Working-class mum and housecleaner Lois Meade plies her sleuthing skills once again after discovering a dead body--dressed in a suit of armor--in a chapel.

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 ...

When a dead body, with excellent highlights, is discovered in her neighbor's home, all signs lead professional hair stylist Marla Shore to the Heavenly Hair Salon where she discovers a link between the murder and the exotic pet trade....

Winning mother/daughter makeovers in Manhattan from Jolie magazine, Lucy Stone and her daughter Elizabeth, immersed in the glamour of haute couture, witness a murder that casts a negative light on several high-style fashionistas and p...

While cleaning a wealthy client's mansion, Charlotte LaRue, owner of Maid-for-a-Day, finds herself knee-deep in mystery when she stumbles upon an urn containing human bones, a grisly discovery that puts a damper on her nephew's weddin...

Cocktail-waitress-turned-psychologist Christina McMullen comes to the aid of L.A. homicide detective Jack Rivera when he is accused of killing his beautiful former girlfriend, who had left him for his wealthy father, launching her own...

Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude.Roxy Abruzzo, bestseller Nancy Martin's latest creation, is the sexy, streetwise niece of a Pittsburgh crime boss, and she's trying to stay on the straight and narrow . . . most of the time.�...

2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a b...

Tough-as-nails Houston bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan trails bail jumping Parker Dann after he is accused of killing a child in a drunk-driving car accident, but when she catches up to him in North Dakota, a blizzard strikes--allowing ...

Green with envyTo the newly formed design team of Steve Sullivan and Erin Gilbert, it seemed like a great idea: a competition to design and build the most earth-friendly home in Crestview, Colorado. But who would have dreamed that som...

Featuring a cast of elite and erudite characters, and a complex trail of clues that will have you guessing until the final pages, Lethal Legacy is Linda Fairstein's most beguiling thriller yet. When Assistant District Attorney Alex Co...

With this breakout novel, the meg gardiner fan club is growing...A string of high-profile murder-suicides has San Francisco more rattled than the string of recent earthquakes. Hired by the SFPD to shed light on the victims' lives, for...

As the oldest of nine siblings, Savannah has attended her share of family weddings south of the Mason-Dixon Line...several of which have featured her sister Marietta as the bride. But before the fickle Southern belle can traipse down ...

A young woman ritualistically murdered in her Saint Louis apartment. The primary clue -- a pentacle scrawled in her own blood. Enter practicing Witch, Rowan Gant. The information he uncovers testifies that this is only a prelude to ...

Everybody in Magnet Springs is in on the not-so-secret curse of the Miss Blossom pageant. Everybody, that is, except Whiskey Mattimoe–full-time real estate agent, parttime sleuth, and long-suffering owner of Abra, her willful a...

The next Scraooking mystery takes readers back to New Orleans, where there are spookies, foodies-and crafty killers. Carmela, owner of Memory Mine scraook shop, and her best friend, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project. Melody Ma...

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.

Cemeteries come alive for amateur sleuth/reluctant medium Pepper Martin. Cleveland's Garden View Cemetery is hosting a James A. Garfield commemoration. For tour guide and reluctant medium Pepper Martin this means that's he'll surely ...

Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and, as of this week, star of a brand-new cable cooking show. But she's about to add another credit to her rŽsumŽ: suspect.

China's herb shop and catering business may be thriving, but she's still reeling from her father's death, and not even remotely interested in her half-brother Miles's investigation into that event. China's husband, on the other hand, ...

St. Thomas, the small college north of New York City where Professor Alison Bergeron teaches, has had its share of scandals involving both its students and its staff, not to mention Alison herself, so when a resident director goes mis...

The New York Times bestselling author of Not the Killing Type is back in Booktown with another page-turning mystery. Bookstore owner Tricia Miles and her sister, Angelica, must put their problems on the shelf to catch a killer who tur...

Jolene Asdale is just one step away—one sale, in fact—from becoming a successful New York businesswoman. But her dream stalls when a dead body tumbles out of the shiny Ferrari in her exotic car showroom. The victim is Tim Lapham, ...

A very young man with muddied hair, a pierced ear and a blue tattoo lies cradled in Phryne's arms. But sadly it's not another scene of glorious seduction - this time it's death. The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, beautifully dressed i...

While dealing with the mob and the disappearance of a friend, Maggie, along with the sexy Viscount Saint Just, who is one of her characters come to life, must prove the innocence of her agent Bernie, who has been accused of murder. Re...

Magdalena Yoder once again ends up in the middle of a baffling mystery when Clarence Webber, an imprisoned con man, dies after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, and, with the reputation of PennDutch Inn at stake, sets out t...