A modern woman and a god from ancient legend? Surely an epic love mismatch...or maybe it's the 'myth match' of the century? The irrepressible Katie MacAlister brings us heroes who are more than mere mortals in two sparkling new novell...

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to in...

The historical antecedents of Jesus provide the focus for thriller writer Kathy Reichs's eighth installment in her series starring Temperance 'Tempe' Brennan, forensic anthropologist. Investigating the suspicious death of Avram Ferris...

In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shatterin...

Winter 1963: two children have disappeared off the streets of Manchester; the murderous careers of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have begun. On a freezlng day in December, another child goes missing: thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanis...

When a Georgia senator's daughter is found dead and drained of blood, Eve enters the world of a twisted psychopath—a man whose name appears on Eve's shortlist of killers connected to her own missing daughter, Bonnie.Then Eve receive...

Taking the mystery community by storm, this Elvis Cole novel was nominated for the Edgar, Anthony, Shamus, and Macavity awards and won both the Anthony and Macavity for Best Novel of the Year. Crais, a VP at Paramount, was previously ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman writes unforgettable tales of crime and detection that expose the shadowy side of glittering Los Angeles. And in Evidence, readers are once again in the dexterous grip of a maste...

While her boss becomes entranced with a beautiful armoire at the countywide craft bazaar, Maggie can't help noticing the Amish craftsman who made it. Though his clothes may be plain, he himself is more handsome than a man sporting a j...

As a series of poison pen letters sweeps through the town of Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth begins to suspect a sinister motive, a suspicion that is justified when the local postmistress is found hanged, a supposed suicide, but Hamish's inv...

It was a great opportunity, a beautiful day, and a perfect setting: home designer Erin Gilbert was headed to a lovely Crestview, Colorado, neighborhood to engage in a friendly little design contest with her nearest and less-than-deare...

When an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, Clare Cosi, manager of Village Blend, believes it's a business opportunity she needs to investigat...

Small-town chocolatiers Lee McKinney and her aunt Nettie are once again caught in the middle of a homicide investigation when a local antiques dealer, who had lent them a collection of valuable chocolate molds to decorate their TenHui...

Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an Afri...

While making the best of her new telemarketing job, Helen Hawthorne thinks she hears a murder on the other end of the line-and must avoid a close call with a killer.

While working at an upscale bridal salon, Helen Hawthorne is forced to unleash her keen skills of detection once again when a wealthy, obnoxious mother-of-the-bride is murdered by an unusual weapon, a wedding dress, and she is accused...

Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle--everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh ...

dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stocks trading price after a sharp drop.Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But he...

Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author's romance novel into a blockbuster. Although the movie mogul's chocolate labrador is charming, Lee McKinney thinks the producer's talk is a bunch of sweet...

Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse in the 1930s, the period ...

Journeying to wintry Montreal to testify at a murder trial, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan discovers three skeletons in the basement of a pizza parlor and realizes that she has stumbled into a crime from the past. By the author...

The streets of Stoneham, New Hampsire are lined with bookstores...and paved with murder. When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendl...

While attending a high society engagement party, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is steeped in mystery when the groom meets with disaster and the wedding ring, a family heirloom from the crown of Marie Antoinette, vanishes. O...

Freelance writer Jaine Austen has never been able to resist the siren call of an Eskimo Pie, just like she can't resist renewing her romance with Andrew, an old crush. With her bank account hitting new lows, she's also just agreed to ...

Tricia Miles, owner of the Haven't Got a Clue bookstore, must solve her own mystery when a bestselling author is found dead in the washroom.

When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joins the fishing class, she wastes no time in ruffling the feathers--or was it fins?--of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner is Lochd...

A sacred Ethete ceremony of the Arapahos is disrupted when tribal chairman Harvey Castle is found murdered, and when the victim's nephew is accused, missionary pastor John O'Malley attempts to prove his innocence.

With a resume that includes attempted assault and alimony evasion, Helen Hawthorne has no choice but to take on a series of dead-end jobs to make ends meet. At the Pampered Pet Boutique, Helen hustles a selection of canine cuisine and...

When Dismas Hardy, a San Francisco district attorney, takes up the case of a Japanese prostitute accused of murdering a Silicon Valley billionaire, he becomes the target of her powerful clientele and falls for the victim's daughter. R...

Kate Shugak returns to her roots in the far Alaskan north, after leaving the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Her deductive powers are definitely needed when a ranger disappears. Looking for clues among the Aleutian pipeliners, she begins to ...