Flask of the Drunken Master is the latest entry in Susan Spann's thrilling 16th-century Japanese mystery series, featuring ninja detective Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo.

Lobster season has arrived at the remote Canadian fishing village of The Shores. With it comes the founder of the Lobster Liberation Legion, and shellfish are being freed from their traps by a horde of lobster-rights activists. The tensions with the locals is about to boil over, and Hyacinth “Hy” McAllister will be tangled up in the aftermath.

“[An] amusing comic mystery.” —The Globe and Mail

The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England, but not for Prioress Eleanor of Tyndal Priory. Her friend, Crowner Ralf, is newly widowed with a baby. And her new anchoress is welcoming visitors to her window at night: one of them a man the prioress secretly loves. Now his loyalty to her as head of Tyndal Priory is suspect. Then Martin the Cooper is poisoned at the local inn and the killer could be any of them. No one likes the direction the evidence points, but God's justice must be rendered even for the most forsaken soul.

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Back in Grim’s castle on Nightshade, Isla is reeling in the wake of a brutal battle and the devastating truths it exposed. Her future—and the fate of the world—now hinges on a heart split in two.