The crime-solving southern duo of Patricia Ann and Mary Alice returns from vacation to find their cousin, Pukey Lukey, abandoned by his wife, VIrginia, and begging them to track down the missing woman, and while searching for Virginia...

Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this worl...

Business has been frustratingly slow for Abby. She reluctantly agrees to a job with the FBI, putting her at the center of an internal political struggle between two agents. AbbyÂ's skills and patience are tested, but when she helps t...

Fiesty Southern belle and private detective Sarah Booth Delaney heads back into action when her friend, Eulalee McBride, is accused of murdering her cheating husband, but Sarah's investigation soon uncovers the fact that not everythin...

Set in 1930, this is the third in a critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Maisie Dobbs, a former maid who became a WWI nurse and then a psychologist/private investigator. Respected barrister Sir Cecil Lawton felt no particular...

When Stone Barrington's erstwhile lover, Arrington Calder, phones him to say that her husband has been murdered and she's been accused of the crime, Stone immediately goes to Los Angeles to find the real killer and exonerate Arrington...

For twenty-five years the unsolved kidnapping of two young girls has haunted Minneapolis homicide detective Lucas Davenport. Today, the bodies have been found. Today, he returns to a crime—and a nightmare—darker than any before.

An unexpected inheritance throws reporter Jim Qwilleran into the limelight of the rich and famous--until a missing maid and a shocking murder show him the unsavory side of the upper crust. But it's his Siamese Koko's propensity for cl...

Five years ago David Barney was acquitted of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now, Isabelle's ex-husband, Ken Voigt—who is suing Barney for her estate—is claiming the jury made a fatal mistake...Enter P.I. Kinsey Millhone, w...

During his first night in Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot overhears a series of ominous words, and when a holiday tour ends abruptly in the murder of a much hated tourist , the words come back to haunt him, but he soon discovers that many o...

While harvesting yucca plants to make paper, China Bayles finds a body-cause of death: unknown. It seems that the simple lives of many residents of Pecan Springs hide complex and dangerous pasts. And now, while also unraveling secrets...

After moving into an old mansion whose previous owner committed suicide, prize-winning reporter Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats are disturbed by strange occurrences and start to investigate when Qwilleran's old girlfriend disappears

In Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt learns that the mother's mixed-race niece is missing, and she enlists Sergeant Malloy's help. But after they find the girl dead in an alley, there are ample suspects—from both sid...

A hurricane hinders a kidnapping and Spenser goes on a search for the man responsible— the infamous Gray Man, who has both helped and hunted Spenser in the past. Heidi Bradshaw is wealthy, beautiful, and well connected —and she ne...

Why did the late multimillionaire Noel Hawthorne leave a peach, a pear and an apple to his sisters, April, May and June? And why is the bulk of his estate to go to a woman most definitely not his wife? The able, astute and unscrupu...

Horrified to hear about the blue flu affecting San Francisco's police department, until he discovers that it is part of contract talks with the city, Monk is delighted when the situation gives him the opportunity to get back on the fo...

[W]ill have particular appeal for fans....Peters's knowledge of ancient Egypt and the excavations and desecrations that accompanied early archaeological attempts in the region allow her to dress her melodrama with authentic trappings ...

With Nero Wolfe on the job, you'd think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can't stop a killing, especially if it's an inside job -- right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell.What's more, it...

A beautiful, but dead, blonde is discovered in the library of Gossington Hall. And only Miss Marple can read the clues to find the killer.

Murder has jarred London's elite. The sons of prominent families have been found at dawn in public places, partially butchered, with strange objects stuffed in their mouths. Once again, the local magistrate turns to Sebastian St. Cyr,...

When Spenser is asked to take a case for his lover's ex-husband, he reluctantly obliges. Brad Sterling has always been a troublemaker, and now he's facing sexual harassment charges while in the midst of planning a huge fundraiser. As ...

A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011 "Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bl...

When a boorish millionaire and a Mets fan with a phony name show up at his door with a tempting case, Nero Wolf finds himself investigating corporate treachery, domestic intrigue, and worse. Reissue. NYT.

Veteran reporter Jim Qwilleran tackles the supernatural in the latest entry in Lilian Jackson Braun's Edgar Award-nominated series. Are ghosts really haunting the Goodwinter farmhouse museum? Qwill doesn't think so--not until he finds...

It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapabl...

In 1995, Nate Romanowski was in a Special Forces unit abroad when his commander, John Nemecek, did something terrible. Now the high-ranking government official and cold-blooded sociopath is determined to eliminate anyone who knows abo...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAlan Bradley, author of the most award-winning series debut of any year, returns with another irresistible Flavia de Luce novel In the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey, the insidiously clever and unflappable eleven-y...

An important and powerful policeman has been murdered, bludgeoned to death in his own kitchen. Few in suburban Surrey mourn the violent passing of Division Commander Alastair Gilbert, whose arrogance and cruelty were legendary in his...

Wendell Jaffe looks great for a dead man! He's been six feet under for five years ago—until his former insurance agent spots him at a dusty resort bar in Mexico. Now California Fidelity wants its insurance money back. Can P.I. Kinse...

As Randall Stargill's four sons prepare to bury their late father, Randall's former sweetheart, Nora Bonesteel, brings a small box to be buried with him, a box containing a child's bones, in a mystery complicated by the efforts of a r...