The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon's death is raising too many questions and pro...

When a boy is accused of a shocking mass murder, only his grandmother is convinced of his innocence. When she hires Spenser to investigate, the inquiry grows more harrowing with every unexpected turn REVIEW; Spenser returns! A high po...

'The great strength of the Resnick series has always been Harvey's grasp of the mess and muddle of human life and his ability to find poetry in the midst of that mess. . . . The perfect end for a nearly perfect series.'-BooklistGuns a...

About the Mystery and the Minister's Wife series: Escape to the charming town of Copper Mill, Tennessee. Nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Copper Mill is a place of tradition and tranquility. But when Kate Hanlon ...

Gay activist and accused murderer Billy Blount's missing, but Albany PI Donald Strachey doubts Billy's guilt. The 1981 book that launched Richard Stevenson's pioneering series is a cracking mystery and a fascinating trip into bygone g...

Violent crime is a rarity on the tranquil shores of Martha's Vineyard, which is why Boston policeman J. W. Jackson turned in his badge to move to the idyllic isle. Free from the city and its violence, retired on disability, J. W. has ...

In Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can ge...

Six years after Dan Springer's wife is murdered and his daughter disappears, he receives a call that leads him through the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas and into the heart of rival mobs. In his quest to learn what others know, he fin...

The fifth and concluding episode in the prize-winning Ellis Portal mystery series.

Murder interrupts at a dog show and Genna and Sky must find the killer before the killer finds them. A fellow competitor is killed while exhibiting at a dog show and the killer targets Genna and Sky as his next victims.

Mystery / Pathology / Forensic Medicine. P"Help me! Please, someone help me!" PNo one, but the killer, was there for Sarah. PBuck crouched and rolled out of the way as his horse made a screaming sound of terror, tum...

Portuguese Irregular Verbs begins a deliciously entertaining new series by the best-selling author of 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. The many fans of Precious Ramotswe will find further cause for celebration in the protagonist o...

In 1960s New Orleans, a sniper has killed five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. Though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make sens...

Drifter John Walker has no friends, but he's so engaging that Maxie invites him over for dinner. The next day he moves on-and is later found dead in his motel room. What looks like a simple suicide quickly grows more complicated when ...

Looking out his window, Fiddler can't help thinking that California's Gold Coast is pretty damn close to Paradise, even if that is a cliche. But he's about to catch a glimpse of the shady side of this sun-drenched Eden, thanks to his ...

Retired National Security Agency code breaker Winston Crisp thought his career of delving into dark, unpleasant secrets was long over when he retired to a peaceful Penobscot Bay island. Little did he know he would be called upon to so...

The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol—not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of Evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a mercenary, a footloose adventurer, or simply a screwball sucker for h...

After being discharged from the United States Marine Corps, Stan ends up in Dallas where he intends to finish law school. In the spring of 1976, while attending SMU, he is recruited into the republican party, elected county chairman, ...

Jim and Otis Rice came to the conclusion that some help in the office was needed. Paperwork on both ends of their law and investigation office was piling up. Little did they know, they were about to embark on one of the most challengi...

When Detective Gene Statton of The Volunteer, and his bride, Jenny, buy the old homestead on the Red Creek Road that used to belong to Gene's family, they make a startling discovery. While renovating the house, Gene finds a letter hid...

Hap Collins has just returned home from a gig working on an off shore oil rig. With a new perspective on life, Hap wants to change the way he's living, and shoot the straight and narrow. That is until the man who stole Leonard Pine's ...

'Unlike too many other fictional PI's, Fiddler has aged well. . . . The plots are well-hewn, the dialogue crackling, the bad guys among the very baddest. . . . From the yachty Newport crowd and the oenophiles of Napa to the dream-seek...

About the Mystery and the Minister's Wife series: Escape to the charming town of Copper Mill, Tennessee. Nestled in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Copper Mill is a place of tradition and tranquility. But when Kate Hanlon ...

Long-arm quilter Harriet Truman and her quilt group the Loose Threads set off for what should be an enjoyable week of stitching at the Angel Harbor Folk Art School, where member Lauren Sawyer is attending a two-year program in part to...

A derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take the real detective/writer Lew Griffin into his own past.

Lew Griffin is alone in the dark in his old New Orleans house. Behind him, on the bed, is a body. He thinks if he doesnt speak, doesnt think about what happened, somehow things will be all right.

As black private detective Lew Griffin pursues a seemingly hopeless missing-person case through the steamy French Quarter of New Orleans, he realizes that his own life has come to resemble those of the people he is attempting to find.

You probably haven't ever noticed them. But they've noticed you. They notice everything. That's their job. Sitting quietly in a nondescript car outside a bank making note of the tellers' work habits, the positions of the security guar...

Three seemingly unrelated murders crop up during the investigation of a decade-old chemical dump that plagues a rural community west of Nashville. Sid Chance, a former National Parks ranger whose career as a small town police chief wa...

New in the 'addicting' New York Times bestselling series featuring Sookie Stackhouse. After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone'human and otherwise'is stressed, includ...