Mystery/Crime

Felicity Canaday and Lazarus are back, and this time they team up with librarian Jo Caldwell and builder Max Todd to track down whoever is stealing rare books from the Canaday Collection before it can be installed in its new home. Mystery by Justine Wittich; originally published by Belgrave House

A blizzard, romance writers and murderā?¦ Elizabeth MacAllister thought she had more to deal with than she could handle. Then Jared Granville showed up and Elizabeth knew her past had returned to haunt her. She couldn't run away any longerā?¦ not even to save her own life.

What's a lawyer to do when beautiful Delia Brand confesses of her plans to kill Dan Jackson and Jackson soon turns up dead. Accused of murdering him with her father's .38 in the town of Cody, Wyoming, Delia Brand sets out to find the real killer, and along the way, discovers the truth about her father's unsolved murder. Dark Revenge was first published in 1939. Later appeared in an expanded novel version as Mountain Cat and The Mountain Cat Murders.

Set in the Caddo Lake area of Deep East Texas, this novel unfolds as Detective Cheryl Burroughs and Postal Inspector Allen Conyers work together to find a robber, forger, and murderer before he has time to kill again. Inspector-in-Charge Jim McCain, from the Postal Inspection Office in Fort Worth, is ready to fight anybody who disagrees with him, while he goes out of his way to be as disagreeable as possible to everybody else. "I based the character of Darling Corey on two prostitutes I knew whe... more info>>

Back in England after the Great War, Archie Douglas meets a young lady whose beauty takes his breath away. But Cicily Broadbent, student of Egyptology, has sworn never to marry. She believes that Nekhbet the White Vulture, virgin mother goddess of ancient Egypt, can grant women children without man's touch. Determined to win her hand, Archie awaits the day when she grows out of this experiment with paganism. But when Cicily succeeds in re-awakening the goddess, Archie has more to worry about tha... more info>>

Portland, Oregon, is about as far from his home turf as New York PI Lenny Schneider can get. Talk about culture shock: the air is fresh and clean, the rain unending, the drivers are (mostly) polite and slow, bagels are fat and fluffy, and everybody's friendly (sort of). Lenny came to town in search of a baseball hero's missing daughter, and mooched a bed at an old buddy's place. Next thing he knows, he's involved in controversy, intrigue, and murder. Walter, a radio show host with a talent for g... more info>>

Bed and Breakfast Inns are nice places to visit?but you just might end up dead before breakfast! Enjoy this collection of nine short mystery stories all set in bed and breakfast inns, by The Final Twist, a Houston, Texas based writers group. The authors and their stories are The Stand-In by Cash Anthony, Traces of Death by John Foxjohn, Dead by Breakfast by Betty Gordon, Veiled Deception by Betty Gordon, The Legacy of Ledgemont Inn by Linda Houle, Do Wah Diddy Die Already by Pauline Baird Jones,... more info>>

This first in the Alex Masters series will leave you eager for the sequel. Alex Masters has given up prostitution, lives on the "right" side of town, has a respectable job and is about to launch a singing career on the side. While making a deposit for her employer at Bay City Central, her past catches up with her in the time it takes a bank robber's bullet to pierce her arm. Alex finds herself caught in a tangle of robbery, murder and blackmail. Clearing herself of suspicion means returning to h... more info>>

Sleuthing with a Sexy, tough-guy Hollywood Private Eye! From From a Shamus and Anthony Award Nominee Mystery Author Writing as Jack Burns! A dead blond leads private eye "Rick Knight into a trail of lust, larceny, and lethal force. When the police can't find who killed blonde Hollywood starlet, Flo Hobbs, Rick Knight is called in. Knight discovers the dead actress was the notorious lover of many Hollywood stars and executives, female and male. Old-fashioned sleuthing leads Knight into danger, bu... more info>>

Sexy Hollywood Private Eye Rick Knight is back again! Hollywood studios are cutting back -- and it's a bad time for starlets. It's so easy for a girl to go wrong, when her choices are dead-end waitress jobs and prostitution. That's why one starlet figures she has it easy when she becomes a girlfriend of the free-spending son of a crime boss. The ex-starlet learns better when the godfather's son is murdered while in bed with her. With hitmen looking to eliminate this unexpected witness, she turns... more info>>

Jim Groggan was bored. He was so bored that when a brutal murder occurred on the beach where he was staying, he took too great an interest in it. He even volunteered to drive a police officer down along the beach to interview Hippies in a seaside camp. There he met a girl, and unwisely went to her aid. Then events spun out of control and he was mixed up in turmoil of drugs, guns, and murder. Suddenly, boredom seemed a very desirable state indeed as he and the girl became the target of ruthless g... more info>>

Conned into kidnapping a young woman, Burke Thomas, free-wheeling private investigator of things from the long past and part-time treasure hunter, has to free her. Before he can do so he finds the client who hired him dead. Then a gang is after him, the local sheriff is asking embarrassing questions, and worse, he was only vacationing in the area in hopes of finding a long-buried, massive hoard of ingot gold. A novel set in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California, an ... more info>>

Hollis Ball is back, this time covering the Decoy Jamboree, still smouldering over the light sentence Judge Fish gave a wife-murderer. Then someone bashes Fish on the head with an antique decoy. Hollis is pretty sure it's not suspect #1, so naturally she decides to solve the murder herself, with the help of her ex-husband, of course, that charming ghostly Sam

