On a jaunt to visit her friend Miss Marple, Elspeth McGillicuddy sees a man strangling a woman on a passing train.

Sensible Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Or is she? After she boards the Paddington Station train and becomes a witness to an apparent murder, no one believes her but her friend-the indomitable sleuth Miss Jane Marple.

The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn is the third novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.

Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture.

In At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Professor Dr. von Igelfeld gets caught up in a nasty case of academic intrigue while on sabbatical at Cambridge.

Minette Walters fans will be pleased." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and Hannah Kent's Burial Rites, this taut psychological thriller offers a delicious take on deviant and defiant ...

"This title was previously published as What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!"--Title page verso.

Tragic Mountains tells the story of the Hmong's struggle for freedom and survival in Laos from 1942 through 1992.

Najwa Bakri walks into her first Scrabble competition since her friend Trina Low's death with the intention to heal and move on with her life.