her career mix in this first installment of a new series!The scenic stretch of Long Island's East End is renowned for beautif

It starts as stock fraud and moves to murder… but where will it end?Another exciting entry in the Library of Congress Crime Classics series, The Rat Began to Gnaw the Rope follows Gil Henry, a Kentuck

Rediscover the classic and come face-to-face with a creature “born of neither god nor man”First published in 1897, Richard Marsh's classic work of gothic horror, The Beetle, opens with Robert Holt, an

In the celebrated author's first mystery novel, Inspector Bencolin must unravel a dumbfounding locked-room mystery and apprehend a sadistic killer.In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Benc

First in a new series! In a city where everyone lies and nothing is what it seems, an LA detective must solve a ritualistic murder…or risk losing himself.A body so badly burned that it could be mistak

This British Library anthology examines the best mysteries driven by science, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, J.J. Connington, and R. Austin FreemanThe detective's role is simple: to catch th

A writer involved in an obsessive affair with a married man is caught in a deadly game of secrets and lies in this twisty psychological thrillerAs bestselling novelist Amelie Ferrar knows, an affair w

Large print edition! He’s ready for a little danger on the Maroubra Speedway. But he wasn’t prepared for all of the murders...When Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling

He’s ready for a little danger on the Maroubra Speedway. But he wasn’t prepared for all of the murders...When Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, is invited

It is Autumn, 1282. Edward I, more often hammering the Scots, is at war with Wales and it is not going as well as he wished. Everyone is edgy on both sides of the loosely defined border between Englan

Rick Montoya, eager to experience more of his Italian mother's culture, heads to Rome to start his own translation business. He's armed with curiosity and an appetite for local food and wine.Rick's ma

"A perfect setting and first-rate storytelling." —Ragnar Jónasson, bestselling author of The Dark Iceland seriesThe Mykonos Mob reveals the wildly lucrative dark side of an internationally renowned Gr

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS'"A man who played about on the fringes of the Black Market, who had fought for Sinn Fein, who lived by his wits - and who finally became dangerous to somebody an

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS'One of our most ingenious and stylish home-grown crime novelists' – Spectator'A book to delight every puzzle-suspense enthusiast' – New York TimesJohn Wilkins me

"Driven by the heart-pounding suspense of a high-stakes poker game, Bluff is a vivid, compelling novel about deceit, seduction, and delicious revenge that will keep you spellbound and cheering as you

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS'Cleverly told ... brilliant character work and plotting up to the usual Symons standard.' – ObserverLady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in

To the accompaniment of heavenly choirs singing, the fearless Miss Phryne Fisher returns in her 20th adventure with musical score in hand.An orchestral conductor has been found dead and Detective Insp

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS'No one had tackled Doyce. He had been alone when he fell. He had simply folded up like a jack-knife and slipped to the ground. What had happened?'The 1939 Arsena

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARTIN EDWARDS AND PREFACE BY RACHEL REEVES MP'Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot.'A financier is found shot in the Hou

Polish off your magnifying glass and step into the shoes of your favourite detectives as you unlock tantalising clues and solve intricate puzzles. There are over 100 criminally teasing challenges to b

A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the

A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the

A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the