A Georgette Heyer mystery reminiscent of Agatha Christie, in which every guest is a suspect, and none has an alibi. At first glance, it should have been a lovely English country-house weekend party. But it's the guestlist from hell, a...

Adam Dalgliesh takes on a baffling murder in the rarefied world of London book publishing in this masterful mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are confronted with a puzzle of seemingly impenetrable complexity. A murder has...

L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware has received a strange, anonymous package in the mail. Inside is an album filled with gruesome crime-scene photos. When his old friend and colleague, homicide detective Milo Sturgis, views the...

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendsh...

With the closing of the Harlan County, Kentucky coalmines, marijuana has become the biggest cash crop in the state. A hundred pounds of it can gross three-hundred thousand dollars, but that's chump change compared to the quarter mill...

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House--a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie--and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their parties. But the real-life version o...

A Message from Author Alexander McCall Smith Three great places to visit in Scotland: The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh This gallery, housed in an extraordinary red sandstone building topped with spikes and twirls...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Library Lover's Mysteries and Death of a Mad Hatter comes a tale of hat shop owners who put a cap on crime. MURDER CAN BE SO OLD HAT  Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont's ...

Oslo is sweltering in the summer heat when a young woman is murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off and a tiny red diamond in the shape of a pentagram—a five-pointed star—is found under her eyelid. Detective Harry Hole ...

Killing Orders, V.I. Warshawski's third adventure, starts when her great-aunt Rosa summons the detective to her cold suburban home. Rosa made V.I.'s childhood miserable and the detective resents the command to help her aunt prove she ...

Three Pines is a village just above the U.S. border where everybody knows everything about each other―until now.Everybody in Three Pines is shocked when their favorite local bistro becomes the scene of a devastating crime. A strange...

Collects twelve John Rebus stories in a treasury that takes readers into the dark alleys and treacherous places surrounding Edinburgh, pitting the Detective Inspector against a range of evildoers. By the author of The Falls. Reprint.

divAt night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus could call the death and ac...

Seventh in the national bestselling Knitting mystery series. Spring has sprung for the knitters of Fort Connor, Colorado, and the House of Lambspun. But for one of Kelly Flynn's pals, things are unraveling... After Kelly's friend Je...

Representing her Aunt Cissy's fiance, museum curator Prosper White, in a case of fraud, attorney and celestial advocate Brianna Winston- Beaufort hopes to settle the matter out of court. But when Prosper is murdered and Cissy's arrest...

This mystery from one of America's best-loved writers features one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time--Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is an orchid-growing, gourmandizing, demanding genius who solves most cases with the able assistanc...

Randy Wayne White--try saying that three times, fast--had everybody shouting about a new Travis McGee with 1996's Captiva. But White's marine biologist Doc Ford is a much more complicated character than the late, great John D. MacDona...

As Thanksgiving approaches, Jordan Bingham is grateful for her job researching rare books for Vera Van Alst, the infamous curmudgeon of Harrison Falls, New York. But when an uninvited guest makes an appearance, much more than dinner i...

Ellery Adams serves up a mystery that's a real peach... Ella Mae LeFaye's Charmed Pie Shoppe is wildly popular in Havenwood, Georgia—which is not surprising since Ella Mae can lace her baked goods with enchantments. The shop's extra...

As the first female police chief in Pecan Springs, Texas, Sheila Dawson has cracked many a mystery in collaboration with local sleuth China Bayles. Now Sheila puts her smarts to work, sifting through secrets to find a killer on the pr...

Welcome to Torte—a friendly, small-town family bakery where the pastries are delicious…and, now, suspicious. It’s almost spring in Ashland, Oregon, and the town is preparing for the Shakespeare and the annual Chocolate Festival...

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth...

It's 1950's Ireland. As a deep, bewildering fog cloaks Dublin, a young woman is found to have vanished. When Phoebe Griffin, still haunted by the horrors of her past, is unable to discover news of her friend; Quirke, fresh from drying...

From the New York Timesbestselling author ofKeeper of the Castle, San Francisco contractor and ghost whisperer Mel Turner must solve a murder mystery at a haunted mansion in the Pacific Heights...San Francisco millionaire Andrew Stirl...

Sonchai Jitpleecheep, the devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattoo, returns in this blistering novel.Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkok's Di...

Detective Ellie Hatcher will be forced to uncover the truth behind the apparent suicide of a teenaged girl with intriguing connections to both New York's wealthiest—and its most dispossessed.This addictive thriller from acclaimed su...

Nikki Heat and Jameson Rook team up again to investigate their coldest killer yet, in Richard Castle's exciting follow-up to the number one New York Times bestseller Heat Rises. NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat gets more mystery th...

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired to break up an unsuitable romance, find a missing dog, solve a murder, ransom a stolen necklace, and investigate a wife's mysterious disappearance, in a collection of four long mystery stories...

With Reacher, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has created "a series that stands in the front rank of modern thrillers" (The Washington Post). brEverything starts somewhere. . . .For elite military cop Jack Re...

The New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club series returns with three intrepid ladies who know their way around a kitchen-as well as a crime scene…   Petra, Suzanne, and Toni may have lost their husbands, but they've found new...