New Releases by Martha Grimes

Amnesiac Andi Oliver returns in this newest mystery from Martha Grimes. This time she is making her way through North Dakota and is hired on at a pig farming facility where she uncovers the truth about the facility and the local slaughterhouse.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER-NOW IN PAPERBACK

A young friend pulls Scotland Yard’s Richard Jury into the life—and death—of a wealthy bachelor… The once-charismatic Billy Maples was last seen in a club named Dust, before his murder in a trendy London hotel. Proving as inscrutable—and challenging—to Jury as the case is the beautiful chief inspecting officer... Before his death, Maples was a patron of London’s finest art galleries and caretaker of author Henry James’s house in Rye. It’s there where Jury installs Melrose Plant, who takes his job to heart, as Jury closes in on the dark secrets behind Maples’s friends and family…

Twelve-year-old Emma investigates the suspicious drowning of another child. Her search for answers is both an inquiry into murder and a way to deliver herself from the confusion of childhood. It is the story of a mystery and also her story.

When twelve-year-old Emma Graham and her friends discover the crumbling shell of a fabulous hotel hidden in the woods near her small town of Spirit Lake, Emma is determined to discover its secrets.

The bestselling author of the Richard Jury novels delivers a razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing Paul is a struggling writer navigating the treacherous landscape of editors and literary agents. When he hires the infamous Mackenzie Haack as his publisher, he''s plunged into a whirlwind of chaotic decisions and questionable choices. But as Paul dives deeper into the murky waters of the book publishing business, he becomes entangled in a murder plot that threatens to unravel everything.

The death of a girl found on a London street as well as the discovery of the body of a woman prompts Richard Jury to join forces with Plant and Macalvie, commander of the Devon and Cornwall police, to investigate a murder.

Scotland Yard Inspector Richard Jury investigates the bizarre murder of an unidentified woman in a tiny English seaside village.

Richard Jury is supposed to be on holiday when the telephone call comes. And in any case, what has sudden death on American soil to do with an English police superintendent? But when the victim turns out to be British by birth, and to have a distant connection with Jury''s old acquaintance Lady Cray, he reluctantly pries himself loose from his pint at the Jack and Hammer. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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. Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the London City police, has asked for Jury''s help. Two skeletons have been unearthed in the City during the excavation of London''s last bombsite, where once a pub stood called the The Blue Last. Mickey believes that a child who survived the bombing has been posing for over fifty years as a child who didn''t. The grandchild of brewery magnet Oliver Tyndale supposedly survived that December 1940 bombing . . . but did she? Mickey also has a murder to solve. Simon Croft, prosperous City financial broker, and son of the one-time owner of The Blue Last is found shot to death in his Thames-side house. But the book he was writing about London during the German blitzkrieg has disappeared. Jury wants to get eyes and ears into Tynedale Lodge, and looks to his friend, Melrose Plant, to play the role. Reluctantly, Plant plays it, accompanied on his rounds of the Lodge gardens by nine-year-old Gemma Trim, orphan and ward of Oliver Tynedale; and Benny Keagan, a resourceful twelve-year-old orphaned delivery boy. And Richard Jury may not make it out alive. A stolen book, stolen lives, or is any of this what it seems? Identity, memory, provenance - these are all called into question in The Blue Last

Martha Grimes''s Hotel Paradise was hailed by Booklist as "superb...beyond genre...one of the year''s best." Now, Grimes returns to the same small town, intertwining the threads of one young girl''s unexplained death with another young girl''s attempt at making sense of her own life.

Featuring the two novellas: The Train Now Departing and When “The Mousetrap” Closes “Full of suspense and surprise. These carefully written little gems showcase Grimes at her best.”—Library Journal “Grimes has created a work of value here, a book that expands her art, her reputation—and possibly her audience.”—The Richmond-Times Dispatch “Atmospheric and chilling…Grimes [exhibits] a complete mastery of emotional nuance and [a] virtuoso treatment of the grayest coloration.”—The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) “Intelligent…Merits applause.”—The Toronto Star “As atmospherically evocative as [an] Edward Hopper painting.”—The Washington Post “An a cappella novella, each note strong and noncompetitive.”—Los Angeles Times “Grimes once again demonstrates her keen eye for character. Both of these languidly paced novellas focus on middle-aged women who long for respite from their narrow, disappointing lives and find it, at least temporarily, in the company of a man…Thoughtful, compelling, even dark stories—for readers more inclined toward investigating emotions than searching for armchair adventure.”—Booklist

Richard Jury''s friend overhears in a pub--The Grave Maurice--information about a girl who''s been missing for more than a year. From its pastoral opening to its calamitous end, this 18th entry in the Richard Jury series is full of the same suspense and humor that devoted readers expect from Martha Grimes. Abridged.

Two beautifully accomplished and thematically linked novellas are deceptively profound in their exploration of emotional isolation and identity within human relationships.

Eigentlich wollte Superintendent Jury von Scotland Yard einmal Urlaub machen. Doch dann soll er in den Staaten den Tod Philip Calverts, eines Mitarbeiters der weltberühmten Barnes-Stiftung, aufklären helfen. Zusammen mit Sergeant Wiggins und seinem adligen Freund Melrose Plant fliegt Jury nach Amerika. Noch ahnt er nicht, daß der Tod Philip Calverts nur ein Glied in einer ganzen Kette mysteriöser Gewaltverbrechen ist.

"Intricate and entertaining . . . A delicious puzzle." The Boston Globe The murder is in America, but the call goes out to Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury. Accompanied by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant and by Sergeant Wiggins, Jury arrives in Baltimore, Maryland, home of zealous Orioles fans, mouth-watering crabs, and Edgar Allan Poe. In his efforts to solve the case, Jury rubs elbows with a delicious and suspicious cast of characters, embarking on a trail that leads to a unique tavern called "The Horse You Came In On" . . .

"The author keeps us enthralled with the rich interior and exterior lives of her characters in this emotionally stormy family saga." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW When Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury is drawn into a brief affair with a troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth, her subsequent death makes him a suspect in her murder. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family''s locked box of secrets. Plant does what he is bidden, in his own particular style, and what he uncovers is a shocking sheaf of surprises about the death-prone Holdsworth clan and its growing number of orphans.... "As always, Grimes'' characters are gems, and her writting is as witty as ever." USA TODAY Selected by the Literary Guild and the Mystery Guild

Two murders with the same modus operandi committed one year apart lead La Porte Deputy Sheriff Sam DeGheyn to the conclusion that the man serving time for the first murder has been unjustly imprisoned.

Même la nuit de Noël, il n''y a pas de trêve pour les flics de bonne volonté. Quel hasard a bien pu réunir Richard Jury, le plus aimable policier de Grande-Bretagne, et son aristocratique ami et collègue Melrose Plant, du côté de Durham, comme si le gratin de Scotland Yard s''était donné rendez-vous dans le pub mal famé d''un bled enneigé? Le dernier endroit où l''on aurait pu imaginer Helen Minton, la jeune assassinée, qui faisait des recherches généalogiques dans les cimetières de la région. Pour Richard et Melrose, cette histoire s''annonce comme l''énigme la plus délicate et la plus tordue de leur carrière. Une odieuse affaire à résoudre avec tact, patience et psychologie, sans compter quelques solides connaissances diverses en botanique, poisons végétaux, mondanités ou même billard américain.