Badass 75-year-old retired FBI agent Ethel Fiona Crestwater is back--stalking mobsters, dodging b...

Badass 75-year-old retired FBI agent Ethel Fiona Crestwater is back--stalking mobsters, dodging b...

The summer of 2020. COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire. Racial reckoning and Confederate monumen...

'Everybody has something to hide At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater is used to being underes...

'Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral...

'[A] first-rate installment in an excellent series.' --Booklist

'The scam in de Castrique's debut is complex...theregional background sensitive and savory.' -Kir...

Praise for Fatal Undertaking...'Unassuming but commanding prose style...comparable to James Lee B...

'A good choice for anyone who enjoys small-town mysteries and ghost stories.' --Booklist

The Singularity--the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cogn...

'The Blackman & Robertson Detective Agency faces a disturbing reality: no clients. So when partne...

Hidden Scars

'Once the most polluted waterway in Western North Carolina, the toxic Pigeon River now runs pure,...

Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in t...

Praise for Final Undertaking...'De Castrique has married the complexity and fast pace of a police...

'This urgent, cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law...

'When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, Barry Cl...

The night before a funeral that will thrust the mountain town of Gainesboro, North Carolina, into...

The Singularity--the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cogn...

Praise for Mark de Castrique... 'Comparable to James Lee Burke and Margaret Maron.' -Library Jour...

A LOCKED-ROOM YOUNG ADULT WHODUNIT IN THE CLASSIC TRADITION OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

'Towns like Gainesboro, North Carolina, may be small but go big on local traditions. When funeral...

'Another stellar entry in an outstanding series that deserves wider recognition: the family focus...

2018 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award nominee

'[A] marvelous blend of history and mystery...' --Publishers Weekly STARRED review

A murder from the past comes creeping into the present, as two private eyes open up a cold case t...

Double Cross of Time

'Iraq War veteran Sam Blackman with his prosthetic leg and his no-nonsense private eye partner Na...

Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman lost a leg in Iraq and emerged from the V.A. hospital i...

Sam Blackman, Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investi-gation Detachment of the U.S. militar...

'An excellent regional mystery, full of local color and historical detail.' --Library Journal

'[A] marvelous mystery you won't want to put down.' --Publishers Weekly

The Singularity--the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cogn...

'A good choice for anyone who enjoys small-town mysteries and ghost stories.' --Booklist

2018 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award nominee

When Cherokee burial remains are unearthed on the site of a local cemetery's expansion, the dual ...

From the author of Blackman's Coffin, one of Amazon's Top 10 Mysteries for 2008

'This fascinating mystery, merging past and present, brings some little-known history to light an...

Sam Blackman, Chief Warrant Officer in the Criminal Investigation Detach-ment of the U.S. militar...

'You want to borrow a casket?' Funeral director and part-time sheriff Barry Clayton finds the req...

It began as a simple assignment for private investigator Sam Blackman and his partner Nakayla Rob...