In this thriller, Iranian mullahs have issued a fatwa for an internationally acclaimed writer by offering a four million dollar reward to the person who carries out her death sentence. At the same time the writer - her life in jeopardy - has been...
"An outstanding historical mystery. Well-researched, well-plotted, well-paced and above all well written." – Mike Ripley
Ariana Franklin combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of historical fiction in the enthralling second...
"A good mystery… excellently drawn." – Anne Perry
From the author of The Novice's Tale, a new Sister Frevisse medieval mystery. It's not a very merry Christmas for the sisters of St. Frideswide when they welcome a troupe of actors in from the...
Comely hula dancers go “around the island,” lanky cowboys go around the town, and the police go round and round, when Lester Leith interests himself in the mystifying case of the drugged...
The year is 92 B.C. and the youthful Gordianus has just turned eighteen, and is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: a far-flung journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. Gordianus is not yet called “the Finder”—but at each of...
Someone has hacked into the pope’s personal computer—not to spy on the Vatican or to spread a virus, but to send an urgent plea for help: SAVE OUR LADY OF THE TEARS. The crumbling Baroque church in the heart of Seville is slated for...
A 90-year-old man is found dead in his bed, smothered with his own pillow. On his desk the police find newspaper cuttings about a murder case dating from the Second World War, when a young woman was found strangled behind Reykjavík’s National...