A thrilling story of Agatha Christie’s legendary rival Dorothy Sayers, the race to solve a murder, and the power of friendship among women.

London, 1930. The five greatest women crime writers have banded together to form a secret society with a single goal: to show they are no longer willing to be treated as second class citizens by their male counterparts in the legendary Detection Club. Their plan? Solve an actual murder, that of a young woman found strangled in a park in France who may have connections leading to the highest levels of the British establishment.

Inspired by a true story in Sayers’ own life, New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict’s The Queens of Crime brings to life the lengths to which these women will go to as they unpuzzle a mystery torn from the pages of their own novels.

“Smart, biting, and a tribute to female friendship and loyalty.”
– Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author

She found the literary voices that would inspire the world…. The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited the Harlem Renaissance.

In 1919, Jessie Redmon Fauset has been named the literary editor of The Crisis. The first Black woman to hold this position at a preeminent Negro magazine, Jessie is poised to achieve literary greatness. But she holds a secret that jeopardizes it all.

W. E. B. Du Bois, the founder of The Crisis, is not only Jessie’s boss, he’s her lover. And neither his wife, nor their fourteen-year-age difference can keep the two apart.

When her first novel is released to great acclaim, it’s clear that Jessie is at the heart of a renaissance in Black music, theater, and the arts. She has shaped a generation of literary legends, but as she strives to preserve her legacy, she’ll discover the high cost of her unparalleled success.

“A strong contender for the best book I’ve read all year.”
– Natasha Lester, New York Times bestselling author

An utterly addictive novel that will transport you from New York City’s most glamorous party to the labyrinth streets of Cairo and back.

Egypt, 1936: When anthropology student Charlotte Cross is offered a coveted spot on an archeological dig at Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, she leaps at the opportunity.  But after an unbearable tragedy strikes, Charlotte knows her future will never be the same.

New York, 1978:  Annie Jenkins is thrilled when she lands an opportunity to work for iconic former Vogue fashion editor Diana Vreeland, who’s in the midst of organizing the famous Met Gala, hosted at the museum and known across the city as the “Party of the Year.”

When one of the Egyptian artifacts goes missing, Annie and Charlotte must team up to search for it, leading them both directly into danger.

"Moving, suspenseful and entirely vivid, The Stolen Queen is Fiona Davis at her absolute best.”
– Lisa Grunwald, author of The Evolution of Annabel Craig

Date night goes off the rails in this hilarious take on midlife and marriage when one unhappy couple find themselves at the heart of a crime in progress.

Jane and Dan have been married for nineteen years, but Jane isn’t sure they’re going to make it to twenty. Her writing career has screeched to an unsuccessful halt, and her one published novel sold under five hundred copies. Worse? She’s pretty sure Dan is cheating on her. When the couple goes to celebrate their anniversary, Jane thinks it’s as good a place as any to tell Dan she wants a divorce.

But before they even get to the second course, an underground climate activist group bursts into the room, taking everyone hostage. Jane is shocked. Nearly everything the activists do is right out of the pages of her failed book.

Which means Dan and Jane are the only ones who know what’s going to happen next. If they can survive this, maybe they can survive anything—even marriage.

“Poignant, darkly funny, and mind-bendingly twisty at every turn”
– Elle Cosimano, New York Times bestselling author

Succession meets Saltburn in a cracklinglocked-room thriller of inconceivable wealth, unchecked power, and the secretspoised to bring a powerful family down.

Former reality TV star Maya Miller has just married the mosteligible bachelor on the planet: Colin Sterling, of the globally famousSterling family. To some, Maya represents the American dream. To others, a golddigger. But when Colin’s cousin Arianna, the heiress to the family’s immensefortune, is found murdered, Maya is thrust into the spotlight: first as she andColin are revealed to be the next heirs to the fortune, and then as the primesuspect.

As the family goes into lockdown, Maya becomes convincedthat the real murderer is among them, and she has no choice but to find andexpose the true threat within the Sterling family.

“Filledwith secrets, intrigue, backstabbing characters, and a scrappy heroine youcan’t help but root for.”
– Sara Shepard, #1bestselling author