Ellis Peters In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes Brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden into a battlefield of passions,...

Joseph Wambaugh Determined to make her way as a P.I., ex-police officer Breda Burrows proves her mettle as she follows a fugitive from remote desert canyons to the golden boulevards...

Nicci French It should have been just a mid-life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked...

Bella Ellis Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were detectors in this charming historical mystery...Yorkshire, 1845. A young wife and mother has gone missing from her...

Julie Mayhew For readers of All the Missing Girls and You Will Know Me , Impossible Causes is a gripping thriller about isolation, power, and the lies that fester when...

Carol O'Connell O'Connell deftly demonstrates her own sleight of hand as she recounts NYPD detective Kathleen Mallory's investigation of the "accidental" death of magician Oliver Tree, who died while trying to...

William X Kienzle When auto exec Frank Hoffman is murdered, nobody, not even the police, has a clue -- except Father Koesler. The sleuthing priest has heard some shocking news...

Elizabeth Kostova June 1, 2010 by Back Bay / Little, Brown and Company

Jasper Fforde It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty Stuyvesant Van...

Reginald Hill ‘One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists’ The Times ‘[Reginald Hill] keeps one on the edge of one’s wits throughout a bitterly enthralling detection thriller’ Sunday Times...

Steven Saylor  In a Rome torn by riots and pulled apart by rival factions, Gordianus the Finder must uncover the truth about the murder of Publius Clodius, a populist politician...

Valerie Martin In Italian Fever, Valerie Martin redefines the Gothic novel in a compelling tale of one woman's headlong tumble into a mystery, art, and eros.Part romance, part gothic suspense story...