🧩 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.
Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth. And let me tell you, this broth is in trouble. Get ready for a Southern showdown. The residents of Cottonwood, Kentucky are sent into a tizzy when the Culinary Channel comes to town to film an episode of Southern Home...
A 1930s housekeeper stars in "an Agatha Christie–like whodunit with touches of Olde World England and a soupçon of romance" (Booklist). In its three-hundred-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh...
"The American Candidate does not disappoint! Full of history, adventure, action and mystery! Fabulous read! Highly recommended." Amy C. In her most dangerous case yet, Jayne Sinclair investigates the family history of a candidate to be President of the United States...
‘At times amusing and shocking, this is a fast-moving modern crime mystery with genealogical twists. The blend of well fleshed-out characters, complete with flaws and foibles, will keep you guessing until the end’ Family Tree magazine Peter Coldrick had no past; that...
A "delicious" historical mystery featuring a Paris detective and master of disguise by the author of The Pale Blue Eye (Entertainment Weekly). Chief of a newly created plainclothes police force, Vidocq is a man whose name sends terror rippling through the Parisian...
"Simon Tolkien's grandfather is J. R. R., but his new novel" –a historical locked room mystery—"owes more to Agatha Christie—and Dan Brown." (New York Times).  When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his son,...
"I love these books. Sloane Monroe is a great character, tenacious to the end." Rose, Amazon Top 500 Reviewer If you're looking for a gripping mystery full of twists, lies, and long-buried truths, I Have a Secret is the one for you ... Doug Ward has spent twenty years...
He thought he'd left his life as a detective behind. But the past has a deadly way of catching up. Retired DI Gus Freeman is drawn back into the force to lead a new cold case unit. Join Gus and his team as they sift through old cases, uncovering a web of secrets that...
"Combines a Ruth Rendell–like psychological realism, an Agatha Christie–like plot and a Dickensian feel for life's roulette . . . Pulse-pounding" (The Wall Street Journal).  When Great War veteran Laurence Bartram arrives in Easton Deadall, he is struck by the beauty...
He thought he'd left his life as a detective behind. But the past has a deadly way of catching up. Retired DI Gus Freeman is drawn back into the force to lead a new cold case unit. Join Gus and his team as they sift through old cases, uncovering a web of secrets that...