Martha Grimes

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....

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....

At the Man with a Load of Mischief, they found the dead body stuck in a keg of beer....

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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 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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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