When renowned opera conductor Helmut Wellauer is found dead in his dressing room, the victim of cyanide poisoning, Guido Brunetti, the Vice Commissario of the Venice Police, must sift through several suspects to find a killer. Reprint.

THEY'RE BAAAAACK. Their first caper, The Spellman Files, was a New York Times bestseller and earned comparisons to the books of Carl Hiaasen and Janet Evanovich. Now the Spellmans, a highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional fami...

Just when feisty, full-figured Savannah Reid's life seems calm and peaceful, her spoiled, egocentric baby sister comes knocking. Atlanta is determined to become a star, and the Miss Gold Coast Beauty Pageant is her first step. Savanna...

There's a serpent loose in Nina's garden ...Nina Colette Ceceri Quinn's business, Taken by Surprise -- a landscaping firm specializing in surprise garden makeovers -- is the only thing in herlife that seems to be thriving. Her marriag...

Chales Osborne's novelization of the play by Agatha Christie gives her hungry fans another classic drawing-room mystery. This one revolves around a diplomat's wife who discovers a body in her drawing room just before her husband is d...

Color this Domestic Diva puzzled-from the national bestselling author. When Sophie's neighbor-a reclusive professor-dies, his final wish is for the Domestic Diva to throw a dinner party in his honor, and he's planned everything down ...

divIIt's All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Murdered./At Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party, five guests have gathered for the uproarious parlor game of "Murder." Yet no one is laughing when the lights come up on a...

Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and mone...

Trench coats— hot or not? The author of Grave Apparel proves you can solve mysteries without sacrificing style... Unchallenged and unappreciated, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian slips on her trench coat and high-heeled gumshoes t...

In this latest Orchard mystery, amateur sleuth Meg Corey takes a bite out of crime... Some baby-faced chefs, fresh out of cooking school, are looking to open a restaurant in Granford. They plan on using local foods-great news for cit...

This mystery begins in a small Oklahoma town during the summer of 1944 when an ambitious aspiring reporter named Gretchen Gilmore investigates the death of a local woman.

First in a new mystery series that will have readers stitching-and itching for more When Marcy Singer opens an embroidery specialty shop in quaint Tallulah Falls, Oregon, she throws a soiree and a Stitch-In. Soon, Marcy's sign- up sh...

A body is found at an ATM the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open and shut cases. At fi...

The electrifying first appearance of Jo Nesbø's detective, Harry Hole. Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case.  Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions ...

The country may be struggling through the Great Depression, but the good ladies of Darling, Alabama, are determined to keep their chins up and their town beautiful. Their garden club, the Darling Dahlias, has just inherited a new club...

Mrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one talks about 'my maid'. Hamish Macbeth wins Mrs. Gillespie's...

The debut of the Emma Lord murder mystery series.brAfter a year as publisher-editor of the Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord feels fine about her move to this small town in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains. What she really nee...

Scholar Karen Pelletier cuts her Christmas vacation short when she finds a body in a closet at her college's annual holiday party. Soon another body turns up, and Karen believes that the deaths are somehow linked to a letter written b...

Finally available in the U.S.Evan Delaney learns that not only has her ex- sister-in-law joined a religious cult, but the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the fanatical g...

In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to inves...

When a wealthy accountant is brutally murdered in front of his terrified wife and daughter, Inspector Banks teams up with Detective Constable Susan Gay and discovers that the victim, a seemingly quiet family man, had been living a sec...

Like nearly everyone else in Paradise, Ohio, local laundromat owner and stain-removal expert Josie Toadfern eagerly awaits the upcoming July 4th Founders Day celebration with its highlight, the annual Breitenstrater Pie Company pie-ea...

The national bestselling author who turns "minimum wage into maximum hilarity"( Nancy Martin, author of Murder Melts in Your Mouth) presents a hair-raising murder mystery of do or dye...Helen Hawthorne's latest dead-end job ...

In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared—making headlines across the world—only to show up eleven days later at a spa under an assumed name. During those eleven days, did she have time to write a play? Jordan Kelly needs a new job an...

Her Charmed Pie Shoppe is open for business, but baker Ella Mae LeFaye is about to discover solving a murder is not as easy as pie…  Owning the Charmed Pie Shoppe and serving enchanted treats in the magical town of Havenwood, Georgi...

George Porter Dillman, a detective for the Cunard line, has the style to carry out his undercover assignments, which include recovering a stolen Stradivarius and keeping the ship from blowing up. His future efforts might yet float thi...

The new exhibit at the Philadelphia children's museum, Let's Play, isn't meant to be shocking-but when one of the installers is zapped with a fatal electrical charge, it's up to Nell to put her detective skills on display.

Tran, Tran, and Hok broke through the heavy end-of-wet-season clouds. The warm night air rushed against their reluctant smiles and yanked their hair vertical. They fell in a neat formation, like sleet. There was no time for elegant fl...

When his band of traveling players are taken in by a patron, Joliffe and company find that murder has taken their place in the spotlight--and it's up to them to catch a killer in the act.

After he'd seen Inspector Pascoe off on his honeymoon with a few ill-chosen words, Superintendent Andrew Dalziel's holiday got off to a damp start. Rescued from a flood by a bunch of singularly cheerful mourners, he accompanied them b...