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For private investigator River Nightingale, the stakes are high, and her losses are twice as bad.River has already lost a partner to a better job, and now a truck has mowed down another partner and a key informant. Her surviving crew is reeling and dead...

Rivers don’t let rocks hold them back. River Nightingale has decided to blow past the rocky men in her life. She’s played by the rules for too long—especially when it came to her career as a cop. She was the top closer of cases for...

The shortest day of the year is anything but for C.o.P. Judith Anderson. A series of smash-and-grab robberies is threatening to derail the Christmas shopping season in the small Florida city where Judith Anderson is the new Chief of Police. Shoppers are...

While investigating the murder of her longtime hairdresser, amateur sleuth Patricia Falcon stumbles into a crisis of epic proportions. Her city has been infiltrated and the roots go years deep. It feels like every case she's worked has been leading to...

"This may just become my favorite cozy mystery series ..." - Marjory Sorrell Rockwell, author of the Quilters Club Mysteries.The Phantom Cooks -- Marcia Lambert, Jean Turlington, and Peggy Doyle -- those three friends in a small seaside town in Southern...

Sometimes the difference between trash and treasure is a matter of life and deathWelcome back to New Royal, Ohio, where the last descendent of its founding family, ninety-seven-year-old Viola Horup, has been bludgeoned to death in her mansion on an icy...

The Golden Girls meet Dirty Harry...With a family wedding on the horizon, these feisty amateur sleuths vow to make it the shindig of the century in three short weeks with food and fun for all. Then they discover wedding guests all over Georgia are being...

The Golden Girls meet Dirty Harry...When Hollywood A-listers swarm the small town of Summer Shoals, Georgia, for a celebrity funeral, Lillian takes in a temporary houseguest. She's put him up in Abby Ruth's empty bedroom, but after the charming visitor...

One of their own becomes a target...A voice on the phone says Jennifer's best friend has tragically died in a fatal fall at a national park. Her certainty that it was no accident starts TV reporter Elizabeth Danniher, with friends Mike, Tom and Diana...

Movies, murder and too much vodka ...Pepper Revelle is thrilled the Bohemia Bartenders' latest gig is in her backyard: a cocktail-themed film festival that draws all the usual suspects to Bohemia Beach. But good suspects are in short supply when a body...

Paris. Milan. New York. Franklin, Illinois? Aspiring design mogul and reluctant mob princess Lucie Rizzo dreams of taking the fashion world by storm. As the wisest of wiseguys will tell you, to go big, you have to start small. And a local charity fashion...

After Ali's cousin Nathan and his intolerable bride Isadora come to stay at the B&B, the honeymoon is cut short when Isadora is found dead at the bottom of a Lake Tahoe ski slope. With Nathan as the prime suspect, Ali is determined to prove he's...

The curious phrase written on the backing board of a misplaced portrait-your future is in the past-sounds like a curse to Kate Lambrose. Nevertheless, she highlights the missing family heirloom in her In Sight column, inviting her readers to join in the...

Meanwhile, Back in Deadwood ... the mystery and mayhem continue. Between the butchered body parts, creepy killers, dogged detectives, ghoulish ghosts, and ever-present TV cameras, Violet Parker's purple boots are itching to skedaddle. But there is no...

A haunted library is no place for a girl who can see ghosts, but when Verity Long stumbles on a dead body in the middle of the main reading room, she has to believe someone…even a dead someone…must have witnessed the crime.Her ghostly...

Ardis Cole is summoned to Russia to help Grant Merlin's friend, Nikolai Savik, locate a priceless marble statue called Neva. The life-sized sculpture vanished along with the artist, Nikolai's uncle Treve Savik, seven years ago. Most people believe Treve...

Not since the Great Jackalope Stampede of '58 has tumbleweed-choked Jackrabbit Junction, Arizona seen so much action. Claire Morgan is determined to unravel the mystery behind a stolen treasure before goons come gunning for it-and her family. But all...

Ardis reached out for the glowing jewel encased in its thick, crude mounting of gold. She gazed incredulously at the ring, unable to believe that she held in her hand the famous pirated Sea Star Emerald.When Ardis’ colleague, Red Michaels, is...

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend…until stolen ones begin to cause problems for Marta. She finds herself drawn into situations where the magnificent, stolen diamonds are wanted by some ruthless characters who don’t care who gets hurt...

When her stepfather dies, Miss Lois Cayley finds herself alone in the world with only twopence in her pocket. Undaunted, the intelligent, attractive, and infinitely resourceful young woman decides to set off in search of adventure. Her travels take her...

The Family Blood Ties continues to this 10th and final installment of this vampire versus vampire saga.She thought she had it all solved.Tessa's had a hell of a time tracking down the blood farm bosses. And it's not over yet. Just when she thinks she has...

Finally! A new book in the popular Shores Mysteries series!For the first time in thirty years, all the signs have returned to the waters off The Shores. Signs of a presumed gone, possibly legendary giant cod.A photograph is the only evidence the big one...

