Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and, as of this week, star of a brand-new cable cooking show. But she's about to add another credit to her rŽsumŽ: suspect.

China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from her father's death, and not even remotely interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into that event. China's husband, on the other hand, ...

St. Thomas, the small college north of New York City where Professor Alison Bergeron teaches, has had its share of scandals involving both its students and its staff, not to mention Alison herself, so when a resident director goes mis...

The New York Times bestselling author of Not the Killing Type is back in Booktown with another page-turning mystery. Bookstore owner Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, must put their problems on the shelf to catch a killer who tur...

In this addition to Beaton's series featuring unassuming Scottish policeman Hamish Macbeth, Hamish finds himself precipitated by a vicious toothache into the world of Dr. Frederick Gilchrist. Gilchrist is a local dentist best known ...

Jolene Asdale is just one step away—one sale, in fact—from becoming a successful New York businesswoman. But her dream stalls when a dead body tumbles out of the shiny Ferrari in her exotic car showroom. The victim is Tim Lapham, ...

Back in Galway and back to his old drinking habits, former member of the Irish Guards Jack Taylor agrees to assist a gypsy in an investigation into the deaths of a number of members of the gypsy clan, deaths that the Guards, the Irish...

In a fourth Britt Montero mystery set against a backdrop of one of Miami's most terrifying hurricanes, Britt finds clues to the Cuban killer who had betrayed her father. Reprint. NYT. "

Every year, at Halloween, high on the Cornish cliffs, a life-sized effigy of a man is strapped to a blazing wheel and run into the sea - a re-enactment of a hideous old legend where the figure had been a living sacrifice. And now Jon...

Charleston is bustling with shoppers looking for antiques-and, of course, Theodosia Browning's delicious teas. But when the cobblestone alleys clear, Theodosia finds the map store owner strangled to death. Many wanted her shop-but eno...

Investment banker Marty Kalish's adulterous romance with Rachel Reinhardt becomes potentially life-threatening when Marty takes the rap for shooting Rachel's husband. This is a classically-plotted thriller, leading from the crime to t...

Badger's Drift is an ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud eno...

While dealing with the mob and the disappearance of a friend, Maggie, along with the sexy Viscount Saint Just, who is one of her characters come to life, must prove the innocence of her agent Bernie, who has been accused of murder. Re...

Magdalena Yoder once again ends up in the middle of a baffling mystery when Clarence Webber, an imprisoned con man, dies after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, and, with the reputation of PennDutch Inn at stake, sets out t...

In this 6th delightful culinary mystery from Joanne Pence, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi plans a romantic cruise with her hunky boyfriend, but hits rough water when murder becomes part of the itinerary. Food writer and culinary entrep...

A picturesque village just north of the U.S. border. A place where neighbors greet each other, where visitors feel right at home, and where the truth hides behind closed doors…?Enter the world of Three Pines--and discover why Louise...

Stefanie Pintoff's acclaimed and award-winning debut is the taut historical tale of Detective Simon Ziele, a man who lost his fiancee in the 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster and thereafter flees New York City for Dobson, New ...

A cozy new mystery series that's about to make its dazzling debut performance. Meet the dance instructor who puts criminals behind bars. Meet Jenny T. Partridge, founder of Ogden, Utah's premier school for budding prima-and not-so-p...

All it took was one scone. Tainted icing triggers a rare allergy, and a hobbyist croaks at a scraooking crop sponsored by Time in a Bottle, the store where Kiki Lowenstein works. When it comes out that someone swiped the victim's eme...

While covering the kiln-opening of a rising star in Southern pottery-making, Molly Appeby, a writer for Collector's Weekly, investigates the death of an obnoxious collector whose murder was made to look like an accident. Original.

Lou Ford is a dull-witted, good-natured good ol’ boy, the sheriff’s deputy and son of the town doctor. He’s also a cold-blooded killer. Told from Lou’s point of view, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a classic, chilling...

The debut mystery in the internationally bestselling Commissaire Adamsberg series—now available for the first time in the United States Fred Vargas 's Commissaire Adamsberg mysteries are a sensation in France, consistently praised f...

Veterinarian (and ex-con) Dr. David Westbrook, a star of several award-winning stories, finally gets his own mystery novel. Westbrook's attempt to live quietly in a small Michigan town proves futile when he discovers the skeleton of R...

Walter Huff is a crack insurance salesman. Going door-to-door, he encounters Phyllis Nirdlinger, a married woman who entices him first into an affair, and then into a scheme to sign her husband up for life insurance and then murder hi...

Unlike the movie, the Cain novel features no murder. Spanning the Depression era, it is the story of a suburban California wife and mother. At the beginning of the book, Mildred turns out her husband Bert, who is jobless and philander...

An elite team of FBI profilers is called in to help Chicago detectives investigate a series of bizarre murders. Though all are violent and disturbing, the crimes seem unrelated-until profiler David Rossi makes the connection. He recog...

"Coyle's Coffeehouse books are superb" (Library Journal), and now the New York Times bestselling author of MURDER BY MOCHA serves up a hot new Coffeehouse Mystery with A BREW TO A KILL.  The Village Blend's Muffin Muse co...

Award-winning author Kjell Ola Dahl has attained cult status in his home country of Norway with his sharp, riveting bestsellers. Over the last decade he has found audiences in ten other countries and finally, with his gripping and int...

When a corpse washes up outside a Las Vegas hotel, feline detective Midnight Louie must track down the killer. Louie's owner, Temple Barr, is hot on the trail, since both men she's dating have intimate ties with the deceased. The situ...

Our furry feline friend has dipped his paws into the muddy waters of murder once again--only this time, nothing is as it seems.Temple Barr, a redheaded public relations expert and Louie's human partner, won't be trick-or-treating this...