When her wedding planner is murdered, Katie Ray is forced into close proximity with bad boy PI Carl Hades – and into reconsidering the man with whom she wants to spend the rest of her days.

Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie's The Sound of Broken Glass, a captivating mystery that blends a murder from the past with a powerful danger in the present.When Detective Insp...

Domestic diva Sophie Winston is getting into the Halloween spirit- her decorations for a community haunted house are so good, it's scary. Not to be outdone, rival domestic diva Natasha is throwing a spooktacular Halloween party at her...

There is no such thing as privacy in Lake Eden, but Hannah never thought things would go this far. Everyone has been telling her what to do ever since she got not one, but two marriage proposals. The votes are evenly divided between D...

When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cosy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to serve as the head judge. But when a fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson, is found stone-col...

Part-time CIA agent Mrs. Pollifax drops her gardening gloves and travels to Damascus, where an American woman has been kidnapped while thwarting a skyjacking attempt. With the help her companion, Farrell, and a young archaeologist nam...

Coming in January—Richard Jury returns to the back streets and back rooms of London in The New York Times bestselling series When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not...

On a freezing night in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a night that wouldn’t feel so unusual if it wasn’t the Fourth of July, an antique wooden boat plows full-speed into a line of old railroad pilings in the shallow wat...

When wealthy, widowed art patron Virginia Neville officially announces her engagement to Jake O'Neill -- her handsome, charming, and much younger fiancé -- at a gala gallery opening, not all the gathered friends and stepfamily ar...

In this delicious follow-up to Murder on the Rocks, developers have returned to Cranberry Island. This time, theyre planning to wipe out a natural cranberry bog, along with the islands namesake berries, to build a luxury subdivision. ...

Baffled, caught in a net of frustration and media attention, Wallander is more Wallander-esque than ever: blunder-prone, burdened by bouts of absent-mindedness and by sudden rages, yet steadfastly professional, dogged, tenacious and b...

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Valentine MurderAuthor: Meier, LesliePublisher: Kensington Pub CorpPublication Date: 2011/02/03Number of Pages: 268Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: bl2012000136

When soap-making queen Contessa New Berne is murdered in Ben Perkins' family-owned custom soap shop, he discovers his girlfriend had a history with the Contessa-and a reason to want her dead.

They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of t...

The author has the eyes of a hawk for character nuance and her claws out for signs of the criminal injustices rampant among the privileged classes during this gilded historical perilousness.'NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWWhen low-life mon...

It is late one night in Buckingham Palace, and Queen Victoria's eldest son, affectionately known as Bertie, has been up to his usual pranks. The aging Prince of Wales, who, like our own Prince Charles, has been waiting all his life to...

Chief Constable Riddle's rebellious teenage daughter has appeared, nude, on a pornographic website. Riddle enlists the help of his employee and adversary, Inspector Alan Banks, to go to London, find the daughter, and bring her home. B...

Encountering his most bizarre case in a catnapping, Palm Beach sleuth Archy McNally finds himself on the trail of murderers, impostors, adulterers, a sensuous psychic, and someone who will do anything to avoid a scandal. Reissue.

When school psychologist Skye Denison discovers a body crushed by a toppled bookcase in Scumble River's new bookstore, she has to read the clues before she becomes the killer's next work-in-progress...

Few locals believe Sinclair's wealthy golden boy Martin Avery actually took his own life-or that his beautiful young widow had nothing to do with his death. Well aware of the rumors behind her back, Blaine Avery is focused on managing...

Everyone knows Olive Martin, the huge and menacing woman who was found five years ago with the carved-up bodies of her mother and younger sister. Everyone knows how she pleaded guilty to murder at her trial. And everyone knows not t...

Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor—and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.In the summer of 1932, M...

Award-winning novelist and soap-opera scriptwriter John Heppel's writing class, given in the Lochdubh village hall, has not been terribly successful. Although he initially attracted several aspiring writers to the class, it's soon obv...

Darcy Merriweather is Salem, Massachusetts' newest resident Wishcrafter—a witch who can grant wishes for others. While Darcy isn't able to grant wishes for herself, she does possess a certain knack for solving problems—including t...

Matthew Scudder looks into the murder of a prostitute who was just about to go on the straight and narrow. Was it a john? Her pimp? Scudder's investigation puts his own life on the line as he tries to exact justice for a brave woman w...

An ingenious whodunit that's also, in Block's recent manner, a provoking meditation on mortality--with a particularly strong supporting role for the City of New York, which turns in its finest performance since Ellery Queen's `Cat of ...

In the gentle coastal town of South Cove, California, all Jill Gardner wants is to keep her store--Coffee, Books, and More--open and running. So why is she caught up in the business of murder?When Jill's elderly friend, Miss Emily, ca...

It's a recipe for disaster when bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook….  Brooklyn's sister Savannah and her former culinary school classmates all became successful chefs, especially Savannah's ex-b...

Master sleuth Hercule Poirot draws upon his detective skills and insight into the human heart as he investigates various crimes, in "Dead Man's Mirror," "The Incredible Theft," "Triangle at Rhodes," and t...

For several years, Agatha Christie and her husband lived in Baghdad. Her keen observations there helped frame the setting for They Came to Baghdad, a story about Victoria Jones, an incurable romantic who meets a handsome man in the pa...