On a bitter winter evening in New York, the sudden death of the beautiful, wealthy Edith Challoner inside the luxurious Clermont Hotel shatters the tranquility of high society. To the shock of the onlookers, Miss Challoner was not struck down by sudden illness, but murdered—stabbed through the heart with no weapon in sight, and no assailant seen.As the seasoned veteran Gryce and the brilliant young detective Sweetwater untangle a web of bizarre clu...

He sought peace in the lonely hills of France. Instead, he found a bloodthirsty conspiracy and a woman who would change his life forever.Forced to resign from the British Secret Service to escape a Bolshevik hit list, the enigmatic André Duchemin embarks on a quiet walking tour through the remote cévennes mountains. But his dream of a quiet bourgeois retirement is shattered in the ghostly stone ruins of Montpellier-le-Vieux, where a midnight ambush thrusts him back...

In the desolate, uncharted expanses of the Pacific, a ghostly schooner drifts aimlessly, harboring an unimaginable secret.When the USS Wolverine stumbles upon the derelict Laughing Lass, they find her fully provisioned but completely abandoned—devoid of even a single rat or cockroach. As prize crews are sent aboard, the nightmare truly begins. Bizarre celestial lights illuminate the night sky, compasses spin out of control with spitting blue fire,...

When attorney Lawrence Blakeley boards the night train to Pittsburg carrying a set of highly sensitive forged notes, he anticipates nothing more than a routine legal errand and a rocky sleep. But his world is violently upended when he awakens in the wrong berth, clad in another man's clothing.Before Blakeley can untangle the bizarre theft of his belongings, a far darker crime is exposed. The passenger in Lower Ten has been murdered. Caught in a terrifying web of ci...

In the dense, suffocating fogs of early twentieth-century London, a criminal mastermind operates entirely from the shadows. Montague Fallock is a name whispered in fear by the city's elite—a brutal blackmailer whose invisible grip tightens around the throats of millionaires, aristocrats, and desperate lovers alike.When two of Fallock's known associates are found gunned down in upscale Brakely Square outside the home of millionaire Gregory Farrington, Scotland Yard'...

In the glittering world of 1890s high society and the murky, smoke-filled cellars of dangerous political extremes, only one man possesses the deductive genius required to unravel the era's most confounding crimes: Eugène Valmont.Dismissed from his post as the chief detective to the Government of France over a spectacularly public failure, Valmont relocates to London. From a secret fortress hidden inside a luxurious flat, he operates both as a highly sought-after pr...

Before the guns of a world war can sound, the true battles are fought in the shadows.As a devastating tempest batters the English coastline, an American envoy carrying a secret mandate of catastrophic importance boards a special train for the sea. But he is not alone. Trailed by a sullen youth entangled in a treacherous web, the envoy's journey goes violently off the rails. When he wakes, he is the captive of one of the most brilliant and dangerous men in Europe: t...

A deathbed letter from across the sea shatters the quiet life of Louis Brandon, hurling him into a relentless quest for justice. His family’s fortune has been stolen, his father’s life destroyed, and the man responsible—a shadowy scoundrel with ties to a mysterious murder—now wields unimaginable power.But before Brandon can strike back, a treacherous agent of his enemy casts him overboard into the unforgiving depths of the Indian Ocean. Washing ashore on the desolate and terrifying...

In the unforgiving wilderness of East Africa, a fateful encounter between two identical strangers sets the stage for one of the most audacious deceptions in history. A disgraced, exiled English aristocrat, Everard Dominey, stumbles into the camp of his doppelganger—the brilliant and ruthless German commandant, Baron Leopold Von Ragastein. Sensing an unprecedented opportunity to serve his nation on the eve of global conflict, Ragastein steals Dominey's identity and returns to London's elite...

He was known to the unsuspecting inhabitants of Streatham as the polite, unpretentious clerk, Spencer Fitzgerald. But when a police inspector comes knocking with a warrant, the mild-mannered mask slips, and an absolute legend is born.In Peter Ruff and the Double Four, author Monica Downey invites you into the foggy, atmospheric streets of Edwardian London, where crime is a refined art and detection is a masterpiece. Peter Ruff is no ordinary private invest...

A battered grating washes up on the unforgiving shores of a New England coastal town, bringing with it a mystery as cold and relentless as the ocean tide.Bound with antiquated manacles and dressed in bewildering finery, the victim immediately confounds the local authorities—but eccentric scientist and amateur sleuth Professor Chester Kent sees what the others miss. Why was a woman murdered before ever entering the water? Who was the mysterious midnight visitor that attacked the rec...

In the ornate, haughty Campanile Apartment House, a bitter family feud between two obstinate matriarchs has simmered for twenty long years. But social snubs and withering glares soon become the least of the tenants' worries.When the wealthy and jovial Sir Herbert Binney is discovered dying in the building's magnificent onyx lobby at two in the morning, the police are baffled. The only clue is a bloody, scrawled note dropped from the victim's stiffening fingers, containing a shockin...