Time Detectives

What can one college freshman do against a growing alien threat? Starting college in a foreign country should come with an instruction manual. Out of her element and out of heels, Anna Mae Rivers feels up a creek without a paddle. She’s been in Berlin less than forty-eight hours and she’s already gotten herself mixed up in a supernatural murder mystery. Too bad it’s pets that are being eliminated. Otherwise the police might take the case seriously. When she comes face to face with something out of her worst nightmare, she’s forced to change her mind on what’s real and what is ...

When TV psychic Oscar Whitehouse is found murdered inside a locked room, private detective Kempston Hardwick and his friend Ellis Flint are called in to investigate. Within a matter of days, a second murder takes place in the small village of Tollinghill and a local resident claims she saw the already-dead Oscar Whitehouse at the scene, apparently alive and well. Hardwick and Flint realize they have more than just a conventional mystery on their hands. Can they uncover the secret of the Tollinghill murders before it’s too late?

Charlie Sparks had it all. A former primetime television personality, his outdated style has seen him relegated to the scrap heap. When he collapses and dies during a stand-up routine at a local pub, mysterious bystander Kempston Hardwick is compelled to investigate his suspicious death. As Hardwick begins to unravel the mystery, he quickly comes to realize that Charlie Sparks' death throws up more peculiar questions than answers.

The new VI Warshawski novel from the New York Times best-selling author pits acclaimed detective VI Warshawski against some of today's most powerful figures. Legendary sleuth VI Warshawski returns to the Windy City to save an old friend's nephew from a murder arrest. The case involves a stolen artifact that could implicate a shadowy network of international criminals. As VI investigates, the detective soon finds herself tangling with the Russian mob, ISIS backers and a shady network of stock scams and stolen art that stretches from Chicago to the East Indies and the Middle East.

It's 1898. Kismet brings about a chance reunion at a London club between Dr. Watson and Colonel "Maiwand Mike" Fenlon, former military comrades from their Northwest Frontier days and the desperate Battle of Maiwand. A week later an urgent cable seeking Sherlock Holmes's help arrives from the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency 30 miles off the coast of Normandy. A retired high-ranking British Indian Army officer who commanded the troops at Maiwand has dropped dead. Colonel Fenlon is in a holding cell awaiting trial for his murder.

Die Erschöpfung einer langen Nachtfahrt zwingt Professor van Dusen und Hatch, sich in einem abgelegenen kleinen Hotel einzuquartieren. Eigentlich eine gute Gelegenheit, die in letzter Zeit zwischen ihnen brodelnden Konflikte näher zu besprechen … wenn da nicht zur unpassendsten Zeit ein Mord geschehen und das Hotel von finsteren Gestalten umzingelt würde. Denn leider war das Opfer der Geldkurier eines skrupellosen Gangsterbosses und dieser gibt van Dusen nur wenige Stunden Zeit, dessen verschwundenes Geld zu finden, ehe er zu drastischen Maßnahmen greift.

A relaxing break on the Greek island of Friktos should be the perfect tonic for the amateur sleuth Kempston Hardwick. That is, until someone brutally murders one of his fellow tourists. The assembled guests can only come to one conclusion: One of them is the killer. But how do you find a murderer when everyone has a hidden agenda? Will Hardwick manage to uncover the truth before the killer strikes again?

Frühling 1887: Was geht in der Nachbarschaft des jungen Hopfenhändlers Grant Munro vor, und was hat seine Frau Effie damit zu tun? Als Munro den beratenden Detektiv Sherlock Holmes um Hilfe bittet, ist er völlig aufgelöst. Noch rätselhafter werden die von Munro geschilderten Vorfälle, als er auch noch von einem furchterregenden gelben Gesicht erzählt, das er aus der Ferne in einem Fenster seines Nachbarhauses gesehen hat.