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Secrets Have a Way of Coming Back Detective Ivy Bishop, fresh from cracking a high-profile case, is haunted by a night she can't remember, with her family gone and her past a blur. Oakhurst is barely back on its feet after dealing with a serial killer...

It's All Come Down to This… Following the massive revelations about her family and the Organization that killed her husband, Special Agent Emily Slate had hoped she was finally on the right track to take them all down and finally find the...

"Don't make me ask twice." After coming to terms with her husband's death, Special FBI agent Emily Slate thought she'd finally be able to move on with her life. But when the assassin who has been hunting her shows up on her front door with a gun in...

"Budewitz's finely drawn characters, sharp ear for dialogue, and well-paced puzzle make Jewel Bay a destination for every cozy fan." -Kirkus Reviews  "Clean-as-a-whistle dialogue, endearing characters, and a solid plot make this cozy a winner."...

Murder Strikes a Sour Note Erin Murphy, manager of Glacier Mercantile (aka the Merc), is tuning up for Jewel Bay's annual Jazz Festival. Between keeping the Merc's shelves stocked with Montana's tastiest local fare and hosting the festival's kickoff...

A headless body washes up on the shores of western Oregon... And newly-minted Detective Ivy Bishop has been assigned the case. Having been abandoned by her family when she was twelve and navigating much of her young life on her own before joining the...

Who do you trust when everyone is a suspect? In the seedy underbelly of the nation's capital, a drug deal gone wrong ignites a firestorm which threatens to pull the entire city into a gang war.Special Agent Emily Slate, still investigating the...

Boom. Fresh off her explosive return to her hometown, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself facing her worst fear: the possibility of losing her best friend. Agent Zara Foley, Emily's ride or die, has disappeared during an undercover...

If a gun goes off and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? When an innocent hiker is gunned down in the middle of the woods, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself back in the town where it all began, looking for answers. After some...

You never know what's hiding behind your walls. Special Agent Emily Slate is a woman on a mission. Someone is sending her letters written in her dead mother's handwriting, and she's not about to stop until she finds out why. But when she...

A shot rings out, piercing the night… Following her return from a case that has turned her world upside down, Special Agent Emily Slate finds herself sidelined once more because of circumstances beyond her control. Instead of focusing on the...

A Haras of Horses - A Joy Forest Cozy MysteryDo you love horses? Do you love cozy mysteries? Then you'll love A Haras of Horses.The JOY FOREST COZY MYSTERY SERIES is a world of eccentric small-town people and small town strange events...

The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition provides a vibrant backdrop for this exciting mystery. Emily Cabot is one of the first women graduate students at the University of Chicago, eager to prove herself in the new field of sociology. While she is busy...

Step into the shadows of Raven's Hollow with "Ominous Visions, Grave Decisions: A Ghost Mystery" - a tale that intertwines murder, ghosts, and the emergence of a witch. In the aftermath of a life-altering call, I abandoned my Colorado herbal shop for the...

"Normally, I don't read cozy mysteries. I prefer hard-hitting, fist-in-the-face noirs. But I was given an advance copy of Fat Quarters ... and found I couldn't put it down. In fact, I went back and started reading the entire Quilters Club series. I fell...

The new mystery from A.J. Stewart, author of the bestselling Miami Jones series.Police Diver Samantha Waters embraces the frigid water off the British coast, but when a high-stakes rescue results in disciplinary action, Sam finds herself restricted to...

The wolf has been caged.Ariadne Willow has been framed for murder. Upon her arrival at the police station, she's given a choice: accept GG&M's offer in exchange for her freedom, or risk going up against GG&M in court. Ari refuses and is...

"I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday night than losing myself in one of Barbara Freethy's books. I love the Off The Grid series but I honestly think this one is my favorite. I have no doubt her next book will be awesome, too!" Booklovers...

The USA TODAY Bestselling Series . . . Now in Library/Bookstore Edition Laminated Hardcover!“TEMPLE BARR, public relations whiz, rocks Las Vegas with her sleuthing grit, wacky friends and sexy guys, cool cat sidekick, fast-paced action and...

A SURPRISING, ENGAGING, AND ENTERTAINING PAGE-TURNER..."Intriguing, with as many twists and turns as the Pennsylvania countryside it's set in." - CJ Lyons, New York Times Bestselling Author "Even better than her first book, Circle of Influence...As...

A poacher is at work in Sinful, Louisiana, and Deputy Carter LeBlanc is hot on the trail of the outlaw, trying to apprehend him before the state gets wind of the crime and sends a game warden to take over his investigation. Unfortunately, he's hindered...

Southern girl Verity Long needs a Christmas miracle.Verity is ready to deck the halls, jingle some bells, and maybe, just maybe have a merry Christmas with her boyfriend’s stuffy family. Truly, if she doesn’t extend the proverbial olive...

The Disappearance of Darcie MaloneBook 1 of the Emily Menotti Mystery SeriesOn a warm September night in 1969, a young couple embarks on a romantic midnight picnic on the grounds of a reputedly haunted house. By morning, the young girl has disappeared,...

A mysterious woman in black, appears at night.Arriving in horse and carriage.Stays at Kyrme Cottage, then at night - disappears.She always wears black lace.Abbey Combe's new Vicar vanishes overnight.A corpse found buried in the garden.Murder in Richmond...

A new cozy mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of the Paranormal Investigation Bureau series.Avery Winters was overjoyed to be brought back to life... unfortunately, the dead were waiting for her.Aussie journalist Avery Winters was...

A Vineyard. An Arsonist. A Murderer.People love wining and dying.When Private Eye Bettie English investigates a series of attacks on a vineyard, she realises a murderer lurks in plain sight.Livelihoods depend on Bettie.Gripping. Suspenseful...

Shocking. Intriguing. Thrilling. When Private Eye Bettie English survives an assassination attempt, she races against time to save herself, her family and the world.Bestseller Connor Whiteley's The Assassination Of Bettie English provides readers...

A Neo-Nazi Threat. Christmas In Trouble. One Woman To Save The World.Private Investigators solve tense crimes.When Private Eye Bettie English investigates a cyber threat with global implications, she races against time to save her family, Christmas and...

Within a short time of her arrival at The Creative Arts Centre, a front for the distribution throughout the UK of drugs financed by the proceeds of smuggled tobacco, DJ makes a grim discovery - the body of the undercover HMRC agent. What blew his...

'Fascinating subject matter, cozy characters, and tempting prose highly recommend this first title in an intriguing new British series.' - Library JournalFingerprints left on Time. This is the premise on which Peter Marsh - a former policeman...

Private Investigator Charlotte Lockwood is used to solving complex cases in the heart of Exeter, Devon. But when her friend Katrina becomes the victim of a malicious catfishing scam, Charlotte is pulled into a web of deception and betrayal.Things take a...

A disappearance. A murder. Two mysteries connected.Meet Angus Darrow, straight-laced, ex-police detective, turned private investigator. He's hired to find a missing vulnerable young man whose parents are convinced he's been co-erced into something bad...

'REPENT BEFORE YOU DIE ... OR MAY YOU NEVER R.I.P.'Threatening historic markers, vigilante killings, a Jewish community in an English town - what's the link? The clock is ticking to the next murder.After witnessing a racist incident in a small...

It's 1999. The cemeteries are cold. Heavy metal is wild.A detective with a deadly secret...A devilish album of hypnotizing satanic chants...A cloaked woman with hair like fire and eyes like ice...A house with a demonic hold...The burned remains of a...

From the author of The Pilot's Daughter and The Final Hunt comes a thrilling, suspense-driven mystery set in World War II-era Seattle.Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the...

A CAT'S CRADLE OF CRIME, A DOODLE TO DIE FOR, AND A GEM OF A COZY...Two murders before lunch is a pretty bad day in anybody's schedule, but when your sister's a suspect, you just want to howl at the moon. Thankfully, that would hardly be noticeable in...

Now that prize-winning photojournalist Callie Cassidy has returned to the mountainside village of her youth, she believes she's put crime scenes and corpses in her rearview mirror. So why does she end up-once again-focusing her lens on murder?Callie...

Jewel and Craig Mantelle made it through their kids' first visit to their island home, a fixer-upper inherited from Craig's long-lost aunt, but it didn't go as smoothly as Jewel had planned. Craig is now back in South Florida, not answering her calls,...

Don’t go in the woods…It begins with a bike ride on a sunny August day in 1975. Orla doesn’t know that murder, vengeful spirits, and a sinister asylum await her.Settle into this chilling, suspense-packed ghost story bound to keep you...

In Charles M. DuPuy's suspenseful mystery Easy Kill, book 1 of the E.Z. Kelly Series, readers will meet a new leading lady willing to kick her opponent's butt, whatever the circumstance. Will dangerous lady E.Z. Kelly succeed in finding...

"Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum." -Nelson DeMille, New York Times bestselling authorGina Marie Cototi is a feisty Sicilian sparkplug, a Brooklyn-based PI with a fondness for family, friends, and one...

When Phoenix probation officer Casey Carson goes to work, she expects naked people to answer doors, meth-addicted clients to hit on her, and angry judges to chew her out in court. After a routine home visit with a client, a Diablo gang member, goes...

In 1962, Dot Morgan was told the best thing she could do besides being a nurse or teacher was to learn to type. While attending secretarial school, she decides to rub elbows with an elite ladies' club to help her father with a struggling campaign for...

Leah Contarini can't stay out of trouble. She doesn't mean to get embroiled in solving crimes, it just happens. But not this time. Accompanying her folklorist husband Nick on his research sabbatical in Italy to study a...

Timorese police investigator Vincintino Cordero is assigned the case of two youths, rival gang members, found a week apart with their throats slit and a betel quid placed in their mouths. The case distracts him from spending time with FBI Agent Sara...

When Deborah Strong accepts an invitation for a reunion with high school friends who will all be turning fifty, she anticipates a lovely Fourth of July weekend in Maine. Her friend Brenda's summer house is rustic and beautiful, but from the moment...

A Fishing Trip Nets a Murderer in Dead Man Ohio, a Murder Mystery from T. M. Simmons-The Middle of Ohio-Our intrepid crew of ghost hunters is at it again, this time in Ohio, where ghosts from the state's past roam the woods, and mythological beasts exist...

Ghosts With Six-Shooters in Dead Man Hand, a Murder Mystery from T. M. Simmons-Red Dollar, New Mexico-Alice, Twila, Granny, Jack, Trucker, and Miss Molly are smack dab in the middle of another murder investigation, this time in a haunted hotel in Red...