With the notion of bringing together the most bitter of enemies for his own amusement, a bored, mischievous millionaire throws a house party. As a brutal snowstorm strands the unhappy guests, the party receives a most unwelcome visitor: death and Inspector Roderick Alleyn must step in to decipher who at the party is capable of cold-blooded murder…
A young New Zealander’s first contact with her English gentry friends in London is the body of Lord Wutherford – with a meat skewer through the eye. The Lampreys had hoped for cash from Uncle Gabriel, instead Chief Inspector Alleyn has to work out which of them killed him.
When Sia’s found by the supernatural entity that has destroyed entire worlds to have her, she runs — and Donovan St. James follows. Nothing is more alluring than a scruffy biker with a lacerating gaze. And she vows to tell him that… if they survive.
Ellery Page is in hot water again as Police Chief Carson’s first-and-only-suspect.! Famed horror author Brandon Abbott announces he’s purchased legendary Skull House and plans to live there permanently. And Ellery and Brandon have history.
A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot. Chief Inspector Alleyn knows it wasn’t the dart that killed him, but the prussic acid someone added to the cut.
It’s murder in the little English village, but the two local spinsters, Miss Campanula, the victim, and Miss Prentice, her friend who may have been the intended victim, are not exactly the beloved little old ladies of song and story. But could they have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer?
An anthology of eighteen short stories in this Valdemar fantasy series.
There’s a curse on Muriel’s mind that incapacitates her with fear. The only way to get rid of it is to betray her beloved by bringing another man into their bed. Now Hell has frozen over, and Muriel will have to suffer that threesome, if she wants to help her dad.
Ellery Page is ready for a change, and when he learns he’s inherited a bookstore and a mansion in the quaint seaside village of Pirate’s Cove, it’s full steam ahead. Until he discovers the truth of his inheritance and an enemy is found dead in the bookstore.
A message arrives that Francis is in trouble. In wartime Germany. Worried for his brother, Desmond Okewood, tracks the message through prison camps, hotels, and cafés, doing his best to avoid ruthless German spies.