"On August 13, 1969, two men picked up Tina Marie Andrews, a twelve-year-old girl, in downtown McComb, Mississippi, a city with a notorious history of racial violence. The men took Andrews and a friend just outside town to an oil field, where they shot her. Andrews' friend escaped and later identified the two killers as McComb police officers. A grand jury indicted both for the murder, but no one was ever convicted of the crime: one officer was acquitted;...

After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy.

While stationed in France during World War II, a married American fighter pilot commits bigamy and marries a local French girl. After the end of the war, he disappears, returning to the U.S. The war bride follows him to the U.S., finding him married to a successful lawyer. The bigamist tries to get her deported and in the ensuing argument, she accidently kills him. And to everyone's surprise, the man's widow decides to take on her case and defend...

"The Cosgood Players are knocking them dead. Literallly. No matter what's on the playbill, the shabby repertory company seems to specialize in mysteries as members of the troupe shuffle off this mortal coil in alarmingly rapid succession. Luckily, the players have a detective in the cast: their newest (if not quite an ingenue) thespian, the redoubtable Miss Marple. Margaret Rutherford takes her final bow as Miss Marple in an ingenious baffler abounding...

"Dr. Emma Steele is baffled when she finds herself dressed in mental health blues, tied to a stretcher in her own ED. She was hunting for a killer. She found him. Just as he found her. He planted evidence accusing her of his crimes. She's innocent, so she'll be free soon. She has friends who'll help. Twice wrong. Things can't get any worse.They do. Her challenges: A community decimated by the raging opioid epidemic. A charming psychopath dealing in...

"Alexis "Lex" Blake swore she would never return to the town where she'd lost her home and her family in a devastating fire that only she survived and can barely remember. But when her aunt dies, leaving behind a mountain of debt, Lex has no choice but to head back to Northern California to settle her family's estate. The small town is much the same way Lex left it: tight knit, staunchly religious, and wary of the Blakes, as evidenced by her run-ins...

"December 1959: A furious anticolonial war rages in Algeria. Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace. Traumatized after two years of working in the army intelligence services, he's now accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved murder committed the previous winter. A local teenage girl...

Lann knows nothing of his mysterious past, but by his fifteenth birthday he will come face to face with destiny. For Lann must wield the Dreadblade, an ancient sword forged to defeat terrible monsters. Across the mountains a King has been murdered. His daughter, Astrid, is a warrior with no desire to bear the crown. Only she can uncover her father's killer before her brother is framed for the crime. Evil is stirring. Lann and Astrid are the kingdom's...