After purchasing a farm in the beautiful Lake District of England, the animal lover attempts to make friends among her fellow villagers, while her animal companions find themselves caught up in solving a baffling mystery, in the first...

In this intricate mystery first published in 1937, Poirot receives a letter — two months after it was written — from rich spinster Emily Arundell about a possible attempt on her life. Suspicious, Poirot heads for her homet...

Trudi Adamson has lived her life in fear - of strangers, of asking questions, of angering her husband, of leaving the house. When her husband dies in a car accident, she retreats even further into her cocoon of ignorance and incuriosi...

Website designer and high society rebel Andrea Kendrickswould never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps life-style hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren't for the underhanded machinations of Andy's upper crust mama. But thanks to Mothe...

Easy Rawlins, a tough World War II veteran and detective, is hired by a financier and gangster to locate socialite Daphne Monet, a search that leads him from elegant boardrooms to the raucous jazz joints of late 1940s Los Angeles. Rea...

Three London women all lose the men in their lives under curious circumstances. The men in question all have similar characteristics--dark hair, a penchant for cleaning out bank accounts, and names with the initials J. L. And when one...

A dead woman returns to life as guardian angel for Mary Murphy in order to sort her life. Mary is in a state, her fiancâe dropped her for another woman, she lost her job, and her adoptive mother died in mysterious circumstances.

As always, Grafton's settings are wholly convincing from a sleazy disco to a complex water purification plant....Once again proves Kinsey Millhone a worthy descendant of Philip Marlow, et al....She is hardboiled, brave, justice-loving...

In this sequel to My Woman, His Wife, Jasmine and James, after a sexual tryst gone horribly wrong, attempt to salvage their marriage, until Monica returns, plunging them all into a world of secrets, lies, betrayal, and lust, in her qu...

Aaron Newman witnesses a murder and identifies the killer to the police. When he arrives home, he finds his wife tied up in their bed, the initials of the killer scratched on her stomach. While

Edgar-nominated author David Rosenfelt returns with his hero, Andy Carpenter, who must defend a football player accused of murder. The Giants' running back Kenny Schilling stands accused of killing Troy Preston, a wide receiver for t...

Investigating the mysterious "accidental" death of a vet, former London public-relations executive Agatha Raisin teams up with James Lacey, a retired military man, and finds surprising mixed feelings in the village about the...

Fans of the Cat Who... series get an intimate look at the private lives of those extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum--the most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction. In this charming collection ...

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver visits Woodleigh Common for a Hallowe'en party and meets a young woman known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue. When she is found drowned in an apple-bobbing tub, Ariadne wonders just how tall...

Making the acquaintance of a young widow and her German grandfather, new arrivals in the Depression-era Hudson Valley, Robert Brewster and his sister, Lily, fear for their new friends' safety when the porter is found dead and a swasti...

When a dead body, with excellent highlights, is discovered in her neighbor's home, all signs lead professional hair stylist Marla Shore to the Heavenly Hair Salon where she discovers a link between the murder and the exotic pet trade....

Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York’s preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reec...

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer -- an ingenious killer who changes appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. They have only one clue: the m...

Agreeing to help refurbish Eastport's disreputable old Harlequin House, a one-time hideout for wounded gangsters, do-it-yourself expert Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend, Ellie White, uncover the skeleton of a notorious ...

Former litigator-turned-freelance-pet-sitter, Kendra Ballantyne, while minding her client's ferrets, stumbles upon the dead body of a reality star and hones her animal instincts to catch a clever killer intent on framing her furry lit...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe took us further into this world, ...

The garbage collectors in Britain are still called dustmen, and Lochdubh's dustman is an abusive drunk named Fergus Macleod. When Fergus is put in charge of a recycling center and dubbed the 'environment officer,' Constable Hamish Mac...

Delighted by her new client, free-spending Laura Smith, until she discovers that the antiques she had acquired at Laura's behest have been replaced with fakes, interior designer Erin Gilbert suddenly finds her career interrupted by mu...

When her late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session is interrupted by the murder of a neighboring shop owner, scraooking queen Carmela Bertrand finds herself, as well as her customers, under the scrutiny of the police, forcing ...

Alison and her resident gumshoe ghost are on their next case when the deceased Scott MacFarlane floats in worried that he accidentally killed a prominent local woman. Turns out she's still alive...that is, of course, until she's murde...

The sequel to the popular Booked to Die. Cliff Janeway, Denver cop-turned-book-dealer, finds himself chasing down a charming young fugitive named Eleanor Rigby, who has stolen a rare copy of Poe's 'The Raven' for reasons of her own...

This police procedural, winner of the 2002 Glass Key Award for Best Nordic Crime Novel, marks the American debut of Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson, a police detective in Reykjavik, Iceland. After someone beats an elderly man to death wi...

Winning mother/daughter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie magazine, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth, immersed in the glamour of haute couture, witness a murder that casts a negative light on several high-style fashionistas and p...

When Stella Marz, Assistant County Prosecutor and head of the homicide division of the Prosecutor's office, investigates the deaths of two prominent men--one of a heroin overdose, the other hanged and castrated--she uncovers an unexpe...

Umberto Alvarez is a grieving man whose quest is to bring down the railroad company he blames for the death of his wife and children three years earlier - no matter who gets in the way. Peter Tyler is an ex-cop looking to redeem himse...