Spring fever comes to the small town of Crozet, Virginia. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen feels her own mating instincts stir. As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intui...
One woman’s environmental crusade makes her unpopular with the locals in this novel by the bestselling author of THE SUMMER I DARED. Novelist Annie Barnes returns to the hometown she loathes, Middle River, whose goings-on were f...
Martin Stillwater is a novelist with a wife and children he adores -- and an imagination he can't control. One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into Martin's house and accuses him of stealing his family, his name, and his life. Ma...
A Crazy Little Thing Called Death: A ...
Nancy MartinNora Blackbird has made the society pages yet again. The impoverished Philadelphia heiress has agreed to wed Mick Abruzzo, son of New Jersey's most notorious mobster-if he can survive the Blackbird Curse. Anytime a Blackbird sister re...
Hush Money (Spenser Mysteries)
Robert B. ParkerSpenser has his hands full when he takes on two cases at once. In the first, a high-minded university might be hiding a killer within a swamp of political correctness. And in the other, Spenser comes to the aid of a stalking victim, o...
Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint.One runs for her life. One is left behind . . .The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author—a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological...
The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
Lilian Jackson BraunPrize-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran's latest assignment is to cover the art beat for the Daily Fluxion. Sounds easy enough--unless your art beat includes a stabbing in an art gallery, vandalized paintings, and a fatal fall from a sca...
Although P.D. James has made it to the top of American bestseller lists, she's not the only talented female writer of British mysteries who is popular here. Like James, Deborah Crombie is another exceptional stylist who uses every new...
The Diva Runs Out of Thyme: A Domesti...
Krista DavisGracious living can be murder. First in an all-new mystery series— includes delicious recipes and great tips on entertaining!Few can compete with Natasha Smith when it comes to entertaining, but her childhood rival, Sophie Winston, ...
New York City policewoman Kathy Mallory investigates the murder of a prostitute named Sparrow, a woman who had taken her in many years ago only to betray her, as part of a crime that seems to mimic one that happened two decades earlie...
The Ice Maiden: A Britt Montero Myste...
Edna BuchananTen years after a devastating unsolved crime, a young artist finds her life once again disrupted by the same forces that sought to victimize her a decade earlier, a situation that prompts her to team up with reporter Britt Montero to ...
The Chick and the Dead: A Pepper Mart...
Casey DanielsEver since the former rich girl-turned-Cleveland cemetery tour guide banged her head on a headstone, she sees dead people. Worse still, she hears them—and they won't shut up! Now it's Didi Bowman, a poodle-skirted relic from th...
Murder on Marble Row (Gaslight Myster...
Victoria ThompsonNew York City Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt is convinced that anarchists are responsible for the death of a wealthy industrialist. Assigned with proving this suspicion, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy finds himself turning to...
When three bodies are discovered hanging in the woods, causing her lab to become the center of a media frenzy, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon becomes the target of a twisted killer who is determined to draw her into his deadly g...
Hired to uncover the past of Jodi Taylor, an actress in a hit TV show, Elvis leaves his native Los Angeles to head for Louisiana in search of Jodi's biological parents. But before he can tackle the mystery of the actress's backgrou...
p Grace Rossi is starting over after a divorce, and a part-time job with a federal appeals court sounds perfect. But she doesn't count on being assigned to an explosive death penalty appeal. Nor does she expect ardor in the court in t...
Sympathy for the Devil (Madeline Bean...
Jerrilyn FarmerMadeline Bean, caterer to the stars, is in the middle of the biggest job of her new career: a Halloween party for notorious producer Bruno Huntley, complete with an eerie fortuneteller who is astonishingly accurate, and exotic food th...
A Cast-Off Coven: A Witchcraft Myster...
Juliet BlackwellLily Ivory is not your average witch. She runs a vintage clothing store called Aunt Cora's Closet and has the magical ability to sense vibrations of the past from clothing and jewelry. When students are spooked at the San Francisco Sc...
Witch Hunt: An Ophelia and Abby Myste...
Shirley DamsgaardSmall-town librarian Ophelia Jensen is finally starting to embrace her lot as one of the 'chosen'—a psychic and folk magick practitioner, a.k.a. a witch. Expert loving guidance from her magickally adept grandmother Abby helps...
Crewel World (Needlecraft Mystery)
Monica FerrisWhen Betsy's sister is murdered in her own needlecraft store, Betsy takes over the shop and the investigation. But to find the murderer, she'll have to put together a list of motives and suspects to figure out this killer's pattern of...
A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the United Kingdom, The Tenderness of Wolves was long-listed for the Orange Prize in fiction and won the Costa Award (formerly the Whitbread) ...
Murder on Lenox Hill (Gaslight Myster...
Victoria ThompsonHired by the wealthy Linton family to confirm that their teenage daughter, a mentally deficient young girl who is constantly protected, has somehow become pregnant, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt investigates when one of the...
Sprinkle with Murder (Cupcake Mystery...
Jenn McKinlayMelanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. But their first big client is a nightmare. She's a bridezilla who wants 500 custom cupcakes for her wedding. W...
A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gama...
Louise PennyWinner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel! Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.No one like...
Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him. But as the jury begins deliberations,...
Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding)
Bruce AlexanderFalsely charged of theft in 1768 London, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor finds his only hope in Sir John Fielding, the founder of the Bow Street Runners police force, who recruits young Jeremy in his mission to fight crime. Rep...
We'll Always Have Parrots (A Meg Lans...
Donna AndrewsJourneying to a cult TV show's fan convention in the hope that her bit-actor fiance will be able to renegotiate contract terms with the program's manipulative leading lady, Meg finds herself investigating a host of suspects when the s...
Qwilleran and his crime-solving Siamese cats KoKo and Yum Yum are back on the case in Pickax, the biggest little city in Moose County, which is 400 miles north of everywhere but still boasts a remarkably sophisticated social and cultu...
Legendary Miami crime reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Buchanan launches a gripping new series featuring a special homicide unit that breathes new life into old cases. 'Buchanan tells great stories--hot, horrible, homicidal sto...
Celebrated author Laurie R. King dazzles mystery lovers once again in this, her second Kate Martinelli mystery. The story unfolds as a band of homeless people cremate a beloved dog in San Franciscos Golden Gate Park. When it comes to ...