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  • SMOKE ALARM
    PRISCILLA MASTERS
    A female coroner teams up with a British police detective to find the culprit behind a deadly fire . . .   When firemen are called to an intense blaze at the Grange in Melverley, England, they find the bodies of Christie Barton, her daughter, and her father-in-law, who suffered from Alzheimer’s. But evidence suggests that this was not a tragic accident related to the dead man’s...

    $251.00

  • FROZEN CHARLOTTE
    PRISCILLA MASTERS
    A bizarre discovery at a Shrewsbury hospital sparks a coroner’s investigation in this “gripping” mystery (Publishers Weekly).   A middle-aged woman walks into the emergency room of a British hospital, cradling a baby in a pink blanket. It’s far too late—the child has been dead for years.   The woman claims to have found the baby in her attic, but it’s not clear whether her ramb...

    $164.00

  • UNNATURAL WASTAGE
    BETTY ROWLANDS
    When a woman is murdered in an exclusive Bristol residence, Det. Constable Sukey Reynolds must sift through tenants’ complaints to find the killer.   Det. Constable Vicky Armstrong and her colleague, DC Sukey Reynolds, are complaining about the lack of new serious cases. Of course, that doesn’t last long. The body of Fenella Tremaine, who lived in an upscale block of apartments...

    $129.00

  • TRUE GREY
    CLEA SIMON
    Things look bleak for cat-loving grad student Dulcie Schwartz when she finds the body of an academic rival in this “intriguing . . . paranormal cat cozy” (Publishers Weekly).   When Harvard doctoral candidate Dulcie Schwartz stumbles across the body of Melinda Sloane Harquist, she ends up—literally—with blood on her hands. Melinda was a rival scholar whose upcoming book threate...

    $149.00

  • ANGEL AMONG US
    KATY MUNGER
    A ghostly Delaware detective must reach the living to save an expectant mother from an untimely demise in this paranormal mystery.   In life, Kevin Fahey was an unremarkable cop. But he hasn’t let death stop him from doing his job when he sees something amiss among the living. Haunting the streets of his small Delaware town, he finds himself infatuated with a young preschool te...

    $149.00

  • GREY HOWL
    CLEA SIMON
    A strange apparition baffles Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz—and her ghost cat Mr. Grey—in this “complex and satisfying whodunit” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).   A prestigious literature conference is convening in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the university liaison for the event, Harvard doctoral candidate Dulcie Schwartz is meeting and greeting some of the finest minds in he...

    $129.00

  • IT'S NOW OR NEVER
    JUNE FRANCIS
    “Fans of light historical fiction will enjoy this novel” of two unwed mothers in post-WWII Liverpool whose lives converge as secrets come to light (Booklist).   In 1942, two young women, Dorothy Wilson and Lynne Donegan, give birth in a home for unwed mothers. Thirteen years later, Dorothy is a successful actress, offered her first major role in a feature film. But it will mean...

    $109.00

  • STAGES OF GREY
    CLEA SIMON
    Cat lover and Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz must solve a murder when an experimental play ends in old-fashioned tragedy.   Fifth-year Harvard grad student Dulcie is still writing her thesis, and everyone agrees she needs some time away from her books. So she reluctantly accompanies friends to watch a new local theatre company update Ovid with a disco version of The Metam...

    $149.00

  • POWER GAMES
    JUDITH CUTLER
    British Detective Kate Power grapples with arson, murder, and some very distressing career trouble in this mystery.   Moving from London to Birmingham to start over on a new police force was no easy task, but Det. Sergeant Kate Power is finally starting to feel like she’s got everything in hand. Little does she know that things are about to get dangerously complicated.   First,...

    $129.00

  • WILL POWER
    JUDITH CUTLER
    British Detective Kate Power struggles to keep her personal life together while investigating a difficult cold case . . .   Still trying to find her feet in Birmingham, Det. Sergeant Kate Power is back in the Fraud Squad—under-staffed, under-funded, and under the leadership of a hostile boss who’s jealous of her relationship with Det. Inspector Graham Harvey.   Kate is facing c...

