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NEW FOR 2023 – STAND-ALONE, #21 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "A COMPELLING BRITISH CRIME MYSTERY." SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, SPEAK NO EVIL ... A reality documentary crew is on the hunt for a victim. An unsolved murder from the 1970s that could leave the authorities red-faced. Celebrity criminologist Professor Simeon Freud plans to bask in the glory. Posing as a researcher, DS Jones joins the production team, but Skelgill must work in the shadows. His instincts rebel – not least that his protégé is prey to a narcissist on the one hand and a killer on ...

When a reservation scout discovers a woman’s body, it triggers a chilling chain of events including corruption, kidnapping, and murder. Rex Chambers—charismatic, powerful, and on the verge of becoming Oregon’s next governor—harbors dark secrets he’ll do anything to protect… An extortionist threatens to blow up a hydroelectric dam unless a ransom is paid. Is the threat real, or a smokescreen for his evil intentions? ... Credit Manager Shayla Treppa investigates illicit payments to a shadowy corporation—then she vanishes without a trace… A young Native American, distrustful of...

Inspector Samuel Tay is the best homicide detective Singapore CID ever had, but Tay's bosses don't like him and he doesn't like them. The maverick streak he inherited from his American father makes people uneasy in well-ordered little Singapore where go-along-to-get-along is practically the national religion. The wife of the American ambassador has been murdered and her body posed in a hotel room in a grotesque sexual display. The FBI says terrorists are responsible, but the whispers on the street tell a different story. The whispers say that a serial killer is stalking prominent American ...

Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator.

When his beautiful young wife Abby goes missing ex soldier Wayne Drummond is distraught and being suspected by the police of having killed her is even worse. With no trace of her being found he is close to despair when a small slip of paper gives him the smallest clue as to what may just possibly have happened. Determined to find her no matter what it might take he follows this clue and this leads him on a strange and dangerous quest to find the truth. He finds unexpected help from a young woman living apart from her husband and single-handedly rearing her son, a young, bright, but autistic...

Alyn is a successful businessman with no time for any supernatural twaddle so when his friend Marty claims to have met a ‘witch girl’ it is just another story. By chance he meets the same girl and is drawn to her in spite of her reputation. But there is another that would keep her from any that seek get close. Ignoring all the warning signs he seeks to get closer still, dismissing as imagination the strange events that happen until at last he is brought face to face with the awesome might of the Guardian. Only then does he realise that he is powerless in the face of the nightmare from ...

Paul hadn’t seen his wife for twenty years, so it came as a considerable shock when he was awoken in the early hours of the morning by the police to say that she was seriously ill in hospital and asking for him. He reached her side as she was dying and with her last breath she made him promise to find Sam. He asked who Sam was but by then she was past answering as death finally claimed her for its own. It was a puzzle that took an increasingly sinister turn as it became clear that others were also seeking the mysterious Sam as well, and they didn’t want any opposition. He soon became ...

Ex soldier Alec Barstow is driving to a local supermarket when he witnesses a pedestrian struck by a speeding vehicle in the opposite carriageway and flung onto his car. He applies first-aid to the badly injured victim and passes on to the local police such information as he can in order that the driver who failed to stop can be traced. Following the accident he takes it into his head to check up on the victim because he is suspicious that what he saw wasn’t an accident but a deliberate attempt at murder. He is convinced he is right when he is later violently assaulted and ‘advised’ ...

When Martin Scanforth, a successful and recently widowed businessman visits an old Victorian mansion left to him by an uncle he has had no contact with since childhood, with view to disposing of the place, he soon discovers that matters are nothing like as clear cut as he imagines. Set in the countryside outside the small country-town of Wellworthy he discovers that there is an aura of mystery surrounding the death of his uncle which unsettles him. The house is being cared for by a frosty-faced sharp tongued housekeeper who was devoted to his uncle, and the mystery seems to envelop her as ...

Neil Hammond is by profession a design engineer, and by his own admission a bit of a square, and destined to be one of life's failures. Becoming a victim of the economic recession he very reluctantly accepts a temporary cash-in-hand job of looking after a friend's detective agency for a week while the proprietor, a friend of his from school-days is away on a case. The work seems to consist in the main of such exciting cases as looking for lost cats or watching erring husbands, but matters take an unexpected twist when he rescues a young woman from a car that has been washed away in flood ...

