A circus owner’s murder produces a roster of bizarre suspects
Summer heat is choking New York, and the Great Merlini — conjurer, sleuth, and godson of P. T. Barnum — offers his friend Ross Harte a chance to get out of town. Before they can...
They call him Reguiba. Moroccan death merchant extraordinaire. With an army of desert jackals who live to kill-and kill to live-he's got the manpower, the hardware and the petrodollars to pull any job… no matter how bloody.
His target:...
An intricate psychological thriller from the master of Norwegian crimewriting – the latest in the Oslo Detective's series
A recovering drug addict, Katrine Bratterud, is almost finished with her time in rehab. One evening, contemplating her...
The Fourteenth Knights Templar Mystery
As the winter of 1323 descends upon a windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor, who could blame young priest, Father Mark, for seeking affection from the local miller’s daughter, Mary? But when...
This is the fifth of Parker’s novels about private-eye Spenser, whom the New York Times Book Review calls “the next best thing to Rex Stout’s Archie Goodwin,” and Parker fans will be glad to know it is definitely not the last.
In this...
In 48 B.C. the Roman generals Caesar and Pompey are engaged in a battle to rule the world. Now, as Pompey plots a reckless stand on the banks of the Nile, Gordianus the Finder—who has brought his dying wife Bethesda to the Nile seeking a cure from...
A ghost cat defies pure evil in
this gritty but tender tale of an
old train robber facing off the
devil. The big, golden tomcat
accompanies Lee when he’s
paroled from federal prison: a cat sometimes seen, sometimes
invisible. Lee is set...
When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes.
Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of...