It is the year 'Rumi', year 1302 or 1886 by the Christian calendar. The setting is Istanbul where the naked body of a white woman had been found floating in the Bosphorus. Around her neck is a pendant that contains the tughra, the Sultan's seal - a...
Thirteen beautifully wrought tales of crime, passion, and people on the brink of disaster
Marybeth met Jamie at the Horn & Whistle, a neighborhood pub warm enough to keep out the chill on a bleak January day. Over a pint of stout, he won her...
A collection of short stories from USA Today Bestselling author Leslie Langtry...
What do the Minotaur, Rasputin, the first man hung for murder in America, and the Countess of Blood all have in common? No, they aren't related. They all appeared on...
The Party Line, a Myrtle Crumb Mystery prequel, shows readers where Myrtle's sleuthing all began--with her telephone's party line! Ada, Tansie Miller's daughter, has moved back home. Word on the party line is that her husband has shown an interest...
Like many major cities, Denver is beset by gang violence. A cop shouldn't let it get to him, shouldn't take it personally. But when Gabe Wager's cousin Julio is found shot in an alley, murdered after denying to Gabe that he was involved in anything,...
"Backstory" is a book-length companion piece to the critically-acclaimed and commercially successful series of crime fiction novels set in Portsmouth and featuring D/I Joe Faraday and D/C Paul Winter. I wrote it in response to literally hundreds of...
Liss MacCrimmon's Scottish Emporium is thrilled to be organizing Moosetookalok, Maine's, Halloween fundraiser. But the abandoned Chadwick mansion might be too perfect a setting for a creepy old haunted house, especially when a very real-looking body...
When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet in the chest, Detective Laafrit knows this isn't just another illegal immigrant who didn't make it to the Spanish coast. The traffickers. The drug dealers. The smugglers. They...
Uber-geek Tucker and his beautiful wife, Carol, developed controversial security software together until the day he was fired and she was murdered. Now, six months later, another software engineer is dead, bringing new clues to light in Carol's cold...