The wealthy old woman was dead – a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful Hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a deliberate test of "amour" – staged by the debonair sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. Here the modern detective story begins to come to its own; and all the historical importance aside, it remains an absorbing and charming story today.

It's 1689 and the body of a young lawyer has been discovered near Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh. Meanwhile, in the Highlands, Bonnie Dundee is at the head of an army in the Highlands looking to crush the government forces and help restore James Stewart. Was the discovered body anything to do with the rise of the Jacobites? Or was it simple the result of an office rivalry? Did the young man perhaps have connections to criminals in the city? Investigative lawyer John MacKenzie and his assistant Scougall search for the truth in this gripping new instalment of Douglas Watt's John MacKenzie series.

Two mauled bodies in the woods. Top secret autopsies. The most chilling cases of Scarpetta’s career. In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell’s #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds herself in a Northern Virginia wilderness examining the remains of two campers wanted by federal law enforcement.   The victims have been savaged beyond recognition, and other evidence is terrifying and baffling, including a larger-than-life footprint.     After one of the most frightening body retrievals of her career, Scarpetta must discover who would commit murders this savage, and why.

There's a new club in town and the bodies of young, gorgeous men keep piling up at its door. For Em, it's just another day at work. As a vampire living and working among humans, forensic pathology seemed a sensible career choice. After all, she knows more about death than all of her co-workers put together, and when the law doesn't deliver justice to the lowlife murderers and dealers Em meets every day, then she can. Her own way.   But then the lethally beautiful Jarek arrives in town, a lover of Em's from hundreds of years ago, and Em knows something bigger is going on. When she investigates at the club she discovers a consort of her father's, fled from his side without his permission, hiding in a garish costume and afraid of something worse. Worse than her father, lord of the Family? Em has no idea what that could be.   With something dangerous ripping its way through her town Em needs to protect those she holds dear – the men in her life, her friends. But with Jarek tempting her back to her old ways she needs to choose between her vampire side and her human side. Have the humans in her life taught her enough about love to keep her here?   And what on earth is killing at the club?

The twenty-second novel in Michael Jecks?s medieval Knights Templar series. 1324 and the English kingdom is in uproar: Roger Mortimer, once the King?s most able commander and now his most implacable, hated enemy, is plotting the King?s assassination. And Mortimer is not the only person with murder in mind... When the bodies of a local craftsman and the King?s messenger are found in the streets of Exeter, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill and his friend, Simon Puttock, are implored to find the person responsible. The deceased messenger was carrying a dangerous secret that could prove fatal in the wrong hands. Baldwin and Simon must find the murderer before he can strike again?From Publishers WeeklyWithout the character list, glossary, maps and author's note, a reader could get lost in Jecks's 23rd Knights Templar mystery (after The Dispensation of Death), but the tale, set in 1324 Exeter during Edward II's corrupt regime, is no less gripping for its complexity. Esteemed Knight Templar turned investigator Sir Baldwin de Furnshill reluctantly joins London's fledgling parliament after the Bishop of Exeter suggests that the king's French wife might be part of a conspiracy against the throne. Soon an inquest into several mysterious deaths uncovers further evidence of a plot centered on the nefarious work of John of Nottingham and Richard de Langatre, necromancers who have found a way to assassinate prominent personages using mommet dolls and bone needles. Fear and speculation spread with the discovery of several corpses, including a royal messenger buried in a rubbish heap. Stirring intrigue and a compelling cast of characters will continue to draw accolades from fans of the author's hefty historicals. (Sept.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review"Enough 14th-century English malice and murder to keep several intrepid investigators hard at work."  —Kirkus Reviews