Mystery & Detective

Witch Cradle: A John McIntire Mystery #3

by Kathleen Hills

January, 1951, while the country is in the grip of war in Korea, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and Senator Joe McCarthy's Red Scare, the residents of St. Adele, Michigan, are more concerned with staying...

Past Imperfect: A John McIntire Mystery #1

by Kathleen Hills

A grizzled Lake Superior fisherman with a massive allergy to bees dies very early one morning alone on his boat. Was he stung to death? John McIntire, retired from a career in military intelligence and striving...

Rogue: An Ike Schwartz Mystery

by Frederick Ramsay

Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz's fiancée, is in-volved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged. Even though he is embroiled in a close election, has no jurisdiction...

Hunter's Dance: A John McIntire Mystery #2

by Kathleen Hills

Autumn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula means hunting season, and the fall of 1950 finds most everyone in St. Adele township hunting for something-deer, grouse, uranium; love, redemption, escape; a story, a husband,...

A Shot To Die For

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

In this fourth title in the Ellie Foreman mystery series, the Chicago documentary filmmaker finds herself in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Returning from a video shoot at the Lodge, a newly renovated, upscale resort,...

A Picture of Guilt

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

The big news story in Chi-cago is the murder trial of Johnny Santoro, a dock worker whose girlfriend has been killed. Most Chicagoans are betting on a quick guilty verdict, but Ellie Foreman has doubts about...

An Image of Death

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

Who knew that a career in video documentaries could lead to crime? Such is the fate of Chicago's Ellie Foreman whose shoots hook her up with misdeeds past and present. Here she is producing a video about foster...

An Eye For Murder

by Libby Fischer Hellmann

It begins in 1944 Prague, but the madness--and the murder--move on to contemporary Chicago where an old man has died. Then it goes to the North Shore suburbs where documentary filmmaker Ellie Fore-man gets a...

Server Down: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery

by J M Hayes

Attending the Yaqui tribe's Easter Ceremonies in Tucson should be a dream come true for a Cheyenne-wannabe-shaman like Mad Dog. But immediately after his midnight arrival, he is accused of being a witch. Then...

Prairie Gothic: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery

by J M Hayes

Benteen County, Kansas is a hellhole in summer of scorching heat and wind and turns even meaner in winter. As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated county seat of Buffalo Springs, Sheriff...

Plains Crazy: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery

by J M Hayes

Nothing ever happens in Benteen County, Kansas. Then, on a perfect spring morning, a member of the reality TV program filming in a local pasture is found dead with a Cheyenne arrow sticking out of his back....

Mad Dog and Englishman: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery

by J M Hayes

Summer in Benteen, County, Kansas, is a season possessed of all the gentle subtlety of an act of war. Winter, of course, is no better, but remembrance of its frosts and blizzards and winds that begin to suck...

Mission Road

by Rick Riordan

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

The triple-crown winner of mystery’s most prestigious awards–the Edgar, the Anthony, and the Shamus–Rick Riordan...

The Grey Pilgrim

by J M Hayes

A strikingly original plot blends unknown bits of real history with imagined incidents to create an unusual thriller. Its base is the last American Indian uprising in Arizona, occuring in October, 1940. At its...

Broken Heartland: A Mad Dog & Englishman Mystery

by J M Hayes

Sleepy Benteen County, Kansas, turns frantic on election day. Sheriff English, better known as Englishman, faces his toughest re-election challenge yet. The radical religious right is out to unseat him, their...

Twice Buried: A Posadas County Mystery

by Steven F Havill

Bill Gastner, Undersheriff of Posadas County, knows ancient Anna Hocking didn't fall down her fruit cellar stairs by accident. He's also sure that elderly Reuben Fuentes knows nothing about the bodies scattered...

Scavengers: A Posadas County Mystery

by Steven F Havill

A man's body is found in the unforgiving New Mexico desert, his face so smashed that identification is impossible. It's the beginning of a brutal murder spree that will take Posadas County's new undersheriff,...

Red, Green, or Murder: A Posadas County Mystery

by Steven F Havill

Former Posadas County Sheriff Bill Gastner, now a New Mexico Livestock Inspector, is enjoying a day on Herb Torrance's ranch-soaking in the sun as he counts a small herd of cattle and thinking about an upcoming...

Prolonged Exposure: A Posadas County Mystery

by Steven F Havill

Savvy storytelling infused with a spicy Southwestern setting. "Not only does Havill offer a melancholy reinterpretation of that grand western myth of the slow-talking, fast-thinking lawman, he also writes crisp,...

Privileged to Kill: A Posadas County Mystery

by Steven F Havill

Rolling stone Wesley Crocker seems a harmless enough free spirit when Posadas County Undersheriff Bill Gastner offers him a lift on the road and spots him a free dinner. Crocker beds down for the night with...