(1st in Hilda Johansson Mystery series) The year is 1900 and Hilda Johansson is a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker family. She faces the typical problems of an immigrant and the demands...

During an excursion to Luna Park with her two daughters, sister, and maid, 1920s Australian sleuth Phryne Fisher comes face to face with a mummified, bullet-ridden corpse and embarks on an investigation that takes her to the rural tow...

New York, 1943: Aspiring actress Rosie Winter has been marooned in New York throughout the war. Now, faced with the news that her ex-boyfriend Jack might not be coming home again, she's desperate to leave the home front and head for ...

Beloved, plus-sized sleuth Odelia Grey fights for her job—and her life br /br /A merger at Odelia Grey's law firm has put her job in jeopardy. Her new, icy-cold boss, Erica Mayfield, has it in for Odelia. The humiliation and stress ...

King's novels stand head and shoulders above many other works featuring Sherlock Holmes because of the intelligence and sensitivity with which she handles the character of the famous detective--deftly bringing into three dimensions ce...

Mira James' fury over getting stood up by Johnny Leeson is hotter than the scorching summer heat in this fourth Murder-by-Month mystery. She's getting out of Battle Lake, Minnesota, 'where the women are churchgoers, the men like to hu...

When Cate Kinkaid receives a frantic call about a triple homicide, she drives to the scene against her better judgment--aren't triple homicides more up the police department's alley?--only to find that the victims are not quite who sh...

After finding the finger of a missing bridesmaid, Justice Trip is enjoying his fifteen minutes of fame. Homicide detective Paris Murphy is finding Trip's heroics a little hard to take. And when she realizes that she knew Trip in high...

Andrew Bliss, art critic pens the phrase "art terrorism" to describe the murder of artist Dean Starr. No one suspects he knows anything about a crime committed in a gallery 12 years earlier. Detective Kathy Mallory wants to ...

Caterer and small-town minister's wife Faith Fairchild might never have accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at the prestigious pre...

Parker can reveal more about a character in five words of dialogue than many writers can in an entire book...(Sunny Randall) is capable yet realistically human, and not above accepting a little help from her friends. A welcome additi...

A missing masterwork in wood, the last creation of a master carver who died in the violent tumult of the sixteenth century, may be hidden in a medieval German castle in the town of Rothenburg. The prize has called to art historian Vi...

Technology has advanced in 2060 New York City, but childbirth has been the same since the beginning of time. And despite the brutal double homicide on Lieutenant Eve Dallas's caseload, she has to be there for her pregnant friend Mavis...

Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They h...

Bennie Rosato the founder of the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm hides her big heart beneath her tough-as-nails exterior and she doesn't like to fail. Now, a case from her past shows her how differently things might have turned out. Thirte...

For Kiki Lowenstein, only one thing is (marginally) worse than her selfish, hyper-critical mother coming for an extended visit — dodging bullets. In the merry midst of the timehonored May Day celebration at Kiki's daughter's priv...

On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq.  What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that b...

The new 'Maggy Thorsen' coffee-house mystery - Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of coffee-house Uncommon Grounds, is trapped in a shopping mall by a snow storm, which cuts the electricity and phone lines. She finds the body of Way Benson, the ...

She almost caught the notorious Lizard King serial killer once. Now, he's back―with a vengeance.For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on the hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King, whose hunting grounds are...

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. “As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t ask for...

Jill Gardner, the owner of Coffee, Books, and More, has been suckered into playing a twenties flapper in murder/dinner theater. Though it is for charity... Of course everyone is expecting a "dead" body at the dress rehearsal...but t...

Even though hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brother's body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-d...

Discover the “dazzling...fascinating” (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Timesbestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virg...

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!In Rudolph, New York, it's Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone's holiday cheer…As the owner of Mrs. Claus's Tre...

"An inventive plot and incisive character studies elevate MWA Grand Master Grafton's twenty-fourth Kinsey Millhone novel...This superior outing will remind readers why this much-loved series will be missed as the end of the alpha...

Assisted by her band of loyal courtiers and retainers, young queen Elizabeth I spearheads the investigation into the brutal murder of a high-living lady of her court, only to stumble upon a sinister plot against the queen herself. By ...

The Great War is over, but in this captivating new series from award-winning author Anna Lee Huber, one young widow discovers the real intrigue has only just begun . . . An Unpardonable Sin? England, 1919. Verity Kent's grief over t...

Everyone's favorite retired witches from Spell Booked have returned and are diving into troubled waters to find a sinister sea witch…WITCHY WOMANA sea witch has been leaving bodies in her wake up and down the Carolina coast, bafflin...

In this homage to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Faith Fairchild is asked to cater a very small, very private college reunion on an isolated New England island—an event that could be her dream job. But when she dis...

Spinster sleuth and school teacher, Hildegarde Withers, meets up with Inspector Oscar Piper at a murder at a New York City aquarium in this first book in the popular series. First published in 1931.