Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They h...

For Kiki Lowenstein, only one thing is (marginally) worse than her selfish, hyper-critical mother coming for an extended visit — dodging bullets. In the merry midst of the timehonored May Day celebration at Kiki's daughter's priv...

On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq.  What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that b...

The new 'Maggy Thorsen' coffee-house mystery - Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of coffee-house Uncommon Grounds, is trapped in a shopping mall by a snow storm, which cuts the electricity and phone lines. She finds the body of Way Benson, the ...

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. “As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t ask for...

Jill Gardner, the owner of Coffee, Books, and More, has been suckered into playing a twenties flapper in murder/dinner theater. Though it is for charity... Of course everyone is expecting a "dead" body at the dress rehearsal...but t...

Even though hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brother's body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-d...

Discover the “dazzling...fascinating” (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Timesbestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virg...

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!In Rudolph, New York, it's Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone's holiday cheer…As the owner of Mrs. Claus's Tre...

"An inventive plot and incisive character studies elevate MWA Grand Master Grafton's twenty-fourth Kinsey Millhone novel...This superior outing will remind readers why this much-loved series will be missed as the end of the alpha...

Assisted by her band of loyal courtiers and retainers, young queen Elizabeth I spearheads the investigation into the brutal murder of a high-living lady of her court, only to stumble upon a sinister plot against the queen herself. By ...

The Great War is over, but in this captivating new series from award-winning author Anna Lee Huber, one young widow discovers the real intrigue has only just begun . . . An Unpardonable Sin? England, 1919. Verity Kent's grief over t...

Everyone's favorite retired witches from Spell Booked have returned and are diving into troubled waters to find a sinister sea witch…WITCHY WOMANA sea witch has been leaving bodies in her wake up and down the Carolina coast, bafflin...

In this homage to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Faith Fairchild is asked to cater a very small, very private college reunion on an isolated New England island—an event that could be her dream job. But when she dis...

Spinster sleuth and school teacher, Hildegarde Withers, meets up with Inspector Oscar Piper at a murder at a New York City aquarium in this first book in the popular series. First published in 1931.

There's no planning for murder…  Event planner Pepper Pomeroy is making the most of her current unemployment by arranging a surprise for her sister, Felicity. Warren, Felicity's boyfriend, plans to lure his lovely lady into a privat...

"Fans of TV's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation should be in heaven" (People) stepping into the world of forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan—she works with the dead, but she works for the living."Down time&quo...

“Lisa See begins to do for Beijing what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for turn-of-the-century London or Dashiell Hammett did for 1920s San Francisco: She discerns the hidden city lurking beneath the public facade.”–The ...

Wedding bells are ringing in Fort Connor, Colorado, and the House of Lambspun knitters are abuzz with excitement. But when a murder interrupts the wedding planning, Kelly Flynn will have to solve this crime fast to ensure the killer d...

For Susan and Jed Henshaw and their friends Kathleen and Jerry Gordon, the tiny Caribbean resort called Compass Bay has everything. White sand, luxurious cottages, rum punches to die for—even a gorgeous unattached blonde ornamen...

Even an experienced pet sitter like Daphne Templeton can be fooled by animal behavior: how can an adorably tiny fuzz ball named Tinkleston be capable of sudden flying leaps with cat claws bared? But human behavior remains even more...

In this masterful debut that starts off as a mystery and becomes much more, Tora Hamilton is an outsider at her new home on the rocky, windswept Shetland Islands, a hundred miles from the northeastern tip of Scotland. Though her hus...

Lilly Kaiser had come to terms with her solitary, uncomplicated life after becoming a young widow. So when a stranger delivers an old violin to her Berlin antiques shop and tells Lilly it belongs to her, she's completely bewildered. W...

You found my philandering ex-husband?' Bitty asked. 'Where? Mexico? Paris? In Tupelo with a cocktail waitress?' 'In your closet,' I answered. 'Dead.' Break out the hoop skirts and the zinfandel. The Divas are on the case. ...

During the 1940's the women attending Regina College insisted a beautiful young woman wearing a 'fancy dress' haunted the halls near the chapel. Many claimed to see the apparition often entering, sitting, and softly crooning a mournfu...

Warner Pier's most hated clown meets a bitter end in the latest from the national bestselling author of The Chocolate Falcon Fraud...It's been a month since a complete stranger was accused of murdering Moe Davidson, the miserable shop...

The New York Times bestselling author of Gilt Trip returns to New Orleans for scrapbooking, Halloween, and homicide…Scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand is ready to head out and enjoy her night until she hears some strange noises c...

Now available in the U.S., Hidden Depths is an early book in Diamond Dagger award-winning crime novelist Ann Cleeves's Vera Stanhope series, brought to life in the hit TV series Vera.On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie ...

From CWA Diamond Dagger Award winner Ann Cleeves comes The Glass Room, the fifth book in the Vera Stanhope series. Published for the first time in the US.“I do love Vera!” ―Val McDermid“Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite myster...

From CWA Diamond Dagger winner Ann Cleeves comes The Moth Catcher, the seventh installment in the Vera Stanhope series.Life seems perfect in the quiet community of Valley Farm. Then a shocking discovery shatters the silence. The owner...