Spinster sleuth Miss Jane Marple goes on holiday in the West Indies for a much-deserved reprieve from the steady stream of dead bodies that seems to dog her every step. Then one of her fellow vacationers is found dead, and Miss Marple...

Working at Mt. Locust, a historic plantation on Mississippi's Natchez Trace parkway, park ranger Anna Pigeon finds the body of a man, the brother of the local sheriff candidate, apparently killed in an S&M ritual gone awry, and mu...

From deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this device, the portly patri...

A humbug of a Shopping mystery... From The Anthony and Agatha Award-Winning Author of Accessory to MurderIncludes insider shopping tips! Mystery shopper Josie Marcus doesn't get the appeal of the year-round Christmas shop. But when th...

A new series takes shape-the debut of the Clay and Crime mysteries. Includes directions for a pottery project! In Maple Ridge, Vermont, Carolyn Emerson planned to ease into her golden years running her paint-your-own-pottery shop, F...

In bestseller Kellerman's solid 18th novel to feature L.A. police detective Lt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina (after The Mercedes Coffin), Rina finds that some jury duty should include hazardous duty pay. A shooting rampage at the 7...

The bestselling author of When The Bough Breaks, Blood Test, and Over The Edge delivers the most stunning novel yet and featuring psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware. At a party for a controversial Los Angeles sex therapist,...

When Cackleberry Clubber Suzanne delivers a pie to funeral director Ozzie Driesden, she discovers him not working at the embalming table but lying on the embalming table. She barely has time to recognize his corpse before sheÂ's drug...

In seventh century Ireland, the Irish Church and Church of Rome convene a special council to reconcile the differences of their individual religious doctrines. Outspoken and sharp, the young Sister Fidelma of Kildare is among those as...

Set in Dublin and Boston in the 1950s, the story of a surly, hard-drinking pathologist named Quirke who uncovers a conspiracy that begins with his brother-inlaw and reaches deep into Dublin's Catholic society--and into his own past.

The appearance of a corpse in a sarcophagus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art would normally be a surprise, but in this case, since the body is that of a museum employee, things are a little different. A district attorney must penetra...

Haley Farrell is taking a chance on herself. After receiving her interior design certificate, she quits her job at the local furniture store and decides to open her own interior decorating business. But with all the advantages of her ...

George Porter Dillman, a detective for the Cunard line, has the style to carry out his undercover assignments, which include recovering a stolen Stradivarius and keeping the ship from blowing up. His future efforts might yet float thi...

As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself 'insupportably bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town.' It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue, Lord Harold Trowbridge--to sh...

Cranky, yet lovable Agatha Raisin has never been one for holiday cheer, but her cozy little village of Carsely has always prided itself on its decadent Christmas festivities. But this year the bells will not be ringing "Silent ...

Get ready for some serious fireworks with the newest installment in the USA Today Bestselling series— MORE THAN 4.5 million copies in print! Every Fourth of July, the town of Cabot Cove hosts an elaborate celebration—and no one is...

Charlotte Adams is a professional organizer. Nothing is out of place in her closets-but her life's a mess. So she's dumped her cheating ex-fiancŽ, moved back home to Woodbridge, New York, and started making up to-do lists-some of...

A serial killer obsessed with mathematical logic appears to be at work in this literary mystery. The fatal smothering of an elderly woman is accompanied by a note sent to famous mathematician Arthur Seldom, suggesting a link between t...

When Colonel George Custard decides to build a glitzy new hotel in Hernia, outraged residents protest the project. Soon after, the colonel is found shot to death at the PennDutch Inn. Now Magdalena Yoder must find out who caused Custa...

Recently divorced Tallulah Jones is mortified when sheÂ's stuck scooping sundaes for her two-timing ex-husband—and his bodacious new girlfriend, Brittanie—at his company luau. But when Brittanie drops dead, Tally is suddenly...

Annie Capshaw has found that the way to a manÂ's heart is through his cooking class. But just as she and her best friend, Eve, are planning AnnieÂ's big day with Jim, her former cooking instructor turned boss, murder takes the cake....

Mary Catherine has a rare gift - she can talk to animals. A flamboyantly dressed four-time widow, Mary Catherine pulls top ratings for her pet psychic radio show and helps run an animal shelter. Then one day Mary Catherine hears pitif...

MARYLAND'S TOP MYSTERY WRITERS HAVE COME TOGETHER TO BRING YOU A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. CHESAPEAKE CRIMES II, EDITED BY DONNA ANDREWS AND MARIA Y LIMA INCLUDES TALES BY CHESAPEAKE CHAPTER OF SIS...

Here comes the bride! Suburban supersleuth Jane Jeffry and her detective beau Mel VanDyne have finally decided to tie the knot. While Jane's planning the wedding of her dreams—with no overbearing mother-in-law to steamroll th...

The rich, good-looking, fast-living members of the Castelli family return in DEADLY EMBRACE. Beautiful journalist Madison Castelli travels to New York to help her father, Michael, beat a murder rap. There, she teams up with her best f...

Divorced and strapped for cash, Candyce Â"DyceÂ" Dare starts up Daring Finds, a furniture refinishing business. But when she goes dumpster diving for discarded furniture—and uncovers a corpse—Dyce may find herself ...

Alex Winston, the innkeeper of the quaint Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse, finds his new role as best man in Mor Pendleton's wedding on hold when the bride-to-be's ex is found murdered in Mor's truck and the town's favorite mayoral c...

When the dead body of a woman her husband had been counseling shows up on her front porch, Aggie Sloan-Wilcox, the unconventional wife of the local minister, must pray for a little help from above when she takes it upon herself to pro...

Michaela Bancroft is expanding her training and riding business by buying four new horses from colleague Audrey Pratt. Then Audrey is found in the stalls, strangled to death with a pair of reins, and it's up to Michaela to corral a ki...

Blackford Oakes is Yale's answer to James Bond. In this Cold War thriller, Oakes is sent abroad to penetrate England's royal circle and save the new Queen, after the CIA traces the leak of vital military secrets directly to the Queen'...