When George Marsh, a womanizing aristocrat, is murdered, his wife Emily is accused, but her sister, Charlotte Pitt, begins an investigation that leads from the elegant townhouse to the slums of London.

Hoping for a fresh start, an English family moves to the remote Shetland islands, eager to give their autistic son a better life. But when a young nanny's body is found hanging in the barn beside their home, rumors of her affair with the husband spread like wildfire. As suspicion and resentment of the family blazes in the community, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate. He knows it will mean his boss, Willow Reeves, returning...

Presents ten cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective.

In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer has been bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. Before the old woman dies, she utters the word foreign, which may be the only real clue the police have to go on. And they need to work fast. The press has reported the dying word, and white supremacists have threatened a nearby refugee camp, vowing to take justice into their own hands. Recently divorced, overweight, drinking...

The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.

In this “chilling and entirely believable” mystery, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson investigate a set of remains buried in the foundations of an old country manor but as soon as they get close to cracking the case, Ruth becomes the killer's next target. Richmond Times Dispatch When a child's remains are found at a demolition site a former children's home in Norwich forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway is called in to...

"In a nail-biting hunt for a missing loved one, DI Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto discover once again that the line between art, life, and death is all too easily blurred"-- Provided by publisher.

Nate the Great follows the clues to find his lost dog, Sludge, in a department store.

When someone steals the money the town has been collecting to help the ducks, Josh and his friends try to find the thief.

"Around one a.m. on an early spring morning, two teenage gangs are arrested after clashing violently in one of Venice's squares. Commissario Claudia Griffoni, on duty that night, perhaps ill-advisedly walks the last of the boys home because his father, Dario Monforte, failed to pick him up at the Questura. Coincidentally, Guido Brunetti is asked by a wealthy friend of Vice-Questore Patta to vet Monforte for a job, triggering Brunetti's memory that...