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Gone the Next

Gone the Next

Edgar Award finalist Ben Rehder's novels have made best-of-the-year lists in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Field & Stream. GONE THE NEXT is the first novel in the Roy Ballard mystery series. About GONE THE NEXT:Meet Roy Ballard, freelance...

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The Body in the Casket

The Body in the Casket

The inimitable Faith Fairchild returns in a chilling New England whodunit, inspired by the best Agatha Christie mysteries and with hints of the timeless board game Clue. For most of her adult life, resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy...

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The Serpent and the Scorpion

The Serpent and the Scorpion

In this “absorbing” Edwardian mystery, an heiress turned amateur sleuth investigates murder in a “tightly knit tale with an unexpected twist” (Publishers Weekly).   As heiress to her father’s international textile empire, Ursula Marlow’s fortune puts her at the top of...

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Motherhood Is Murder

Motherhood Is Murder

?????????? From the USA Today bestselling author of Bundle of Trouble ?????????? "Fast-paced and fun!"--Rhys Bowen, New York Times Bestselling Author Nights out are hard to come by for new parents. So when Kate’s new- mommy club, Roo & You, holds a dinner cruise, she...

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The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond

The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond

A copycat crime on Groundhog Day brings out Professor Peter Shandy’s inner sleuth in this Edgar Award finalist from the international bestselling author. The rural town of Balaclava greets Groundhog Day as an excuse for one last cold-weather fling. The students and...

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Bellingwood Boxed Set (Books 1-3)

Bellingwood Boxed Set (Books 1-3)

She left the big city for the peace and quiet of the country. But her new beginning has found some skeletons in this tiny community’s closet… Box set: Over 850 pages of cozy mystery fun as one woman restarts her life and keeps finding dead bodies! Polly Giller was...

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A Murderous Affair

A Murderous Affair

The year is 1588. The Spanish Armada has recently been defeated, and Queen Elizabeth rides in triumph through a celebrating London But even in peace, the city has a deadly underbelly. When the body of a Portuguese nobleman turns up on the banks of the Thames with a...

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Braving the Boneyard

Braving the Boneyard

Some secrets just won't stay hidden, no matter how deeply they're buried. Tallahassee PI Sydney Brennan is torn between loyalty to her mentor Ralph Abraham and duty to her jailed client—facing life in prison—when her investigation uncovers a long-buried secret that...

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Tough Cookie

Tough Cookie

When Depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan is invited to dine with a millionaire, she doesn’t expect the first course to be a gun in her face. It draws her into a gold-plated web of theft, revenge, double crosses and murder. A big-time swindle has made...

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Holy Terrors

Holy Terrors

As Easter festivities approach, Hillside Manor’s party planner and resident sleuth finds a killer hot on her cottontail! Catering the annual pre-Easter brunch and egg hunt is a hare-raising hassle for Judith McManigle, hard-working hostess of Seattle’s cozy Bed &...

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The Kate Redman Mysteries (3 Book Set)

The Kate Redman Mysteries (3 Book Set)

This is the boxed set of the first three books in the Kate Redman Mystery series by bestselling crime writer Celina Grace.Meet Detective Sergeant Kate Redman... HUSHABYE (A KATE REDMAN MYSTERY: BOOK 1)A missing baby. A murdered girl. A case where everyone has...

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A Murderous Affair

A Murderous Affair

The year is 1588. The Spanish Armada has recently been defeated, and Queen Elizabeth rides in triumph through a celebrating London But even in peace, the city has a deadly underbelly. When the body of a Portuguese nobleman turns up on the banks of the Thames with a...

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Murder in the Tenderloin

Murder in the Tenderloin

For years Peyton has struggled to put her father’s murder behind her, but her latest case brings it all back. When two hookers are found with the mutilated body of a notorious gangbanger, Peyton and her partner, Marco, are pulled into a world of violence, sex, and...

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The Crime at Black Dudley

The Crime at Black Dudley

The first novel in Margery Allingham’s renowned series introducing the legendary aristocratic sleuth Albert Campion. Pathologist George Abbershaw is on holiday in Suffolk attending a social weekend at the remote Black Dudley manor. His friend Wyatt Petrie has...

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Lane’s End

Lane’s End

Sydney’s Observatory on a balmy summer evening is the perfect venue for a cocktail party and, it would seem, a murder, for Peter Van Goren’s body is discovered bludgeoned to death in the grounds. The first question Detective Chief Inspector Fitzjohn must answer is why...

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Power Struggle

Power Struggle

“ Gritty and emotionally jagged… Power Struggle pours on the suspens e as one twisted assassin plays hide-and-go-seek with a detective who refuses to give up.” – Tome Tender Book Blog He led her into the barn and locked her in a small cage, and he left her...

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Power Struggle

Power Struggle

“ Gritty and emotionally jagged… Power Struggle pours on the suspens e as one twisted assassin plays hide-and-go-seek with a detective who refuses to give up.” – Tome Tender Book Blog He led her into the barn and locked her in a small cage, and he left her...

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The Adams File

The Adams File

Bessie is both excited and apprehensive about her new role in Andrew Cheatham’s cold case unit. When the first case involves a missing five-year-old who may well have been murdered by her own father, Bessie has even more second thoughts.? As if Andrew’s cold case...

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Death in the Fog

Death in the Fog

This classic mystery is “more than a mere crime puzzle. . . . It is a tragic event which deeply affects the destinies of those who are in any way involved” (The New York Times).The road to her aunt’s country house on Lake Michigan is dark and shrouded in fog. But it’s...

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Fox Trot Murder

Fox Trot Murder

Goldie Weston Historical Mysteries 1920s light and clean cozy Book 2 Goldie Weston has no trouble offering solutions in her ladies’ column for household challenges and matters of the heart. It’s her own relationships that cause her problems. Is it any wonder why?Her...

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The Gray and Guilty Sea

The Gray and Guilty Sea

"Carter's writing is on target." - Publishers Weekly A curmudgeon. An iconoclast. A loner. That's how people describe Garrison Gage, and that's when they're being charitable.After his wife's brutal murder in New York, and Gage himself is beaten nearly to death, the...

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The Man in the Queue

The Man in the Queue

This locked-room mystery, “solid proof for the unreliability of circumstantial evidence” will have readers “give thanks” for the British crime classic (Kirkus Reviews).   A long line of people stand outside a London West End Theatre, hopeful to nab standing room...

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Sacrifice Fly

Sacrifice Fly

Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that...

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The House at Sea’s End

The House at Sea’s End

In “a wonderful, atmospheric mystery” featuring forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and DCI Harry Nelson, six bodies of men killed during World War II turn up in Brighton—bringing with them a long-buried, nefarious secret ( Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ). Just back...

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The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana

The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana

The author of the award-winning Joe Grey mystery series--a writer hailed for her "magical whimsy and deft writing" ( Cats magazine) who "has raised the stakes of the feline sleuth genre" ( Kirkus Reviews )--teams up with her husband to conjure a charming supernatural...

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Changing Hearts

Changing Hearts

What if one impulsive decision could alter the trajectory of your life?An unexpected night of passion leads to a life-altering decision, but Marissa's world shatters when her best friend is tragically killed in action. Just as she begins navigating the complexities of...

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The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond

The Corpse in Oozak’s Pond

A copycat crime on Groundhog Day brings out Professor Peter Shandy’s inner sleuth in this Edgar Award finalist from the international bestselling author. The rural town of Balaclava greets Groundhog Day as an excuse for one last cold-weather fling. The students and...

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Trouble at the Red Pueblo

Trouble at the Red Pueblo

Who is Spider Latham? Think John Wayne meets Miss Marple. Liz Adair's style is a cross between Tony Hillerman and Agatha Christy, resulting in a cozy mystery with an edge. When Spider is hired to do some private detective work for the Red Pueblo Museum, he doesn’t...

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The Book Thing

The Book Thing

A thief targets a local bookstore and it will take a bibliophile PI to save the shop. Tess Monaghan wants to like the Children’s Bookstore. It’s bright, cozy, and packed with the kinds of books that she is dying for her daughter to fall in love with. But no matter how...

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Remaindered

Remaindered

A puzzler of a tale about a dead bookshop owner, a priceless cache of first editions, and a deadly secret taken to the grave. It’s no mystery who killed Robert Ripple, owner of Precious Finds Bookstore in Pokesville, Pennsylvania. It was Agatha Christie—or rather, a...

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The Hermit of Hisarya

The Hermit of Hisarya

The Hermit of Hisarya, Book Five in the Sam Smith Mystery Series. Please note that the print length of this book runs to 50,000 words and 234 pages and not the estimate listed by Amazon. Some people will stop at nothing in their pursuit of wealth and power. Indeed,...

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Surgical Risk

Surgical Risk

Do you love a hero who pulls no punches and never gives up? Richard Kurtz has a reputation as a tough guy, a reputation that he considers absurd, despite the 300 pound biker on a drug induced rampage who Kurtz recently knocked out in the ER. Kurtz is a surgeon, a good...

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A Long Shadow

A Long Shadow

Old sins cast long shadows… When the bodies of a young, homeless girl and a girl who disappeared thirty years ago are found on the same day, residents in the historic city of York are aghast. It seems unlikely the two cases are related, and yet some of the same...

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The Art Collector

The Art Collector

It's 1987. Seal Larsen, a photographer, denizen of New York’s downtown scene and the subject of one of Andy Warhol’s short films, dies in a suspicious fall from a Manhattan apartment building. Her friend and neighbor, Emma Quinn, is determined to find out what...

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Jon’s Downright Ridiculous Shooting Case

Jon’s Downright Ridiculous Shooting Case

Jon is the most powerful psychic Reader in the country–and unanchored, which is rather a problem. The bigger problem? Finding an anchor. And Jon doesn’t think his must-have list is too crazy. It’s just rather hard for a man to have: 1) the patience of a saint (for...

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Tinplate

Tinplate

“Steed's style warm and chatty, the pace bracing” - Kirkus Reviews Peter Marklin, owner of a Toy Emporium, finds his quiet life harshly interrupted when a collection of antique toys, worth over £20,000, is stolen. Faced with threats from their owner, he sets out to...

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