Martha Grimes

Jury investigates the death of a young escort who has been murdered behind a local pub. The only witness is the establishment's black cat, who gives neither crook nor clue as to the girl's identity or her killer's.

When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not sure what's more perplexing: the circumstances of the man's death, the conflicted stories of the man's past, or the motivations of the case's chief inspecting officer, the beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar. What Richard 'is' sure of is that he's in over his head, both with Aguilar and the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic Billy Maples,...

"In the latest series outing, The Knowledge, the Scotland Yard detective nearly meets his match in a Baker Street Irregulars-like gang of kids and a homicide case that reaches into east Africa. Robbie Parsons is one of London's finest, a black cab driver who knows every street, every theater, every landmark in 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, a rarefied...

A fur coat is the crucial piece of evidence when a dead woman is discovered in the gardens of Fulham Palace, a coat and woman strikingly like those Jury had seen the previous night on the number 14 bus.

Timeless, peaceful, and remote, the watery Lincolnshire fens seem an unlikely setting for murder. But two women--a notorious actress and a servant girl--have been killed there in the space of two weeks. The Lincolnshire police are sure the murders are connected--and they think a friend of Richard Jury is responsible. Jury is anxious to clear jenny Kennington's name. But the secretive suspects and tight-lipped locals are leading him nowhere. And with...

In a small, sleepy resort town where the lake divides the rich from the just-folks, and where secrets are almost impossible to keep, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her only confidant is the town sheriff, Sam DeGheyn, and what they share in common is obsession: Maud cannot bear watching her twenty-year-old son take his final steps out of her life and into' his own; Sam cannot let go of the unsolved murders of three local women and...

"Chew on this," says Melrose Plant to Richard Jury, who's in the hospital being driven crazy by Hannibal, a nurse who likes to speculate on his chances for survival. Jury could use a good story, preferably one not ending with his own demise.

Plant tells Jury of something he overheard in The Grave Maurice, a pub near the hospital. A woman told an intriguing story about a girl named Nell Ryder, granddaughter to the owner of the Ryder Stud Farm in

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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. While the puzzling deaths of village pets may raise some idle gossip over a pint or two at the Deer Leap, the village pub, this hardly seems a case for Superintendent Jury of Scotland yard. Nor does it seem much of a challenge for the combined deductive powers of Jury and Melrose,...

Set in West Yorkshire and Cornwall, this story challenges Martha Grimes's major character, Superintendent Richard Jury, to find out the real reason that a perfectly sane and patient wife should murder her husband ten years after their only child has been kidnapped and presumably killed.