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An Invitation to Murder
????? “ What a twisty plot! Kind of like if Agatha Christie was alive and writing mysteries in the present.” Karen????? “Blackmail, crime, murder, revenge, obsession, deception, lies and secrets . . . this book has it all! ” Linda S.????? “One to read slowly, and...
The Bughouse Affair
First in a series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco featuring a former Pinkerton operative and an ex-Secret Service agent. Private detectives Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated...
Vintage Murder
A police inspector finds trouble during a trip to New Zealand: “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York MagazineInspector Roderick Alleyn has taken a break from England and journeyed to New Zealand, and traveling...
The Murder at Sissingham Hall
"It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder mysteries set in the '20s." - Gillian Flynn, international bestselling author of Gone Girl . On his...
The Bughouse Affair
First in a series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco featuring a former Pinkerton operative and an ex-Secret Service agent.Private detectives Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated...
Street of the Five Moons
Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff -- and she's a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside...
Buried Secrets
????? "I couldn’t put it down!” - Reader Review___ A tortured woman, a drowning man, a frightened child. When Detective Grace McKenna looks into a criminal’s eyes she can see haunting images of victims who have been wronged. In Buried Secrets, when Grace responds to a...
Murder in Spades
The Ashgrove Bridge Club did not expect their newly elected president, Leonard Delaney, to be murdered on the day of his successful election, or did they? Could it have been a conspiracy to get rid of Leonard? After all, he was a man of insufferable superiority, his...
Dial M for Merde
This international bestseller from the author of A Year in the Merde “combines the gaffes of Bridget Jones with the boldness of James Bond” ( Publishers Weekly ). When the glorious oceanographer Gloria Monday convinces Paul West to travel to the swank beaches of...
Loose Ends
Dying is what changed Mary O’Reilly’s life. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it. Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary’s trying to learn how to incorporate her...
Seeking Justice
When a prominent naturalist is found dead in the owl sanctuary, the suspect list includes some of the town’s most influential citizens. Each one is up to something shady, but did one commit murder to hide what they were up to?When the case takes a sudden turn...
Long Isle Iced Tea
Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight… A childhood chant turns near deadly for Lily Locke when she’s swept into The Faction’s latest triumph—the overthrowing of the hidden, magical city of Wishery. When Ainsley and her team at MAGIC, Inc. beg Lily for...
The Writer
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde College journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from...
Pulse
The body of a young man is found in a graveyard the night after a wild, drug-fuelled party. At first glance, there doesn’t appear to be anything sinister about his death, despite the shock of Detective Inspector Mark Olbeck realising that he once knew him.Detective...
Appleby’s End
A Scotland Yard detective is snowed in with a strange family and a killer with a lethal passion for literature in this classic British mystery. Something’s afoot in the village of Snarl. Incidents include animals turned to stone and ominous tombstones inscribed with...
Murder on the Marshes
The sun rises on a lush stone courtyard, where birds sing and ferns shade an ancient, burbling fountain. But in the fountain’s murky depths, a young woman’s body grows cold… Samantha Seabrook – an ambitious young woman with a chequered past – is found drowned in the...
The Lost Ship
BRIDGERTON meets GHOST meets AGATHA CHRISTIE! From New York Times Bestselling Author, HP Mallory (co-author of the bestselling Haven Hollow series), comes a brand new paranormal women’s fiction mystery series! London, 1880 PHILIPPA:When a mysterious ship believed to...
Runway Dreams a Pricey Affair
How far would you go to achieve the perfect life? Meet the beautiful young and naïve model , Bernadette Price, a party girl heiress with everything , except a smoking-hot romantic partner to share her exotic lifestyle with. To find the man of her dreams, she turns to...
The Body in the Bouillon
A minister’s wife is determined to find out who’s preying on the residents of a New England retirement home in this acclaimed cozy mystery series. Minister’s wife, sometime sleuth, and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumors of mysterious doings...
Murder at the Highland Castle
A majestic castle by a Scottish loch, a glass of whisky by a roaring fire, stockings hung by the chimney… and a body? It’s a midwinter murder for Kitty Underhay! Winter, 1935. Lightly dusted with snow and nestled on the edge of a sweeping Scottish loch, Finnglach...
