Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller

The "marvelous" British governess-turned-sleuth helps a new bride who fears her husband intends to murder her (Daily Mail). Former schoolteacher Miss Maud Silver is on her way back to London when,...

A corpse in a country house brings Scotland Yard to an eerily quiet English village, in this tale by a master of British mystery. Cyril Savage has inherited the home of his wealthy and estranged aunt...

A racially charged murder pits the NY assistant DA against a flashy defense lawyer in an "irresistible" legal thriller by the bestselling author of Infamy (Publishers Weekly). It's the early '80s,...

Manhattan's homicide bureau chief investigates a murder at the UN in the New York Times-bestselling author's "most powerful thriller yet" (Vincent Bugliosi). While on his way to the UN, a Turkish...

A sheriff fighting to keep the peace in 1970s Oregon faces a shocking secret from his town's past, in this crime thriller from the author of Reckoning. There are rules in the West no matter what era...

In a pawnshop alleyway, James Hawker finds a body mutilated beyond recognition. She was beautiful once, he knows, but life in this hardened Los Angeles neighborhood took its toll. Starnsdale was once...

No one has seen Allegra Trent since she got married. Her husband, Geoffrey, swept her off her feet and out of London to a faraway town called Bleake, consumed with the dream of owning a ramshackle...

In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth who "has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot," Miss Silver investigates a case of marital murder...

Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver must follow a trail of poison-pen letters to save an heiress from murder. Rachel Treherne has always had a steady head on her shoulders; it's why her late father...

A West Virginia detective investigates a marriage that ended in murder in this mystery by the author of No Good Deed Left Undone. Methodical detective Sam Lagarde knows what it takes to solve a...

Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver, who "has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot," visits a small village hiding big secrets (Manchester Evening News)...

From an Edgar Award-winning author: A suspenseful tale of murder and espionage in wartime England. David Garth has been off in America, giving speeches on behalf of Britain's Ministry of Propaganda...

A West Virginia cop investigates the murder of a philanthropic philanderer in this mystery by the author of Cromwell's Folly. A detective with West Virginia's Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Sam...

For Con Ye Cwong, the Vietnam War will never be over. Head of the North Vietnamese secret police during the brutal conflict, he has built himself an empire selling cocaine and heroin to the West...

The trial for a fifty-year-old murder comes with plenty of danger for one judge, in this explosive legal thriller by the author of The Hanging Judge. Dominic O'Connell is one of Boston's most...

A World War II thriller by a multimillion-selling, Edgar Award-winning author. As plans for D-Day loom large, the agents of Department Z--a secret detective unit within British intelligence--are...

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict erupts in NYC in this "hair-raising" pre-9/11 thriller from the New York Times-bestselling author of Material Witness (People). An elderly Jewish couple has been...

It's just past six a.m., and the Rutledge family is gathering for breakfast, unaware of the two bombs that have been planted outside their home. They're about to start eating when a fireball bursts...

A collection of eighteen classic Golden Age short stories from "the best of mystery writers"--with a tribute by Agatha Christie (The New Yorker). Acclaimed by critics and her peers, Margery Allingham...

In this classic British mystery, a revised will, a troubled upper-class marriage, and a crazed witness shake up a seemingly solved murder case. Marion Grey is growing used to the idea that her...

Governess-turned-sleuth Miss Silver looks into the case of a Holocaust survivor who may have enemies to elude. William Smith isn't sure what his name is, but he knows it isn't William Smith. That was...

What drove a woman to murder in 1920s New England? "Few readers will be prepared for the surprise that awaits at novel's end" in this Edgar Award-winning novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It...

Margery Allingham stands out like a shining light. And she has another quality, not usually associated with crime stories, elegance. --Agatha Christie Timothy Kinnit is rich, handsome, and...

In this classic British mystery starring a sleuth "who has her place in detective fiction as surely as Lord Peter Wimsey or Hercule Poirot," Miss Silver investigates a murder that may have its roots...

A mysterious message signals an international threat in this World War II thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author. A French refugee is washed up on the English coast. Feverish, delirious, he...

The path to enlightenment is fraught with danger when Greenwich Village PI Rachel Alexander and her pit bull, Dash, investigate the death of a tai chi practitioner Did she jump or was she pushed?...

The head of Scotland Yard probes the suspicious death of a Shakespearean scholar with a collection of secrets in this classic British mystery. Lewis Packford, an Elizabethan scholar, is found shot in...