Classic crime and mystery fiction Books

Was, wenn Valerie noch am Leben ist? Praktisch niemand im Dorf Castillac hegt noch Hoffnung. Immerhin sind sieben Jahre vergangen. Sieben Jahre, seit die beliebte, schelmische Valerie Boutillier spurlos verschwunden ist. Die Bemühungen der Gendarmen...

Joyeuse Saint-Valentin ! Enfin, pas tant que ça... La chambre d'hôtes de Molly Sutton est pleine à craquer pour les fêtes, mais l'ambiance romantique est vite étouffée lorsque quelqu'un est retrouvé mort. En plus de s'inquiéter qu'un de ses clients...

It is the mid-1930s in the English village of Vale Thorn. Sir James Ravenwood, a collector of macabre artefacts and an expert in the occult, is hosting a weekend party at his country house, Warlock's Gate, in order to celebrate the unveiling of his...

In a small Maine town, secrets are hidden beneath the surface along the shore...Summer. 1978.Private investigator Jake Horn is looking forward to a weekend with his daughter, away from the busy streets of Boston. But an early morning jog leads them to a...

The most beautiful places often hide the deadliest secrets.Life in the mountains isn't as peaceful as Detective Jack Martin expected. Just as things settle down after his last case, a congressman's plane is blown out of the sky and comes to rest in the...

When a young woman hiker is reported missing, the Forest Service takes part in the search. But the more Ranger Dan Courtwright learns about the case, the less sense it makes to him. And the more dangerous things get for everyone involved, especially Dan...

Book two in the Fyre & Stone series.Sebastian Fyre and John Stone are reluctantly reunited when they are hired by an aristocrat who believes he is going to be the victim of a murder.Deep in the heart of rural Ireland, where a thin veneer of the...

On the grimy streets of London a vengeful shadow stalks the night. In the light of day, prolific members of society are found brutally butchered in their homes, leaving the police baffled. Are these respected members of society actually worthy of such...

Die Insel La Graciosa, nördlich von Lanzarote, ist ein Kleinod von idyllischer Schönheit und beschaulicher Ruhe. Dass gerade an diesem verträumten Ort verbrecherische Mächte ihr Unwesen treiben sollen, erstaunt selbst den altgedienten Comisario Fernando...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!There's something going on at Drake Chase Gould.The death of intern Lauren Barclay is just the tip of the iceberg. When Lauren's roommate hires Zachary to look into what was, on its surface, a tragic...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!Then he was goneZachary Goldman just wants to put everything that happened to him that night at the hands of a monster behind him forever. But when Heather, his estranged sister, asks for his help in...

If you play with fire ... you get murder.When a series of arsons targets Vermont antiques stores, Detective Adam Dutton and con-woman Beverly Laborde worry a shop owned by their friend might be next. But the stakes take an even deeper and uglier turn...

The discovery of human bones on the idyllic shores of Echo Lake forces Detective Jake Cashen to expose long buried truths.Worthington County's coldest case heats up when ground-breaking on a new luxury subdivision comes with a grisly surprise. In full...

Beloved Humorist. Best-Selling Author. ... Consulting Detective. Now it can be told: Mark Twain’s adventures with Sherlock Holmes, Watson, Mycroft, and Irene Adler. As part of his autobiography, Samuel Clemens dictated seven stories that...

Midnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive’s school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi’s dotty grandmother fears for her life—or so she’s said to Gigi. However...

A snowbound country mansion, a missing butler, and a Christmas case . . . Olive and Jasper have never been closer-except in one area. Jasper is still reticent about his frequent disappearances from polite society. With the holidays approaching and...

When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in her quaint English tearoom, Gemma must solve the mystery with the help of the nosy Old Biddies and a mischievous little tabby cat named Muesli.Armed with her insider knowledge of Oxford University, she...

City girl Poppy desperately wants to pay off her debts, quit her dead-end job, find her father... oh, and keep a plant alive. But she knows that these are just hopeless dreams--until the day a letter arrives. Suddenly, Poppy is on a train heading deep...

A mining town in Britain in 1951. Cassie’s husband Eddie disappears, leaving her to raise their young son. Despite no contact, maintenance payments are made. Cassie returns to work, supported by friends, and tries to build a new life. She is...

Samuel Warden of the Detective Police had been forewarned. A message reached him at home that very morning suggesting he should ‘settle his immediate affairs’ and arrive at the detectives’ headquarters, Great Scotland Yard, just off...

When Mrs Mildred Cobnut of Compton Poppleford Ladies Bicycling Club suffers a fatal accident, hapless Inspector Mappin begins a murder investigation. As luck would have it, world-renowned Swiss detective, Monsieur Pascal Legrand, is staying in the...

The woman's bright blonde hair floats in the breeze. She almost looks like she could be resting on the soft green grass. But her brown eyes stare unblinking up at the sky, and the final cut across her mouth is dark with blood. Her words silenced forever....

She wakes to the dawn light streaming through the window and rolls over to whisper good morning to her fiancé. But panic floods her veins. His side of the bed is empty and cold. Blood trails towards the open door. All trace of him is gone... It's...

