From USA Today bestselling author Sally J. Smith comes a haunted Halloween homicide!One bogus ticket fiasco. One scammer taking a deep dive in the bobbing for apples tub. One very exasperated travel agent who knew she was getting too old for rock concerts.It's the spookiest time of year at Aloha Lagoon, and travel agent turned reluctant sleuth Gabby LeClair is up to her pixie cut in trouble!Global pop superstar Echo Celeste has des...

WINNER OF THE 2026 BRITISH BOOK AWARD, CRIME & THRILLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, and Christian Science Monitor"I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." -Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The AppealWhen barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901...

A murdered librarian. A missing manuscript. An obvious suspect. Gabriel Ward KC returns in the third installment in the cozy British mystery series The Trials of Gabriel Ward.The librarian's dead body lies in a pool of lamplight on his desk. A priceless medieval document has been stolen from the Inner Temple. And this time the usually reluctant sleuth Gabriel Ward KC couldn't be more eager to investigate--because a second life hangs in the balance.The autho...

**AN ELLE BEST MYSTERY OF THE YEAR"I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." -Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The AppealAll is calm, all is bright . . . until reluctant sleuth barrister Gabriel Ward is tasked with finding the culprit of yet another grisly crime in the Inner Temple.**Christmas Eve, 1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London's most famous music hall star, Topsy Tillotson, an...

AN ELLE BEST MYSTERY OF THE YEAR"I was immediately besotted . . . Brilliant." —Janice Hallett, internationally bestselling author of The AppealAll is calm, all is bright . . . until reluctant sleuth barrister Gabriel Ward is tasked with finding the culprit of yet another grisly crime in the Inner Temple.Christmas Eve, 1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London's m...

Learn how to craft breathtaking fairy homes exclusively from elements found in nature, step by step, from master fairy house architect Sally J. Smith—photos of her creations provide abundant inspiration.Imagine a fairy home that has dragonfly wings as stained-glass windows, twigs for window frames, birch bark for walls, and dried mushrooms for shingles—with Fairy Houses, you can create one in your own garden. Browse gorgeous photographs of fairy ho...

A murdered librarian. A missing manuscript. An obvious suspect. Gabriel Ward KC returns in the third installment in the cozy British mystery series The Trials of Gabriel Ward.The librarian's dead body lies in a pool of lamplight on his desk. A priceless medieval document has been stolen from the Inner Temple. And this time the usually reluctant sleuth Gabriel Ward KC couldn't be more eager to investigate--because a second life hangs in the balance.The autho...

From the USA Today bestselling writing team of Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens comes a hilarious first book in a brand new mystery series that will keep you guessing until the end...Melanie Hamilton is not your average artist. She brings home the bacon by inking tattoos at New Orleans's Mansion at Mystic Isle, a resort in the middle of the bayou that caters to fans of the peculiar and paranormal, but her true passion comes ...

The first authoritative biography of one of the most fabled women of the twentieth century—Princess Diana—that paints an insightful and haunting portrait, a “chilling vision of loneliness, need, and untreated mental illness” (USA Today).“[Sally Bedell] Smith has done a remarkable job extracting what’s genuinely pertinent and interesting about Diana. . . . If you’re going to read one Diana book, this should be it.”—Newsweek...

The trials of Gabriel Ward continue in A Case of Life and Limb, available now.Bloomsbury presents A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith, read by Matthew Lloyd Davies.SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 BRITISH BOOK AWARD, CRIME & THRILLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, and Christian Science Monitor"I was immediately besotted...

From USA Today bestselling authors Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens comes murder, magic, and laughter on the bayou...There's magic in the air at The Mansion at Mystic Isle where Melanie Hamilton works—magic everywhere. The Federation of Magicians has contracted to hold their annual show at the resort on the bayou, and Melanie's excited to join in the fun—nothing like a little hocus pocus to liven things up, right? The winner's own show and a huge cash prize guarantees stiff competiti...

A revelatory account of how the loving marriage of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth saved the monarchy during World War II, and how they raised their daughter to become Queen Elizabeth II, based on exclusive access to the Royal Archives—from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen and Prince Charles“An intimate and gripping portrait of a royal marriage that survived betrayal, tragedy, and war.”—Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of...