Dragooned into helming a children’s musical production at the First Baptist Church, Benni Harper has her hands full dealing with the chaos...and that’s before the church handyman’s bloody corpse is found inside. This...

'Absorbing and worthwhile...You won't want to put the book down'PORTLAND TELEGRAMOnce again, Mrs. Pollifax, the cheerful little woman with the flyaway white hair and a penchant for old hats is plunged headfirst into another hair-raisi...

When Emily Pollifax answers the phone that Sunday morning, she quickly forgets all about her Garden Club tea that afternoon. For the voice on the other end belonged to a man she had never seen, a man from the CIA who asked her if she ...

The beautiful wife of a former pro football player is found dead alongside her husband's best friend--one viciously stabbed to death, the other a victim of an apparent heart-attack. A manhunt is immediately launched, targeting the ex-...

This psychological thriller is narrated by Robin Timariot, a civil servant wondering if he should quit and join his family's cricket-bat manufacturing business instead. As he hikes along the Welsh borders in the summer of 1990, he enc...

The garroting death of a young woman near Berkeley Square may be connected to the year-old murder of another woman, a connection that leads Superintendent Richard Jury to look for a sinister stranger who might be planning another kill...

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder in the latest mystery from Carolyn Haines For many years Jitty, Dahlia House's resident ghost, has dreamed that Sarah Booth De...

Ed McBain’s famously long-running 87th precinct series comes to a rousing close with this posthumously published police procedural. The cops at the 87th struggle to stem the rapidly growing body count of a serial killer who shoo...

An ingenious killer disposes of a strangled corpse on a battlefield. Brother Cadfael discovers the body, and must then piece together disparate clues--including a girl in boy's clothing, a missing treasure and a single flower--to expo...

Childhood friends torn apart by an unsolved murder, Darleen Union and Eli Wade are reunited years later as the dark secrets of the past finally come to light, in a lyrical Southern Gothic novel by the author of On Bear Mountain. Repri...

In the four years since her husband's death, midwife Sarah Brandt has become an angel of mercy in the tenements of turn-of-the-century New York. Now, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy has taken up the task of solving the murder of Dr. T...

When Angela Braddock enters her quilts in an Amish auction, she never expects one of her neighbors to end up going, going, gone....                           Angie is finding her niche as the new owner of her...

Set in Derbyshire, England, this book from British crime novelist Stephen Booth explores the inner workings of revenge, in the form of a harrowing police procedural. Mansell Quinn has spent the last 13 years in prison. Now, freshly re...

In the tradition of Elizabeth George, Louise Penny, and P. D. James, New York Times bestselling author Deborah Crombie delivers a powerful tale of intrigue, betrayal, and lies that will plunge married London detectives Duncan Kincaid ...

Called in by her brother-in-law to investigate a series of nasty poison-pen letters that have been tormenting his small English village, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple uncovers a web of hateful resentment and intrigue that soon leads t...

Get bound up in murder in the first Lighthouse Library mystery! For ten years Lucy has enjoyed her job poring over rare tomes of literature for the Harvard Library, but she has not enjoyed the demands of her family's social whorl or...

One of the fortunate black men to be free in 1830s New Orleans, Benjamin January--a trained surgeon and musician--lives among white men and their black slaves. But when a black woman accused of murdering her white master comes to him ...

 A Hoosier to die for?When vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton spies an original 1920s Hoosier brand kitchen cabinet at an estate auction, it's love at first sight. Despite the protests of her sister that the 19th...

Is the truth hiding in plain sight? That is the question at the heart of All the Little Liars, the latest installment of Charlaine Harris's fan-favorite Aurora Teagarden mystery series. Aurora Teagarden is basking in her new pregnanc...

Experience Georgette Heyer's sparkling dialogue in one of her most popular mysteries. IIt's no ordinary morning at the Poplars - the master is found dead in his bed and it turns out that his high blood pressure was not the cause of de...

Jenoff's novel chronicles a young female intelligence officer thrust into a international drama dating back to the Second World War.

The petnapping of a puppy and an iguana leads Kendra Ballantyne to her Southern California pet-sitting club, where she learns of other foul play. Then a fellow pet-sitter turns up bludgeoned to death. Kendra has her suspicions, but it...

In The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King came up with a completely original story that had Sherlock Holmes as one of its principal characters but was in no way part of the Holmes canon. The focus of that book was a young woman, ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLaurie R. King's New York Times bestselling novels of suspense featuring Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, comprise one of today's most acclaimed mystery series. Now, in their newest and most thri...

New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has been hailed as one of the best crime fiction writers in America today, winning virtually every major award in the genre. The author of the enormously popular series featuring Baltimo...

A reputation as a small town busybody sleuth. A gum-cracking boss who keeps calling her 'babe.' Now a suicidal phone stalker? Great. After solving the messy mystery of her neighborhood handyman's lye-induced death, thirty-something S...

"The newest of the great fictional detectives" (Boston Globe) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins novels. When New York private eye Leonid McGill is hired to check up on a vulnerable young woman, ...

The LAPD doesn't come knocking on Easy Rawlins' door until a white coed falls victim to the same serial killer who's been preying on black prostitutes. But once the color line is crossed, the police take an interest in the murders, le...

Hatteras West Inn owner Alex Winston hosts an inn full of suspects, when his uncle is murdered right before a scandalous will reading.

The New York Times bestselling author of the Farmers' Market Mysteries and the Country Cooking School Mysteries introduces readers to Star City, Utah, and a little shop called the Rescued Word...Star City is known for its slopes and i...