Introducing the Women's Murder Club--a quartet of San Francisco women who have teamed up to apprehend the city's most terrifying serial killer. They are, in no particular order: a journalist; a medical examiner; an assistant DA; and S...
Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Deja Dead -- and introduced '[a] brilliant heroine' (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temper...
Always packed with unrelieved tension and constant surprises, a new novel from Patricia Cornwell is cause for celebration. Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is called in to examine the remains of a woman found in a lan...
Forensics expert Temperance Brennan travels to Guatemala City to help investigators solve decades-old political murders, but when four new murders occur, Temperance realizes that someone in the Guatemalan political community might not...
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan No...
Kathy ReichsTemperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just anothe...
We predict amazing success for this brand-new mystery series starring Psychic Abby Cooper Abby Cooper is a P.I., psychic intuitive. But her insight failed her when she didn't foresee the death of one of her clients-or that the lead...
Visions of Sugar Plums: A Stephanie P...
Janet EvanovichChristmas in bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's world isn't quite like Christmas in Whoville. With only four days to go before December 25, she doesn't have a decorated tree in her apartment or any presents bought. Plus she's chasing ...
Shakespeare's Trollop (The Fourth Lil...
Charlaine HarrisShakespeare, Arkansas, is home to endless back roads, historic buildings, colorful residents--and the occasional murder. It is also home to Lily Bard, the local karate expert/cleaning woman with a particular knack for finding skeleton...
Better Read Than Dead: A Psychic Eye ...
VICTORIA LAURIEHired by a Mob boss who wants to use her psychic talents to assist in some of his business matters and who refuses to take no for an answer, Abby Cooper finds herself working for both sides of the law when the police ask her to use he...
A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden Myst...
Charlaine HarrisDeath comes calling on a small-town librarian whose life is passing her by. Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden's fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, jewelry, and a house...
This reworking of Patterson's second novel, VIRGIN (1980), features former nun turned private eye Anne Fitzgerald, who is hired to protect a rich Rhode Island teenager eight months pregnant--and a virgin. It seems that the Third Secre...
Rainie Connor joins the police force in the small town of Bakersville, Oregon, because she longs for a relatively peaceful existence. But when a Columbine-style high-school massacre takes place in the town, its peacefulness is shatter...
Cruel and Unusual: A Kay Scarpetta No...
Patricia CornwellTrying to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and police lieutenant Pete Marion race against time to find a killer after the fingerprints of a recently executed murderer turn up at a new crime scene. Reprint.
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Te...
Charlaine HarrisDeciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house showing. And when a second body is found in another house for sale, it becomes obv...
Stealing Shadows (Shadows Trilogy)
Kay HooperBurned out after she has helped the police solve one too many sordid cases, psychic Cassie Neill leaves L.A. for the peaceful town of Ryan's Bluff, North Carolina. Before long, however, Cassie senses the presence of an evil and sadist...
Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies De...
Alexander McCall SmithIn her second outing (following THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY), Precious Ramotswe tries to help a women whose son disappeared into the plains years earlier, while also dealing with a number of changes at the agency and in her per...
Grave Secret (A Harper Connelly Myste...
Charlaine HarrisLightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her sterother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as family. But as they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood re...
Southern belle-turned-private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney struggles to cope with her antebellum Delta estate's local ghost, who is determined to save her from spinsterhood, and with Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party, a lavish occas...
Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 L...
Alexander McCall SmithSleuth Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of a Botswana detective agency, and her assistant, Mma Makutsi, investigate two very different cases--the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official and the moral characte...
When an eccentric millionaire reassembles an English castle in Aspen Meadow, Goldy Shulz is hired to cater a banquet with authentic Elizabethan fare. When Goldy discovers a body lying in a nearby creek, someone she loves soon is in th...
Some Like it Lethal: A Blackbird Sist...
Nancy MartinThis humorous mystery is the third in the BLACKBIRD SISTERS series, which is set in Philadelphia and chronicles the adventures of Nora Blackbird, a cash-strapped ex-socialite employed as a society columnist, and her two sisters. In th...
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next...
Jasper FfordeJasper Fforde's third Thursday Next novel finds his heroine pregnant and working for Miss Havisham in the department of Jurisfiction. The legal stuff is getting her down, and a temporary assignment at the Well of Lost Plots, subbing f...
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)...
Jacqueline WinspearHaving served in the War to End all Wars, nurse Maisie Dobbs defies societal conventions by becoming a private investigator. After an apprenticeship with the esteemed investigator Maurice Blanche, Maisie sets out on her own to solve a...
Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski Novels)
SARA PARETKSYChecking up on empty family mansions for an old client, V.I. discovers the dead body of a missing reporter who disappeared during the McCarthy era, a find that is linked to two prestigious Chicago families and leads to her involvement...
The New York Times bestselling author of Prime Cut serves up another tantalizing tale of culinary mystery and suspense-as chef turned sleuth Goldy Schulz goes on live television to prepare a meal to die for--but discovers that murder ...
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No...
Alexander McCall SmithOverwhelmed by work at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe is further challenged by a strange intruder at her home, the appearance in her yard of a mysterious pumpkin, troubles at her husband's motorworks, and a visi...
Gourmet chef and sometimes amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz teams up with her professional mentor to cater a fashion photo shoot at a 19th-century mountain cabin. As Goldy stirs up mouth-watering delights for a group of rail-thin models an...
Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman...
Who can you trust when everyone you know is a lawyer? Mary DNunzio has been slaving away for the past eight years trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm. Shes too busy to worry about the crank phone calls tha...
A Veiled Deception (A Vintage Magic M...
Annette BlairA fun new mystery series from the author of Gone with the Witch. The right dress can be magic; the wrong one—murder! From the national bestselling author of Sensation's Witch series comes the new Vintage Magic mystery series, featur...