Some secrets can't be kept. . . . The Most Dangerous Thing Years ago, they were all the best of friends. But as time passed and circumstances changed, they grew apart, became adults with families of their own, and began to forget abo...

This year, the Minnesota State Fair—where the heady aroma of grease, beer, and livestock compels folks to consume anything on a stick—has become a murder scene. Someone has poisoned the newly crowned Milkfed Mary, Queen of the Dai...

Second in the Kurt Wallander series.On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Kurt Wallander is frus...

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies ...

divFaith healing can be fatalWhen intrepid octogenarian Emily Pride inherits an island, and the miraculous properties of its "Pixie Falls" healing spring, she is shocked by all the vulgarity. The admission fee, the Gifte Sho...

The book that started it all for Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb's widely acclaimed series featuring amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson.br /When delicate Eileen Chandler is set to marry, her family fears the man is a fortune hunter...

Living in south central L.A., Socrates Fortlow is a sixty-year-old ex-convict still strong enough to kill men with his bare hands. Filled with profound guilt about his own crimes and disheartened by the chaos of the streets, Socrates ...

A Closetful of CorpsePetite, indomitable North Carolinian Abigail Timberlake rose gloriously up from the ashes of divorce--parlaying her savvy about exquisite old things into a thriving antiques enterprise: the Den of Antiquity. Now s...

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization of bestselling author Sara Paretsky's Killing Orders, starring renowned actress Kathleen Turner as the feisty Chicago private eye, V. I. Warshawski. Three million dollars in share certificates have ...

Scottish homicide detective John Rebus has been sent from 'North of the Border' to help London police catch a serial killer with a gruesome M.O.  Teamed with a London cop he wants to trust but can't, Rebus lets a beautiful psychologi...

When Bunny Bainfield, the sexy host of "Bunny in the Garden," is murdered at the First Lady's exclusive Christmas conference on native plants, Louise Eldrige, star of her own PBS garden show, must weed through a wealth of su...

 Tokyo, 1698: Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to become the shogun's second-in-command, is investigating rumors of a plot to overthrow the ruling regime. But conspiracy theories travel far too close to home when Sano...

The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatiza...

Pop open a new Wine Lover's mystery. The big day is swiftly approaching for Nikki Sands-Manager of the Malveaux Estates in Napa Valley-and her fiance Derek Malveaux, who owns the winery. But when they start receiving cryptic message...

STOMPING THROUGH THE SWAMP A failed New York actress, Rachel Porter figured that any new career would be an improvement--until she became a wildlife agent and found herself stuck in the steamy Louisiana bayous, chasing poachers and fe...

After a rather public flameout in his short-lived career as a sheriff, John March takes up the fedora of a private eye, working for a lawyer friend. When one of his investigations leads to shady dealings at the Merchants' Worldwide Ba...

Cozy murder mystery. When the meanest gossip in Brea Ridge dies mysteriously, suspicions turn to cake decorator Daphne Martin. But all Daphne did was deliver a spice cake with cream cheese frosting--and find Yodel's body. Now Daphne'...

Vachss has reinvented detective fiction and, in the person of Burke, his haunted, hell-ridden P.I., has given listeners a new kind of hero.Investigating an epidemic of apparent suicides among the teenagers of a wealthy suburb, Burke d...

A young woman hired to keep the books at a down-at-the-heels nightclub is taken under the wing of the infamous Gloria Denton, a mob luminary who reigned during the Golden Era of Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. Notoriously cunning and ...

New in the 'wonderful' (Green Bay Press Gazette) Dolls to Die For mystery series. When doll restoration artist Gretchen Birch finds the owner of a dollhouse shop murdered, she winds up in the thick of a mystery of miniature proportio...

The first book in the series, For Better, For Murder, is a finalist for the 2009 Agatha Award for Best First Novel!Jolene Parker and her police-deputy husband Ray have found new love in their life together. They're foster parents for...

Darla Pettistone may have inherited her great aunt Dee's Brooklyn bookstore, but it's the store's mascot—an oversized black cat named Hamlet—who acts like he owns the place. And when someone turns up dead, Hamlet smells something ...

Rosemary, Thora, and Jane lived at the end of the lane, one was thin, one was fat, and one was very plain.' This is how Ellie Haskell remembers her grandmother's three friends, known collectively as 'the bridesmaids.' She had once ask...

Old rivalries heat up in the fourth Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade mystery from the national bestselling author ofIn Hot Water.Fire chief Stella Griffin has been put in charge of judging the annual recipe contest, but Eric—her resident g...

Diver James McGregor is used to exploring sunken ships. But there's something strange about the wreck of the Grave Descend. No one aboard tells quite the same story about what happened. Then there's the mysterious cargo they were carr...

In the heyday of the Roman Empire, a small accounting error has left Marcus Didius Falco sharing a cell with a large rat. But the Empire's most beleaguered investigator is finally bailed out, and promptly accepts a commission to help ...

When a murder shocks picturesque Arborville, New Jersey, Pamela Paterson and her Knit and Nibble knitting club suddenly find themselves at the center of the investigation—as suspects . . .  Pamela is ready to kick back and relax af...

Just in time for Sherlock Holmes, the major motion picture starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law: the world's greatest fictional detective and his famous sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they solve...

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insi...

When a carriage bearing the Arnifour family crest - a vulture devouring a slaughtered lamb - arrives at the Kensington home of Colin Pendragon, it is an ominous beginning to a perplexing new case. Lady Arnifour's husband has been bea...