"The Cloak of Naivety" is an enthralling mystery series that follows the adventures of art historian Amelia Reed and her husband, FBI Special Agent Marcus Kane, as they unravel the secrets of a shadowy organization known as "The Eternalists." The series begins with "The Illusionist's Gambit," set five years after the events of "Brush with Oblivion," where the couple finds themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse when a series of audacious...

Fahrräder und Pferde prägen das Bild von Westfalen. Man trinkt Korn, isst Pumpernickel und Schinken dazu. Der liebenswerte Menschenschlag ist stur, arbeitsam, bodenständig, redet nicht viel - und handelt in den zwölf Kurzkrimis mit Messer, Pistole, Strick und Gift. Vom Sauer- bis Siegerland, in Ostwestfalen und im Münsterland sowie im östlichen Ruhrgebiet - in Klöstern, auf Burgen und Reiterhöfen - lässt Margit Kruse morden, was das Zeug...

1921: Ein Doppelmord erschüttert ganz Deutschland. Zwei Bürgermeister kehren von einem Waldspaziergang nicht mehr zurück und noch ehe die Leichen gefunden sind, wird der vermeintliche Täter verhaftet. Der authentische Fall, den W. P. A. Schneider anhand von historischen Originalquellen detailgetreu nachgezeichnet hat, ist das spektakulärste Verbrechen in der Historie Heidelbergs. Das Gerichtsverfahren ging als einer der ersten Indizienprozesse...

Heather Whitaker has experienced more in her young life than women twice her age. After being beaten and raped by her boyfriend Heather sought refuge at a domestic violence shelter. Here, where she should be safe, Heather is befriended by a woman who lures her to a party across state lines that ends in tragedy. Heather is kidnapped, thrust into the trunk of her car and driven back to the City of Fountains. An unlikely ally comes to Heather's rescue...

Blindsided by his mother's deathbed confession that his father is still alive, thirty-four-year-old defense lawyer Wardel Hawkins, Jr. (Hawk) risks everything to prove Sandman-responsible for three deaths thirty years prior-deserves clemency and forgiveness.When Hawk steps off the water taxi onto Caye Caulker and lies to Chapie Nels, the island's unofficial ambassador, as to his identity, the shifting sands of a coerced alliance cracks open a Pandora's...

While visiting the Princess at the Palace Steinheimer in Vienna, Jennie investigates a huge gold heist. Sixth in the Victorian sleuth series.

In 1916 Chicago, the servants in the Stone household are dropping like flies. After the third accidental death in as many weeks, gentleman sleuth Elliott Frank is called to investigate. With few clues and no common motive, can he identify the killer before the next victim falls?

2019 Shamus Award winner for Best Novel! The thrilling follow up to The Last Place You Look, starring troubled and determined private investigator, Roxane Weary Marin Strasser has a secret. Her fiancé thinks her secret is that she's having an affair, and he hires P.I. Roxane Weary to prove it. Then, just days into the case, Marin is shot to death on a side street in an apparent mugging. But soon enough the police begin to focus on Roxane's client...

She's a rising star on Wall Street. He needs cash for his startup.She has a boyfriend problem. He's recently divorced.They could do a deal-in more ways than one.Too bad she's playing him.Georgina Graham doesn't relish lying to Dr. Nate Carmichael. But if the ruse works, she'll make a quick score. The deception plunges Georgina deep inside the swirling vortex of a wealthy California enclave's colorfully scheming inhabitants-Alejandro, the shady vulture...

Jo Bannister's police procedurals have been widely praised not only for outstanding plotting and suspense, but also for their brilliant and compelling characterization and with Perfect Sins she again proves that she is "one of the genre's best." (Booklist) Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken-and probably killed-by pirates,...