The award-winning crime novelist Ken Bruen is as joyously unapologetic in his writing as he is wickedly poetic. In Green Hell, Bruen's dark angel of a protagonist, Jack Taylor, has hit rock bottom: one of his best friends is dead and ...

When Mitchell is released from prison after serving three years for a vicious attack he doesn't even remember, Billy Norton is there to pick him up. But Norton works for Tommy Logan, a ruthless loan shark lowlife with plans Mitchell w...

Inspector Brant must draw on all of his ruthlessness, street smarts, and skills as an investigator as he and his team with the Southeast London police squad pursue The Vixen, a sensuous, psychopathic, female serial killer who has been...

A delicious new title in a new series from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns! Tessa\'s biscotti have always been killer, but never as deadly as in this addition to the Italian Chef mystery books!\n\nIt\'s time to serve some...

A delicious new holiday mystery from USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns! It's Christmas time in Harvest Park, so grab your cocoa and sleuthing snow boots for a Christmas cozy mystery sure to sleigh! It's the deadliest thyme...

Winner of the University of Johannesburg Debut Prize, ATKV Literature Prize, and twice winner of the M-Net Literature Awards"Brooding. Riveting. Brilliant." — Deon Meyer, author of Blood SafariInspector Albertus Beeslaar i...

To commit the perfect murder, you need the perfect cover. On an icy morning, a mother wakes to find her daughter’s blood-soaked body frozen to the road. Who would carry out such a killing on the victim’s doorstep? Straight off her...

He's your perfect date. You're his next victim.When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. Th...

When Richard Hannay finds the corpse of freelance spy Franklin P. Scudder in his London flat, he goes on the run, fearing that his life is in danger. Scudder had previously revealed that he was investigating a ring of German spies, wh...

Hana Keller serves up European-style cakes and teas in her family-owned tea house, but when a customer keels over from a poisoned cuppa, Hana and her tea-leaf reading grandmother will have to help catch a killer in the first Hungarian...

"Budewitz's finely drawn characters, sharp ear for dialogue, and well-paced puzzle make Jewel Bay a destination for every cozy fan."―Kirkus Reviews"Clean-as-a-whistle dialogue, endearing characters, and a solid plot m...

In Seattle's Pike Place Market, Spice Shop owner Pepper Reece is savoring her business success, but soon finds her plans disrupted by a killer in the latest from the national bestselling author of Guilty as Cinnamon.  Pepper Reece's ...

A Dickens of a Christmas turns deadly... As the holiday season lights up Seattle’s famed Pike Place Market, Pepper Reece’s beloved Spice Shop is brimming with cinnamon, nutmeg, and shoppers eager to stuff their stockin...

Murder Strikes a Sour NoteErin Murphy, manager of Glacier Mercantile (aka the Merc), is tuning up for Jewel Bay's annual Jazz Festival. Between keeping the Merc's shelves stocked with Montana's tastiest local fare and hosting the fest...

National bestselling author Lucy Burdette\'s intrepid food critic Hayley Snow must sniff out a killer in the ninth Key West Food Critic mystery.\r\n\r\nKey West food critic Hayley Snow scents-es something fishy when a customer falls s...

The only snow in Key West this Christmas is Hayley Snow, food critic for Key Zest magazine, who is not getting time off for the holiday…or time off from murder. It may be Christmastime, but thoughts of peace on earth, good will towa...

From the national bestselling author of Death with All the Trimmings. It's Fantasy Fest at Key West, and food critic Hayley Snow is ready to celebrate. But a killer seems intent on crashing the party. . .  Every year, Key West's wee...

Set in the 1970s at a small college in Pennsylvania, April Cruel proves T. S. Eliot right: "April is the cruelest month." When the rigid and rather unpleasant Professor, Erica Berne, discovers that her fiance has been murder...

Author, amateur sleuth, and bookstore owner Samantha Washington finds herself on a tragical mystery tour while visiting the land of Miss Marple and Sherlock Holmes in the sixth Mystery Bookshop Series installment from V.M. Burns. S...

Lilly Echosby just witnessed a murder on a pet cam. Or did she? When a last-minute opportunity arises to accompany her boss to an art auction in Atlanta, Lilly throws some money at the problem of where to board her toy poodle Aggie (s...

When a literary critic is found bludgeoned to death with a copy of The Complete Works of Agatha Christie, Michigan bookstore owner, author, and amateur sleuth Samantha Washington discovers thereissuch a thing as bad publicity in Agath...

In the seventh Mystery Bookshop novel from Agatha Award-finalist V.M. Burns,bookstore owner, mystery writer, and amateur sleuth Samantha Washington and her Nana Jo confront their own relationship with law enforcement when a local cop ...

The small town of North Harbor on the shores of Lake Michigan is about to have a new mystery bookshop. But before the first customer can browse, the owner becomes a real-life murder suspect... Samantha Washington has long dreamed o...

The past is never past. Sometimes it repeats itself. And sometimes it comes back to pay a visit. Blu Carraway, flush with cash and back in business, never had it so good. Or so he thought. The reality is his love life is in shambles, ...

On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wil...

"Nancy Bush always delivers edge-of-your seat suspense!" --Lisa Jackson, New York Times bestselling authorFrom New York Times bestselling author Nancy Bush comes a tense, intricately plotted novel of suspense, as one woman ...

From the bestselling author of After the Crash, "a novel so extraordinary it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the first time."-Sunday TimesHolidaying in an idyllic resort on the island of Reunion, wealthy Parisians M...

Someone is kidnapping and killing women in Campbell County, Virginia. When sheriff's investigator Cynthia Westbrook gets the call that there may be another victim, she and her partner, Jeff White, begin tracking suspects. But the sea...

When does a little black dress become a lethal black dress? When it becomes unexpectedly weaponized at the most security-conscious event in Washington, D.C.—the fabled White House Correspondents' Dinner. Fashion reporter Lacey Smith...

Behind the Masque of Murder Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian has never seen such a gown. The dress is crimson, flowing, fabulous, and infamous. The actress who first wore it on stage died on closing night--playing Death in The Masq...