Zwischen Beziehungschaos und jahrzehntealten Geheimnissen: die ehemalige Journalistin Tara Thorpe ermittelt wieder! Mit dem Fund der Leiche der zwanzigjährigen Julie Cooper in einem eisenzeitlichen Ringwall in der Nähe von Cambridge beginnt für...

In a world of lies, one truth remains. Dead men tell no tales...When the body of an unidentified man is found at the foot of Sheringham cliffs with injuries inconsistent with a fall, DI Tom Janssen must piece together his final days to determine how he...

What would you do to keep your past a secret?When the mutilated remains of a woman are retrieved by local fishermen, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify how she came to be in the water and what put her there. Joined on the case by his new...

When the bonds of brotherhood are strained, who do you turn to?The celebration of the Viking Festival of Fire ensures that thousands descend annually on the the small coastal town of Sheringham, but when one man dies amidst the grand finale, it...

Family secrets. Disappearing informants. Can this PI prove her worth... or will she get caught in the crossfire?Jorja Knight is desperate for a fresh start. Reinventing herself after a brutal workplace shooting, she's determined to make her life as a...

In the year 2028, the human race made the momentous decision to colonise the moon. In the year 2043, the first murder on the lunar settlement occurred. Dr Adrian Whittaker was found 3km from the safety of the habs, his spacesuit broken and completely...

A NARCOTICS PICK-UP AT SEA GOES HORRIBLY WRONG. A MAN IS LOST OVERBOARD. A DANGEROUS SERIES OF EVENTS SENDS SHOCKWAVES THROUGH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY.On a wintery day a young woman is found dead at a local beach. Sergeant Bill Granger, the local policeman,...

Age-old retributions and blood atonements bring our unlikely hero back to solve one last spiritually-steeped mystery.Michael Bevan is finally content with his used bookstore. When he's offered a valuable first-edition Book of Mormon that bears a strange...

Four years after losing her sister Stella, Grace McElroy has begun to heal. She no longer spends her days overcome with grief and guilt. But the appearance of a woman who looks just like Stella makes her doubt her sanity.Even more terrifying, she learns...

On her nostalgic return to Tuscany, the now-widowed Leah Contarini discovers that the idyllic village where she had lived with her husband has become a quagmire of secrets. Leah is bewildered. Why is a woman screaming at a corpse? Who is the man being...

Having discovered a knack for investigation, Stefanie joins Thomas Burkhardt in Milan, Italy, on the Black Market trail of a fabulous sapphire and emerald encrusted pendant known as the Borgia Peacock, missing since it was stolen from the Milan World...

After a decade dominating the expat scene in Rome, Faye Masters has had enough beautiful art, delicious food, and bureaucratic nonsense to last a lifetime. She's just about decided to pack up and head home when a rival drops dead at one of Faye's famous...

You can run. You can hide. But in the end, the past catches up with you.Lana, a young mother who suffered a traumatic event 11 years ago, has been living under an assumed name. When she visits her hometown to check if it's safe to reclaim her identity,...

When Jill Madison returns to her hometown to become executive director of a new art center, she never would have dreamed unexpected secrets from the past would put her life in danger. When her parents' old friend, and Jill's mentor, Judge Ron Spivey, is...

"I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it."This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes.Langdon is a...

It's the eve of the First World War, and Sherlock Holmes has retired and taken up beekeeping, or has he? This short spy story is the final tale in the masterful detective's chronology and reveals new depths to his sleuthing skill.Now past his prime,...

Follow Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to a university town where they investigate three students to uncover who is attempting to cheat on a valuable examination paper.In this short Sherlock Holmes story, the famous detective is called away from his...

Join Sherlock Holmes as he investigates a quietly curious tenant who only communicates with his landlady through a series of notes in broken English.Mrs. Warren comes to 221B Baker Street to ask for Sherlock Holmes' help after a new tenant moves into her...

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson investigate the curious disappearance of a young woman's fiance in this mysterious case of stolen identity.When Mary Sutherland comes to Sherlock Holmes to request he find her missing fiance, the remarkable detective...

This short story highlights the phenomenal mind of Sherlock Holmes as the detective unravels the complex case of a star rugby player's disappearance. Godfrey Staunton plays in the three-quarters position of the University of Cambridge rugby team. When he...

A thrilling and suspenseful short story featuring the renowned Sherlock Holmes and his remarkable companion, Doctor Watson, as they investigate the curious happenings at Three Gables.When an elderly woman, Mary Maberley, approaches Sherlock Holmes to ask...

Read the short story that shocked Sherlock Holmes fans across the globe and discover how the renowned detective got away with his greatest coup yet: surviving death.It's been three years since Sherlock Holmes had a fatal encounter with Professor Moriarty...

L IS BACK!It's been several years since the L Letters Case shook everyone to their very core. In a single day, some of the city's most powerful and corrupt figures found themselves laid low, losing their freedom, their futures, and, in some cases, their...