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Clare Cosi, the manager of The Village Blend, finds a murder mystery percolating in her very own store when the assistant manager is found dead in the back and the police believe it to be an open-and-shut case of robbery, but certain ...

The historical antecedents of Jesus provide the focus for thriller writer Kathy Reichs's eighth installment in her series starring Temperance 'Tempe' Brennan, forensic anthropologist. Investigating the suspicious death of Avram Ferris...

On the run from her past, Helen Hawthorne becomes a salesclerk at an elite clothing boutique in Fort Lauderdale - a seemingly mundane job that unexpectedly plunges her into a world of danger when she discovers that her employer has be...

When a Georgia senator's daughter is found dead and drained of blood, Eve enters the world of a twisted psychopath—a man whose name appears on Eve's shortlist of killers connected to her own missing daughter, Bonnie.Then Eve receive...

It was a great opportunity, a beautiful day, and a perfect setting: home designer Erin Gilbert was headed to a lovely Crestview, Colorado, neighborhood to engage in a friendly little design contest with her nearest and less-than-deare...

Small-town chocolatiers Lee McKinney and her aunt Nettie are once again caught in the middle of a homicide investigation when a local antiques dealer, who had lent them a collection of valuable chocolate molds to decorate their TenHui...

Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an Afri...

dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stocks trading price after a sharp drop.Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But he...

Hollywood comes to Michigan when a film producer decides to turn a local author's romance novel into a blockbuster. Although the movie mogul's chocolate labrador is charming, Lee McKinney thinks the producer's talk is a bunch of sweet...

Journeying to wintry Montreal to testify at a murder trial, forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan discovers three skeletons in the basement of a pizza parlor and realizes that she has stumbled into a crime from the past. By the author...

While attending a high society engagement party, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is steeped in mystery when the groom meets with disaster and the wedding ring, a family heirloom from the crown of Marie Antoinette, vanishes. O...

Freelance writer Jaine Austen has never been able to resist the siren call of an Eskimo Pie, just like she can't resist renewing her romance with Andrew, an old crush. With her bank account hitting new lows, she's also just agreed to ...

Get ready for a rollicking, wickedly fun new mystery series from USA Today Bestselling Author Rhonda Pollero, featuring the most delicious sleuth ever to solve the crime, get the guy, and save a bundle on discount Gucci, all at the sa...

As a serial killer stalks the senior citizens of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, seventy-five-year-old Gladdy Gold and a group of eccentric retirees match wits with a handsome young police detective as they launch their own investigation to...

Madeira Cutler loves her Vintage Magic boutique, but the 'visions' she gets from the garments can be hard to handle, especially when she knows the owner. At first she's thrilled to receive a package containing the beautifully bejewele...

They Have Inherited a Lovely Upstate Mansion. . .The crash of 1929 has ended the party for high-living New Yorkers Lily Brewster and her brother Robert and takes them from the upper echelons of the idle rich and deposits them to the l...

1930s London. Poor Lady Georgiana—thirty-fourth in line to the throne—has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there's the matter of the bod...

While going to the home of a vacationing client in Sarasota, Florida, professional pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway, a former sheriff's deputy, stumbles upon a traumatized cat and the corpse of a mysterious intruder, sending Dixie on a sear...

Second in the new series for mystery and needlework fans, this book offers a free cross-stitch pattern and a good yarn. When a skeleton is discovered aboard a historic ferry, the only evidence is a piece of lace-like fabric. But once ...

Normally, insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol likes to keep her feet firmly on the ground. But her latest undercover assignment has the aero-phobic ex-nurse flying high—as she takes off to ground a land-and-air ambulance...

Ex-nurse-turned-insurance investigator Pauline Sokol enlists the help of her cross-dressing friend Goldie in order to gain entry into the posh plastic surgery 'spa' Highcliff Manor, but her case becomes complicated when the spouse of ...

At first, the dazzling Jazz Ball and charityauction for L.A.'s prestigious WoodburnSchool of Music promises to be eventplanner Madeline Bean's greatest triumph to date -- both professionally and personally -- until everything goes str...

Fired from her toney L.A. law firm, attorney Kendra Ballantyne embarks on a new career as a freelance pet-sitter, only to discover that her client list is growing smaller every day, and teams up with sexy detective Jeff Hubbard to unc...

It's time for Sarah Booth to pack up her hound dog and her P.I. business and take a shot at stardom! Soon she aces the screen test for a racy remake of the movie Body Heat alongside leading man Graf Miliau. The chemistry between them...

Investigating the mysterious "accidental" death of a vet, former London public-relations executive Agatha Raisin teams up with James Lacey, a retired military man, and finds surprising mixed feelings in the village about the...

Agreeing to help refurbish Eastport's disreputable old Harlequin House, a one-time hideout for wounded gangsters, do-it-yourself expert Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her friend, Ellie White, uncover the skeleton of a notorious ...

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency published in 1998, introduced the world to the one and only Precious Ramotswe, the engaging and sassy owner of Botswana's only detective agency. Tears of the Giraffe took us further into this world, ...

Delighted by her new client, free-spending Laura Smith, until she discovers that the antiques she had acquired at Laura's behest have been replaced with fakes, interior designer Erin Gilbert suddenly finds her career interrupted by mu...

When her late-night "Crop Till You Drop" session is interrupted by the murder of a neighboring shop owner, scraooking queen Carmela Bertrand finds herself, as well as her customers, under the scrutiny of the police, forcing ...