Martha Grimes

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

Two pubs. Two murders. One Scotland Yard inspector called in to help....

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....

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 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....

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....

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....

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

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

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....

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

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....

In a rainy ditch in a Devon wood, a hitchhiker is found dead....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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