The Missing Mariner
Holmes must choose between a missing sailor and an ingenious art heist. But Flynn is caught in the crossfire.When a distressed sister seeks help to find her long-lost brother, Sherlock Holmes, Lucy James, and Dr. Watson, swing into action. Even though a priceless...
The Solitary Witness
A noble lady is the only witness to a killer's crime.Sherlock and Lucy are about to bring a murderer to trial. But they will need newlywed Lady Constance to testify, and a killer's bullet has just narrowly missed her.For her protection, the Baker Street team sets up...
Bluewater Killer
A Serial Killer, Sex Traffickers, and Mercenaries in the CaribbeanA serial killer is roaming from Florida to the Eastern Caribbean. His victims are women who hitchhike on his sailing yacht. Picking up Dani Berger was his first mistake. After he leaves her for dead,...
Murder with Motive
When Sylvia Shipman’s uncle plunges to his death on the eve of a catastrophic stock market crash, the verdict is suicide. But Sylvia doubts the official story after seeing a sinister stranger fleeing the scene. She doubts it even more after learning of her uncle’s...
The Show
Seattle, 1941. Grace Vandenberg, 21, is having a bad day. Minutes after Pearl Harbor is attacked, she learns that her boyfriend is a time traveler from 2000 who has abandoned her for a future he insists they cannot share. Determined to save their love, she follows him...
The Chairmen
He hoped that his involvement in crime fighting was over. But life seems to have other ideas. Kurtz has settled back into work as a general surgeon, teaching students and residents and planning his wedding to graphic artist Lenore Brinkman, but things are not so...
The Year of the Gadfly
A darkly witty mystery set at a New England prep school: “Part Dead Poets Society. Part Heathers. Entirely addictive” (Glamour). “Do you know what it took for Socrates’ enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?”“Hemlock.” The fiercely competitive Mariana Academy...
The Maggie Newberry Mysteries (Books 1–3)
Murder travels nicely in this popular mystery series featuring expat Maggie Newberry who lives in France with her winemaker French chef husband. Enjoy the sights and smells of Provence, the Côte d'Azur and Paris as Maggie uses her amateur (and very American) sleuthing...
The Girl That Vanished
Ring…Ring… One call from her past was all it took to change everything.A ten-year-old girl has vanished on her way home from camp.And things took a turn for the worse when another child, a child that Emma knows, goes missing.Disappearances, death, and tragedies have...
Trickster
When a mysterious teenage girl appears at his door, Thorn’s attempt to help her sends him on a journey that leads to a shocking discovery: every calamity in Thorn’s life for the past twenty years—and there’ve been plenty—has been engineered by a powerful enemy. This...
Murder Goes Mumming
Murder turns a Christmas trip into a working holiday for Mountie Madoc Rhys and his bride-to-be in this holiday whodunit from the “cozy mystery queen” ( Early Bird Books ). Though he may not look the part, Madoc Rhys is a Mountie—and his keen sense of detection tells...
Gone South
From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston series comes "Gone South", the third installment in the Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series.Butterscotch receives a call from the states informing her that her father is dying. But is it a genuine...
The Reek of Red Herrings
Agatha Award Winner for Best Historical Novel: Something fishy is going on in this clever mystery with “an exciting climax” set in a tiny Scottish village (Publishers Weekly).Winner, Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel Finalist, Macavity/Sue Feder Memorial...
The Long Way Home
Haunted by the death of her co-worker and good friend, reporter Samantha Church sets out on a journey to find his younger sister, Jenny, who he last saw as a baby and never got the chance to know.Driven by the need to fulfill her friend’s final wish, Sam travels to El...
Once Upon a Lie
Little did, businessman and entrepreneur, Michael Rossi know that the telephone call he answered on that fateful Friday would be the catalyst for his death, and the subsequent recovery of his body from the waters of Sydney Harbour the following morning. Recalled from...
The Headhunter’s Daughter
Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunter’s Daughter, the second book in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century—a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctor’s Wife. Raised in the Congo herself, the child of...