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On New Year’s Eve, Professor Frederick Latham—renowned antiquarian and self-professed treasure hunter—gathers friends and rivals at his ancestral home. At midnight, he promises he will soon reveal the discovery that has defined his life’s work. But before the sun rises on the first day of the new decade, Latham is found dead at the heart of his beloved maze. The only witness: a marble statue of the horned god Cernunnos, looming silently over the body.

New York Times Bestselling Author Sweeping from Mexico City to the dark underbelly of LA, The Silent Widow has all the trademark glamour, suspense and unexpected twists of a classic Sidney Sheldon novel. A young American au pair, Charlotte Clancy, vanishes without a trace in Mexico City. The...

From master storyteller Stephen King comes a thrilling new novel with intertwining storylines - one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker - featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters. When...

Read by Hugh Fraser Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the "Best Crime Novel of all Time" Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had...

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had got there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up, alone, in the dark, handcuffed to a makeshift bed. His right arm has...

Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash...

He was curious. It was the cop in him. That flame was still alive. The neon "Strange Investigations" sign may be flickering in disrepair outside his office, but private investigator Derek Strange is still accepting new cases. When a flashy drug lawyer hires him to prove an alibi for an accused...

An Ex-Cop Who Lost Everything. A Killer Who Will Stop At Nothing. In the exclusive enclave of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a woman who builds custom guitars is murdered. A disgraced ex-cop turned private investigator is hired by the dead woman's father and immediately becomes the target of a violent...

When crime families clash, everyone’s loyalty is for sale — even your wife’s.Michael and Rachel are hired to mediate a brewing war between rival criminal organizations.But when they step into the shadows of this violent world, Rachel becomes the irresistible bait — her body offered to...

FROM JUROR TO DEFENDANT. THIS CLIENT WILL NEED MORE THAN A LAWYER TO SURVIVE. When Vera Hopkins dies on the eve of her ninetieth birthday, suspicions immediately point to her niece, Virginia. With the old woman’s will changed just days earlier, naming Virginia as the sole heir to the...

It’s autumn in Redwood Grove, and Annie and Fletcher have their hands full running the Secret Bookcase and handling their growing caseload at the Novel Detectives. To add to the excitement, a popular ghost hunter has set his sights on the old English estate to feature on his hit TV...

Edgar Award Winner, 1981 From a New York Times–bestselling author, a "solid winner in just about any mystery/adventure race" featuring a private eye targeting racetrack corruption (Kirkus Reviews). Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling...

Former Secret Service Agents turned private investigators, Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, return in their most surprising, personal and dangerous case to date. King and Maxwell is the explosive finale to David Baldacci's phenomenal series. King and Maxwell encounter teenager Tyler Wingo when he...

She's defending one man, but thousands of lives could be riding on the case's outcome. No pressure. In the second installment of the Cadence Elliott Legal Thriller Series, a tech entrepreneur is murdered and Cadence steps in to defend the accused. Her client is a homeless man named Brandon...

Jim Butcher’s breakthrough #1 New York Times bestseller starring Chicago’s only professional wizard, Harry Dresden. When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry is thought of as either a black sheep or a sacrificial lamb. And none hold him in more disdain than...

The short story OBITS won the 2016 Edgar for best short story. Featuring introductions to each story, read by Stephen King. A thrilling collection of stories - some brand new, some published in magazines, all entirely brilliant and assembled in one book for the first time - with a wonderful...

This collection of stories continues the adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle’s much-loved fictional detective. In these intriguing tales, Holmes and Watson solve cases that range from the suspicious to the downright strange, and encounter mysteries as diverse as vanishing staff, secret plans and eccentric lodgers.

Elvis Presley has left the building. Now Cal Chance has sixteen days to find him.There are ten people legally named Elvis Presley in Clark County. Cal just has to find the right one. In Las Vegas, that turns out to be the easy part.Cal plays fast and loose with the rules and makes his living...

Kleos Henry Mehlos und Joanna Santow von der Hyde Park Agency sind eingeladen auf Lansdowne Manor in Wimbledon. Der Chef eines hoch bewerteten Start-up-Unternehmens stellt ein sensationelles digitales Produkt vor. Mitten in seiner Keynote stirbt er live unter den Augen von Millionen Zuschauern aus dem Internet. Auf dem prächtigen Herrensitz mit Ballsaal, Park und Wintergarten ermitteln Mehlos & Santow zwischen Lordschaften, Influencern und exzentrischen Persönlichkeiten.

Charles Bukowski's brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski's trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane, private detective and career...