A silent screen star dies at her 100th birthday party—and it's not from natural causes—in this mystery from a multiple Edgar Award finalist.Actress Tasheba Kent was famous before movies could talk, and stayed that way well after the silent era died. When her sister took a mysterious plunge off a cliff, the silver-screen beauty turned tragedy into scandal by running off with her bereaved brother-in-law. To escape the outraged press, they retreated to a rocky island ...

Edgar Award Finalist: The patriarch of a wealthy, notoriously unpleasant Philadelphia family is murdered, and a former FBI agent must figure out whodunit.The Hannaford who made the family fortune called himself a tycoon. The newspapers called him a robber baron. Since the days of Robert Hannaford I, the family has infested Philadelphia society like a disease. The current Hannafords are a clan of embezzlers, gamblers, and fantasy novelists. This Chr...

When a literary agent is murdered, every bodice-ripping author is a suspectThe nation's most famous romance authors are often so over-the-top that they could star in their own work. Catty, eccentric, and vain, they live to make each other miserable—and Patience McKenna does all she can to stay out of their line of fire. Too smart for her own genre, she writes romance novels to pay the rent and investigates stories to stay sane. Now the romance wars are about to hit ...

In the gripping series finale, a mysterious black van and a shocking murder shake Gregor Demarkian's Philadelphia neighborhood to its core.A black van cruises the streets of Philadelphia's Armenian-American enclave, putting residents on edge. Some believe it's connected to the surge in ICE raids. But when a body tumbles out of the speeding vehicle, the mystery takes a chilling turn.Marta Warkowski, a reclusive woman, is found bound in a garbage bag, comatos...

A gated Philadelphia suburb is home to a shocking murder in this mystery featuring Armenian-American ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian.Fox Run Hill is the kind of place that men move to with their second wives, but Patsy MacLaren Willis has been married to Stephen, her first husband, for twenty-two years. Though outwardly happy, Patsy feels disconnected, hating their empty life. To wrench herself free, she shoots Stephen three times and leaves him dead in their bed. Ca...

A Fourth of July fundraiser leads to fireworks of another kind in this "entertaining, satisfying mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).Stephen Fox may be a moron, but he may also be America's next president. The dimwitted legislator is just smart enough to know when to smile for the camera. But two women stand in the way of his campaign: his mistress and his wife, who has never recovered from the death of their daughter, a pain she manages by devoting herself to f...

A Fourth of July fundraiser leads to fireworks of another kind in this "entertaining, satisfying mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).Stephen Fox may be a moron, but he may also be America's next president. The dimwitted legislator is just smart enough to know when to smile for the camera. But two women stand in the way of his campaign: his mistress and his wife, who has never recovered from the death of their daughter, a pain she manages by devoting herself to f...

As college students get dressed up for Halloween, ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian must catch a real campus ghoul before another faculty member is murdered.Since Father Tibor Kasparian escaped the Soviet Union, he has done his best to keep his philosophy to himself—not out of fear, but because he knows that few people could stomach an honest account of life under Stalinism. When he gets an invitation to spend a semester teaching philosophy at Independence College, Kas...

As St. Patrick's Day nears, a retired FBI agent must solve a sinful crime near a small-town convent: "[An] engrossing murder case . . . enjoyable" ( Publishers Weekly).Her childhood friends wanted careers, but Brigit Ann Reilly spent her youth looking forward to her wedding—her wedding to God. When she finally gets to don the habit, her new order sends her to Maryville, where a former sister is poised to become Rome's first Irish-American saint. Brigit has...

Away from the convent, a former nun stumbles onto the path of a killerSusan Murphy is still getting accustomed to blue jeans. For seventeen years, she has worn a nun's habit, and she was used to the coziness of her cape, the anonymity of her uniform. Eventually, she decides it is time to leave the convent, go back to the world, and return to her family. It doesn't take long for her to remember how awful the real world can be.A killer stalks New Haven, markin...

Murder is in the cards this Valentine's Day. "Never quite cozy and never quite tough, this tale combines the best of both styles to stunning effect" ( Publishers Weekly).Psychiatrist Paul Hazzard was renowned for his insights into the human mind, until his wife was savagely murdered. She was stabbed to death with an ornamental dagger, a grisly crime for which Paul was tried but never convicted. Four years later, to escape his greedy family and his former m...

A Holy Week murder puts former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian on the trail of an unholy killer—"Haddam plays the mystery game like a master" ( Chicago Tribune).In high school, Cheryl was an outcast, tolerated only because the boys considered her easy. But one night at Black Rock Park, the popular kids were strangely kind, and for the first time in her life, Cheryl's future seemed bright. Twenty heartbreaking years later, Cheryl is dying of cancer, and wants to...