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Dead Inside
In the desolate, unforgiving landscape of small town North Dakota, bodies are found encased in ice. Tough and brilliant FBI special agent 30-year-old Kelsey Hawk, angering her superiors, is relocated to the North Dakota field office, near her hometown which she’d...
Dressed to Kill
A costume drama turns truly deadly in this cozy mystery set in small-town California by the New York Times bestselling author.As the owner of Coffee, Books, and More in the tucked-away town of South Cove, California, Jill Gardner has been known to enjoy a suspenseful...
Black Cloud
‘A beautifully written police procedural, where the characters are every bit as important as the plot. Brilliantly captures the impact of small-town tragedy, as investigators struggle to cope even as they work towards solving an horrendous crime.’—Chris Hammer, winner...
Murder in an Irish Cottage
In a remote—and superstitious—village in County Cork, Ireland, Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan must solve a murder where the prime suspects are fairies . . . Family is everything to Siobhán, which now includes her fiancé Macdara Flannery. So when his cousin Jane...
Night and Day
What could be more sinister than a deserted street late at night? Add a young woman, alone, coming back from the theatre, rain, and streetlamps that fail to light the shadows… November 1933. Dottie Manderson, a young socialite from a wealthy family has been out for...
Stolen Sisters
Death wears a red dress. FBI Special Agent John Treehorn arrives in an isolated oil boomtown after a wolf uncovers a woman’s frozen hand grasping an FBI badge and a final request, “Call FBI Agent John Treehorn”. He doesn’t know the victim or why she summoned him, but...
The Puppet Show
*WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER AWARD 2019 FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR*'Fantastic' Martina Cole'Dark, sharp and compelling' Peter James'A thrilling curtain raiser for what looks set to be a great new series' Mick HerronA serial killer is burning people alive in...
Whisper of Bones
A suspicious death mirrors a serial killer signatureA ghostly visitor might hold the answerCassie must decipher the cryptic messageWhispered in the bones of the deadIf she hopes to help solve the crime and save herself in the process The latest installment from USA...
52 Steps to Murder
An elderly woman is found poisoned in the upstairs bedroom of her home whose front door stands 52 steps above the street in an old-fashioned whodunit that blends clues, red herrings, suspects, and humor.
Ties That Bind
Grab a badge and a gun and strap in for an absolutely gripping ride that’s “full of suspense from the beginning to the end…” (Readers Abode)She could feel him watching her… Though every time she turned to look, there was no one there. The rest of the world thought she...
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
A quaint English village is home to a murderer in the Macavity Award-wining mystery series debut that launched the British crime drama Midsomer Murders.Badger’s Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster. But...
A Cutthroat Business
Savannah Martin has always been a good girl, doing what was expected and fully expecting life to fall into place in its turn. But when her perfect husband turns out to be a lying, cheating slimeball—and bad in bed to boot—Savannah kicks the jerk to the curb and...
The Bishop Murder Case
In this classic 1920s mystery, a debonair aristocrat turned amateur sleuth searches New York City for a killer drawing inspiration from nursery rhymes. Renaissance dandy Philo Vance has an insatiable hunger for complicated puzzles to solve. He frequently serves as an...
Long Dark Night
Introducing LONG DARK NIGHT, the first book in the Michael Carter Cold Case Thriller Series by Susan Lund.Two teenage boys went missing from a park in King County a decade ago. While one of the boys was found days later, his body discarded in a ravine in the forest on...
Fatal Lies
'Fatally addictive!' real reader reviewThe Forrester Detective Agency is going from strength to strength: they’ve expanded their office space and even hired a new office manager – a qualified and astute woman named Carol.What starts as a simple burglary case soon...
The Wayward Target
Evil Triumphs Only If Good Women Do Nothing A year after hunting down the terrorist who killed her fiancÉ, CIA analyst Maggie Jenkins finds herself with a price on her head. In retaliation for chasing and killing an elite member of a terrorist cell, Maggie now is on...
Fade Up from Black
He knew he was going to die...So he hired a P.I. to find his killer!An Edgar and Shamus Award-winning Series Returns!The last thing Harry James Denton needs on one of the hardest days of his life is a stranger walking into his office and imploring him to investigate a...
The Killings at Badger’s Drift
A quaint English village is home to a murderer in the Macavity Award-wining mystery series debut that launched the British crime drama Midsomer Murders.Badger’s Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster. But...
The Serenity Stone Murder
After a long winter in their small town of Jackpine, best friends Margaret and Louise are looking forward to enjoying some R&R in Thunder Bay. Louise has insisted that their stay include taking part in a women retreat. Margaret plans to track down a reclusive...
