To Karl Alberg, a small town on Canada's ?Sunshine Coast? looks like the perfect place to sooth a psyche that's been battered by too much big-city police work. Bees buzz among the roses, and the local librarian is attractive, intrigui...

In October 1931, a station agent found two large trunks abandoned in Los Angeles's Southern Pacific Station. What he found inside ignited one of the most scandalous tabloid sensations of the decade.Inspired by this notorious true crim...

Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym 'A. M. Barnard.' Louisa May Alcott's novel of romance and sexual intrigue is one of her lesser-known gems. Its tone and characterizations strike a markedly different chord from her best...

The legendary--and blind--eighteenth-century judge, Sir John Fielding, cofounder of London's first police force, debuts in the case of a lord whose apparent suicide is exposed as a fountainhead of deception, greed, and murder.

Apron Street, a quiet little London thoroughfare, is home to the eccentric Palinod family. At first glance, the Palinodes appear to be entirely at odds with the Apron's almost aggressive respectability, but Albert Campion isn't so sur...

The follow-up to #1 NYT bestseller Kelley Armstrong's acclaimed A Darkness Absolute.In This Fallen Prey, the next installment of New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's thriller series, Casey Duncan is about to face her t...

A sleazy reporter has been found dead with doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch's craft knife stuck in his back. And when someone begins sending her boxes of Kewpie dolls with threatening messages inside, she knows she must watch he...

Tori Cannon and her grandfather, Herb, return from her grandmother's funeral, and it's with sadness that she learns the bait shop and small motel they ran has fallen on hard times. Jammed into one of the motel's units is the body o...

Hamish Macbeth, the laid-back constable of Lochdubh, Scotland, has a new Land Rover to drive and a Highland summer to savor, but as fast as rain rolls in from the loch, his happy life goes to hell in a handbasket. The trouble begins w...

When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn't remember what happened the previous evening, he doesn't begin to worry. She had been out drinking, after all, and he'd prefer not to be bothered with such an arrogant a...

Even an experienced pet sitter like Daphne Templeton can be fooled by animal behavior: how can an adorably tiny fuzz ball named Tinkleston be capable of sudden flying leaps with cat claws bared? But human behavior remains even more...

Some cases just won't die—even after you've dumped the body  Ed London is the type of private investigator that you call to clean up the mess when your mistress turns up dead. But after he dumps a body in Central Park, it appears ...

Classic reprints from: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, Horace Gregory, Geoffrey Bartholomew, Cornell Woolrich, Barry N. Malzberg, Clark Ho...

In this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, windswept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her hus...

Lilly Kaiser had come to terms with her solitary, uncomplicated life after becoming a young widow. So when a stranger delivers an old violin to her Berlin antiques shop and tells Lilly it belongs to her, she's completely bewildered. W...

When Constable Evan Evans investigates the disappearance of a woman who vanished on Mt. Snowdon, his search uncovers a strange bunker with handcuffs and chains, but the case takes a bizarre turn when Evans's own fiance disappears. Rep...

From the author of In Farleigh Field...It’s wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she’s...

Hard-living, Scottish investigative journalist Jack Parlabane stumbles upon the body of the scion of a wealthy Edinburgh medical family and embarks on a wild and dangerous probe to get to the bottom of the murder, in an entertaining a...

From bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, another clever, endearing story in the fox-hunting mystery series. Lushly described scenes from the hunt, talking animals who help solve the murder, and the beloved Sister Jane reunite to contin...

You found my philandering ex-husband?' Bitty asked. 'Where? Mexico? Paris? In Tupelo with a cocktail waitress?' 'In your closet,' I answered. 'Dead.' Break out the hoop skirts and the zinfandel. The Divas are on the case. ...

During the 1940's the women attending Regina College insisted a beautiful young woman wearing a 'fancy dress' haunted the halls near the chapel. Many claimed to see the apparition often entering, sitting, and softly crooning a mournfu...

Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is touring a failing velvet factory in Virginia on its final day of operations-and finds one of the factory owners dead, lashed to a spool of velvet and soaked in blue dye. The workers are delighted,...

Warner Pier's most hated clown meets a bitter end in the latest from the national bestselling author of The Chocolate Falcon Fraud...It's been a month since a complete stranger was accused of murdering Moe Davidson, the miserable shop...

"Maeve Kerrigan [is] a fascinating and plausible character…What she has is persistence, integrity and emotional intelligence, and a very deft way of insinuating herself into a reader's affections."—The Irish Independent ...

Theodosia Browning serves tea and solves crimes in Charleston, a city steeped in tradition and treachery in the latest Tea Shop Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Laura Childs.It is Sunday afternoon, and Theodosia and Dray...

IN WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING SUSPENSE WRITER MARY HIGGINS CLARK'S SPELLBINDING NEW THRILLER, A BROADWAY STAR'S MURDER IGNITES A SHOCKING SERIES OF DEADLY EVENTS. . . . After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from ...

Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie ...

When fifteen-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep he has little choice but to invite her in. Marilyn and her mother, Kathleen, are a familiar sight around Heppleburn, a strangely inseparab...

From CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Ann Cleeves comes The Glass Room, the fifth book in the Vera Stanhope series. Published for the first time in the US.“I do love Vera!” ―Val McDermid“Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite myster...

From CWA Diamond Dagger winner Ann Cleeves comes The Moth Catcher, the seventh installment in the Vera Stanhope series.Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owner...