    $149.00

  • GREY DAWN
    CLEA SIMON
    Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz and the ghost of her dead cat Mr. Grey return to keep the campus safe from an attacker who may not be totally human.   When doctoral candidate Dulcie Schwartz thinks she hears a wolf late one night on her way to her departmental office, she tries to dismiss it. But the noises, the dark building, and an unnerving sighting of her adviser—looki...

    $149.00

  • A KILLING COAST
    PAULINE ROWSON
    A police detective on England’s southern coast finds himself struggling with cases both old and new, in a mystery with “a surprising conclusion” (Booklist).   When a body is found floating in the sea off Portsmouth Harbor, Detective Inspector Horton judges it to be an accidental death, but soon discovers he’s got it very wrong. Under pressure from his superiors, Horton wonders ...

    $129.00

  • DEATH LIES BENEATH
    PAULINE ROWSON
    An “outstanding” mystery in the series starring a police detective in a British coastal city (Booklist, starred review).   When ex-con Daryl Woodley is found dead on the marshes bordering Langstone Harbor, the Intelligence Directorate believe his murder is linked to a big-time crook currently serving time in prison. Detective Inspector Horton is not so sure—and is thrown into a...

    $129.00

  • ILLUSIONS OF HAPPINESS
    ELIZABETH LORD
    “A somber yet intriguing historical saga with a satisfying ending that will appeal to fans of Danielle Steel.” —Booklist   Madeleine Ingleton returns home from her Swiss finishing school to a whirlwind of social engagements and parties—and to Hamilton Bramwell, the wealthy and agreeable young man whom her parents are determined she marry. Instead, Madeleine’s eye is caught by a...

    $109.00

  • THE BRIDE BOX
    MICHAEL PEARCE
    In WWI Egypt, a murdered girl and her runaway sister lead the Khedive’s head investigator to an underground slave trade in this “deftly plotted” mystery (Booklist, starred review).   Cairo, 1913. Pasha Ali Maher has received an unexpected gift: a traditional Bride Box. But what should contain treasures anticipating a marriage instead contains the body of the would-be bride hers...

    $149.00

  • A QUESTION OF DESPAIR
    MAUREEN CARTER
    Birmingham DI Sarah Quinn contends with a relentless TV reporter in this “crisply written” series debut from the author of the Bev Morriss novels (Library Journal).   When a baby is snatched from outside a Birmingham newsagent’s, ‘Ice Queen’ Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn is on the case. Unfortunately for her, so is the insufferably persistent TV reporter Caroline King. Quinn’...

    $149.00

  • PETRIFIED
    GRAHAM MASTERTON
    “A splendidly entertaining horror novel from a master of the genre.” —Booklist   Braydon Harris is convinced God has it in for him. Although Sukie, his little girl, seemed thrilled to be kidnapped from her mom’s parents’ house, an electric storm has hit, and it looks like the Lord isn’t going to make it easy for Braydon to get away. Braydon’s right. A huge truck jack-knifes in ...

    $149.00

  • A SHIP FOR THE KING
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    The thrilling maritime adventures of Kit Faulkner begin in a new series set against the backdrop of the English Civil War.   Bristol, England, 1618. Kit Faulkner is a young vagrant orphan, but his life changes forever at the age of sixteen when two gentlemen, one a former privateer, Sir Henry Mainwaring, spot his potential and he is taken aboard their merchant ship to be traine...

    $119.00

  • MURDER IN ABBOT'S FOLLY
    AMY MYERS
    In a crumbling Georgian mansion, the secret letters of Jane Austen provide a clue to a modern-day double murder for this father and daughter detective team.   Peter and Georgia Marsh, father and daughter investigators who specialize in cold cases, are looking forward to a Jane Austen–themed summer gala at Stourdens. It’s said that the eighteenth-century manor house was the auth...

    $149.00

  • DEATH AT THE WEDDING FEAST
    DERYN LAKE
    A mismatched marriage ends in tragedy, and a mystery for Apothecary John Rawlings, in this historical set in eighteenth-century England.   February, 1768. Apothecary John Rawlings has travelled to Devon to be by the side of his mistress, Marchesa Elizabeth di Lorenzi, who is due to give birth to their child. Leaving his shop—and his new carbonated water business—in good hands, ...

