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Inheriting a dog walking business with a high-end clientele in San Francisco isn't the worst thing that could happen to Lemon Lister. But when one of her canine clients finds a disembodied foot outside the art museum, she reconsiders her luck.Things get...

Once a small town girl, Detective Kat Gonzales is now the only female detective in the Corpus Christi Police Department. Her colleagues mostly ignore her. Being overlooked can be helpful when she wants to break the rules, but she's tired of struggling...

Come see how the Rich, Famous and very Naughty live in Palm Beach. Share the wealth, and the fun as Bell-Eye the famous dectective rolls with the Rich, and Famous and absolutely foils the Naughty. Did I tell you that Bella works for the very wealthy...

To escape arrest for her best friend’s murder, Vejay must find the real killer—before it’s too lateIn the small woodsy town of Henderson, California, the electric company is strict about sick days. So when meter-reader Vejay Haskell...

Former medical examiner Kiernan O’Shaughnessy investigates a scandalous suicide in a Catholic church   Quick-witted, precise, and comfortable with corpses, Kiernan O’Shaughnessy was perfectly suited to life as a medical examiner. In her...

Drugs in a bag in a box. Hunters hunting. The hunted waiting.Alina Popov doesn't trust Aiden. He's a killer tasked with keeping her safe from the mafia looking for her and her brother and the drugs they think he's stolen. Alina doesn't...

A young woman begs Sherlock Holmes to help find her missing fiancé, but the great detective makes an uncharacteristic mistake. Then Sherlock's daughter, Lucy James, takes on a missing person case of her own.But Lucy must also keep a...

Gemma Halliday, NYT Bestselling Author describes The Adventure of the Murdered Midwife as "a vivid picture and transports you back in time, in what I'm sure will become a bestseller....A classic in the making!"Arthur Conan...

Nancy Caldwell uncovers a pirate mystery that had the Old Salts of Cape Cod wondering for close to 300 years in the historical fiction, The Old Cape House. Was she lucky or a good detective? Nancy returns in The Old Cape Teapot, the second in a series,...

Nancy Caldwell relocates to an old sea captain's house on Cape Cod with her husband and four children. When she discovers an abandoned root cellar in her backyard containing a baby's skull and gold coins, she digs up evidence that links her land...

A Fourth of July parade, 89 feral cats, and a missing author. It’s nothing Lia and her schnauzer can’t handle.While the dog park gang trains their fur-babies to participate in Northside's famously eccentric Fourth of July parade, starving...

Cass Claymore, a red headed, motorbike riding, ex-ballerina inherits a Detective Agency, and accidently employs an ex-con dwarf and an octogenarian. Hired by a client who should know better, Cass has no leads, no clue and a complete inability to solve a...

After five people are poisoned at a company’s pre-Christmas party, the police have local coffee shop proprietor, Cara Ballard, in their sights as the prime suspect. Their investigation focuses on proving her guilty rather than investigating other...

In the woods they lay, sleeping in shadow, far from the lightWhen her friend Maureen dies, seventeen-year-old Nell Brannerly flees the tavern where she’s been trapped for years, taking with her Maureen’s young son, EbenOn the lonely road to...

Viola Stewart returns for a third set of adventures. Viola needs a holiday. But even at the beach, or partying on the Grand Tour of Europe, there are things afoot. The Gadgeteers are lobbying for merchant rights in the Empire. The Men in Grey are keen to...

Aunt Enid's back, but something's changed...A deal with fairies... to solve a mystery... and prevent a war.Fairies and magic: It's all real!Enid Turner is invited to a picnic in honour of the creator of the world's most famous detective, currently on a...

WitchSecretsJeopardy Lily Thomas just wants to live a normal life and to run her ice cream shop. Except her heritage as a witch won't leave her alone. Now her visions are coming more frequently and screwing up her life. If she could just get a...

A carnival of murder has arrived. But who will have the last laugh? Autumn is upon the cozy town of Clovedale Falls, and twins Rita and Rhonda Knight look forward to a beautiful season of pumpkins, bonfires, crisp evenings, and hot apple cider...

Is there a killer on the Cornish coast?When a high-profile case hits D.I. Rachel Morrison's desk, she's faced with no leads, no witnesses, and no body.Local people have gone missing, and the pressure to find answers is mounting.Amanda Walker's mother has...

Animal rescue is a deadly business.  Murder is the last thing on Kat Harper's mind when she shows up for the Furry Friends Foster Families benefit dinner. But that's exactly what she gets when one of the guests drops dead. Now the focus of the...

