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Autumn 1763. Career diplomat Alec Halsey has been elevated to a marquessate he doesn't want and Polite Society believes he doesn't deserve. And with the suspicion he murdered his brother still lingering in London drawing rooms, returning to London after seven months in seclusion might well be a mistake. So when a nobody vicar drops dead beside him at a party-political dinner, and his rabble-rousing uncle Plantagenet is bashed and left for dead in a laneway, Alec’s foreboding deepens. Uncovering the vicar's true identity, Alec suspects the man was poisoned. But who would want a seemingly harmless man of God…

Esme Quentin’s arrival in North Devon is marred by the gruesome discovery of a fatally injured woman at the foot of Warren Cliff. Esme is troubled by the woman’s dying words and curious about the old photograph clutched in her hand. The police, however, dismiss Bella Shaw’s death as accidental. But Bella’s daughter, Neave, has her own questions and approaches Esme for help. The subsequent trail leads Esme back to the brutal penal history of nineteenth-century England and the mystery of a Devon convict girl transported to Australia for her crime. As evidence of betrayal and duplicity are revealed, Esme…

Hush Girl: It’s Only a Dream While Nicki Reed is desperate to find the answers to her past, someone is desperate for her to never remember. Shortly after her father died, Nicki’s nightmares started. They were soon followed by panic attacks. Suspecting her haunting dreams were related to her childhood, Nicki sought professional help, but Nicki was unable to verbalize any memories she had as a child. Bad things happened when she told secrets. When her therapist suggested she write her memories, Nicki started remembering things she had pushed far into the recesses of her mind. She started to doubt…

It’s 1972 and Rice Channon is a small-town reporter who has a history of sniffing out murderers. It’s why the cops call him the Ratcatcher. His boss wants to take him off the police beat. His ex-girlfriend wants him to quit calling her. Through it all, the ghosts of the victims haunt his life. When he investigates the murder of a local atheist activist, everybody seems to want him doing something else. But he won't stay away from this case. And it just might get him killed.

A whisper of cold air on the back of my neck told me that my ghost had joined me. She stood by my small writing desk, holding the tablet that I had left for her to write on. When I moved close to her, she disappeared, but her writing remained, schoolroom perfect. Find the emeralds and you will discover who killed me.” Zeke’s sister-in-law, Rachel Winslow Caen, was despondent over her inability to carry a child to term, so when her body was found on Christmas Eve, 1937 drowned, her family assumed she took her own life. Now, five years…

Most people dream, many experience déjà vu; some believe in reincarnation. But what if it really was possible to relive the lives of your ancestors? American CEO, Jack Sinclair, is tormented by dreams of people he doesn't know and places he's never been, making him wonder if he is going insane. A phone call from a psychiatrist in Edinburgh wakes him out of another dream. She tells him that his estranged twin brother has committed suicide. Filled with mixed emotions, Sinclair travels to the Orkney Islands off northern Scotland to attend the funeral, where he soon discovers troubling circumstances surrounding…

Book One in an exciting new Victorian detective series from former Headline author Harriet Smart. England 1840, and police surgeon Felix Carswell enters a murky world of professional gamblers and jilted lovers to solve the case of The Butchered Man.

There’s been a murder in Willows, and the victim was someone’s Valentine. For the first time in his life Rob Andersen has plans for Valentine’s Day, but when a young woman’s body is discovered, the small town cop must shift his focus from the living to the dead. Carol Phillips has been nervously anticipating her romantic getaway with the handsome Sergeant, but when he cancels at the last minute she struggles with lingering doubt. Rob won’t rest with a murderer on the loose, but can he strike a balance between his work and his personal life and let Carol in?…

Why is someone killing the community band geeks of Richland, Texas? Miranda Beeling would like to know, since she's one of them. Law grad Miranda is trying to recover from the recent death of her mother and the betrayal of her fiance. She's retreated back into her childhood home, living with her clutterholic father and working for an alcoholic attorney as a law clerk. Her only social outlet is playing saxophone in the local community band, which is a motley collection of aging and often cantankerous musicians. Miranda enjoys the pizza and beer bull sessions after rehearsals, when everyone enjoys…

The Butcher’s Block is the second Dan Foster Mystery, set in 1797. During a routine patrol, police arrest two men in possession of human body parts which are intended for sale to the dissecting rooms of a London teaching hospital. Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist Dan Foster makes the grisly discovery that they are the remains of fellow-officer George Kean. The arrested men are charged with Kean’s murder, but Dan is not convinced that they are the killers. In pursuit of the real murderer, he investigates the unhallowed activities of the resurrection men – body snatchers. The body-snatching racket…