Hollis Ball is back, this time covering the Decoy Jamboree, still smouldering over the light sentence Judge Fish gave a wife-murderer. Then someone bashes Fish on the head with an antique decoy. Hollis is pretty sure it's not suspect #1, an old school friend and Soap Opera Queen. So naturally she decides to solve the murder herself, with the help of her ex-husband, of course, that charming ghostly Sam.;

He thought it was going to be an easy life. When tough ex-DC cop Paul Stoeffel first took on the job as police chief in the quiet West Virginian resort town, he believed he was in for a gentle ride into retirement. Things changed radically after they found the murdered little girl in the gloomy woods alongside Dead Fall Back, a place already tainted with sad history. As the bodies stack up, events soon escalate into a situation that thrusts the whole isolated town into deep peril. Surrounded by ... more info>>

Upon returning for her father's funeral, Julie finds that not much has changed in her hometown-including her evil stepmother, Rose. Suspicious of the circumstances surrounding her father's death, Julie embarks on her own investigation. She soon finds herself entangled in a mystery with a million dollars at stake and a cast of characters befitting of her hometown's name-Lake Loon. A new Father's Day short story from our Fingerprints line and the international-bestselling author of PADDY WHACKED... more info>>

Dead in Bed is a cozy mystery story, also set in the St. Croix river valley, but in the present day. Lacey, the PI featured in "Dead Man's Image" is back. She gets into all kinds of interesting situations as she tries to prove her client innocent of murdering his wife. Lacey is struggling to make a go of her business. Most of her clients want her to find proof of their spouses' infidelity. Now she's asked to solve a murder case that turns out to be very dangerous. Will this case help her save he... more info>>

Kate Marsden has stepped into her sister's shoes--literally. She hopes to impersonate Laura just long enough to face financier Victor Korbeck and find out why he has ordered Laura to bring her seven-year-old son to his island--the boy he refuses to acknowledge as his grandson. Kate seems to pass scrutiny by the family members and employees. Even Mitchell, Korbeck's hostile security chief, seems to be taken in by her masquerade. Or is he? Does he despise her for who she is--or for who he believes... more info>>

His life destroyed because of a bad rap he took for murdering two guys to prevent a rape, Reid Bennett relocated to Murphy's Harbor, a quaint little town in Canada. But is it really the quiet little place it seemed to be? A corpse and a scared woman, each found on a different side of the lake. Then another corpse. Reid, with his German shepherd Sam by his side, must go above and beyond the call of duty to get to the bottom of this mystery. The only way he can solve it and remain alive is to stre... more info>>

False identities, the persistence of memory, and the refusal to admit that love cannot save you, combine in a razor-edged crime novel that establishes Randall Silvis as one of the preeminent practitioners of the literary art. The hero of this novel, Mac Parris, isn't who he appears to be. A wildlife photographer living under an assumed name, he knows firsthand that the most dangerous animal of all is the one behind the camera. He has spent his adult life hiding from the FBI and his own past, whi... more info>>

"As far as I'm concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell Scott should be in the Top Ten of any readers list of favorite private eyes." --Robert J. Randisi For four decades, Richard S. Prather published over 40 works of detective fiction, most featuring his clever, cad-about-town hero, Shell Scott. Known for their arched humor, punchy dialogue, and sunny Southern California locale, the Shell Scott books represent one of the greatest private ey... more info>>

It is October in Arcadia and shape shifter Talia Coe is now the proud mother of twins, Mahra and Aaron. As Talia and her mate Lucas Knight plan their November wedding and try to adjust to parenthood, Talia is again plagued by nightmares of doom and disaster. Their archenemy, Abby Stewart, is still at large and they know it will only be a matter of time before she returns to exact her revenge. Victor Kane and his lover Caroline Thomas are struggling to maintain their rocky relationship in spite ... more info>>

Dead on the Money picks up where Initials For Murder left off, ensnaring Tom and Olivia in yet another dangerous and thrilling adventure. Tom Trask is basking in the glow of his recent engagement to H. Olivia Tully, but without warning, his elation turns to shattering danger when a ruthless convict shows up and begins to stalk them. Olivia has learned just enough about police investigation to teeter-totter between being a public nuisance and a threat to herself and unwittingly sets a series of... more info>>

For the second time in as many months, I found myself telling a police officer, "I just brought the cake." So begins Daphne Martin's new crime-solving challenge in DEAD PAN, another cozy, cake-decorating mystery from the author of last year's much-praised MURDER TAKES THE CAKE. "If you like Diane Mott Davidson or Joanna Fluke, you will be enthralled," said one reviewer of the Daphne Martin Cake-Decorating Mysteries. Now author Gayle Trent treats readers to another tasty slice of culinary mystery... more info>>

Ever visit websites you know you shouldn't? Neil Hartley did. So did Darnell Harris. They both met Karin online and fell in love. She's thirty, beautiful and in a bad marriage too. Only "Karin" is really a morbidly obese Internet conman named Duncan Weller who blackmails his victims. When Duncan Weller is brutally murdered, both men learn that every keystroke and mouse click leaves an indelible digital footprint. Detective Bugs Cameron's honeybees swarm and terrorize his neighbors. A drop-dead ... more info>>