Only a handful of people in the world know that mankind's magic comes from a living creature, and it is a refugee from another universe. The Power showed up here in the 1850s because it was running from something. Now it is 1933, and the Power's hiding place has been discovered by a killer. It is a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Earth is next. Former private eye, Jake Sullivan, knows the score. The problem is hardly...

Sylvan, New York. All PI Laney Bird wants is a peaceful life for herself and her son. When a neighborhood block party ends in violence and the disappearance of two women, even her colleagues question her complicity. Even her son, Alfie, is hiding something. And this summer more lives-- even theirs-- will be on the line. -- adapted from jacket

"In David Housewright's next hardboiled mystery Something Wicked, Rushmore McKenzie, who promised to retire after his last nearly-fatal case, gets talked into doing an old friend a favor involving a castle, a family fighting over an inheritance, and at least one mysterious death. Rushmore McKenzie was a detective with the St. Paul, Minnesota PD until unlikely events made him first a millionaire and then a retiree. Since then, he's been an occasional...

Five prominent attorneys in Minneapolis have had their computer systems hacked and very sensitive case files stolen. Those attorneys are then contacted by an association of local whistleblowers known as NIMN and are quietly alerted that they have received those documents from an anonymous source. If those files are released, then not only will those lawyers be ruined, but it might even destroy the integrity of the entire Minnesota legal system. This...

Librarian and aspiring PI Mira James has discovered one corpse a month for each of the eleven months she's lived in Battle Lake, Minnesota. She'd give her left foot to break that streak this April. Then she stumbles across that disturbing note, and a Battle Lake girl vanishes. She follows the note's trail and is horrified to discover that it leads to her father, who died 13 years earlier. It's a race against the clock to crack the secret he carried...

When the landlord of a Yorkshire tavern is killed in plain sight, Freda Simonson, the only witness to the crime, becomes plagued with guilt, believing the wrong man has been convicted. Following her death, it seems that the truth willnever be uncovered in the peaceful village of Langcliffe... But it just so happens that Freda's nephew is courting the renowned amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton, who decides to holiday in Langcliffe with her indomitable...

Based on the bestselling crime fiction of Kate Atkinson, Jackson Brodie is a good-hearted but tough private investigator based in Edinburgh.

With the two-million-dollar reward for the safe return of Ann Montgomery, who was kidnapped long ago, about to expire, R.J. Bannon, agreeing to take on this cold case, believes that talented local artist Erin Randall is Ann--a discovery that brings a legacy of lies and deception to a shocking climax.

When the India Office seek help in finding Maharajah Narayan, last seen hunting on the Bolton Abbey estate, they call upon the expertise of renowned amateur detective Kate Shackleton to investigate. --Publisher