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Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

NO BODY AT LOW TIDEThe water has gone out farther than anyone expected. When Eleri Marsh returns to the coastal town of Porth Carreg after her mother's death, she plans to spend a few quiet weeks clearing the family home and putting the past to rest. Instead, she finds a question nobody wants asked. A local fisherman has disappeared. The town believes it knows what happened. The sea took him. The tide will return its answer in its own time. But Eleri spent a lifetime working with records, evidence and unexplained deaths.

Dr. Watson macht die Bekanntschaft von Edgar Rice Burroughs, welcher ihm von seinem Onkel John Carter vorschwärmt. Sogleich holt er Sherlock Holmes auf den Plan, um gemeinsam den wundersamen Nachlass des berühmten Onkels aufzuspüren.

Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it. For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it's his last chance at a big payday. But the more he learns about the wreck, the more questions he uncovers—because none of the survivors are telling the same story.

Der gewitzte Pater Brown hat ein gefährliches Hobby: Er löst mysteriöse Kriminalfälle durch Intuition und Einfühlungsvermögen. Vor allem sein hellsichtiger Blick auf die Seelenzustände der Täter lässt den gewitzten katholischen Priester bei seinen Ermittlungen ein ums andere Mal die verzwicktesten Fälle lösen. Herr Calhoun Kidd war ein sehr junger Mann mit einem sehr alten Gesicht, einem Gesicht, das von seinem eigenen Eifer verzehrt und von bläulichschwarzem Haar sowie einer schwarzen wehenden Krawatte umrahmt war.

As Lord Chamberlain, John spent his days counseling Emperor Justinian while passing the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He never expected to meet her in a public square - or afterwards, to find her red-dyed corpse in a subterranean cistern.

Pick up the next thrilling instalment in this gripping Elizabethan mystery series from John Pilkington. Fans of Andrew Taylor and C. J. Sansom will not want to miss this! 🩸️ 'Pilkington’s latest takes this long-running and popular series to a new level' - Booklist A HAWK SOARS TO KILL...

Pick up the next adventure in John Pilkington's incredibly intriguing Thomas the Falconer Tudor mystery series! Perfect for fans of S. J. Parris and Andrew Taylor. 🩸🔍 'English history fans who don’t know the Thomas the Falconer series should get up to speed quickly.' Booklist AN INSTINCT...

When a publisher was set the challenge of finding the identity of a person from a manuscript that he received, he was confused. Is the author a celebrity, businessman, politician or something else?

Discover the first in a BRAND NEW gripping Tudor mystery from bestselling author John Pilkington. Perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor and S. J. Parris. 🩸📜️ 'Pilkington transports us back to the Elizabethan era so deftly you can smell the stink of it, and feel the danger lurking in every...

Kathryn Cain's occupation was "celebrity". She had become famous by having affairs with numerous celebrities. To the headline writers, she'd been "Kitten" for years, and to newspaper readers, her appearance was approximately as well-known as the Washington Monument, although her proportions were somewhat different. Now Kathryn wanted to write a "kiss and tell" autobiography, but she needed Harry Horne to collaborate with her. She also wanted Harry - who had a reputation as a kind of tough guy - as her bodyguard.

Get ready for the third thrilling title in John Pilkington's gripping Thomas the Falconer Tudor mystery series! Perfect for fans for S. J. Parris and Andrew Taylor 🩸️ ‘This tale gives an authentic sense of Elizabethan life’s visceral side with all its lawlessness and brutality’ -...

Get ready for the first adventure in the fabulous Thomas the Falconer Tudor mystery series from John Pilkington. A must-read for fans of C. J. Sansom and Andrew Taylor. 🩸📜 ‘A truly fine historical series’ - Library Journal BE YE HUNTER OR PREY? Introducing Thomas Finbow – falconer to...

Get hold of the second adventure in this gripping Elizabethan mystery series from John Pilkington!🩸🔍 'Thomas proves a dogged, creative and insightful sleuth.’ - Publishers Weekly MURDER MOST SAVAGE… When invited to attend the Barrowhill Pleasures at the seat of the extravagant and...

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, retired marine biologist Delphine is on the brink of throwing in the towel. She has outlived her PI husband and worries she’s become a burden to her son and his growing family. One night, while contemplating how to go on, Delphine witnesses a violent argument between a man and his girlfriend. When Delphine discovers the woman has gone missing along with her young child, Delphine embarks on a quest to find them.

The chief character, Lord Peter Wimsey, goes to the Bellona Club to have a meal with an old friend of his, ninety-year old General Fentiman. In great surprise, he finds the aged man fully dressed by the fire in full rigor mortis. A question arises concerning the time of death and the situation develops into a serious murder investigation. Wimsey sometimes seemed to have a supercilious attitude as a monocled aristocrat and sometimes became a sort of professional detective. His family motto was, “As my whimsy takes me.”

When a popular mystery novelist dies suspiciously, his writing partner must untangle the author’s connection to a serial killer in award-winning John Copenhaver’s new novel set in 1950s McCarthy-era Washington, DC.

The dark and gritty crime thriller that will have you hooked, from UK Top 50 bestselling author John Nicholl He’s inside her home. Successful novelist Mia is being stalked. Photos of her and her four-year-old daughter arrive in untraceable emails that demand Mia perform various tasks or else...

A completely gripping, gritty crime thriller from UK Top 50 bestselling author John Nicholl Is it revenge or is it justice? DI Gravel is supposed to be on mandatory leave, but when a severed head washes up on the estuary beach his holiday is cut short. Back on the job, he’s shocked when the...

Ralph X. Trevelyan is a single, 28-year-old, self-employed genealogist—better known by friends and colleagues as Xero, due to his zero amount of unsolved cases and his renown as a researcher.