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Mary Ryan, San Francisco pastry chef, is happy to be teaching at her old alma mater. But she’s barely in the door when she realizes that the teaching staff are at loggerheads with each other.

In the year 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier, comes north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March.

Even the cozy New England town of Newbury, Connecticut, is not immune to the relentless spread of McMansions carpeting the countryside.

Some nasty predators dwell in paradise, and they aren‘t all hiding in the azure waters.

It's tough being a small-time hustler in Key West, FL.

The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia’s Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger.

December 1941: America reels from the brutal attack on Pearl Harbor. Both patriotism and paranoia grip New York as the city frantically mobilizes for war.

A former U.S. Senator vanishes days after his son goes missing.

A grizzled Lake Superior fisherman with a massive allergy to bees dies very early one morning alone on his boat. Was he stung to death?

A strikingly original plot blends unknown bits of real history with imagined incidents to create an unusual thriller.

When the first member of the staff at a Turkish excavation is murdered and a mosaic floor disappears from her site overnight, archaeologist Tamar Saticoy plunges into the shady side of the antiquit

Oxford historian and T.V. personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life.

Sam Blackman is an angry man. A Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the U.S. military, he lost a leg in Iraq.

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, publisher Guy Mallon learns his book warehouse has burned to the ground.

Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities.