Following the success of Malice Domestic 1--recipient of the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and called "outstanding" by Publishers Weekly--acclaimed author Nancy Pickard serves a feast of original traditional mystery stories in classic Agatha Christie style. Featured writers include Wendy Hornsby, Dorothy Cannell, Joan Hess, and Nancy Pickard ...
Murphy's dour and reluctant hero Doom Loomis comes home from jail to inherit his father's yacht and an entire town, Omnium Settlement. Half underwater and still sinking, Omnium is a hot property wanted by two unsavory land barons, one of whom killed Doom's father. In no time, Doom is contemplating revenge as well as dollars--and falling in love.
In New Orleans at the invitation of her old friend Kitty Lee, Samantha Adams expects a giddy Mardi Gras whirl of all-night parties and merrymaking. But when Kitty's brother is found dead, Sam decides to dig for answers.
The Edgar Award-winning author of Junkyard Dog is back with a new mystery featuring Chicago's most endearing sewer inspector, Jimmy Flannery. When a high-and-mighty police chief asks him to help investigate the mysterious death of a man who remains unidentified at the morgue, Jimmy runs up against some Chicago big boys--and an underworld warlord.
A beautiful young model is murdered by an intruder. The victim, Mau Tim Dani, was the daughter of a Vietnamese woman and an Italian-American Vietnam vet. The modeling agency representing Mau carried a five hundred thousand dollar insurance policy on her life. Although reluctant to handle insurance cases, Boston private investigator John Cuddy is ...
When Peter Bartholomew finds a teenager's body drifting in the Sound, the only clues are a class ring and the murdered girl's pregnancy. Peter and his ex-wife Connie determine to search for the truth, and their most memorable encounter traps them in the rising waters of a tidal cave, where a killer feels free to let nature take its deadly course.
Annie McGrogan, a struggling actress doing the audition rounds, is waiting for her big break when she reads about Private Investigator Duke DeNobili. Duke is skeptical, but who better than an actress for the role of a P.I.? So Annie gets the callback for a job babysitting the star of a bottom-ranked soap opera who says a fan is after her. But when ...
It's beginning to look at lot like murder for Peter Bartholomew in the third installment of this popular mystery series. When a local businessman is killed at a Christmas party, it may have been because he refused to sell out to a powerful condo developer. Pete sets out to expose the murderer, but his real concern is for his ex-wife--who may be ...
Haskell Blevins--the only P.I. in Pigeon Fork, Kentucky--is back, in another mystery from the author of Pet Peeves and Ruffled Feathers. All three of Blevins' new clients have the same problem. Each of their homes has been broken into, but nothing has been stolen. When one of them turns up dead, Blevins begins his hunt for the truth.
In her third critically acclaimed crime novel, Fyfield creates a wonderfully complex new heroine, Sarah Fortune. A lawyer in a prestigious firm, Fortune loathes her dry profession and provides intimate friendships to lonely men. Little does she suspect that she's heading toward a confrontation with no escape.
On leave from her job as a newspaper reporter to write a book, Samantha Adams is persuaded by her boyfriend, Harry Zack, to visit Elvis's birthplace in Tupelo Mississippi for the Thrid Annual International Barbecue Cookoff. Sam and Harry haven't been in town five minutes before they happen on a number of bizarre occurrences including a contestant ...
In the course of 24 hours, the eccentric Mrs. Clare, her son, and her brother are all found dead. Murder suspects seem to be everywhere, with the late Mrs. Clare's other son and bitter ex-husband leading the list. Now Inspector Bone is up to his professional neck in adventure trying to sort out the clues.
The Edgar Award-nominated author of the Maggie Ryan series now introduces Marty Hopkins, Deputy Sheriff for Nichols County, Indiana, in a harrowing tale of incest, racism, and murder at the hands of the KKK. "A welcome first in a series".--Kirkus Reviews.
Goldie Hanrahan, long retired secretary to the head of the Democratic party rubbed shoulders with the powerful and rich in Chicago. When Goldie is murdered, Ray Corrigan, the head of the party, asks him to keep an eye on the police investigation. This is the seventh Jimmy Flannery mystery.
P.I. Haskell Blevins is back in a witty, lighthearted tale of a poultry millionaire and a murder that smells foul at every turn. When someone bashes in the head of old Jacob Vandeventer with his prized bronze chicken statue, it's left to Blevins to find the murderer--and the suspects abound.
Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen, Detective Neil Hockaday didn't think that much about an old geezer calling himself Picasso and babbling about slaughter on Tenth Avenue--until the killings began. Now it's up to Hock to stop a murderer who makes killing an art--real masterworks in paint, flesh, and blood.
Fifth in Gunning's popular mystery series featuring odd-job entrepreneur Peter Bartholomew. Peter takes ex-wife Connie, sister Polly, and her fiance, Jackson Beers, on a whale-watching cruise. But when the would-be sightseers are treated to the grisly spectacle of Beers impaled on a harpoon, the expedition turns into the hunt for a killer.
On leave from her job as a newspaper reporter to write a book, Samantha Adams is persuaded by her boyfriend, Harry Zack, to visit Elvis's birthplace in Tupelo Mississippi for the Thrid Annual International Barbecue Cookoff. Sam and Harry haven't been in town five minutes before they happen on a number of bizarre occurrences including a contestant ...
Grief-stricken Pearl Rivkind wants Boston private eye John Cuddy to find out if her husband, Abe, was having an affair when he was mysteriously murdered in the office of his furniture store. WIlliam Proft, an enigmatic young pharmacist, hires Cuddy to locate his sister Darba, who worked in Abe's store until she took a vacation and never returned. ...
The Boston Globe has called award-winning author Jeremiah Healy "one of the most appealing writers in the business". Now, Healy returns with Right to Die, a richly textured, compelling new mystery featuring John Francis Cuddy--and a story as current as tomorrow's headlines.
Still reeling from learning that her sexy boyfriend, Harry as taken up with some skinny young thing, writer Samantha Adams and her best friend Kitty head up to Hot Springs for their lottery-winning-friend Jinx Watson's big blowout engagement party. When the groom is kidnapped for a million-dollar-ransom, Sam decides to investigate. But only after ...
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