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Murder in Maui

Murder in Maui
  • Author(s): R Barri Flowers
  • Location(s): Maui
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

MURDER IN MAUI: A Leila Kahana Mystery is a police procedural medical mystery novel set in the lush, deceptively idyllic tropical paradise of Hawaii. Maui County homicide detective and composite sketch artist Leila Kahana is the protagonist. A Hawaiian...

Murder in Montego Bay

Murder in Montego Bay
  • Author(s): Paula Lennon
  • Location(s): Jamaica
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Present day

Palm trees, white sandy beaches and a perfect turquoise sea. Jamaica’s Montego Bay might just be paradise. If people didn’t keep getting murdered. Detective Preddy has seen a lot of things in his time on the Montego Bay police...

Murder in Myrtle Bay (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 1)

Murder in Myrtle Bay (Ruth Finlay Mysteries Book 1)
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Australia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When feature writer Ruth Finlay and her elderly neighbor Doris Cleaver visit an antique and collectibles market in the small town of Myrtle Bay, they get a lot more than they bargained for. After Ruth’s old tennis coach is...

Murder in Old Bombay

Murder in Old Bombay
  • Author(s): Nev March
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th century

In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut. In 1892, Bombay is the centre of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies...

Murder In Paris ’68

Murder In Paris ’68
  • Author(s): Edward Chisholm
  • Location(s): Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Crime, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

In 1960s Paris, the high-life and the low-life go hand in hand. It is a time of glamour, sports cars, casinos and night clubs with a cast of actresses, petty criminals, high-level gangsters and compromised politicians. And with French...

Murder in Portofino

Murder in Portofino
  • Author(s): T A Williams
  • Location(s): Portofino
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mysteries Book 8) A much-needed holiday… Dan Armstrong hasn’t done much retiring since moving to Tuscany, and with his new career as a successful private investigator taking off, it seems murder seems to follow him....

Murder in Primrose Hill

Murder in Primrose Hill
  • Author(s): Sabina Manea
  • Location(s): North London
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery, Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A glitzy social media influencer gets unliked in a rather drastic fashion in this unputdownable contemporary whodunnit… When celebrity baker Ruthie Simmons invited friends to her chocolate-boxy London home, she had planned only a small get-together with bubbles, a...

Murder in Regent’s Park

Murder in Regent’s Park
  • Author(s): Christina Koning
  • Location(s): London, The West End
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1929

(Blind Detective 2) First published as Game of Chance under A. C. Koning. 1929. Blinded war veteran Frederick Rowlands has escaped the bustle of London to establish a secure life for himself and his family in the countryside. But...

Murder in Samarkand

Murder in Samarkand
  • Author(s): Craig Murray
  • Location(s): Uzbekistan
  • Genre(s): Biography, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

When Craig Murray arrived in Uzbekistan to take up his post in 2002, he was a young ambassador with a brilliant career and a taste for whisky and women. But after hearing accounts of dissident prisoners being boiled to...

Murder in Seville

Murder in Seville
  • Author(s): Nick Sweet
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(Inspector Velázquez Mysteries Book 1) Inspector Velázquez finds himself at odds with his superiors after failing to solve his previous three investigations. The pressure is mounting on him to make an arrest after a gay vet is murdered in...

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