Rebels in the newly unified 19th-century Kingdom of Italy plot an uprising for the opening night of a mediocre opera to protest the assignment of a pompous mainlander as their new overseer. By the best-selling author of the Inspector Montalbano series.
When his best friend, parish priest Tibor Kasparian, is wrongly arrested for murder, a distraught Gregor Demarkian breaks his personal rules about consulting in his determination to uncover the truth.
A follow-up to the best-selling A Study in Sherlock is comprised of stories inspired by the Sherlock Holmes legend and includes contributions by such writers as Jeffery Deaver, Sara Paretsky and Michael Connelly.
After Joe Talbert interviews a dying Vietnam veteran for a college writing assignment, he discovers that the veteran is a convicted murderer recently released from prison and, suspecting that the veteran was framed, he begins a dangerous investigation into the thirty-year-old murder.
After investigating an analyst's death for the United States Office of Strategic Services, Louise Perlie joins a social group of women at the office, but her life soon takes a dangerous and sinister turn.
While Gabriel Ash risks his life to investigate an allegation that his abducted sons may still be alive, Hazel Best gradually returns to police work while investigating the discovery of an unusual grave.
Paris is in mourning. At the firework display marking the Dauphin's marriage to Marie Antoinette, hundreds of people have been injured or crushed to death. Yet not all the victims died accidentally. The tragic incident on Place Louis XV yields a new case for Commissioner Le Floch when a strangled woman is found amongst the other corpses.
Reluctantly embarking on a group safari trip to Zambia, Stanley Hastings finds himself at the mercy of a reckless hunter guide, who enjoys encounters with dangerous animals, before suspicious accidents begin plaguing fellow tourists.
Yiannis Kouros's investigation of his uncle's death leads back to corruption in Athens and threatens to upset the relationship between him and his boss, Inspector Kaldis, who is spearheading a probe into governmental misconduct in the city.
Chosen to fill a vacancy on a special international commission investigating Tibetan suicides, Shan Tao Yun discovers that the commission itself is riddled with crime and intrigue and makes a final desperate effort to expose the commission's terrible secrets and save the lives of many Tibetans.
Tackling a murder case involving a suburbanite whose widow is flooding the community with reward offers, Amos Walker follows leads to a Ukrainian mobster who is in the Witness Protection Program.