Normally, the arrival of an art
exhibition at the Mayville
Heights library would be cause
for celebration. But thanks to
the overbearing curator and
high-tech security system that comes with it, Kathleen’s life
has been completely disrupted.
Even...
The eighth novel in the critically acclaimed Inspector Alan Banks series. Detective Inspector Banks had seen crimes just as savage in London, but somehow the murder of a teenage girl seemed all the more shocking in the quiet Yorkshire village of...
Amateur sleuths Jude and Carole take on their third case when a terrible discovery is made in the cellar of a grand old house. Grant and Kim Roxby had hoped that their first dinner party at Pelling House would make an impression with their new...
A walk on the wild side! In this series of collections of gritty Noir and Hardboiled stories, you’ll find some of the best writers of the craft writing in their...
The genteel game of Real Tennis takes a murderous twist in Simon Brett's witty and entertaining new Fethering mystery
Jude's life has been turned upside-down thanks her new mant, Piers Targett, who's keen to get her involved in his hobby—or...
No suspense collection is complete without this anthology. Originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the stories in this volume represent many of the biggest names in detective and suspense fiction: Ellery Queen, Harold Q. Masur,...
Brooklyn Noir is back, this time with a true-crime vengeance.
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. This volume presents the first nonfiction collection in the series,...
Is it just a case of summertime
blues or a full-blown career
crisis? Newspaper reporter Jim
Qwilleran isn't sure, but he's
hoping a few days in the
country will help him sort out his life.
With cats Koko and Yum Yum
for company, Qwilleran heads
for...