In 1882, Sidney Grice, a personal detective whose last case led an innocent man to the gallows—and caused Sidney's detective business to dry up—finds himself back in the game when an eccentric member of a Final Death Society drops dead on his study floor.
Eager to clear her name in the aftermath of a tragic accident, Hannah Swensen is wrongly implicated in the bludgeoning death of her trial judge, who she discovers had more than a few enemies.
Discovering a peculiar stone from the Imperial gardens of Kyoto, Russell and Holmes recall a dangerous job they performed for the emperor before reconnecting with a Japanese tutor who is not who she seems.
After her police-captain husband receives taunting notes from a serial killer whose victims appear to have nothing in common, Molly Murphy is injured in a train crash that identifies her as an intended target.
After the discovery of a body in the forest, the new director of the Danish Missing Persons Department recognizes the dead woman as a child inmate at a state mental institution and uncovers links to her own past during the investigation.
On a searing August day, Melisandre Harris Dawes committed the unthinkable: she left her two-month-old daughter locked in a car while she sat nearby on the shores of the Patapsco River. Melisandre was found not guilty by reason of criminal insanity. Freed, she left the country, her husband and her two surviving children, determined to start over. But now Melisandre has returned Baltimore to meet with her estranged teenage daughters and wants to film the reunion for a documentary.
Devastated by the death of her beloved single father, Maeve Conlon learns that she may have a sister she never knew about at the same time her bakery is targeted by a sinister vandal.
The murders of a beloved girlfriend and a businessman's wife pose personal challenges for LAPD detective Milo Stirgis and psychologist Alex Delaware, who realize that the killer is playing a psychologically manipulative game with the police.
Halia Watkins, the owner of a well-loved soul food restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland, investigates after a smooth-talking, shady entrepreneur turns up murdered in her kitchen, right next to her cast iron frying pan.
Targeted by an obsessed, violent stalker who believes they have a special relationship, Eve Dallas struggles to keep her law-enforcement activities from being misinterpreted as invitations to kill people on her behalf.
Inheriting his family's medieval manor when his father and older brothers die in the plague, Oswald de Lacy reluctantly tackles years of neglect, malice and ignorance only to find himself investigating the murders and disappearances of young girls.
Hoping to escape a lonely winter by investigating a woman's suspicions that her husband is trying to kill her, Cora Felton discovers that the man is having an affair before having to prove her client's innocence in his subsequent murder. Includes six crosswords and a sudoku puzzle by Will Shortz.
Simon Serrailler is called upon to work a case in the seemingly idyllic cathedral town of Lafferton as part of a dangerous undercover operation in the 8th novel of the series following A Question of Identity.
When a woman claims that she was brutally assaulted in one of rooms of a ritzy hotel called The Neptune Grand and subsequently smuggled out and left for dead by its staff, the owners turn to Veronica Mars to help disprove the woman's story.