A murdered antiquities dealer, a missing mummy, and an irascible husband are just a few of the complications involved in an archaeology trip for Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody. An ancient tomb may turn out to be her grave.

In this first of a new series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially ap...

When Monday Brown disappears and circumstances point to murder, few people in Billings, Montana, are surprised or think it undeserved. His business practices were undesirable and his profession - a trader in Indian artifacts who woul...

Mary Jago had donated her own bone marrow to save the life of someone she didn't know. And this generous act led directly to the bitter break-up of her affair with Alistair. For him, it was as though her beauty had been plundered. But...

Ralph Leslie absolutely loves his job as a steward on millionaire Marshall Turner's lavish super-yacht---that is, until a brutal killer starts murdering the crew. While the passengers panic, Leslie must try to stay alive long enough t...

A beautiful girl seeks the help of an attorney when her father vanishes. Soon, her aunt also disappears from a locked house in the dead of the night. The search leads to the infamous White Cat, a nightclub frequented by crooked politi...

After her daughter, Shana, is hospitalized for mental evaluation, tough judge Lily Forrester discovers that the institution is more interested in collecting its extravagant fees than in treating patients. What she doesn't know is that...

When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor. There, Master Stevyns s wife is having an affair with the groom, while a local widow acts more like the lady of the m...

Meet Lord Peter Wimsey, stylish, eccentric, seeming a fool, but in fact one of the great English detectives. The discovery of a body in a bathtub wearing only a pair of spectacles, launches a motley set of sleuths and suspects toward ...

FBI Special Agent Ana Gray returns in this complex, involving thriller about a dedicated officer's search for a serial rapist that proceeds alongside her passionate and obsessive love affair with a fellow cop, Santa Monica detective A...

When the Washington National Opera becomes the scene of the brutal murder of a young soprano, Mac Smith and his wife, gallery owner Annabel Reed Smith, launch their own investigation that leads them into a race against time to stop an...

Historic Union Station means nothing to the elderly man speeding south on the last lap of what will turn out to be a one-way journey from Tel Aviv to D.C. ' on a train that will soon land him at Gate A-8 and, moments later, at St. Pet...

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and p...

It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio's when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it's too ...

[Read by Tony Roberts] In Swimming to Catalina, ex-cop-turned-Manhattan-attorney and investigator Stone Barrington is back, still smarting from his sudden breakup with brilliant, beautiful magazine writer Arrington Carrington, who ha...

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled 'Hillikers,' read by Stephen Hoye.On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as t...

44 Scotland Street' is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is an audiobook that provides huge entert...

The Quiche of Death - Struggling to adapt to life in a Cotswold village after a lifetime spent in Public Relations, Agatha Raisin determines to make her mark by winning the local baking competition. When the judge is poisoned by her e...

Fresh off his Man Booker prize-winning THE SEA, John Banville has donned the pseudonym of Benjamin Black and dipped into the dark waters of crime fiction. His protagonist is a Dublin pathologist named Quirke who, in the aftermath of h...

A newly widowed woman returns to her father’s house in ancient Egypt, where she finds sudden death lurking behind every corner after the murder of her father’s manipulative and scheming concubine. Read by Emilia Fox. Book ...

The drinks are on Sunshine State historian/spree killer Serge A. Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. So he's motoring down to the Florida Keys -- the ultimate end of the line -- in search of Ms. Right . . . and fi...

Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a deeply spiritual Bangkok police detective maintaining his unique sense of integrity within a corrupt system, returns in this violently farcical, twisty sequel to the bestselling and equally outrageous BANGKOK 8...

A smart and sassy heroine makes her debut in a stylish new mystery series from the bestselling co-author of 'The Botox Diaries' and 'Mine Are Spectacular!'Lacy Fields is the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicat...

When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing–person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where...

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of...

The acclaimed author of Hit List serves as guest editor for this new collection of the finest mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Russell Bank...

From 1939-1946 Americans gathered around their radio to listen to 'The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' featuring Basil Rathbone as the high-strung crime-solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson.Witty, fast-pac...

Mike Rogers dreamed that, as an adult, he'd have a beautiful wife and a beautiful home, his reward for a turbulent early life. When he meets Ellie Gutman at Gypsy's Acre, suddenly it is all within his grasp. However, things are not as...

Michael Dibdin's diffidently honest Italian policeman Aurelio Zen has got the posting he always dreaded—he has been sent to Sicily, home of the Mafia, in a nondescript liaison job. The discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse...

When all of his friends have left town, Kinky Friedman feels very much alone. He sits and ponders the imponderables of life and discusses the state of the world with his cat. His reverie (and constant state of morbid self-absorption) ...