Inspector Salvatore Montalbano wakes from strange dreams to find a gruesomely bludgeoned horse carcass in front of his seaside home. When his men came to investigate, the carcass has disappeared, leaving only a trail in the sand. Then his home is...
Homicide Sergeant Matthew Payne is used to murder, but lately there’s been an awful lot of it in Philadelphia. A gangland shooting in a popular tourist location has left six dead, most of them innocent bystanders, and days later the body of a...
A goods train from Plymouth arrives late at the station at Oakhampton — three years late.
It had disappeared from a single line with no connecting branches. It was an impossible mystery at the time and even more so at the later date. Lestrad...
It is 1321 and the King's favourite, Hugh Despenser, is corruptly using his position to steal lands and wealth from other lords. His rapacity has divided the nation and civil war looms.
In Tiverton rape and murder have unsettled the folk...
Scholarly infighting can get a lot more violent than most outsiders realize, but usually that violence is confined to the printed page. Not so in Concord, Mass., where the arrival of Homer Kelly, an expert on the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, has...
A thrilling new novella about a Jekyll and Hyde - obsessed Scot in Paris from the international-bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus mysteries.
For recent college graduate Ronald Hastie, a job at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop...
EVERYTHING IS LEGAL IN AMSTERDAM.
EXCEPT MURDER.
Nadia Tesla will do anything to get the job done. That includes posing as a window girl in De Wallen, Amsterdam’s notorious red-light district, to solve a murder. In this case, Nadia’s...