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Scorpions' Nest
M.J. Trow
Christopher Marlowe investigates a school for exiled Catholic priests in the fourth of this intriguing historical mystery series.
October, 1586. Sir Francis Walsingham has despatched Kit Marlowe to the English College in Rheims where he suspects the Catholic traitor Matthew Baxter is hiding. Infiltrating the College undercover, Marlowe learns that the community has been rocked by a series of unexplained and violent deaths. With the help of master codebreaker Thomas Phelippes, can Christopher Marlowe unearth a murderer, track down a traitor and extract himself from the scorpions' nest without being fatally stung?
Scratch Deeper
Chris Simms
Introducing feisty Detective Constable Iona Khan - the first in a thrilling new crime series.
In sun-soaked Mauritius, a retired Law Lord is brutally murdered, while in rain-sodden Manchester, the Labour Party conference is beginning. Promoted to Greater Manchester Police's Counter Terrorism Unit, Detective Constable Iona Khan's first case appears to be a trivial use of false identity regarding a Sri Lankan student asking suspicious questions about Manchester's tunnel system. But when she learns the identity of the conference's guest speaker, Iona realizes it may not be so trivial after all, and she must enter the dark world beneath the city to prevent a possible catastrophe.
Screen of Deceit
Nick Oldham
A DCI Henry Christie novel.
Fourteen-year-old Mark Carter is plunged into a world of crime following his sister's drug overdose. He agrees to become an informer for DCI Christie in order to avenge Beth's death and redeem himself. But if it all goes wrong, Mark stands to lose everything including his life. Mark's obsession for revenge leads him to a dangerous mixture of teenage street gangs, brutal murder, drug turf wars and betrayal.
Sea Glass Summer
Dorothy Cannell
During the course of a long, hot summer in the picturesque coastal village of Sea Glass, shattered lives are restored and new romance blossoms.
Recovering from a painful divorce, Sarah Draycott has moved to the picture-postcard village of Sea Glass on the Maine coast, and is soon caught up in the lives of its inhabitants. As she helps the needy in her new community Sarah's broken heart begins to heal. She isn't looking for new romance - but love has a way of seeking someone out just when they least expect it.
Season of Blood
Jeri Westerson
A missing Holy Relic. A mysterious and beautiful woman. Two murdered monks: Crispin Guest tackles his most intriguing investigation to date.
1390. Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire. Two monks lie murdered, their Holy Blood relic stolen. As he attempts to return the relic to where it belongs, Crispin Guest must shield a former nemesis from a charge of murder while becoming entangled with a mysterious woman caught between Church politics and the dangerous intrigues of King Richard's court.
Season of Sacrifice
Bharti Kirchner
Introducing feisty Asian-American private investigator Maya Mallick in the first of an intriguing new mystery series.
Maya sees two women set themselves ablaze. She's even more shocked to recognize one of them: Sylvie Burton, a scientist, who is the adopted sister of Maya's best friend. An onlooker says that the two women are martyrs, protesting the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Yet, with so much to live for, why would Sylvie end her life in this horrific way?
Second Skin
Michael Wiley
An intriguing mystery featuring homicide detective Daniel Turner in the second of this atmospheric crime noir series, following Blue Avenue
When one of her students is found dead, English teacher Lillian Turner and her husband Johnny are drawn into the subsequent investigation - despite being warned off the case by Lillian's brother, homicide detective Daniel Turner. Just what is Daniel's connection to the dead girl? What does he know that he's not telling Lillian?
A Secret Inheritance
Elizabeth Lord
A compelling saga set in the late-nineteenth century.
As a child, living in a small village in the heart of the French countryside, Thérése Daurignac grew up believing her spendthrift, unreliable father's stories of a secret inheritance. Many years later, at his funeral, Thérése looks back at her own struggles to rise above misfortune, and to uncover the truth about her father's mysterious past, especially the contents of his secret strongbox . . .
Secret World
M.J. Trow
Christopher Marlowe tackles his most baffling case yet.
June, 1589. Now a feted poet and playwright, Kit Marlowe is visiting his family in Canterbury, but it's not the happy homecoming he had hoped for. A long-standing family friend has been found dead in her bed, killed by several blows to the head. Convinced that the wrong person has been found guilty of the crime, Marlowe determines to uncover the truth.
Secrets
Jane A. Adams
"There's a man with a gun standing in my garden. I want something done about it."
When a man breaks into Molly Chambers' house she tells the police that she has never seen him before. Ex-DI Alec Friedman - her honorary nephew - isn't so sure. Molly has lived an eventful life, as the wife of a diplomat, and he knows she is still haunted by the horrors of more than one war. But just what is it that Molly has got herself in to? Alec and Naomi only find out just what murky waters they're wading in when it's much too late...
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