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 ...

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....

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...

With his first case (see The Crime at Black Dudley), Albert Campion, that chatty, peculiar young man, scored a genteely British coup. His new client, though, is the very American Judge Crowdy Lobbett. His Honor has come into possess...

While cleaning a wealthy client's mansion, Charlotte LaRue, owner of Maid-for-a-Day, finds herself knee-deep in mystery when she stumbles upon an urn containing human bones, a grisly discovery that puts a damper on her nephew's weddin...

Loaded with tension, charged with uncertainty, these four taut tales by New York Times bestselling authors bring their unsuspecting or hunted and fearful targets into the deadly sights of a hired killer's gun. Contents include: 'Chapt...

Discovering that her significant other plans to attend a pre-wedding bachelor bash complete with stripper, wedding planner Carnegie Kincaid spies on the party with her binoculars, but when the groom's best man turns up dead in a nearb...

Cocktail-waitress-turned-psychologist Christina McMullen comes to the aid of L.A. homicide detective Jack Rivera when he is accused of killing his beautiful former girlfriend, who had left him for his wealthy father, launching her own...

Steve Hamilton's debut novel A Cold Day In Paradise was the first novel to capture mystery's three most prestigious awards-the Edgar, the Shamus, and the Anthony awards for best first novel. Now North of Nowhere returns to the beautif...

Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is well-acquainted with murder, but she never imagined one taking place on her honeymoon! A marvelous spoof of New Age mumbo jumbo by an author whose work has been compared to that of Agatha Chri...

A realistic portrait of the life and times of an inner-city thug follows the career of Dayvon, a one time kingpin of West Baltimore's thriving drug trade, whose decision to go straight is faced with his former partner's vengeful plot ...

Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude.Roxy Abruzzo, bestseller Nancy Martin's latest creation, is the sexy, streetwise niece of a Pittsburgh crime boss, and she's trying to stay on the straight and narrow . . . most of the time.�...

Amidst the bustle of the Women's Rights Convention of 1848, free-thinking town librarian Glynis Tryon is called upon by Elizabeth Cady Stanton to help organize the historic event. But when a body turns up in the canal, Glynis puts his...

Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshwskis specialty. Her client says hes the prominent banker, John Thayer. Turns out hes not. He says his...

2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a b...

Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his ...

Tough-as-nails Houston bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan trails bail jumping Parker Dann after he is accused of killing a child in a drunk-driving car accident, but when she catches up to him in North Dakota, a blizzard strikes--allowing ...

While trying three defendants for robbery, district attorney Joanne Kuhlman is plunged into a legal, moral, and emotional quagmire when she discovers that one of the defendants is developmentally disabled and may have been exploited b...

Sanibel Flats serves as the thrilling introduction to Florida marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford.

A small-town vicar's daughter, Sara Causseley could not be more delighted by her new job as governess to the aristocratic Hallam clan. The children are precociously adorable, the gardens at Hallam House are a dream, and the conversati...

The pretty young prostitute is dead. Her alleged murderer -- a minister's son -- hanged himself in his jail cell. The case is closed. But the dead girl's fatherhas come to Matthew Scudder for answers, sending the unlicensed private in...

Stuck in a rut after his dismissal from the Irish police force and still grieving the death of his father, Jack Taylor finds renewal when an intriguing woman hires him based on his rumored talent for finding things, unaware of what hi...

Green with envyTo the newly formed design team of Steve Sullivan and Erin Gilbert, it seemed like a great idea: a competition to design and build the most earth-friendly home in Crestview, Colorado. But who would have dreamed that som...

Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle sparks the interest of Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Read by David Suchet. Book available.

Agatha Christie's genius for detective fiction is unparalleled. Her worldwide popularity is phenomenal, her characters engaging, her plots spellbinding. No one knows the human heart--or the dark passions that can stop it--better than ...