fiction

Brendan Holmes, Margaret Marple and Auguste Poe open a private investigating company together and their daring methodology and news-making solved cases would make their last-namesakes proud and attract the attention of an NYPD detective.

A dream girls trip to a luxurious French chateau devolves into a deadly nightmare of secrets and lies.

When seven murder victims are found in a small town, the homicide investigation shakes a small-town sheriff to her core.

On the surface, Lydia Fitzsimons has the perfect life; wife of a respected, successful judge, mother to a beloved son, mistress of a beautiful house in Dublin. That beautiful house, however, holds a secret. And when Lydia's son, Laurence, discovers its secret, wheels are set in motion that lead to an increasingly claustrophobic and devastatingly dark climax.

When Wren, recovering from heartbreak, and Anders, a widower still struggling to move on, cross paths, they find their worlds turned upside-down, and as love blossoms between them, Anders must decide whether to walk away or reveal the secret he's been harboring that could change everything.

A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends.

Long ago, Nathan Graves lived in a house in the country with his abusive father; and has never told his family what happened in that house. Long ago, Maddie Graves was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn't; and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now Nate and Maddie are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver. And now what happened long ago is happening again, and it is happening to Oliver. He meets a strange boy who becomes his best friend, a boy with secrets of his own, and a taste for dark magic. This dark magic puts them at the heart of a battle of good versus evil and a fight for the soul of the family; and perhaps for all of the world. But the Graves family has a secret weapon in this fight: their love for each other.

Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It's the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It's not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back thirty times with a kitchen knife in their own homes.

Pre-teen Jessica Creswell knew Callen Hayes was a broken prince; they became each other's refuge. Until the day Callen kissed her, and then disappeared from her life without a word. Years later Callen is a famous composer, and an infamous bad boy, his music now locked deep inside, trapped behind his own inner demons. In France to drink his way through the darkness, Callen stumbles into the one person who makes the music return: Jessica. And she still tastes of fresh, sweet innocence; even as she sets his blood on fire.

It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to serve overseas, Blackburn is charged with caring for Jacob's wife, Naomi, as well. Sixteen-year-old Naomi Clarke is an outcast in Blowing Rock, an outsider, poor and uneducated, who works as a seasonal maid in the town's most elegant hotel. When Naomi eloped with Jacob a few months after her arrival, the marriage scandalized the community, most of all his wealthy parents, who disinherited him. Shunned by the townsfolk for their differences and equally fearful that Jacob may never come home, Blackburn and Naomi grow closer and closer until a shattering development derails numerous lives.