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Murder in Montparnasse
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher"A most charming, sexy, independent, and candid heroine; clever, literate dialog; and closely woven plotting will win immediate fans for this debut series."...
Only Murders in the Abbey
A brilliantly twisty and deliciously witty Golden Age, locked-room murder mystery to transport you to 1930s Scotland. Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Richard Osman and Janice Hallett.'Mrs MacBain, thank god it's you.' Without another word, he grabbed her arm and...
Dark Heart
Dead men tell no tales. When a kidnapper winds up in the morgue, can his captive be found before she joins him six feet under? Sydney, Australia. Charlie Cooper needs more time with his family. With his transfer out of homicide to a quieter station fast approaching,...
Death in the Fearful Night
When a serial killer stalks a sleepy English village, a Scotland Yard detective must search for clues among terrified townsfolk in this classic mystery.Samuel Bracknell is found dead in his home with a knife in his back. It’s the third murder of its kind in as many...
Songbird
It’s all fun and games until someone gets killed. Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective. Or is he? Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes...
A Cotswold Killing
Looking for a gripping murder mystery with a feisty female sleuth? Discover this bestselling English cozy series set in the beautiful Cotswolds. Meet Thea Osborne — dog walker, housesitter, and solver of puzzling crimes. Recently widowed Thea suspects three weeks’...
She Wore Mourning
From USA Today Bestselling Author, P.D. Workman! A dead child. A mother deep in mourning. Private Investigator Zachary Goldman’s life isn’t all roses, but he tries to put his own shattered life behind him to investigate the death of five-year-old Declan Bond.Declan’s...
The Door
There’s been an awful murder at Elizabeth Bell’s otherwise quiet household in this classic mystery from the author of The Yellow Room. Elizabeth Bell runs a quiet household, with no family and no more than the usual number of servants. She passes her time thinking...
The Cost of Crude
”Murder for Oil” Gwynn Reznick's life is shattered when her best friend and co-worker at Wilton Oil & Gas Company dies in a car crash. She doubts it was an accident. Her suspicion is confirmed when a private investigator, Ruben Dordi, shows up at her door. His team...
Deadlines
From the author of the bestselling Lexi Graves Mysteries comes a gripping, fast-paced Hollywood whodunit! Shayne Winter thought she had it all: a dream job at the LA Chronicle , a sleek new apartment, and a picture-perfect LA lifestyle. But day one is a disaster—her...
The Case of the Not-So-Fair Trader
Too many motives. Too many suspects. Too many alibis... A wealthy stock trader is buried under a pile of his own garden rocks. There’s a twelve-million-dollar life insurance claim and Richmond Insurance doesn’t want to pay. Insurance investigator Richard Sherlock is...
The Water’s Edge
“An intelligent thriller . . . [a] slim-but-dense marvel of a mystery” from the award-winning author of The Murder of Harriet Krohn ( The Washington Post Book World ). Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, a married couple, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body...
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...
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...
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...
Motherhood Is Murder
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...