Esther Brookstone, ex-MI6 agent in East Berlin in the Cold War and ex-Scotland Yard Inspector in the Art and Antiques Division, is on her honeymoon with Interpol agent Bastiann van Coevorden. Their idyllic cruise down the Danube is interrupted when a reclusive and mysterious passenger is murdered. Why was the victim alone on that riverboat filled with couples, in a stateroom by himself? And who killed him?Esther and Bastiann were often called Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot by wags ...

Esther Brookstone is at it again, this time obsessing about the life and times of St. John the Divine, all triggered by the discovery of a parchment hidden in the frame of a Botticelli painting that she authenticates. As in Rembrandt's Angel, she soon gets into trouble, and her paramour, Interpol agent Bastiann van Coevorden, again comes to her aid. A race to find the saint's tomb results, because Esther has competition. Three centuries of action involving the saint, the Renaissance artist...

In these three short stories, US author Steven M. Moore pays homage to British-style mysteries. He started reading them long ago, and continues to do so, binge-reading novels and even entire series in the genre during the pandemic (many listed in his end notes). "Reading and writing save me!" he says in a recent blog post. "What do other people do?" Perhaps that's a question for new DS Logan Blake, who leaves the Met in London for peace and quiet in the English countryside but is instead w...

Enrico Fermi wasn't the last physicist who was both an experimental and theoretical genius, but Professor Gail Hoff will never receive the Nobel Prize. She goes time-traveling through several universes of the multiverse, never to return to her little lab outside Philly. Jeff Langley, her jack-of-all-trades electronics wizard, accompanies her. Their escapades, both amorous and adventurous, make this sci-fi rom-com a far-out road-trip story filled with dystopian and post-apocalyptic situatio...

Mary Jo is back. Her domestic bliss is rudely interrupted as a mercenary tries to kidnap her adopted children. She and husband Mario have a theory about why: after fighting off CIA and SVR agents in the previous novels in this series, it's now the Chinese government that wants the super-soldier technology of her MECH friends ("Mechanically Enhanced Cybernetic Humans") who are hiding in France…and they will stop at nothing to get it. With action taking place in China and France, this novel ...

Penny Castro survived the biowarfare apocalypse and created a family. Her post-apocalyptic idyll on their citrus ranch is interrupted by the US government's plan to stop another attack…and get some revenge. Penny and husband Alex, along with others, are drafted to carry out the plan—in their case, forced to do so by the government's kidnapping of their young children. But the enemy has surprises awaiting them when a submarine delivers them to that foreign shore.

Esther Brookstone’s life is at a crossroads. A Scotland Yard inspector who specializes in stolen art, she’s reluctantly considering retirement. A three-time widow, she can’t quite decide whether paramour and colleague Interpol Agent Bastiann van Coevorden should be husband number four. Decisions are put on hold while she and Bastiann set out to thwart a neo-Nazi conspiracy financed in part by artworks stolen during World War II. Among the stolen art is the masterpiece “An Angel with Titus’...

The first novel in this bundle, Survivors of the Chaos, begins in dystopia with the Chaos and builds up to the first Earth colony ships destined for nearby stars. The second, Sing a Zamba Galactica, begins with Humans' first contact with ETs, the two joining forces to battle another ET group bent on conquest, and ends with Humans saving an unusual collective intelligence, Swarm. The third, Come Dance a Cumbia...with Stars in Your Hand!, provides evidence that we cannot ignore the lessons o...

A Neo-Nazi conspiracy threatens Europe . . .Esther Brookstone's life is at a crossroads. A Scotland Yard inspector who specializes in stolen art, she's reluctantly considering retirement. A three-time widow, she can't quite decide whether paramour and colleague Interpol Agent Bastiann van Coevorden should be husband number four. Decisions are put on hold while she and Bastiann set out to thwart a neo-Nazi conspiracy financed in part by artworks stolen during World War II. Among the ...

Trouble again finds Esther Brookstone on her home turf. An old friend from her Oxford days is developing encoding and decoding algorithms that involve entangled quantum states and quantum computers, all motivated by some of Leonardo Da Vinci's ideas found in a newly discovered notebook of the artist. His project is financed by MI5, but both the Americans and Russians want his results...and so does a mysterious stranger. Cloak-and-dagger suspense abound in this fifth novel of the series.

Former Scotland Yard Inspector Steve Morgan receives his first murder case after a transfer to Bristol PD and a stressful secondment to MI5. An old man's murder is soon followed by three related ones. Their investigations lead the DI and his team to probe the operations of a national crime syndicate as well as uncover a Russian oligarch's plans to destabilize the UK. Eventually, both MI5 and NCA become involved.

Esther and Bastiann volunteer to work at an archaeological dig near their modest castle outside Edinburgh. A student also working there is murdered. Police Scotland finds a Russian oligarch's number on the lad's call-list. That Russian is on his yacht anchored off the Scottish coast. As the investigation continues, everything becomes more complex, other characters come into play, and the intrigue and suspense increase.