With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the...

New from the national bestselling author of The Saddlemaker's Wife and the Agatha Award-winning Benni Harper mystery series. After being widowed, Love Mercy Johnson has come to terms with her life in Morro Bay, California. She spends ...

While dealing with her selfish self-help guru mother, bisexual ex-boyfriend, and a cast of eccentric friends, Samantha Leiffer witnesses a murder and is soon followed by a strange man, forcing her into the arms of a gorgeous homicide ...

Bones of a FeatherCarolyn Haines A ruby necklace worth four million dollars appears to have been stolen, and its owners, Monica and Eleanor Levert—twin heirs of a wealthy Natchez clan—seem a bit too anxious to get their hands on t...

Juggling a family and a career is never easy-and it’s becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last things Joanna needs are two ...

Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment. There she was, soaking in a hot tub with a man she adored, far from Fort Lauderdale and her nosy neighbors…until an urgent message sent her running home. Now her exotic vacation is a memo...

Not many people in Tinker's Cove, Maine, knew Old Dan Malone. The grizzled barkeep's social circle was limited to the rough-hewn lobstermen and other assorted toughs that frequented his bar, a derelict main street dive called, appropr...

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES Sarah Grayson is the happy proprietor of Second Chance, a charming shop in the oceanfront town of North Harbor, Maine. At the shop, she sells used items that she has lovingly refurbished and repurposed. But h...

Inside Alaska's biggest national park, surrounding the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park, are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce," is the ref...

When the going gets tough, Ella Mae LaFaye bakes pies. So when she catches her husband cheating in New York, she heads back home to Havenwood, Georgia, where she can drown her sorrows in fresh fruit filling and flakey crust. But her p...

Career taxi driver, amateur volleyball player, and sometimes sleuth Carlotta Carlyle has her work cut out for her when an elderly client whose protests against her landlord have caused controversy is found dead in her apartment. The p...

b"Every Flavia de Luce novel is a reason to celebrate."—USA Todayb ALAN BRADLEY, AUTHOR OF THE MOST AWARD-WINNING SERIES DEBUT OF ANY YEAR, RETURNS WITH ANOTHER IRRESISTIBLE FLAVIA DE LUCE NOVEL.b b"[Alan] Bradley h...

Forensic investigator Diane Fallon fights for her life in her eighth mystery Diane is driving through a downpour on a windy mountain road after picking up a set of rare Indian artifacts when a tree suddenly slams across the hood of h...

When the president of Hartland Flour chooses cosy Lake Eden, Minnesota, as the spot for their first annual Dessert Bake-Off, Hannah is thrilled to serve as the head judge. But when a fellow judge, Coach Boyd Watson, is found stone-col...

Part-time CIA agent Mrs. Pollifax drops her gardening gloves and travels to Damascus, where an American woman has been kidnapped while thwarting a skyjacking attempt. With the help her companion, Farrell, and a young archaeologist nam...

In this delicious follow-up to Murder on the Rocks, developers have returned to Cranberry Island. This time, theyre planning to wipe out a natural cranberry bog, along with the islands namesake berries, to build a luxury subdivision. ...

Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Valentine MurderAuthor: Meier, LesliePublisher: Kensington Pub CorpPublication Date: 2011/02/03Number of Pages: 268Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: bl2012000136

Everyone knows Olive Martin, the huge and menacing woman who was found five years ago with the carved-up bodies of her mother and younger sister. Everyone knows how she pleaded guilty to murder at her trial. And everyone knows not t...

Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor—and leads to the investigation of a web of activities being conducted by the emerging Nazi Party.In the summer of 1932, M...

It's a recipe for disaster when bookbinder Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook….  Brooklyn's sister Savannah and her former culinary school classmates all became successful chefs, especially Savannah's ex-b...

As Lake Eden prepares for its annual Winter Carnival, America's "Cooking Sweetheart, " Connie Mac, is named creator of the official carnival cake. That leaves a bitter taste in Hannah Swensen's mouth. But when Hannah opens h...

While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received urgent orders for a daring mission to aid an escape. Soon, the unlikely-looking international spy was sporting a beautiful new hat that hid...

DIVDIVI#1 /INew York TimesI bestselling author Sue Grafton crafts a thriller set in a town so small that P.I. Kinsey Millhone wonders just how private her investigation can be . . ./IBRBRBF IS FOR FLIGHT/BBRWhen Kinsey Millhone first ...

Chicago police woman Jack Daniels is back, and this time she's locked up in her mother's home, along with her fiance, her mom, and one of the scariest psychos ever to escape from prison. They're being held hostage by a group of vigila...

In the latest New York Times bestselling Booktown Mystery, amateur sleuth and bookstore owner Tricia Miles gets caught up in a local election that turns lethal . . . It's November in Stoneham, New Hampshire, and time for the Chamber o...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn a spring morning in 1951, eleven-year-old chemist and aspiring detective Flavia de Luce gathers with her family at the railway station, awaiting the return of her long-lost mother, Harriet. Yet upon the tra...

Second in the series that readers can sink their teeth into. Orchard owner Meg Corey must clear her name of murder after the discovery of a pesticide-poisoned body in her springhouse. Includes recipes.

Evanovich fans rejoice!  Stephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks, criminals, deranged felons, and lunatics looking for love.  And just when Stephanie think...

Is Kate London suffering from postromantic stress disorder when she attacks Mayor Balfours, her cheating fiance, with a golf cart? Maybe she should have counted to ten before sending him tumbling down a hill inside a port-o-john. Kate...

Appraiser Sterling Glass exams a number of rare objects that have shown up in a Goodwill store, only to become embroiled in a plot involving several prestigious families, valuable antiques, and con men at some of New York's leading au...