There's something delightfully perverse about the way Nevada Barr lovingly describes the sylvan beauty of our national parks and then introduces a cast of cruel and greedy humans to ugly things up. In HUNTING SEASON, her 10th book abo...

With rabies on the rise and a new post office threatening her position, Harry Haristeen and her trio of feline detective friends find themselves in even more trouble when they start snooping around an irresistible mystery. Reprint.

Murder is the backdrop to the personal dramas played out in this follow-up to the Edgar-nominated DREAMING OF THE BONES. As Scotland Yard detectives Sergeant Gemma James and Superintendent Duncan Kincaid investigate the murder of a yo...

As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P.I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobbered on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for ...

It was nearly midnight and I was just getting home from detecting. I has followed an embezzler around on a warm day in early summer trying to observe him spending his ill-gotten gain. The best I'd been able to do was catch him eating ...

Fleeing New York to find refuge as a ranger in the remote backcountry of West Texas, Anna Pigeon stumbles into a web of violence and murder when fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed and another ranger vanishes. Repri...

A smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to "...

This thriller from the bestselling author of the Rosato & Associates series borrows elements from an actual drug-trafficking trial. Arriving for a planned meeting with a pregnant informant, assistant U.S. attorney Vicki Allegretti fin...

Regular visitors to this space know that I don't spend much time on the subgenre called 'cozies'--soft-edged mysteries usually set in small towns, featuring amateur sleuths who solve crimes while leading otherwise productive lives. Bu...

When a newborn baby falls ill after a successful delivery, turn-of-the-century New York midwife Sarah Brandt searches for the cause of the infant's mysterious illness, an investigation that is linked to a scandal involving greed, betr...

In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder....Phenomenal praise for Murder on Astor Place:'Victoria Thompson shines....Anne Perry and Caleb Carr ...

Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge and his inner voice/alter ego Hamish MacLeod are sent to Upper Streetham to investigate the murder of a retired colonel. Hamish sees conspiracies everywhere, while Rutledge struggles to hold onto h...

Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of Dog on It, who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school ('I'd been the best leaper in K-9 class, which had led to ...

Now, in he most intriguing case yet, China discovers that business can be murder when her accountant, Rosemary Robins, is killed. With an abusive ex-husband and plenty of former clients in the picture, there's no shortage of suspects....

Taking a break from her job at Enchantments, Stony Mill's finest mystical antique shop, Maggie O'Neill visits a carnival where she senses some bad spirits. And when a construction worker is suspected of killing a young woman, it's up ...

Madeira Cutler is busy opening her new vintage clothing store in what was once the town's morgue when she discovers an intruder snooping around a bunch of bones in a body drawer. Now, she'll have to dig up more than the past to solve ...

Ex-forensic anthropologist, Diane Fallon, finds her past catching up to her when her former lover, Detective Frank Duncan, asks for her help in examining a bone he found in the woods, a grisly discovery that is linked to her family. O...

Corporate accountant Kelly Flynn can’t fathom why anyone would strangle her beloved Aunt Helen. Neither does she know why her aunt would borrow $20,000 at a ruinous rate without telling Kelly first. The police have arrested a va...

Wise-cracking, big-haired reporter Bubbles Yablonsky, while dealing with her boyfriend, her persistent ex-husband, and a mysterious Santa Claus, must prove that Sandy, the owner of the House of Beauty, did not kill Debbie Shatsky, who...

As a series of poison pen letters sweeps through the town of Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth begins to suspect a sinister motive, a suspicion that is justified when the local postmistress is found hanged, a supposed suicide, but Hamish's inv...

Melanie Turner has made quite a name for herself remodeling historic houses in the San Francisco Bay Area. But now her reputation may be on the line. At her newest project, a run-down Pacific Heights mansion, Mel is visited by the gh...

INTRODUCING "A FEISTY NEW HEROINE" (JACQUELINE WINSPEAR) who's thirty-fourth in line for the throne—and flat broke. From the Agatha Award-winning author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries! Lady Victoria...

During the annual Pickle Fest, Abby's boyfriend Marco inexplicably disappears for a day. When he returns, he's the main suspect in the death of a clown. It seems the cops have found Snuggles pushing up water-spurting daisies-and Marco...

Dear Reader: Mercury's in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever.  Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. He...

Families can be monstrous and their secrets dangerous, as New Scotland Yard detectives Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers have discovered. The pair are puzzled that the Hampstead police need their help investigating the vehicular murde...

Lionel Essrog has always respected Frank Minna, who helped him out when he was young, and when Frank is found dead, Lionel and his friends, the Minna Men, scour the streets of Brooklyn in search of the killer. Winner of the National ...

At the end of Killing Critics, the third book in Carol O'Connell's addictive series about Mallory, a strikingly original New York City cop, Mallory is traveling south on a train. 'She carried no stitch of formal identification that...

School psychologist Skye Denison reluctantly agrees to act as maid of honor in her California cousin's over-the-top platinum-style wedding- and is also expected to assist the control-freak wedding planner. But when Skye discovers the ...

A deadly delivery arrives with the eighth novel in the bestselling, Edgar(r)-nominated Gaslight series. When midwife Sarah Brandt visits Little Italy to check up on a new mother who delivered her baby just the day before, she finds t...

Sent with her twin five-year-old sons to a Scottish island after her high-profile attorney husband receives death threats, Lori Shepherd begins to suspect local foul play upon her discovery of a skull on the beach, a situation that pr...