Mystery & Detective

Death, Taxes, and Hot Pink Leg Warmers

Tara Holloway #5

by Diane Kelly

Death, Taxes, and Hot-Pink Leg Warmers from A Tara Holloway Novel series

Diane Kelly

It’s bad enough that Tara has to go on trial against the mortgage-frauding “Tennis Racketeers” who cheated banks and...

Blood Orange

by Karen Keskinen

The sunniest places can harbor the darkest of secrets...

Santa Barbara private investigator Jaymie Zarlin has built her fledgling agency on finding missing people. Still struggling with the death of her troubled...

Tote Bags and Toe Tags

by Dorothy Howell

Just because Haley lacks the right qualifications for her new position as corporate events coordinator doesn't mean she murdered her company's chief of security. Nothing about her fashion sense screams deadly...

Father Knows Death

by Jeffrey Allen

It isn't that stay-at-home dad Deuce Winters wants to be his small town's unofficial sleuth. Between caring for his peppy five year-old-daughter Carly and helping to keep his ten-months-pregnant wife Julianne...

The Devil’s Minister

by Alistair Mair

Hugh Collins, a restless socio-anthropologist whose researches had taken him to many strange places, decided that the time to settle down in the northwest of Scotland, in the country he had known and loved as...

My Life in Black and White

by Kim Izzo

When Clara Bishop, a struggling screenwriter-turned-tabloid journalist in Hollywood, is jilted by her philandering husband, she follows him to London, determined to win him back. Armed with only a glamorous...

If You Were Here

by Alafair Burke

Magazine journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the latest urban folktale—the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenage boy from the subway tracks seconds before the arrival of an oncoming...

The Flavia de Luce Series 4-Book Bundle: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring Without Mustar

by Alan Bradley

Award-winning author Alan Bradley is a master of the British cozy mystery, and in Flavia de Luce, he has created a wickedly clever and intrepid young sleuth, hailed as “one of the most remarkable creations...

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Arthur Conan Doyle

This volume, authorized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's estate, contains all 4 full-length novels and all 56 short stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. At over a thousand pages, the weighty tome is a perfect gift...

The Regency Detective: A Jack Swann Mystery

by David Lassman

Jack Swann is, on the surface, a typical gentleman of the Regency period; educated, literate and well-heeled. In his early thirties, he is single and attractive, with all the resources needed to live a privileged...

Brothers in Blood

by David Stuart Davies

A brutal game devised by three intelligent but bored teenagers escalates into murder. Led by the charismatic and cunning Laurence, the trio of 'brothers' meets once a year to carry out untraceable, motiveless...

Daylight

by Elizabeth Knox

Brian “Bad” Phelan, New Zealander and bomb-disposal expert, likes to live dangerously. While on vacation on the French–Italian border, he helps bring a body out of a rocky, wave-swept cove. The dead woman...

Billie's Kiss

by Elizabeth Knox

With an Edwardian twist on The Tempest, and surprising, earthy, and magical qualities, this irresistible novel is set on the remote, divided Scottish island of Kissack and Skilling, one half of which looks historically...

A Man of Indeterminate Value

by Ron Felber

A Man of Indeterminate Value, the first novel in the Jack Madson trilogy, finds our anti-hero in a world plagued by corrupt corporations and sinister forces that prowl the global landscape. Trapped in a hate-filled...

At the Dying of the Year

by Chris Nickson

As an atmosphere of fear and suspicion pervades the city, Richard Nottingham and his team find themselves hunting a ruthless child-killer, a monster who preys on abandoned street children, those with no one...

The Keeper of Hands

by J Sydney Jones

Vienna, 1901. With the police seemingly indifferent to the murder of a 19-year-old prostitute known as Mitzi, brothel-keeper Frau Mutzenbacher turns to lawyer Karl Werthen to find out what happened and bring...

Play Dead

by Bill James

Good detective work allowed the pair to arrest and charge a fellow policeman, who murdered an undercover officer in an attempt to keep a crook-police racket secret. But their work is not yet done. Who ordered...

Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein's Diary

by Barry Grant

A scientist who tortures apes in a mountain lab. A corpse in a locked study. A super-hacker called Black Swann. These send Sherlock Holmes from Switzerland to the English countryside - plunging him into an Orwellian...

Murder at the Castle

by Jeanne M Dams

Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to join their close friends Nigel and Inga Evans at a Welsh music festival where both Nigel and Inga will be performing with...

Dark Waters

by Susan Rogers Cooper

When Milt Kovak wins a seven-day cruise for four to Puerto Rico, he takes his family - wife Jean and son, Johnny Mac, plus Johnny Mac's best friend, Early Rollins. It's spring break and the ship is running over...