A new crime series set in San Francisco launches with a late night phone call. The body of a young woman lies in a trash-strewn room of a derelict building in China Basin. With that, veteran San Francisco homicide inspector, Ben Raveneau, and his hard-charging new partner, Elizabeth la Rosa, catch t..
Product Description 'Solid, straightforward detection mingled with family mayhem.' KIRKUS REVIEWS ON A THRUST TO THE VITALS Returning to Elmhurst many years after his involuntary departure, to attend a civic reception in his honour, Sir Rufus Seward had ignored the maxim that 'going back' is not alw..
Constantinople, 672 ad. Ex-concubine Anna is attempting to raise her daughter well, but as an Arab invasion threatens and Kallinikos an alchemist working on a secret weapon to use in the seige comes into their lives, a secret about her daughter is forced into the open. Anna must accept huge upheaval..
An early work by one of Science Fiction's grand mastersAnarchaos is a planet, inhabited by humans, where anarchy is the only law; where each man protects himself as best he can; and where the weak are soon dead. Malone's brother had dies that way, and Malone has come to Anarchaos, carrying a small a..
Product DescriptionThe third adventure of the feisty Suzie MountfordUnder the shadows of the first B17s taking off from East Anglia in 1942, the Ascoli family is found ruthlessly murdered their faces blasted off with a shotgun. It's an intriguing inquiry, all the more so because Max Ascoli had been ..
The new novel featuring homicide detective Sigrid Harald When a shadowy figure kills a dancer in a little Greenwich Village theatre before an audience of horrified children, Sigrid is outraged. Her instincts tell her it was a crime of passion, but she has no evidence. To find out the truth she uses ..
Book by Hill, Reginald Author: Hill, Reginald Publisher: Severn House Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0727855107 ISBN-13: 9780727855107..
Playboy Adam Noble is searching for the dream house - but has he found his dream woman Real estate manager Carly Andrews’s predictable life in Bar Harbor is turned upside down when the rich and charismatic Adam Noble breezes into her office and asks her to help him find the perfect property to sett..
Product Description 'A resourceful hero complements a sophisticated plot' - Publishers Weekly Starred Review The new Inspector Sam Blackstone mystery . . . August, 1900. William Holt, a reclusive millionaire businessman, has been kidnapped from his grand Coney Island home after the brutal murder of ..
From BooklistDI Joe Rafferty has big problems. One is personal: he's being blackmailed by someone who knows about his nearly disastrous undercover role in a recent case. But things aren't much better professionally. His latest case involves a body discovered in a shallow grave at a local convent, an..
Product DescriptionA Deets Shanahan Mystery - When 70-something Indianapolis PI Dietrich Deets Shanahan receives a call from Jack Wenders, his former commanding officer in Korea, inviting him to Mexico to discuss a case, Shanahan accepts. But Wenders shadowy tactics put Shanahan on his guard and rig..
Detective Chief Superintendent Fran Harman’s professional and private lives collide when a skeleton is unearthed in her garden Fran is preparing for her forthcoming wedding to Assistant Chief Constable Mark Turner, but renovations at the rectory they plan to move into are disrupted by the discovery ..
Strangers in paradise . . . - Mandy Blythe is only scared of three things: water, boats, and planes. So she’s not best pleased when her interfering boss tricks her into taking an Australian vacation in the company of the womanizing Damon Sutter, who’s left a string of broken hearts across several co..
ReviewAnother amiable autocentric mystery specifically designed to appeal to cozy fans and classic-car buffs-- "Booklist"Product DescriptionWhen car detective Jack Colby is asked by the ‘Mad Major’ to find one of the original five cars that took place in the original Peking to Paris rally of 1907, h..
A Ben Reese Mystery - 1947. A female linguist at a high-security US decoding and decrypting facility is murdered while trying to relay vital information. Ten years later, Ben Reese is asked for his assistance in tracking a murderer guilty of breaching US security. Bens efforts to find the killer are..
Product DescriptionA Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mysteryWestminster, 1102. About to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is suddenly summoned back by the King. When he arrives at Court he finds two argumentative groups of Saxon moneyers, one accusing the other of devaluing the King's currency. But is ..
Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to examine the body of a canon. Suicide is suspected, but there is more to this than meets the eye. When a local lord is killed, John suspects the cases are linked. As always, he is hampered by the sheriff Sir Richard de Revelle, but his reasons for delay may be more se..
Product DescriptionAn action-packed thriller from this popular author - Max Farne can finally relax, lounging on a boat moored at Santa Margherita, escaping the hot Italian sun in cool Italian bars. But following the sudden arrival of a beautiful woman, the disappearance of a rich man and the appear..
Roman Britain, 208 AD - Emperor Septimius Severus has arrived in Britain to conquer the barbarians in the north of the island. Memnon, an African scout, comes to Britain with his cavalry unit. When he saves the life of a beautiful young attendant of the Empress, he becomes aware of tensions within t..
A drunkard stumbles into Mickelgate Bar police station in the ancient city of York and reports having recovered the memory of witnessing a murder being committed. The police, initially sceptical, investigate the man's claim and discover the body of a young woman in a shallow grave in an area of rura..
Set in the Toltec court, amongst the mysterious Anasazi people - Humble young Hoshitiwas world is turned upside down when she is captured by the powerful ruler of an infamous city famed for its untold wealth and legendary acts of violence. She must adapt quickly to survive, for Hoshitiwa has been th..
The new 'Benjamin January' novel from the best-selling authorNew Orleans, 1836. When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin - only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Just one person recognises the corpse of t..
Book by Spencer, Sally Author: Spencer, Sally Publisher: Severn House Pub Ltd Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0727855433 ISBN-13: 9780727855435..
Product DescriptionThe latest Hennessey and Yellich MysteryWhen a woman's body is found frozen on a bench one winter's morning, it looks like a simple case of death by misadventure. On closer inspection, however, marks on her neck. and a piece of paper hidden inside her shoe point towards foul play...