Treasure is hard to find. Dead bodies aren't.A search for treasure turns deadly when wine consultant Sarah McKee is asked to help locate a hidden vault, where the legendary treasure of Belle Vue Winery is rumored to be stowed. But when the chamber is finally unsealed, Sarah and her team find a body face down on the floor and no treasure in sight. How did the victim get in the walled-up chamber? And who killed them? Was there ever a treasure? If so, who stole it? Only a handful of people are privy to the location of the secret vault. One of them has to be the killer. Or the thief. Or both. It's up to Sarah to figure out who did what. Until then, no one is leaving Belle Vue.

From Penn Jillette of the legendary magic duo Penn & Teller: A street performer finds himself enmeshed in a crime and must outwit his fellow conspirators in his greatest juggling act yet IN THE EARLY 1970s, Poe is living a nomadic life, hopping trains, sleeping rough, and juggling to feed himself. He eventually settles in Philadelphia and masters his street act before ever-growing crowds. When one of his fellow buskers presents him with an opportunity—a bank heist—he should have refused, an innocent bystander is killed, and he splits town a felon. Unable to resist the lure of performing, he resurfaces halfway across the country as a regular act in a Renaissance Fair(e). Unfortunately, his notoriety outs him to the criminal organization who believes he took something of importance from them during the bank heist. Using all of the wit and misdirection that has made him the best street performer...

Autofiction meets historical investigation in this compelling ode to a young French Resistance fighter killed during World War II—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Anomaly.Struck by a name written on a facade of his new home, acclaimed author Hervé Le Tellier embarked on a quest to recover the history of André Chaix, a resistance fighter, a maquisard, killed at the age of 20 in August 1944.Deftly combining historical fragments into a vivid narrative, Le Tellier invites us on a journey through one of the most troubled times: the inexhaustible Second World War. While avoiding simplistic, romantic tropes, he evokes the courage of a young man taking up arms, like many others, in what is also the story of a magnificent love with an equally impressive young woman, Simone.Made even more powerful and necessary by the current rise of fascism, The Name on the Wall gives voice to the ideals for which Chaix died and...

It's spring 1979, and retired deli owner Sol Hirsch, formerly of Queens, New York, has traded in his life of corned beef and kosher pickles for the relaxing, sunny climate of Miami Beach. But after a recent trip with his wife, Myrna, to visit her ailing mother in Romania, Sol's life now teeters on the realm of the undead, courtesy of a vampire bat that noshed on his neck.Upon returning home to the Sunshine State (definitely not an ideal place for vampires), the New York Mets diehard develops a thirst for human blood. As things worsen, Sol's life-or-death situation will boil down to a spring training baseball game involving New York Yankee slugger, Reggie Jackson.

'A perfect Christmas crime story.' Elly Griffiths A Christmas murder mystery featuring the real-life couple who invented Cluedo 'An ingenious plot' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A great read for Christmas . . . nostalgic and thoroughly entertaining.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Unexpectedly emotive, engaging and sweet.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Christmas Eve, 1943. Anthony and Elva Pratt arrive in a snowy English village to run a murder mystery game - and instead discover a real murder. The Pratts had planned for festive cheer, despite the wartime shortages: with Elva's map of the hotel and Anthony's prop weapons to use as clues, the guests in their parlour game would move through the rooms to figure out whodunnit. But when Anthony discovers the cook's sister Miss Silver beaten to death, they instead find themselves investigating a shockingly real crime. The hotel manager Mr Browning is trying to keep the peace but the guests are agitated, Colonel Colman is about to take over the hotel for the war effort - and the mysterious Mrs Threadgold...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the horror novels The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw comes Stephen Graham Jones's, "The Belle of the Ball," a Tor.com original short story.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ana Ellerbrooke had nothing left to live for after her whole family died. She decided to go back in time to stop the Hundred-Year War in which her whole family died. In the process, she teams up with someone from her past. Although she made many friends along her journey, Ana quickly learned that not all of them were loyal. Being a shape shifter, Ana was no ordinary girl. So she knew how to hide her gifts.

12 Strays of Christmas is sure to bring cheer to even the most reluctant celebraters! With themes of belonging and grief grounded in a funny, adorable first-crush story, this book is sure to check every box on the holiday wish-list.Holly does NOT have Christmas cheer this year. She and her family just moved to Chicago, far from all of her friends and family. And now her brother's annoying (and annoyingly cute) new friend couldn't be more cheerful. And Holly definitely doesn't want to volunteer at the local shelter, with all of the dogs who remind her of the dog she lost last Christmas.When she's forced to volunteer at the local shelter through her school, she'll just have to push aside her sad feelings and ignore those cute puppy eyes. But she can't put aside her feelings when she sees Drummer, the runt of the litter, who looks exactly like the dog she lost.When Drummer gets loose during the big holiday adoption...