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War time Tangier, policed by Franco’s Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place.

In 1926, when musician Tom Hickey reads a broadside about a lynching the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report and discovers the Negro victim was an old friend, he goes to his neighbor, LAPD dete

When the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the token sane member of the judging panel) wastes no time in summoning Baro

When cats start getting sick, feline-loving freelance writer Theda Krakow suspects an accident is to blame. But her shelter-owning rocker buddy Violet claims the contaminated kibble was poisoned.

Susan Callisto is pushing 30 and taking stock. The man in her life, Massachusetts police lieutenant Michael Benedict, has unaccountably left her without a word of goodbye.

The morgue is that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary but, to many of us, dreadful work.

St. Kilda's streets hang with fairy lights. Tea dances, tango competitions, lifesaving demonstrations, lantern shows, and picnics on the beach are all part of the towns first Flower Parade.

The dog days of summer have arrived, and Tai Randolph is feeling the heat. Running her uncle’s gun shop is more demanding than she ever imagined.

Faye Longchamp, back in school to pursue her dream of becoming an archaeologist, has been asked to run a project for which she is barely qualified, under the direction of a man who doesn’t seem to

Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School.

A turbulent frontier province, rotten with corruption and seething with hatred of Rome, a barbarian god whose devotees may include a murderer, a clever and unscrupulous faith healer who knows every

While scouting locations for a film documentary on the Arizona’s Apache Wars, Private Investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn, discover the mutilated body of a young girl.

Hewed out of a frozen mountain 600 miles from the North Pole, the Doomsday Seed Vault was designed to safeguard the earth’s precious collection of seeds from rising sea levels, hurtling asteroids,

The elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history. He is related to the Virginia Lees (both Light Horse Harry and Robert E.

Reed and Mayer combine the scholarship of Steven Saylor with the humor of Lindsey Davis.