Category: Mystery

By Agatha Christie

The Queen of puzzle has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the said mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth leave out Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and such a lot of different unforgettable characters—brings her whole oeuvre of inventive whodunits, locked room mysteries, and confusing puzzles to Harper Paperbacks… together with The relocating Finger, which issues leave out Marple to a small city and its shameful secrets and techniques, and to a so much suspicious “suicide.”

By Jane Finnis

Roman Britain in ninety one advert is a uncooked frontier province, a difficult a part of the amazing Empire governed through Domitian Caesar. notwithstanding it's nearly fifty years because the legions invaded, many local tribes nonetheless hate their conquerors and grab any probability to bother the Roman settlers who're flocking in to colonise the recent province. rigidity is mainly excessive within the north, the place Aurelia Marcella, a tender innkeeper from Italy, runs the Oak Tree Mansio at the highway to York.

A string of savage murders disrupts her peaceable lifestyles, and he or she and her Roman pals locate themselves less than assault from a mystery local war-band, the Shadow-men, whose target is to force all Romans out. A traveler, Quintus, is almost killed just about the resort, and he and Aurelia needs to music down the insurgent warriors and determine their mysterious masked chief, the Shadow of demise. Their investigations deliver them into own risk from ruthless killers and devious deceivers. Can they locate and spoil the Shadow of dying earlier than his crusade of terror becomes open uprising, in order that all Romans needs to get out or die?

By P. J. Brooke

The historical urban of Granada is vivid with the spectacle of its Easter processions; its bars and streets brimming with lifestyles. yet excessive within the adjoining Alhambra hills, gypsy guitarist Paco is located lifeless in a Sacromonte cave.

Sub-Inspector Max Romero is introduced in to enquire Paco's dying. An in the beginning hassle-free inquiry, it quickly colors into whatever extra sinister whilst Max unearths a hyperlink with an incredible estate hypothesis within the attractive Sacromonte valley lower than the Alhambra Palace; person who includes laundered drug cash, urban corruption and Opus Dei.

As Max sinks ever deeper right into a political quagmire, he clashes with outdated foe Inspector Ernesto Navarro. He discovers that, even in brilliant Granada, amid its attractiveness and drama, the useless can achieve out to the residing.

By Charlotte MacLeod

Professor Peter Shandy eventually succumbs to Jemima Ames, Chairperson for Balaclava Agricultural College's significant fundraiser, the Grand Illumination. He buries his small brick apartment below an avalanche of tawdry plastic and escapes on a sea cruise. yet he returns to discover Jemima lifeless on his lounge flooring and a homicide to unravel.

By Nancy Atherton

The subsequent page-turning installment within the phantom-detective secret sequence that has received the hearts of comfortable secret fanatics in all places
Feeling a slightly world-weary, Lori Shepherd makes a decision to develop into a volunteer on the Radcliffe Infirmary, the place she will be able to unfold a bit solid cheer. There she meets Elizabeth Beacham, a sort, retired felony secretary with out kin, other than a brother who has mysteriously disappeared. yet after just a couple of visits, leave out Beacham without warning passes away, leaving Lori to tie up the unfastened ends of her overdue friend's lifestyles. Lori quickly discovers that hidden between omit Beacham's assets are clues that Lori believes her good friend left for her to find. Armed with the beneficiant support of a good-looking neighbor and, as consistently, Aunt Dimity's supernatural abilities, Lori starts to unearth leave out Beacham's secrets and techniques and, finally, the superb fact approximately her subsequent of relations.
?Atherton's sequence is if you happen to just like the puzzle of a secret minus the corpses. . . . wear the teakettle and enjoy.? ?"Rocky Mountain News"
?A captivating secret, jam-packed with heat and affection.? ?"Deadly Pleasures"

By Bradford Morrow

By Robert B. Parker

Spenser had an easy job-protect an paintings student in the course of a ransom alternate for a stolen portray. not anyone used to be speculated to die. however the student had secrets and techniques nobody knew, and uncovering them will endanger Spenser besides.

By Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith's “masterful” (USA TODAY) and “irresistible” (People) New York Times bestseller and Washington Post impressive publication of the yr: Arkady Renko needs to attach the dots between a Russian journalist’s mysterious demise, corrupt politicians, murderous gangsters, and brazen bureaucrats.

Arkady Renko, one of many iconic investigators of latest fiction, has survived the cultural trip from the Soviet Union to the recent Russia, basically to discover the state as enthusiastic about secrecy and brutality as used to be the outdated Communist dictatorship. In Tatiana, the depression hero unravels a secret as complicated and hazardous as smooth Russia itself.

The reporter Tatiana Petrovna falls to her demise from a sixth-floor window in Moscow an analogous week mob billionaire is shot and buried with the trimmings due a lord. the path results in Kaliningrad, a chilly battle “secret urban” that's separated by means of hundreds and hundreds of miles from the remainder of Russia. The extra Arkady delves into Tatiana’s previous, the extra she leads him right into a surreal global of wandering sand dunes, deserted young children, and a pc written within the own code of a useless translator. ultimately, in a deadly race to discover what the translator knew, Renko makes a startling discovery that pulls him nonetheless deeper into Tatiana’s past—and, mockingly, into Russia’s destiny, the place bulletproof vehicles, poets, corruption of the Baltic Fleet, and a butcher for lease mix to offer Kaliningrad the “distinction” of getting the top crime expense in Russia.

More than a secret, Tatiana is Martin Cruz Smith’s such a lot bold and politically bold novel seeing that Gorky Park. it's a tale wealthy in personality, black humor, and romance, with an perception that's the hallmark of a author The New York Times has referred to as “endlessly exciting and deeply serious…[not basically] our greatest author of suspense, yet of 1 of our greatest writers, period.”

By William Campbell Gault

To hit Brock the place it hurts the main, a vengeful stranger ambitions the folks he loves

It starts off with the useless cat. Ex-private investigator Brock Callahan reveals the Siamese via his mailbox, its throat lower, and assumes it's a message from a few criminal he positioned away in the past. quickly a letter arrives—"The cat was once first. who's second?"—and Brock understands the probability is not any shaggy dog story. He hires his protégé, the formidable younger detective Corey Raleigh, to assist him protect his spouse and housekeeper, yet Corey has issues of his personal. the child detective is set to get an inside of examine the workings of legal justice.

The law enforcement officials locate Corey no longer faraway from Brock's house—half-conscious with a gun in his hand and a lifeless guy at his toes. It's an visible frame-up, yet to transparent Corey's identify Brock should locate the true killer, and lock him away ahead of his spouse meets a similar destiny because the unlucky Siamese.

By Rhys Bowen