Taking a position with the Ystad police force shortly after graduating, Linda Wallander, the daughter of veteran inspector Kurt Wallender, struggles with their contentious relationship before becoming embroiled in the case of a childh...

Julie Collins is stuck in a dead-end secretarial job with the Bear Butte County Sheriff’s office, and still grieving over the unsolved murder of her Lakota half-brother. Lack of public interest in finding his murderer, or the ki...

Now Laura Childs is cracking a whole new case of murder in a brand new series—RECIPES INCLUDED. Introducing the Cackleberry Club Mysteries... Suzanne, Toni, and Petra lose their husbands but find independence when they open the Cack...

Doing a favor for a friend in need has Charlotte cleaning rooms at the New Orleans Jazzy Hotel. The historic Garden District mansion is serving as a home-away-from-home for Shreveport's chapter of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of so...

On Mardi Gras in New Orleans everyone wears makeup and acts wild. IIt's fun, but it made it all too easy for a murderer dressed as Dolly Parton to shoot the king of the parade. Skip Langdon, of the NOPD, must track down a murderer in ...

When the heir to one of North Fork’s most prestigious wineries is found murdered and one of her closest friends becomes the prime suspect in the crime, veterinarian Jessica Popper turns sleuth to find the killer, all the while d...

One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteriesLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked i...

An Old-Fashioned (Sassy!) Murder Mystery Since when do three women, bonded together by the need to clip coupons and be first in line at door buster sales, solve crimes? Since the fourth member of the Bargain Hunters Network was found ...

This brand-new mystery series spins a yarn about knitters and murder in a quaint seaside village. Not long after Isabel "Izzy" Chambers opens up a knitting shop in the sleepy fishing town of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, a dive...

'The dog came back.' 'This is a joke, right?' 'No, it isn't. . . . So do you want to hear the rest of it?' Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinki...

M. J. Holliday has the unusual ability to talk to the dead. But when it comes to a vengeful ghost and a mysterious drowning, this time she may be in over her head….THAT SINKING FEELING Kidwella Castle in northern Wales is rumored to...

To his colleagues, co-workers and friends (did he have any real friends?), Hugo Frenchman was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull, perhaps; a bit fussily fastidious, a bit of a stickler for protocol. But in the right posi...

In the year 2021, with the human race becoming extinct because of universal infertility, Oxford historian Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of a circle of revolutionaries. Reprint. NYT. PW.

At once wry and shocking, humane and raw, ironic and visceral, Denise Mina brings a distinctive new voice to crime fiction in this gritty, award-winning debut novel set in the grim precincts of Glasgow's Garnethill. There the unlucky ...

At The Society for the Preservation of Pennsylvania Antiques, fundraiser Eleanor "Nell" Pratt solicits donations-and sometimes solves crimes. When a collection of George Washington's letters is lost on the same day that an a...

Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir,...

Two boys suddenly disappear, and Lt. Joe Leaphorn sets out to locate them. Three things complicate the search: an archaeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni Indians. A riveting mystery from the bes...

In 1484, then Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull -- A decree giving the endorsement of the church to the inquisitors of the day who hunted, tortured, tried and ultimately murdered those accused of heresy -- especially the practice...

While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could it be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? At every crime scene, the thieves set up odd tableaus: a stick of ...

Hired to house-sit for Brat, the hyperactive cat belonging to New York guidebook author Louis Montag while his owner tries to work, actress/sleuth Alice Nestleton is stunned when, on her first day, she is attacked, her employer is mur...

Young computer expert Aimee Leduc is on her way to meet a young woman in the Belleville district of Paris, a predominantly Arab neighborhood. She finds the streets in chaos because of a car bombing that has occurred moments before--an...

Death threatens the nuptial designs of wedding planner and amateur sleuth Carnegie Kincaid for the marriage of her client, a sexy Goth rocker, to a Seattle baseball star, when Boris the Mad Russian Florist is charged with murder and C...

That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion Temple Barr are looking forward to a Christmas vacation spent in the Big Apple. But there's more than merriment to be found in New York City--there...

Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot ...

Jessica Fletcher is pitching in to help Cabot Cove's first Lobster Festival by writing an article about the lifestyle of the local lobstermen. But instead of getting the story, she becomes tangled in a net of intrigue and murder. And ...

Investigative reporter joins forces with Philadelphia detective Nick McBride to uncover the truth about the kidnapping and murder of Jonathan Bowman, a high-ranking casino employee, whose killing may be linked to the death of Nick's f...

Disguising herself as a man, beautiful Sophie Champion ventures into Renaissance London's most exclusive gambling club to investigate the murder of her godfather and comes face to face with Crispin Foscar, the notorious Earl of Scanda...

New York Times bestselling author JEFFERY DEAVER created the acclaimed blockbusters The Devil's Teardrop and The Coffin Dancer. Here he showcases his superb talent for 'ticking-bomb suspense' (People) in this Edgar Award-nominated ...

When her friend Bryan is accused of stealing a Chagall painting from the Brock Museum, Annie Kincaid, a former art forger, gets help from a hunky art thief to clear Bryan's name, while dealing with the arrival of her mother. Original.

Mystery author Maggie Kelly had enough on her mind wondering how she was going to keep her fictional Regency Era creation from dropping to one knee with a marriage proposal. Then a murderer crosses the foul line--way too close to home...