Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

Liza Johnson, at loose ends on summer break from teaching fifth grade, is drawn into intrigue when her 84-year-old neighbor, Mrs. Wilkens, insists that Ramona, Liza's former GED student, has been murdered. Everyone assumes Ramona, a recovering addict,...

Undertakers know a lot of things... Carrie Lisbon knows how to dress a body, what kinds of flowers to use in funerary tributes, and which embalming preparations are best. What she doesn't know is how to navigate the social strata of Hope Bridge, the...

Philadelphia, June 1780. George Washington's two least likely spies return, masquerading as husband and wife as they search for traitors in Philadelphia.   Months have passed since young widow Becca Parcell and former printer Daniel...

Murder has no place in Liz Hopewell's perfect suburban life. She left her complicated past behind when she moved from Brooklyn to New Jersey, and she's determined to forget the violence that shadowed her early years. As an English teacher, wife, and...

Sheriff Jim Sheppard and Sgt. Dee Jackson find Bailey Braden nearly frozen to death, along with the body of a murdered woman. They have to save Bailey's life, preserve a crime scene, and find a murderer while Florida is shut down by temperatures in the...

Excitement mounts as the moment arrives for brilliant young violinist Julia Kogan's debut in the orchestra of the world-renowned Metropolitan Opera. But the high-stakes milieu of this musical mecca is rocked to its core when, during an onstage murder...

When famed television producer and celebrated Aspen luminary Conrad Harvey dies in Florida, the assignment gets dumped into the lap of sardonic beat reporter Bernard "Mac" McCaffrey. Only Harvey himself isn't the story. It's his bombshell daughter,...

A Girl's Mutilated Body is Found on a Portland, Maine Hiking Trail in A Child Shall Lead Them, a Murder Mystery Thriller by Kate Flora--Portland, Maine--When a jogger discovers the brutalized body of a young girl along a park trail, the ever cranky...

This volume of 2 Detectives brings together two female detectives by the same author. Grant Allen's protagonists, Miss Cayley and Hilda Wade are determined, smart, and resourceful. They join the ranks of the early independent female adventurers who...

How it all began. Carrie was once a loving and carefree young woman until unimaginable tragedy violated her life. Emotionally soft from years of being the center of a loving family made her ill equipped to handle this life altering event.She begins her...

Tom and Eddie are two young brothers, sons of Dan and Ellen Biggs - a high-powered attorney and his socialite wife - who head a dysfunctional family cobbled together by deceit and a thirst for success. Dulcie is their nanny, a young woman hired to take...

Excitement is building as the opening of the Acutis Society's Fairy Tales and Frights haunted house approaches. The members of Saint Clare's gaming group have worked hard to transform the interior of the Myer Mansion into something both magical and scary...

The First Time Ever Published! The 49th Donut Mystery Whisked Warnings When the contractor working next door to Donut Hearts is assaulted and nailed to the wall of ReNEWed, the town is quick to suspect Gabby Williams, and unless and until...

THE THRILLING NEW SLIM HARDY MYSTERY FROM JACK BENTON After nearly a year out of the game, former soldier turned private detective John "Slim" Hardy takes what he hopes will be an easy comeback case in the quiet Devonshire town of...

 A THRILLING BRITISH MYSTERY FROM JACK BENTON FEATURING PRIVATE DETECTIVE JOHN "SLIM" HARDY Attempting to forget his problems with the bottle, former soldier turned private detective John "Slim" Hardy joins what ought to be...

THE SIGN OF FOUR is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The SIGN OF THE FOUR has a complex plot involving service...

Morphium für Tante Zöge "Du solltest es auch mal nehmen!", flüstert Zöge von Wechmar, um ihrem Neffen Max Doberwitz das Morphium schmackhaft zu machen. "Es ist so süß und man träumt hernach so schön."Kurz darauf wird sie tot aufgefunden. Ermordet. Max...

Sexton Blake Meets His Greatest Female Foe!"What a wonderful woman!... What a brain-what thoroughness! Truly, my unknown friend, you give the chase a decided zest!" ~Sexton Blake, Beyond Reach of the LawMademoiselle Yvonne Cartier. Yvonne the Adventuress...

Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist Cait Morgan, and her retired-cop husband Bud Anderson, are in London, England, to meet their friend John Silver's freshly minted fiancée, the daughter of a recently deceased Shakespeare aficionado, and captain of...

In Book 4 of the MURDER IN MARIN Mysteries:News that elderly Henrietta Hammer has died, Sausalito’s retired fifth grade teacher, who once terrified her students including Sheriff's Detective Eddie Austin, newspaper publisher Rob Timmons...

This volume includes two classic G. K. Chesterton novels, and his play, Magic. The Ball and the Cross is a religio-political fantasy, as a Catholic and an atheist try to keep ahead of the law in order to fight a duel. Manalive brings a man on trial,...

This volume includes three classic G. K. Chesterton stories and collections. The Club of Queer Trades unravels a society that honors strange and mysterious occupations. The Man Who Was Thursday is a religio-political fantasy, as a detective infiltrates a...

