Thanks to a heart transplant, former FBI agent Terrell McCaleb is enjoying a quiet retirement, renovating the fishing boat he lives on in Los Angeles Harbor. But McCaleb's calm seas turn choppy when a story in the 'What Happened To?' ...

No self-respecting lady would find herself in Sarah Booth Delaney's situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she's flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Just when things took their bleakest, Sarah Booth's offered t...

Checking up on empty family mansions for an old client, V.I. discovers the dead body of a missing reporter who disappeared during the McCarthy era, a find that is linked to two prestigious Chicago families and leads to her involvement...

First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests ha...

The New York Times bestselling author of Prime Cut serves up another tantalizing tale of culinary mystery and suspense-as chef turned sleuth Goldy Schulz goes on live television to prepare a meal to die for--but discovers that murder ...

When Goldy, owner of Goldilocks Catering, faces the challenge of whipping up a sumptuous lowfat feast for the Mignon Cosmetics company banquet, she rises to the occasion brilliantly...only to discover just how ugly the beauty biz can ...

Overwhelmed by work at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe is further challenged by a strange intruder at her home, the appearance in her yard of a mysterious pumpkin, troubles at her husband's motorworks, and a visi...

Wearing a hideous floral-print bridesmaid dress to please her cousin Jillian, Abby Knight, owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, stumbles upon the body of Jack Snyder, a wedding guest, while searching for the groom’s missing ninety-yea...

When several of her customers meet an untimely demise, Clare Cosi, owner of the Village Blend coffee shop, is confronted by a rich blend of murder and betrayal when her new boyfriend is named the prime suspect. Original.

Gourmet chef and sometimes amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz teams up with her professional mentor to cater a fashion photo shoot at a 19th-century mountain cabin. As Goldy stirs up mouth-watering delights for a group of rail-thin models an...

Smart, sexy, Manhattan assistant DA Alexandra Cooper--hero of Linda Fairstein's increasingly popular series--is taking her latest murder case very personally. Lola Dakota, abused wife and brilliant university professor, wouldn't coo...

Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of Engla...

As always, Grafton's settings are wholly convincing from a sleazy disco to a complex water purification plant....Once again proves Kinsey Millhone a worthy descendant of Philip Marlow, et al....She is hardboiled, brave, justice-loving...

Stone investigates a shocking double murder-that of a controversial radio talk-show host and his pregnant mistress.

Who can you trust when everyone you know is a lawyer? Mary DNunzio has been slaving away for the past eight years trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm. Shes too busy to worry about the crank phone calls tha...

A fun new mystery series from the author of Gone with the Witch. The right dress can be magic; the wrong one—murder! From the national bestselling author of Sensation's Witch series comes the new Vintage Magic mystery series, featur...

The explosive action kicks off as FBI agent Ruth Warnecki hunts for Confederate gold in a West Virginia cave. She never expects to encounter the grisly murder that catapults her into a horrific plague of death, all centered on the pre...

While attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by campaigning for district judge of Colleton County, North Carolina, attorney Deborah Knott tries to solve a senseless, eighteen-year-old murder and stumbles upon ...

When Colorado caterer, Goldy Bear, is asked to cater a party for her friend Marla's business, Prospect Investment Partners, she finds that her talents as an amateur sleuth come in handy when Marla's partner absconds with the company's...

Jack Spratt is the detective in THE BIG OVER EASY, the first in a projected trilogy of books based on nursery rhymes by Jasper Fforde. The case begins when the broken body of Humperdink "Humpty" Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III is ...

A commodities trader by day, at night Harper Cole serves as a systems operator for an on-line service that caters to the rich and famous, but when a stranger penetrates the security system, brutally murdering six clients, Harper is fa...

In this eleventh mystery in a series about the all-women Philadelphia law firm Rosato & Associates, Italian-American author Lisa Scottoline uses the true story of her own grandparents' experience as World War II internees to enrich th...

A thriller set on the Gold Coast of Florida finds street-smart former cop-turned-private investigator Stone Barrington on the trail of an elusive stalker who seems to be able to mimic people at will and who is targeting Allison Mannin...

The second China Bayles mystery. Herb shop owner China is shocked when Halloween hijinks take a gruesome turn in Pecan Springs, ending in a brutal murder. And China is even more shocked when her friend Ruby, a New Age expert in tarot ...

China Bayles and her husband, Mike McQuaid, become involved in the tangled affaire of Phoebe the Pickle Queen, owner of the largest pickle business in Texas, but things take a dangerous turn when Phoebe mysteriously vanishes. Reprint.

The discovery of a bricked-up skeleton in a partially demolished brownstone is a scenario straight out of Edgar Allan Poe. What makes the find more amazing is the fact that the building is actually one of Poe's former residences. Manh...

A Gaslight Mystery-- The new mystery series Catherine Coulter calls 'Tantalizing...' As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more--a search for justice--in a c...

Jim Qwilleran is not exactly thrilled by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion--a weekly magazine on interior design. But Qwilleran finds himself on familiar territory when a murder is committed, and he and Koko, the brilliant Siam...

Five years after her close friend Brian is killed by an unknown assailant, another friend is killed in an almost identical fashion, and Ophelia Jensen, unable to count on her nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, decides to utilize...

Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy old Wiley Denton the location of one of the West's multitude of legendary lost gold mines. Denton had shot the swind...