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The little girl stares up at Tessa, trembling so hard her whole body shakes. Her brothers stand clutching her hands, both pale with shock. 'They told us not to speak,' she finally whispers. But the terror in her tear-filled eyes tells Tessa all she needs...

Forbidden Manuscript is the second book in duology Two Worlds: Magic Squad.It's been three years since the events of The Academy. Four friends have matured, and each of them works on their chosen path: Jackie is a lawyer helping victims of domestic...

Accident? Suicide? Murder?Montreal in 1969. The glory days of Expo 67 are fading and a home-grown separatist movement, the FLQ, is ramping up its terrorist activities. An old veteran dies; an accident, say the police, but his granddaughters Kit and...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman!The unluckiest woman in the worldReg acquires a client with terrible luck. Reg needs all of the psychic powers that she and Starlight possess to see Vivian King's future and what catastrophic accidents...

Riches to rags. ... Marriage is wonderful. ... Divorce can be ugly. ... Chaos surrounds both ...Doreen has had enough of her estranged husband's antics, but, when he shows up dead in the garden outside her favorite Chinese food restaurant, she's...

One of the richest men in Canada is shot dead in his Toronto mansion. The police are baffled. The victim's family call on Rachel Tile, head of the school of criminology at a Toronto university, to conduct an investigation. As the dead man's ex-wife,...

Set in the fictional town of Paddy's Arm, Newfoundland, Alice Walsh's debut mystery novel is at once harrowing and homey, equal parts police procedural and diner gossip. When Claire and Bram's only child dies suddenly, it at first appears to...

Can Ellie convince the police that her best friend's death wasn't suicide?Or accidental?Can she stay alive herself now that the killer knows what Ellie knows?And can she find a career in a city that cares more for what's on the outside than on the...

Murder's never been such a drag.In vibrant south-east London, a group of grannies stand guard. Baz, Peggy, Carole, and Madge bring new meaning to the phrase 'femme fatale' - they knit, drink tea, and dole out death to keep their community safe.When a...

Italy's newest mob boss and venture capitalist just happens to be Sophia Evalina Ricci Ventura, the curvy criminal who duped Isa Phillips into believing she'd turn evidence on her drug-dealing husband. But now Sophia's skipped out of the US and added...

The holiday season is a big deal for both OCD introverted fashion designer, Kalli Ballas, and boisterous extroverted Detective Nik Stevens... Their families go all out, but this is the first time Kalli and Nik will be spending it together as an...

NYT bestselling author Patricia Rice presents the sixth book of the Psychic Solutions Mystery series: What happens when the solutions aren't sensible?Head of the Sensible Solutions Agency Evangeline Malcolm Carstairs doesn't have time to puzzle out why a...

Detective Mattsen is haunted by memories of a cold case - the murder of her adoptive family ten years ago. Feeling nostalgic and melancholic after Christmas, she travels to Ashton Township in New York to investigate. As she delves deeper into the case,...

The holiday season turns deadly in the quiet town of St. Ives when two children stumble upon a frozen body at the local skating pond. As detectives Vikki Mattsen and Mike Gomez investigate the crime, they uncover a shocking truth: the victim was none...

When a small-town beauty queen and beloved schoolteacher is found brutally murdered, Detective Vikki Mattsen and her partner Mike Gomez are called in to investigate. As they delve deeper into the case, they discover a tangled web of secrets and lies,...

Detective Mattsen and her partner are called to investigate a chilling crime scene just days before Halloween. Cindy Kent, dressed as a vampire, has been found dead in the cemetery with a wooden stake through her heart. As they try to unravel the motives...

When a well-loved interior decorator and bed and breakfast owner is found dead in her home, Mattsen and her partner are tasked with solving the case. As they delve deeper into the investigation, they uncover a tangled web of secrets and lies and soon...

The circus has come to town, and Detective Vikki Mattsen is called to investigate when a talented performer is found dead under suspicious circumstances. But as Mattsen and her partner delve deeper into the case, they discover a twisted web of secrets...

Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time of gratitude and togetherness, but it becomes a nightmare for the Beecham family. When visiting her parents in St. Ives from California, Mary Beecham is shot dead after dinner, leaving her loved ones devastated and...

