<div>&ldquo;Murder, mayhem, and mystery! Every story . . . is filled with suspense, sizzle and startling twists. I loved it!&rdquo; ?Lisa Jackson, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author Crime comes to the capital of country music in these all-new stories by mystery and thriller stars including Jeffery Deaver, Anne Perry, Robert Dugoni, Donald Bain, Jefferson Bass, and many more. &ldquo;Settings include backwoods hollows, late-night recording studios, seedy dives, quiet suburbs, sleek yachts, and tropical islands. Readers will meet Civil War re-enactors, college professors, song writers, spies, and the requisite lawyers and cops, as well as a being that just might be the devil. Among the highlights are Anne Perry&rsquo;s &lsquo;Shutter Speed,&rsquo; which takes the reader back in time to the fashionable haunts of 1930s British aristocracy, with Wallis Simpson and Edward, Prince of Wales, putting in an appearance. In &lsquo;Regression,&rsquo; Jeffery Deaver offers a fresh and frightening look at the potential benefits and pitfalls of successful psychiatric treatment, and Mary Burton warms up a cold case in &lsquo;The Keepsake.&rsquo; This is a book to keep by your bedside for those nighttime short story cravings.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly Includes stories by Jefferson Bass, Catriona McPherson, Baron R. Birtcher, Donald Bain, C. Hope Clark, Jonathan Stone, Maggie Toussaint, Jeffery Deaver, Blake Fontenay, Jon Jefferson, Anne Perry, Heywood Gould, Dana Chamblee Carpenter, Mary Burton, Jaden Terrell, Robert Dugoni &amp; Paula Gail Benson, Eyre Price, Steven James, Daco, and Clay Stafford</div>

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Cold-Blooded

<div>An ancient scroll draws a bookseller into a chilling mystery. Monty Danforth finds the tin buried beneath a shipment of leather-bound classics. Inside is a millennia-old vellum manuscript written in an unfamiliar but unmistakably ancient language. Danforth tries to photocopy and photograph it, but he ends up with blank images, as though the ink were made of something impervious to modern technology. As the scroll&rsquo;s mystery enchants him, this hapless bookseller falls into a cutthroat conspiracy that he may never escape. Soon a dead-eyed old man and his granddaughter come calling for the scroll. Danforth refuses to sell them the manuscript, but they will not be the last to demand it. Powerful forces crave the secrets locked within this ancient document, and Danforth will survive only if he can master its power. The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.</div>

Overdrive

The Scroll

<div>Book-centered mystery novellas from four masters of the craft. From Anne Perry, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, comes The Scroll. Hapless bookseller Monty Danforth&rsquo;s recent discovery of a millennia-old manuscript plunges him into a cutthroat conspiracy. &ldquo;A master storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;The Star-Ledger Christopher Fowler, author of the Bryant and May mysteries, presents Reconciliation Day. One man&rsquo;s obsession with a lost edition of Bram Stoker&rsquo;s Dracula sends him on a dangerous journey to Transylvania. &ldquo;If Edgar Allan Poe and Monty Python had lived in the same country and the same century and somehow struck up a creative collaboration, their work might have resulted in fiction similar to Fowler&rsquo;s.&rdquo; &mdash;Richmond Times-Dispatch From F. Paul Wilson, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling creator of Repairman Jack, comes The Compendium of Srem. Prior Tom&aacute;s de Torquemada yields the ultimate power, deciding who lives and dies during the Spanish Inquisition, but an ancient, evil tome is about to change that. &ldquo;A great storyteller and a thoughtful one.&rdquo; &mdash;David Morrell, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of First Blood Elizabeth George, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley novels, brings you The Mysterious Disappearance of the Reluctant Book Fairy. A woman&rsquo;s gift for immersing herself in the plot of whatever book she likes draws overwhelming fame&mdash;and misfortune. &ldquo;An essential writer of popular fiction today.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post </div>