Whilst at the point of leaping to his death from a motorway bridge, Stephen Cheney meets a mysterious young woman who suddenly vanishes. He is intrigued, and following an unexplained impulse he goes to a sleepy little village ticked away in a forgotten corner of Sussex where he meets her again, yet once again she vanishes, leaving him wondering about his sanity. He feels compelled to find her, and in the process he recovers the memories of a forgotten childhood and realises that the mysterious girl is a part of that forgotten period. All the evidence points to her being the ghost of a ...

Lesley Jameson believes that she has everything in life that one could desire, loving parents, a great career, respect, money. But with the death of her parents she is shocked to discover that she is not their daughter, but an adopted child. She becomes obsessed with discovering her roots, even though she is warned that no good can come of delving into the past. Who is Marion? What did she fear to the point where death itself was preferable to facing it? Who is the shadowy figure that could be her father? What terrible secrets lay hidden by the unknown Mrs X who lived just long enough to ...

When Professor Stephen Brent, the widowed Managing Director of a major pharmaceutical company was driving home late one night down the lonely country road that was his normal route, the last thing he expected was that upon being momentarily dazzled by the headlights of an oncoming vehicle he would almost kill a young schoolgirl trudging along the road with an old suitcase. She is miles from anywhere, and obviously in the last stages of exhaustion, and her ankle is injured by the glancing blow he caught her as he had swung the car to avoid running right over her. With nowhere to go, no home ...

One evening on the week leading up to Christmas Russell Murton all but runs over a figure that lurches suddenly in front of his car. He is astonished when he suddenly realises it is a girl he knew at school, Suki Wainwright, a shy, introverted nobody that no one ever noticed and he has quite forgotten about. He becomes even more surprised when she blurts out that somebody is trying to kill her. Initially he thinks this is just her imagination but when more attempts are made he starts to believe that she is telling the truth. But who would want to hurt, let alone kill somebody is shy, ...

"The Valley of Fear" is the fourth and final full novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that featured his greatest creation: the world's first consulting detective, the brilliant and legendary Sherlock Holmes.

A chill wind blows through 1920s Uppsala, but it's not just the Nordic winter that bites in the seventh gripping installment of The Travelling Detective series. At the discreet behest of his brother Mycroft, Sherlock Holmes, with the ever-faithful Dr. Watson by his side, ventures into the ancient heart of Sweden. Their mission: to investigate the baffling disappearance of the Gustafsson Rune Stone, a priceless artifact whose newly revealed inscriptions hint at a truth that could shatter Sweden's understanding of its own origins. Plunged into a world of secretive academics, zealous theorists...

When Bob Featherstone booked in at a so-so hotel on the South coast it was with the anticipation of enjoying to the full the delights of the most wonderful girl who had ever come into his life at that point. The fact that she was the only girl ever to show even remote interest in him as beside the point. A shy, introverted and rather self-effacing accounts clerk he still lived at home with his mother and had all but reached the point of believing that he would never have any luck with the opposite sex and suddenly it all happened. Only it didn’t. She dropped him at the last minute and ...

For Carol Penner, a young, happily mannered school teacher it was even better than winning the lottery, right out of the blue she learns that she has suddenly inherited a fortune from an uncle she never even knew had existed, along with an ancient house set on an island off the coast of a particularly remote part of the British Isles. Along with her husband and two of her friends she visits the house called Havenridge, and here she meets a writer called Barry Ingram. But all is not as it seems, and danger appears to threaten her, and she hears of the legend of a family ghost known locally ...

David Stewart, a happily married businessman returns to his home one evening to find a note left on the table advising him that his wife Janine has had enough and left him. He is devastated by this and finds it quite unacceptable that she would ever do such a thing, and he rapidly comes to the conclusion that she has not left of her own free will, but nobody initially believes him. When no trace of her is discovered, and her car is later found abandoned in local woodland he fears the worst yet remains determined to find her. And then a body is found in the woods, not of Janine, but another ...

Zoe Forbes is a professional photographer who has recently escaped from a personal relationship and engaged upon trying to rebuild her life when a chance assignment takes her to the small town of Withramstowe and a mystery that challenged the very basis of her beliefs. Who us the mysterious teenager who appears to be trying to contact her? What is the secret of Enderby Hall and the Bartchester family? Intrigued, and with the help of an old friend from many years back, Greg Hollister she gets drawn ever deeper into the mystery of what may have happened somewhere in that house until finally ...