A Christmas slaying, an Egyptian puzzle, and a night in the home of a stranger—three chillers from the New York Times–bestselling “grandmaster” of mystery (Publishers Weekly). A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead in front of her, with her own hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. And two sisters take shelter from a storm in a shuttered...
Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened. There were dogs in the house but they were no bother. Listen carefully.'In the spring of 1933 Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were living in their country house at Bilignin, France. With money earned from the best-selling 'Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas' they installed electricity, had a telephone put in their house and bought a large car. But with these improvements came...
Silent Witness (Silhouette intrigue: Lawman lovers)
by Dani Sinclair
Mysterious, secretive...and sexier than ever! Good girl Nicki Michaels once had a steamy affair with wild, sexy Alex Coughlin-but he'd left town without a word. When he returned and kept his distance, Nicki hid her broken heart and held her head high. Then she became a witness to murder...and Alex came to protect her. Alex stayed away to keep Nicki safe from his undercover investigation-now she was in the middle of it. The fiery beauty rekindled passio...
A secret Place Book Four of the Pulaski Series An autistic young man and a former prostitute, both with their own troubled histories, are struggling for a better way of life. Finding no help in their fundamentalist church, they turn to Satanism, little knowing it will end in their deaths. A year after their disappearance in the small community of Spirit Lake, Idaho, the parents of the young man turn to Northwest Investigations for help in finding what happened to their son, something the authori...
Katy was a young woman when her son was taken from her by her sister. Katy had gone on a search for a doctor to fix her injured back and when she returned she found that her sister had gone into hiding with her infant son. Now she was determined to find him and get him back. Unfortunately, it would take her into near middle age before she would even get close.
When Law Meets Paw . . .The result is this delightful anthology of seventeen courtroom tales by top-notch mystery writers. Cats and mysteries go hand-in-hand, no doubt. After all, what other animal is as mysterious as the common — yet never ordinary —house cat? What lurks behind that smug expression? What hidden secrets belie that indifferent stare? Always dignified, cats are quick to deal out their own justice with a claw or bite, and so it is only natural we find them in a variety of roles in...
enviromental groups are being manipulated by an organisation that stretches from governments, through green goups, individuals and large corporations
This Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2. During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twent...