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  Parker Pyne Investigates - A...

  Agatha Christie

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  Agatha Christie once again demonstrates her mastery of the short form mystery with Parker Pyne Investigates—short stories of crime and detection featuring Parker Pyne, certainly one of the most unconventional private investigators ever to pursue a hot lead. 
  Mrs. Packington felt alone, helpless and utterly forlorn. But her life changed when she stumbled upon an advertisement in the Times that read: ""Are you happy? If not, consult Mr. Parker Pyne."" 
  Equally adept at putting together the fragments of a murder mystery or the pieces of a broken marriage, Mr. Parker Pyne is possibly the world's most unconventional private investigator. Armed with just his intuitive knowledge of human nature, he is an Englishman abroad, traveling the globe to solve and undo crime and misdemeanor.

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  Lost Buddha - Sue Lee Mystery

  D.M. D.M.Sorlie

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  Lost Buddha, a postwar Sue Lee Mystery series involving seventh-century tapestries preserved by an antique dealer during the war. After his brutal death, the first Lost Buddha is discovered, and the race is on to find the other five, hiding somewhere in the world. The search uncovers war criminals hiding from prosecution, placing Sue Lee, and Dr. Jane, in a dangerous, life-threatening situation. 

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  Small Horrors - A Collection of...

  Darcy Coates

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  Push past the curtains of your rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience. This is the realm of monsters and shifting shadows, where a single wrong step can plunge you into a terrifying fight for your life, where… 
  - Something mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods. 
  - A corpse had gone missing from its drawer in the morgue. 
  - A friend's eyes are unnaturally bright as they approach you in the dark.

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  Vera Magpie

  Laura Solomon

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  VERA MAGPIE explores the gap between childhood fantasies of adult life and the stark reality of life in a women's prison. The eponymous narrator, Vera Magpie herself, is serving time for the murder of her three husbands, including Larry, a good man whom she loves, but doomed to die at Vera's hands because she has acquired a taste for murder. In prison, Vera experiences the reality that here are politics and a pecking order, just as in society at large, but here also she finds redemption through literature. Like many women who kill, Vera is a product of her own flawed past. But aspects of this past also count towards her early release from prison, as her new female lawyer successfully argues Battered Women’s Syndrome as a defence. 
  LAURA SOLOMON was Joint-Winner of the inaugural international Proverse Prize (2009) with her novella, Instant Messages, subsequently published by Proverse Hong Kong in 2010. Also published by Proverse are Hilary and David (an epistolary novel) (2011) and The Shingle Bar Sea Monster and Other Stories (2012). Of Solomon, Maggie Gee wrote, when Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, United Kingdom, "Witty, clear-edged, both lemon-sharp and seductive, Laura Solomon is a writer to watch." Solomon has published two novels in New Zealand, Black Light (1996) and Nothing Lasting (1997). Born in New Zealand, Solomon spent nine years in London before returning to New Zealand in 2007. She has an honours degree in English Literature (Victoria University, 1997) and a Master's degree in Computer Science (University of London, 2003). She has travelled internationally for her work in IT, including working in Norway, for Fast Search and Transfer, now owned by Microsoft.

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  The Curious Case of Faith & Grace

  David B. Lyons

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  Almost two years ago, Faith and Grace Tiddle arrived home from their Saturday morning dance class to find both of their parents face down in pools of blood. Five days later, the twins—only nine years old at the time—were arrested for the double homicide. And now, twenty months on, the entire country awaits with bated breath as the jury is dismissed to deliberate their verdict on a case that has become a national phenomenon. But if Lead Detective Denis Quayle—the man who knows the case better than anybody else—isn’t fully convinced of the twins’ guilt, can a twelve-person jury be?

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  Affairs of State - A Political...

  C.A. James

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  The President of the United States needs to kill the First Lady’s secret lover … and it’s not about sex.First Lady Elizabeth Caen is shocked at what she just overheard: the President of the United States conspiring to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. She must do something ... but what? With no hard evidence, her word won’t stand against that of her powerful husband.She’s forced to turn to the only man she can trust: her secret lover Owen, a respected Silicon Valley computer guru. What Elizabeth doesn’t know is that by night, Owen transforms into a criminal hacker extraordinaire, making millions taking down corporations by exposing their dirty secrets. No computer is safe from him. Not even the president’s.But what Owen digs up is far more shocking than they could have imagined. Powerful forces are unleashed to stop Owen and Elizabeth. Will a daring escape to sea on Owen's high-tech sailboat give them enough time to expose the murderous conspiracy?"A fast-moving genre mashup, a sexy thriller that's both cynical and romantic. A surprise and a fun read." —KLB on Goodreads

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