WINNER OF THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD 2014.
Longlisted for the John Creasey Dagger Award for best debut crime novel of 2014.
London, 1727 – and Tom Hawkins is about to fall from his heaven of card games, brothels, and coffeehouses to the hell...
When a polar bear is sighted in a sleepy Icelandic fishing village, then shot dead by local policeman Constable Halldr, it triggers a debate in the local community. Was Halldr a hero for killing the bear, or should the animal have been protected?
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Wanda Weatherby had made her final pitch half an hour before when she phoned Mike with an urgent plea for help.
He'd been curious about her — who she was and what she wanted from him, and what she meant to the other people who had...
“Paul Halter, a forty-something Frenchman, has donned the mantle of the great John Dickson Carr and has to date produced twenty-nine novels and a collection of short stories, all replete with cunning clues, brain-twisting puzzles, and always...
From Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - May 1998
The tales of Sister Fidelma (such as this one), set in 7th century Iréland, nave, in one respect, a curiously contemporary feel. As Publishers Weekly said in its review or the first Fidelma...
The morning of Agatha Raisin's long-awaited marriage to her attractive and elusive neighbor, James Lacey, dawns bright and clear. But the storm clouds of the day before would have been more appropriate. A new anti-wrinkle cream turns Agatha's...