When he follows his assistant Natalie to Hawaii, obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, who has a strong aversion to dirt, investigates the death of a wealthy tourist at the hands of a coconut and a TV psychic's claims that the victim h...

DIVDIVI#1 /INew York TimesI bestselling author Sue Grafton crafts a thriller set in a town so small that P.I. Kinsey Millhone wonders just how private her investigation can be . . ./IBRBRBF IS FOR FLIGHT/BBRWhen Kinsey Millhone first ...

Based on author Martha Grimes’s own childhood memories, BELLE RUIN is the third in a series starring 12-year-old Emma Graham, waitress at her mother’s rundown hotel and part-time investigative reporter/amateur sleuth. This...

Professional dog walker Ellie Engleman is more than just a pal to her pooches— she can also read their minds. When Ellie and her terrier mix Rudy find the corpse of a troubled-but-harmless park-dweller in Central Park, the dog wal...

Murder Served Piping Hot Minister's wife, sometime sleuth, and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumors of mysterious doings at Hubbard House -- an elegant, secluded retirement home for the well-heeled Yankees of ...

Attorney Andy Carpenter is about to represent an adorable Bernese mountain dog puppy, whose owner was brutally murdered, in a custody fight. Few can rival Andy's affection for dogs, and he's determined to keep Waggy from falling into ...

It is early spring, 1679, and the feudal Japanese capital, Edo, is beginning to blossom. But along its peaceful, misty streets evil lurks. With one stroke, the favored vassal of the ruling family is decapitated, his head taken for a b...

All-new from the top names in mystery and fantasy— including a never-beforepublished Sookie Stackhouse story from Charlaine Harris! This follow-up to Powers of Detection showcases bestselling and award-winning names from Simon Green...

Burke is back in his most tightly wound, electrifying thriller to date. In Blue Belle, a savage gang is hunting and killing teenage prostitute. A murderous martial arts expert is trying to set up a deal with Burke's friend Max. And co...

The fifth in a delectable series fans can't wait to sink their teeth into. Includes fifteen recipes! Phyllis loves to spend quality time with her grandson. She'll be taking him to a festival with hopes of winning the baking contest-n...

First in a new series!When Angela Braddock inherits her late aunt's beautiful Amish quilt shop, she leaves behind her career and broken engagement for a fresh start in Holmes County, Ohio.  With her snazzy cowboy boots and her orni...

When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She knew living in Rockton meant living...

In the latest New York Times bestselling Booktown Mystery, amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Tricia Miles gets caught up in a local election that turns lethal . . . It's November in Stoneham, New Hampshire, and time for the Chamber o...

Now that she's rebutted years of condescending descriptions of Austen's life as placid and uneventful, Barron writes with greater assurance than ever, and her heroine's sleuthing is more confident and accomplished--even if she's still...

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A CELEBRITY: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery Murder on the Telly Lochdubh, a remote village reached only by a one-track lane, nestles serenely amid Scotland's hills...until we...

In his sixth mystery, Wyoming Fish and Game Warden Joe Pickett looks into the case of ranch matriarch Opal Scarlett, whose disappearance has driven two of her three sons into a frenzied tussle over her considerable estate. Meanwhile, ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the tra...

James Lee Burke's fifth Dave Robicheaux novel is completely repackaged and republished, now in premium edition.

CHIEF OF POLICE KATE BURKHOLDER RETURNS IN THIS DEEPLY CHILLING NOVEL ABOUT A RITE OF PASSAGE GONE HORRIBLY WRONG FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LINDA CASTILLO. Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experienc...

The fourth entry in Jeanne M. Dams's delightfully charming, award-winning mystery series starring Dorothy Martin. This time, Dorothy dons one of her most outlandish hats and sets out for the Doll House Museum at the imposing Brocklesb...

The sequel to the critically acclaimed Catnap, featuring the fabulous feline sleuth Midnight Louie. At a Las Vegas stripper convention, public relations freelancer Temple Barr investigates the death of a contestant and a striptease bu...

In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle's problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mate...

When an attempt is made on the lives of Henry VI's young half-brothers, the boys are offered sanctuary by Sister Frevisse, who is called upon for more than protection when the killers enter St. Frideswide's walls.

Mrs. Pollifax is the American cousin to Agatha Christie's Miss Marple.'TORONTO STARMrs. Pollifax has been sent on safari by the C.I.A. and told only to take pictures of all of her companions, in order to find the international assassi...

Is Kate London suffering from postromantic stress disorder when she attacks Mayor Balfours, her cheating fiance, with a golf cart? Maybe she should have counted to ten before sending him tumbling down a hill inside a port-o-john. Kate...

It is 1836. Europe is modernizing and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the fragile balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one inte...

Simon Hannford is in need of some fast money, and murder seems the obvious solution. Specifically, a 1930s Murder Mystery Weekend, to be held at Madingly Grange, his aunt's superbly hideous gothic mansion. Simon and his sister are mea...

A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces physician Matthew Bartholomew, whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations of heresy from his more traditional colleagues. Besides his practice, Barthol...

Recently promoted to sergeant and assigned to the homicide department, detective Matt Payne finds more than his share of challenges in three assignments involving a fast-food shooting, a guru murderer, and a police movie star. Reprint.

"A Dying Fall, like all of Griffiths' work, combines an intriguing plot with well-drawn characters—topped by the ever-fascinating Ruth—and a keen sense of place and history. Connoisseurs of thoughtful suspense will revel i...