A suspenseful tale of love and politics, this novel takes place in St. Louis, where a young Indian woman has been chosen police chief. As the city becomes engulfed in a political conspiracy, she decides that the man at the center of i...

Moving to London in 1903 in his endeavor to become a railway man, ambitious young Jim Stringer takes a graveyard shift moving coffins to cemeteries outside of the city and struggles with his predecessor's untimely disappearance and hi...

Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about ac...

When the latest victim of the "Beltway Basher" is found in the woods of Montrose Park, Reven Lynch's favorite jogging spot, her crime-loving antenna goes up. The murder makes Reven and her best friend, Violet Bolton, recons...

Street-smart and straightforward police chief Cuddy Mangum and his refined homicide detective Justin Savile V are determined to keep their town's cultural, political and racial divisions stable…even peaceful. But when a young bla...

"Not many of us would admit, even to ourselves, that we had actually wished for something awful to befall anybody we knew. On the other hand, if we've ever felt exploited by an acquaintance, or undervalued in a job that we felt t...

From the author of the delightful Reigning Cats & Dogs mysteries comes a sparkling new series featuring a recently widowed travel writer who inadvertently becomes an amateur sleuth while on the job. Original.

From New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton: Imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murder Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience-convenien...

The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol—not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of Evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a mercenary, a footloose adventurer, or simply a screwball sucker for h...

Fashion turns killer in the latest novel from the national bestselling author of the Threadville mysteries… Threadville, Pennsylvania, is famous for its fabric, needlecraft, and embroidery, so it's only natural that it would become...

It's springtime in Savannah, Georgia, in the newest Consignment Shop Mystery from the national bestselling author of Pearls and Poison. The azaleas and magnolias are in bloom-and Walker Boone is on the run. . . When Reagan Summersi...

It's August in Savannah, Georgia—hardly the season for a traditional Southern wedding with hoopskirts and crinolines. One could die from the heat—or from a cake knife in the back...Reagan Summerside should be devoting all her ener...

Mystery bookstore owner Samantha Washington is about to find out it's not so easy to play Monday morning quarterback when it comes to murder. . .   To the town of North Harbor, Michigan, MISU quarterback Dawson Alexander is a local h...

Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi - the sketchy frozen pizza dough baron - walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria. But the contract for his pizza-making contest seems on the up-and-up...and sprucing up her ...

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

An American chef will have to serve up more than good eats if she wants to establish a successful farm-to-table cooking school in Tuscany, in this charming first installment in a new cozy mystery series set in Italy.   When Nell Val...

Humphrey Bogart teams up with down-and-out Hollywood private detective Terry Scott to uncover a blackmailer out to frame Bogie for murder, an investigation that leads them from the glamorous haunts of the stars to L.A.'s dark underbel...

Already a huge star in Europe and the Nordic countries, Kjell Eriksson has American critics also raving, with almost every review studded with words like 'stunning,' 'chilling,' 'suspenseful,' 'haunting,' and 'brilliant.' In The Demon...

The dearest friend of Lupe Solana's beloved 'Papi,' Ramón Suarez was the owner of a prosperous sugar mill back in Cuba until Castro forced him into exile. Now an unnamed Spanish source wants to purchase the confiscated property at a ...

Following the premature death of his wife, Earl Garnett, a professional writer, decides to drive across America. Along the way, he discovers the country, as he never imagined it. Soon, cryptic writings appear on his laptop, often coin...

At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., turned for surcease to reading western and whodunit novels. In his autobiography, The Blue Hen's Chick (also a Bison Book), he touches on that moment when he realized...

On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires' rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now, he is an exile. Arriv...

The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean noir, and made its author an overnight c...

Odelia Grey's relaxing day of errands is ruined when she finds a body folded like an origami crane in the trunk of her car. And it's not just any dead body—it's the corpse of Zak Finch, a young man who had been kidnapped eight years...

Miss James sets a generous table here: plot enough to satisfy the most Victorian taste, and enough violence and psychopathology to please an Elizabethan, or even a television viewer. There is strangulation, suicide, death by automobil...

A thrilling story of murder and betrayal filled with the scandal, wit, and intrigue characteristic of Austen's classic novelsFitzwilliam Darcy is devastated. The joy of his wedding has been cut short by the news of the sudden death of...

Los Angeles animal shelter manager Lauren Vancouver has a soft spot for animals in need-and a keen eye for crime. . .  Thanks to a savvy ad campaign featuring teacup pups sporting HotPets Bling-a new line of faux jewelry dog coll...

A funeral, a ghost, a murder . . . It's all in a day's work for emma lee raines . . .Bopped on the head from a falling plastic Santa, local undertaker Emma Lee Raines is told she's suffering from "funeral trauma."   It's tr...

As summer comes to an end in her Jersey Shore town, Lucy Berberian continues to manage her family's Mediterranean restaurant. The Kebab Kitchen also has a food tent at this year's beach festival. But now a local businessman is under t...

Victor Carl is back, and back in trouble. At a low point in his lowly career, Victor finds himself skulking through the streets of Philadelphia carrying a bag full of money for an ambitious politician. It is a rotten job on the wrong ...