A collection of Egyptian murder mysteries, covering two periods in history - the time of Ancient Egypt, and the time of the discoveries during the Napoleonic and Victorian periods of excavation.
There are 25 stories by Kate Ellis, Paul Doherty, Elizabeth Peters, Michael Pearce, and others.

The feisty Agatha Raisin, unitl recentlya London public-relations executive, believes that the attractive new village vet has taken a shine to her. Yet before romance can bloom, Dr Paul Bladen accidently kills himself under suspicious circumstances while attending to Lord Pendlebury's horse. Oh well, for Agatha there's still her distinguished neighbour, James Lacey, a retired military man who's been playing hard to get. Perhaps they may get chummier as they share a common interest, like a murder investigation. Though numerous village ladies are devestated by Dr Bladen's death, other people- including his divorced wife- feel its good ridance. All agree, however, that Agatha would be well advised to let sleeping dogs lie- before someone else meets death by accident...

A terrifying psychological novel from the author of the successful Rose Trevelyan and DCI Roper series;

Hannah's baby son has been stolen. Her husband Laurence left her when she became pregnant. Her best friend Sonia, who had always claimed to find the idea of children repellent, has disappeared and when in desperation Hannah manages to break into Sonia's empty flat, she is stunned to find indentations left by the feet of a cot on the brand-new carpet... Meanwhile, beautiful Marty is renovating the Devon cottage she has inherited - but why - who is she hoping to entice there? And why does Marty refer to the adjoining bam as The Slaughterhouse?

A novel of suspense set against the final golden days of the Raj and the turbulent early period of Indian rule

India 1922. In Panikhat, 50 miles from Calcutta, the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and each in March. All the deaths are bizarre and appear to be accidental. The only link between them is the bunch of small red roses that appear on the women's graves on the anniversary of their deaths.
In order to help solve these mysterious deaths, the Governor of Bengal calls on the reluctant help of Joe Sandilands, Scotland Yard detective and war hero who happens to be on secondment to the Bengal police. Joe learns that the deaths are connected and that the series has not yet run its course. But who will be the recipient of the next Kashmiri rose? Is Joe hunting an Indian or European killer? And what is the reason behind the slaying of the officers' wives? With only days to go before the end of March can Joe uncover the murderer whose compulsions seem to be rooted deeply within the dark soul of India itself?

Simla, 1922.

The summer capital of the British Raj is fizzing with the energy of the jazz age. When Commander Joe Sandilands's travelling companion, a Russian opera singer, is shot dead at his side in the back of the Governor's car, he finds himself plunged into a murder investigation.

Alexander the Great faces the challenge of the Persian 'Centaur';

It is now 334 AD, and Alexander has smashed the Persian armies at the battle of the Granicus and is roaming the Western Persian Empire like a hungry predator, living up to his nickname of 'the Wolf of Macedon'. Arriving in one of his prizes, the great city of Ephesus, the success of his campaign is threatened by a series of violent murders brought about by a high-ranking Persian spy known only as 'the Centaur'. Worse, one of Alexander's old tutors, Leonidas, is found floating face down in a stagnant pond at the House of Medusa - and this doesn't look like an accident, since the House of Medusa is linked with a guild of assassins who formerly flourished in Ephesus. So once again Alexander's friend and physician, Telamon, must set about unravelling this swirling mass of blood-strewn mysteries, this time working hand in hand with the king's eerie Master of Secrets Aristander. As always one of the biggest obstacles is the volatile and unpredictable nature of Alexander himself, a consummate actor whose lust for power and glory matches the carnage and intrigue that dog his footsteps like the Furies themselves.

More than 3000 years after his death, the entire civilized world is familiar with the face and burial site of one young Egyptian ruler. It is assumed he died of natural causes, a sad but unavoidable fate. But is there a hidden story? In this account of the life and death of Tutankhamun, Paul Doherty tells how the calm and beautiful mask conceals a story of bloody intrigue at the Egyptian court, resulting in sudden death, hurried burial and a crisis that threatened the very existence of the Empire. Was Tutankhamun secretly assassinated by the powerful cartel that ran the court and the country? What exactly was the role of the powerful first minister, Ay? Could he have murdered his young charge in order to wear the imperial crown himself?

A family with secrets - but is murder one of them? A woman's body is found in a pool on the estate of an award-winning house and the finger of suspicion points at three brothers: one who is the house's designer, one who had adopted the dead woman as a small child, and the third, an international cello soloist. All three men are somehow connected to the victim - and then her nine-year-old son is abducted...

Simon Wiesenthal spent four and a half years in Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II. With the exception of his wife, all his immediate family were exterminated, and he himself ended the war a living skeleton. Since then, he has achieved international reknown for his tireless and successful tracking down of Nazi war criminals, including notorious figures such as Eichmann, the 'desk murderer' who masterminded Hitler's Final Solution; Stangl the overlord of Treblinka; and the Mengele of Auschwitz, the dreaded 'Angel of Death'. To this day his work continues, his motivation simply expressed in the words: 'Justice, not vengeance'. This work provides an account of Wiesenthal's inspired detective work.

