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A hidden satchel. A long-buried murder. A seaside town with secrets worth killing for… When Harvey Ross's terrier unearths an old leather satchel on Sheringham beach, the retired Detective Inspector discovers something the Norfolk waves should have claimed decades ago: evidence of an unreported 1950s murder—and a cryptic reference to treasure the locals swear doesn't exist. Newly divorced and restless, Harvey can't resist pulling the thread.

These aren’t the kind of people you find looking through the want ads: Otto the wand-carrying wizard, Zac the giant werewolf, and Anastasia a five foot, hundred pound menace to society. They don’t know each other, but they must come together to save humanity because there’s an ancient secret buried in the Earth’s past and it’s about to bite the planet in the butt.

Harvey Ross has finally found his rhythm in Sheringham. His consulting work keeps him sharp, his relationship with Dr. Rose Morgan is flourishing, and he's reconnecting with his daughters after years of estrangement. Life is good. Quiet. Perfectly ordinary. Then he opens a fifty-year-old cold case and everything changes. Sir Winston Bartholemew, found dead at Cromer Pier in 1976. Official verdict: accidental death.

Incredible! Elizabeth Bennet is surprised and delighted when Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy and handsome bachelor from Derbyshire, declares himself to her. Still more surprising are her own feelings for him; a chance overheard conversation had changed her first impression of him enough to see the good man he was…and she had fallen in love.

On board the world’s finest luxury cruise ship, the days are filled with sunshine, cocktails, and incredible new places to explore. Unless you are employed as the ship’s detective, that is. That job falls to a lady called Patricia Fisher, a whip-smart sleuth whose special skills include attracting trouble, getting shot at, and running away screaming.

'...Nora stole a glance at him now and then. He was a tall, well-set-up young fellow, with wavy fair hair that many a girl might have envied, and blue eyes with a perpetual twinkle in their depths. On his part he gazed quite frankly at the girl beside him, admiring her dark eyes and what he could see of her face beneath her pixie...'

Fire.Every creature fears it.Except one.When a call late one evening leads Jane to Buckingham Palace, she holds no concern the dragon they want her to investigate is real.Until she gets there, that is.PLEASE NOTE THIS AUDIOBOOK DOES NOT INCLUDE BIG APPLE...

The Harvey Ross Coastal Mystery series: Books 1-3 Retirement was supposed to be the end of Harvey Ross's detective career. It turned out to be just the beginning. Former Detective Inspector Harvey Ross has traded London's Metropolitan Police for the windswept shores of North Norfolk. Divorced...

A country house. A dangerous secret. And a fiancé Etty Redgrave definitely cannot trust. England, 1868: Newly engaged, Etty Redgrave should be planning her wedding. Instead, she travels to the countryside for Lady Darby’s summer house party, determined to uncover why her fiancé lied to secure her hand. When Tristan Bankes-Fernsby, Duke of Rockingham, arrives asking questions of his own, Etty finds herself under scrutiny. He has no faith in the match and every intention of uncovering the truth behind it.

After seven hundred years of silence, a plague village claims one more death... They called Ashenby cursed ground—a medieval village wiped out by plague and left to rot on the Suffolk heath, its ruined stones untouched by generations who knew better than to dig there. But now a university archaeological team has broken through the ruins and found something that isn't centuries old—a body, sealed inside a hidden wartime foxhole, dead barely a week. Russell Fairbanks was a local soldier gone AWOL who came home to bury his mother.

Megan is settling into her new life and beginning to understand the magic she carries. But when a strange sea mist rolls into Blackwell and rumours of a long-lost shipwreck spread through the town, she senses a new threat awakening. As a team of divers arrives to search for the wreck, funded by a wealthy newcomer, Megan and her fellow witches uncover a chilling truth. The shipwreck is tied to a long-forgotten legend; one that’s filled with betrayal, dark magic, and a power that should never be disturbed.

Meet the new queen of mystery-solving mayhem! Grab this anniversary celebration boxed set of the bestselling series and capture all the extra bits no one else got to hear. When life gives you lemons, empty your cheating husband’s bank accounts and go on a cruise. That’s right, isn’t it?...

The team has grown to three, but the workload isn’t getting any smaller. With reports of Hell’s Angel's werewolves, dead relatives returning to haunt their loved ones, unspeakable aberrations hiding in the shadows, and the unwanted attention of a macabre serial killer, the team at Blue Moon Investigations are in even more trouble than usual.

Richard L. Pastore offers up a lighthearted rendition of the original tale of Perseus, complete with gods and gorgons. The story begins with Acrisius, king of Argos, discovering he will have a grandson who is predestined to kill him. That child, Perseus, reaches adulthood and with the aid of two gods embarks on a quest taking him to the edges of the ancient Hellenic world.

When recently divorced Megan Harland receives a mysterious key and is summoned to the coastal town of Blackwell, she expects awkward family business, not a magical inheritance. At forty-one, Megan feels as though she’s drifting into midlife with nothing much to offer. However, Rowan Hall has other ideas. Her bickering familiars are determined to help with her new role as High Witch, and old friendships must be rekindled if she’s to trust her new powers and herself again.

Humanity has splintered. Over millennia, the Avians of the Clifflands have learned to fly with wings of sky metal. The Subterraneans venture to the surface only to farm in vast glass domes. Between them lies the boundless and savage Wilderness. Suspicion and hostility between their cities shadow every aspect of life in this post-apocalyptic world. Icarus is a Seraphim, rare and destined for greatness. When he is sent on a deadly mission to far-off Subterranean Newtopia, his people's hopes weigh on him as heavily as the wings on his back, or the bounty he must capture.

When twelve-year-old Tabitha returns to the remote Shetland island of Papala, she expects adventure with her twin brother and friends–not trouble. As their ferry approaches Papala, Tabitha discovers what appears to be a selkie skin drifting in the harbour. Local legend says the skin belongs to a mythical creature–half human, half seal–and that if it is not returned before midnight, the island will be cursed with generations of bad luck.

17th Century Bavaria. At the end of the Adventurer’s Road, deep in the Hexental - the Valley of Witches - lies the town of Reimersberg. Beautiful but insulated, its residents are proud of their traditions and hostile to change and anyone who might bring it. Not for nothing do people say that you have to be strange to take the road to Reimersberg, but even stranger to live there.

She fought for gold. Now, she fights for her life. Olympic champion Judith Rosner once had the world at her feet. But after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany, her victories no longer matter—only the fact that she is Jewish. Friends turn away, the Gestapo is closing in, and survival becomes her only goal. Hiding with a fearless woman who risks everything to protect the persecuted, Judith meets Koloss, a German deserter with nowhere left to run.

When a worried mother asks Laura Carlyle to keep a discreet eye on her son's wedding, she and Sebastian Silver arrive at a crumbling Dorset estate expecting nothing worse than family tension and bad speeches. Instead, a guest is dead before dessert–poisoned at the welcome dinner with a glass of Napoleonic War-era wine older than anyone in the room.