Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspears award-winning mystery series.
A classic slice of Japanese hard-boiled noir paying homage to the master of the genre: Raymond ChandlerThe Wrong Goodbye pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.
The interviews in this collection cover Walter Mosley's career and reveal an overarching theme: a belief in the transformative power of reading and writing.
Painter and amateur sleuth Georgia O'Keeffe investigates a tragic death when she returns to Taos in the second instalment of this twisty historical mystery set in the 1930s by multi award-winning author Kathryn Lasky.
In his sixth month of 'delving', Tim Brown finds himself drawn back into newspaper work more and more, while surprises emerge close to home that threaten to upend his life.
A man of means, Horne Fisher is a well-connected detective who's social and political influence gives him special insight into the underbelly of Britain's elite.
From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty.
The new novel from the best-selling storyteller - Randy Quinn took over his father's position as manager of an exclusive cemetery, despite the negative opinions of his friends and contemporaries about the job.
Herr Groll, ein Rollstuhlfahrer, der sich mit windigen Geschäften durchbringt, und sein Freund der "Dozent", ein Privatgelehrter aus gutem Hause, recherchieren im Milieu der osteuropäischen Pornoindustrie.
The gripping new stand-alone mystery from 'world-class crime writer' Ragnar J nasson, soon to be a major motion picture'Is this the best crime writer in the world today' THE TIMES'So atmospheric, I was immediately transported to the Icelandic moors .
Controversy erupts in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, when the owner of the local bookstore tries to play peacekeeperbut winds up playing detective instead .
Magic, and especially performance magic, has been a part of crime fiction since its inception: both art forms surged in popularity in Western Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century and influenced each other in profound ways.
This wide-ranging resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine claims and beliefs - and provide the facts - about sexual assault and harassment and other forms of sexual violence in the United States.
Ein Hebriden-Krimi für Schottland-Liebhaber und alle Fans von Kriminalromanen mit einem guten Schuss schwarzen Humors:Der Eigenbrötler Nicol, 52, liebt nichts mehr als die malerische kleine Bucht samt Cottage und Bootshaus, die er auf der Hebriden-Insel Gigha gepachtet hat.
In 1994, when South Africans were finally seeing the light of freedom and independence, three well-respected businesswomen - Talullah Ntuli, Edna Whithead and Nkosazana Dlamini - formed the Black Widow Society, a secret organisation aimed at liberating women trapped in emotionally and physically abusive relationships by assisting in 'eliminating' their errant husbands.
