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 ...

"Intense….A higher caliber of entertainment."—New York TimesElmore Leonard's Glitz is a killer…in the best possible way. "The King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times) electrifies with this unputdownable n...

Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing/b"It's Bukowski's Pulp gone West Country."—Uncut"Takes the classic elements of noir . . . and pushes the genre to its limits."—Welsh Lite...

After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while attending SMU, he is recruited into the republican party, elected county chairman, ...

The third novel starring Montana's favorite fly fisherman-cum-detective Sean Stranahan, for fans of Craig Johnson and C. J. Box.Wolves howl as a riderless horse returns at sunset to the Culpepper Dude Ranch in the Madison Valley. The ...

This is the first in a new series - with recipes. There's no pussy-footing around murder...It's never too late to kick up your heels. Just ask Tina, Janice, Pat, Mary Louise, and Gini - aka the Happy Hoofers. After posting a video of ...

In 1917, Jessie Carr, fourteen years old and sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Now, years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her: a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse is a dead...

Animal behaviorist Grace Wilde keeps her ability to psychically communicate with furry and feathered critters under wraps. But when a Doberman turns out to be the only witness to a crime, Grace will have to let the cat out of the bag ...

Hawaii is palm trees, black sand and blue water-but for policewoman Lei Texeira, there's a dark side to paradise. Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island town of Hilo. On a routine ...

Jim and Otis Rice came to the conclusion that some help in the office was needed. Paperwork on both ends of their law and investigation office was piling up. Little did they know, they were about to embark on one of the most challengi...

This captivating novel about residents and servants on one block of a posh London street is a "sex comedy and a social satire, of the 'Upstairs Downstairs' variety, with a few murders mixed in for our added delight" (The Was...

Revenge is served very cold in this deli-cious whodunitWhen Gwen Katz inherits her late uncle's kosher deli, Murray's Pastrami Swami, little does she know that murder is always on the menu. Now Nashville Katz, as she's quickly nicknam...

When a child goes missing, it's up to Sarah Bain and her ragtag team of investigators to capture the culprit.A photographer in 1889 London, Miss Sarah Bain runs a private detective agency with her friends, Lord Hugh Staunton and forme...

Greenwich Village private investigator Lauren Laurano feels like a fish out of water in the Long Island countryside, but she is taking some RR from big-city crime to please her lover. But when Lauren is hired to investigate a suspicio...

In a small Florida beach town, Sherri Travis is a bartender with attitude and a woman with an inconveniently murdered husband who turns out to be as much trouble to her dead as he was alive. Sifting through the debris of Jimmy's life,...

Set in the Eastern colossal cities of Atlantic City and Philadelphia, A Shot of Brandi is a crime novel for the ages. Complete with mobsters, murders, lovers, and the Colombo-like crime skills of the Organized Crime Task force, this s...

"In Tucker's impressive first novel and series launch, NYPD detective Buddy Lock…keeps the excitement level high throughout. The surprise ending will leave readers impatiently awaiting Buddy's next outing." —Publishers W...

From the author of the critically acclaimed Commissaire Adamsberg novels comes the second in a new series, shortlisted for the CWA International DaggerKeeping watch under the windows of the Paris flat belonging to a politician's neph...

Charlotte's baby is safe. But is she?When the body of mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband Adam, in their bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: The word 'W...

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"G. M. Malliet has crafted the English village of our dreams." ―Charlaine HarrisAgatha Award-winning author G. M. Malliet has charmed mystery lovers and cozy fans with her critically acclaimed mysteries. In Prior's Wood, f...

Lane Winslow trades crime solving for substitute teaching in the eighth installment of this mystery series thatKirkus Reviewscalls “riveting”. Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assist...

Gifted fifteen-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, ...

Cattle Kate is the only woman ever lynched as a cattle rustler. History called it "range land justice" when she was strung up in Wyoming Territory on July 20, 1889, tarring her as a dirty thief and a ¬filthy whore. But his...