Billed as "e;the ugliest case that Carolus Deene ever chose to investigate,"e; Leo Bruce's Death of a Bovver Boy finds the redoubtable schoolmaster-turned-detective involved in yet another mystery murder-this time among teenage outcasts and skinheads in rural 1970s England.
A "stunning mystery" in the Edgar Award–winning series that launched the Fox TV and Hulu series Murder in a Small Town—“the ending is a real killer” (The New York Times).
Inspector Ghote, one of the great creations of detective fiction (Alexander McCall Smith), investigates a high-profile murder and finds liars wherever he looks in this classic mystery with a brand-new introduction by bestselling author Vaseem Khan.
Carolus Deene becomes involved in his latest adventure when a famous restaurateur is threatened by a protection racketeer and a well-known writer of cookbooks is murdered under extraordinary circumstances.
2018 Lefty Award nominee for Best Historical Mystery NovelIn the winter of 1282, snow and ice ravage East Anglia while Prioress Eleanor awaits the decision of her young maid, Gracia, found starving on the streets some years ago, whether to take vows or to leave Tyndal Priory to make her way in the world.
In the 1870s, the future Inspector Brunt is on his way home after a reprimand when he has a disturbing encounter with George Ludlam, an enigmatic, taciturn man, intent on reaching one of Derbyshire's more remote villages.
A frightened phone call from her young daughter sends Jenny Carter into the darkness of Quarry Woods, seventeen years after she swore she'd never return.
Everyone knew there'd been a murder, everyone knew who the murderer was, and when this murderer committed suicide by jumping overboard from the cargo boat Saragossa, they thought "e;Good riddance.
The best of the shorter adventures of Inspector Ghote, 'one of the great creations of detective fiction' (Alexander McCall Smith), are brought together in this page-turning collection of short stories - with a brand-new introduction by bestselling author Vaseem Khan.
Set in 1969 on a council estate in north Manchester this thriller come dark satire centres on Dennis's adolescent travails, including his longings for both Helen and a teenager, Lorraine Lever); on what he hears through the wall and the puzzle of who commits the central murder.
The Old Angel is everything an old English inn should be, with ancient beams, gleaming copper bedwarmers, pewter tankards, and platters heaped high with red roast beef.
'When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw' - Nelson Mandela1964, Apartheid South Africa.
While vacationing with his family in sunny Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Glen Travis accidentally uncovers a life-changing secret from more than two decades earlier.
O professor Salvatierra, catedrático da Universidade de Madri, recebe uma estranha carta do seu amigo, o professor Reimann, diretor de um prestigioso instituto de pesquisa em Dusseldorf, na qual pede que vá vistá-lo pois existem algumas manobras do Instituto que o preocupam e precisa da sua ajuda.
A mother of nine on the Oklahoma frontier looks into a drunk neighbor’s death in “a tale full of wit, humor, sorrow and, more important, the truth” (Tony Hillerman, New York Times–bestselling author of the Leaphorn and Chee series).
