Even in a city of long, tall beauties, psychologist Christina McMullen is used to getting hit on. But she’s definitely not accustomed to having a hit on her. Until the day a charming stranger shows up at her door–and someo...

Superintendent Richard Jury's investigation into the seemingly unrelated crimes of a London mugging and murder in the town of Littlebourne takes him to the local pub, the Anodyne Necklace, which is inhabited by a variety of colorful v...

Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson gets plenty of entertainment from her extraordinary cats, Owen and Hercules. But when a theatre troupe stumbles into more tragedy than it bargained for, it's up to Kathleen to play detective.... ...

Rhode Island bookshop owner Penelope McClure never believed in ghosts -- until she met the spirit of Jack Shepard, a big city private investigator who was gunned down in her store over sixty years ago. Now Penelope not only believes i...

Though theirs is a marriage of true equals, when Sherlock Holmes summons his wife and partner Mary Russell to the eerie scene of his most celebrated case, she abandons her Oxford studies to aid his investigation. But this time, on Dar...

Down-to-earth debutante Nora Blackbird is having a meltdown. A noted Philly philanthropist has taken a swan dive from an office balcony—and Nora's friend Lexie stands accused of the murder. Then her scheming parents reappear, sendin...

They call them 'pretty parties,' and they're the latest rage among Dallas debutantes—get-togethers with light refreshments, heavy gossip, and Dr. Sonja Madhavi and her magic Botox needles. Former socialite Andy Kendricks normal...

Murder leaves a mark Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of an elite tattoo parlor in Las Vegas. When a girl makes an appointment for a tattoo of the name of her fiance embedded in a heart, Brett takes the job but the girl ne...

Yorkshire Chief Inspector Alan Banks, aided by psychologist Jenny Fuller, uncovers startling secrets in the town of Eastvale, a village troubled by a Peeping Tom, mischievious teenagers on the verge of violence, and murder. Reissue.

Every scraook tells a story. Memories of friends, family . . .and murder? Mousy housewife Kiki Lowenstein has two great loves: scraooking and her young daughter, Anya. But her happy family album is ruined when her husband, George, ...

Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne's first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in an emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn had been left on the steps of the town's Episcopal church, where Clare just happened to be its new p...

With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the...

Sir John Fielding has trailed a packet of controversial letters from London to the colony of Massachusetts. But when the suspect in the theft is found dead, Sir John turns his eye on the possible involvement of Benjamin Franklin.

At her friend Ivy's behest, Emily reluctantly agrees to attend a party at the sprawling English country estate of Lord Fortescue, a man she finds as odious as he is powerful. But if Emily is expecting Lord Fortescue to be the greates...

Minor writer John Heppel has a problem - he's by all accounts a consummate bore. When he's found dead in his cottage, there are plenty of suspects. But surely boredom shouldn't be cause for murder, or so thinks local bobby and sleuth ...

Bliss, Texas, is gearing up for its annual Winter Wonderland festival, but when a mysterious Scrooge ends the merriment with murder, it'll take more than a ghost from Christmas past to set things right.div divDesigning a holiday fash...

The plotting is far from airtight, but the writing is tidy and straightforward. Llanfair, with its challenging mountain and well drawn locals, is appealing, as is Constable Evans, a kind of Welsh version of M.C. Beaton's Hamish MacBet...

Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp—strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he'd been hunting. Is the murder the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta...

This is the thirteenth mystery featuring Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen and her talking animal companions. Harry is feeling a bit lost; she's quit her job as postmistress because her superiors will no longer allow her to take her cats a...

Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a profoundly spiritual Bangkok police detective maintaining his unique sense of integrity within a corrupt system, returns in this violently farcical, twisty sequel to the bestselling and equally outrageous BANGK...

When his former flame, Libby, returns to town with two children but without a nanny or a husband, undertaker-sleuth Hitchcock Sewell begins to suspect foul play when the nanny, Sophie, turns up pregnant and dead in the Severn River. R...

This mystery is the fourth in a series starring Cliff Janeway, a Denver ex-cop who became an antiquarian book dealer. Janeway’s lover and partner in his bookstore, lawyer Erin D’Angelo, needs his help in a difficult matter...

New from the national bestselling author of The Saddlemaker's Wife and the Agatha Award-winning Benni Harper mystery series. After being widowed, Love Mercy Johnson has come to terms with her life in Morro Bay, California. She spends ...

While dealing with her selfish self-help guru mother, bisexual ex-boyfriend, and a cast of eccentric friends, Samantha Leiffer witnesses a murder and is soon followed by a strange man, forcing her into the arms of a gorgeous homicide ...

When you make a game of murder, be careful who the players are...Who could resist the mock-murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn-- certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy, who decides to bring her petulant d...

Introducing Wyoming's Sheriff Walt Longmire in this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Hell Is Empty and As the Crow Flies, the first in the Longmire Mystery Series, the basis for LONGMIRE, the hit A&E origin...

IIt's a bloodthirsty town, Hollywood. No matter how popular you are, there's always someone who d be happier if you were dead. And in some cases, you can be such a bastard, everyone would be happier if you were dead. Barry Gerber, ...

Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment. There she was, soaking in a hot tub with a man she adored, far from Fort Lauderdale and her nosy neighbors…until an urgent message sent her running home. Now her exotic vacation is a memo...

Paramedic and widow Dia Courvant, haunted by the tragic death of her husband, finds herself drawn to Detective Brig Hafferty after a series of deadly car crashes brings them together, but when she receives a message from beyond, warni...

Not many people in Tinker's Cove, Maine, knew Old Dan Malone. The grizzled barkeep's social circle was limited to the rough-hewn lobstermen and other assorted toughs that frequented his bar, a derelict main street dive called, appropr...