IIt's a tribute to Parker's professionalism that he takes a device as old as Sherlock Holmes--the death and rebirth of a detective--and infuses it with renewed urgency and moral weight, showing the thoroughbred form that put him and B...

When Texas heiress-turned-private detective Abby Rose accepts the case of a bride-to-be looking for her birth mother before her wedding, the inexperienced investigator is suddenly in over her head when murder interrupts the reception ...

Inspector Ian Rutledge is quickly sent to investigate the sudden deaths of three members of the same eminent Cornwall family, but the World War I veteran soon realizes that nothing about this case is routine. Including the identity of...

When a series of suspicious fires is followed by a blood-chilling murder, Jim Qwilleran begins to investigate-with a little help from his feline friends. 'A puzzling mystery...a most welcome addition to the series.' (Publishers We...

Scraooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand turns sleuth when her estranged husband is accused of murdering a powerful New Orleans businessman, and amidst clippings, patterns, and pictures finds a clue that will prove his innocence. Origin...

Some skeletons just won't stay hidden.No one knows that better than University of Georgia archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain. Still, she is shocked when a skeleton dressed in its Sunday best falls out of a packing crate that had been...

Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good mon...

The Domestic Diva has some wedding advice: Keep the food...lose the groom. Sophie's sister Hannah is getting married. But when the groom's ex-wife is found hanging from a tree, the Domestic Diva fears her sister is about to wed a kill...

The whole town of Excelsior, Minnesota, hates and avoids Foster Johns, who is believed to be a murderer, the perpetrator of a five-year-old unsolved crime. Then Betsy Devonshire comes to town to open a needlework shop and hires Foster...

In the first in an all-new series of original mysteries, Adrian Monk, the brilliant obsessive-compulsive investigator, much to his horror, must dig through a lot of dirt to discover the culprit behind a fatal house fire and the death ...

Inspector Richard Jury and his friend, Melrose Plant, investigate the murders of two women in the Lincolnshire fens, with one of the victims being the ex-wife of the Fengate estate's owner, and the other the estate's kitchen maid. Rep...

Like Philip Marlowe, Spenser is a man of honor in  a dishonorable world. When he says he will do  something, it is done. The dialogues zings, and  there is plenty of action... but it is the moral  element that sets them above ...

In their ninth case, Amelia and Emerson discover the corpse of the wife of a fellow archaeologist while excavating a tomb. Five years ago, she was believed to have run off with a lover, but examination of the body makes it clear that ...

OUR FAVORITE LEGAL EAGLE LANDS IN NEW MEXICOAttorney Ed Eagle thinks he's safe from his black widow ex-wife, who is now in police custody. But when she escapes, she spins a new web that just might trap him—and everyone he loves.

Nurse-turned-insurance fraud detective Pauline Sokol's current undercover investigation into an psychiatric scam goes badly awry when she is forcibly committed to a mental institution, where she must not only find a way to escape from...

Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart admits her sweet treats don't exactly qualify as health food. But does she really deserve to be labeled a "killer" by local radio jockey Lester Moorefield? The annoying host is urging citizens t...

Crimes of Fashion' columnist Lacey Smithsonian, while dealing with her fashion-challenged mother and sister, must help TV makeover success story and supermodel Amanda Manville stop a relentless stalker who is up to no good. Original.

The debut of Myron Bolitar, a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent and one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction, Deal Breaker is a page-turning classic from Edgar Award–winner and master storyteller Harlan...

Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the Prince RegentÂ's cousin, enlists Sebastian St. CyrÂ's help in investigating the brutal murders of eight prostitutes. Following a trail of clues from LondonÂ's seedy East End to the Mayfai...

In the 17th J. P. Beaumont mystery, Beau, currently a homicide investigator for the Washington State Attorney’s office, must contend with a reactivated cold case and a deeply personal current one. The first concerns a nun treate...

Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard becomes fascinated with a portrait of Richard III that seems to bear no resemblance to Richard’s horrible reputation. Could such a noble, sensitive face actually belong to a heinous villain ...

In this 11th book to feature Benni Harper, the quilter and amateur sleuth pitches in to help some friends make the opening of the Broken DIS dude ranch a success. But that help takes on a new dimension when she finds a murdered man's ...

In this addition to the long-running Richard Jury series, the New Scotland Yard detective follows a tangled trail of missing, sexually abused, and murdered children. The death of a five-year-old girl is linked to a pedophile ring cont...

Ha-ha! You're dead!Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool's prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic -- if rarely tranquil -- South Carolina island of Broward's Rock has made it appear as...

Over the years, Phil Rickman has won high acclaim for his chilling supernatural tales, including Celtic thrillers as well as the Reverend Merrily Watkins Mysteries, featuring Britain's first female exorcist. Meticulously researched, r...

Bursting at the seams with excitement to be in France, Crimes of Fashion columnist Lacy Smithsonian is dishing the dirt on haute couture, only to find herself up to her stillettos in mystery when the supposed Rousseau family lost trea...

Examining the burning death of a south London woman, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid discovers that the case is disturbingly similar to a missing-persons investigation being covered by his lover and partner, Gemma James, a situation tha...

Hired to replace a missing L.A. TV show writer, Madeline Bean takes on a quirky staff and every one of its humourous responsibilities while concentrating her efforts on finding the missing writer and uncovering the mystery behind his ...

A town divided by class lines is thrown into turmoil by a mysterious death, which begins to unravel the lives of a fifteen-year-old girl, a young boy, and a women running from her own destiny. By the author of Local Girls. Reprint.

The local Film Noir festival takes a dark turn when a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed. Now, bookstore owner Penelope Thornton-McClure enlists the help of Jack Shepard, P.I.-even though he and his license expired more than fift...