From sleuth to victim, from sinner to saint and everything in between, women take center stage in this collection of eleven stories by award-winning author B.K. Stevens. Dying for detective stories? Rooting for revenge? Craving suspense? There's something for everyone in these tales of murder and mystery.<P> "These finely crafted stories have it all – psychological heft, suspense, subtle humor – and the author's notes on ea ...
Emily Lawrence knows it isn't easy being the first – and so far, only – woman detective in late 19th century Washington DC. With the support of Charles, her husband and business partner, and her own talent for observation and scientific research, Emily tackles the most baffling cases, helping the police solve robberies, kidnappings, and even murder.<P> Although the work is exciting, it’s also dangerous; Emily and Charles must balance ...
Lyn McConchie transports us to Victorian London, where Sherlock Holmes and John Watson must solve two cases involving Poisonous People.<P> A POISONING AT THE PUBLISHER: Maid and occasional cook Mary Fellowes has been accused of attempting to poison her employers and the evidence against her is damning – or is it? Is she the scheming and vengeful woman that others describe? Or is she innocent, caught in a web of deceit? Holmes and Watson m ...
Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning is the latest installment of the Agatha- and Anthony-award-winning Chesapeake Crimes series. This volume features tales by:<P> Donna Andrews<BR> Timothy Bentler-Jungr<BR> Shaun Taylor Bevins<BR> Carla Coupe<BR> Maddi Davidson<BR> Linda Ensign<BR> Barb Goffman<BR> Kim Kash<BR> Adam Meyer<BR> Alan Orloff<BR> KM Rockwood<BR> Lauren R ...
Women have been disappearing, snatched off the streets in the early morning hours. One body has been found. The pressure is on to find the perpetrator and put a stop to this.<P> It’s bad enough that Jesse Damon is paroled on a murder conviction, and the police take a serious look at him whenever there’s trouble in the neighborhood. But when two girls report an attempted carjacking at three in the morning, and Jesse is picked up walking on ...
MAN FROM G-2 MEETS GIRL FROM MI-2<P> Lady Angela Forester – fair, vivacious, voluptuous – and Colonel Hugh North – rugged agent from G-2 – made a handsome couple as they sipped their drinks in a plush London restaurant. The one-time lovers had met accidentally and were now renewing the glorious days of old. But something was different, Hugh kept telling himself. Angela had changed.... <P>It was only after Hugh North set out on his ...
Kellory – the last of the Black Wolves, sole descendant of the Lost Kings of Illyrion. His fighting arm maimed, his homeland stolen, his tribe mercilessly slaughtered by the dread Thungoda Horde, he seeks revenge with the only weapon left to him – sorcery. But the secret arts of witchcraft are not easily surrendered by the Brotherhood of Darkness…<P> Across the Sea of Sand, with its plethora of terrifying spells and whispering spirits of ...
A car goes off the road in the midst of winter's first snow storm. The lone survivor, Attorney Hal Watson, is left stranded off the grid and far from home. He has just witnessed the gruesome murder of his daughter, Marilyn, but will he be rescued in time to prevent a miscarriage of justice? The busy routine of Attorney Gail Brevard and her colleagues is disrupted when Marilyn's fiance, Damon Powell, is accused of the crime. Gail had su ...
The morning after the season's worst blizzard of the year, Deputies Frank «Frack» Telusky and Robely Danner of the small farming community of Abundance, Wisconsin, are called to a remote section of woods, where they find a handcuffed man frozen to a tree. Since no one local has been reported missing they wonder if The Iceman is the driver of the overdue van out of Minnesota, reportedly carrying a fortune in silver fox coats. If so, where&ap ...
