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Skip to content Homepage Author News Books Movies Fans Contact Search for: Homepage adminma 2019-11-18T11:19:08+00:00 Martha Grimes is the bestselling author of 25 Richard Jury mysteries and also the acclaimed fiction Foul Matter, Cold Flat Junction, Hotel Paradise, The End of The Pier and The Train Now Departing. > Meet Martha Latest Book Release In the twenty-fifth mystery in the bestselling Richard Jury series by MWA Grand Master Martha Grimes, an unlikely trio of detectives teams up to solve three puzzling murders. When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? Written with Grimes’s signature wit, sly plotting, and gloriously offbeat characters, The Old Success is prime fare from “one of the most fascinating mystery writers today” (Houston Chronicle). > Learn more Books The Knowledge London cab driver Robbie Parsons knows every street, every theater, every landmark in the city by heart. In the backseat of his classic black taxi is a man with a gun in his hand—a man who just a few minutes ago brazenly committed a crime in front of the Artemis Club, a rarefied art gallery-cum-casino, then jumped in and ordered Parsons to drive. > Read more Hotel Paradise A once-fashionable now fading resort hotel. A spinster aunt living in the attic. Dirt roads that lead to dead ends. A house full of secrets and old, dusty furnishings, uninhabited for almost half a century. A twelve-year-old girl with a passion for double-chocolate ice-cream sodas, and decaying lake-fronts, and an obsession with the death by drowning of another young girl, forty years before. > Read more Dakota In this stunning sequel to Grimes’s beloved Biting the Moon, young Andi Oliver is an amnesiac and drifter who awoke in a Santa Fe bed and breakfast with a man’s belongings tossed about the room. > Read more The Man with a lot of Mischief Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers. But the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of the Men with a Load of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack and Hammer. > Read more > See all Martha’s books Latest News THE OLD SUCCESS picked as one of The Best Crime Novels of the Year 2019 The New York Times, December 5, 2019 by Marilyn Stasio Lisa Sandlin’s irresistible mystery THE BIRD BOYS (Cinco Puntos, paper, ... > Read More The New York Times: Rotters, Holy Dusters and Murderers The New York Times, November 1, 2019 by Marilyn Stasio Martha Grimes’s novels are a hybrid of mystery forms, all ... > Read More CrimeReads: Martha Grimes Has Plenty of Style CrimeReads, November 11, 2019 by Molly Odintz It was a hot Sunday in May when I took a cab from ... > Read More Publisher’s Weekly review of The Old Success: A Richard Jury Mystery The discovery of the body of a French tourist, washed up on one of the Isles of Scilly off the ... > Read More > See all News Copyright © 2019 Martha Grimes. All rights reserved by Martha Grimes. Developed by MV, Design AC....