Fantastic Crimes

<div>In this short story, the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author delves into the private lives and personal histories of her &ldquo;extremely congenial characters&rdquo; (The Philadelphia Inquirer). It is 1912, and Peter Naylor calls at the home of Lady Vespasia Cumming-Gould, longtime friend of Thomas Pitt and his wife, Charlotte. Clouds are gathering in Europe, and the prime minister is considering Thomas to head up the country&rsquo;s intelligence services&mdash;the king is not as enthusiastic about the idea. Thus it is Naylor&rsquo;s responsibility to investigate the investigator&mdash;not only his career as a renowned police detective, but his humble family origins, his relationship with his wellborn wife, his likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. And the highly observant and mischievously candid Lady Vespasia is the ideal woman to ask . . . &ldquo;Pitt&rsquo;s compassion and Charlotte&rsquo;s cleverness make them compatible sleuths.&rdquo; &mdash;The Philadelphia Inquirer</div>

Charlotte and Thomas Pitt

<div>In the debut of the New York Times&ndash;bestselling Victorian crime series, Inspector Thomas Pitt seeks an elusive strangler among upper-class British society. Panic and fear strike the Ellison household when one of their own falls prey to the Cater Street murderer. While Mrs. Ellison and her three daughters are out, their maid becomes the third victim of a killer who strangles young women with cheese wire, leaving their swollen-faced bodies on the dark streets of this genteel neighborhood. Inspector Pitt, assigned to the case, must break through the walls of upper-class society to get at the truth. His in-depth investigation gradually peels away the proper veneer of the elite world, exposing secrets and desires until suspicion becomes more frightening than truth. Outspoken Charlotte Ellison, struggling to remain within the confining boundaries of Victorian manners, has no trouble expressing herself to the irritating policeman. As their relationship shifts from antagonistic sparring to a romantic connection, the socially mismatched pair must solve the mystery before the hangman strikes again. Rich with authentic period details and blending suspenseful mystery with a budding romance between Inspector Pitt and Charlotte Ellison, The Cater Street Hangman launched the long-running series by Edgar Award&ndash;winning author Anne Perry, with recent titles including The Angel Court Affair and Treachery at Lancaster Gate. Also the creator of the William Monk Novels, Perry has become one of the great names in detective fiction. As the Philadelphia Inquirer says, &ldquo;Pitt&rsquo;s compassion and Charlotte&rsquo;s cleverness make them compatible sleuths, as well as extremely congenial characters. . . . Perry has the gift of making [the Victorian era] seem immediate and very much alive.&rdquo;</div>

The Cater Street Hangman

<div>Members of Parliament are murdered crossing Westminster Bridge, in the New York Times&ndash;bestselling series set in Victorian London: &ldquo;A sterling performance&rdquo; (Library Journal). In the few minutes it takes to cross Westminster Bridge, Sir Lockwood Hamilton has his throat slit and is tied securely to the lamppost with his evening scarf. The killer then vanishes without being seen. Inspector Thomas Pitt thinks the motive might have been personal . . . or political. When a second Member of Parliament is murdered in the same way, politics appear to be the reason. Soon the suspect list includes anarchists and suffragettes. Public outrage mounts and fear grips London and Parliament after a third lamppost murder. Deep in his end of the investigation, Pitt must rely on his wife, Charlotte, and Great-aunt Vespasia to explore the drawing rooms of the upper class for clues to the mystery. With burning social issues swirling around them, the three of them must solve the case before another MP falls victim to the Westminster cutthroat.</div>

