During her weekly group therapy session in Shakespeare, Arkansas, Lily Bard--cleaning woman, karate expert, and amateur sleuth--and her companions stumble upon the body of a woman, and Lily finds herself embroiled in another disturbin...

Private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find an abducted 6-year-old girl. Their initial efforts are stalled by a corrupt police force, the media's exploitation of every possible sensationalist angle, and a sl...

When an investigative reporter dies during a nighttime dive at the old Naval shipyard in Norfolk, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta discovers that in addition to carrying guns and ammunition, he was the victim of foul play. The dea...

First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unkonwn to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests ha...

This is the fourth frothy mystery concerning the Blackbirds, three Philadelphia blueblood sisters whose parents skipped the country to avoid being charged with tax evasion, leaving their daughters stony broke and in danger of losing t...

Love the vintage— not the ghosts Lily Ivory feels that she can finally fit in somewhere and conceal her "witchiness" in San Francisco. It's there that she opens her vintage clothing shop, outfitting customers both spiritua...

While patrolling the Nature's Refuge preserve in a Georgia swamp - an eerie place rife with superstition and death, werewolf Adam Marshall meets beautiful botanist Sara Weston, and as desire flares between them, a coven of powerful wi...

When a prominent animal researcher is murdered, the Cat Lady, an aggressive animal rights activist and friend to China Bayles, is held for questioning, and it is up to China to find out who the true killer really is. Reprint. PW...

LA private investigator Elvis Cole searches for the key to his own past in this 10th installment in the series starring the so-called World's Greatest Detective. A man with no ID, dying of a gunshot wound in an alley, tells the cop wh...

Bakery owner Hannah Swensen has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister, Andrea, at Lake Eden's new health club, Heavenly Bodies. Dragging herself out of bed on a frigid Minnesota morning for exercise, of all things, is bad eno...

Museum director Eugenia Swift travels to Frog Cove Island in the Pacific Northwest to catalog a collection bequeathed to her by Adam Daventry. Private detective Cyrus Chandler Colfax tags along, hired by an insurance company to certif...

When it comes to creating character, evoking place, crackling writing and convincing dialogue, and dealing with issues of substance within the crime genre, Sara Paretsky has no peer--and HARD TIME proves it once again. Forget the conv...

When a scuffle breaks out at the First Annual Route 66 Yard Sale involving her mother, school psychologist Skye Denision, while dealing with a raucous battle of the sexes and bakesale blunders, finds herself accused of murder when her...

At this year's antique car race, one of the drivers never makes it to the finish line. His car is found in flames, and Betsy and her friends must pin down a suspect.

A romantic getaway was what Meg Langslow had in mind when she and her boyfriend planned a trip to the tiny island of Monhegan off the coast of Maine. They would spend their days hiking the trails and their evenings by the fire. But in...

Barr has a true gift for outdoor writing, using the lush snow as natural cover for the violent life in the wild as well as among the park's human custodians. Anyone contemplating a nice winter hike will think twice after entering the ...

Left alone in chilly Lochdubh, Scotland, while his family spends Christmas in Florida, Constable Hamish Macbeth copes with a missing cat and the disappearance of a town's holiday tree and decorations, while searching for a way to make...

Sleuthing Siamese cat Koko helps newspaper columnist Jim Qwilleran solve the murder of an amateur actor in this addition to a long-running mystery series. The Pickax theater club's production of THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST seems t...

Elvis Cole is Back--In a Desperate Fight to Clear his Name... IIt's fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied evacuation effort, they discover the ...

To the dismay of her high society motherCissy, Dallas heiress Andy Kendricks wantsno part of the Junior League life -- opting instead for a job as a website designer and a passel of unpedigreed pals. Now her good friend Molly O'Brien ...

The mysterious disappearance of two local teenagers and their baby-sitter draws Inspector Wexford into a baffling case involving dark family secrets, violence, a religious cult, adultery, and murder. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Bookstore owner Tricia Miles has put up—and put up with—her uninvited college roommate for weeks. In return, Pammy has stolen $100. But the day sheÂ's kicked out, PammyÂ's found dead in a Dumpster, leaving loads of questions...

The bestselling creator of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency once again eschews Botswana in favor of Scotland for this second entry in the Sunday Philosophy Club series, marking the return of Isabel Dalhousie, an independently ...

Below the frigid waters of Lake Superior lies a sunken 1927 wreck-the final resting place of its five victims. But when divers surface with a tale of seeing a sixth body, Anna Pigeon must break the Great Lake's grip on its icy secrets...

Hannah Swensen has to admit life is pretty sweet. Things are going well in the romance department and her bakery's delectable confections are selling as fast as she can bake them. Even her good friend Claire is head over heels with he...

Appie Knoll is the kind of suburb where kids grow up right. But something is wrong. Fourteen-year-old Kevin Bartlett disappears. Everyone thinks he's run away -- until the comic strip ransom note arrives. It doesn't take Spenser long...

The brilliant new novel in the New York Times bestselling series by Louise Penny, one of the most acclaimed crime writers of our time  No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep ...

Kate Atkinson began her career with a winner: Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which captured the Whitbread First Novel Award. She followed that success with four other books, the last of which was Case Histories, her first foray int...

Ninth in the Agatha Award-winning series that's been hailed as engrossing, Steps to the Altar finds California folk art expert Benni Harper preparing for two upcoming weddings, digging up clues to a decades-old unsolved murder-and str...

From her time on the Atlanta police force, Callahan Garrity, house cleaner and private investigator extraordinaire, has excelled at mopping up messes -- of all kinds. But she has no idea what she's getting into when she agrees to work...