Henry Carter Hull

Precious Ramotswe, owner of Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, finds herself beset with problems with a strange intruder in her house, the mysterious appearance of a pumpkin, the desertion of one of her husband's apprentices, and a visitor bearing secrets from the past.

A body is found slashed, naked, and posed on hands and knees and when a second murder occurs it does not take English detective Monika Paniatowski long to realize the killer will not stop until she figures out the message he is trying to send.

FBI special agent Ana Grey, on leave in London, receives a call telling her to report to the American embassy, but a drive-by shooting at the restaurant where she is dining makes the mission urgent as the bureau believes it may be connected to her next mission--to go undercover in Rome at the home of a sister she never knew existed whose husband Nicosa, a coffee mogul, is suspected of dirty dealings.

Contains nine short stories in which the author explores the darkness that lurks within the souls of women and girls.

Alice struggles for months after being laid off from her job and welcomes the opportunity to work at a new art gallery in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking district, but her luck quickly dissipates when, upon arrival, Alice discovers the gallery has been stripped bare and the body of Drew Campbell, the corporate representative for the gallery's anonymous owner, is lying on the floor.

Ellen McKenzie is on the way to the upscale Harvest Festival Dinner with her fiance, Police Chief Dan Dunham, where the guest list is filled with society's most influential men and women, but when one of the guests disappears, they are pulled into the search and uncover some shocking secrets.

Nepenthe, an orphan who has been raised by the librarians of the Royal Library of Raine, becomes obsessed with deciphering a supposedly untranslatable book brought to the palace by a young mage, not realizing that the words and her fate are entwined with that of the newly crowned, fourteen-year-old queen.

Twelve-year-old Steve is investigating a diamond heist but the case suddenly changes when the author of the Bailey Brothers detective novels writes him a letter to say that he fears for his life.

Fifty years after her father's mysterious death, Jane Weld is still search for answers, and when her daughter, Marne, begins dating the son of her father's mistress, Jane uncovers some dark secrets that will change all their lives forever.

Jill Breck asks Zach Balfour for help after a series of bizarre events culminates in a threat to her life, and as he protects Jill from unseen dangers, they discover the hidden threats that surround them as she is pulled into the darker side of art collecting.