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The Private Patient
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But... Read more >
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $15.00
Cheverell Manor is a beautiful old house in Dorset, which its owner, the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell, uses as a private clinic. When the investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, arrives to have a disfiguring facial scar removed, she has every expectation of a successful operation and a peaceful week recuperating. But... Read more >
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The Victoria Vanishes
A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Written by Christopher Fowler
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.00
Murder doesn’t get more peculiar than this. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs. What’s even more peculiar, Arthur Bryant happened to see the latest victim only moments before her death—at a pub torn down eighty years ago! It’s only the beginning of... Read more >
A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
Written by Christopher Fowler
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $15.00
Murder doesn’t get more peculiar than this. A lonely hearts killer is targeting middle-aged women at some of England’s most well-known pubs. What’s even more peculiar, Arthur Bryant happened to see the latest victim only moments before her death—at a pub torn down eighty years ago! It’s only the beginning of... Read more >
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No More Dying Then
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $12.95
What kind of a person would kidnap two children?
That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns... Read more >
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $12.95
What kind of a person would kidnap two children?
That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns... Read more >
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Some Lie and Some Die
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $12.95
A mutilated body found at a rock festival.
In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a... Read more >
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2009
Price: $12.95
A mutilated body found at a rock festival.
In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a... Read more >
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Murder Being Once Done
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $14.95
A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's... Read more >
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2009
Price: $14.95
A young girl is murdered in a cemetery. And Wexford's doctor has prescribed no alcohol, no rich food and, above all, no police work. When a young girl's body is found in a London cemetery and the local police, under the command of Wexford's nephew, are baffled, Wexford decides to brave his doctor's... Read more >
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Bluegate Fields
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London’s most dangerous slums. What’s more, the unfortunate boy had been violated before he was murdered. So vile a case is hardly a topic... Read more >
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
Inspector Thomas Pitt is shocked. The body of a boy, clearly from the upper classes, has been found in the filthy sewers of Bluegate Fields, one of London’s most dangerous slums. What’s more, the unfortunate boy had been violated before he was murdered. So vile a case is hardly a topic... Read more >
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Resurrection Row
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab–and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a... Read more >
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
It is a most incredible sight: a corpse sitting at the reins of a hansom cab–and not just any corpse, but the body of a peer of the realm. To Inspector Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, this macabre apparition seems like sheer lunacy. Who would ever want to exhume a... Read more >
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The Sins of the Wolf
A William Monk Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well suited for the task: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hester’s simple job takes a grave turn when Mrs. Farraline dies during the night. And when a postmortem examination of the body... Read more >
A William Monk Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well suited for the task: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hester’s simple job takes a grave turn when Mrs. Farraline dies during the night. And when a postmortem examination of the body... Read more >
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A Sudden, Fearful Death
A William Monk Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale’s angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime–which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by... Read more >
A William Monk Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale’s angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime–which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by... Read more >
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Jane and the Stillroom Maid
Being the Fifth Jane Austen Mystery
Written by Stephanie Barron
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
Jane Austen as sleuth continues to delight in her latest adventure (after Jane and the Genius of the Place), which sheds new light on the author's travels in 1806. While enjoying a ramble in the Derbyshire hills near Bakewell (a town Eliza Bennett visits in Pride and Prejudice), Jane discovers the... Read more >
Being the Fifth Jane Austen Mystery
Written by Stephanie Barron
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2009
Price: $6.99
Jane Austen as sleuth continues to delight in her latest adventure (after Jane and the Genius of the Place), which sheds new light on the author's travels in 1806. While enjoying a ramble in the Derbyshire hills near Bakewell (a town Eliza Bennett visits in Pride and Prejudice), Jane discovers the... Read more >
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Original Sin
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $14.95
Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a... Read more >
Written by P. D. James
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: July 14, 2009
Price: $14.95
Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery from one of our finest novelists.
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of impenetrable complexity. A murder has taken place in the offices of the Peverell Press, a... Read more >
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Not in the Flesh
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who have disappeared over the past decade in... Read more >
Written by Ruth Rendell
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $15.00
After a truffle-hunting dog unearths a human hand instead of a precious fungus, Chief Inspector Wexford and his team proceed to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the errant appendage among the eighty-five people who have disappeared over the past decade in... Read more >
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Defend and Betray
A William Monk Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the general’s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed him–a story she... Read more >
A William Monk Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
After a brilliant military career, esteemed General Thaddeus Carlyon finally meets his death, not in the frenzy of battle but at an elegant London dinner party. His demise appears to be the result of a freak accident, but the general’s beautiful wife, Alexandra, readily confesses that she killed him–a story she... Read more >
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Paragon Walk
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered.
Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it... Read more >
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel
Written by Anne Perry
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 26, 2009
Price: $15.00
In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, an unspeakable crime is committed: A young woman is brutally raped and murdered.
Once again, that incomparable team of sleuths Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, set themselves against a vicious murderer. As the elegant masks of the wellborn suspects slip, it... Read more >
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Scared to Live
Written by Stephen Booth
Format: Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $7.99
How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a life?
That’s the challenge facing Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry when a reclusive agoraphobic is found shot to death in her home. For a woman with no friends, no family, and virtually no contact with the... Read more >
Written by Stephen Booth
Format: Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $7.99
How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a life?
That’s the challenge facing Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry when a reclusive agoraphobic is found shot to death in her home. For a woman with no friends, no family, and virtually no contact with the... Read more >
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Verdict Unsafe
Written by Jill McGown
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $7.99
Detective Inspector Judy Hill anxiously watched the trial of serial rapist Colin Arthur Drummond from the public gallery--never forgetting his chilling threat that she would be his next victim. The prosecution should have an open-and-shut case.