Bethlehem Road

<div>Someone on posh Callander Square will kill to keep a secret in this &ldquo;superior&rdquo; mystery from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Twenty-One Days (The San Diego Union-Tribune). When two dead infants are dug up in the Callander Square gardens, the upper-class residents dismiss the burials as the desperate act of a low-born girl and resent the intrusion of Inspector Thomas Pitt into their well-ordered lives. Pitt is not convinced that the case should be so easily dropped. Also intrigued by the mystery, Pitt&rsquo;s well-born wife, Charlotte, pursues her own investigation into places Thomas would never have access&mdash;the parlors and inner chambers of the mansions on the fashionable square. With her sister Emily, Lady Ashworth, who lives on Callander Square, she delves into the lives and secrets of the residents. Thomas and Charlotte, now expecting their first child, form the perfect sleuthing couple. Elegant closets soon spill their skeletons exposing long-hidden secrets&mdash;secrets that could lead even the most upright aristocrat to kill. But will Pitt&rsquo;s keen investigative skills and Charlotte&rsquo;s insights into the workings of high-class society solve the mystery in time to save the innocent residents of Callander Square from the murderer among them? Callander Square is the 2nd book in the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. </div>

Callander Square

<div>Charlotte Pitt defends her own sister against a murder charge in Victorian England, in a novel &ldquo;suffused with atmosphere, emotion, and suspense&rdquo; (Booklist). As Inspector Thomas Pitt works to resolve the case of a dismembered woman, his womanizing brother-in-law, George March, Lord Ashworth, is poisoned with his morning coffee at the country estate of his cousins. The primary suspect? Charlotte&rsquo;s sister, Emily, the murdered man&rsquo;s wife and Pitt&rsquo;s sister-in-law. Charlotte and Pitt take on the March clan with the help of Great-aunt Vespasia, their formidable relative and a member of the clan, to break through the wall of deceit and silence. When Sybilla March, George&rsquo;s suspected paramour, is found strangled by her hair and Emily is the one who found her, the case would seem hopeless&mdash;for anyone but the indomitable Pitts. Their pursuit of the truth takes them down a path of corruption, depravity, and murder, from the elegant townhouses lining fashionable Cardington Crescent to the horrifying slums of London.</div>

Cardington Crescent

<div>Some bodies just won&rsquo;t stay buried . . .&ldquo;For readers longing to be in 1890s London, Perry&rsquo;s tales are just the ticket&rdquo; (Chicago Tribune). Lord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn&rsquo;t Inspector Thomas Pitt&rsquo;s usual fare. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the man&rsquo;s corpse is found sitting in the family pew the Sunday following his second interment, Pitt begins to wonder if perhaps there&rsquo;s some message in it. The case grows increasingly bizarre as other disinterred bodies appear. A new mother, Charlotte Pitt only takes a cursory interest in the grave robbing case until she hears Thomas mention the name of her late sister&rsquo;s husband, Dominic Corde, as a possible suspect. As Pitt follows leads into the slums and rookeries, Charlotte, too, is drawn into the politics and horrors of greed and exploitation. For Pitt and Charlotte, what begins as a mysterious case of musical corpses, becomes a deadly pursuit through the London underworld of pornographic photographers, brothels, and sweatshops.</div>

Resurrection Row

<div>Inspector Pitt is charged with murder in this &ldquo;gripping and highly satisfying&rdquo; entry in the New York Times&ndash;bestselling Victorian mystery series (Publishers Weekly). At the behest of his superior, Thomas Pitt reopens a case gone cold. Three years prior, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered in his home in London&rsquo;s exclusive Hanover Close. Pitt has been advised to handle the situation with the utmost discretion, given the compromising circumstances of the crime: a distinguished victim from a powerful family, whispered rumors of treason, and the unimpeachable reputation of the widow, whose imminent marriage to a high-level diplomat could be cause for concern. One of Pitt&rsquo;s first leads, a York family housemaid, seems innocent enough, but shortly after his interrogation, the woman is found dead. To make matters worse, Pitt is accused of the crime and thrown into prison. Now, only Charlotte and her recently widowed sister, Emily, Lady Ashworth, stand between one of Victorian England&rsquo;s most adept private investigators and the gallows. From the upstairs drawing rooms to the servants&rsquo; downstairs quarters, Charlotte and Emily play a deadly game&mdash;and it may be only a matter of time before a killer gets the best of both of them.</div>

