Abigail Timberlake Washburn would rather be anywhere else on a muggy Charleston summer evening -- even putting in extra hours at her antiques shop -- than at a seance. But her best friend, 'Calamity Jane,' thinks a spirit -- or 'Appar...

The inimitable Miss Julia is back and ready for a fight in her latest rollicking adventure The sleepy town of Abbotsville is abuzz over the mayor's plans to replace the old courthouse with luxury retirement condos. On top of that, sev...

Reeling from the shocking murder that shattered her world, private investigator Kate Shugak has vanished into the vast Alaskan wilderness just when Jim Chopin needs her most. The dauntless Alaska State Trooper is ensnared in an intric...

SCRAPBOOKING TIPS AND RECIPES INCLUDED. For Carmela Bertrand, a New Orleans shop owner who can turn any scraook into a treasure, this Halloween will feature more than the usual scares. On her way home from a ghoulish gathering, Carmel...

In the midst of a cook-off at a posh spa, southern PI Sarah Booth Delaney gets embroiled in a juicy murder in the latest mystery from Carolyn Haines For many years Jitty, Dahlia House's resident ghost, has dreamed that Sarah Booth De...

In the four years since her husband's death, midwife Sarah Brandt has become an angel of mercy in the tenements of turn-of-the-century New York. Now, Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy has taken up the task of solving the murder of Dr. T...

Called in by her brother-in-law to investigate a series of nasty poison-pen letters that have been tormenting his small English village, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple uncovers a web of hateful resentment and intrigue that soon leads t...

In The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King came up with a completely original story that had Sherlock Holmes as one of its principal characters but was in no way part of the Holmes canon. The focus of that book was a young woman, ...

A reputation as a small town busybody sleuth. A gum-cracking boss who keeps calling her 'babe.' Now a suicidal phone stalker? Great. After solving the messy mystery of her neighborhood handyman's lye-induced death, thirty-something S...

From Amanda Flower—who writes the national bestselling Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries as Isabella Alan—comes the first in the new Magical Bookshop Mystery series.Rushing home to sit by her ailing grandmother's bedside, Violet Waverly ...

"If I'd blinked, I would have missed it. But I didn't, and I saw something fall from the rear deck of the opposite ferry: a small, wide-eyed human face, in one tiny frozen moment, as it plummeted toward the water."When she w...

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House--a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie--and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their parties. But the real-life version o...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Library Lover's Mysteries and Death of a Mad Hatter comes a tale of hat shop owners who put a cap on crime. MURDER CAN BE SO OLD HAT  Cousins Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont's ...

Seventh in the national bestselling Knitting mystery series. Spring has sprung for the knitters of Fort Connor, Colorado, and the House of Lambspun. But for one of Kelly Flynn's pals, things are unraveling... After Kelly's friend Je...

Representing her Aunt Cissy's fiance, museum curator Prosper White, in a case of fraud, attorney and celestial advocate Brianna Winston- Beaufort hopes to settle the matter out of court. But when Prosper is murdered and Cissy's arrest...

Ellery Adams serves up a mystery that's a real peach... Ella Mae LeFaye's Charmed Pie Shoppe is wildly popular in Havenwood, Georgia—which is not surprising since Ella Mae can lace her baked goods with enchantments. The shop's extra...

As the first female police chief in Pecan Springs, Texas, Sheila Dawson has cracked many a mystery in collaboration with local sleuth China Bayles. Now Sheila puts her smarts to work, sifting through secrets to find a killer on the pr...

The New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club series returns with three intrepid ladies who know their way around a kitchen-as well as a crime scene…   Petra, Suzanne, and Toni may have lost their husbands, but they've found new...

It promises to be a busy week for Hannah Swensen. Not only is she whipping up treats for the chamber of commerce booth at the fair; she's also judging the baking contest; acting as a magician's assistant for her business partner's hus...

Brace yourself for an "ELECTRIFYING and THOROUGHLY SATISFYING" read(Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue GraftonMalek Construction is a mega-million-dollar company that grew out of modest soil to ...

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...

BONEFIRE OF THE VANITIESCarolyn HainesA porn-star-turned-psychic has made a business of reuniting grieving relatives with their dearly departed and it's up to detective Sarah Booth to find out…why? Her claim to beyond-the-grave fame...

IIt's 1943, and the war escalating in Europe and the Pacific seems far away. But for aspiring actress Rosie Winter, the war feels as if it were right in New York City—what with food rationing and frequent blackouts . . . and a ...

It's an old adage that too many cooks spoil the broth. But when a tour of the White House kitchen by a group of foreign chefs ends in murder, it's Olivia Paras who finds herself in the soup… Due to a government sequester, entertaini...

Booby Trap is book four in this award-winning series starring the plus-sized, middle-aged, and whip-smart Odelia Grey. Could Dr. Brian Eddy, plastic surgeon to the rich and famous, possibly be the Blond Bomber serial killer? Odelia w...

Every wedding hits a snag or two ...those simple little mishaps that you laugh about later. So Savannah and her fiance, Dirk, take it in stride when their planned wedding hall is damaged by a major brush fire. They chuckle at their ba...

Gluten-free baker Toni Ryder may not cook with wheat, but when there's a criminal on the loose, she'll do what it takes to figure out who has their finger in the pie… Even though Toni is used to going against the grain by preparing...

New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich praised bestselling author Rhonda Pollero's first mystery Knock Off as 'a great read with plenty of attitude!' Now paralegal Finley Anderson Tanner (F.A.T. to her enemies) is back for ...

When housekeeper extraordinaire Lois Meade hires Enid Abraham, a young girl from a scandalous family, she becomes swept up in a tide of vicious lies, strange occurrences, and murder. Reprint.

The perfect next course in the New York Times-bestselling series-plus dozens of recipes from Abbotsville's best cooks Autumn's crisp bite is in the air, but Miss Julia soon discovers that, alas, leaves aren't the only things falli...