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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake.
Murder Made Her Wicked
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths · Historical Mystery
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A quiet college campus becomes dangerous when a body surfaces in its lake. In Murder Made Her Wicked, Marigold Manners returns to Wellesley determined to rebuild her life, only to confront rivalries and resentments simmering beneath the surface of her cloistered academic world. As suspicion spreads through the tight-knit community, this historical mystery blends sharp intellect, social tension, and the resolve of an unconventional heroine.
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Bicycle-riding, aspiring archaeologist Marigold Manners is back and ready for adventure in Elizabeth Hobbs’s next mesmerizing historical mystery.
“A humdinger…whose characters bring to mind those of both Emily Brontë and L. M. Montgomery” (Kirkus), this second installment is perfect for fans of Deanna Rayborn.
1894, Boston. Penniless Boston heiress and accomplished modern woman Marigold Manners has put her past to good use, selling the story of the Great Misery Island Murders to earn enough money to resume the life she was always meant to have and return to her studies at Wellesley College. But her carefully laid plans for academic excellence are thrown into disarray when she stumbles across the body of a young woman in the campus lake.
When the peace of the bucolic campus is shattered by the murder, the cloistered world of a women’s college that Marigold finds so comforting proves it is not immune to the malice and wickedness of the world. The closed community becomes a hothouse where disparagement blooms into insult and small slights that have festered for years blossom into academic rivalries that could spill over into something far more sinister. Marigold must use every ounce of her logic and enlist her eccentric, colorful cast of fellow students and found family to identify the girl and find the murderer—before they kill again.
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A staged murder mystery becomes an unexpected reckoning with grief.
Welcome to Murder Week
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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A staged murder mystery becomes an unexpected reckoning with grief. In Welcome to Murder Week, Cath travels to the English countryside after discovering her late mother booked tickets for a weeklong fake crime in a small village. As she teams up with fellow guests to solve the “case,” she uncovers hidden truths about her mother and herself in this character-driven mystery with romantic and emotional depth.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLER
In this delightfully funny and heartfelt new novel from the author of the “bittersweet page-turner” (The New York Times) The Last Book Party, an American woman travels to the English countryside when she discovers tickets her late mother had purchased for a murder mystery simulation in a small British town.
When thirty-four-year-old Cath loses her mostly absentee mother, she is ambivalent. With days of quiet, unassuming routine in Buffalo, New York, Cath consciously avoids the impulsive, thrill-seeking lifestyle that her mother once led. But when she’s forced to go through her mother’s things one afternoon, Cath is perplexed to find tickets for an upcoming “murder week” in England’s Peak District: a whole town has come together to stage a fake murder mystery to attract tourism to their quaint hamlet. Baffled but helplessly intrigued by her mother’s secret purchase, Cath decides to go on the trip herself—and begins a journey she never could have anticipated.
Teaming up with her two cottage-mates, both ardent mystery lovers—Wyatt Green, forty, who works unhappily in his husband’s birding store, and Amity Clark, fifty, a divorced romance writer struggling with her novels—Cath sets about solving the “crime” and begins to unravel shocking truths about her mother along the way. Amidst a fling—or something more—with the handsome local maker of artisanal gin, Cath and her irresistibly charming fellow sleuths will find this week of fake murder may help them face up to a very real crossroads in their own lives.
Witty, wise, and deliciously escapist, Welcome to Murder Week is a fresh, inventive twist on the murder mystery and a touching portrayal of one daughter’s reckoning with her grief, her past—and her own budding sense of adventure.
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A quiet village hides more than blooming roses.
Murder Among the Roses
Mystery · Thriller · Noir
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A quiet village hides more than blooming roses. When Abby Finch uncovers the bones of a baby in her estranged husband’s family garden, shock turns to suspicion, and days later he is found murdered in the same soil. In Murder Among the Roses, a devoted mother and skilled gardener becomes the prime suspect, navigating secrets and village politics in a layered cozy mystery with a dark edge.
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‘Although there’s a distinctly dark edge to the story at times, there’s a really lovely lightness to the writing — with plenty of warmth, and the most perfectly judged touches of humour. This is the kind of crime writing I enjoy.’ Annie Williams, RNA Media Star of the Year
MEET ABBY FINCH. SHE’S THE BUSY MUM OF THREE, AN EXPERT GARDENER AND THE STAR OF YOUR NEW FAVOURITE COZY MURDER MYSTERY.
In the peaceful Cotswolds village of Maybridge, you wouldn’t expect to find a dead body in the rose garden. And certainly not two.
Abby is horrified to discover the bones of a baby buried under a rose bush. It’s in the garden of her soon-to-be ex-husband Howard’s family home.
