Martha Grimes

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....

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....

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....

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....

Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows the city by heart. In his backseat is a man with a gun in his hand - a man who brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive....

Around bleak Dartmoor, where the Hound of the Baskervilles once bayed, three children have been brutally murdered....

When three women die of "natural causes" in London and the West Country, there appears to be no connection - or reason to suspect foul play....

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....

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

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

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....

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

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

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....

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

The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury....

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....

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

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....