Jane K. Cleland On Writing Jane Austen’s Lost Letters I was born loving Jane Austen—I mean that literarily. Some expectant mothers play classical music to their unborn children. Others sing lullabies. My mother read Pride and Prejudice to me in the womb. To say my mother was a Jane Austen fan is like calling the…
CHAPTER ONE The little purple Christmas tree had a lot to answer for. Con hadn’t celebrated Christmas in the three years she’d lived in Washington DC. Hadn’t meant to this year either. But then on the way home from the corner store, she noticed the tree in a box of junk left on the sidewalk…
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for Hello, Transcriber, the debut novel from Hannah Morrissey featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case. Read on for more about the book! Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin’s most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee…
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Get an early look at the gorgeous cover of The Dark Heart of Florence (Minotaur Books, March 2021), by critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander. Read on for an excerpt of the latest Lady Emily mystery that transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin solve a murder with clues leading…
Brian Klingborg’s Thief of Souls (Minotaur Books, May 2021) marks the launch of a new mystery series following Inspector Lu Fei. When a brutal murder in a rural village in Northern China sends shockwaves all the way to Beijing, Inspector Lu Fei, exiled to this tiny town, is seemingly the only one interested in finding…
We’re thrilled to reveal the cover for A Distant Grave, the follow-up to Sarah Stewart Taylor’s critically acclaimed novel The Mountains Wild. In this second novel in the series, Detective Maggie D’Arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland. Read on for more about the book! Long Island homicide detective Maggie D’arcy…
Enjoy this exclusive first look at the cover from Murder Most Fowl, the latest Meg Langslow mystery from the New York Times bestselling author Donna Andrews. This time, murder comes with a Shakespearean twist! Donna Andrews is the author of the Meg Langslow mysteries, including Stork Raving Mad and Swan for the Money. She has won…
In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch’s bestselling series, Sir Charles Lenox travels to Gilded Age Newport and New York to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox’s detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has…
“Cut Loose All Those Who Drag You Down” by Ross Klavan A crooked reporter who fronts for the mob and who’s been married eight times gets a visit from his oldest friend, a disgraced and defrocked shrink. The man is in deep trouble and it’s clear somebody is going to pay with his life. “Beaned”…
