Even though the police insist that Judith Hayes's friend, George, killed himself--after all, several people saw him jump, right in front of the moving train--Judith is not convinced. First in a du
John Grey, a newly minted lawyer in Cromwell's England is back in this follow-up to A Cruel Necessity. This time around, a mis-delivered letter has left Grey with more information about a murderous pl
While Karl Alberg contents with a multitude of policing problems in the small town of Sechelt, businessman Gordon Murphy is set on winning Alberg's girlfriend's heart, and will go to disturbing length
An award-winning mystery novel whose pleasure lies largely in the intricate relationships between the characters, Mother Love has Karl Alberg, the series protagonist, working on a case that seems to h
“Pudge” Coombe-Peters, a London movie producer, is lucky to have Henry Tibbett as a friend: When people start dying on the set of a film he is producing, only Tibbett can solve what appear to be impos
Emmy Tibbett, Inspector Tibbett's wife, takes center stage in this mystery in which the 20th reunion of her Royal Air Force squad becomes the occasion for an investigates into the long-ago apparen
Henry Tibbett solves a murder in an English village in this throwback to the country house murder plots of the 1930s. When a man who had been trying to buy the estate of the local eccentric aristocrat
Henry Tibbett pursues the murder of a small-time gambler which seems improbably related to a conflict between two newly-formed African nations. The investigation takes Henry from England to the Nether
The second mystery in this series set in the Kelantan province of Malaysia and featuring Mak Chik ("Auntie") Maryam as the sleuth. Here, one of Maryam's market-trading friends dies shortly after an ex
Karl Alberg was a big-city cop before moving to the “Sunshine Coast” of Canada. Yet he is stumped by a murder in the sweet little town he now polices: A woman has been found, propped against a tree, h
Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy, are lazing on a friend's yacht, tacking from one little English sea-town to the next, and it should all be delicious indolence…except that Henry can't stop
Patricia Moyes worked as an editor at British Vogue, and her familiarity with the London fashion scene is put to good use in this tale of murder at the fictional Style magazine, right in the midst of
Henry Tibbett is attending an international police conference intended to stop drug-smuggling. The conference is in Switzerland, and it's all a glittering whirl of attractive folks in their best e
Wes Beattie, the hapless young son of a stuffy Toronto family is on trial for murder, and his explanations of what actually happened are entirely too fanciful to convince anyone. But Sidney “Gargoyle”
For Nina Fischman and her mother, Ida, Long Island a purely mythological concept, like Atlantis with strip malls. But when Helen Hirsch dies, Ida feels obliged to schlep out to her funeral, with Nina
Dov Taylor, an unhappy former cop, is summoned by a local rabbi to help solve a murder in the Hassidic community. Why Dov? Some hundred-odd years ago, his ancestor was a famous Polish mystic, and the
The War is over, but only just, and San Francisco is still crammed with military uniforms. It is also crammed with Bohemians. Noel Bruce, the protagonist of this mystery with elements of romantic susp
Shadow Play is the first in a series set in rural Malaysia during the 1970s. At the center of the series is Mak Cik Maryam, one of the middle-aged "aunties" who sell batiks in the local market. Here,
World War II is raging, but in this dusty backwater of the Belgian Congo, the biggest problem is finding a cold beer. That's the case, at least, for Hooper Taliaferro, a U.S. government gofer sent to
