The Domestic Diva has some wedding advice: Keep the food...lose the groom. Sophie's sister Hannah is getting married. But when the groom's ex-wife is found hanging from a tree, the Domestic Diva fears her sister is about to wed a kill...

The whole town of Excelsior, Minnesota, hates and avoids Foster Johns, who is believed to be a murderer, the perpetrator of a five-year-old unsolved crime. Then Betsy Devonshire comes to town to open a needlework shop and hires Foster...

In the first in an all-new series of original mysteries, Adrian Monk, the brilliant obsessive-compulsive investigator, much to his horror, must dig through a lot of dirt to discover the culprit behind a fatal house fire and the death ...

Inspector Richard Jury and his friend, Melrose Plant, investigate the murders of two women in the Lincolnshire fens, with one of the victims being the ex-wife of the Fengate estate's owner, and the other the estate's kitchen maid. Rep...

Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in  a dishonorable world. When he says he will do  something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and  there is plenty of action... but it is the moral  element that sets them above ...

In their ninth case, Amelia and Emerson discover the corpse of the wife of a fellow archaeologist while excavating a tomb. Five years ago, she was believed to have run off with a lover, but examination of the body makes it clear that ...

A German Shepherd police dog witnesses a murder and if his owner--an Iraq war vet and former cop-turned-thief--is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down. Few rival Andy Carpenter's affection for dogs, and he decides to repr...

OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE LANDS IN NEW MEXICOAttorney Ed Eagle thinks he's safe from his black widow ex-wife, who is now in police custody. But when she escapes, she spins a new web that just might trap him—and everyone he loves.

Nurse-turned-insurance fraud detective Pauline Sokol's current undercover investigation into an psychiatric scam goes badly awry when she is forcibly committed to a mental institution, where she must not only find a way to escape from...

Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart admits her sweet treats don't exactly qualify as health food. But does she really deserve to be labeled a "killer" by local radio jockey Lester Moorefield? The annoying host is urging citizens t...

Crimes of Fashion' columnist Lacey Smithsonian, while dealing with her fashion-challenged mother and sister, must help TV makeover success story and supermodel Amanda Manville stop a relentless stalker who is up to no good. Original.

When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola 'N...

Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince RegentÂ's cousin, enlists Sebastian St. CyrÂ's help in investigating the brutal murders of eight prostitutes. Following a trail of clues from LondonÂ's seedy East End to the Mayfai...

In the 17th J. P. Beaumont mystery, Beau, currently a homicide investigator for the Washington State Attorney’s office, must contend with a reactivated cold case and a deeply personal current one. The first concerns a nun treate...

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard becomes fascinated with a portrait of Richard III that seems to bear no resemblance to Richard’s horrible reputation. Could such a noble, sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain ...

In this 11th book to feature Benni Harper, the quilter and amateur sleuth pitches in to help some friends make the opening of the Broken DIS dude ranch a success. But that help takes on a new dimension when she finds a murdered man's ...

In this addition to the long-running Richard Jury series, the New Scotland Yard detective follows a tangled trail of missing, sexually abused, and murdered children. The death of a five-year-old girl is linked to a pedophile ring cont...

Ha-ha! You're dead!Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool's prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic -- if rarely tranquil -- South Carolina island of Broward's Rock has made it appear as...

Over the years, Phil Rickman has won high acclaim for his chilling supernatural tales, including Celtic thrillers as well as the Reverend Merrily Watkins Mysteries, featuring Britain's first female exorcist. Meticulously researched, r...

In the latest entry in Todd's much-acclaimed series, Inspector Ian Rutledge goes to a Norfolk port town to investigate the strange death of a priest, whose obsession with the recently-sunk Titanic may have had something to do with his...

When four seasonal employees at Yosemite National Park mysteriously disappear, park ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a hotel waitress to solve the crime. Her investigation eventually leads her on a perilous solo journey into the ...

Maddie Cutler thought she was taking on a new design intern for her boutique. But instead she finds her dead at the train station under suspicious circumstances. Now, Maddie is determined to iron out the wrinkles of this mystery.

Bursting at the seams with excitement to be in France, Crimes of Fashion columnist Lacy Smithsonian is dishing the dirt on haute couture, only to find herself up to her stillettos in mystery when the supposed Rousseau family lost trea...

Examining the burning death of a south London woman, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid discovers that the case is disturbingly similar to a missing-persons investigation being covered by his lover and partner, Gemma James, a situation tha...

Hired to replace a missing L.A. TV show writer, Madeline Bean takes on a quirky staff and every one of its humourous responsibilities while concentrating her efforts on finding the missing writer and uncovering the mystery behind his ...

A town divided by class lines is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious death, which begins to unravel the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl, a young boy, and a women running from her own destiny. By the author of Local Girls. Reprint.

The local Film Noir festival takes a dark turn when a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed. Now, bookstore owner Penelope Thornton-McClure enlists the help of Jack Shepard, P.I.-even though he and his license expired more than fift...

Former San Francisco police officer Dismas Hardy is living the life his wife and kids always wanted for him. Safely enclosed within a labyrinthine downtown office, he is now working as a highly paid corporate lawyer. His quiet existen...

Ex-cop, part-time investigator, and sometime bartender Dismas Hardy returns to face a death threat as he investigates the bloody disappearance of his friend Rusty Ingraham, an investigation that exposes foot-dragging police, corruptio...

"Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie. . . . The book's title is a metaphor not only for the month of April but also for Gamache's...