Mystery/Crime

He'll find the killer even if he had to beat up every tough-guy in Hollywood - and make love to every beautiful starlet. The wife of a hotel magnate asks tough, sexy PI Rick Knight to find out who murdered their starlet daughter. Thanks to the movies, women think private eyes are sexy and Rick's client becomes more interested in Rick than in finding the killer. She is surprised when Rick tracks down the killer at one of her oceanfront parties. From a Shamus and Anthony Awards nominee author, wri... more info>>

The race is on to save Lavinia "Vinnie" Esposito in the third book in the Esposito series. After finding a dead man, Vinnie realizes she has become embroiled in yet another crazy situation involving stolen art, proving her twin brother's innocence, and saving her own neck. State trooper Marcus Richmond and FBI agent Aaron Grant are back to help Vinnie find the culprit while keeping her out of harm's way. That's a task to try the most patient of men, because Vinnie isn't about to let a lead... more info>>

P.I. Gin Ritchey and the other marina inhabitants are surprised to find that a murder has taken place right across the canal. The victim is detestable talk-show host Win Lovatt, a man with myriads of enemies. A fair few people, in fact, are of the opinion that the killer has done a public service. Gin herself is not sure she cares if the murderer is caught or not. Enter Lovatt's widow, the beautiful Lolita. The police are convinced that she murdered her husband, with whom she had a yelling match... more info>>

How does the ten-year-old daughter of a District Ranger on the Pisgah National Forest end up abandoned and severely injured in Oregon's Siskiyo National Forest? All that remains of Claire Michell's childhood are terrifying nightmares and a heart-shaped locket. The cavernous gap in her memory haunts her for the next twenty years. Claire has a brilliant career and a handsome fiance. Just when she finally puts away her obsession with things forgotten, her world begins to fall apart. Someone wants h... more info>>

A collection of short mysteries ranging from the melancholy to the whimsical, Deadknots opens portals into the lives of the Dead, the Undead, and some who don't know the difference! A child's grim discovery is revealed eighty years later in OLD BONES... Resident ghosts manipulate their way into the local CEMETERY COMPETION... A penitent bad guy with a CAT-ITTUDE develops a yen for his psychic charge... A poignant journey via PYRAMID TRAVEL illuminates more than a decades-old disappearance... An ... more info>>

Covering City Hall during an election year was all the excitement reporter Dan Fox needed--until he discovered Alderman Bill Franklin's bullet-ridden body. Who killed the alderman? Why did they do it? Fox wants the story. Everyone else wants him. Hit men, mob bosses, politicians, and mistresses: They all have stories to tell, and Fox pieces them together while dodging bullets and fighting deadlines. Fox digs for the story, and he unearths the long-hidden secrets of the city as he's caught in the... more info>>

First time in ebook! One foggy November morning on Chicago's West Side, paramedic trainee Beth Reilly faces a life or death choice that will put her own future in jeopardy. High on cocaine, her veteran paramedic officer slams their ambulance into a homeless, pregnant woman, forcing the woman into labor. Beth alone must decide who will live-the fetus fighting for life or the mother who is hemorrhaging to death. She can't save them both. Beth's decision tests old friendships and creates new ene... more info>>

The single mother hasn't been found. And all her daughter, Sarah, has is her uncle. Clueless at parenting, Clint Herald seeks a loving, responsible nanny. What he finds instead is a stranger as mysterious as his sister's disappearance. Mandy Erick is secretive and seems scared, yet she's so good with Sarah that Clint can't help but trust her. In fact, he even enters Mandy in the town's Mother of the Year contest. But attention is the last thing Mandy wants. Her time in the public eye may prove j... more info>>

What promises to be a perfect summer for Millie Kirchner--a chance to volunteer at the archaeology site at Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson's secret retreat--turns ominous as first an archaeology intern and then Millie's housemate are murdered. Millie discovers that the deadly past holds the key to the murders in the continuation of this series that links the doings of a founding father to modern times. Mystery by Marion Moore Hill; originally published by Pemberley Press

A candidate for Princess is murdered at a Native American Pow Wow while Tempe Crabtree is working there in her capacity as deputy. Tempe's investigation takes her into the Yanduchi reservation, and her husband, Hutch, has difficulty with Tempe's growing interest in her own native heritage as she seeks the identity of the killer.

While investigating the murder of a beautiful socialite Detective Lanny Boone uncovers a corrupt gambling cartel that eliminates opposition from any quarter. Having made the connection between the murder and the cartel Boone presses for evidence to convict--and is drawn into a crossfire he might not survive.