She immediately calls the police. But she can’t get hold of Howard. He’s off on a jolly with the woman he’s got pregnant.
And then, just two days later, Abby finds Howard himself.
Lying dead in the very same rose garden.
Throat slashed with her own garden spade.
Now Abby is the prime suspect . . .
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A mother’s disappearance lingers over a small colonial settlement where whispers refuse to fade.
Cape Menace
Historical Fiction · Historical Mystery
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A mother’s disappearance lingers over a small colonial settlement where whispers refuse to fade. In Cape Menace, Sarah Hanover begins to question her father’s secret dealings and the sudden rise in his fortunes, determined to uncover what happened the winter her mother vanished. This colonial American mystery explores family loyalty, hidden motives, and the danger of exposing truth in a tightly bound community.
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Two years ago, Ruth Hanover vanished into the wilderness of the New Jersey colony without a trace, leaving behind her husband, William, and their daughter, Sarah. Though William and Sarah have never stopped hoping that Ruth will return, as time goes by it becomes less and less likely they will ever see her again.
Now William is conducting business with a mysterious stranger in the middle of the night, he won’t explain the sudden increase in his income, and he won’t tell Sarah what people in town are whispering about her mother’s disappearance.
When the time comes for Sarah to face her father’s secrets and figure out why her mother never came home that December day in 1712, what she learns will shock her tiny community on the New Jersey cape and leave her fighting for her life.
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When a supposed suicide exposes a hidden pattern of disappearances, Sergeant Nicky Matthews senses something far darker in Hearts of the Missing.
Hearts of the Missing
Mystery · Police Procedural
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When a supposed suicide exposes a hidden pattern of disappearances, Sergeant Nicky Matthews senses something far darker in Hearts of the Missing. Assigned to investigate, she uncovers a killer targeting members of the Fire-Sky tribe because of their ancestry, threatening both the living and the spirits of the dead. As pressure mounts from every side, this mystery confronts justice, loyalty, and cultural survival.
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When an outside evil preys on the people she's charged to protect, will she sacrifice everything to keep them safe?
Members of the Fire-Sky tribe have disappeared with a trace, but no one takes notice except a young woman who turns up dead by suicide. Pueblo Police Sergeant Nicky Matthews is assigned to the case but nothing adds up ... until the suicide becomes a murder to hide the trail of a killer connected to dozens of missing tribe members.
As Nicky delves deeper, she discovers a chilling threat that strikes at the very heart of what it means to be Fire-Sky: the missing were murdered because of ancestry, and, in a vengeful twist, the killer ensures the spirits of those taken will wander forever, lost to their People.
With a hostile captain, interference by a politically powerful ex-lover, and a burgeoning relationship with an undercover agent investigating the murders, Nicky doesn't know who she can trust. And when those closest to her are put in jeopardy, Nicky must be willing to sacrifice everything to save the people she loves.
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In a near future shaped by climate collapse, age becomes a crime in The Forcing.
The Forcing
Dystopian · Mystery · Thriller · Suspense
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In a near future shaped by climate collapse, age becomes a crime in The Forcing. When a youth-led government exiles older citizens to the southern deserts, David Ashworth and his wife are stripped of their home and forced into a brutal new reality. As rumors of sanctuary spark a desperate escape, survival demands moral compromise in this stark, unsettling climate thriller.
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In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom … at devastating cost…
'The dystopian future landscape of The Forcing comes with a heightened realism that grips and shakes you … provocative and insightful, visceral and terrifying' SciFi Now Book of the Month
' A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world' The Times
'Smart, gripping, and all too plausible … announces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John Christopher' Tim Glister
The jaw-dropping, passionate and provocative climate-emergency thriller from one of the world's leading environmental scientists.
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Civilisation is collapsing…
Frustrated and angry after years of denial and inaction, in a last-ditch attempt to stave off disaster, a government of youth has taken power in North America, and a policy of institutionalised ageism has been introduced. All those older than the prescribed age are deemed responsible for the current state of the world, and are to be 'relocated', their property and assets confiscated.
David Ashworth, known by his friends and students as Teacher, and his wife May, find themselves among the thousands being moved to 'new accommodation' in the abandoned southern deserts – thrown together with a wealthy industrialist and his wife, a high court lawyer, two recent immigrants to America, and a hospital worker. Together, they must come to terms with their new lives in a land rendered unrecognisable.
As the terrible truth of their situation is revealed, lured by rumours of a tropical sanctuary where they can live in peace, they plan a perilous escape. But the world outside is more dangerous than they could ever have imagined. And for those who survive, nothing will ever be the same again…
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A young woman vanishes in 1799 Manhattan, and her death ignites a trial that will reshape a nation’s rivals.
