Historical House Mysteries

Terrorists are not born to love Sarmad was trained as a terrorist to be ruthless, to be fearless, and to take away innocent lives. He has caused pain that he can’t undo. For years, he has been living without a heart, without a soul, without her. Mehar is an army general’s daughter. After...

A lightning-fast police procedural from an up-and-coming talent, The Hunted introduces a homicide detective who gets the shock of his life while tracking a most ingenious serial killer. From a writer whose previous works Robert B. Parker declared “compelling... swiftly told,” and James W...

Hazard, Wyoming, is a quiet mountain town where there’s snow on the ground from October until June, the wind blows all the time, and nothing much ever happens. But that’s all about to change. Because, just when the wind suddenly stops, a killer comes to Hazard—a hunter as deadly and primal...

When mystery novelist Hazel Martin receives a secretive letter from an old friend who suspects her relatives have murderous intentions, she packs her bags and heads to the country. Tampered medications, symptoms of poisoning, and suspicious accidents all add up to attempted murder, and it's up to Hazel and her Siamese cat, Dickens, to sniff out the clues. But with a house full of relatives who all have a motive, will Hazel be able to unmask the culprit before things turn deadly?

December 1, 1941 It is seven days before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. Days that are numbered for Sondegger, a Nazi spy captured in London while on a mission to take down the Twenty Committee, a German network of spies the British have turned. For American Tom Wall, the days have run...

English food is all well and good in its place, but for expatriate amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin, there's nothing like a good Thanksgiving turkey with all the trimmings to make November seem complete. In the midst of the preparations, though, when Dorothy gets a call to help out for one day at...

“Three cheers for Henrie O, an intelligent, engaging sleuth!”–Mary Higgins Clark When retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, receives a call for help, she discovers that love once kindled never burns to ashes. Although she refused Jimmy Lennox’s...

After a weeklong passage over the Atlantic from Boston to Liverpool, Ginger Gold arrives at her childhood London home--Hartigan House--to find decade-old remains from some poor woman on the floor in the attic. Ginger's Boston terrier, Boss, noses out a missing phalange from under the bed. It's a mystery that once again puts Ginger alongside the handsome Chief Inspector Basil Reed. Who is the victim? And how did she end up in Ginger's home?

The Hell Screen is the sequel to I. J. Parker's Rashomon Gate. The Hells Gate has received stellar reviews from many well-respected publications including Publishers Weekly: "Parker's remarkable command of 11th-century Japanese history-from the rituals of the royal court to the minutia of daily...

Un hecho insólito sacude las calles de Londres: varios cadáveres exhumados aparecen en distintos puntos de la ciudad. El inspector Pitt sospecha que esta macabra profanación de tumbas no es obra de un simple psicópata, sino una cortina de humo para desviar la atención de la policía. El cadáver de un tal Godolphin, pintor de cierta fama, despierta de manera especial su interés; por lo visto, es el único que no murió por causas naturales.

A violent assault on a door-to-door salesman leaves the man's life hanging in the balance as Barbara, Craig, and Deputy Elwood search for answers. Was it the victim's estranged wife? A business competitor? A dissatisfied customer?

Barbara Hollis has barely settled into the sleepy little town where her brother is sheriff, when a shocking crime rocks the community. Thanks to a peculiar new friend she has made and an unexpected prize she has won at a plasticware party, Barbara finds herself dragged into a dangerous mystery.

Only one woman can stop the world from descending into endless war, in the thrilling new series in the world of the Gas-Lit Empire The year is 2012. The nations of the world are bound together in an alliance of collective security, overseen by the International Patent Office, and its ruthless...

Lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch must quell a brewing showdown in the latest installment in the New York Times bestselling series. Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch haven't seen much trouble of late. Fact is, burgeoning Appaloosa and the territory had been without incident for months...

Would you change yourself for the love of your life? Benoy zips around in a Bentley, lives alone in a palatial house and is every girl’s dream. To everyone in college he is a stud and a heartbreaker. But is he, really? What no one sees is his struggle to come to terms with his mother’s...

Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. Boston, 1830...

As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear...

Para horror de los integrantes de la Brigada Nocturna, el mejor amigo y protector de Pierre Le Noir es asesinado con la misma técnica que empleaba Jack el Destripador. Cuando Scotland Yard confirma que dicho asesino se encuentra en Francia y que su siguiente objetivo será Pierre Le Noir, el joven agente debe salir de París mientras sus colegas controlan la situación.

Prentisstown no es como el resto de ciudades. Desde que sus habitantes se infectaron con el germen pueden escuchar los pensamientos de la gente de su alrededor en un Ruido constante y abrumador. No existe la privacidad. No hay secretos.

La enfermera Hester Latterly debe acompañar a una anciana señora durante una visita a Londres. El asunto se complica cuando la mujer muere durante la noche. Al practicarle la autopsia se descubre que ha sido envenenada y ¿quién si no Hester puede haber sido la asesina? El inspector William Monk deberá hallar las pruebas incriminatorias para demostrar la culpabilidad de la enfermera o encontrar un asesino entre los miembros del enigmático y cerrado clan de los Farraline.