Martha Grimes

As he leans over the body of an unidentified five-year-old girl shot in the back on a shabby London street, Richard Jury knows he'll be facing one of the saddest investigations of his life....

A waitress at her mother's decaying resort hotel, 12-year-old Emma now has a second job as the youngest cub reporter in the history of La Porte's Conservative newspaper....

Over three successive nights Harry spins this complicated story about a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day as they were viewing property in Surrey....

A razor-happy murderer is stalking a group of rich American tourists. And Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury takes a crash course in the bloodier side of Elizabethan verse....

When a dismembered corpse is found in the compartments of an antique secretaire a abattant, Marshall Trueblood, recipient of the precious piece of furniture, is the first to protest....

In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent....

The sun, smoking behind a haze of cloud, threw off a light of burnished pewter....

One wouldn't want to be seen alone on a Saturday night…. Who are you kidding? That was never your life, Jury, not yours....

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....

Following a passionate and troubled love affair with a pretty widow named Jane Holdsworth, Jury finds himself, unaccountably, a suspect in a murder investigation....

Melrose Plant tells Richard Jury of something he overheard in a pub. A woman told a story about a girl, Nell Ryder, who went missing more than a year before and has never been found....

In this Richard Jury adventure, Martha Grimes takes listeners to Ashdown Dean, a little English village where animals are dying in a series of seemingly innocuous accidents....

The once-charismatic Billy Maples was last seen in a club named Dust, before his murder in a trendy London hotel....

Richard Jury is meeting Tom Williamson at Vertigo 42, a bar on the 42nd floor of an office building in London’s financial district....

A severed finger made a ghastly clue in the killing that led local constables from a corpse to a boggy footpath to a beautiful lady's mansion. But Richard Jury refused, preferring to take the less traveled route....

When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, the divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police, is called in....

It is a chill and foggy 12th Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward peace of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village....

The inimitable Richard Jury returns in a thrilling tale of mystery, madness, and mistaken identity....

Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times best-selling series....

From the rough but colorful pub that provides the novel's title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere - or thwarted romance....