Silence in Hanover Close

<div>From a New York Times&ndash;bestselling author, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt must solve the case of a young gentleman&rsquo;s sordid murder&mdash;before an innocent man hangs. The naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of London&rsquo;s most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne had been drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. More shocking still was that the boy had been sexually violated and infected with syphilis before he was murdered. Despite Inspector Thomas Pitt&rsquo;s efforts to fully investigate the crime, the family closes ranks, stonewalling Pitt, leaving him to wonder what they are hiding. All evidence points to Arthur&rsquo;s tutor, Jerome, as the murderer. The courts agree and Jerome is sentenced to hang. Pitt and his wife, Charlotte, don&rsquo;t believe the answer is so simple. But if not Jerome, then who molested and infected the boy? To learn the truth, Charlotte uses her familiarity with the upper classes to draw aside the curtain of lies, while Pitt defies his superior and the boy&rsquo;s family to follow a trail that leads him into the foulest streets of London through a web of deceit involving male prostitution and pedophilia. In a race against time, Thomas and Charlotte must find the real killer to save Jerome from the hangman&rsquo;s noose.</div>

Bluegate Fields

<div>The stylish gentlemen of London&rsquo;s Paragon Walk are suspects in a novel that &ldquo;combines murder with a profile of the morals and manners of Victorian society&rdquo; (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). When innocent Fanny Nash of exclusive Paragon Walk dies in the arms of her exquisite sister-in-law, Jessamyn, Inspector Pitt is assigned to investigate her rape and murder. Every man of Paragon Walk is under suspicion, even Pitt&rsquo;s brother-in-law, Lord George Ashworth, who was the last to have seen her. Could it be the charming, enigmatic Frenchman? Fanny&rsquo;s cruel brother? Wealthy Dilbridge, who hosts wild, decadent parties? As Pitt digs deeper into the mystery, Paragon Walk&rsquo;s aristocratic haughtiness gives way to fear, its calm to hatred. To keep her sister Emily, Lady Ashworth, company in this difficult time, inquisitive Charlotte once again finds herself in the midst of a deadly mystery. In the drawing rooms of her sister&rsquo;s neighbors, Charlotte engages in witty and sharp-edged conversations that reveal unsavory intrigues and bitter rivalries. On Paragon Walk, Charlotte&rsquo;s probing despite Thomas&rsquo;s warnings may prove fatal.</div>

Paragon Walk

<div>The sleuthing couple pursues a serial killer through Victorian London in an exciting entry in the &ldquo;unfailingly rewarding&rdquo; New York Times&ndash;bestselling series (The New York Times). A serial killer is loose in the slums of Devil&rsquo;s Acre. The murders are brutal, but it is the killer&rsquo;s grisly signature that shocks even Inspector Thomas Pitt, no stranger to death and violent crime. The victims are stabbed and sexually mutilated. When Pitt recognizes one of the victims as a blackmailing footman from a case on Callander Square, his investigation takes him from the brothels to the high reaches of Victorian society and into a world where upper-class women descend to depravity to relieve their boredom. Despite Pitt&rsquo;s warnings, his wife, Charlotte, pursues her own investigation. With the help of her sister Emily, Lady Ashworth, Charlotte reenters the elegant drawing rooms of Callander Square to find out more about the former footman who, Pitt discovers, owned an exclusive high-class whorehouse with&mdash;what else&mdash;exclusive high-class whores. As Pitt and Charlotte approach the same dangerous conclusion from differing paths, no one is spared&mdash;not even Pitt.</div>

Death in the Devil's Acre

<div>A mystery set in Victorian England by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author whose &ldquo;novels attain the societal sweep of Trollope or Thackeray&rdquo; (Booklist, starred review). When her mother asks her help in finding a lost locket with a compromising picture, neither Charlotte Pitt, nor her mother, has any idea that the locket may be at the center of a bizarre chain of events leading to murder. Arriving at her mother&rsquo;s home at Rutland Place, Charlotte discovers that other residents of the exclusive neighborhood have also suffered similar small thefts. It all appears quite mild as crimes go&mdash;a light-fingered servant, perhaps. That is, until Mina Spencer-Brown, a woman known for her prying, is poisoned and dies. Inspector Thomas Pitt quickly surmises that Mina&rsquo;s snooping might have led to her murder, but what secrets had she stumbled upon? And whose? As Pitt patiently struggles to break down the protective silence of high-born neighbors, Charlotte works behind the closed doors of society&rsquo;s drawing rooms to help unravel a mystery that reveals sordid secrets and the chilling, dark corners of human behavior.</div>

