Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of best-selling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

After the killing of a prominent mob lawyer, NYPD homicide detectives Jacob Jackson and Caitlin Grimes start receive chilling, written “rules” for how to commit the perfect murder. "Rule number one for the perfect murder: Evidence is your enemy. Leave none behind." Jackson (Reid Scott) and Grimes (Cobie Smulders) race to find the killer, setting them on a collision course with the city’s crime underbelly, and a perpetrator who seems happy to toy with them. “Rule number two. No crimes of passion. The perfect murder is always business, never pleasure.”

Kidnappers grabbed Jenna in broad daylight, right in front of her children and their horrified classmates. Her family was issued an insane ransom demand: $25 million in cash and jewels, payable by the end of the school day, otherwise they’ll never see her again. As Jenna’s mother scrambles to gather the money, detectives Mo Butler and George Ortega follow the trail of the kidnappers, which will lead them through a sordid landscape of jealous lovers, broken dreamers, and twisted schemers. But every second counts, and there’s one thing Jenna Wade doesn’t have: very much time.

Five new pastiche stories of the world's greatest detective. These stories are shorter than the other novellas in the New Sherlock Holmes Mysteries set and were published earlier in either the MX Books or Belanger Books anthologies of Sherlock Holmes stories (Edited by David Marcum). 'The Singular Tragedy of the Atkinson Brothers at Trincomalee' is one of the unpublished cases we hear about in The Canon. The story Takes Holmes and Watson to the tropical island of Ceylon on behalf of the Foreign Office to investigate the murder of one of the Atkinson brothers and sends Holmes into a nasty ...

“The German ambassador, madam,” said Sherlock Holmes, “is reputed to be brilliant and very difficult.” “My dear, Mr. Holmes,” she said. “He is a man. Like all men when they are drunk and in the throes of ecstasy, he will be easy.” “I must warn you, he has a reputation amongst men who have encountered him of being dangerous.” “And a reputation amongst women of falling asleep immediately after, if you know what I mean.” Sherlock Holmes blushed ever so slightly. “Very well then, I shall expect your return with the document in forty-eight hours.” He slid a small ...

Thirteen years ago, a lion gnawed her lovely face to shreds. Her lover, a coward, fled, leaving her to her fate beneath the jaws of the beast. Eight years ago, she contemplated suicide. Sherlock Holmes intervened, and she continued to live behind her veil. Now Holmes and Watson visit her again. There is a possibility of surgery to partially restore her face, but it will require travel to the doctors in Berlin. Thus begins another adventure for Holmes and Watson. The events of all those years ago have consequences for the present. Former lovers, new husbands and daughters will all have a ...

“With regret, my dear Inspector,” said Sherlock Holmes, “I shall decline your invitation to assist in this case.” “Why?” demanded Inspector Lestrade. “A cottage catching fire and burning to the ground and causing the death of a young mother may be a terrible tragedy. Such events, sad though they are, have no connection with ingenious or singularly inexplicable crime. I reserve such unique talents as those with which Providence has blessed me to attend to solving events that are irrefutably criminal.” From his seat on the far side of the breakfast table in 221B Baker Street, ...

Will you join me, dear reader, as I take you back to Victorian England--to London, the center of the British Empire? Morality and manners were refined, but crime lurked everywhere beneath the surface. Will you come with me as I tell you of the adventure of the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes? You may already have read of some of the cases solved by Sherlock Holmes. But now you can enjoy another series of stories. These three are the first. I hope you enjoy them. They take place in London but the tentacles and connections reach far into the past and all over the globe. Once again...