When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snowÉas if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young ...

The eagerly awaited second mystery from the award-winning Kurt Wallander series. Mankell's tenacious sleuth, Inspector Kurt Wallander, returns to investigate a horrific crime in his Scandinavian homeland that soon involves him with a ...

Capturing the enduring beauty of the Appalachian mountains where she sets her novels, Sharyn McCrumb returns with a beautifully written, historically accurate tale of a song's passage through history-from the 1700s to the present, fro...

V.I. Warshawski isnt crazy about going back to her old south Chicago neighborhood, but a promise is something she always keeps. Caroline, a childhood friend, has a dying mother and a problem -- after twenty-five years she wants V....

At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus could call the death and accid...

Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Ins...

A German Shepherd police dog witnesses a murder and if his owner--an Iraq war vet and former cop-turned-thief--is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down. Few rival Andy Carpenter's affection for dogs, and he decides to repr...

"Heartwarming to dog lovers, absorbing to fans of courtroom byplay." —Kirkus Reviews For six years Noah Galloway has lived with a terrible secret that could shatter his life, and when he's arrested for the arson murder of ...

Sano Ichiro, special investigator to the shogun, discovers that he needs the help of his new wife Reiko more than ever after he finds himself embroiled in a case involving a sinister murderer. By the author of The Concubine's Tattoo. ...

Roundhouse Publishing editor Kate C. Leever's first letter to her newest legacy author was intended to impress upon him the growing demand for his 'vampire romances.' Though he'd expressed little to no desire for publicity, book tours...

Kelly's spring project: rehabbing an alpaca ranch. But someone has different ideas for keeping her busy, including slashing tires and cracking windshields. Then the House of Lambspun knitting shop is trashed, and a woman is found drow...

Penzler Pick, July 2001: Dan Simmons is not an author who writes the same book twice. He doesn't even come close. Since switching from fantasy/horror to mystery, Simmons has written Crook Factory, set in Cuba and starring Ernest Hemin...

Cozy mystery, Book 1 in the Caprice DeLuca home-stager mystery seriesCaprice DeLuca stages houses for high-end clients. When she discovers a body in the castle-mansion she staged to sell and starts asking questions, she finds herself ...

Nick Nicocropolis, the owner of a Vegas casino that has seen better days, hires a consultant named Tony Valentine to study some surveillance tapes of a suspiciously lucky casino customer named Frank Fontaine who Nicocropolis is sure i...

Volunteering to infiltrate a secret organization of Irish dissenters believed to be responsible for bombing a new branch of Scotland Yard, nineteenth-century private detective Cyrus Barker and his reluctant assistant, Thomas Llewelyn,...

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given readers a new kind of hero. Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke di...

The sudden death of Utah's Senator Orrin Hatch propels his successor, Lester Horner, first into Hatch's Senate seat and then on to become the first Mormon associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Carried along with Horner is Blyth...

In this superbly written suspense novel from British author Barnard,...former soccer star Matt Harper, now a television and radio personality, is the new owner of Elderholm, one of a small street of sturdy old houses in Leeds. As he a...

Not so much a puzzle as an excursion into deep dealings from the past. If Barnard is the Jane Austen of mystery writers, then this is his SENSE & SENSIBILITY: pleasantly sentimental, morally unambiguous, and relatively unsurprising.

The killings on Isle Royale have left Anna drained and haunted, her memories of her time with the wolf study group forever marred by the carnage on the island. Diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she is on administrative le...

When Fellworth Dolphin's mother dies, he teams up with a plain young woman named Maggie to determine the source of the mysterious inheritance he's received. The answers lie with one of the inhabitants of the quaint English village whe...

Avery and her hunky handyman boyfriend are renovating a house belonging to a local news anchor who's thrilled to be filmed as part of a home renovation show. But cable television fame proves fleeting when the man is murdered and Avery...

Royalty has its privileges, even when you're thirty-fourth in line to the throne, as Lady Georgiana Rannoch discovers on the glamorous—and dangerous—French Riviera…Why should my clueless brother, Binky, and his decidedly disagre...

When two sisters set out across a remote stretch of Montana road to visit their friend, little do they know it will be the last time anyone might ever hear from them. The girls—and their car—simply vanish… "A violent, tens...

 BFallen Snow/DIV Claire Weatherly has fled a high-stress lifestyle for a slower pace—in Amish country: Heavenly, Pennsylvania. She only planned a short visit but instead found herself opening an Amish specialty shop, Heavenly Tre...

New Orleans pastry chef Rita Lucero is out to bake her way to the top. But when she finds her almost-ex-husband killed with a chef's knife in his back, she becomes suspect number one. Now it's up to her to find the real killer before ...

For the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society, six friends gather in Molly Matthews's old Southern mansion-including Lizzie Turner, a reading specialist with a penchant for mysteries. But the...

These full-cast dramatizations of IMurder on the Orient Express, Five Little Pigs, Death on the Nile, Dumb Witness, Peril at End House, and ILord Edgware Dies feature specially-composed music, outstanding casts, and brilliant writers,...

The Reverend Stephen Babbington rarely partakes in alcoholic drinks, but at an exclusive gala, he decides it is appropriate to celebrate. He picks the wrong time to start sipping cocktails, though, for after just one taste, he immedia...

It's cranberry picking time—in an all-new mystery series from the national bestselling author of the Gourmet De-Lite Mysteries…When Monica Albertson comes to Cranberry Cove—a charming town on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan�...