The Caleighs have had a terrible year. They need time and space, while they await the news they dread. Gabe has brought his wife, Eve, and daughters, Loren and Cally, down to Devon, to the peaceful seaside village of Hollow Bay. He can work, and Eve and the kids can …

One fateful day, 16 people gather for the reading of the will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. To their surprise, the will turns out to be a contest, challenging the heirs to find out who among them is Westing’s murderer. Only two people hold all the clues. One …

Annie Duke: How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker
Annie Duke, one of the world’s best poker players, won $2 million in the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and her first WSOP gold bracelet in 2004, and is a consultant …

High summer in Kent, and Virginia Mintar, wife of a prominent lawyer, wanders away from a garden party to cool down in the pool. She never returns – but her body is dredged up from the well next morning. Who was Virginia sleeping with, if not her husband? And what …

Inspector Thanet’s daughter is a week away from her wedding and in the midst of flurried preparations he is called to investigate the suspicious death of Jessica Manifest. Found by her husband on their stairs with a broken neck it almost could have been an accident – except for the …

In his 13th appearance, Inspector Luke Thanet has ample opportunity to display the sympathetic and acute investigative technique that has earned a Silver Dagger award for the author of this British series. Max Jeopard is dead – a handsome, outwardly charming playboy and travel writer found floating in the swimming …

Inspector Thanet’s beat remains the town of Sturrenden in Kent, his milieu the upper middle classes, his sleuthing style understated and shrewdly intuitive–when he isn’t beset by such family problems as his teenage daughter’s posh new boyfriend. The inspector finds a diversion of sorts at a local fete hosted by …

This is the ninth in a series of mysteries set in Kent, England, and featuring the detective work of Inspector Luke Thanet. In this story, when Thanet drives through a snowstorm to investigate an apparent hit-and-run, he quickly finds that the people who knew the victim have a lot to …

The eighth in Simpson’s series featuring Detective Inspector Luke Thanet typifies the British author’s award winners. Events in Kent are related in a measured fashion, keeping pace with the dogged investigation of a case by Thanet and his partner, Sgt. Mike Lineham. When the body of Marcia Salden is found …

Simpson’s sixth story about the admirable British Inspector Luke Thanet involves the murder of Steven Long, possibly by Harry Carpenter, whose wife and child have died after Steve caused their car to crash. But the detective’s methodical habits lead him to question others with reasons to hate the murder victim: …