You are cordially invited to a murder. A personal ad in the newspaper inviting strangers to participate in an evening of murder mystery fun and games at the home of Letitia Blacklock is an invitation that Miss Jane Marple cannot pass up. A good thing, too, because when the lights are dimmed real gunshots ring […]
This first novel in the “Alphabet” series introduces the character of Kinsey Millhone, a twice-divorced private eye based in Santa Teresa, California. “A is for Alibi” covers the investigation by Millhone into the death of Laurence Fife. The investigation is initiated by his wife, Nikki Fife, who was charged and convicted of his death. Eight […]
A publishing sensation across Europe??two million copies sold and months at the top of best-seller lists A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It??s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about […]
The heiress of Styles has been murdered, dying in agony from strychnine slipped into her coffee. And there are plenty who would gain from her death: the financially strapped stepson, the gold digging younger husband, and an embittered daughter-in-law. Agatha Christies eccentric and hugely popular detective, Hercule Poirot, was introduced to the world in this […]
A gorgeously written novel that marks the debut of an astonishing new voice in psychological suspense As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, […]
A young, blond woman is found dead on the floor of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry??s library. Nobody seems to know who the woman is, let alone how she wound up murdered in the Bantry??s home. Jane Marple is called in and the chase is on.
Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Posts Uncle Abner or Robert van Guliks Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an African detective, Precious Ramotswe, whos their full-fledged heir. Its the detective as folk hero, solving crimes through an innate, self-possessed wisdom that, […]
Hercule Poirot is perhaps Agatha Christies most interesting and endearing character; short, round, and slightly comical, Poirot has a razor-sharp mind and puts unlimited trust in his “little grey cells.” Those little cells come through for him every time, enabling Poirot to solve some of the most baffling mysteries ever conceived. In Death on the […]
Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting […]
THE FIRST BODY IS A MYSTERY. Shes young. Shes beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office of Boston medical examiner Kat Novak, betrays no secrets – except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. THE NEXT BODY IS A WARNING. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins […]