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On the surface, Sonia and Graham Starr were a glamorous couple: She, the sleek entrepreneur; he, the boyishly handsome painter with an irrepressible zest for life. They had everything money can buy and the one thing it can’t—a precious, precocious four-year-old named Roxie. But when Roxie disappears into the Pacific Ocean on a perfect August afternoon, their world crumbles around them.

Lady Tiffany Bolton, sister of the Duke of Bolton, is painfully plain and dull. At least, that’s how her brother describes her as he bemoans the necessity of finding her a husband. So the rakish Duke of Clarence can hardly be blamed when the pretty girl he kisses in the library turns out to be none other than Lady Tiffany herself.

It’s meant to be an easy job for Harlow Torrent, Slip Witch: personal assistant to Red Forrest, best-selling cozy mystery author in town for Writerpalooza. But when a man staggers out of an alleyway claiming he was attacked by a monster, Harlow is pulled into a dangerous mystery decades in the making. Between Red running her own investigation, two possible charlatans with a history of faking monsters, Aunt Cass leading expeditions under the mansion, mysterious symbols appearing everywhere, and Jack’s parents in town, Harlow has her hands full.

Love is like a multi-faceted diamond. Sometimes rough, sometimes polished. The duke of Hightower is a busy man. The last thing he needs to do is to chase down the owner of a runaway gray, sometimes ridden by a mysterious rider. A reckless rider is not what he needs. He’s shocked when he...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a duke in possession of no fortune must be in want of a rich wife. Miss Kalina Little is not the debutante that Nathanial, Duke of Hereford, needs for his wife. What he needs is someone with a dowry hefty enough to pay off the debts left to him by his late father and skilled enough to help repair his family’s reputation and guide his sisters through the ton. As the head of his household, it’s his duty to provide that stability for his family, and the sisters who rely on him.

After receiving a most unexpected personal invitation for a weekend of leisure and celebration, Miss Victoria Parker leaves London for the country seat of the Duke of Everton. Although unsure as to why a lowly spinster such as she would be invited anywhere by a duke, Victoria's trusted assistant, James Kensington, assures her it must concern her late father’s accounting firm, which she secretly runs.

DI Duke Lyons is a man on the edge. Between his failed marriage, the pressures of policing, and a ruthless nemesis taunting him, his hard-earned sobriety is being tested. When seventeen-year-old May Whitehead vanishes from the streets of Halifax, Lyons thinks he’s seen it all before; just another runaway teen with a chaotic home life. But his new partner, DS Annie Lockley, isn’t convinced. Newly transferred as a punishment, and desperate to prove herself, she believes May is the latest target of a sadistic predator stalking vulnerable sex workers.

Marcus Braddock, Duke of Hampton and former general, is back from war and mourning the death of his beloved sister, Elise. Marcus believes his sister's death wasn't an accident, and he's determined to learn the truth, starting with investigating Danielle, the beautiful daughter of a baron and his sister's best friend. Danielle's keeping deadly secrets of her own. She has dedicated her life to a charity that helps abused women - the same charity Elise was working for when she died. When Danielle's work puts her danger, Marcus comes to her rescue. But Danielle may not need rescuing.

Emma Porter is 40, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of England's glorious gardens. A Dimity-contrived coincidence brings her to Penford Hall, a sprawling Gothic mansion in Cornwall, where she finds a duke in search of a missing lantern with extraordinary powers.

A body in a graveyard shouldn’t be a problem, except when it’s found above ground… with a knife sticking out of it. To make things even more complicated? The only clue in the murder is a comment left on a local neighborhood app that was deleted six minutes later, and the only person who knows it exists is the creator of said application. Enter our fearless sleuth, Queenie. Okay, okay. Actually, only one of those three things describes her. Hint: it’s her name. More fitting descriptors for Queenie Beane? Disgraced cruise-line tech support. Failed theater manager. Town pariah.

After an unsuccessful season in London, Miss Mary Mifford has returned to the village of Plumpton, determined to be the most upstanding spinster the Cotswolds have ever seen. Not even the arrival of the elusive Duke of Northcott can distract Mary from her plan; until the local rector is found bludgeoned to death and Mary is named as the prime suspect.

A woman has been murdered and her body is drained of blood. Plus two small punctures on her neck has the Special Investigations Homicide squad, led by Inspector Duke Becker, thinking the absurd. Has she been killed by a vampire? Of course no one believes it, but when an investigation into vampires leads to a club in the heart of New York City, there are doubts.

Super sleuth Duke Dempsey is at it again when he is drawn into a world of corruption, deception, and murder. An assassinated mayor, the mob, and corruption that reaches the highest levels of government takes Duke on a journey that brings him face to face with his past. All the answers he seeks are in an elusive ledger that he must bring to light.

Duke Dempsey is a private investigator in 1938 Charleston, SC. He is thrust into the case of a lifetime when the Vatican comes calling and hires him to find an invaluable relic. Charleston is also hit with the mysterious murders of a prominent priest of St. Patrick's Cathedral and a local cop. Duke is forced into a partnership with the presiding detective, Johnny Stampkin, to find the relic and solve the murders. The case takes a multitude of twists and turns as they navigate through Roman Catholic puzzles, Civil War secrets, and a Nazi assassin.

Inspector Duke Becker and his squad are having a few weeks of peace and quiet when a case is brought to the squad by Detective Michelle Goldman. A fellow Detective has been investigating a baffling homicide, and Goldman believes the Special Investigations Unit, Homicide, might be able to help out. When another homicide is discovered along with a second strange object left behind by the killer, Inspector Becker and his squad move into high gear.

Two police officers have been brutally killed by having their throats ripped out, but the wound appears to have been done with surgical precision. With no witnesses, no forensic evidence, and two bizarre clues to follow, the case falls to Inspector Duke Becker, head of the high profile Special Investigations Unit, Homicide. Becker and his squad must find the killer before more cops are murdered. The case will lead Becker on a wild chase through the streets of New York City, back over 15 years into the past and to a cover-up that will rock City Hall.

What would you do if you had been falsely imprisoned? What would you do if while in prison your wife and your children had been brutally murdered and no one cared? For Samuel Maxwell, the decision was easy. He would spend his time in prison learning everything he could to carry out his plan for revenge. Duke Becker is called to Police Chief Rockwell's office because a letter of prophetic murder has come true, and the Chief is sure that more will follow, including one meant for him.

Inspector Duke Becker and the Special Investigations Unit, Homicide, are down one man - Bobby Green is now on a medical retirement and working as a private investigator. He and Michelle Goldman can now have a real relationship, and things are looking up until a frightened conductor comes to see Green.

Meet Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time Slip Witch and her crazy witch family in this ten-book cozy mystery box set.

Harlow Torrent, part-time journalist and full-time slip witch is hot on the trail of an arsonist. But who is behind the deadly fires? Someone working for their own evil ends or a fire spirit acting according to its nature? Or perhaps a magical power hidden away?