Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a rauc...

Ngaio Marsh was one of the queens (she has been called the empress) of England's Golden Age of mystery fiction. And in true Golden Age fashion, her oeuvre opens with, yes, a country-house party between the two world wars – servants ...

Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman have met all kinds of people while sailing as ship detectives for the Cunard Line. But as they prepare to embark on yet another Atlantic crossing, this time aboard the famous Caronia, they...

New York, 1910. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield have crossed the Atlantic Ocean numerous times in their capacity as ship's detectives. On several of those crossings they've had the pleasure, and in some cases the trouble, of sa...

Egypt, 1908. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, used to the grand opulence of the Cunard cruise line, are at first disappointed with the Marmora, a small, unimpressive ship owned by the P&O shipping line. Employed by P&O to be th...

1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, finds some escape through a love affair with another man. After putting her drunk husband to bed one Saturday night, she sneaks from their lodge to me...

 Summer, 1858. Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit Imogen's Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at the terminus to greet them. All the passengers alight at Oxford, but the two wome...

When Bernard Pomeroy finds a letter slipped under his door in the early hours, he flies into a panic. After dashing off a short note to his friend, he hands it to the porter at Corpus Christi College before hastening on to the railway...

LOOM WITH A VIEW Della Wright has come to peaceful and picturesque Briar Hollow, at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, to realize her lifelong dream of owning a weaving studio. To promote her new business, Dream Weavers, Della is ...

SHEAR MURDER  Della Wright can't believe her luck when celebrity designer Bunny Boyd walks into her weaving studio in small-town Briar's Hollow, North Carolina, with a large custom fabric order. Bunny needs materials for her latest...

In her sixth outing, antiques dealer/amateur detective Rei Shimura heads to her childhood home of San Francisco to spend Christmas with the family. She soon gets tangled up in a murder investigation (with her beau, lawyer Hugh Glendin...

A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery--and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot--as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely...

During the height of a harsh Vermont winter, the body of a woman is found hanging from the steel-mesh retaining net lining the cliffs along the interstate. She was brutally murdered, with the word "dyke" carved into her ches...

It's death by Danish in the newest mystery from the national bestselling author of Death Under Glass, featuring stained-glass enthusiast and amateur sleuth Georgia Kelly. Life in Wenwood, New York, sparkles for Georgia, but for one o...

In the latest novel from the author of Ill-Gotten Panes, Georgia Kelly has made a home for herself and her stained glass business in Wenwood, New York. But not everything in the sleepy Hudson River town is as transparent as it seems�...

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!Stained-glass aficionado Georgia Kelly packed up her city life for the quiet of small town Wenwood, New York. But the sleepy village's peace is about to get shattered-by murder… After a banking scandal loses Geo...

"Truly wonderful. . . . A mystery that unfolds with grace and humor against a setting of stunning beauty and danger." -Nevada Barr, New York Times bestselling author of the Anna Pigeon Mysteries Award-winning Field & Stream ...

Precious Ramotswe and Grace Makutsi investigate a new mystery in this latest installment of the irresistibly charming, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.Fans around the world adore the No. 1 Ladies' Detect...

The delightful seventeenth installment of the ever-popular, perennially best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. The co-director of the agency,...

The fifth and sixth novels in the Lindsay Gordon series –gripping and thrilling page-turners, starring a self-proclaimed 'cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist'―from the number one bestseller Val McDermid

For Nina Wilde and her ex-SAS husband Eddie Chase, locating the legendary lost city of Atlantis was just the beginning of an even greater quest: to discover what mysterious treasure drew an ancient Atlantan explorer to the Himalayas. ...

A 15-year-old high school girl is found murdered in the local park, prompting introspection and accusation at Oakland School. Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd and his partner in work and love, Detective Inspector Judy Hill, find suspic...

[Read by Mark Bramhall] Winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, Bad Country is a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style. Rodeo Grace Garnet l...

Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles":  Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly...

That was the day I met Gus, the day I grew a family as if from magic beans, the day she died. That's the point, see? It was the very same day…Jessie Constable has learned the hard way to always keep herself safe. But meeting Gus ...

Successful young writer Marjorie McClelland leads a solitary, comfortable life in the quiet, post-prohibition town of Ridgebury, CT. Her tranquil life is disrupted when Creighton Ashcroft, a British heir with time and money to burn, p...

For Lucy Stone, Christmas in Tinker's Cove, Maine, isn't just about the gift of giving. Sometimes it's also about solving a crime or two . . .Mistletoe MurderThe First Lucy Stone Mystery! As if Lucy Stone's Christmas schedule wasn't...

Blending suspense, compassion, raw instinct, and grim wit, Denise Mina's Resolution completes her compelling Garnethill trilogy (which includes two New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year) that Val McDermid, author of A P...

From the bestselling author of They Did It with Love, a chance meeting ignites romance and results in murder Nora and Timothy have lives that are worlds apart. Nora lives in a small Kansas town, living paycheck to paycheck, working ...

Ruler of the Night focuses on a real-life Victorian murder so startling that it changed the culture. Readers feel they're actually on the harrowing fogbound streets of 1855 London as the brilliant Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey, and h...