One perfect red rose, a one-way ticket to Stockholm, and a cryptic 'message' consisting of two Latin words intrigue art historian Vicky Bliss—as they were precisely intended to do. Beautiful, brilliant and, as always, dangerously i...

A runaway pig is about as explosive a piece of news as there is to be found in Dacus. That's just one reason why Avery left her small Southern surroundings in the first place. But home is where the heart is, and since her high-profile...

As the owner of Sometimes a Great Notion, a shop specializing in vintage sewing notions and antique treasures, Daisy Buchanan is a strong advocate of preserving the past. But when a killer strikes, she turns her attention to saving li...

Madeline Dare has traded in the drudgery of living in backwoods Syracuse, New York to work as a teacher at Santangelo Academy, a boarding school for emotionally disturbed teenagers in the Berkshires. Behind the ornate gates of the aca...

BAD CHEMISTRYLike many fiftysomething housewives facing empty nests, Susan Henshaw decides that returning to college will give her life new meaning. But a murdered lab partner isn't what she had in mind--especially since the victim wa...

The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who's...

James Lacey wandered over to the window of his hotel room. His fiancee, Felicity, was asleep. He was feeling some twinges of unease. What he loved about Felicity was the way she looked at him with her large eyes, appearing to drink in...

Struggling to cope with her needy clients and her up-and-down romance with Lieutenant Jack Rivera, psychologist Christina McMullen joins the investigation into the disappearance of her secretary Elaine's boyfriend, computer geek J. D....

Feisty FBI programmer Quinn Barry discovers that there's a serial killer on the loose--and nobody at the Bureau is trying to track the perpetrator down. The case is being deliberately swept under the rug, and Quinn decides to find out...

Heiress-turned-cemetery-tour-guide Pepper Martin is not happy to discover that a local reality TV show, Cemetery Survivor, will be filmed at ClevelandÂ's Monroe Street Cemetery—and she has to be a part of it. To make matters wors...

Doing a favor for a friend in need has Charlotte cleaning rooms at the New Orleans Jazzy Hotel. The historic Garden District mansion is serving as a home-away-from-home for Shreveport's chapter of the Red Scarf Sorority, a group of so...

When the heir to one of North Fork’s most prestigious wineries is found murdered and one of her closest friends becomes the prime suspect in the crime, veterinarian Jessica Popper turns sleuth to find the killer, all the while d...

An Old-Fashioned (Sassy!) Murder Mystery Since when do three women, bonded together by the need to clip coupons and be first in line at door buster sales, solve crimes? Since the fourth member of the Bargain Hunters Network was found ...

So pleasant in fact, she was the Anthony Award Winner for Best Series of the Century. Here she solves a crime that not only has no body, no weapon, and no suspects, but no evidence that a crime has even been committed. All Miss Marple...

At once wry and shocking, humane and raw, ironic and visceral, Denise Mina brings a distinctive new voice to crime fiction in this gritty, award-winning debut novel set in the grim precincts of Glasgow's Garnethill. There the unlucky ...

Temple Barr is a sharp and sassy public relations ace in Las Vegas whose life is finally taking a turn for the better. Hard-nosed homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina is too busy chasing after her own ex-lover, rogue L.A. cop Rafi Nadir,...

Hired to house-sit for Brat, the hyperactive cat belonging to New York guidebook author Louis Montag while his owner tries to work, actress/sleuth Alice Nestleton is stunned when, on her first day, she is attacked, her employer is mur...

Death threatens the nuptial designs of wedding planner and amateur sleuth Carnegie Kincaid for the marriage of her client, a sexy Goth rocker, to a Seattle baseball star, when Boris the Mad Russian Florist is charged with murder and C...

Jessica Fletcher is pitching in to help Cabot Cove's first Lobster Festival by writing an article about the lifestyle of the local lobstermen. But instead of getting the story, she becomes tangled in a net of intrigue and murder. And ...

Investigative reporter joins forces with Philadelphia detective Nick McBride to uncover the truth about the kidnapping and murder of Jonathan Bowman, a high-ranking casino employee, whose killing may be linked to the death of Nick's f...

Mystery author Maggie Kelly had enough on her mind wondering how she was going to keep her fictional Regency Era creation from dropping to one knee with a marriage proposal. Then a murderer crosses the foul line--way too close to home...

With another failed business behind her, dilettante chef Angie Amalfi is cooking up a new scheme: Pairing up her best friend Connie with a handsome professional football player who just happens to be related to the owner of her favori...

Is a certain vet detective about to become an endangered species?IIt's been over a decade since Jessica Popper spoke to vet-school friend Erin Walsh. So when Erin calls out of the blue, Jess agrees to meet her. When Erin doesn't show,...

When L.A. P.I. Regan Reilly returns from her vacation in the Napa Valley, she finds that her next case takes her right back there. The daughter of one of three winery-owning siblings has vanished and, unless she can be found by Sunday...

The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announcements of his intention to kill. And to kill in particularly horrific and efficient ways: using th...

A MINIATURE MYSTERY. First in a big new series. Geraldine Porter thought that being the chairwoman of the local Dollhouse and Miniatures Fair would give her leisure time to spend on her favorite craft. That was before a fellow miniat...

After finding a box of Peruvian Moche artifacts, Lara's assistant is beaten and her shop is burned by blackmarket dealers, and thinking her own life may be in danger, Lara decides to take a stand and heads for Peru, where she soon fac...

Garnethill (the name of a bleak Glasgow suburb) won the John Creasey Memorial Award for Best First Crime Novel--the British equivalent of the Edgar. IIt's a book that crackles with mordant Scottish wit and throbs with the pain of badl...

Complacency can make a person careless, and Sharon McCone, who makes crime her business, should know that better than most. One minute she's riding high with her detective agency expanding, her bank account growing, and her only 'prob...

The Huffington Post calls Tears of Pearl author Tasha Alexander "one to watch—and read" and her new Lady Emily mystery set in Venice proves it!  Years ago, Emily's childhood nemesis, Emma Callum, scandalized polite soci...