🧩 Something smells fishy—and it’s not the red herring.
Twisty tales with plenty of suspects, shadowy motives, and amateur detectives who just happened to be in the area.
Escape to Enchanted Hill in this historical mystery where two people with a dark, shared past collide while working undercover at a glittering mansion on the California coast. Â The year is 1930 and Cora McCavanagh is posing as a maid at Hollywood magnate Truman...
Oversized, outrageous Mary Alice and her prim sister Patricia Anne have been looking forward to the gala benefit being staged to raise money for the restoration of Vulcan, Birmingham's ever-tarnishing unnatural wonder. And what a show it is, with a grand finale that...
His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in Highgate. Man in caped coat. Milky way and red streaks. I’m being followed.”Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t...
Included in THE TIMES Best Historical Fiction Books of 2025: 'A lively new perspective on a grimly familiar tale'The world's most famous unsolved serial killer mystery, told from the perspective of a gang of women.'A fresh and captivating retelling of the Jack the...
A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is...
In Agatha Christie’s classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house,...
A dream job becomes a tale of money, love and murder for Jack, a builder, who gets a job repairing the summerhouse of a millionaire couple. Except the couple are at war, both having affairs, their marriage beyond salvage. The husband fires Jack, but she takes him back...
Close to the Great Pyramid, an ancient temple is uncovered in the desert sands. On one wall is a mysterious inscription — 'Consume me whole, in order to find the key.' Sherlock Holmes is summoned to solve it. With Watson at his side, he journeys from London to Cairo....
In What Child Is This?, "Boatwright conjures up the warmth of the snowy, candlelit holiday." — Publishers Weekly "Not only is Alice Boatwright a good detective writer, but a first-class storyteller as well. A great find." — M.C. Beaton, author of the Agatha Raisin...
It’s Hop-tu-Naa time on the Isle of Man and Fenella Woods is excited to learn more about this uniquely Manx celebration. When a day of fun at Cregneash village ends with Fenella finding a dead body, though, she finds herself tangled up in another murder...