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,...

A fantastic new cozy mystery series with a vintage flair from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Ellen Byron. Twenty-eight-year-old widow Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans af...

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...

When Stellaas friend and veterinarian Carla Beaumont is car-jacked itas just the beginning of a rash of vicious attacks on local business women. A truck driver, minister, and personal trainer are next in line for vandalism and theft, ...

Author Blaize Clement has earned herself a legion of fans with the first five books in her pet-sitting mystery series. Now Blaize's beloved heroine, Dixie Hemingway, is back, and when Dixie's latest assignment turns dangerous, it's up...

Allie McMurphy is up to her neck in renovations at the grand old hotel that's been in her family for generations. With its quaint Victorian charm - and world-famous fudge shop - the place is one of Mackinac Island's most beloved landm...

Orson Welles is the bombastic wonder boy of radio and stage. But is he also a murderer? Walter Gibson — creator of pulp superhero the Shadow — travels to New York City to collaborate on a script with Welles, star of the radio show...

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket in Hollywood. Fearing the worst, the case was elevated by LAPD commanders from the missing persons squad to the Homicide Division, where Harry Bosch was assigned the c...

New from New York Times bestselling author Sheila Connolly! Laura Shumway couldn't say why she'd agreed to go on the class reunion trip to Italy. Maybe it was to take stock of her life, or maybe it was just to catch up with old friend...

Zoe Chase always wanted to own her own restaurant-but first, she'll have to serve up a heaping helping of meals on wheels, with a side of mystery… When she's once again passed over for a promotion at work, Zoe decides to take the bi...