"Emily se tenait devant lui, un mélange d'émotions la traversait. Elle avait toujours su que sa mission l'obligeait à faire des sacrifices, à s'immerger dans un monde de tromperie et de danger. Mais les actions de Victor...

Meet Kat Harper, small-town girl turned amateur sleuth. Can she solve the mystery of her animal-loving neighbor's murder without getting killed herself?  Kat hasn't been back in her childhood hometown of Cherry Hills, Washington, very long before a...

When the past and the present collide . . .  Kat Harper doesn't anticipate being dragged into an unsolved cold case when a friend asks her to meet with a difficult student. Now the more Kat learns about Julie Conway, the more convinced she becomes...

Single mom Betsy Holmes gets more drama than she bargained for when her mother Claudia drops a bomb that rocks her to the core: Betsy's father wasn't alone the night of his fatal car crash three years ago. Determined to prove Claudia wrong, Betsy...

When Lucy Larkin moves in with her gay uncle Frank in the small town of Serenity Bay, she doesn't expect to get caught up in a murder investigation.But when local artist Marcus Briggs is found dead at the site of a controversial rainbow crosswalk, Lucy...

An angry ghostA relationship at riskAnd a case that hits far too close to home Gabriella has been uneasy about the ghost in her mother's new house since she first learned about its presence. Her mother insists Agatha is harmless, at least until an...

Exploring Put-in-Bay pirate-style, best friends Francie and June once again find themselves in pursuit of a Lake Erie Island murderer. Labor Day weekend has South Bass Island transformed into a pirate's paradise featuring a competitive scavenger hunt,...

It's December, 1985. James Cote has been able to reconcile with his family over the summer, and things are just about back to normal. But Lettice's family is about as far from normal as she is.While preparing for Christmas in California, Lettice's...

It's August, 1985, and private investigator James Cote has a problem.Actually, he has several. His wife Lettice is unemployed, over-active, and bored out of her skull. The cheating husband he'd been tailing for two weeks has been killed by his...

Twenty-eight-year-old university grad Alysha Grant is not sure she wants the family property she's inherited. This wasn't part of her life goals and would mean putting her own plans on hold. Currently living in a large city, and focused on her...

You don't need a green thumb to save your friends.I've faced some stubborn people as an apprentice to a private investigator, but they all paled in comparison with the resistance I met now.Spring has made everything bloom, including Tracy's love life...

Justice is blind. Tracy isn't.If I had a bucket list, jury duty wouldn't be on it. Luckily, I had a way out-but I might regret taking it.Jury duty isn't exactly at the top of Tracy's bucket list-not that she has one. But then she's offered an unexpected...

In 1946 Daisy and her friend Beatrice decided to move to Paris, because they were fed up with limping London, still crippled and depressed in the aftermath of the war. And indeed, in the spring of that year, Paris was the place to be-isn't it always? In...

Agnes Lockwood regresa a Tyneside, solo para tropezar con otro cadáver.Durante su primera visita, ayudó a la policía a resolver un asesinato y logró una buena reputación como detective aficionada. Ahora, simplemente quiere reunirse de nuevo con Alan...

In a leafy suburb of Shanghai lives Li Yang: a local employed by various foreign families to take care of their needs.It's the turn of the millennium, and China is evolving. At the centre of the dynamic change is the vibrant hub of Shanghai, a melting...

The first three books in Robin Murphy's 'Marie Bartek & The SIPS Team', a series of psychic mystery novels, now in one volume!Sullivan's Secret: Dr. Marie Bartek's psychic abilities suddenly return after eighteen years. Together with her best friend,...

A advogada Jamie Quinn está em um hiato de seis meses sem exercer a profissão para lidar com a morte de sua amada mãe. Raramente saindo de casa, ela passa a maior parte de seus dias com o gato mal-humorado de sua falecida mãe.Mas logo, Jamie é forçada a...

Life is finally good for reluctant family law attorney James Quinn.Her father may get his visa soon, her boyfriend is the bomb, and her law practice is growing like crazy. But when she agrees to take on a high-profile divorce case, everything falls apart...

Si fueras el padre de una hija de veinticinco años, que es una estudiante perpetua desempleada y que viene con su gato, ¿qué harías?Rachel y Joe, que se han retirado a un condominio para mayores de 50 años, deben ejercer un amor duro con su única hija,...

Someone has decided to make life difficult for Jamie Quinn's boyfriend, Kip Simons: the new director of Broward County parks.There is trouble in the park, but who's the culprit? Is it the angry supervisor passed over for promotion, or the disgruntled...