All aboard for murder, as the Cape Farewell steams out to sea, carrying a serial strangler who says it with flowers and a little song. It’s be up to Inspector Roderick Alleyn to deal with a collection of neurotic, bombastic, shifty, and passionate passengers at one another’s throats.
A horrifying secret discovered by the Lady Sharine rises in the aftermath of an archangelic war where the shambling, rotting creatures called the reborn have gained a glimmer of vicious intelligence that Titus must stop.
Lord Peter untangles the ghastly mystery of the corpse, shaved after death, in the bath, naked but for a pair of gold pince-nez.
This year’s Mardian Mawris dance includes several sacrifices, and the suspects are numerous. Detective-Inspector Alleyn dances about with various villagers, a close-knit family, and a nutty dowager.
The dead are everywhere with their eyes taken and red ribbons entangling their necks. When a psychic appears to have the details, Lieutenant Eve Dallas accepts help from her only to find the stakes raised when her partner, Dee Peabody is attacked.
In the year 2059, technology and humanity collide and a new computer virus has become the latest form of terrorism. Both sides are willing to kill and Reva Ewing appears to be a stumbling block, one that involves Roarke. It’s the murders that involve Lt Eve Dallas.
A charming English village and a cast of aristocrats reveal the darkness of betrayal with the help of a trout and a fish-eating cat to Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn.
A diplomat whose identity is “stolen” encounters his “thief” again and again, and each time she’s identified as a different person. Drawing Sir Stafford Nye into a game of political intrigue more dangerous than he could possibly imagine where no-one can be sure of anyone.
An anthology that is ninth in the Tales of Valdemar with eighteen short stories in the Valdemar fantasy series and revolving around the inhabitants of the lands.
It’s a game of imitation with a killer who despises women, and he plans to mimic the most infamous murderers of all starting with Jack the Ripper . . .