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The bestselling DIXIE DIVAS mystery series continues!Trinket and her pals are, once again,caught in the middle of a murder scene..."Professor Sturgis is dead.""Hah!" replied my cousin/best friend/partner in mayhem. "I'm not...

In the blink of an eye...Quinn Sterling-part-time investigator and owner of Sterling Farms-expected the day to go well. Expected all of Craven County to put in an appearance at the much-anticipated, annual Fourth of July celebration on the farm grounds...

It’s almost Christmas and Sheriff Ben Bradley and his wife, Mae, are expecting twins. All is quiet in Rosedale until elderly Mrs. Cooper falls off her porch. She is taken to Rosedale General and later dies. The Sheriff suspects foul play, but the...

A Case of Strange Alliances is the first book of a trilogy. The story takes place in the 1980s. We meet Mariam Al Saffat, a 1960s activist who has gone mainstream but still has radical underpinnings. A divorced mother of three, she has earned an...

Violet Strange is a one of New York's most popular socialites, but she leads an unusual double life. When not attending high-class soirées, she spends her time as a private investigator, delving into the underbelly of New York to solve a variety of...

Lynley Cannon is the crazy cat lady, but she's not quite crazy yet, though a bizarre connection to a bumbled heist and a double homicide has got her wondering. Retiree Lynley Cannon adores her old Portland home with her clowder of rescue cats, but...

Brainy Gabe and cowboy-booted Zoe never fit in. She's unaware she intimidates designer-clad boys. Uppity girls are threatened by her. Gabe is destined for greatness. Now a fabulous bundle of sexy, he wants the mother suspected of murder. So does the...

When a desperate young man strikes in Kettering, killing a woman and injuring several others, Detective Inspector Caitlin Murphy's world is turned upside down. Just as she begins to grapple with the aftermath, another body is discovered at Lac...

OLD CONSPIRACIES, NEW COLD-BLOODED MURDER When Darlene Johanson, a young librarian in Ottawa, Ontario, goes missing, private investigator Baker Somerset soon discovers a tangled web that leads her to a decades-old murder. Darlene's great-aunt Loretta, a...

The Sisters of the Soil meet up again for fun times and good food - this time in Newfoundland - where Hannah, from the U.K., makes an extraordinary find outside Rhodo's saltbox house by the sea. She insists it's worth a fortune. But is she right?The...

Holly Day is a feisty, thirty eight year old, very new, private investigator. Her best friend, Lucy Knight, who was conceived at the Nimbin Aquarius Festival, wants Holly to discover the identity of her unknown father. During her investigations Holly...

Burned out and bitter after a string of disappointments, Nicola Strozyk takes a short-term gig assisting Laurie Sparks, the design world's reigning enfant terrible. Barely in his twenties, Laurie has built himself an empire encompassing a chic Manhattan...

Graves to the left, graves to the right, but there shouldn't be a body in sightWhen Hettie visits her friend Marlee at the Battye Library, she isn't expecting it to lead to a cemetery. And while she knows, of course, that there are bodies in a cemetery,...

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian MysteryA selection in Parade's roundup of "25 Hottest Books of Summer 2018" A Paste Magazine's Most Anticipated 25 books of 2018 pickA Medium's Books pick for We Can't Wait to Read in 2018 listFrom debut...

It's Diagnosis Murder meets All Creatures Great and Small...As a house-call vet, Ginny Reese has seen her share of the weird and wacky. But nothing in her previous experience could have prepared her to find one of her clients facedown in her own swimming...

When Louise Lemay, self-proclaimed typical snowbird, has a chance meeting with a "funny little woman", through which she meets her new friend Julia Novo, Julia tells her that it's not merely chance, but some type of divine guidance that brings together a...

Danger looms once again over Carli. With a murderer on the loose and sinister secrets unearthed, can she solve these mysteries without becoming a victim herself? She must, except she promised Manuel she wouldn't ... yet if she doesn't, will she survive...

When Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Lydia Manzo becomes lost in the woods of Maine, then is found dead, it sets off a chain of events that upsets the fragile peace of Redimere, Maine. While state investigators are sure Lydia killed herself, some in...

A dead body, a large inheritance from an ex-boyfriend, a scam netting three-quarters of a million dollars, and a love attraction throw Suzie Tuft's serene writing life into chaos.Textbook writer, Suzie Tuft, discovers a body near her rural home and...

A small town. A driven young woman struggles to run a new business. Secrets haunt her from the past. Violet Cleveland, an ex-covert-ops leader, is used to being on high alert and opens a private security firm with her close-knit former team. But...

Tied up, strangled, then discarded. Going undercover to solve a multitude of murders, will she make it out alive? Evelyn "Mac" McGregor is still grappling with taking a man's life. Six months after the fatal confrontation, the promoted sergeant...

A doctor, a lawyer, a couple of schoolteachers and writer were all part of the 109 assorted passengers off flight 1375. The passengers include those entering the first stages of their lives as well as those celebrating their later years and people in...