Rutland Place

<div>A royalist out to save Louis XVI from the guillotine is murdered in this mystery set in revolutionary France by a New York Times&ndash;bestselling master. C&eacute;lie Laurent stands in the convention hall of the French Republic, watching the deputies vote one by one. Most of them have just one word to say: &ldquo;Death.&rdquo; As the night wears on, the outcome of the vote moves beyond doubt, and Louis XVI is condemned to the guillotine. C&eacute;lie will have just four days to save the king&rsquo;s life. As the Revolution reaches a fever pitch, C&eacute;lie falls in with a group of royalists who are willing to do whatever it takes to keep France from killing its king. Their plan is daring, but just might work&mdash;until the group&rsquo;s leader is murdered in cold blood. Somewhere among the royalists lies a traitor, and C&eacute;lie and her friends must find him soon, lest they lose their heads before Louis loses his. From the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the William Monk and Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, acclaimed for her atmospheric historical settings, The One Thing More is a fascinating tale of suspense. </div>

The One Thing More

<div>After half a millennium, Tathea prepares for the final battle For five hundred years, Tathea has lain asleep, imprisoned in the forest. Once the Empress of Shinabar, she was pushed out of power when a coup took her husband&rsquo;s life&mdash;a tragedy that led to a miracle. While roaming the wasteland, she learned of the unending battle between good and evil, and a book that could stop the demon Asmodeus forevermore. It takes centuries, but at last the world is ready for the final battle&mdash;the Armageddon that will purge Tathea&rsquo;s kingdom of evil. The coming of the war is marked by the birth of a child, Sadokhar, who will lead God&rsquo;s armies into the fray. A battle is looming, and it&rsquo;s up to Tathea to prepare Sadokhar for Armageddon . . . Come Armageddon is the second book in the Tathea series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Come Armageddon

<div>Exiled from her palace by a bloody coup, an empress travels the dangerous wilds of her kingdom in search of enlightenment&mdash;and righteous vengeance The empress Tathea is awakened by the sounds of insurrection. The army, the aristocracy, and the royal guard have all turned against her husband, and stained the palace with his blood. Were she an ordinary ruler, she might follow him to the grave, but Tathea is a child of the wild lands. She comes from the desert, so to the desert she flees. Across the kingdom she travels, searching for shelter, friendship, and an explanation for the tragedy that destroyed her old life. As she fights to stay alive, she finds a book whose message might tip the scales in the battle between good and evil, changing the world forever. If her life is to have meaning, Tathea will have to spread the word. Tathea is the first book in the Tathea series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.</div>

Tathea

<div>Return to the origins of the Victorian-era sleuthing couple with the first three mysteries in the &ldquo;unfailingly rewarding&rdquo; New York Times&ndash;bestselling series (The New York Times Book Review). &ldquo;For nearly four decades Anne Perry&rsquo;s riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era&rdquo; (The Washington Post). Now in a single volume, readers can enjoy the &ldquo;exemplary Victorian company&rdquo; of this incomparable pair of sleuths in their earliest adventures (The New York Times). The Cater Street Hangman: In the series debut, Inspector Thomas Pitt seeks an elusive strangler among upper-class British society, with the help of the outspoken Miss Charlotte Ellison, whose maid fell prey to the killer. As their relationship shifts from antagonistic sparring to romantic sparks, the socially mismatched pair must solve the mystery before the hangman strikes again. Callander Square: As her husband investigates the discovery of two dead infants found buried in an elegant square in London, a pregnant Charlotte uses her social status to gain access to the parlors and inner chambers of the fashionable neighborhood. With the help of Charlotte&rsquo;s sister, Emily, Lady Ashworth, who lives on Callander Square, the sleuthing couple attempts to unearth secrets a seemingly upright aristocrat would kill to keep. Paragon Walk: When Charlotte&rsquo;s brother-in-law, Lord George Ashworth, becomes a suspect in an unspeakable crime committed on the posh London street of Paragon Walk, she must balance supporting her sister, Emily, with assisting Thomas in exposing a monster cloaked in gentleman&rsquo;s clothing.</div>

