New Releases by Martha Grimes

For waitress and cub reporter Emma Graham, tragedy defines where she lives. Spirit Lake, La Porte, and Lake Noir have been held in thrall by intertwined crimes: the murders of Mary-Evelyn Devereau, Rose Queen, and Fern Queen; the supposed kidnapping of a four-month-old baby from the Belle Ruin hotel twenty years previously; and, most recently, the attack on Emma. And with the arrival of an unexpected visitor and a drifter, it looks like the bad times have only begun...

Three months have passed since Richard Jury was left bereft and guilt- ridden after his lover''s tragic auto accident, and he is now more wary than ever. He is deeply suspicious when requested on a case far out of his jurisdiction in an outlying village, where a young woman has been murdered behind the 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. Identifying the girl becomes tricky when she''s recognized as both the shy local librarian and a posh city escort, and Jury must use all his wits and intuition to determine the connection to subseu00adquent escort murders. Meanwhile, Jury''s nemesis, Harry Johnson, continues to goad Jury down a dangerous path. And Johnson, along with the imperturbable dog Mungo, just may be the key to it all. Written with Martha Grimes'' trademark insight and grace, The Black Cat signals the thrilling return of her greatest character. The superintendent is a man possessed of prodigious analytical gifts and charm, yet vulnerable in the most perplexing ways.

Amnesiac Andi Oliver returns in this newest mystery from Martha Grimes. This time she is making her way through North Dakota and is hired on at a pig farming facility where she uncovers the truth about the facility and the local slaughterhouse.

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Richard Jury investigates the death of a wealthy bachelor with a mysterious past who was last seen in a club named Dust.

Twelve-year-old Emma investigates the suspicious drowning of another child. Her search for answers is both an inquiry into murder and a way to deliver herself from the confusion of childhood. It is the story of a mystery and also her story.

A waitress at her mother''s decaying resort hotel, twelve-year-old Emma now has a second job as the youngest cub reporter in the history of La Porte''s Conservative newspaper. But when she discovers the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel- the once-sumptuous Belle Rouen-in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake, Emma never imagines that the mysteries it holds will bring her one step closer to solving a forty-year-old crime-and force a new transgression to light.

The bestselling author of the Richard Jury novels delivers a razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing Paul is a struggling writer navigating the treacherous landscape of editors and literary agents. When he hires the infamous Mackenzie Haack as his publisher, he''s plunged into a whirlwind of chaotic decisions and questionable choices. But as Paul dives deeper into the murky waters of the book publishing business, he becomes entangled in a murder plot that threatens to unravel everything.

The death of a girl found on a London street as well as the discovery of the body of a woman prompts Richard Jury to join forces with Plant and Macalvie, commander of the Devon and Cornwall police, to investigate a murder.

Scotland Yard Inspector Richard Jury investigates the bizarre murder of an unidentified woman in a tiny English seaside village.

In The Blue Last, Richard Jury finally faces the last thing in the world he wants to deal with—the war that killed his mother, his father, his childhood. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury''s help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London''s last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been posing for over fifty years as a child who didn''t. The grandchild of brewery magnet Oliver Tyndale supposedly survived that December 1940 bombing . . . but did she? Mickey also has a murder to solve. Simon Croft, prosperous City financial broker, and son of the one-time owner of The Blue Last is found shot to death in his Thames-side house. But the book he was writing about London during the German blitzkrieg has disappeared. Jury wants to get eyes and ears into Tynedale Lodge, and looks to his friend, Melrose Plant, to play the role. Reluctantly, Plant plays it, accompanied on his rounds of the Lodge gardens by nine-year-old Gemma Trim, orphan and ward of Oliver Tynedale; and Benny Keagan, a resourceful twelve-year-old orphaned delivery boy. And Richard Jury may not make it out alive. A stolen book, stolen lives, or is any of this what it seems? Identity, memory, provenance - these are all called into question in The Blue Last

Martha Grimes''s Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year''s best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl''s unexplained death with another young girl''s attempt at making sense of her own life.

Richard Jury''s friend overhears in a pub--The Grave Maurice--information about a girl who''s been missing for more than a year. From its pastoral opening to its calamitous end, this 18th entry in the Richard Jury series is full of the same suspense and humor that devoted readers expect from Martha Grimes. Abridged.

Eigentlich wollte Superintendent Jury von Scotland Yard einmal Urlaub machen. Doch dann soll er in den Staaten den Tod Philip Calverts, eines Mitarbeiters der weltberühmten Barnes-Stiftung, aufklären helfen. Zusammen mit Sergeant Wiggins und seinem adligen Freund Melrose Plant fliegt Jury nach Amerika. Noch ahnt er nicht, daß der Tod Philip Calverts nur ein Glied in einer ganzen Kette mysteriöser Gewaltverbrechen ist.

"Intricate and entertaining . . . A delicious puzzle." The Boston Globe The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sergeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allan Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called "The Horse You Came In On" . . .

"The author keeps us enthralled with the rich interior and exterior lives of her characters in this emotionally stormy family saga." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW When Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn into a brief affair with a troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth, her subsequent death makes him a suspect in her murder. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family''s locked box of secrets. Plant does what he is bidden, in his own particular style, and what he uncovers is a shocking sheaf of surprises about the death-prone Holdsworth clan and its growing number of orphans.... "As always, Grimes'' characters are gems, and her writting is as witty as ever." USA TODAY Selected by the Literary Guild and the Mystery Guild

Two murders with the same modus operandi committed one year apart lead La Porte Deputy Sheriff Sam DeGheyn to the conclusion that the man serving time for the first murder has been unjustly imprisoned.

Im verschneiten Dörfchen Washington trifft Inspektor Jury von Scotland Yard eine schöne Frau, in die er sich verlieben könnte. Tags darauf ist sie tot - vergiftet. Zwei Tage später wird ganz in der Nähe eine weitere Frau hinterrücks erschossen - ausgerechnet auf Spinney Abbey, wo Jurys vornehmer Freund und Adlatus Melrose Plant im illustren Kreis von Adeligen, Künstlern und Kritikern geruhsam Weihnachten feiern will. Die beiden stehen vor einem Rätsel. Erst als zum feierlichen Dinner ein vergifteter Drink gereicht wird, ziehen sie ihre messerscharfen Schlüsse.

This classic mystery in the New York Times bestselling series finds Jury joining forces with a hot-tempered constable to track down the brutal killer of three children. Reissue.

Même la nuit de Noël, il n''y a pas de trêve pour les flics de bonne volonté. Quel hasard a bien pu réunir Richard Jury, le plus aimable policier de Grande-Bretagne, et son aristocratique ami et collègue Melrose Plant, du côté de Durham, comme si le gratin de Scotland Yard s''était donné rendez-vous dans le pub mal famé d''un bled enneigé? Le dernier endroit où l''on aurait pu imaginer Helen Minton, la jeune assassinée, qui faisait des recherches généalogiques dans les cimetières de la région. Pour Richard et Melrose, cette histoire s''annonce comme l''énigme la plus délicate et la plus tordue de leur carrière. Une odieuse affaire à résoudre avec tact, patience et psychologie, sans compter quelques solides connaissances diverses en botanique, poisons végétaux, mondanités ou même billard américain.