The eccentric Olive Kettering swore someone was trying to harm her. Too bad no one listened, though plenty wanted her dead. When Olive is shot and killed, Mrs. Jeffries has no problem speaking her mind to see justice served.

An aspiring suspense author finds herself writing mysteries by day and solving them by night in the second Writer's Apprentice Mystery by the author of A Dark and Stormy Murder and the Undercover Dish Mysteries.In the quaint town of B...

Following the long-running success he has enjoyed on bestseller lists in Europe, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is now winning over American readers and critics alike as 'one of the most engaging protagonists in detective fiction' (US...

In Shamed, a gripping thriller from New York Timesbestselling author Linda Castillo, a devastating murder exposes an Amish family's tortured past. The peaceful town of Painters Mill is shattered when an Amish grandmother is brutally ...

A Boston Globe Best Book of 2014Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time—and now death is...

For once, it seems, no one is trying to pin a murder on Eleanor Swift, owner of the scrumptious pizzeria A Slice of Delight in the quiet little town of Timber Ridge, North Carolina. But someone has to answer for that body in her kitch...

For the mystery book lovers of Ashton Corners, burial plots tell the most intriguing stories. The members of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society are all chipping in as Molly Mathews, now owner of the books...

The author of Book Fair and Foul reconvenes the Ashton Corners book club to solve a murder in their own backyard . . .Bob Miller, retired police chief and member of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society, is stun...

The New York Times bestselling author of Gilt Trip returns to New Orleans for scrapbooking, Halloween, and homicide…Scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is ready to head out and enjoy her night until she hears some strange noises c...

Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, but just like the nursery rhyme, there were five other "little pigs" who could have done it: Philip Blake (the stockbroker), who went to market; Meredith Blak...

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

'I like a good detective story, but they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that.' So remarks esteemed criminologist Mr. Treves. Truer words have never been sp...

Praise for Barbara Cleverly:'Spectacular and dashing, spellbinding.'-The New York Times Book Review'Smashing . . . marvelously evoked.'-Chicago Tribune'A historical mystery that has just about everything.'-Denver Post'Cleverly maintai...

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last nigh...

Cranberry farm owner Monica Albertson is once again bogged down in murder in the second Cranberry Cove mystery from national bestselling author Peg Cochran.The entire town of Cranberry Cove is popping with excitement. Monica Albertson...

First in the Farmer's Daughter mystery series set on a picturesque farm in Michigan, where Shelby McDonald runs a popular lifestyle and cooking blog, from the national bestselling author of the Cranberry Cove Mysteries.  On her blog,...

The rarest of scrolls from the days of Ghengis Khan, shadowy villains, and an ancient organization with ties to modern organized crime are just the start. For this case will take Charlie Chan across the Pacific in search of answers . ...

A Little Taste of Heaven catering certainly knows how to feed people. Dogs, however..? When sisters Bernie and Libby sign on to cater Trudy the Pug's birthday bash, it isn't just any doggie do. Trudy's owner, Annabel Colbert, is one o...

Emma Lord, publisher of the Alpine Advocate, covers the opening of a new play at the local college. The play is truly dreadful. Unfortunately, the aftermath of the play is even more dreadful, because one of the cast members, the unive...

The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics-until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to ...

A series of book and manuscript thefts during a conference at Enfield College in Massachusetts set alarm bells ringing and Professor (and amateur sleuth) Karen Pelletier is caught in the midst of it all when her beau, a police officer...

Never judge a book by its cover...Sophie "Phee" Kimball is not a cop. She's a divorced, middle-aged mom who works as an account clerk for the police department in a small city in Minnesota. But her retired mother, Harriet...

Overweight PI Desiree Shapiro makes a return call in Selma Eichler's 'Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion'. Things have been slow for Desiree, her most recent case being reuniting an elderly woman with her dachshund. So when her niece Ellen...

An all-new mystery book series based on the phenomenal TV series Murder, She Wrote. When Jessica comes to Manhattan for a Christmas-time book tour, she soon finds herself confronting a mystery. A strangely familiar Santa turns up dead...

It's been a sleepy summer for the folks of Lake Eden, Minnesota. In fact, it's been a whole four months since anyone in the Swensen family has come across a dead body. And that means Hannah Swensen can finally focus on her bakery. . ....

Now in paperback! In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joanne Fluke\'s 25th installment in the bestselling Hannah Swensen Mystery series, Hannah leaves Lake Eden to help a friend in sunny California—but an unexpecte...

Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can’t keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose . . .  For Hannah, life seems to be ...

The residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, are planning to paint the town red, white, and blue to celebrate the Fourth of July—but the fireworks are already going off at Hannah Swensen's bake shop, The Cookie Jar. . .Lemon Meringue Pie ...

Hit whodunit writer Victoria Rienzi is getting back to her roots by working at her family's Italian restaurant. But now in between plating pasta and pouring vino, she'll have to find the secret ingredient in a murder....   When Victo...

Six months after her husband's sudden death, Leonora Galloway sets off for a holiday in Paris with her daughter Penelope.  At last the time has come when secrets can be shared and explanations begin...Their journey starts with an un...