The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels Volume One

<div>Enjoy the &ldquo;exemplary Victorian company&rdquo; of this London sleuthing couple with books seven through ten in the long-running New York Times&ndash;bestselling series (The New York Times). &ldquo;Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood&rdquo; (San Francisco Chronicle). Now, in a single volume, readers can enjoy more of Anne Perry&rsquo;s &ldquo;unfailingly rewarding&rdquo; series (The New York Times Book Review). Death in the Devil&rsquo;s Acre: A vicious and depraved serial killer is loose in the slums of Devil&rsquo;s Acre. When Pitt recognizes one of the victims as a blackmailing footman from a case on Callander Square, his investigation reveals a shocking connection between the city&rsquo;s brothels and Victorian high society. Now Charlotte and her sister Emily, Lady Ashworth, must unveil the dirty secrets of the aristocracy. Cardington Crescent: When Thomas Pitt&rsquo;s womanizing brother-in-law is poisoned by his morning coffee, the inspector must exonerate the prime suspect: Lady Ashworth, Charlotte&rsquo;s sister Emily. With the help of Great-Aunt Vespasia, the couple chip away at a wall of deceit and silence to find the real killer, even after Lord Ashworth&rsquo;s suspected paramour is strangled&mdash;and found by Emily. Silence in Hanover Close: At the behest of his superior, Pitt reopens a case gone cold. Three years prior, amidst whispered rumors of treason, Robert York, an important member of the British Foreign Office, was murdered in his home in London&rsquo;s exclusive Hanover Close. When a York family housemaid is found dead shortly after Pitt begins his investigation, he is accused and thrown into prison. Now only Charlotte and her recently widowed sister stand between Thomas Pitt and the gallows. Bethlehem Road: When members of Parliament are murdered one-by-one crossing Westminster Bridge, Thomas and Charlotte must sift through a wide range of suspects, including anarchists and suffragettes. As more seats open up in Parliament and fear grips London, the couple wonders: Are the killings political or somehow personal?</div>

The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels Volume Three

<div>Return to the &ldquo;exemplary Victorian company&rdquo; of this London sleuthing couple with books four through six in the long-running New York Times&ndash;bestselling series (The New York Times). &ldquo;For nearly four decades Anne Perry&rsquo;s riveting detective novels have played out against the backdrop of the Victorian era&rdquo; (The Washington Post). Now, in a single volume, readers can enjoy more of this &ldquo;unfailingly rewarding&rdquo; series (The New York Times Book Review). Resurrection Row: Lord Fitzroy-Hammond has been dead and buried three weeks when his corpse turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. It may be a macabre practical joke&mdash;or something far more sinister. Grave robbing isn&rsquo;t Inspector Thomas Pitt&rsquo;s usual fare, but the case grows increasingly bizarre as other disinterred bodies appear. And new mother Charlotte Pitt gets involved when her late sister&rsquo;s husband becomes a suspect. Rutland Place: Charlotte&rsquo;s mother asks her help finding a lost locket that contains a compromising picture&mdash;but neither of them expect the missing jewelry to lead to a murder case. When another resident of her mother&rsquo;s exclusive neighborhood, known for her prying, is poisoned, Inspector Pitt steps in to discover what secrets the woman may have stumbled upon. Bluegate Fields: The naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of London&rsquo;s most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne was drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. The evidence seems to condemn his tutor, who is sentenced to hang. But Thomas and Charlotte believe there&rsquo;s a cover-up and race to find the real killer&mdash;before an innocent man dangles from the noose.</div>

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