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Neeta Bryant escaped the clutches of the Los Angeles police department like a real bitch would-through pure genius. Now Detective Figg has to figure out how he was outsmarted, so he goes to the hospitalized Crenshaw Mafia leader Hershey Moore for help. Meanwhile, Neeta and her husband Kamau have fled to Western Honduras to start a cocaine pipeline back to the United States. In order to make it a success they have to free the native people from...

As the final chapter of the R.I.C.O. saga draws to an end, Nzinga Burke is faced with yet another threat. This time she cannot use her usual means to alleviate the opposing threat. They have her hands tied behind her back with the federal authorities on her heels and her adopted daughter, Kendis Murray, at her throat. There is nothing she can do to stop them. Hopefully, the past may shine some light on who her new adversary is, and hopefully s...

Henry Gamadge investigates the death of a state trooper and the poisoning of three children by nightshade, proving that the murders are all related and, in the process, unearthing a few scandals as well.

First in the Henry Gamadge series. Bibliophile-sleuth Henry Gamadge investigates the bizarre death of Amberly Cowden and uncovers murder and mayhem in the midst of a troupe of impoverished actors.

Nothing will poison the present like lies from the past. Sisters Charlotte and Jennifer have a history of "amusing" misunderstandings about attempted suicide. Their granny, Bertha, is wrapped in memories of London in the 1920s, when she and her sister, Jemima, brought new meaning to betrayal. Bridging the two, Bertha's daughter, Deirdre, is shaped by the night a Nazi bomb destroyed the entire street, and uncovered one of those poisonous lies.

An etching in the Ashbury mansion has suddenly acquired an inscription dated 1793. Miss Julia Paxton knows there was never anything written on that portrait until the visit of professional medium Iris Vance. Are the dead sending messages? And will Henry Gamadge, who is pretty certain the answer does not lie in the supernatural realm, solve the mystery before a murder occurs?

The Poisoned Village. That's the grim nickname the locals have for Priors Bramley, emptied of its residents when a Cold War experiment with chemical weapons went badly wrong. But the nightmares in Priors Bramley have been festering a lot longer, going back to the long-abandoned Cadence Manor. What happened there in the years before the first world war? And what is the source of the eerie music drifting down the crumbling village streets?

Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, 27 years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. They always acquire a shaggy white dog. In 1913, the world is thrilling to that fabulous invention, the motion picture. When the movies move West, Jack and Susan (and Tripod!) decide to go along with them, only to discover that not all of the bad guys are on the s...

Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, 27 years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. They always acquire a shaggy white dog. In 1953 Jack's engaged to be engaged to a margarine heiress, and Susan's got a dark and mysterious suitor, and New York is at its glamorous best. When word arrives that someone is trying to poison Susan's long-lost uncle, sh...

Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, 27 years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. They always acquire a shaggy white dog. In 1933 Jack and Susan are both married to the Wrong People. These People are not quite so Wrong that Jack and Susan would like to bump them off, but when one of them turns up dead, Susan becomes the cops' favorite suspect. ...

Daniel and Clarisse are summering in Provincetown (he is tending bar and she working at a gift shop) when Clarisse discovers Jeff's body on a beach. Cobalt is the color of Jeff's arresting eyes, and those eyes have made him both a lot of friends and quite a few enemies. Which of these killed him?

Blotto and Twinks travel to America! Specifically, they travel to Chicago (and this would be during the Prohibition years) in the hopes of marrying Blotto off to an American heiress and thus saving Tawcester Towers from financial ruin. Thankfully, Twinks is around to nose out the dirty undertakings of the heiress's father, a meat-packing magnate and Chicago mob associate.

Daniel Valentine, a gay bartender, and his straight friend Clarisse Lovelace, a real estate agent, are the investigative duo of this set of four light mysteries set in Boston in the 1980s, all named after a color. In the first of these, Vermillion, the two investigate the murder of a 19-year old gay male hustler.

In social media, nothing is what it seems ... Tyesha Fenty is a beautiful 22-year-old mother of one very precocious little girl-and an unashamed internet addict. Between taking care of her daughter and posting updates about her life via the Web, Tyesha stresses over love and family. The father of her child is a spiritually devout drug dealer named Rodrick Al-Bashir who has a thing for other women. And her mother, Velma Fenty, is a widowed h...

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. They were (and are) waspish, gossiping snobs, passionate only about their own narrowly defined religion....and, perhaps, about the local vicar. But could they have been sufficiently unpleasant to provoke a murderer?

Ah, the London Debutante Season: Giggles and tea-dances, white dresses and inappropriate romances. And much too much champagne. And, apparently, a blackmailer, which is where Inspector Roderick Alleyn comes in. The social whirl is decidedly not Alleyn's environment, so he brings in an assistant in the form of Lord "Bunchy" Gospell, everybody's favorite uncle. Bunchy is more than loveable, he's also got some serious sleuthing skills. But before...

Someone has stolen valuable paintings from Tawcester Towers, ancestral home of Blotto and his sister, Twinks. Twinks tracks the thieves to France and she and Blotto go zipping off to Paris--where they have rather a jolly time with the Left Bank bohemian set--but before the hangovers can take hold Twinks has redirected the search to the Riviera, headquarters of that dastardly criminal mastermind, la Puce! Will the noble Blotto and the brilliant...

Following up on The Innocent Spy, the second Ted Stratton novel is set in the summer of 1944, almost five years into the war. Bombs are still falling in London and everyone is thoroughly exhausted of the war. In the middle of all this Stratton investigates a string of deaths in a hospital, where he suspects a serial killer might be at work.

Loni Meadows is the beautiful, unstable director of an arts foundation headquartered in a crumbling castle outside Florence. When Meadows dies under peculiar circumstances, it becomes clear that almost everyone at Castello Orfeo would have been pleased to see her dead. Years ago, as a low-level member of the Florence police force, Sandro Cellini, now working sporadically as a private eye, ran a routine background check on Meadows, and he hopes...

Ngaio Marsh was, among other things, a well-respected theatrical producer (having started out as an actress), and her passion for and knowledge of the theater was displayed in many of Alleyn's adventures. In Enter a Murderer, the Inspector has been invited to an opening night, a new play in which two characters quarrel and then struggle for a gun, with predictably sad results. Even sadder, the gun was not, in fact, loaded with blanks.