Martha Grimes

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

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....

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....

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....

Martha Grimes returns to the small town from Hotel Paradise, intertwining the threads of one young girl's unexplained death with another young girl's attempt at making sense of her own life....

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....

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

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....

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....

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

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

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....

Hotel Paradise is an excruciating view of the pettiness and cruelty of small town America. It is a look at the difficult decisions a young girl must make on her way to becoming an adult....

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....

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....

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

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....

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....

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 sudden murder in an English village pub sets off the twenty-sixth novel in the bestselling series starring superintendent Richard Jury, from bestselling author Martha Grimes.