An archeologist in coastal Maine makes a chilling discovery in this cozy mystery series debut—now a Hallmark feature film!Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding is an expert at finding things that have been lost for centuries. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she recently unearthed a major archeological discovery in coastal Maine: a seventeenth-century settlement that predates Jamestown. But a dead body found at the site has embroiled Emma and ...

An American archaeologist digs up murder and intrigue at a twelfth-century English abbey in this mystery by the Agatha Award–winning author of Site Unseen.Archaeologist Emma Fielding is beginning to doubt the wisdom of spending her summer vacation in England helping friends excavate a 12th-century abbey, especially after they uncover an all-too modern skeleton in the nearby medieval graveyard. But it's the second discovery—of a murdered graduate student rec...

Bouchercon has been the annual gathering-in of mystery readers and writers, all of us fans of the genre, since the very first event in 1970 in Santa Monica, CA.In 2014, Bouchercon celebrates a return to the California beach, this time Long Beach, with an anthology of short stories by a roster of talented writers. You’ll never think of sun, sand, or picnics the same way again.ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS ANTHOLOGY SUPPORT THE LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION.As writers...

Reporter Amy Lindstrom has just witnessed the sudden, suspicious death of the powerful arms dealer she's been investigating. Jayne Rogers, the deadly covert operative assigned to work with the arms dealer, has been accused by her boss of killing him, as well as turning traitor and picking off her former colleagues one by one. The only one who believes Jayne is being framed is Nicole Bradley, whose technical skills are as stealthy and lethal as Jayne's abilities with her fists and weapons. ...

I-Day is near at hand, and soon the Fangborn will reveal themselves to humankind. As a member of this secretive race of werewolves, vampires, and oracles, will archaeologist Zoe Miller be prepared?Still grappling with the newfound powers she gained after opening Pandora’s box, Zoe shares the responsibility of protecting “Normal” humans. Having long preferred to keep to the shadows, she knows the pending revelation of the Fangborn will set the world on fire. With Fangborn enemies in...

Dr John Watson is too good a friend-and too fine an Englishman-to record everything of his adventures with consulting detective Sherlock Holmes. His stories in The Strand are exciting, uplifting, and moral, while the unvarnished truth was often far more complicated than that. Good men are not always angelic and London in the 1890s was a place of great promise as well as grim despair.In this unpublished account, "The Bull Dancer," a beautiful widow arrives at 221B Baker Str...

Anna Hoyt is in the enviable position of owning and running her own tavern; in 1745 Boston, Massachusetts, women had to be granted the legal right to run a business alone. The Queen's Arms is located on the busy Boston waterfront and the thriving tavern's location makes Anna a target for the toughs who want her to sell the place to them. The tavern is Anna's only security, and she's stubbornly determined not to sell, despite the threats of her abusive husband and the thug he wants to impre...

The Fangborn are werewolves, vampires, and oracles dedicated to protecting humanity. Known as "Pandora's Orphans," the Fangborn Family is the hope that was left behind when evil was released into the world. Through the millennia, they've tracked and fought that evil in secret.Since 2008, and the publication of "The Night Things Changed," ten award-winning tales of the Fangborn have been published in best-selling anthologies and magazines. They are collected here for the first time,...