Russell's ebook Library
A Capitol Death
Lindsey Davis
Flavia Albia [7]: A tragic accident... or was it?Emperor Domitian has been awarded (or rather, has demanded) yet another Triumph to celebrate two so-called victories. Preparations are going smoothly until one of the men overseeing arrangements for th...
Careless in Red
Elizabeth George
Inspector Lynley [15]: He found the body on the forty-third day of his walk... Devastated by the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and ru...
Champagne for One
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe [21]: Faith Usher had a decidedly morbid personality. She talked about taking her life, and kept cyanide in her purse. So when she collapses and dies from a lethal champagne cocktail in the middle of a high society dinner party, everyone c...
Child's Play
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [9]: There shouldn't be anything unusual about the death of an elderly widow, until a man appears at her graveside, claiming to be her long-lost son. He's entitled to shed all the tears he likes, but whether he's entitled to her subs...
The City in the Middle of the Night
Charlie Jane Anders
If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives.January is a dying planet - divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity ...
City of Fear
Alafair Burke
Ellie Hatcher [2]: In a city full of victims, it's murder to choose just one... Chelsea Hart, a fresh-faced Indiana college student, spends the final night of her spring break in the VIP room of an elite New York City nightclub with her girlfriends a...
City of Gold and Shadows
Ellis Peters
Felse [12]: The ancient Roman city exuded evil. From the moment she entered the walls of Aurae Phiala, Chrlotte Rossignol knew her life was in danger. But she coudn't turn back. As the only surviving heir of Dr. Alan Morris, she would never rest unti...
A Clubbable Woman
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [1]: Mary Connon was a small-town femme fatale, eager to test her allure on any man between 6 and 60.When she's found dead in her own living room, her husband - the one bloke to whom she never blew a kiss - comes instantly under susp...
The Coffin Dancer
Jeffery Deaver
Lincoln Rhyme [2]: NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protégé, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer - an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims.They have only one clue: the ...
The Cold Moon
Jeffery Deaver
Lincoln Rhyme [7]: On a frigid December night, an eerie pattern emerges from two equally brutal murder scenes, where a killer's calling card is a moon-faced clock that seemingly ticked away the victims' last moments.From his wheelchair, criminologist...
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the world's most popular and influential fictional detective - the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr. Wats...
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Volume II of The Complete Sherlock Holmes begins with The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, tired of writing about Holmes, had killed him off at the end of "The Final Problem," the last tale in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (found i...
A Cure for All Diseases
Reginald Hill
Dalziel & Pascoe [23]: Some say that Andy Dalziel wasn't ready for God, others that God wasn't ready for Dalziel. Either way, despite his recent proximity to a terrorist blast, the Superintendent remains firmly of this world. And, while Death may be ...
Curtains for Three
Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe SS [5]: Three clever murderers challenge Nero Wolfe in cases involving lovers who want to make sure neither is a killer, a stable full of suspects in the search for a killer on horseback, and a murderer stalking Wolfe's brownstone.The Gun ...