PHILIPPE LAFRANCE is a well known reclusive writer whose life is suddenly thrown upside down. The grandfather he never knew existed dies. Throughout his own investigation, Philippe learns that his family has kept secrets from him, deep, ugly secrets. A killer is murdering the men in his family. First his father then his grandfather have succumbed at the hands of another. This murderer is trying his utmost to keep secrets buried. Bereft, Roxanne St-Clair is left to manage a restaurant when the on... more info>>

Kip Trinity, single and unattached, is a wills and probates lawyer who hires himself out to act as executor of his clients' last wills. Against his better judgment, he agrees to meet with the granddaughter of his newest and by far the most cantankerous client, Horace Bryer, to act as mediator in a family dispute.  Paxton O'Reilly is desperate to have a relationship with her estranged grandfather, millionaire Horace Bryer. Not only is he her only living relative beside Haylee Ambrose, her fratern... more info>>

The House of the Dead: a mortuary whose directors are drop dead gorgeous and terminally horny-and one of them up to mischief. Stanley and Tom try to separate the naturally dead from the murdered dead and find themselves awash with coffins-until they come to the one Stanley's name on it. Deadly Slumber indeed

Darrell Schweitzer's first mystery collection explores the murderous impulse in a variety of historical settings. Three stories are set in ancient Rome, two of them featuring Pliny the Younger as investigator. Two are Shakespearean mysteries, one in which King Henry V plays detective, and another based on The Two Noble Kinsmen. Three Sherlock Holmes tales involve the apparent misapplication of the Great Detective's methods to the supernatural, a revelation of one of Watson's unwritten cases, and... more info>>

The tranquility of the village of Bear Creek in the Southern Sierra is disrupted by the suspicious death of the owner of the local Inn. Investigating a murder case isn't Deputy Tempe Crabtree's job, but when the detectives don't look any further than Nick Two John as the primary suspect, Tempe begins asking questions. Putting the planning for her wedding to Pastor Hutch Hutchinson on hold, it doesn't take long for her to discover there are several more people who wanted the victim dead, includin... more info>>

A gripping marine mystery from the author of Tide of Death.... When a woman is found murdered in Langstone Harbour, DI Andy Horton is assigned to the case but not for long if Superintendent Uckfield has his way. Horton is given just a week to find the killer before being shunted off the case. With the clock ticking Horton is soon forced to take a decision that will put his life on the line...

In 1789 Nathan Henry imitated his neighbor Benjamin Franklin by creating a will not to be read for over two hundred years. In 2001 Millie Kirchner, struggling single-mother, received an invitation to the reading of that will. A trip to historic Philadelphia to meet unknown relatives is almost as alluring as any inheritance. But when one new cousin mysteriously drowns and another is killed, Millie begins to wonder if she might be next. Mystery by Marion Moore Hill; originally published by Pemberl... more info>>

Who is killing residents of a sea island community? Marley Clark, a retired military intelligence officer, works security for the Dear Island community simply to keep busy. A single night patrol transforms the feisty widow's yawner of a job into a deadly battle of wits when she finds an islander drowned and bobbing naked amid a potpourri of veggies in a Jacuzzi. Asked to serve as the lead investigator's liaison, the 52-year-old heroine is startled to discover she's become Deputy Braden Mann's... more info>>

While researching for a local history, librarian Juanita Wills comes across the unsolved 1959 murder of a black teenager, Luther Dunlap, in her then all-white town. When her only witness is poisoned, Juanita fears that her questions have led to his death, but the more she learns about Luther, the charmer who was killed on the Wyndham High School track, the more determined she is to bring his killer to justice. [Second of the Scrappy Librarian mysteries] Mystery by Marion Moore Hill; originally p... more info>>

Family dynamics have a far reaching affect on people. Wealth such as that of Randolph Ord's family and poverty like that of Danielle Ord's family show no favorites when a family ceases to function as a cohesive unit. Danielle Ord watched her parents play out their roles in an abusive marriage, she exists in an abusive relationship fueled by alcohol and drug abuse which began as rebellion against the parental expectations Randolph Ord III experienced. These same expectations caused sibling rivalr... more info>>

Nobody much cares for Nika Ballinger, but that doesn't mean her violent death shouldn't be looked into. Fellow horsewoman Robin Vaughan doesn't like the way the police investigation is going. In the perfect world of competitive dressage, Nika rode like a piece of luggage. So who arranged to have a horse kick her to death? As Robin mounts her own search for the killer, she rummages through Nika's untidy past--and finds a bizarre double life that someone might kill to keep secret...

Bailey isn't too thrilled with the fact that she had to bring a jello salad to her real estate office's Thanksgiving party, and even less happy when her boss suddenly drops dead after eating it. When the police arrive to investigate, Bailey soon finds that the world of selling houses is a LOT more cutthroat than even she had realized. A short story from our Fingerprints line.

Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own, organically grown, amateur sleuth returns in this ninth mystery in the series. ("Kate is a savvy investigator, skilled at finding and interpreting clues, and she isn't bad at Tai Chi either...you are in for a treat."--I LOVE A MYSTERY.) Kate and her sweetie visit Ivan Nakagawa's bookstore for an author signing in DEATH HITS THE FAN. The event features three authors, and only a few more audience members, but the small audience doesn't stop Yvette Casse... more info>>

Athletic agent Dave Bolt, former star for the Dallas Cowboys, is a hardened sports insider, familiar with the dirty underside of American professional sports. He witnesses the kickbacks, the bribes and the blackmail that keep the high-powered industry spinning. In DEATH IN THE CREASE Bolt has to deal with an explosive ice hockey scandal that threatens to expose the sport's biggest game as a sham. Former Black Hawk goalie Guy LeClede writes an expose of the corruption that "would blow hockey off ... more info>>