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  The Hanging Cheat

  Elizabeth Bailey

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  The Fanshawes are back in another twisty mystery! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine, and Jane Austen. 
   
   
   
  Who hanged the body in the woods? 
   
   
   
  1796, England 
   
   
   
  Heavily pregnant Lady Ottilia Fanshawe should not really be traveling. But when her sister-in-law dies, she goes with her husband Francis to comfort her brother and her two nephews. And of course it's not long before the services of her alter ego, Lady Fan, are required. 
   
   
   
  While playing in the woodlands, the two boys come across a gruesome discovery. A dead man is hanging from a tree. 
   
   
   
  The corpse is quickly identified as the local justice, Hector Penkevil, a man universally disliked for his meanness. And it's soon clear that his death was not suicide, but murder. 
   
   
   
  With Penkevil so disliked in the community, how can Lady Fan narrow down the suspects? Will she find the killer? And can she solve the mystery before she is forced to bed with her pregnancy?

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure...

  Conan Doyle

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  A man named Trevor Bennett, the personal secretary of one Professor Presbury, comes to Holmes with a most unusual problem. He is engaged to the professor's daughter, Edith, and the Professor is himself engaged to a young lady, Alice Morphy, although he himself is already 61 years of age. Their impending marriage has caused no scandal, but the trouble seems to have begun at about the time of the engagement. First, the professor suddenly left home for a fortnight without telling anyone of his destination, with the family later learning that he had been to Prague. Upon returning, Presbury unprecedentedly forbid Mr Bennett from opening certain stamped letters. The professor had also brought a carved wooden box from Prague, and became very angry with Bennett for touching it. 
  The whole household also observes severe changes in the man's personality: he has become furtive and sly, with changes in his moods and habits, some of which are quite bizarre, though not impeding his functions. Bennett notes particularly strange incidents: one, in which he saw the professor crawling along the hall on his hands and feet and his master swore him off; and another, witnessed by Edith Presbury, who saw her father at two o'clock in the morning at her bedroom window on the second floor.

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  The Vanishing Point

  Benny Tolson

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  When celebrated illusionist Victor Armand takes the stage for his grand finale, the crowd gasps as he steps into a shimmering cabinet and disappears. But when the curtain falls, Victor is gone for real—leaving behind nothing but a trail of smoke and a theater full of stunned witnesses. 
  Detective Mara Ellison, known for her sharp intuition and sharper tongue, is called in to untangle the mystery. What begins as a case of stage trickery gone wrong quickly spirals into something darker: secret debts, rival magicians with grudges, and a family history Victor spent his life trying to bury. 
  As Mara delves deeper into the labyrinth of illusions and lies, she discovers that the key to Victor’s disappearance lies not in the spotlight, but in the shadows behind it. And the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes—every trick has a price, and someone is willing to kill to keep the greatest illusion intact. 
  The Vanishing Point is a razor-sharp detective mystery where nothing is what it seems, and the final reveal is as shocking as any magician’s trick.

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  The Adventure of the Lion's Mane...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Lion's Mane" (1926), one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. It is notable for being narrated by Holmes himself, instead of by Dr. Watson (who does not appear in the story).
  Holmes is enjoying his retirement in Sussex when one day at the beach, he meets his friend Harold Stackhurst, the headmaster of a nearby preparatory school called The Gables. No sooner have they met than Stackhurst's science teacher, Fitzroy McPherson, staggers up to them, clearly in agony and wearing only an overcoat and trousers. He collapses, manages to say something about a "lion's mane", and then succumbs. He is observed to have red welts all over his back, possibly administered by a flexible weapon of some kind, for the marks curve over his shoulder and round his ribs.

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  Paige King FBI Suspense Thriller...

  Blake Pierce

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  A bundle of books #1 (THE GIRL HE PINED), #2 (THE GIRL HE CHOSE), and #3 (THE GIRL HE TOOK) in Blake Pierce’s Paige King Mystery series! This bundle offers books one, two, and three in one convenient file, with over 150,000 words of reading.In THE GIRL HE PINED (Book #1), Paige King, 25, in her Ph.D. residency at a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, is summoned urgently by the FBI: her most notorious patient, a diabolical and elusive serial killer, has escaped. And they need her to help hunt him down. Paige, as brilliant as she is, knows she is up against a mastermind with no equal. This killer will stop at nothing to outwit them all, and going too deep into his mind may be just the thing that undoes them all. Paige’s skills are put to the ultimate test in this harrowing cat-and-mouse thriller, as new bodies pile up, and as Paige realizes that she, herself, may just be the target.In THE GIRL HE CHOSE (Book #2), Paige King, after receiving her Ph.D. in forensic psychology, has been asked to join the FBI’s elite BAU unit. When a deranged killer on death row seems to know more than he lets on about an active case, Paige is summoned to enter his mind and crack the case—before the final hours that lead to his execution. The death row killer’s clues soon lead Paige down a rabbit hole of red herrings and dead ends, and time is running out for her to save the next victim. Can she piece the clues together in time? Or has she finally met her match?In THE GIRL HE TOOK (Book #3), when a new serial killer strikes, victims turning up dead with magic tricks left at the scenes, Paige is baffled. What could the meaning be behind these macabre hints? Up against her most challenging case yet, Paige must use her encyclopedic knowledge to decode the meaning of the strange magic clues. Can she discover what the killer wants, and why? Or by the time she figures it out, will it be too late?A complex psychological crime thriller full of twists and turns and packed with heart-pounding suspense, the PAIGE KING mystery series will make you fall in love with a brilliant new female protagonist and keep you turning pages late into the night.Books #4-#6 are also available!

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  Murder in Adland - Detective...

  Bruce Beckham

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  Meet maverick British detective DI Skelgill... "mad, bad and just a little bit cozy." 
   
  WHEN A HIGH-FLYING ADMAN is stabbed to death on a company weekend in the English Lake District, local detective Daniel Skelgill finds himself wrenched from his rural Cumbrian comfort zone. 
   
  As the investigation unfolds, DI Skelgill is led a merry dance between London and Edinburgh, at every turn confronted by uncooperative suspects – colleagues, wife and lovers of the deceased – each of whom is possessed of motive and opportunity. 
   
  Is this a crime of passion, a professional hit, or a cleverly calculated killing borne out of greed and jealousy? 
   
  In this traditional-style whodunit, the case can only be solved by carefully piecing together the essential clues – but Skelgill is running out of time. The patience of his superiors wears thin, while the actions of an anonymous agent provocateur serve only to advance the moment when the killer must strike again.

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