ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S HOW-TO-DO-IT BOOK Including: • How to solve your marital problems —(poison) • How to dress properly when admitting to first degree murder —(black tie) • How to take off a few...
In this latest installment, prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran — along with his lovable Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum — solve a mystery that arises when a local banker dies under suspicious circumstances, leaving behind a flashy young widow, an...
The fourth book in the successful Stephen Ramsay mystery series. Self-confident, ruthless, overbearing actress Gabriella Paston has many enemies-at least one with a mind to murder. As rehearsals begin for the local show in which she was to star,...
How does a smart cop outguess a smart criminal? Take the case of Sergeant Argen and the young girl, so sweet, so blameless, so undefended... who had been left for...
“Eccentric characters, complex but gripping plots and a nice wit… Vargas weaves her story expertly.” – Toronto Sun
“Bizarre and fascinating.” – Edmonton Journal
“Vargas has a wonderfully offbeat imagination that makes each of her...
After a successful delivery, a baby falls mysteriously ill. But midwife Sarah Brandt soon discovers the source of the baby's sickness-and a scandal that's paved with greed and...
Ross Macdonald (1915–1983) was, according to The New York Times, the author of "the finest detective novels ever written by an American." His detective, Lew Archer, investigates character and place and the tensions and conflicts that form America....
For Commissario Guido Brunetti it began with an early morning phone call. A sudden act of vandalism had just been committed in the chill Venetian dawn, a rock thrown in anger through the window of a building in the deserted city. But soon...
The delightful new installment in Alexander McCall Smith's beloved and best-selling series finds Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi traveling to the north of Botswana, to the stunning Okavango Delta, to visit a safari lodge where there have been...
Reykjavik police detective Erlendur Sveinsson and his team investigate the murder of a dark-skinned Asian boy, found frozen in his own blood one midwinter day outside a rundown apartment block. The author imbues the self-doubting Erlendur with...