Mai 1144. Quelques mois à peine après leur mariage, Gareth et Gwen accompagnent le prince Hywel du Gwynedd dans une mission diplomatique en Angleterre. Dès leur arrivée, cependant, cette mission prend un tour inattendu et une nouvelle affaire de meurtre...

It'll be easy, she thought. A writer's retreat will be fun and simple. At least until the plot twists sideways, and the mentor is murdered. Sam is still reeling from her newfound telepathic talents when she and Connie agree to host what should be a...

When an unpopular councilman dies at the launch party for Springdale's first organic food fair, everybody agrees it was an unfortunate accident. Everybody except Jessie Henderson. Jessie swore she wouldn't get involved in another investigation, but she...

Kyra Blackwood doesn't expect to find dead people when she spends the night in her hometown's most famous mansion. Orphaned at ten years old, Kyra spent seven years in foster care before running away from the city at 17. For the past twenty years,...

Jessie Henderson is happy running the coffee shop and preparing for a visit from her cousin Melanie. A high-profile murder has shaken the nearby town of Rockfield, but Jessie's not getting involved this time. Why would she? Rockfield is miles away and...

Enjoy These Contemporary Small Town Mysteries Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple. This is a collection of books 1-3 in The Mercy and Justice Mysteries. This series is a sequel to The Father Tom Mysteries Father Tom Mysteries that began with The...

The perfect Christmas is made of snow, presents-and a murder.There's something to be said about Christmas in New York. It's loud, colorful, bright-and seriously competitive.Christmas shopping is fun-until someone ends up dead. Tracy fears that the killer...

In 1952 there were children everywhere. Or so it seemed to Daisy Hayes, blind since birth, who at the age of 29 had just tied the knot for the second time-to an intercontinental pilot. But on their first flight as a married couple an engine broke...

Max's ArkAs a rule I'm a very hospitable sort of cat, but when the storm of a century descended upon Hampton Cove and animals from all around started flocking to our home in search of shelter from the elements, it took some adjustment on my part. And...

Ende der 1990er Jahre wird vor der neuseeländi­schen Küste die Leiche eines jungen Maori geborgen. Jahre später treffen an der Ostsee zwei Frauen aufein­ander, die ein traumatisches Ereignis zu verbinden scheint. Doch was ist es, das Einke und Letty...

'I KNOW IT WAS MURDER - PLEASE HELP ME PROVE IT!'The Duke of Chellingworth's beloved butler is grieving his brother's death...but was it a really a tragic accident, or was it - as the man's widow believes - murder? Mavis and the dowager Althea offer the...

Tick Tock. The clock is ticking. In the shadows, a killer is lurking.... A naked female corpse smashes against the rough ocean waves, fifty yards from the rocky shore.Agent Tanya Stone jumps in to retrieve it before the tide pulls it away. But an...

A woman in a man's world.An enemy she never saw coming.Police officer Kate Murphy thought she'd left her tumultuous past behind when she married Matt, but nothing could be further from the truth.As problems and deceptions pile up both at home...

Replete with packet chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese, Stella Ryman paused just outside Fairmount Manor’s dining room, where she used the sleeve of her fleece warm-up suit to wipe the condensation from the streaked and fog-edged windows along...

Death is just a close shave away. It is February 1918. Somewhere in the bayside suburbs of Melbourne, the Death Mask Murderer is lurking, engaged in a ritualistic killing spree: shaving the heads of young women, strangling them and creating a...

Wedding bells are ringing, but who invited the ghost?Everly Dupree has begun to think her wedding is cursed. First, the dresses get ruined, and the invitations are wrong. Now, a freak spring snowstorm collapsed the roof of her venue. What else could go...

Sassy's best friend and neighbor is nose-deep in plans for her daughter's wedding. But the fun of deciding on music, florists, and cake is shattered when Lottie's husband surprises her with divorce papers as well as his "new" fiancé. Brittni is a walking...

Valentine's Day in Locust Point brings love, puppies...and murder! Everyone is enchanted by Olive's new puppy-even an initially wary Taco. Thinking she might want to add a furry friend to her own home, Daisy convinces Kay to go with her on a whirlwind...

Blinding headlights behind, now beside her. Curve ahead, she slams the brakes. It misses, smashes through the rail. She hears it strike the rocks below. Silence, only the darkness. Her arms shake. In the city, headlights again. The ship, the Marines will...

His son's coach is dead. As a favor, she agrees to investigate. But are some questions too dangerous to answer?After solving a crime but losing a friend, Chicago lawyer Quille C. Davis' plans for the summer are to have fun, catch up on her law practice,...

South Regent Mansions has all the modern conveniences . . . including murderLondon, February, 1924. Discreet sleuth for the high society set, Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she's made several friends,...

A dead Baron. A missing emerald. And way too many suspects.Amateur sleuth Molly Sutton has her hands full this time! Shut out of Castillac’s latest murder case andrunning out of money, she’s praying for a brilliant scheme or at least...

A beautiful corpse. Zero clues. Peace in Castillac shattered once more. When another native of the French village is found dead, Molly and the gendarmes are stumped. Complicating matters, Ben is hired to defend Molly’s prime suspect. Uh oh,...