On a dark and foggy night, charming amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell, her husband Ben, and her plucky sidekick Mrs. Malloy find themselves stranded at a grand estate on the Yorkshire moors. Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his...
First published in EQMM (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine) JAN 2009.
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Simon Brett’s latest novel in a series set in the fictional retirement community of Fethering, on England’s southeast coast, is Blood at the Bookies ...
Computer game company founders Grace MacBride and Annie Belinsky—along with Wisconsin deputy Sharon Mueller—are en route to Green Bay, following reports of a serial killer, when their car breaks down deep in the northern woods. A short walk...
Inspector Alleyn had so many suspects for the murder of the Home Secretary, that, for once, he was at a loss. Except for one detail — one grisly little detail — that only the likes of Roderick Alleyn would ever...
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The 20th Kinsey Millhone crime novel (after 2005's S Is for Silence), a gripping, if depressing, tale of identify theft and elder abuse, displays bestseller Grafton's storytelling gifts. By default,...
The Shadow follows a bloody trail of extortion and murder that leads from the back alleys of Paris to the country homes of New England to confront "The Blackmail...
A fortune for world conquest
It began when a man walked into a bar and ordered a beer that he was never to drink — for moments later he saw two other men enter, and he panicked and ran headlong out the door, across the street… and under the...
With The Private Sector (1971) Joseph Hone introduced readers to British intelligence officer Peter Marlow, who would be the protagonist of three further novels — all now reissued in Faber Finds.
Cairo, May 1967: Marlow is sent from London to...