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IN BOOK 11 OF THE HOUSEWIFE ASSASSIN SERIES:It's time for Donna Stone and Jack Craig to tie the knot–hopefully not around each other's necks as they juggle the planning of their wedding with tracking a terrorist in the White House.It...

Who choped off insuance agent Henry Jamison's head with a Samurai sword? While trying to figue this out, Seattle Private eye Jake Rossiter also has to deal with his recently promoted junior partner - who iMiss Jenkins- who's about to take on the...

"Sparkles like the South Florida sunshine...Kate Kennedy is a warm and funny heroine." - Nancy Martin, Author of the Blackbird Sisters Mysteries"Miss Marple with a modern twist...[Wald] is a very funny lady!" - Donna Andrews, Author of the Meg Langslow...

After the destruction of the demon army in Tandor, Anthea could use the relative simplicity of her position as chief justice of Orrin. However, one of the city's street children is found dead a few weeks after Anthea's return. Her squire Nathan is...

Who knew a delicious crepe, a kung fu attack, and an unexpected love could create such mayhem. In Heidi Renee Mason’s humorous romantic mystery, an easygoing chef soon discovers life can become complicated when you’re busy falling in lust and...

Regency England.With no organised police force, there is nothing to stand in the way of a new breed of costumed villains, who hide their identities behind aliases and prey on the vulnerable.Nothing, that is, except for the Vigils.Elizabeth Bennet is one;...

A fresh start leads to murder and mystery... Laurel Nightingale wants to start again. However, after discovering a dead body shortly after arriving in the tight-knit community, she wonders if village life is as wholesome as she first thought...Local...

It's Carnival and everyone is having fun. Though perhaps not everyone...Nancy Tremayne is on holiday in Rio with her husband, Leo, and the city is dancing from dawn to dusk. An explosion of energy and colour that Nancy loves. But when she overhears an...

Georgina Drake - photographer, proud mum, and amateur detective - tackles a case that's a little too close to home...Georgina Drake is taking promo photos of a dress rehearsal of Macbeth, and her daughter Bea's first starring role. But the drama...

A chilly morning mist blankets the Cornish countryside, shrouding the barn in an eerie silence. Inside, a woman lies motionless, her unseeing eyes fixed on the rafters above. A blood-stained note flutters in the breeze. Her death is only the beginning.....

Detective Margot Phalen knows the mind of a serial killer better than most. She learned from the worst: her father, Ed Finch.When bodies keep appearing in the tranquil Muir Woods, California, and a woman is killed in Chinatown, Margot begins to realize...

Her blonde hair was carefully arranged, forming a halo around her head. The young woman's eyes were open, the blue of her pupils just about visible, fading in the wintry morning light. She looked stunned as if she couldn't believe this had happened to...

The newly-discovered novel from multi-million-selling author Joy Ellis. Never before published!Flower shop owner Ellie McEwan is driving home late one frosty November night when a shadowy figure leaps into the road out of nowhere. Ellie swerves to avoid...

A doctor does some sleuthing of her own when, following a murder, the police fish with rotten bait...With the fishing industry on its knees, it doesn't come as a huge surprise to find a boat owner hanging by their neck.But when the unfortunate man's...

What's behind a series of mysterious deaths among the favourite concubines of Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II? Suspecting a plot against himself, the Sultan has called on Sherlock Holmes to investigate. However, as a man, the detective is clearly unable...

Nineteen guests with secrets to hide.One exclusive party on a private island.An invitation to die for?Ursula Smart and her mother, Pandora, wangle an invite to crime-fiction powerhouse Anthony Lovell's latest book launch, a weekend-long bash at his...

Detective Siv Drummond moved back to her hometown in Sussex, hoping for a quiet life by the sea. But trouble soon follows . . .A little girl and her grandfather are murdered, minutes before her fourth birthday party.Detective Siv Drummond arrives at the...

The world's deadliest spider. A detective terrified of the creatures. A ruthless psychopath who will use her fears against her.Detective Kate Hamblin is called out to a reported theft at Moat House in the marshy wilds of the Somerset Levels. The evidence...

A breakthrough in paediatric medicine. A battle-scarred tomcat. A tribe in the South American rainforest. How could they possibly be connected? Lesbian literary scholar Morgan Byrd has no time for babies, or cats. But when the disappearance of...

A romantic Italian vacation. A missing fresco. And a dangerous antiquities thief.Samantha CaineTen days in Naples with Antonio should be the vacation of a lifetime. But an invite to join my former FBI mentor on a case in Rome has me torn: Sexy new...

