Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the C...

Patricia Cornwell's intrepid medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta is visiting Florida, hoping to get away from the pressures of her job. No such luck: down in the Sunshine State, she becomes involved in a terrifying international intrig...

Psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware returns here to track the brutal murders of several unrelated members of different parts of the art community--a pianist, a dancer, a rock star, and so on. And when it turns out that several of the victi...

Former Navajo Tribal Police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simpleminded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. H...

Thirteen years ago, con artist Patrick 'Packy' Coogan Noonan stole $100 million from the investors of his fraudulent company, put $80 million of it into diamonds, and hid the diamonds up a blue spruce tree in Stowe, Vermont. Packy's j...

The residents of Pickax are about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding. But in the midst of all the preparations, Qwill has to take time out to deal with Koko's strange new habit of dropping from balconies and landing in...

Maggie O'Neill reluctantly volunteers to care for her bedridden, oh-so-perfect sister, Mel, but strange spirits threaten to divert her attention. Then a friend of Mel's loses her husband to a dreadful fall, and the police call it an a...

Welcome to the first Haunted Guest House mystery-the getaway every reader can afford. Newly divorced Alison Kerby wants a second chance for herself and her nine-year-old daughter. She's returned to her hometown on the Jersey Shore to...

Anna Batory's evening starts with a frenzied animal rights raid and then moves quickly to the site of a suicide jump. IIt's all in a normal night's work for Anna, who leads the Night Crew, a freelance video team out to make a quick bu...

Delighted when the Klingenschoen Foundation, manager of Jim Qwilleran's estate, approves the construction of a new bookstore on the site where the late Eddington Smith's bookstore had burned down, the citizens of Moose County are stun...

While investigating the mysterious disappearance of visiting musician Jared Hayes from her fixer-upper Eastport, Maine, house, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is faced with searching for a cursed violin, supposedly hidden by the form...

M.J. Holliday and her crew interrupt the frantic schedule of their reality TV show, Ghoul Getters, and hotfoot it to New Mexico, where a dreadful demon is waging tribal warfare. Same Whitefeather- M.J.'s spirit guide-urgently needs he...

When school psychologist Skye Denison stumbles over the body of pushy "Promfest" chairperson Annette Paine during a Halloween fundraiser, it looks like a clear-cut case of promicide. Annette was not the only prom mom despera...

The heroine of Faye Kellerman's thriller is rookie Los Angeles cop Cynthia Decker, the daughter of Kellerman's perennial detective hero Peter Decker. Cindy is forced to prove herself not only among her skeptical colleagues but in the ...

Young private detective Regan Reilly, whom Carol Higgins Clark's readers know from previous mysteries, is horrified to discover that her father has been kidnapped. So much for a merry Christmas! By chance, Regan has just made the acqu...

The murder of an ex-drug dealer ex-con—gunned down on his mother's doorstep—seems just another turf war fatality. Why then has Seattle homicide investigator J.P. Beaumont been instructed to keep this assignment hush-hush? Meanwhi...

The last thing Katie Bonner wanted was to become the manager of Artisans Alley. But when her business partner, Ezra Hilton, is found bludgeoned to death, she has no other choice. Business under Ezra has been faltering-but was it enoug...

It is the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, and the nuns of England's St. Frideswide sweetly chant their Paternosters behind gracious, trellised walls. But their quiet lives are shattered by the unwelcome visit of the hard-drinking, blas...

THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE IS BACK! Mary Higgins Clark's new novel—the thirtieth and most spine-chilling of her long career as America's most beloved author of suspense fiction— is about the newest and most up-to-date of crimes: identi...

Enjoy her wedding shower…or receive a cold dunking?In addition to running her flower shop, planning her wedding, and juggling two mothers who both want to host an elaborate bridal shower, Abby Knight is facing another complication. ...

The Hesse suicide strikes a troubling chord in the household of Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, now that they've taken in Gabe Whitman—the gifted and brilliant fifteen-year-old son of a killer—whose own unexplained comings and ...

A humble book shop finds itself in the midst of a murder plot in the first novel of bestselling author Paige Shelton’s glittering new series. Delaney Nichols is on the literary adventure of a lifetime when she leaves the States for...

A supposedly accidental drowning becomes something more deadly when Inspector Alan Grant finds a bizarre object tangled in the corpse's hair and later identifies the body as actress Christine Clay, a woman whom many people may have wa...

Back in Miami after a relaxing honeymoon, Helen Hawthorne and her new hubby Phil are opening their own PI agency—specializing in families with private problems. But even with a new business, Helen can’t seem to get away from thos...

In the latest instant New York Times bestseller in the Fox O’Hare series, FBI agent Kate O’Hare and charming criminal Nick Fox race against time to uncover a buried train filled with Nazi gold—from the #1 New York T...

When Judge Armando Acosta is charged with soliciting a prostitute, attorney Paul Madriani is less than sympathetic. Nevertheless, Madriani is forced to defend his old nemesis. And when the policewoman who snared Acosta is brutally mur...

Opening an old-fashioned five-and-dime shop in her small Missouri hometown has been a great change for Devereaux "Dev"Sinclair. But when she hosts a reading groupthere, she learns that bad writing can mean life or death.  ...

Talba Wallis--poet, private investigator, and scenemaker in New Orleans cafe society--returns in this atmospheric detective story. This time, Talba is after a serial killer who targets young black women. As she hunts the criminal, she...

America's favorite bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has double the fun--and twice the trouble--in this special two-in-one edition, Twelve Sharp& Lean Mean Thirteen Twelve Sharp While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos...

Modern ideas get tangledup with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series.  Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by ...