Mystery & Detective

A Secret Rage

by Charlaine Harris

Former New York City model Nickie Callahan is looking forward to the easy life when she moves to the sleepy college town of Knolls, Tennessee. But the women of Knolls are not safe. And as Nickie gets swept up...

Death Loves a Messy Desk

by Mary Jane Maffini

Nothing makes Charlotte Adams happier than freeing people from clutter-and she boasts a waiting list of sloppy clients. Her free time has been taken up solving fatally untidy cases. Her latest task: a woman...

The Mournful Teddy

by John J. Lamb

Retired San Francisco cop Brad Lyon is settling into a quieter life with his wife Ashleigh in Virginia's mountain country, where they collect and create teddy bears. But even here, stuff happens... The day is...

Murder In Gotham

by Isidore Haiblum

There's no shortage of Weiss guys in the Weiss & Weiss mysteries.

Instead of the police, the wife of a missing man asks Yiddish detective Morris Weiss for help. He knows more than the cops about the gangland...

Where There's a Witch

Bewitching Mysteries #5

by Madelyn Alt

Taking a break from her job at Enchantments, Stony Mill's finest mystical antique shop, Maggie O'Neill visits a carnival where she senses some bad spirits. And when a construction worker is suspected of killing...

A Rose From the Dead: A Flower Shop Mystery

Flower Shop Mystery #6

by Kate Collins

In New Chapel, Indiana, flower shop owner Abby Knight worries about her business failing. She needs new customers and knows that flowers and funerals go together like bacon and eggs. Thus she decides to open...

Lead-Pipe Cinch

Georgiana Neverall #2

by Christy Evans

The second mystery featuring Georgiana Neverall, plumber's apprentice extraordinaire.

Georgiana Neverall never pictured herself knee-deep in a muddy trench building a moat-part of a state-of-the-art castle...

Murder in Little Italy

Gaslight Mysteries #8

by Victoria Thompson

As a midwife working in the tenements of turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has witnessed joy and misery, birth and death. Now Sarah suffers the heartbreak of losing a patient-but not from natural causes....

Aunt Dimity: Detective: Detective

Aunt Dimity #7

by Nancy Atherton

 When Lori Shepherd returns from her trip to America, she is shocked to hear that Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed. This is the first murder in the village of Finch in more than a century, and everyone...

Fantomas

by Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre

“One episode simply melts away as the next takes over” (The New York Times) in this deliciously sinister turn-of-the-century tale of a French evil genius run rampant. Three appalling crimes leave all of...

Black Arrow

by I. J. Parker

In I. J. Parker's latest mystery set in ancient Japan, a cold and hostile land pits Akitada against his deadliest foe yet

I. J. Parker's engrossing historical novels bring eleventh-century Japan to life in...

Murder Most Frothy: A Coffeehouse Mystery

Coffeehouse Mysteries #4

by Cleo Coyle

Clare Cosi’s new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer away from the sticky city. At his Hamptons mansion, she’ll relax, soak up...

Mrs. Jeffries Speaks Her Mind

Mrs. Jeffries Victorian Mysteries #27

by Emily Brightwell

The eccentric Olive Kettering swore someone was trying to harm her. Too bad no one listened, though plenty wanted her dead. When Olive is shot and killed, Mrs. Jeffries has no problem speaking her mind to see...

Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side

by Charlaine Harris

A winning mystery collection edited by and featuring an original story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

Nighttime is the perfect time for the perfect crime-especially in the realm...

Murder on Waverly Place

Gaslight Mysteries #11

by Victoria Thompson

Turn-of-the-century New York City shines in the Gaslight mystery series.

Midwife and sleuth Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy must protect Sarah's mother from scandal after she tries to contact...

Eye Contact

by Cammie McGovern

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Like The Lovely Bones and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Cammie McGovern’s breakout novel is at once a hypnotic thriller and an affecting...

A Harvest of Bones

by Yasmine Galenorn

Tea shop owner and psychic Emerald O'Brien has stumbled onto the ruins of a 50-year-old house rife with supernatural bounty, including a ghost and whispering plants. Now it's up to Em and her friends to delve...

Ghost Of A Chance

by Yasmine Galenorn

Emerald O'Brien is the owner of the Chintz 'n China Tea Room where guests are served the perfect blend of tea and tarot reading. She never set out to be a detective, but once word gets out that she can communicate...

Gunpowder Green

Tea Shop Mysteries #2

by Laura Childs

Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning knows that something’s brewing in the high society of Charleston—something other than her newest tea…

The Indigo Tea Shop, Charleston’s favorite spot of tea, has just...

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse

Aurora Teagarden #3

by Charlaine Harris

Third in the Aurora Teagarden series, one great new look.

Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora "Roe" Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house...