By Nicholas Blake
Males - overall strangers - determine the precise alibis through arranging to change sufferers. Ned Stowe will kill Stuart Hammer’s filthy rich uncle for which carrier Hammer is to do away with Stowe’s neurotic spouse, Helena. Too far-fetched? might be. however the males plot and the plan - with its horrifyingly basic premise - is solidified...
By JoAnna Carl
When Lee hires a free-spirited worker with a tie-dyed, stricken prior, she discovers that even the counterculture can disguise a killer....
As a lot because the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis Chocolade can tantalize people’s tongues, Lee’s latest lease is prone to cause them to wag. Forsythia “Sissy” Smith is the granddaughter of Warner Pier’s resident hippie, however the proven fact that Sissy is a third-generation flower baby is the least of Lee’s issues. the former wintry weather, Sissy’s husband, Buzz, was once chanced on useless, or even even though her alibi used to be hermetic, the gossips are nonetheless pointing their arms at her.
Then the manager gossip is located useless, with Sissy at the scene. was once she lured there? Or is she the killer? Lee has a sneaking suspicion that somebody is out to maintain a gloomy mystery from coming to mild. and they might don't have any challenge killing a definite shrewdpermanent chocolatier who may perhaps discover the truth....
With Tasty Chocolate Trivia!
By Agatha Christie
The Queen of poser has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the said mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth pass over 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 complicated puzzles to Harper Paperbacks. In The replicate Crack’d from part to Side, a deadly dose of poison intended for a glamorous celebrity fells her ardent admirer instead—and leave out Marple is there to unmask a murderer.
By Patricia Hall
Kate O’Donnell, clean from her adventures in Dead Beat, discovers over again there’s a darker aspect to London within the Swinging Sixties. - Beatlemania has reached London, yet younger photographer Kate O’Donnell quickly discovers a darker part of the town while a prostitute is located murdered off the Portobello street. A West Indian immigrant, Nelson waterproof coat, is arrested, and simmering racial pressure reaches brink. confident of Nelson’s innocence, Kate determines to trace down the genuine killer. but if her actions allure the eye of infamous gangster King Devine, now not even Kate’s outdated sparring associate DS Harry Barnard can confirm her safety.
By Eoin McNamee
1949. Lance Curran is decided to prosecute a tender guy for a brutal homicide, within the 'Robert the Painter' case, one that threatens to rip society aside. within the searing July warmth, corruption and justice vie as Harry Ferguson, pass judgement on Curran's fixer, contemplates the souls of guys adrift, and his personal fall from grace with the attractive and wilful Patricia. inside of 3 years, Curran can be a pass judgement on, his nineteen 12 months outdated daughter useless, by the hands of a nonetheless unknown assassin, and his spouse Doris condemned to an asylum for the remainder of her days.
In Blue Is the Night, it's Doris who ultimately emerges from the fog of deceit and blame to forged new gentle into the homicide of her daughter - as McNamee once more explores and dramatizes a infamous and nefarious case.
By Edward Marston
Whilst the deathly horrors of the Black Plague decimate the audiences in London's theatres, the acclaimed troupe of avid gamers referred to as Lord Westfield's males take to the highroad to search out clean audiences. yet anyplace they pass, they're thwartd by means of misfortune, and are baffled by means of mysteries.
By Lynn Flewelling
Acclaimed writer Lynn Flewelling brings her cherished Nightrunners sequence to a close—at least for now—with an exciting novel of homicide, secret, and magic.
The governor of the sacred island of Korous and his mistress were killed inside of a locked and protected room. the only real witnesses to the crime—guards who broke down the doorways, listening to the screams from within—have long gone mad with terror, babbling approximately ghosts . . . and issues worse than ghosts.
Dispatched to Korous by way of the queen, grasp spies Alec and Seregil locate the entire pleasure and possibility they can want—and extra. For an historical evil has been woke up there, an excellent energy that won't leisure until eventually it has escaped its otherworldly criminal and brought revenge on all that lives. And simply these like Alec—who have died and back to life—can step among the worlds and confront the killer . . . whether it capability a moment and all too everlasting death.
Praise for Lynn Flewelling’s Casket of Souls
“Full of intrigue and plots upon plots.”—RT ebook Reviews
By Susan Wittig Albert
Herbalist and ex-lawyer China Bayles is “in a category with girl sleuths V. I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum” (Publishers Weekly). In Widow’s Tears, a haunted residence may possibly carry the most important to fixing the homicide of 1 of China’s acquaintances…
After wasting her family members and residential within the Galveston storm of 1900, Rachel Blackwood rebuilt her condo 100 miles inland and later died there, nonetheless wrapped in her grief.
In present-day Texas, Claire, the grandniece of Rachel’s caretaker, has inherited the home and needs to show it right into a bed-and-breakfast. yet she is anxious that it’s haunted, so she calls in her pal Ruby—who has the reward of extrasensory perception—to fee it out.
While Ruby is ghost looking, China Bayles walks right into a hurricane of difficulty in within sight Pecan Springs. A part hour prior to she is to make her nightly deposit, the Pecan Springs financial institution is robbed and a teller is shot and killed.
Before she will detect the id of the killers, China follows Ruby to the Blackwood condo to debate pressing enterprise. As she is drawn into the secret of the haunted residence, China opens the door on a few very actual possibility…
Hard-living inner most detective Karl Craven didn’t ask for difficulty whilst he arrived in Paulton, Missouri—but difficulty came across him besides. First it used to be his companion, Oke Johnson, shot within the head via a silenced rifle. Then it used to be the femme fatale Ginger Bolton, who took him for a wild experience his first evening on the town. yet it’s Penelope Grayson—the sultry blonde whose uncle employed Craven to shake her free from a neighborhood cult—who takes the prize.
Penelope calls herself a Daughter of Solomon, a member of a gaggle combined up in every thing from viticulture to playing and prostitution. As Craven will get toward the cult, he realizes that it isn’t the town’s simply probability. to resolve the case of Oke’s homicide and unfastened Penelope from the seize of Solomon, Craven also needs to tangle with a crooked police leader, a treacherous legal professional, and a ruthless gangster—all primed to deliver him down until he can outwit them first.
By Marta Perry
Did a sweet-faced Amish youngster brutally homicide a tender lady? to avoid wasting her occupation, big-city legal professional Jessica Langdon is decided to guard him—against the community's sour or even violent outrage. but with no an knowing of Amish tradition, Jessica needs to depend upon smug businessman Trey Morgan, who has ties to the Amish neighborhood… and believes within the boy's guilt.
Jessica has threats coming from either side: a neighborhood enthusiast, stirred up via the biased exposure of the case; the useless girl's boyfriend; even from the individual she's realized to belief the main, Trey Morgan. yet simply whilst Jessica fears she's positioned her belief within the incorrect guy, Trey saves her lifestyles. And now they need to either succeed in right into a harmful earlier to guard everyone's future—including their own.