In this ninth book in the Gail McCarthy series about the Santa Cruz vet, Gail is pregnant and taking a leave of absence from her work as a horse vet. Despite her intention to rest and prepare for her baby, she is drawn into the odd si...

Robbie Jordan's rustic country store is growing in popularity. But when a dead body appears, it turns out that Robbie's home-style cooking attracts hungry customers—and murder!  While Robbie scrambles through breakfast orders for h...

Despite the bitter winter in South Lick, Indiana, business is still hot at Robbie Jordan's restaurant. But when another murder rattles the small town, can Robbie defrost the motives of a cold-blooded killer?  Before she started hosti...

"Morse is a thoroughly convincing detective, and a very humane one, too."--The New York Times Book ReviewValerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's ...

'A police procedural . . . featuring a squad of interestingly flawed homicide cops … working multiple cases that feature multiple puzzles and a pool of incisively well-drawn murder suspects. . . . First rate.'-The New York Ti...

In Paul Doiron's riveting follow-up to his Edgar Award–nominated novel, The Poacher's Son, Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten ...

At the Blue Dahlia, the forties-style music club where homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina moonlights as a torch singer, life is becomming considerably less easygoing. An unidentified woman is found dead in the parking lot, with the wor...

When Penny moves to her cottage in the small Welsh town of Llanelen and begins sorting through the belongings of her benefactor, a deceased teacher, she comes upon a packet of love letters from a promising young Liverpool artist named...

Working for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson delights in losing herself in antiques and folk traditions—and forgetting her messy love life. Then the ethnic outdoor museum becomes a murder scene. Does the missing Eagle diamond, a ...

Antique dealer Claire Oh thinks she's scored the deal of a lifetime when she's given a battered old chest by a naive homeowner. Sure she's gotten her hands on a rare Westman Sunflower Chest, Claire makes a killing when she sells it to...

Returning from a continental honeymoon with his lifelong friend and new wife, Lady Jane Grey, Charles Lenox is asked by a colleague in Parliament to consult in the murder of a footman, bludgeoned to death with a brick. His investigati...

They are detection's oddest couple: two cranky detectives whose professional partnership dates back half a century. Now Arthur Bryant and John May return in a case of multiple murder that twists through a subterranean course of the se...

Accident or suicide? That's the somple question pu to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim tur...

Investigating the murder of a corporate executive found dead in his car, Inspector Espinosa tries to piece together clues surrounding the victim's missing secretary, a recent million-dollar life insurance policy, the man's beautiful w...

When Lauretta Trent, a wealthy widow, is successfully murdered after a series of near-misses, all the suspicion falls on Virginia Baxter, the only surviving witness who can vouch for the authenticity of Lauretta’s will. Reprint.

While enjoying a leisurely ocean cruise in the company of secretary Della Street, Perry Mason is approached by a passenger who is worried about the well-being of her husband. Not long afterward, her husband is seen jumping off the shi...

Gorman and Greenberg follow up A Prisoner of Memory (2008) with another impressive anthology, which features a diverse assortment of styles and settings.' -- Publishers Weekly Crime fiction's biggest names have been rounded up for ...

Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege. Abandoned by her rebellious mother when she was an infant, she was the only child of a rich man already in his mid-fifties when she was born, and her adoring father thoroughly spoiled her. No...

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things ―dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne’s premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone’s Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she’s wearing a sparklin...

Cambridge, the winter of 1353. Torrential rains are spreading fever to the poor and making travel especially hazardous along the town's outlaw-infested roads. Then three members of the University die by drinking poisoned wine. College...

“Ruth Galloway is a captivating amateur sleuth—an inspired creation.” —Louise Penny “Fast-paced, strong dialogue, believable and likable characters, and intriguing historical set pieces all combine to make the Ruth Galloway...

When Benny Southstreet, a small-time hustler with a big-time gift for constructing crosswords, accuses Cora of stealing one of his creations, it’s clearly a case of mistaken identity…until Cora’s own attorney files a...

From the national bestselling author of Muffin but Murder, baker Merry Wynter returns with a fresh tray of muffins and a case that has authorities stumped…They say one's home is one's castle, but when it comes to Wynter Castle, Merr...

The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr's past put C. S. Harris's "troubled but compelling antihero"* to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling entre...

Answering a desperate call for "officer needs assistance," Carl Houseman, Deputy Sheriff of Nation County, Iowa, walks into the middle of a war zone in an isolated region of his territory, where he finds himself alone, with ...

The national bestselling author of Wound Up in Murder spins a deadly yarn of knitting bees, butterflies, and beauty queens.   Every October, thousands of monarch butterflies flock to California's Monterey Peninsula to spend the winte...

They Found Him Dead The day after his sixtieth birthday celebration, an event marked by dissension among his family and houseguests, Silas Kane's body is found at the foot of a cliff. The coroner's verdict of misadventure becomes susp...

The Best American Mystery Stories is consistently a great success--we have out 30,000 copies of the 2006 paperback edition after just one month on the shelves. Little wonder, given the power of the BEST AMERICAN brand, the talents of ...

Three old men shuffle off their mortal coil on the same chilly night. There seems at first to be nothing to connect their deaths to each other, much less to the sulferous whiffs of police corruption that are riding on the Yorkshire br...

Inspector Erlunder has spent his career evading the phantoms of his past, and now he finds himself twice haunted—first, at a seance attended by the victim of a suspicious suicide, and again by the puzzle of two young people who went...