Mystery/Crime

3 Classic Novels About the Celebrated Detecive Created by the First Ever Woman Mystery Writer! Here is Victorian detective writing at its finest. Return to the era of Sherlock Holmes, gas light and horse drawn carriages. Read The Leavenworth Case, Green first detective novel introducing the immortal master of deduction Mr. Gryce. Then discover how Gryce solves A Strange Disappearance that baffled all others. And, finally watch him unknot a murder using The Clue of the Hasty Arrow. All three Gryc... more info>>

Lindy thinks she has it all. An exciting life in New York City. Career prospects. Men. And she does, too. That is, until Granny Walker is killed. Then, all bets are off. To satisfy the terms of Granny's will Lindy must step into her grandmother's orthopedic shoes and assume her place on the family farm. She'll have to uncover the mystery between a raging bull and a Mustang, all while finding a husband and fighting off a nasty cousin. Life on the farm makes a white sale at Bloomie's look like chi... more info>>

Who Was Ruthlessly Murdering the Town's Biggest Drug Dealers! If you love Dexter, you will love this thrilling, mystifying new novel from crime writer by Don White. Detective Teri Harmon wonders who is killing off the town's drug dealers. One suspect is sexy, young Jeff Taylor, whose fiancée had been brutally raped and murdered by junkie. Teri admits whoever killed Loomis probably did the city a favor but is opposed to anyone taking the law into his or her own hands. But as she investigates Tayl... more info>>

Long-arm quilter Harriet Truman and her quilt group the Loose Threads set off for what should be an enjoyable week of stitching at the Angel Harbor Folk Art School, where member Lauren Sawyer is attending a two-year program in part to quiet the accusation that she copies other people's work. It appears Lauren is up to her old tricks when Harriet's Aunt Beth announces she's seen Lauren's quilt in a museum in Europe. Lauren believes Selestina Bainbridge, owner and teacher at the school, is the one... more info>>

Nothing seemed to stop the little monsters. I shot a second time, wounding or killing another, and then dropped the gun to the ground. I pulled a slender blade from under my belt and whipped it at the little men. Another couple of strikes against my legs brought me level with the filthy floor of the alley, my fine clothes being soiled by the trash of the Big City--and although I sliced and diced deeply into the bodies of several of my attackers, I knew that I was doomed to lose this particular b... more info>>

Lady Kyla, as Major Kyla Montdavi, is escorting Prince Garland (Lanny) a man she tells herself she despises for the way he treated her when she was seventeen. She suspects his family ordered her family killed to stop a legal prosecution. She knows the trip is a trap for Lanny, and reminds herself how angry she is over what happened to her family. On the other hand, she doesn't want him killed. He still matters. Lanny knows it's a trap, but must know who killed his family in the tiny principality... more info>>

Single mom Kate Dennison finds her new reporting job at a local paper is not at all what she expected. On her first day, two men die in a fire apparently set by a militant environmentalist group called The Forces of Nature. Kate is assigned to cover the story, including the trial of the young man charged with the crime. As she works to unearth the truth, she begins to fear for her own safety and is faced with the loss of her daughter, her freedom and even her life.

"I did it on purpose. To hear your screams." Nearly killed as a teenager by a hit-and-run boater, Jane Killian is a woman with everything to live for. A series of surgeries restored her lovely face. She's the toast of the Dallas art community, her sculptures lauded as both disturbing and beautiful. And Jane and her husband, plastic surgeon Dr. Ian Westbrook, are expecting their first child. Then a woman with ties to Ian is found brutally slain and, unbelievably, the police make him their prime s... more info>>

Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police training--but nothing has prepared this rookie for the rite of passage that will take her on a deadly ride into the underbelly of Miami's drug world. It begins with the shocking discovery of a body on the highway and her glimpse of a mysterious hooded figure watching from the side of the road. Then Ashley's investigation into the incident reveals a surprising connection to another crime scene miles away. In the heart of the Everglades, Detective J... more info>>

Mr. Henry Smith, agent for the Phalanx Life and Fire Insurance, will stop at nothing to protect the interests of his company.... A classic mystery from the March 22, 1941 issue of "Detective Fiction Weekly."

Peter Kidd should have suspected the shaggy dog of something, right away. He got into trouble the first time he saw the animal. It was the first hour of the first day of Peter Kidd's debut as a private investigator. Specifically, ten minutes after nine in the morning...

Roxie does not want Saul to discover her secret past. She knows she should have nothing to do with him, but she cannot stop herself from being attracted to him. There is her son Josh to consider, too--he needs a strong man in his life, and Saul Hetherington is that kind of man. Perhaps her secret will never be revealed--if she is very careful. A passionate love story about two people who are opposites, but who are irresistibly drawn to one another!

