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A collection of sixteen short mystery stories.

When a body is found in the center of a maze of yew trees, Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan soon finds that his investigation into the murder of a woman has more twists and turns that the maze itself.

As Neve's wreck of a life in London collapses, an unexpected lifeline falls into her lap, a charming cottage in Cornwall. But her dream home quickly becomes her worst nightmare.

Selected by NYT as one of Most Notable Books of 2020. On a stormy summer day the Aosawas, owners of a prominent local hospital, host a large birthday party. The occasion turns into tragedy when 17 people die from cyanide in their drinks. The only surviving links to what might have happened are a cryptic verse that could be the killer's, and the physician's bewitching blind daughter, Hisako, the only person spared injury. But the youth who emerges as the prime suspect commits suicide that October, effectively sealing his guilt while consigning his motives to mystery.

Décidément, l'été sera chaud pour la détective Maud Graham qui doit élucider plusieurs meurtres. Un adolescent meurt après avoir été sauvagement agressé. Puis, un autre est trouvé mort dans un immeuble abandonné, probablement dune overdose. Ailleurs dans la ville, un homme, Tony Nantel, se fait tuer par balles. Le même jour, sa conjointe est retrouvée morte dans sa maison, étranglée. Quand on découvre que Nantel était lié au crime organisé et au marché de la drogue, on conclut vite à un règlement de comptes. Mais, Maud Graham a des doutes.

Cheyenne, a blind sixteen year-old, is kidnapped and held for ransom; she must outwit her captors to get out alive. Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car is being stolen--with her inside! Griffin hadn't meant to kidnap Cheyenne, all he needed to do was steal a car for the others. But once Griffin's dad finds out that Cheyenne's father is the president of a powerful corporation, everything changes—now there's a reason to keep her.

A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011
A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011

"Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." --Booklist (starred review)

Jean-Benoît Bastarache est un jeune hippie qu'on initie progressivement au crime. D'abord envoûté par «Mamour», qui lui apprend les plaisirs de la chair, il se laisse ensuite entraîner dans le commerce illicite des stupéfiants. L'église de Saint-Chause, où il officie à titre de bedeau suppléant, devient un véritable lieu de perdition. Révélations scabreuses et gestes transgressifs se multiplient au point où notre héros ridicule, poursuivi par la police, est forcé de prendre la fuite.

"A briskly paced, terrifically suspenseful work that steadily builds toward a tense and terrifying climax."—People (Page-turner of the week). This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen's I Know a Secret. He slips into homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, about to awaken to a living nightmare.

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the smash hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak, as they pursue a shadowy psychopath keeping secrets and taking lives.

“Suspense doesn’t get smarter than this.”—Lee Child