Posts Tagged ‘mystery’
Closed Casket
“What I intend to say to you will come as a shock…” On the occasion of a grand party at her Irish mansion, Lady Athelinda Playford—one of the world’s most beloved children’s authors—springs a surprise on the lawyer entrusted with her will: she is cutting off her two children without a penny . . .…
Read MoreGhost Gone Wild
When well-meaning ghost Bailey Ruth Raeburn returns to Earth and saves Nick Magruder from being shot, she loses her ability to disappear and is trapped unless she can discover who wants Nick dead.
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Moriarty
Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum that has been swiftly filled by a fiendish new criminal mastermind who has risen to take Moriarty’s…
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Innocent Blood
An original novel of extraordinary power, Innocent Blood is the story of 18-year-old Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, who is plunged into a dangerous and terrifying world when she discovers the shocking truth about her natural parents — and learns that her birth mother is about to be released from prison. Innocent Blood is…
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries 1 Except the Dying
A young girl’s naked body is found in a deserted lane in the middle of winter, 1895, and Toronto Detective William Murdoch must find out why she had to die that way in order to prevent another similar murder.
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries 7 A Journeyman to Grief
When both the current and former owner of the livery stable are found murdered, Detective Murdoch investigates Toronto’s black community, making himself a target.
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries 4 Let Loose the Dogs
In Let Loose the Dogs, Murdoch’s life and work overlap tragically. His sister, who long ago fled to a convent to escape their abusive father, is on her deathbed. Meanwhile, Harry Murdoch, the father whom Murdoch long ago shut out of his life, has been charged with murder and calls on his estranged son to…
Read MoreMurdoch Mysteries 3 Poor Tom is Cold
A police constable named Oliver Wicken has apparently committed suicide, leaving his mother and his invalid sister to fend for themselves. The evidence, according to the coroner, is irrefutable. Wicken was shot in the temple with his own revolver and a farewell note has been found beside his body. But new and disturbing evidence is…
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