    $129.00

  • GREY EXPECTATIONS
    CLEA SIMON
    Harvard grad student Dulcie and two “enchanting” cats must solve the mysteries of a missing manuscript, a mistaken identity—and murder (Publishers Weekly).   Harvard grad student Dulcie Schwartz doesn’t want to believe that a book could be haunted. But ever since an eleventh-century manuscript, the Dunster Codex, went missing from the rare book collection, strange and terrible ...

    $149.00

  • THE KING'S CHAMELEON
    RICHARD WOODMAN
    With England in the throes of civil war, Captain Kit Faulkner’s thrilling maritime adventures cannot escape the course of history.   England, 1659. Captain Kit Faulkner’s house is prospering; his eldest son, Nathaniel, has recently returned from a profitable trip to Jamaica in the good ship Faithful, and his daughter, Hannah, has made a suitable match with a young sailor. But t...

    $149.00

  • MARBECK AND THE KING-IN-WAITING
    JOHN PILKINGTON
    A 17th-century British royal spy uncovers a nefarious plot brewing in Oxford in this “fine series [of] derring-do and historical interest” (Kirkus Reviews).   Spring, 1603: As Queen Elizabeth lay dying, England waits anxiously to know its future. The Virgin Queen hasn’t named an heir, refusing even to speak. Her cousin James, King of Scotland, is assumed to be her successor, bu...

    $129.00

  • MARBECK AND THE DOUBLE-DEALER
    JOHN PILKINGTON
    An Elizabethan spy chases a double agent across Europe in this historical mystery series debut—“Think James Bond for the 17th-century crowd” (Library Journal).   At the dawn of the seventeenth century, England continues to be entangled in wars with Spain and Ireland for many years. The country crackles with unease in the waning years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, and intelligence...

    $149.00

  • BOMBERS' MOON
    IRIS GOWER
    At the height of WWII, two Welsh sisters struggle for survival—and the love of the same man—in this novel from the bestselling author of Spinner’s Warf.   1941. Motherless Meryl Jones and her older sister, Hari, are living together in Swansea during World War II while their father is fighting in the war. After their home is destroyed in an air raid, thirteen-year-old Meryl is e...

    $149.00

  • BURYING THE PAST
    JUDITH CUTLER
    In this mystery, British Detective Fran Harman’s professional and private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden.   Det. Chief Inspector Fran Harman and her fiancé, Asst. Chief Constable Mark Turner, have their hands full preparing for their wedding and renovating the rectory that will be their new home. But all their plans for wedded bliss are put on hold wit...

    $149.00

  • DOUBLE FAULT
    JUDITH CUTLER
    British detective Fran Harman must contend with a serial killer, unearthed skeletons, and a missing woman in this compelling mystery.   When a child goes missing at the local tennis club on the same day as several skeletons are unearthed on a building site, Det. Chief Superintendent Fran Harman finds her caseload heavier than usual. It couldn’t come at a worse time, now that th...

    $229.00

  • KILLING A STRANGER
    JANE A. ADAMS
    The blind former Detective Inspector investigates a teenage boy’s baffling confession of murder in this gripping British mystery by “a major talent” (Val McDermid).   When popular high school student Rob Beresford comes home crying and covered in blood, his mother, Clara, can’t believe the boy’s shocking admission: “He’s dead. I killed him.” Nor can she fathom that only hours l...

    $149.00

  • TAINTED GROUND
    MARGARET DUFFY
    The “creatively plotted British mystery” that pits the married pair of sleuths against a killer—and against their best friend (Booklist).   Novelist Ingrid Langley is worried about her husband Patrick Gillard. Since retiring from the army, his search for a new job—and a new purpose—has fallen short. But things turn around when a fast-track program places him on the local police...

    $149.00

  • BLOOD SUBSTITUTE
    MARGARET DUFFY
    “Lashings of Bond-style derring-do” propel this explosive mystery starring the husband-wife team of investigators last seen in Cobweb (Kirkus Reviews).   Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley, formerly of MI5 and now working as consultants for SOCA (the Serious and Organized Crime Agency), are called in to investigate when a policeman’s horribly mutilated body is found with the in...

    $149.00


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