But sixteen months later Drummond is back on the streets, threatening Judy once more. And... Read more >
Written by Jill McGown
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2009
Price: $7.99
Detective Inspector Judy Hill anxiously watched the trial of serial rapist Colin Arthur Drummond from the public gallery--never forgetting his chilling threat that she would be his next victim. The prosecution should have an open-and-shut case.
But sixteen months later Drummond is back on the streets, threatening Judy once more. And... Read more >
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Malice in Cornwall
An Erskine Powell Mystery
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $6.50
ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD IS BACK--INVESTIGATING THE STRANGE RIDDLE OF PENRICK SANDS.
On the north coast of Cornwall, residents in the quaint seaside town of Penrick report a terrifying phenomenon--an eerie, glowing apparition that rides the surf at night, adding a weird fascination to this place of picturesque streets, secluded beaches... Read more >
An Erskine Powell Mystery
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $6.50
ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD IS BACK--INVESTIGATING THE STRANGE RIDDLE OF PENRICK SANDS.
On the north coast of Cornwall, residents in the quaint seaside town of Penrick report a terrifying phenomenon--an eerie, glowing apparition that rides the surf at night, adding a weird fascination to this place of picturesque streets, secluded beaches... Read more >
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The Shape of Snakes
Written by Minette Walters
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $13.95
A psychological thriller about race, family, and the brutal power of raw emotion.
Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britain’s Winter of Discontent. “Mad Annie,” as she was known, was the only black resident of her West London neighborhood... Read more >
Written by Minette Walters
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $13.95
A psychological thriller about race, family, and the brutal power of raw emotion.
Mrs. Ranelagh has never stopped thinking about the dead body she found in the gutter twenty years ago, during Britain’s Winter of Discontent. “Mad Annie,” as she was known, was the only black resident of her West London neighborhood... Read more >
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The Echo
Written by Minette Walters
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $12.95
In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after... Read more >
Written by Minette Walters
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $12.95
In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after... Read more >
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Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House
Written by Stephanie Barron
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $7.99
In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the picturesque British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful, eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has come ashore. And... Read more >
Written by Stephanie Barron
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: March 25, 2009
Price: $7.99
In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the picturesque British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful, eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has come ashore. And... Read more >
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The Dark Room
Written by Minette Walters
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $12.95
In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire’s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia. Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn’t remember that her impending wedding has been called off or that her former... Read more >
Written by Minette Walters
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $12.95
In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire’s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia. Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn’t remember that her impending wedding has been called off or that her former... Read more >
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The Chameleon's Shadow
Written by Minette Walters
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the author of The Devil's Feather comes a haunting psychological thriller about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner turmoil of a killer.
Somewhere in the endless, deadly desert between Basra and Baghdad, Lieutenant Charles Acland's convoy was attacked. Recovering in the hospital, Charles is crippled... Read more >
Written by Minette Walters
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
From the author of The Devil's Feather comes a haunting psychological thriller about a scarred Iraq war veteran whose physical trauma may reflect the inner turmoil of a killer.
Somewhere in the endless, deadly desert between Basra and Baghdad, Lieutenant Charles Acland's convoy was attacked. Recovering in the hospital, Charles is crippled... Read more >
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Malice in London
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $6.50
DETECTIVE-CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT ERSKINE POWELL RETURNS--INVESTIGATING MALICE IN HIS OWN BACKYARD.
When a murder victim is discovered in the murky waters of the River Thames, Erskine Powell of Scotland Yard plunges into the most diabolical case of his distinguished career. A second brutal slaying draws Powell even deeper into a tangled web of... Read more >
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $6.50
DETECTIVE-CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT ERSKINE POWELL RETURNS--INVESTIGATING MALICE IN HIS OWN BACKYARD.
When a murder victim is discovered in the murky waters of the River Thames, Erskine Powell of Scotland Yard plunges into the most diabolical case of his distinguished career. A second brutal slaying draws Powell even deeper into a tangled web of... Read more >
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Malice in the Highlands
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $6.99
INTRODUCING ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD
Crime, investigation, punishment. They're all in a day's work to Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard. As a member of the Yard's Murder Squad, Powell tracks miscreants all over London.
Now, seeking distance from the criminal constituency--and the bureaucratic drudgery of the Yard--Powell embarks... Read more >
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $6.99
INTRODUCING ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD
Crime, investigation, punishment. They're all in a day's work to Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard. As a member of the Yard's Murder Squad, Powell tracks miscreants all over London.
Now, seeking distance from the criminal constituency--and the bureaucratic drudgery of the Yard--Powell embarks... Read more >
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Malice on the Moors
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $6.50
ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD INVESTIGATES MURDER ON THE MOORS.
On a remote, fog-enshrouded estate in the North York Moors, a murderer lays a cunning trap. The prey, it seems, is Dickie Dinsdale, the greedy landowner who bulldozes people's lives like so many old barns.
Easily a dozen residents of Blackamoor would derive... Read more >
Written by Graham Thomas
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2009
Price: $6.50
ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD INVESTIGATES MURDER ON THE MOORS.
On a remote, fog-enshrouded estate in the North York Moors, a murderer lays a cunning trap. The prey, it seems, is Dickie Dinsdale, the greedy landowner who bulldozes people's lives like so many old barns.
Easily a dozen residents of Blackamoor would derive... Read more >
Also available as a
paperback.
