Victoria's alliance with Basil is threatened like never before-just when she needs him the most.An intruder has broken into Pendywick Place, attempting to steal back Victoria's torn page. This spurs Basil and Victoria to strike up an alliance with Lord Fred Brody and his siblings-and it sweeps them to the bustling city of Bath. But enter the beautiful and manipulative Maria Brody, who sets her sights on Basil, and the tenuous bond between Basil and...

Bethancourt & Gibbons mysteries are a series of traditional British cozies in a modern setting. Phillip Bethancourt is a wealthy man-about town and amateur sleuth. His best friend is Detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons, a rising star at Scotland Yard. Together they can suss out even the most complex cases.The Dressing Table Murder is the first short story in the series, originally published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. There are also four novels...

Five Sherlock Holmes mysteries in one book collection. SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE.Story one:The Castle orphans"How often does he visit you?" added Watson, producing his pipe from his pocket. He searched the same pocket for a match, then lit the device."He visits every week, and every few nights. He likes to sneak in the window and take things back to his castle!" The small girl played with the little tiger upon her knee.Story Two:The Curse of a Native.Adams...

Someone is targeting FBI agents across the country. One by one they fall prey to this ruthless killer. Agent Mac Morris takes the killings personally when she reveals the dead agents were members of her graduating class at Quantico. The closer they get to identifying the sniper, the more danger Mac finds herself. Once the sniper feels threatened, he sets his sights on Mac. Between gunfire and car chases, Spencer, her partner, will do anything to keep...

A boy and girl die back-to-back. Literally.A fisherman discovered the boy's body submerged in the lake with his hands tied behind his back. When Sheriff Steele and her troops hoisted the body into their boat, they discovered something unsettling. The boy still held onto a girl's hand, but only a hand.With a promise to find the girl and identify the victims, the Sheriff's Office began their investigation, but when more bodies turn up in the same cove,...

Leo Haggerty put his life on the line to investigate a mysterious woman Her name is Sarabeth Timmons, and she grew up tough. A twelve-year-old runaway, Sarabeth spent her teen years squatting and turning tricks, and her twenties on the road with one of California's roughest motorcycle gangs. Nothing good has ever happened to her-until now. Sarabeth has come forward to claim a $630,000 inheritance. Finally, she tells the court, her life can begin anew....

Ambitious Scotland Yard detective Sergeant Jack Gibbons hears about his latest case---the death of a middle-aged widower in Chipping Chedding, a small town in the English Cotswolds---and can't believe his good luck. His best friend, wealthy man-about-town Phillip Bethancourt, just so happens to be in Chipping Chedding already, accompanying his model girlfriend on a fashion shoot on a country estate. Since Phillip has helped Jack on numerous occasions,...

Who tossed three dead young girls into a ditch on the side of a one lane dirt road in south Georgia? And Why?It's after midnight when a teenager peers into the ditch. He couldn't believe his eyes. Sheriff Jada Steele arrives at the scene of the gruesome discovery. She jumped into the ditch, needing a closer look. Then she regretted it. The eyes of three dead young girls tied, bound, and gagged stared back at her. When the FBI database identified the...

When the nightclub bombings begin in downtown Austin, a dear friend of Pastor Matt Hayden is arrested for the murders. Matt is forced to put on his old cop's hat to find the real killers and soon learns that the culprits are on a vendetta to hurt those he loves most. Matt is forced to enter the dangerous world of religious radicalism, political blackmail, and two power-hungry tycoons who will kill anyone who gets in their way-including Matt.

"All the fast-paced action and danger readers have come to expect." -Kirkus Reviews Ike Schwartz, Sheriff of Picketsville, Virginia, and his fiancée Ruth Dennis, the President of a local university, seek asylum from a trying year of academic and local politics on Scone Island, four miles off the coast of Maine. Its lack of electricity, reliable water supply, and phone service guarantee their seclusion and peace. The suspicious accident that resulted...