Russell's ebook Library
The Camelot Caper
Elizabeth Peters
For Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England is a wonderful surprise — an opportunity to open doors to a family past that has always been closed to her.But sinister acts greet her arrival. A stranger tries to ste...
Cards on the Table
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [50]: Mr. Shaitana was famous as a flamboyant party host, but he was a man of whome everybody was a little afraid. So, when he boasted to Hercule Poirot that he considered murder and art form, the detective had some reservations about...
A Caribbean Mystery
Agatha Christie
Miss Marple [9]: As Jane Marple sat basking in the tropical sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened.Then a question was put to her by a stranger: ‘Would you li...
Casebook of the Black Widowers
Isaac Asimov
Black Widowers [3]: Chronicles the adventures of a club of men, the Black Widowers, who meet once a month for dinner at the Milano restaurant and attempt to solve a series of puzzles.The Cross of LorraineThe Family ManThe Sports PageSecond BestThe Mi...
Cat Among the Pigeons
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [79]: Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girls - things like murder!Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion, while the rest of the school sleeps. There, among t...
Cause of Death
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [7]: Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. Together with her niece Lucy and police captain Pete Marino, Scarpetta will follow the...
Chaos
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [24]: In the quiet of twilight, on an early autumn day, twenty-six-year-old Elisa Vandersteel is killed while riding her bicycle along the Charles River. It appears she was struck by lightning — except the weather is perfectly clear wit...
Children of the Storm
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [15]: This is the fifteenth adventure for Amelia, Emerson and the whole Peabody-Emerson clan!At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another seas...
The Cinderella Murder
Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke
Under Suspicion [1]: Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program — a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected —...
Clean Break
Val McDermid
Kate Brannigan [4]: Kate Brannigan goes head to head with organized crime when a routine industrial case starts leaving a trail of bodies across the northwest, forcing Kate to confront hard truths in her own life.
The Clocks
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [80]: At her new job, Sheila Webb finds a corpse surrounded by five clocks, each set to a different time. Fortunately, Hercule Poirot has nothing but time to piece together one of his most puzzling cases.
Close Case
Alafair Burke
Samantha Kincaid [3]: Deputy District Attorney Samantha Kincaid likes to be where the action is: at the scene of a crime, at the arrest of a suspect, with the cops on the Major Crimes Team. But when street smart, plugged-in reporter Percy Crenshaw is...
The Cobbler's Boy
Katherine Addison and Elizabeth Bear
Brilliant, bookish Christopher Marlowe is fifteen years old and desperate to qualify for a scholarship to the King's School in order to escape his brutal father. But the only man who could have helped him has been murdered... and now the killers are ...
Cocaine Nights
J. G. Ballard
In Cocaine Nights , J. G. Ballard stretches the taught canvas of his transgressive vision over the framework of old-fashioned mystery.The setting: the swank Spanish resort of Estrella de Mar, where young retirees from Europe's chillier climes bask in...
Common Murder
Val McDermid
Lindsay Gordon [2]: Lesbian reporter Lindsay Gordon goes to cover the long protest of a cruise missile base by a British women's peace encampment and finds there an attractive ex-lover who is accused of murder, not to mention routine assaults and an ...
Conferences Are Murder
Val McDermid
Lindsay Gordon [4]: In 1984, after the traumatizing death of her closest friend, amateur sleuth and former reporter Lindsay Gordon left England for California.Nine years later, she finds herself back in her homeland, gathering data for her doctoral t...
The Confession of Brother Haluin
Ellis Peters
Cadfael [15]: In the winter of 1142, snow blankets the Bendictine Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul causing damage to the guest hall, and the brothers must repair its roof before the danger worsens. The treacherously icy conditions are to prove nig...
The Copenhagen Connection
Elizabeth Peters
A strange twist of fate brings Elizabeth Jones face to face with her idol, the brilliant, eccentric historian Margaret Rosenberg, at the Copenhagen Airport.An even stranger accident makes Elizabeth the esteemed scholar's new private assistant. But lu...
Crack Down
Val McDermid
Kate Brannigan [3]: There was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the investigation into a car sales fraud – nothing bad could happen.But by now Kate should know that with Richar...
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [1]: Elizabeth Peters's unforgettable heroine Amelia Peabody makes her first appearance in this clever mystery.Amelia receives a rather large inheritance and decides to use it for travel. On her way through Rome to Egypt, she meets Eve...
Crooked House
Agatha Christie
In a sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinley Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years h...
Cross and Burn
Val McDermid
Tony Hill & Carol Jordan [8]: Someone is brutally killing women. Women who bear a striking resemblance to former DCI Carol Jordan. The connection is too strong to ignore and soon psychological profiler Tony Hill finds himself dangerously close to the...
Cruel and Unusual
Patricia Cornwell
Kay Scarpetta [4]: "Killing me won't kill the beast" are the last words of rapist-murderer Ronnie Joe Waddell, written four days before his execution.But they can't explain how Dr. Kay Scarpetta finds Waddell's fingerprints on another crime scene - a...
The Curse of the Pharaohs
Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody [2]: When Lady Baskerville's husband Sir Henry dies after discovering what may have been an undisturbed royal tomb in Luxor, she appeals to eminent archaeologist Radcliffe Emerson and his wife Amelia to take over the excavation. Amid r...
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot [84]: The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly ordinary to Captain Hastings: there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife...
