Classic Mystery

In the fourth book of the Aisling Grey series, Aisling is finally about to marry Drake Vireo - wyvern of the green dragons. But when Drake goes missing on their wedding day, Aisling has to track him down, no matter how many dragons, demons, and angry mages get in her way.

Step into a haunting tale where legends awaken, and courage is reborn. In this electrifying sequel to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Ichabod Crane, once a timid schoolmaster, is hurled into Hollow’s Veil—a spectral realm of glowing forests and lost souls—after a terrifying clash with the Headless Horseman. Decades later, a desperate plea from Eliza Van Tassel, a fearless historian and descendant of Sleepy Hollow’s famed family, summons him back from the Veil to the world of the living to face the nightmare he fled. The Horseman’s curse has tightened its grip, claiming lives ...

Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories....

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are back in Partners in Crime, Agatha Christie's delightful collection of short mysteries featuring the clever and adventurous husband-and-wife detective duo. When they take over the International Detective Agency, they find themselves entangled in a series of baffling cases, from missing jewels to international espionage. With their signature charm, wit, and a dash of daring, Tommy and Tuppence tackle each case while playfully imitating famous literary detectives.

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of Tey's 8 major novels in one audiobook, including all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series.

The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers. Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators, this new selection by Martin Edwards includes 18 vintage mystery stories which showcase the city's most compelling classic cases.

He’s a grieving widower of three years . . . She’s undercover working his wife’s murder case. But there’s more going on in Thornfield Manor than either of them realize. Even though Detective Elizabeth Shea worked with the feds on a case a year before, the last thing she expects is to be requested on a murder case in a rural California town called Thornfield. Almost three years after Katelyn Daley was murdered in her home, without any leads, the case went cold — until a week ago when a doctor was killed in the same execution style as her. Now with new leads, the Feds need Elizabeth...

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties.

Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl's imaginary friend, a dinosaur detective who could help her make sense of the world. But when her father died, Tippy fell into the Stillreal, the underbelly of the Imagination, where discarded ideas go when they're too real to disappear. Now, he passes time doing detective work for other unwanted ideas - until Tippy runs into The Man in the Coat, a nightmare monster who can do the impossible: kill an idea permanently. Now Tippy must overcome his own trauma and solve the case, before there's nothing left but imaginary corpses.

It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by losing himself in the thick of London's underbelly. He boards at a brothel in exchange for teaching the mistress how to read and spends his nights dredging the Thames for dead bodies and the treasures in their pockets.

Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way. Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan.

When a practical joke at the manor house of Chimneys takes a deadly turn, the discovery of a murdered guest and a strange clock point to a deeper conspiracy. Bundle Brent, a spirited and clever heroine, sets out to unravel the enigma of the Seven Dials Club—a shadowy group whose motives remain shrouded in mystery. As Bundle pieces together cryptic clues and faces growing peril, she discovers that the truth may come at a shocking price.

In 1863 a meeting takes place between legendary war Ieaders - a secret alliance that will never show up in any American history books. A clandestine arrangement has been struck for a single chance to heal a war-torn nation. The mission is to bring the greatest prize in the world back to American soil - remnants of prehistory's greatest ship and most startling mystery.

When the supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago - and all he holds dear?

Harmon Cooper presents Book 8 in the Cherry Blossom Girls series.

Some Like It Hot. Dirty. Big. Three Classic Erotica Novels. Full-length stories. Vintage reads: The Hot Librarian She Likes It Nasty She Wants It Good Naughty erotic stories, longer than usual stories with lots of action and encounters. MF/FF and group. Too BIG, stretched and more.

"With the roar of thunder and the speed of a galloping horse comes the tide to Mont St. Michel", goes the old nursery song. So when the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family falls victim to the perilous tide, even the old man's family accepts the verdict of accidental drowning. But too quickly, this "accident" is followed by a bizarre discovery in the ancient du Rocher chateau: a human skeleton, wrapped in butcher paper, beneath the old stone flooring. Professor Gideon Oliver, lecturing on forensic anthropology at nearby St. Malo, is asked to examine the bones.

In three beautifully crafted, dramatic acts, James's little-known novel unravels the painfully complicated emotional bonds which exist within a group of friends and lovers connected by two neighboring homes as they fight publicly for preferment, reciprocation, and successful marriage....

The virtuous and loving Emily, the young protagonist, finds herself in the care of her aunt following the death of her father. Her aunt promptly marries the villain Montoni, a cruel and calculating man whose scheming leads him to lock both women in the dark and winding castle of Udolpho. Will they survive to tell of its terrors?

In the high-octane world of competitive dressage, Elizabeth Bennet isn’t just riding for the title—she’s fighting to protect her sister’s dreams, her family’s reputation, and her own pride. When Jane’s shot at regional glory is threatened by a handsome manipulator, a vengeful ex-fiancée, and a dressage training clinic so political it makes Parliament look polite, Lizzy must steel her nerves and her spine. Enter Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: aloof, exacting, and maddeningly magnetic. As head clinician, he critiques with surgical precision and rides like sin on horseback. But as ...