The sixth book in the Vikki Mattsen crime series follows the detective and her colleague as they investigate the murder of a professor of creative writing. When the victim's wife is caught with the murder weapon, the case seems cut and dry. But with the...

All Clare Lehane wanted was a new start. When her problem with pills costs her her job in Chicago, she moves to Money Creek in rural Illinois to take up her legal career in a small firm and remake her life. But old habits die hard, and she soon finds a...

Flynn County Sheriff Elle Ashley has spent her adult life atoning for her wild youth, but when she finds her ex, Jessie, murdered two weeks before the small town’s biggest social event, she comes face-to-face with her past and all her well-kept...

A locked-room mystery at a Paris mansion. A supposed ghost haunting a French family who looted treasure from Cambodia.A reclusive thriller author writing a novel in honor of historian Jaya Jones—is it a work of fiction or a devious device to lure...

Secrets run deep in the small town of Prescott, and Sarah Berman, an intrepid city reporter, has stumbled into a culvert of horrendous secrets, vile crimes, and abhorrent antisemitism, in her old hometown.Acting on an irrepressible impulse, she travels...

There is a serial killer on the loose! Lady Sheriff, Maxie O'Bryan, is determined to stop him.When he stalkes her own daughter, her determination doubles and she calls in a handsome Texas Ranger for assistance. Bill wants to do more than solve the...

A fast-paced Sci-Fi novel of adventure, mystery and romance on the Forbidden Colony of St. Antoni.  "Mix a Shoot 'em-up-Western with Science Fiction and Victorian Steampunk, add a little Mystery and a dash of Romance…"  After their crazy...

"He can't have followed me here!"States away from her home, the Shadow Man stalks out of the hotel bathroom and straight toward ASMR artist Averie Stardust. Days later the internet celebrity is found, bleeding in the middle of a lavender field...

All bets are off. After all she's been through, nothing will stop Kyra from finding her brother. Kyra has a new disguise--a new charade--that may prove infinitely more dangerous. She now stalks the Mire with gangsters and thugs, dodging a...

Packing up a client's home can be deadly business. Staying one step ahead of a killer is murder…The job sounded straightforward enough: organize the cross-country move for a divorced father and his children.Until a dead body turns up, and Kate's...

"As the house lights flared to life, piercing the darkness with clinical brightness, the Stonebridge Arts Center became a tableau of confusion and terror."In the heart of Stonebridge, Detective Eva Greenhouse grapples with a chilling case that threatens...

A wedding invitation. A dismembered body. A wealthy family and a string of murders.The third book in the Meg Mysteries series follows our protagonist, as she once again answers a cry for help.Tangled within a web of lies and deceit, Meg pursues an...

Set sail for murder and mayhem when hairstylist Marla Shore and her fiancé cruise to the Caribbean with a killer on board in this cruise ship cozy mystery.Hairstylist Marla Shore is looking forward to a romantic interlude with her fiancé, Detective...

Miss Marple meets Tony Hillerman in Death on the Rio Chiquito New Mexico, 1943: Emily Schwarz, the Anglo teacher at the isolated Pueblo of San Antonito, discovers the corpse of a nineteen-year-old boy, his blood mingling with the muddy waters of the...

Hoping to start afresh, Dr. Zachary Auckerman moves to a northern Canadian town in desperate need of a doctor. Within days of his arrival, he stumbles onto suspicious deaths and illegal activities at the nursing home, and encounters a fascinating female...

US Park Service investigators Doug and Jill Fletcher are dispatched to Hawaii when the bodies of two hikers are discovered near the Kīlauea volcano. Initially reluctant to accept the assignment, Doug becomes intrigued when he learns that the...

Someone wants Daisy McLaren dead, and she doesn't know why.Daisy is a small-town reporter with big dreams. When she is drawn to the site of a small plane crash in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, she discovers it's near a remote mountain road where...

A small-town girl fights to keep her world intact as a powerful family aims to destroy it.For Jacqueline Darcy, life is moving along as expected. Her job as a reporter, covering the small North Georgia town of Prescott, pays the bills. Barely. But she...