A serial killer in the City of Angels. A headstrong woman just trying to relax. If she can't move Heaven, she'll raise hell. Los Angeles. The only female rancher in four tough generations, Cache Iron was born fighting for a place at the table. So...

Eine späte Nacht. Eine vereiste Straße. Ein Auto um einen Baum gebogen.Als Detective Liz Moorland in die leblosen Gesichter der Tochter und des Schwiegersohns ihres ehemaligen Kollegen blickt, weiß sie, dass dies genug ist, um Vince Carter über den Rand...

She's a crack shot. A once-famous artist. And missing.DS Liz Moorland's world changed with the last case. Breaking the rules was a first for her but it got the result she needed and brought her to the attention of a new covert team. Now she has the...

Marine Rescue volunteer Shiraz Jones is training for her qualified crew certificate when she's inadvertently drawn into a spooky investigation.Lady Dulvington is convinced a restless spirit is haunting her country house, Alnchurch Park, and she asks...

1093. The music of murder.Beatriz de Farrera is a trobairitz (a female troubadour) at the court of Toulouse. She sings of love but intends to evade marriage and romantic entanglements. Her patron, Philippa, is the heiress of the rich city and...

Rae Greyson thinks using sarcasm is like wearing underwear: nice or nasty, it must be part of a daily routine. Her other quirks include nail biting, finding solace in soothing sounds and tripping over dead bodies.Strong and witty, Rae feels no need to...

Melanie Deming is a writer with a true crime story about to hit the screen! She should be ecstatic. But she's still a fish out of water in the billionaire world of her daughter's private school. A fellow mom is found murdered at an open house on Park...

In 1930 San Francisco, the bridges haven't yet been built, and although Prohibition is still in effect, the speakeasies are thriving. The Moore Detective Agency is two months and several fifths of whiskey away from closing its doors. When the wife of one...

She wanted to avenge her father. She needed to save herself. When Detective Callie Forde is called to the home of a missing teenaged girl, she doesn't initially suspect foul play. Hampstead is a quiet college town. It's safe-if you don't count the...

Bianca St. Denis travels to Kyoto to return a priceless artifact recovered in Batavia-on-Hudson during last summer's flood. It's late October, and the city of 2,000 shrines is in full autumn splendor. While she's in Japan's ancient capital, Bianca visits...

When mobile cat groomer Molly Stewart asks her friend Evan to photograph her new feline clients, they both get more than they bargained for when the body of Evan's old art teacher is found bludgeoned to death in his photography studio darkroom. After one...

When Stefanie and Thomas meet in Bermuda for time alone away from the demands of the Artifact Retrieval Team that Thomas heads, their romantic rendezvous is waylaid after an archaeologist requests their help to recover an emerald bracelet that's been...

EMT's in Dingle Point Cove are used to calls from nursing homes. But an SOS from Buttercup Acres Assisted Living about a dead stranger in a resident's room is a first.And Paige Bottomley, the gullible but gutsy widow who stumbles over the body is thrust...

Prisoners of Fate - a corrupt magistrate, an underhand curator, a cat burglar to the rich, rival madams, a cheating husband, his tempestuous wife, art thieves and a psychopath eke out an existence in 1990s Hobart. All are ambitious, most are a step away...

Several mysteries occupy Katie's mind, all at once. Her newly discovered half-sister hasn't yet endeared herself in the Wilk household. Even though her dad is somewhat accepting of the idea that the wife who abandoned him began a new family, Katie can't...

Katie Wilk and her black Labrador retriever, Maverick, are training for Search and Rescue certification, and Katie is well into the school year with her math and science students. But a series of shocking events rock their small town-a teenage beauty...

Dakota and Poppy's next case falls way too close to home...Daniel Jensen's career is flourishing until an anonymous demand for money threatens to derail his life. Dakota takes the case, thinking this one might be open and shut, but what she finds is a...

An innocent bike ride on Nantucket leads Detective Nia D'Amato to a quiet street where painful cries erupt from a nearby backyard. She discovers a mother and daughter pinned beneath a fallen dead tree. Firemen arrive working frantically to free them and...

When her ex-husband Grant is jailed in Italy for the murder of his current wife, Finley's decision to help him uncovers long-held secrets that threaten reputations, marriages-and her life.Grant's wife goes missing while on their second honeymoon, and he...