A deadly dull man is now just plain dead in this novel by “a peerless practitioner of the slightly surreal, English-village comedy-mystery.” —Kirkus Reviews
In the 12th century, merchants gather at a summertime fair—but when one of them is found dead in a river, the crime-solving Brother Cadfael must step in.
“Each addition to the series is a joy. Long may the Chronicles continue.” —USA Today
A raconteur in a bucolic English pub tells tall tales in this fiction collection from “arguably the greatest writer of comic prose ever” (The New York Times).
One of Stephen King’s “Must-Reads for Summer” (Entertainment Weekly) and A New York Times Notable Crime Book
“An amazingly entertaining crime novel” from the New York Times bestselling author of the Butcher’s Boy thrillers (Chicago Sun-Times, Favorite Books of the Year).
Go down a river of no return, toward a fateful meeting with an animal that predates mankind's existence by ninety million years—after a treasure that has captured man's desires for centuries. This is what Legends are made of.
Archy McNally somehow gets roped into directing a production of Arsenic and Old Lace—and into discreetly investigating who could be blackmailing his star.
A private detective and her dog investigate a cop’s death in this “page-turner” that will have “even die-hard mystery readers . . . guessing until the end” (Publishers Weekly).
Inspector Roderick Alleyn has left England for a trip to New Zealand. Traveling alongside him are the members of the Carolyn Dacres English Comedy Company. The actors’ are amusing until someone turns up dead. Police work stops for no one, even on the other side of the world.
The sleuthing Rabbi Small encounters militant activists, anarchists, and a homicidal mad bomber on a college campus. As he investigates possible suspects with the same logic and measured caution that make him a brilliant religious leader, he finds that everyone has a motive—and an alibi—and it’s up to him to uncover the truth.
A pre-World War II American humorist contracts TB and “writes about her seclusion in a way that is painfully, barkingly funny” (Lissa Evans, The Guardian).
Former Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, now a livestock inspector, faces a challenging day when a cowpuncher is injured, a friend dies mysteriously, and a herd of cattle goes missing along with a truck and trailer. Bill is thrust into two complex investigations, making it one of his toughest cases yet.
