Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

The beads of salt water caught on her cracked lips glitter in the moonlight, her long brown hair floating in the tide. But this beautiful girl is lost forever. And Casey's biggest fears are realised. Someone is copying the worst of her previous cases:...

Detective Joe Burgess Races Against Time in Those Who Choose Evil, a Joe Burgess Murder Mystery Thriller from Kate Flora-Portland, Maine-Detective Joe Burgess ends many nights with a quiet ritual-a visit to the park where the ocean breeze blends with...

Macleod on the hunt for the Forseti group. A mole passing information to a group of killers. Can Macleod manage two evils or will pandemonium reign in this bloodiest of feuds?DCI Seoras Macleod, tasked with finding the elusive Forseti group, sets his...

A slaughter of innocents. A crazed public demands vengeance from any source. Can Macleod hold his poise amidst a cry for blood before justice?When a heinous crime against children provokes a national outcry, Detective Inspector Macleod and his team are...

Alma Lee isn't expecting much at the party she has been invited to. The host is one Baron Edmund Inglethorpe, a rather conventional Victorian aristocrat. Things get more exciting when a gruesome murder unfolds and Alma is forced into a central role in...

How do you find a missing girl who doesn't exist?Born to the secretive, prepper enclave on the other side of Red Sky Hill, Adah Lee has no birth certificate, no social security number, no school records. To the outside world, she simply doesn't exist. So...

"I'll slit his throat - without the slightest compunction or hesitation."Martin Scudamore was in the cinema when he overheard this threat, as part of a conversation about four rings, and what would happen if "Mr Lovelace" got in their way. Determined to...

"I never knew, till then, the possibilities inherent in spaghetti when controlled by an ingenious spirit."Anthony BathurstWith austerity holding the country in a vice-like grip, chemist Donald Finney is happy with any offer of work. Even though the...

"Good things of the day begin to droop and drowse,while night's black agents to their preys do rouse"Macbeth, William ShakespeareBarbara Marsden cut a memorable figure in her bright yellow dress at the New Year Social and Dance in Wavering, but nobody...

"Double, double toil and trouble. Fire burn and cauldron bubble."Macbeth, William ShakespeareSir Hugo Blanchflower's died peacefully in his bed in his castle in Quinster, but his last words to his wife filled her with terror. The next nine years,...

'Tis all a chequerboard of nights and days, where Destiny with men for pieces plays; Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, and one by one back in the closet lays.Omar KhayyamAnthony Bathurst was enjoying a quiet lunch when he is approached...

The City of Angels has a dark side. Hidden beneath its shiny surface are misdeeds, miscreants, and murderers. From Santa Monica's sandy beaches to Hollywood's glitzy streets, from Boyle Heights to Holmby Hills to the dirt trails of the San Gabriel...

Private eye Garrison Chase can't catch a break. After serving time in jail, he returns home with Carrie Page to reconnect with his loved ones. When Carrie suddenly disappears on a top-secret mission, Chase's world is turned upside down once again...

No way in. No way out. Who killed the party host? Follow the clues with Gwen in this present-day homage to locked room mysteries of the Golden Era in Milford Bed & Breakfast, book four in the Gwendolyn Strong Small Town Cozy Mystery SeriesGwendolyn...

John Hall was born in Leeds and worked for twenty-five years as an analytical chemist before embarking on a career as a writer. His stimulating Sherlock Holmes novels are written with a wonderful knowledge of his subject and are highly popular with...

London, February 1896. A bright crisp day is the first hint of the spring to come, a welcome intrusion into the winter gloom of the great industrial city. But as Watson welcomes the sun and tries to cheer up a restless Holmes, there is an urgent knocking...

With the Archbishop's blessing, Helen and I are spending Lent building a relationship built on love--but without physical intimacy. And yes, it's as hard as it sounds. But this penitential season, I have other work to do. I need to rebuild my...

Carly Ruth Laden marries Dorian Shiffer, the man of her dreams. A man any woman would say yes to. A man, Carly believed was her Knight in Shining Armor. A man she trusted. After discovering Dorian's secret, Carly vanishes without a trace. No one knows...

Reviewers said: "Five stars! Delightfully entertaining, rich characters, suspenseful, charming all in one; anxiously awaiting the next one!" "a fascinating tale set in England in the 1930s. This 'cosy crime' novel, with its measure of burgeoning romance,...

Who Murdered Mom?Toxic Mom Instigates Her DeathWhen an elderly Matriarch collapses at a local diner, nearby Samaritans rush to save her life. Then the mother's family from hell punishes the newlywed's good deed with a wrongful death lawsuit. Minerva...

Julia Blake runs her own cleaning business. She also has the unfortunate knack of discovering the bodies of people who have been murdered. In this story, Julia visits one of her clients, a genealogist called Hugo Barnes. Hugo has uncovered a family...

Reviewers said: "Five stars! Delightfully entertaining, rich characters, suspenseful, charming all in one; anxiously awaiting the next one!" "a fascinating tale set in England in the 1930s. This 'cosy crime' novel, with its measure of burgeoning romance,...

Who Murdered My Sister?Missing Sweethearts Found in LakeWhen her sister disappears on graduation night, a small-town café owner gives up hope after twenty years. Then picnickers at Carriage Lake find two bodies inside an abandoned car...

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Detective Constable Murray is the newest recruit at Scotland Yard and is keen to prove himself to his Chief Inspector and fast-track his promotion.When Murray is handed the peculiar case of an elderly recluse living deep in England’s countryside,...

A fire destroys a church rectory in Brooklyn in 1915 and a valuable painting is lost, a Raphael, but was it arson to disguise the theft of the painting? A pacifist running for Congress in Brooklyn receives a death threat, but when he ignores it, his...

A distinctly unfortunate inventor discovers that he doesn't exist. Finding himself in this nightmare situation he consults Sherlock Holmes and presents the sage of Baker Street with one of his most baffling challenges.Is it a simple case of amnesia or...

When Sherlock Holmes recovered a compromising photograph and saved the reputation of the King of Bohemia he thought the case was closed. However, the attractive villainess, Irene Adler - now a respectable married woman - summoned Holmes a year after her...

Ten years on from Holmes and Watson's sleuthing days, something is amiss at the prestigious and exclusive Abbey School.Young Lord Whitechurch is accused of stealing money from the headmaster's office. But as one of the wealthiest pupils, the question...

Introducing Jolie Tucker, an introverted yet passionate restaurant co-owner of Cast Iron Creations, who, at her best friend Ava’s request, steps out of her comfort zone. This leads her into the shade of a killer in the small, cozy village of...

Ted Palmquist's mother finds him in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor and calls an ambulance. Violently ill after a night with his high school friends, Ted's incoherent rants in the ER mention Tammi, who's been missing for six months. As the Pine...

The Great War never relinquished its hold on Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, leaving him haunted and isolated, unable to forget. In the spring of 1920, he's dispatched to Berkshire to find a missing man whose war work is so secret even Rutledge...

America's bloody Civil War is over, leaving a legacy of bitterness, repercussions, intrigues, and many forms of villainy, not all acted out on the American continent. When the last ship of the old Confederacy docks in Liverpool, England, in 1865, the...

A single act of violence changes Charlie Aldaine's life forever, plunging him into a shadowy world of crime and despair. Widowed by a serial killer and desperate for answers, Charlie sets out on a quest to uncover the murderer's identity and bring them...

Devil’s Swamp holds three hundred years of deadly secrets and the blood of murder victims beneath its murky waters according to legends. What’s the connection to psychic LaShaun Rousselle’s latest case?Two leaders of the Third Eye...