IIt's another case of meals, mayhem and murder in Pennsylvania's Dutch country! Magdalena Yoder's finally getting married, but this special affair is quickly spoiling. The cook preparing the wedding feast has found a corpse in a barre...

"What happened here last night isn't allowed," said Madame Dubois.It was such an extraordinary thing to say it stopped the ravenous Inspector Beauvoir from taking another bite of his roast beef on baguette."You have a r...

A young woman ritualistically murdered in her Saint Louis apartment. The primary clue -- a pentacle scrawled in her own blood. Enter practicing Witch, Rowan Gant. The information he uncovers testifies that this is only a prelude to ...

Everybody in Magnet Springs is in on the not-so-secret curse of the Miss Blossom pageant. Everybody, that is, except Whiskey Mattimoe–full-time real estate agent, parttime sleuth, and long-suffering owner of Abra, her willful a...

One family. One horrific murder. An entire town under suspicion…The Planks moved from Lancaster County Pennsylvania to the small Amish community of Painters Mill, hoping to resume the comforts of the Plain Life in Ohio. Less than on...

Leaving the Hillside manor in capable hands, bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle heads north to Vancouver's Hotel Clovia with her irrepressibly voracious cousin Renie for a pre-Thanksgiving getaway. But when an addled and impo...

Convinced that one of his closest friends, a renowned racer, is behind a series of violent acts, Sid Halley faces the most troubling case of his career and becomes the target of backlashing fans and media representatives. Reprin...

Splitting a main character into two parts that compliment and confound each other has worked well for mystery writers from Conan Doyle to Rex Stout (and for non-mystery writers such as Patrick O'Brian in his Aubrey/Maturin sea stories...

“Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal   “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” —Pa...

Three years after her adopted sister, Dara, vanishes, leaving behind a note announcing her intent to run away, a body turns up that Christine Ireland believes could be that of her sister, a discovery that plunges Christine into a nigh...

At this year's school carnival fund-raiser, the obnoxious president of the Parent Teacher Organization is found stabbed through the heart with Phyllis Newsom's own knife, with traces of incriminating frosting. Clearing her name will b...

Once again, journalist Molly Forrester takes Manhattan—and this time, she’ll do whatever it takes to get a KILLER by-line…if it doesn’t kill her first. “You need a body. A really cool dead body…&#...

Raine Stockton, a dog trainer who gave up her career as a Search and Rescue worker after a tragic loss, reluctantly returns to active duty when a mother and daughter are kidnapped and taken deep into the forest where nothing is what i...

Beloved author M. C. Beaton has delighted readers and fans alike with her Agatha Raisin mysteries. The Quiche of Death and The Vicious Vet, the first two books in the series, are now together for the first time in one volume. . . .The...

They meet every week in the dingy back room of a bar in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger turns to hate. The rejection turns to rage. And ...

Facts lie . . . Two decades after the murder that shattered her world, FBI agent and forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick confronts her father's killer face to face. But the inmate who's scheduled to be executed for the crime is not wha...

The next Scraooking mystery takes readers back to New Orleans, where there are spookies, foodies-and crafty killers. Carmela, owner of Memory Mine scraook shop, and her best friend, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project. Melody Ma...

Second in the series that readers can sink their teeth into. Orchard owner Meg Corey must clear her name of murder after the discovery of a pesticide-poisoned body in her springhouse. Includes recipes.

Cemeteries come alive for amateur sleuth/reluctant medium Pepper Martin. Cleveland's Garden View Cemetery is hosting a James A. Garfield commemoration. For tour guide and reluctant medium Pepper Martin this means that's he'll surely ...

 BTrouble in spades…/DIV Determined not to be a garden-variety diva, Sophie Winston's neighbor, Natasha, cultivates a plan to shine on television—using Sophie's backyard. As the cast and crew of the makeover show Tear It Up With...

A sleepy hamlet in upstate New York awakens to a nightmare when three young girls disappear in succession, inspiring a wave of suspicion among former friends as old rumors, old angers, and old desires rear their ugly heads. Reprint.

A reporter stumbles into an ancient treasure hunt in this debut thriller, a historical puzzler in the vein of THE DA VINCI CODE and THE RULE OF FOUR. In 1154, a thief stole a collection of alchemical tools from the library of the geog...

When two teenagers steal a purse from a stroller, it results in an infant’s death. Unaware of the enormity of their crime, Zipp and Andreas are intent on committing another. They follow an elderly woman home, and Andreas enters ...

At Christmastime, the sisters of St. Frideswide cannot turn away a motley drama troupe, nor the grievously wounded husband of the cloister's scullery maid. When two dead bodies turn up, Sister Frevisse must find out if one of the acto...

The follow-up to Death by Cashmere: next in the new mystery series set in a tight-knit seaside community. When young fiber artist Willow Adams visits Izzy Chambers's knitting studio, she's immediately embraced by the Seaside knitter...

Detective Richard Jury is back in the 16th novel in Martha Grimes' extraordinary New York Times bestselling series-now enmeshed in a series of strange crimes and disappearances, and an age-old tragedy that consumes his sidekick Mel...

"Laura Lippman is among the select group of novelists who have invigorated the crime fiction arena with smart, innovative, and exciting work."—George Pelecanos"Lippman's taut, mesmerizing, and exceptionally smart dram...

Candle shop owner Harrison Black finds his idyllic morning of kayaking on the lake shattered by the discovery of his ex-girlfriend's dead body who, according to police, committed suicide, but when he decides to delve deeper into her d...

In this psychological thriller by the acclaimed master of the subgenre, Ruth Rendell, two mentally unbalanced people--one of them psychotic--coexist uneasily in a decaying London mansion. Michael "Mix' Cellini, a working-class ma...

Bailey's Farmer's Market is all abuzz with the impending visit of the Central South Carolina Restaurant Association. Becca is quite excited, especially since her parents are visiting. But when the president of the Association vetoe...