The Girl from Greenwich Street
Thriller · Mystery · Historical Thriller
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A young woman vanishes in 1799 Manhattan, and her death ignites a trial that will reshape a nation’s rivals. In The Girl from Greenwich Street, the real-life murder of Elma Sands draws Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr into an uneasy alliance as they defend the accused. Blending courtroom drama with political intrigue, this historical novel explores ambition, reputation, and justice at America’s uneasy dawn.
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“This is historical fiction at its best.” —Book Reporter
Based on the true story of a famous trial, this gripping historical mystery is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone—and no one—seemed to know.
At the start of a new century, a shocking murder in 1800s New York transfixes Manhattan, forcing bitter rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr to work together to save a man from the gallows.
Just before Christmas 1799, Elma Sands slips out of her Quaker cousin’s boarding house—and doesn’t come home. Has she eloped? Run away? No one knows—until her body appears in the Manhattan Well.
Her family insists they know who killed her. Handbills circulate around the city accusing a carpenter named Levi Weeks of seducing and murdering Elma.
But privately, quietly, Levi’s wealthy brother calls in a special favor….
Aaron Burr’s legal practice can’t finance both his expensive tastes and his ambition to win the 1800 New York elections. To defend Levi Weeks is a double win: a hefty fee plus a chance to grab headlines.
Alexander Hamilton has his own political aspirations; he isn’t going to let Burr monopolize the public’s attention. If Burr is defending Levi Weeks, then Hamilton will too. As the trial and the election draw near, Burr and Hamilton race against time to save a man’s life—and destroy each other.
Part murder mystery, part political thriller, part true crime, The Girl From Greenwich Street revisits a dark corner of history—with a surprising twist ending that reveals the true story of the woman at the center of the tale.
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The Great Meadows is a good pick for readers who like literary mysteries with small-town secrets, southern settings, moral tension, and buried family wounds.
The Great Meadows
Mystery · Amateur Sleuths
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In Bardstown, Kentucky, Levi investigates the murder of Moussa Diab after a false confession, uncovering dark secrets in this atmospheric mystery set among bourbon country, with a 4.3-star average from 53 Goodreads ratings. The Great Meadows is a good pick for readers who like literary mysteries with small-town secrets, southern settings, moral tension, and buried family wounds.
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Levi Motley is an aimless rambler fleeing his latest personal tragedy. Moussa Diab is a spiritual pilgrim journeying to a Trappist monastery. When Levi spots Moussa hitchhiking down a rural Kentucky highway, their lives become ensnared in a decades-old mystery unfolding in the bourbon capital of the world, Bardstown.
Levi delivers the young pilgrim to his destination. Three days later, Moussa’s body is discovered on a nearby riverbank. Within twenty-four hours, a local man confesses to the killing.
But he’s lying.
Why?
Because small towns hold dark secrets. This secret draws Levi into a perilous confrontation with an amorphous power bent on concealing the truth. If Levi can uncover the secret and check that power, then he will reconcile the wounds of his troubled past and discover what really happened to Moussa Diab out there in the elusive Great Meadows.
But the thing about dark secrets is…they’re meant to remain untold.
The Great Meadows is a captivating mystery woven into the southern fabric of the Bluegrass State, a place replete with natural beauty and a complex history that informs the hearts and minds of its people. This compelling novel combines the propulsive elements of popular suspense with the expansive themes of literary fiction. Sophisticated and meticulously crafted, this story of dark secrets and festering family wounds is replete with a host of unforgettable characters on a quest for a truth that will transform the characters and reader, alike. By the time this long-sought-after truth is revealed, the reader will feel entertained and inspired while yearning for yet another journey through the mysterious Great Meadows of Kentucky.
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When routine surgeries end in unexplained deaths, suspicion turns toward the one doctor asking questions.
Fatal Intent
Mystery · Thriller · Amateur Sleuths
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When routine surgeries end in unexplained deaths, suspicion turns toward the one doctor asking questions. In Fatal Intent, anesthesiologist Kate Downey risks her probationary career to investigate a pattern no one else wants to see. As intimidation escalates into violence and her personal life fractures under strain, this medical mystery blends ethical tension with high-stakes suspense.
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" Medical suspense as sharp as it gets. Euliano is off to a good, no, a brilliant start."
— Kathy Reichs, New York Times best-selling author
End-of-life care— or assisted death
When her elderly patients start dying at home days after minor surgery, anesthesiologist Dr. Kate Downey wants to know why. The surgeon, not so much. " Old people die, that' s what they do," is his response. When Kate presses, surgeon Charles Ricken places the blame squarely on her shoulders. Kate is currently on probation, and the chief of staff sides with the surgeon, leaving Kate to prove her innocence and save her own career. With her husband in a prolonged coma, it' s all she has left.
