Melisende's Library

Synopsis: Welcome to San Jose, the hi-tech capital of Silicon Valley, where the streets are lined with silicon instead of fruit trees. But...

Synopsis: The second decade of the 20th Century was a period of great transition, especially with the beginning of WWI in 1917. The war acce...

The Blackhouse The Isle of Lewis is the most remote, harshly beautiful place in Scotland, where the difficulty of existence seems outweighed...

Synopsis: After solving the Greene murders, Philo Vance has taken a well-earned holiday in Switzerland. Returning to New York City he finds...

Synopsis: Meet Professor Raymond Marylowe — flamboyant theoretical physicist and self-proclaimed “world’s greatest private detective.” Armed...

Inspired by the true story of Jamaica’s first serial killer. Jamaica, 1772. Caribbean jewel, or a killer’s playground? On the island of Jama...

An investigation into the man Scotland Yard thought (but couldn't prove) was Jack the Ripper. Dozens of theories have attempted to resol...

Synopsis: An original spin on the crime novel in which the race to gain the rights to an author’s backlist proves to be more head-scratchin...

Synopsis: Knives Out meets Saltburn in this wickedly plotted thriller where a group of friends play a deadly game that unwraps a motive f...

Synopsis: Alice Arden, idealistic and wealthy beauty, burnt at the stake for killing her husband, the former mayor of Faversham in Kent. B...

Synopsis: Something Wicked plunges readers into a labyrinth of corruption, organized crime, and religious intrigue at the heart of the Cat...

Synopsis: From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detectiv...

Synopsis: A bewildering locked-room murder occurs as an amateur crime writer investigates strange events in the Chizurui mansion in this pr...

Synopsis: 'If a black dog appears along the old corpse way, the route a funeral procession takes to the churchyard, it is thought to be...

Synopsis: One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper – the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there...

Synopsis: Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brothe...

Synopsis: On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The handsome an...

Synopsis: All of them are friends. One of them is a killer. During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirty-something fri...

Synopsis: The definitive book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort...

Synopsis: An action-packed debut from Gregg Podolski, The Recruiter is a thrilling and unique adventure through the European underworld.   ...