The fifth and concluding episode in the prize-winning Ellis Portal mystery series.

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art SpiegelmanQuinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his ...

No one dreams of a killer Christmas...It's Christmastime in Charm, North Carolina, and while Everly Swan would prefer to focus on decorating her iced tea shop for its first holiday season, Great-Aunt Fran has decided to run for mayor ...

Maeve Conlon's life is coming apart at the seams. Her bakery is barely making ends meet, and one of her daughters spends as much time grounded as the other does studying. Her ex-husband has a new wife, a new baby, and a look of pity f...

Jane Austen turns sleuth in this delightful murder mystery set over the twelve days of a Regency-Era Christmas party.Christmas Eve, 1814: Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at The Vyne, the gorge...

Katie Bonner loses her lunch--literally--when her social media account serves up a shocking announcement. Her boyfriend Andy's assistant manager, Erikka, is pregnant, and apparently with his child. And when Erikka turns up dead, the S...

About the best that can be said of wealthy Maggie Baird is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart. So when her car catches fire with Maggie in it, there are five likely suspects right on the ...

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth is more dour than ever after losing both his promotion and his girl, the loyal Priscilla Halbourton-Smythe. A trip to a charming seaside inn with his dog Towser is meant to raise his sagging spirits. ...

Admittedly, there's a touch of black humor in the case. Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to remote Arrat House in the dead of winter for a deathbed farewell. They arrive to find him in perfect health and eager to...

"If you like dogs, you'll love Laurien Berenson's Melanie Travis mysteries!" —Joanne Fluke, New York Times bestselling authorWhen her Aunt Peg lands a gig as judge at a Kentucky dog show, Melanie Travis welcomes the opport...

Aimee Leduc is happy her long-time business partner Rene has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It's not her fault if she can't suppress her doubts about the relationship; Rene is moving way too fast, and Aimee's instincts tell her M...

In June of 1940, when Paris fell to the Nazis, Hitler spent a total of three hours in the City of Light—abruptly leaving, never to return. To this day, no one knows why. The New York Times bestselling author of the Aim&eacut...

All appears peaceful in sleepy Port Quincy, Pennsylvania--but in this small town, old grudges die hard. . .After dumping her cheating fiance and cancelling the wedding, Mallory Shepard can't bear another disaster. So when the former...

DID HE WANT HER BADLY ENOUGH… TO KILL FOR HER? As a con man, Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off gullible women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard – and found himself holding a stolen stash of raw heroin. Now Joe's...

Bernie, if you recall, is that likeable young New Yorker who has tempered his passion for stealing classy works of art with the more staid vocation of selling books. But his passion always reigns. In this eighth Bernie Rhodenbarr cape...

Bookselling burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr doesn't generally get philosophical about his criminal career. He's good at it, it's addictively exciting—and it pays a whole lot better than pushing old tomes. He steals therefore he is, p...

Actor Nora Blake finds her dream job when she is cast in a murder-mystery troupe that performs in an imposing but captivating old castle. When she stumbles upon a real murder, things take a nightmarish turn in this first book in an ex...

Molly Murphy Sullivan's husband Daniel, a captain in the New York City police force, is stumped. He's chasing a murderer whose victims have nothing in common―nothing except for the taunting notes that are delivered to Daniel after e...

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O’Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . .I am a bit at loose ends at t...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The world's greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth" (The Seattle Times), Flavia de Luce, returns in a twisty mystery novel from award-winning author Alan Bradley.In the wake of an ...

"Kate Shackleton joins Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs… They make excellent heroines."  --Literary ReviewFrances Brody's "refreshingly complex heroine" (Kirkus Reviews), picks up a case that takes her to th...

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown are back chasing mystery with their unique circle of Southern sleuths. And though the changing colors of fall are a beauty to behold, this year the scattered leaves hide a grim ...

Melancholy Irish PI Jack Taylor, now alcohol- and drug-free, returns for a fourth noir. Jack investigates the suspicious death of his ex-dealer's sister, discovered dead of a broken neck at the bottom of a staircase, lying atop a copy...

Tomato sauce isn't the only thing that runs red...Local chef Tessa Esposito is struggling to get back on her feet following her husband's fatal accident. And when the police knock on Tessa's door, things just get worse. They've discov...

In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, becomes more engaged in sleuthing than wedding preparations when there’s a murder in a dress shop . . . Jill couldn’t love poli...

An intriguing 1930s country house murder mystery: first in the brand-new Florence Norris seriesIn its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, th...

USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again! NEW Hunt for Jack Reacher Novel!   "Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character - I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wid...

From the national bestselling author of The Chocolate Clown Corpse, it's murder, my sweet, for a chocolatier whose love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder in which the motives aren't so black-and-white.The Warner P...

In The Muse and Other Stories of History, Mystery and Myth, Lillian Stewart Carl sweeps you through a magical mystery tour of history. Thirteen stories take you from the British colonies in America and India to medieval England and...

The Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle is needled by the death of a highly strung woman in the new mystery by the author of Wedding Duress.  Downtown Sweet Briar is now home to a new sewing shop run by one of the circle's own. ...