Martha Grimes

Jury investigates the death of a young escort who has been murdered behind a local pub. The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.

Martha Grimes returns to her twelve-year-old heroine, Emma Graham, in this suspenseful sequel to the beloved Belle Ruin. Emma continues her investigation into the strange disappearance of the four-month-old Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel, more than twenty years before. The sudden appearance in town of the baby's father, Morris Slade, makes her even more determined to learn the truth.

While flat on his back in a hospital bed, sleuth Richard Jury overhears a story that provokes his next murder investigation.

Richard Jury considers the authenticity of a fantastical tale, told by a stranger and fellow patron at the Old Wine Shades pub in London, about a string theory scientist's wife, son, and dog, who disappeared without a trace nine months earlier.

Detective Richard Jury solves a string of disappearances and murders in Cornwall, including two grandchildren of an American fast-food magnate. But the leg work is done for him by his aristocratic and eccentric friend, Melrose Plant.

Lines from an unknown poem are the trademark of a brutal killer who is preying on a wealthy group of Americans visiting Stratford and bedeviling the investigation of Scotland Yard's Superintendent Richard Jury.

Superintendent Richard Jury's investigation into seemingly unrelated crimes of a London mugging and murder in the town of Littlebourne takes him to the local pub, the Anodyne Necklace, which is inhabited by a variety of colorful village characters.

"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand--a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied...

Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury becomes involved in a love affair with a pretty widow and finds himself a suspect in a murder investigation.

A double-murder in the region of the Lincolnshire fens puts Richard Jury surreptitiously on the case.