In the late 21st Century, A body is found in the headquarters of the world's largest fast food franchise, Barto Burger, creators of the world's first completely cloned hamburger. The president of the company, Gansheng Barto, has apparently eaten himself to death on his own burgers. Is it really suicide, or is it murder by burger. It's time to bring in Boston Jonson, crime consultant extraordinaire, to use his unorthodox mixture of Zen, insults, and hula hula shirts to unravel a startling mystery... more info>>

While investigating the case of missing teenager Sarah Willis, Hawkman and his wife discovered secrets of a cheerleader who went on a rampage at school while in a jealous rage over her boyfriend.

Brando Mahr lost his mind when an artillery shell exploded close by. Upon returning to some form of consciousness, he found himself aphasiac and epileptic. He escaped from the hospital and found menial work in the basement of the UCLA library, where he re-learned language, unfortunately by reading mostly 18th century English penny dreadnaughts. Since the language has shifted somewhat in 200 plus years, the author has channeled the spirit of one of Brando's favorite writers from the 1700s to act ... more info>>

Dead bodies. Mysterious gunmen. Eerie voices rising from the mist. When Chelsea Caldwell returned to run her aunt's B & B in Jenkins Cove, she hadn't counted on being swept into a strange and frightening mystery. Something was wrong in the old Victorian house--and it started with the arrival of one guest: Michael Bryant. Michael shadowed her, probed her past and turned up at the deadliest moments. But Chelsea couldn't resist his sexy swagger and dark good looks. Though Michael promised to protec... more info>>

Grant Jefferson joins the Gay Men's Chorus as a protege of its biggest supporter, and begins causing more dischord than harmony. Determined he's going to Broadway, Grant sees the chorus as the means to his end, and doesn't care much how many of the other members he uses as his stepping stones--or how hard they get stepped on. So, when a car bomb ends Grant's recitative, there is no shortage of possible suspects, and when the chorus's board of directors hires Dick Hardesty to see what he can find... more info>>

It's 2060. In Backstreet Records, a brooding audiophile thinks murder. Upstairs at Studio4Ward where skulls, dreams and beer cans are the stuff of art, 300 pounds of human sculpture dangles dead from the wall. It's time to call in the notorious super sleuth Boston Jonson to smoke out the murderer with insults and Zen.

Elliott Smith never considered himself to be anything special, if you didn't count having wealthy parents, whom he largely ignores. His profession is buying, restoring and reselling small apartment buildings around Chicago. Gay and contentedly single at 38, he has, in addition to his globetrotting parents, a devoted sister, a police detective brother-in-law, two nieces and a nephew. Everything in his life is going along perfectly fine until he wakes in the hospital after being hit by a car aware... more info>>

An action-packed marine mystery featuring Andy Horton.... Andy Horton is called to investigate a suspicious fire on board a boat, but when he arrives he senses instinctively that this investigation will be like no other, and he's right. Soon he is forced to confront the past, and it becomes clear that this is one case someone is determined he should never solve....

Meet Frances Dedman, aka Faith DuQuayne, who works part-time, reading tarot cards on Brighton Pier. It's July 2005 and the eyes of the world are on London. Normally the disappearance of a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl in a nearby seaside town would be headline news, but the July 7th bombings have consigned Natalie Parrish's disappearance to the inside pages. When Natalie's father hires a private investigator, the police aren't happy about a blind girl and her ex-policeman uncle nosing around, but ... more info>>

When a homeless drug addict is shot trying to tell something to Eric Thorne, nobody else seems to care very much. Eric starts to make his own inquiries, and ends up mixing with underworld kingpins, federal agents, occultists and several levels of human depravity. The trail leads through abandoned buildings, posh penthouses, street level crime and high-level cover-ups. With an undercover narc, a beat cop and a local pastor as his only allies, Eric digs into "Pegleg's" last days and uncovers a kil... more info>>

Tempe Crabtree is the resident deputy of Bear Creek, a small mountain community in the southern Sierra. Her continuing interest in the spiritual side of her heritage often causes unrest in her marriage to her minister husband. Kindred Spirits is about a troubled marriage, a "perfect" murder, a murder victim whose spirit won't rest until the murderer's identity is revealed, the genocide of the Tolowa nation, and two dangerous trips for Deputy Tempe Crabtree as she searches for answers.

Zach is back! In Book 2 of the Zach Taylor Adventure series, a legendary cache of Nazi white gold buried in a treasure ship deep beneath the waters of the Caribbean holds the key to a secret alliance between crime families in New York and Europe. When the daughter of Miami crime lord Don Carlos Santiago is kidnapped from her honeymoon retreat and held for one billion dollars ransom, there's only one man tough enough and brave enough to find the gold and rescue her--Zach Taylor.

Mark must avenge his father's murder by the Mafia. He does so by using makeup to disguise himself differently for each kill.