Ginger's the office's Go-To Girl. Whatever it is, she'll get it done almost before you finish asking.She's got an overflowing in-tray.But now someone's stolen the mince pies.A howdunnit office mystery for Christmas.

The ancient walled city of Canterbury has held many secrets over the centuries but none more mysterious than the death of Professor de Gray.Called in to evaluate the contents of his Tudor Manor House, Belinda and Hazel are confronted with a number of...

The third adventure for Belinda and Hazel continuing the pace and humour that readers have come to acknowledge and appreciate. Excitement and tension begin on the first day of filming a Restoration drama on location at the historic Jacobean mansion, Ham...

Two startling murders that replicate the death of a mediaeval English king and the discovery of a mysterious ancient tapestry lead Belinda Lawrence and her associate Hazel Whitby into a vortex of suspense involving a bizarre religious cult, an enigmatic...

The old lady's body lay at the foot of the stairs. The police believe it was an accidental fall that killed great-aunt Jane. Young Australian, Belinda Lawrence is convinced it was murder and when she inherits her great-aunt's ancient cottage and garden...

A body lies on the Giant's boot. Discord, as the master of secrets has been found. Can former spy Siobhan Duffy find the killer before they execute her former colleagues?When retired operative Siobhan Duffy sees the killing of her former master in the...

When a local woman is killed, police indifference leads a doctor to begin her own investigationIt is not unusual for Callie Hughes to see a dead body. As a part-time police doctor, she has seen more than most. And it was hardly unusual for her to be...

It's Christmas at The Shores. There's no snow yet, but there are so many outdoor lights that the tiny coastal village can be seen from space. Apart from Ian Simmons' place, and he's considered odd, there's only one house in the...

Hilary Quayle and her assistant, Gene, are asked to take on the publicity for an extravagant production of Macbeth to premiere at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum. Hilary had known the director many years ago in summer stock. Events proceed as usual in...

The plot of the popular daytime soap opera "Riverday" was melodramatic to be sure, but, as detective Hilary Quayle and her sometime lover Gene discover, it's not nearly, as tangled -- or as deadly -- as the drama its stars are acting out in real lifts...

The frantic fun-and-games atmosphere of New York's annual Toy Fair is the ironic setting for this tale of murder and industrial intrigue.Hilary Quayle is an attractive, young public relations consultant who has long harbored the desire to be a detective...

A room with a view… to murderJune 1933. Independent young Kitty Underhay has been left in charge of her family’s hotel, The Dolphin, on the tranquil English coast. She’s expecting her days at the bustling resort to be filled with...

Nat has identified the evil menace stealing Oxford's magic. Can she stop them before it is too late?Natalie, Kate and Mathilde know who is wreaking havoc on Oxford's magic. Now their challenge is to ensure they are brought to justice. When a film...

A majestic castle by a Scottish loch, a glass of whisky by a roaring fire, stockings hung by the chimney... and a body? It's a midwinter murder for Kitty Underhay! Winter, 1935. Lightly dusted with snow and nestled on the edge of a sweeping Scottish...

Saddle up for this first class historical mystery, perfect for fans of Helena Dixon and Verity Bright.London, 1918Fiona Figg finds herself back in Old Blighty saddled with shuffling papers for the war office. Then a mysterious card arrives, inviting her...

Murder's a fashion faux pas. . .The summer of 1926 brings high fashion to Hyde Park. Ginger's Regent Street dress shop, Feathers & Flair, is a major sponsor, and when top designer Coco Chanel makes an appearance, the London fashion scene lights up...

Flappers meet gangsters at the hottest nightclub in Soho. When a night out at the glamorous Harlequin Club ends in a suspicious death, apprentice sleuth Marjorie Swallow goes undercover as a dance hostess to find out what really happens behind the...

Venice, 1921. Rachele Modiano Mendes faces the daunting challenge of being a married woman practising law. Her first civil case turns into a web of fraud, blackmail, and murder. Faced with the doubts of the court and the police, Rachele must unravel the...

Lefty legislator Regina Colwell MLA is summoned to a shabby hotel where a young man has drowned in a bathtub. She says she does not know the boy - so why is her name and phone number inked on his hand, the police ask? Wanting answers, Regina checks into...

After an extremely close call in her second provincial election, Regina Colwell MLA finds herself at Squatters' Ridgeon the rural edge of her district investigating the tragic deaths of a constituent and a dear friend. There, on a dangerous stretch of...

It is 2026 and individual freedoms are severely curtailed and state surveillance is everywhere. State Security has a Watch List, and being on it means that nothing you do or say escapes the authorities, but does the Kill List really exist? And if it...

Trouble in ParadiseAfter putting Iowa crop insurance cheats out to pasture independent insurance fraud investigator Luna Nightcrow heads to Hawaii, but not for a vacation. The Shilpa, an Indian ocean liner, sinks and Luna is hired to determine if it...

A cold case heats up when Kelvin Frost, believed to have drowned in Alabama, returns from the dead to apply for more life insurance. Or has he? When a body-a dead body-identified as Kelvin Frost, turns up in Miami, murder complicates matters. Enter Luna...