Henry Carter Hull

Agatha Raisin's quiet town of Carsely is outraged when local scrooge John Sunday begins creating laws that prevent the townspeople from having any fun, and when he tries to cancel the annual Christmas festivities, someone's anger turns violent and Mr. Sunday is murdered, leaving Agatha to find the killer before Christmas.

Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit. At twelve, she loses her father and her happy family life ends as her mother grows to resent her. Then circumstances push Lizzie into an early marriage, where she finds her mother's petty cruelties replaced by her husband's frequent beatings. But she is a survivor. When World War I breaks out, Lizzie's husband is forced to join up and she seizes the opportunity to run away. She finds independence and friendship...

Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.

A vicious gang of thieves has hit the city of Castlemere, so the three police officers who head up the city's detective team go undercover to infiltrate their organization.

Bill Slider and his firm are assigned to solve the mysterious case surrounding the murder of David Rogers, a wealthy doctor, but the case takes an unexpected turn when Slider discovers that none of the doctor's many girlfriends seem to have any knowledge of where Rogers worked or what he did for a living.

Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. A professional writer of some repute, he has reached the age of fifty-six with nothing resembling the success of his two great literary heroes, George Orwell and Albert Camus. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime-to write the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a widely respected and highly influential activist and humanitarian-he seizes the chance to write something meaningful. His search...

The acclaimed author brings us crime at a country-house Christmas party in "one of her best and most baffling mysteries" (Daily Express). It's the Christmas season in 1972, and Agatha Troy is at a house party, enjoying the local holiday pageant and also painting the host's portrait. The painting's coming along fine, but the pageant goes a little pear-shaped when one of the players disappears. Could one of the eccentric guests have been involved?...

In the years before the American Civil War, a London arms dealer finds his life in danger when two men from opposite sides of the battlefield wish to buy his wares.

When forensic pathologist Dr. Sam Ryan is called to investigate a gruesome murder at the local cemetery, she discovers there is a ritualistic murderer on the loose in her quiet town, and it is up to her to find the killer before she becomes his next victim.

The Earl of Chase's daughter and nephew are bound together for better or worse when the Earl dies and leaves them his heirs.