Aided by her eccentric Great Aunt Irm, a precocious medical student, and the lawyer son of a victim, Kate launches her own unorthodox investigation of these unexpected deaths. As she comes closer to exposing the culprit' s identity, she faces professional intimidation, threats to her life, a home invasion, and, tragically, the suspicious death of someone close to her. The stakes escalate to the breaking point when Kate, under violent duress, is forced to choose which of her loved ones to save— and which must be sacrificed.
Perfect for fans of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen
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A childhood dare at a cursed quarry leaves a sister vanished without a trace.
The Past Is Never
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Women's Fiction
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A childhood dare at a cursed quarry leaves a sister vanished without a trace. Years after Pansy disappears from the Mississippi Delta and their father follows, Bert and Willet remain tethered to the loss that fractured their family. When new clues draw them toward the Florida Everglades, The Past Is Never unfolds as a Southern Gothic novel of grief, myth, and the long shadow of unresolved truth.
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**WINNER of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction**
**WINNER of the Mississippi Author Award for Adult Fiction selected by the Mississippi Library Association**
**WINNER of the 2019 Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Fiction**
**WINNER of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction**
**Finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Awards for Literary Fiction***
"An ode to William Faulkner. . . . As Southern as it gets."—Deep South Magazine
A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legends, family secrets, and the search for a missing child.
Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes. Not drowned, not lost . . . simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together.
Years pass with no sign, no hope of ever finding Pansy alive, and as surely as their mother died of a broken heart, Bert and Willet can't move on. So when clues surface drawing them to the remote tip of Florida, they drop everything and drive south. Deep in the murky depths of the Florida Everglades they may find the answer to Pansy's mysterious disappearance . . . but truth, like the past, is sometimes better left where it lies.
Perfect for fans of Flannery O'Connor and Dorothy Allison, The Past Is Never is an atmospheric, haunting story of myths, legends, and the good and evil we carry in our hearts.
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Face of Greed begins with a home invasion that looks random and turns anything but.
Face of Greed
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural · Political Thriller
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Face of Greed begins with a home invasion that looks random and turns anything but. When Detective Emily Hunter investigates the murder of a prominent businessman, she uncovers layers of corruption reaching into Sacramento’s political elite and criminal underworld. As she balances the case with caring for her mother’s declining health, this police procedural delivers high-stakes tension and moral complexity.
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Greed, corruption, and betrayal—no murder is as simple as it seems
When a prominent Sacramento businessman is killed and his wife injured in a brutal home invasion, Detective Emily Hunter and her partner, Javier Medina, are called to investigate. At first glance, it seems like a crime of opportunity gone horribly wrong, but Emily soon finds there might be more to both the crime and the dead man.
The high-stakes investigation also comes at a time when Emily is caring for her mother, who has early-onset Alzheimer's, and Emily struggles to balance her job with her personal life. The city's political elite seem to want the case solved quickly, but darker forces want it buried.
Could there have been a motive behind the attack, making it more than a random home invasion? Emily uncovers clues that cause her to reconsider her understanding of the crime. A deadly game of greed and deception pulls Emily deeper into the shadowy world of gang violence and retribution. She has to walk the razor's edge to identify the killer—without becoming the next victim.
Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly and Karin Slaughter
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When a beloved television presenter stands over a dead body and refuses to explain herself, the truth fractures along the lines of friendship and power.
What Happens in the Dark
Mystery · Historical Thriller
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When a beloved television presenter stands over a dead body and refuses to explain herself, the truth fractures along the lines of friendship and power. As Lily pleads not guilty, disgraced journalist Safa investigates the bruises, the silence, and the night that changed everything. What Happens in the Dark is a courtroom crime thriller that blends domestic suspense with sharp social scrutiny.
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Don’t miss the brand-new gripping thriller and courtroom drama full of twists and turns that will keep you up at night!
‘An impeccable blend of courtroom drama, mystery thriller and social commentary … a true masterpiece’ Andrea Mara
'Timely … Suspenseful and unpredictable' iPaper
'A brilliantly thought-provoking read' Crime Monthly
'The kind of crime fiction that eventually becomes social history' Literary Review
Lily and Safa were best friends growing up. Now, Lily is the nation’s favourite breakfast TV presenter and Safa, once a renowned journalist, is reeling from a recent fall from grace.
When news breaks about suspicious bruises on Lily’s body, Safa attempts to rekindle their old friendship. But Lily claims the bruises are nothing to worry about.
And then one night the police are called to Lily’s home. Lily is strangely calm – and a body lies dead at her feet.
Lily pleads not guilty, and then says nothing more. Driven by her desire to give a voice to all victims, Safa begins her own investigation into what happened that night.
But Safa is not prepared for what her quest for justice will uncover …
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