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Five valuable lessons: don't hire a psychopath to kill your wife, don't use Drano to get rid of a body, hotel room doors aren't very secure, a wig isn't much of a disguise, and secrets can kill.

When we last saw Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos, Max was being arrested by the NYPD for drug trafficking, and Angela was fleeing the country in the wake of a brutal murder.

Cat Mateo, a once-stray teenager, owes her rescue to Detective Stride. But Cat holds something else to her chest: a secret, the sheer power of which she could not possibly comprehend.

A forty-year-old skeleton is found encased in a concrete slab at a recently decommissioned nuclear energy site.

On Whidbey Island, the Gray quintuplets are the stuff of legend. Pixie and her brothers have always been bigger and blonder than their neighbors, as if they were birthed from the island itself.

Fourteen-year-old Sam Stellar and her cousin Paige have decided to spend the summer working at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, as part of the Summer Studies and Wo

Fiona Lychenko, now a woman in her late sixties, has spent years researching the death of her high school classmate Zara Stanley, who was brutally murdered at the age of twenty.

The grand-prize winner of a writing contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, The Gold-Bug was one of Poe's most popular stories during his lifetime.

Set in early 1900s London, this metaphysical thriller follows undercover officer Gabriel Syme and his secret involvement with Scotland Yard's task force that attempts to take down underground anarc

First published in a 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C.

First published in a 1844 literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1845, The Purloined Letter is the third and final story that features Poe's detective, C. Auguste Dupin.

Annie and her new neighbor must solve the mystery of what connects them before one of them is convicted of a murder that has yet to happen--and somehow already did.

A triple murder in Scotland in 1869 leads to the arrest of Roderick Macrae. There's no question that Macrae is guilty, but his fate hinges on the question of his sanity.

Melanie West and her grandmother, Liza, open a bed-and-breakfast inn on the Oregon coast replete with a friendly ghost, one very real skeleton in the closet, and a freshly dead body on the beach.

Montalbano investigates the death of wealthy accountant Cosimo Barletta in a case involving a string of mistresses, family secrets, and a history full of extortion, greed, and corruption.