The Hexorcist
Ofelia Archer has a full life … which only gets fuller when a dead body lands in her backyard.As owner of New Orleans’ premier supernatural speakeasy, Ofelia is always in the thick of things when the witch hits the fan. That’s no exception now … even when the local...
Bad to the Crone
Scout Randall is more than a witch on a motorcycle. She’s more than the magic she wields. She’s also a woman with a secret past that she can’t remember … a sarcastic wonder who acts before she thinks.The one thing Scout knows with absolute certainty is that she’s got...
Murder Unseen
STAND-ALONE MURDER MYSTERY, #16 IN THE SERIES. MEET MAVERICK BRITISH DETECTIVE DI SKELGILL... "MAD, BAD AND JUST A LITTLE BIT COZY." NOBODY SAW HER. NOBODY CAN FIND HER. When 37-year-old Lisa Jackson sets out for work one Friday morning she is in high spirits. Things...
52 Steps to Murder
An elderly woman is found poisoned in the upstairs bedroom of her home whose front door stands 52 steps above the street in an old-fashioned whodunit that blends clues, red herrings, suspects, and humor.
The Frangipani Tree Mystery
First in a delightfully charming crime series set in 1930s Singapore, introducing amateur sleuth Su Lin, a local girl stepping in as governess for the Acting Governor of Singapore.1936 in the Crown Colony of Singapore, and the British abdication crisis and rising...
The Serenity Stone Murder
After a long winter in their small town of Jackpine, best friends Margaret and Louise are looking forward to enjoying some R&R in Thunder Bay. Louise has insisted that their stay include taking part in a women retreat. Margaret plans to track down a reclusive...
A House of Ruin
A murder that stole 1982 national headlines: “Renowned Family Slayed in Home” A case that remained cold for forty long years. The Eyler family was anything but average. The father a top literary agent and the mother a duchess, they thrived in their prestigious Oakmont...
Fade Up From Black
He knew he was going to die...So he hired a P.I. to find his killer!An Edgar and Shamus Award-winning Series Returns! The last thing Harry James Denton needs on one of the hardest days of his life is a stranger walking into his office and imploring him to investigate...
When the Clock Chimes Two
Zoe Zerbino, sobbing, downtrodden and taken for granted, discovers the power of a perfume to change her life for the better. That is, until she finds herself accused of murder. Filled with newfound confidence, Zoe is enjoying the respect she is receiving all of a...
Look to the Lady
“Wonderfully plotted . . . A marvelous mixture of witchcraft, sacred relics and ancient oaths. [Allingham was a] rare and precious talent.” —The Washington Post Estranged from his father, young Percival St. John Wykes Gyrth wanders the streets of London, penniless...
Thistlewood Manor: Murder at the Hedgerow
"Very entertaining. I highly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that appreciates a very well written mystery, with some twists and an intelligent plot. You will not be disappointed. Excellent way to spend a cold weekend!"--Books and Movie...
BLURRED LINES
Oxfordshire police and ruthless criminals are chasing the same quarry. Who will get there first?When a semi-retired home tutor is found killed in her home, the obvious suspects are two teenage lads encountered fleeing the scene. After the boys give the police the run...
Fire, Burn!
Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr’s thrilling mystery novelA woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witnesses who, impossibly,...
A Friend of the Family
Families are dying. No matter how hard DCI Platt tries, he's not seeing a pattern; not even after his own wife and daughter are targeted.Young Melanie has forgotten what life outside Larksford House was like. She's been in for so long. But when Toby joins the team,...
Shadow Dancer
A VICTIM NEVER FORGETS.When new evidence surfaces in a long forgotten federal crime, FBI Special Agent John Treehorn is the bureau’s first choice to lead the investigation at the Land of his People, the Navajo Nation. But, for this Special Agent, his nightmare; a...
The Locked Room Murder
Life has always been fairly placid for Bluebell Knopps and she's liked it that way. She has a job working at her mother's salon in the small town of Lledrith. She has a fiance with whom she's in love. And, after years of trial and error, she has finally found a dye...
9 Lives Cozy Mystery Series (Books 1–3)
Join Stormy the Cat Along With Christie Jamieson and Quinn Armstrong on Their First Three Mysteries in Vancouver, British ColumbiaStormy the Cat has a secret . . .BOOK 1: The Cat Came Back - Young mother Christy Jamieson just learned her husband, Frank, embezzled his...