Magdalena Yoder once again ends up in the middle of a baffling mystery when Clarence Webber, an imprisoned con man, dies after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, and, with the reputation of PennDutch Inn at stake, sets out t...

In this 6th delightful culinary mystery from Joanne Pence, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi plans a romantic cruise with her hunky boyfriend, but hits rough water when murder becomes part of the itinerary. Food writer and culinary entrep...

Stefanie Pintoff's acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut historical tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancee in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster and thereafter flees New York City for Dobson, New ...

A cozy new mystery series that's about to make its dazzling debut performance. Meet the dance instructor who puts criminals behind bars. Meet Jenny T. Partridge, founder of Ogden, Utah's premier school for budding prima-and not-so-p...

All it took was one scone. Tainted icing triggers a rare allergy, and a hobbyist croaks at a scraooking crop sponsored by Time in a Bottle, the store where Kiki Lowenstein works. When it comes out that someone swiped the victim's eme...

While covering the kiln-opening of a rising star in Southern pottery-making, Molly Appeby, a writer for Collector's Weekly, investigates the death of an obnoxious collector whose murder was made to look like an accident. Original.

Lou Ford is a dull-witted, good-natured good ol’ boy, the sheriff’s deputy and son of the town doctor. He’s also a cold-blooded killer. Told from Lou’s point of view, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a classic, chilling...

The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for Senator Bruce Lerner - and who volunteered at Ford's - is discovered in the alley behind the theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched cops - young, studious Rick Klayman a...

The debut mystery in the internationally bestselling Commissaire Adamsberg series—now available for the first time in the United States Fred Vargas 's Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries are a sensation in France, consistently praised f...

Veterinarian (and ex-con) Dr. David Westbrook, a star of several award-winning stories, finally gets his own mystery novel. Westbrook's attempt to live quietly in a small Michigan town proves futile when he discovers the skeleton of R...

Witch and vintage store owner Lily Ivory faces her most difficult mystery to date with a case of mistaken identity that hits close to home...Lily Ivory and her friends are planning a 1950s-themed brunch to benefit the local women's sh...

Walter Huff is a crack insurance salesman. Going door-to-door, he encounters Phyllis Nirdlinger, a married woman who entices him first into an affair, and then into a scheme to sign her husband up for life insurance and then murder hi...

Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philander...

An elite team of FBI profilers is called in to help Chicago detectives investigate a series of bizarre murders. Though all are violent and disturbing, the crimes seem unrelated-until profiler David Rossi makes the connection. He recog...

"Coyle's Coffeehouse books are superb" (Library Journal), and now the New York Times bestselling author of MURDER BY MOCHA serves up a hot new Coffeehouse Mystery with A BREW TO A KILL.  The Village Blend's Muffin Muse co...

When a corpse washes up outside a Las Vegas hotel, feline detective Midnight Louie must track down the killer. Louie's owner, Temple Barr, is hot on the trail, since both men she's dating have intimate ties with the deceased. The situ...

Our furry feline friend has dipped his paws into the muddy waters of murder once again--only this time, nothing is as it seems.Temple Barr, a redheaded public relations expert and Louie's human partner, won't be trick-or-treating this...

From the Edgar® Award winning author of Uneasy Relations. Starring Professor Gideon Oliver— "a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) Sailing the Amazon with a group of botanists, "Skeleton De...

Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up 'facts' on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy 'Trash...

St. Mary's nunnery is a place of prayer and healing for women-so it is surprising to see a man sprawled out in the cloister garden. Dead. The victim was not especially well-liked-even by his wife and clerk. Now, Dame Frevisse must ste...

Gerry's crafts are small-scale, but her to-do list is anything but. Add murder to that—with one of her students as a suspect—and you have one hectic holiday. Time to shrink this mystery down to size.

When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of co...

Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis.

After twenty years of loyal service, Detective Jane Bauer is just two months and one case away from leaving the NYPD for a cushy desk job. Her last assignment: working for a special unit that tackles unsolved crimes. At a crossroads i...

When Neil Bledsoe, publishing's most despised critic and a guest at a party for the late Agatha Christie's birthday, announces his intentions to pen a scurrilous bio of Christie, Annie Darling is soon working overtime to prevent...

A KILLER WAS FULLY COMMITTEDTwin Cities businessman Ken Loy is the first to die; shot between the eyes during a sunset bike ride. Half an hour later, Bob Fabian, the rich and handsome owner of the Minneapolis Times Register, meets a s...

Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755) is perceived of as a two-bit hick town, filled with one-bit hicks. But Mrs. Jim Bob Buchanan seeks to change that perception with her latest scheme—a charity golf tournament. This presents a bit of a cha...

A bobby on his night rounds discovers a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. Inspector Hannasyde is called in, but sorting out the suspects proves a challenge. Anyone in the eccentric, exceedingly uncoope...

Fed up with dating after a disastrous setup, the only thing Hayley wants to snuggle up to is a box of made-to-order chocolates from plus-sized, plus-mouthed chocolatier Bessie Winthrop. But when Bessie is found dead in her kitchen, on...

White House chef Olivia Paras and her arch nemesis, White House Sensitivity Director Peter Everett Sargeant, must work together to solve the double murder of one of the First Lady's assistants and the Chief of Staff-before they become...