This volume includes three classic G. K. Chesterton stories: The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a socio-political fantasy involving a lottery-picked king and a joke that becomes reality. The Flying Inn is another political fantasy, with an attempt to create...

DISCOVER THE LATEST EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT CRIME THRILLER FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR D.E. WHITE.Detective Dove Milson is on the final stretch of a long drive back from Cornwall. She's tuning the radio when her fiancé swears next to her. She follows his gaze up...

An unmarked grave, an old promise and a maverick detective...When an archaeological investigation of an old prisoner of war camp turns up several bodies in unmarked graves, it should be an open and shut case for DCI John Blizzard.But, on a foggy November...

What's behind a series of mysterious deaths among the favourite concubines of Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II? Suspecting a plot against himself, the Sultan has called on Sherlock Holmes to investigate. However, as a man, the detective is clearly unable...

Enough time has passed. Dr John Watson can finally reopen his tin box of chronicles. In this astonishing collection, a treasure trove of new accounts of Sherlock Holmes's extraordinary skills finally comes to light.What is the connection between...

Part XXXII featuring contributions from: Hal Glatzer, Arianna Fox, Terry Golledge, David Marcum, Craig Janacek, James Gelter, Mike Hogan, Arthur Hall, Tracy J. Revels, Will Murray, Roger Riccard, Tim Symonds, Wayne Anderson, Alan Dimes, Mike Chinn, Paul...

A trove of Chinese treasure throws up a dilemma for Arnold and his team. Should they keep it? Or sell it off to the highest bidder?Enter Steven Sullivan: a suave young magnate with ties to the Far East.His boss has more than a casual interest in the...

This ancient grave won't stay empty for long.Arnold Landon heads to Rome, ready to begin retraining for his own job.His first port of call? An ancient tomb out in the sun-scorched Roman hills.Arnold treads the dark and twisty path down to the burial...

Nineteen guests with secrets to hide.One exclusive party on a private island.An invitation to die for?Ursula Smart and her mother, Pandora, wangle an invite to crime-fiction powerhouse Anthony Lovell's latest book launch, a weekend-long bash at his...

Something horrific washes up on the banks of the Tyne. The headless torso of a small boy.His identity is a mystery that has the police baffled, and he won't be the only victim to die this way.Other torsos turn up in Finland, the Netherlands - and now the...

There's something deadly in the air at grand old Carton Hall. The sweet scent of revenge?Early one morning, the cleaner makes a shocking find in the tapestry room.A dead body lying among the priceless artworks.His handsome features are a mask of agony,...

Originally published as The Ways of Death.Out on the jagged Northumbrian coast, violent storms uncover an ancient sea cave.The place has been sealed up for millennia. No way in or out. Now Arnold must explore its murky depths. When he does, he stumbles...

Constable Evan Evans leaves behind the big city for the sleepy Welsh village of Llanfair. But murder follows him . . .Evans returns to his childhood home, nestled high in the beautiful Welsh mountains. But he quickly learns that even the most beautiful...

He chases crooks in the nineteenth century. She researches the past in the twenty-first. When both attend festivals that turn sinister, can they solve the crimes?Vancouver, 1898. Detective Jack Winston is sent to police a spectacle that turns into a...

A serial killer in the City of Angels. A headstrong woman just trying to relax. If she can't move Heaven, she'll raise hell. Los Angeles. The only female rancher in four tough generations, Cache Iron was born fighting for a place at the table. So...

Detective George McCraken is on a dangerous mission to solve the murder of Hampton socialite Rosalie Stevens, who has been found slumped over the steering wheel of her BMW with roses in her hand and a bullet in her head. McCraken must outsmart a Russian...

Melanie Deming is a writer with a true crime story about to hit the screen! She should be ecstatic. But she's still a fish out of water in the billionaire world of her daughter's private school. A fellow mom is found murdered at an open house on Park...

When automotive-additive heiress Anita Hereford and her pharmaceutical-heir and cricket-enthusiast husband Steven call on Leo Schwartz to ask him to find their missing son, Stacy, an AI researcher most recently teaching at MIT, Schwartz's assistant, leg...

Rosalie Hart returns to the Chesapeake Bay in this delightful mystery series filled with to-die-for-recipes and small-town charm.  Longer version: Rosalie Hart has finally opened the café of her dreams. Decked out with ochre-tinted walls and...

Getting caught in the middle of an international art theft ring wasn't supposed to be part of the deal Kat Lawson made with her dying father. But when her father receives a mysterious letter informing the former WW2 navigator/bombardier that his downed...

Rosalie Hart's world has been upended. After her husband confesses to an affair, she exiles herself to her late aunt's farmhouse on Maryland's Eastern Shore. With its fields untended and the house itself in disrepair, Barclay Meadow couldn't be more...

Amateur sleuths, Erika Shawn-Wheatley, art magazine editor, and Harrison Wheatley, art history professor, attend a Zoom meeting of individuals from around the globe whose common goal is to expedite the return of African art looted during the colonial era...