Rainie Connor joins the police force in the small town of Bakersville, Oregon, because she longs for a relatively peaceful existence. But when a Columbine-style high-school massacre takes place in the town, its peacefulness is shatter...

A second installment of the new series by the best-selling author of the Princess Diaries books finds pop star-turned-detective Heather Wells beginning her second semester as an assistant dorm director only to find herself investigati...

Trying to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and police lieutenant Pete Marion race against time to find a killer after the fingerprints of a recently executed murderer turn up at a new crime scene. Reprint.

When Lacey Sherlock's older sister falls victim to a serial killer, Lacey is devastated. Seven years later, as an FBI agent, Lacey investigates the murder with the help of advanced computer technology and its architect, Dillon Savich.

Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house showing. And when a second body is found in another house for sale, it becomes obv...

Burned out after she has helped the police solve one too many sordid cases, psychic Cassie Neill leaves L.A. for the peaceful town of Ryan's Bluff, North Carolina. Before long, however, Cassie senses the presence of an evil and sadist...

A mysterious series of paintings in a Hong Kong art museum, including one featuring a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her, draws photojournalist Jordan Glass into a painful search for the murderer of her twin sister, killed ...

In her second outing (following THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY), Precious Ramotswe tries to help a women whose son disappeared into the plains years earlier, while also dealing with a number of changes at the agency and in her per...

Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her sterother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as family. But as they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood re...

When LuAnn Tyler is asked to be part of a crooked lottery scheme, she refuses, even though it would mean millions of dollars. But when she is framed for murder, the frightened single mother is forced to participate. Ten years later sh...

Hoping to escape her miserable life and abusive husband, Goldy Bear and her son move to the Aspen Meadow Country Club where she takes a job as a cook. The mysterious death of a local doctor quickly unhinges her life again, threatening...

Southern belle-turned-private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney struggles to cope with her antebellum Delta estate's local ghost, who is determined to save her from spinsterhood, and with Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party, a lavish occas...

Sleuth Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of a Botswana detective agency, and her assistant, Mma Makutsi, investigate two very different cases--the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official and the moral characte...

Despite his recent move up the promotion ladder, Lucas Davenport is still plagued by ugly crimes. This time (his 13th appearance), the bodies of a man and women, one black and one white, turn up hanging from a tree in the woods, both ...

Lori Shepherd learns that she will inherit a sizeable estate from her recently deceased Aunt Dimity, but there is a catch--Lori must first discover the secret hidden in the letters in Dimity's cottage. Reprint.

When an eccentric millionaire reassembles an English castle in Aspen Meadow, Goldy Shulz is hired to cater a banquet with authentic Elizabethan fare. When Goldy discovers a body lying in a nearby creek, someone she loves soon is in th...

This humorous mystery is the third in the BLACKBIRD SISTERS series, which is set in Philadelphia and chronicles the adventures of Nora Blackbird, a cash-strapped ex-socialite employed as a society columnist, and her two sisters. In th...

This debut novel introduces a charming psychopath worthy of Hannibal Lecter. Dexter Morgan is a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami police department. He’s also a sociopath--completely incapable of normal human emotions-...

Ex-debutante Nora, who cast aside her life of wealth and privilege to be a columnist for a Philadelphia newspaper, rushes to the aid of her old flame, Flan Cooper, when he is accused of murdering a high society jewel thief. Original.

Jasper Fforde's third Thursday Next novel finds his heroine pregnant and working for Miss Havisham in the department of Jurisfiction. The legal stuff is getting her down, and a temporary assignment at the Well of Lost Plots, subbing f...

Having served in the War to End all Wars, nurse Maisie Dobbs defies societal conventions by becoming a private investigator. After an apprenticeship with the esteemed investigator Maurice Blanche, Maisie sets out on her own to solve a...

Haunted by a busybody ghost and constantly nagged about finding a husband, thirtysomething Mississippi private detective Sarah Booth Delaney investigates the murder of a black blues-club owner and finds herself caught in the middle of...

No self-respecting lady would find herself in Sarah Booth Delaney's situation. Unwed, unemployed, and over thirty, she's flat broke and about to lose the family plantation. Just when things took their bleakest, Sarah Booth's offered t...

Checking up on empty family mansions for an old client, V.I. discovers the dead body of a missing reporter who disappeared during the McCarthy era, a find that is linked to two prestigious Chicago families and leads to her involvement...

The New York Times bestselling author of Prime Cut serves up another tantalizing tale of culinary mystery and suspense-as chef turned sleuth Goldy Schulz goes on live television to prepare a meal to die for--but discovers that murder ...

When Goldy, owner of Goldilocks Catering, faces the challenge of whipping up a sumptuous lowfat feast for the Mignon Cosmetics company banquet, she rises to the occasion brilliantly...only to discover just how ugly the beauty biz can ...

Overwhelmed by work at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe is further challenged by a strange intruder at her home, the appearance in her yard of a mysterious pumpkin, troubles at her husband's motorworks, and a visi...

Wearing a hideous floral-print bridesmaid dress to please her cousin Jillian, Abby Knight, owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, stumbles upon the body of Jack Snyder, a wedding guest, while searching for the groom’s missing ninety-yea...

Gourmet chef and sometimes amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz teams up with her professional mentor to cater a fashion photo shoot at a 19th-century mountain cabin. As Goldy stirs up mouth-watering delights for a group of rail-thin models an...

Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman...