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Maggie May Carver is a bit bored waiting for the new pet resort to open. So when she finds out that the daughter of one of her former barkery customers was murdered and the case was never solved, she decides to investigate.It's tricky enough to find a...

When Maggie May Carver moved to Baker Valley, Colorado she wanted two things: to open a dog barkery with her best friend, and to take care of her aging grandpa.But when her grandpa is accused of murder--a crime he may well have committed--Maggie finds...

""Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand""- Neil ArmstrongDo you know JJ (Jasmine Jackson)?She is wise like a fox, that's why she is an amazing P.I.JJ was investigating on a murder case which somehow turned in...

Broke, unemployed barista Halley Greer is shocked when she inherits an Art Deco movie palace from the great uncle she remembers meeting once as a child. She moves to the charming tourist town of Utopia Springs, Arkansas to claim her legacy.In addition to...

“Johnson offers readers humor, heart, and unexpected plot twists, painting a portrait of a California beach town peopled with endearing characters. With a smart, sympathetic protagonist, lots of colorful details, and even tips on creating trompe...

After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies an unknown bust of the young, beardless Johannes Brahms in a local antique store, and happily acquires it...

The Fallen Angels Book Club has only two requirements: the members must love books and have a white-collar criminal record. Hollis Morgan fits the bill. Left holding the bag in an insurance fraud scheme concocted by her now ex-husband, she served her...

While in Stratford, widow Sheila Malory always stays with her old friend, actor David Beaumont. On this visit she finds him in dire straits: his career is on the skids and his finances are in ruins. Unless he can convince his penny-pinching brother...

A woman is strangled and shot. She was last seen alive at a casino near Santa Fe. Forensic Psychologist Jemimah Hodge is on the case, as is her new boyfriend, Sheriff Rick Romero. The trail has already grown cold when another woman is murdered under...

The Mayflower Society is about to hold its annual meeting at Washington D.C.'s swanky gathering place for the elite, the Continental Club. That means Kit Marshall's upper-crust future in-laws, Buffy and Winston Hollingsworth, are coming for a...

The sleepy seaside town of Taviscombe has more than its share of gossips and schemers. It also has Mrs. Sheila Malory, a widow whose gift for judging character and unmasking murderers is as impressive as her knowledge of nineteenth-century literature...

“This delicious novel is a genre all its own — Italian neorealism meets feminist noir. I can’t wait for more Verasani in English.”  — Sara ParetskyAt first glance, Private Detective Giorgia Cantini is not a pretty sight...

In the fourth book of the Josephine Fuller mystery series, Jo visits the California wine country after getting a note from filmmaker and winery owner Wolf Lambert. She discovers a dead body in one of Wolf's wine barrels, and her friend Thelma, a...

ABOUT THE BOOK:In the swarthy desert metropolis of San Bernardino a robbery of a diamond drawer and subsequent shooting of three shoppers at the then new J.C. Penny department store leaves two dead and a heist ring on the loose. The year is 1957. A close...

When a Palm Beach widow dies, the dispute over her will turns deadly in this “breathlessly paced legal thriller” from a New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly).When wealthy Palm Beach dowager Althea Tillett dies under...

“Suspense builds” as a tropical storm and a crazed killer bear down on Connor and Quintana in the Florida Keys, in the New York Times–bestselling series (Library Journal).   Despite storm warnings, lawyers and lovers Gail Connor...

Attorney Gail Connors must look to her past to discover who is threatening her family this “gripping . . . riveting thriller” (Publishers Weekly).Gail finally has everything she wants—a home to call her own, a growing private...

In the “riveting” finale to the New York Times–bestselling series, Miami lawyer Gail Connor is caught between the CIA, the Cuban government, and her husband (Publishers Weekly).   Now married to fellow attorney Anthony Quintana,...

Edgar Award Finalist: This Miami crime thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author is “an exhilarating debut [and] a sizzling page-turner” (Publishers Weekly).   Gail Connor is a fast-rising attorney in a major South...

This “fast-paced” thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author pits iron-willed Miami attorney Gail Connor against the man she loves (Publishers Weekly).   After splitting up with her fiancé, Anthony Quintana, Gail is...

Attorney Gail Connor is out to save a wrongly convicted man from execution in this “thought-provoking mystery” from the New York Times–bestselling author (Publishers Weekly). No one in the quiet coastal town of Stuart, Florida, can...

New York Times bestseller: Miami attorneys Gail Connor and Anthony Quintana are back in action in this “complex, involving tale” (Booklist).   Now running her own private law practice, Gail has taken on the Miami Opera as her first...

Kate, along with M.J., her fashion-challenged paralegal and Sam, her obsessive compulsive investigator, are off and running on another investigation with more twists and turns than a tilt-a-whirl. She is joined by an interesting cast of characters, many...

In the shadow of the Mormon church, a 19th-century conspiracy is about to be shattered by a 21st-century forensic artist. In 1857, a wagon train in Utah was assaulted by a group of militant Mormons calling themselves the Avenging Angels. One hundred and...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

When her parents die from fever, Lady Sarah Montgomery Baird Watson-Wentworth has to leave India, a land she was born and raised in, and travel to England for the first time. Finding it almost impossible to adjust to London society, Sarah flees to the...

A blizzard of murders in snowbound Dundee! Dead bodies proliferate. Nuns, prostitutes, and a henpecked husband! Is anyone safe? DI Shona McKenzie investigates multiple murders, unsure how many killers she is seeking.Will She succeed before the death toll...

This collection includes novellas seven through nine in the Madison Keith Suburban Noir Ghost Story series: Last Chance, Eaten Alive, Empty Home. Even though she doesn't believe in them, Pastor Kate believes she's been assaulted by a ghost in the...

Just because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark and handsome, is that any reason to kill him? The reluctant and quirky PI, Lee Alvarez, doesn't think so. The 34-year old, half Latina, half WASP and one-hundred percent...

In "The Paradise Table," a Kate Grace Mystery, an Amazon Best Seller, and Spencer's follow-up novel to her award-winning "Lady in the Window," a year after the tragic loss of her beloved mother, freelance lifestyle writer Kate...

Nigel Pritchett was the first murder victim in Throckmorton since 1934. When Margo Monroe gets a message from him on the day of his funeral, she is concerned but not terribly surprised--she's a professional ghost hunter, and her boss was the late...

Ooh-la-la, who doesn't love a Frenchman? Merle Bennett goes back to France -- and her Frenchman -- in this fifth installment of the Bennett Sisters mysteries. Sure that La Belle France will cure all her ills, and help her write a novel about the...

            Lily Kovner, nicknamed the Jewish Miss Marple, accidentally spies a familiar-looking painting hanging in the unlikely setting of a shabby restaurant in Vatican City. Simon Rieger,...

Over the years the tide brought many foreign and mysterious things to the shores of Texada Island. On this morning, though, it was the body of Ernie Tsan, a quiet but powerful labour activist who fought for the safety of local miners, that washed ashore...

A female fighter pilot is drawn into a murder investigation in Hong Kong.

Too good to be true?Just as Detective Cris Steele thinks she has outran her past and finally has something going right in her life, she gets dealt another blow when her best friend and husband, Luke, is killed right in front of her. Chief Jeff Bolton...

HER MOTHER'S SINS Book One of the Award-Winning Arina Perry Mystery Suspense Series.A NEW LOVE - AN ULTIMATE DECEIT In order to move onto her future, she must first come to terms with her past. Ten years after escaping the brutal small-town...

Daylesford, a beautiful old village in the Victorian Highlands has just gained two new residents. Ex-nuns Audrey and Jill are about to hit town... Leaving behind them decades of convent life, they are coming to live with Audrey’s cantankerous old...

The Oasis Bed and Breakfast officially opens for business when the O'Shay Family invites the whole town of Spencer City, Connecticut to share their Thanksgiving dinner. The day is spent reminiscing with family and good friends sitting on every available...

An Air Force test pilot is accused of handing over the plans of a prototype secret missile to a Russian agent. The pilot dies during a test flight in a crash rigged by Russian agents. The actual act of espionage is accidentally witnessed by an old...

The small town of Stone, Virginia is about to get the show of its life. The president is coming for an appearance, and his aids have a surprise. When a staged assassination plot starts to unravel, Millicent Van Horn, tries to clear her brother's name,...

Ghosts are real.... They come out and play after dark at the 1886 Crescent Hotel and Spa, the most haunted hotel in America. Worthy of its very own Grimms Fairy Tale, the massive stone structure towers above the Victorian village in Eureka Springs,...

Madison Moore has been estranged from her family for years, but when her dying father summons her home, she reluctantly makes the trip back to the place that still evokes heartache. Her family's reception is lukewarm. They still hold the strict religious...