Product Description: 1940s, Washington DC. Government girl Louise gets her big chance, when she is tasked with recruiting German POWs for a secret mission inside Nazi GermanyGovernment girl Louise Pearlie has a new job inside the OSS – the Office of Strategic Services: recruiting German prisoners-of-war for a secret mission inside Nazi Germany...read more

Product Description: 1940s, Washington DC. Government girl Louise is blackmailed into investigating the suspicious death of a missing co-worker, with sinister consequences1940s, Washington DC. Government Girl Louise Pearlie is asked to review the file usage of a missing analyst from the Office of Strategic Services – the US’s wartime intelligence agency – only to learn he’d drowned in the Tidal Basin days before...read more

Product Description: Young widow Louise Pearlie seizes a chance to escape the typewriters and files of the Office of Strategic Services, the US’s World War II spy agency, when she’s asked to investigate a puzzling postcard referred to OSS by the US Censor...read more

Product Description: 1942, Washington DC. Young widow Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA, and enjoying being an independent, working woman despite wartime privations. But a casual friendship struck up with Alessa di Luca, a secretive war refugee, sucks Louise into a dangerous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies, banished royalty and Sicilian aristocracy – placing not only her job, but her life, in jeopardy ...read more

Product Description: The first in a new series from the author of the ‘Simon Shaw’ books - 1942. Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work as a clerk for the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA. When, while filing, she discovers a document concerning the husband of a college friend, Rachel Bloch, – a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about – Louise realizes she may be able to help get Rachel out of Vichy France...read more

Product Description: It's 1942.  Louise Pearlie, a young widow, has come to Washington DC to work for the legendary Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA.  When she discovers a document concerning the husband of her college friend Rachel Bloch-a young French Jewish woman she is desperately worried about-Louise realizes she may be able to help Rachel escape from Vichy France...read more

Product Description: Deep in the woods beneath the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, a forest ranger finds the remains of a young woman who disappeared forty years ago, entombed in an old pickup truck. Back in Raleigh, the confessed killer, who is serving a life sentence for her murder, now asks Professor Simon Shaw to help prove his innocence...read more

The discovery of the fourteen-thousand-year-old corpse of Uwharrie Man on the shores of North Carolina's Badin Lake leads to trouble for forensic historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Simon Shaw when his friend, archaeologist David Morgan, a man at the center of factions battling for control of the bones, is found murdered. 15,000 first printing.

A diverse collection of short mystery stories showcases one of the most vibrant and popular elements of North Carolina's literary legacy, in an anthology that features contributions by Lilian Jackson Braun, Lisa Cantrell, Orson Scott Card, O. Henry, Manly Wade Wellman, Margaret Maron, and other authors, past and present. Original.

Product Description: Professor Simon Shaw never set out to be a detective. But when he's consulted about an eighty-year-old murder, it spawned an intriguing sideline to teaching American history to a classroom peppered with wooden-eared college students...read more

An expert in investigating murders that occurred over the last century, forensic historian Simon Shaw, a University of North Carolina history professor, takes on the case of a young woman, the goddaughter of a friend, who is plagued by dark memories and the belief that in a past life she had committed infanticide. By the author of The Fugitive King.

Professor Simon Shaw, a Pulitizer Prize-winning author and amateur sleuth, finds himself embroiled in a new case involving an old crime, when he is asked to examine what appears to be an old diver's outfit, possibly containing a body, that has been found in the ocean off North Carolina. By the author of Simon Says. Reprint.

When an archaeologist discovers a decaying body while excavating Kenan College's distinguished Bloodsworth House, Simon Shaw, the leading authority on the house's history, investigates the seventy-two-year-old mystery behind the death of the Bloodsworth heiress. Reprint.