When archaeologist Arnold Landon sets about investigating the secrets of an ancient sea cave on the Northumbrian coast he soon finds himself caught up in the violence directed against asylum seekers dispersed to a northern village. Then the remains of a thirty-year-old murder are uncovered, with unexpected and violent repercussions, and when a second body is found echoes of the atrocities at Auschwitz reverberate through the cave and the mysterious cleft on the headland known as Hades Gate. It is on that illnamed headland that Arnold finally comes face to face with the truth about the brutal past, and its consequences for the present.

A rare snowstorm has enveloped Hillston, North Carolina, covering everything - including a shocking murder. Detective Justin Savile, the wayward son of Hillston's founding family, is expected to arrest the usual scapegoat but the boozy, charming Justin has never been good at doing the expected. Encouraged by his irrepressible partner Cuddy Mangum, Justin is asking dangerous questions in a town where family and money speak louder than justice and the truth. Led on by the visions of a beautiful psychic, his investigation starts to rattle all the wrong people. And as the local power brokers move in to shut him up, Justin must peel away the veneer of greed, hate and jealousy and confront the tangled past with the present truth - however unpalatable and dangerous that may turn out to be... > .

Things have changed in Hillston, North Carolina. A young black man is on Death Row and the Klan is again rearing its head, while a dirty tricks campaign is mounting against the womanizing candidate for state governor - who also happens to be the husband of Hillston chief of police's true love.

.

A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb and Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson are intrigued. The mysterious disappearance of the guide leads the Peabody-Emersons to Thebes where they become embroiled with murder, kidnap, grave robbing and ancient curses.

Millicent Pluke, the devoted wife of Detective Inspector Montague Pluke, stumbles across a woman's body by Devil's Dump, a pool in a remote North Yorkshire moorland stream. Her discovery means Pluke must steel himself not to hunt forgotten horse troughs - the passion of his life - but instead to track down a murderer. As his enquiries intensify, Pluke suspects the ruined Trough House may provide important clues but when he discovers the body has previously been buried but flushed from its well-hidden grave by the ferocious St Margaret's Day flood, his knowledge of moorland folklore becomes vital to the investigation. A maiden's garland was discovered with the body, but why would a murderer take the time and trouble to bury the garland - a symbol of purity - with the victim? Pluke's research unearths that others have also died in Devil's Dump - in 1821 a shepherd name Featherstone drowned in its depths and again, in 1872 another tragedy occurred in the waters; another Featherstone, but this time the victim was a six year old girl who was later buried with a maiden's garland. And now Susan Featherstone has gone missing from the dale - and she is an agent for an artist who always depicts a shepherd in her paintings of the moors. But the artist too has gone missing, so is Susan victim - or killer?

Can Angel's improvised cavalry save the day? When Angel gets a call from Werewolf, his old and disreputable friend, he finds himself reluctantly involved in tracking down a shipment of drugs mistakenly smuggled in from France. On the trail he encounters Werewolf's brother, a wolf in sheep's clothing if ever there was one; a second-rate but very loud heavy metal band; a young Dutchman who's as well armed as he is well dressed, and the mad, bad and definitely dangerous Lucinda L. Luger. And then he has to face the bad guys....

Veerappan is India's most wanted man. He is responsible for more than 100 murders. He lives in the deepest jungles left in India and avoids capture, his followers claim, by magical powers. Some say he is a freedom fighter, others that he is a vicious hoodlum. Veerappan is the most famous member of the modern thug cult. In this work, Kevin Rushby investigates this dark side of India. His quest to find Veerappan and the origins of thuggism takes him to prisons and gangster hideouts, probing the nature of crime and punishment in a country where the distinction between good and evil can be as murky as the Ganges. In towns and villages where the thugs were hunted down in the 1830s, he finds that the British view of the cult was moulded by imperialistic and orientalist needs; the truth was far less palatable (especially for the young Queen Victoria who took a keen interest). It was the religious perversions that allowed thugs to sacrifice travellers to Kali, which still exist and inspire criminals to this day

This enthralling Texas-based historical thriller is an excixiting new departure from Steven Saylor's internationally popular series of Roman detective stories featuring Gordianus the Finder

Based on a string of horrifying crimes that took place more than a century ago, Honour the Dead vivdly evokes a fledgling American South in the aftermath of the Civil War. The year is 1885 and a brutal serial killer is tertorising the streets of Austin, Texas. Will Porter - later to become a famous writer under the pseudonym 0. Henry - dubs the murderer 'The Servant Girl Annihilator'. Panic engulfs the city and the spectre of bigotry emerges when lawmen indict a black man. But as the bodies continue to mount it becomes apparent that the killer is still on the loose.
Through the escalating mystery Saylor portrays the colourful denizens of Austin - both real and imaginary - as long-buried secrets begin to circulate, hidden affairs are divulged and the city's deep-seated political corruption is dramatically exposed.

Praise for Steve Saylor's Roma Sub Rosa Series:
'Saylor's scholarship is breathtaking and his writing enthralls.' Ruth Rendell
'Readers will find his work wonderfully (and gracefully) researched ... this is entertainment of the first order.' Washington Post
'How comforting, to feel instant confidence in the historical accuracy of the novel.' The Sunday Times