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...

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...

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...

When writer and ex-deb Bennis Hannaford discovers the body of super-heiress Kayla Anson in the family garage, her visit to Litchfield County, Connecticut, is reluctantly extended. Bennis's hostess, Margaret Anson, presents an icy version of the grieving mother, cut out her late husband's will--until now. And when Gregor Demarkian, ex-FBI man and Bennis's lover, arrives from Philadelphia to consult with local police, a media blitz storms in as more suspects crawl out of the woods. Kayla may...

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 ...

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 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...

When a killer stalks a provocative talk show host, ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is the next guest in this mystery from the author of Quoth the Raven.Sex, sex, and more sex—this is the formula for a hit talk show. No one knows this better than Lotte Goldman, host of television's most outrageous chat show, but even she is getting bored of her sensational interviews. To break the routine, she and her producer—the towering, dynamic DeAnna Kroll—take the show ...

A "tour de force" mystery in the Edgar Award–nominated series featuring a writer who not only covers murder cases, but cracks them too ( Publishers Weekly).An exhausted Patience McKenna is attending a benefit at a Baltimore bookstore as part of a ten-city tour arranged by a do-gooder publicist and a mega-rich donor. It's for a good cause, but she's more than ready to head back home to New York and hit the sack. At least they're serving refreshments.

Back in her hometown, McKenna quickly remembers why she leftWaverly, Connecticut, has turned its back on most modern conveniences. It has no cinema, no strip malls, no supermarket. Groceries are nearly an hour's drive away, along spotty two-lane roads that get blocked the moment snow starts to fall. True-crime writer Patience McKenna, on her way to Waverly for her wedding, remembers the roads well enough to navigate the patch ice. Her hometown feels lost in time, bu...

An infant's death draws a former FBI agent to a strange Southern town in this mystery by an Edgar Award–nominated author.As a hurricane bears down on Bellerton, North Carolina, Zhondra Meyer opens her gates to the townsfolk. Her farm occupies the area's highest ground, but the locals are wary of accepting her invitation. Zhondra says her camp is nothing more than a retreat for battered women, but the town's evangelicals believe that her residents are lesbians, occu...