Fiction-Mystery & Crime Books

A new series and a new sleuth from Ann Purser-author of the Lois Meade mysteries Ivy Beasley, the beloved cantankerous spinster from the Lois Meade mysteries, has found a silver lining in her golden years as an amateur sleuth. She teams up with Gus,...

Seventh in the national bestselling Knitting mystery series. Spring has sprung for the knitters of Fort Connor, Colorado, and the House of Lambspun. But for one of Kelly Flynn's pals, things are unraveling... After Kelly's friend Jennifer is attacked by a stranger, their close-...

Now that Meg Corey's apples have been harvested and sold, she's enjoying some free time. But when the small but annoying mishaps plaguing her start turning sinister, Meg begins to worry that her first harvest may be her last.Author: Sheila ConnollyISBN-10: 0425242765ISBN-13: 9780425242766Publisher: Berkley...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Storm Peak comes his latest thriller featuring Jesse Parker-a tense showdown with hostage-takers... When guests and staff at a snowbound ski lodge in Utah are taken hostage by heavily armed men, Jesse Parker may be their...

On the night his wife and infant daughter died, attorney Jason Kolarich was awaiting a call from an informant. He blames himself not only for the deaths of his family, but for the informant's murder as well. Kolarich can't bring back his family, but...

Did curiosity kill the cat lady?Sunny Coolidge left her New York City newspaper job to go back to Maine and take care of her ailing father. But there's not much excitement--or interesting work--in Kittery Harbor. So when Ada Spruance, the town's elderly cat lady,...

Darla Pettistone may have inherited her great aunt Dee's Brooklyn bookstore, but it's the store's mascot--an oversized black cat named Hamlet--who acts like he owns the place. And when someone turns up dead, Hamlet smells something rotten in Brooklyn...As the owner of Pettistone's Fine...

Down south, the holidays mean family--and for Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair, family means the Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. It may not be a white Christmas, but it's one she'll never forget--no matter how hard she tries...Instead of spending a nice, relaxing Christmas...

Murder, like Roquefort, stinks... Cheese Shop owner Charlotte Bessette's life seems quieter than ever with her fianc out of town and her cousin Matthew and his children out of the house. But before she can put up her feet and enjoy a glass of...

When a normally mellow tiger at a rescue facility trees a terrified vet, animal behaviorist Grace Wilde needs to use her psychic ability to get to the root of the problem... A tiger can't change his stripes--but if his behavior changes suddenly, there's a...

The New York Times bestselling author of Literally Murder returns to Pettistone's Fine Books, where the silence of Hamlet the cat speaks volumes about two mysterious deaths... It's almost Fourth of July, and to boost customer traffic in their Brooklyn neighborhood, bookseller Darla Pettistone...

Nick and Nora aren't just pussyfooting around this time as they deal with a missing person's case and murder. While catering a gala for the Cruz Museum, Nora Charles agrees to look into the disappearance of director Violet Crenshaw's niece, a case previously undertaken...

The national bestselling author of Caught Read-Handed revisits Fort Myers Beach, Florida, where the proprietors of a local bookstore caf occasionally take a stab at solving murder... At their seaside Read 'Em and Eat bookstore caf , Sassy Cabot and Bridgy Mayfield offer fresh...

David Loogan's dark past is revealed in this prequel to Bad Things Happen--the critically acclaimed mystery that Stephen King called a "great f***ing book." On a rainy night in April, a chance encounter draws David into a romance with Jana Fletcher, a beautiful young...

Scotland Yard's Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestseller The Yard. London, 1890: Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong,...

After Meg Barrett found her fianc still had designs on his ex-wife, she decided it was time to refurbish her life. Leaving her glamorous job at a top home and garden magazine, she fled Manhattan for Montauk, only to find decorating can sometimes lead...

Another intoxicating mystery featuring brew pub owner Maxine "Max" O'Hara--from the author of To Brew or Not to Brew. BEER TODAY, GONE TOMORROW... Brew pub owner Maxine "Max" O'Hara and her chef/boyfriend, Jake Lambert, are excited to be participating in the Three Rivers Brews...

Halloween brings more tricks than treats for costume shop owner Margo Tamblyn in the second in a new cozy series from the national bestselling author of the Material Witness Mysteries. Halloween conjures up big business for Margo Tamblyn's costume shop, Disguise DeLimit, but this...

In the third Farmer's Daughter Mystery from the national bestselling author of Sowed to Death, finding a dead body in her own backyard lands blogger and farmer Shelby McDonald in one trough spot... Wedding preparations are in full swing at Love Blossom Farm as...

The national bestselling author of Wound Up in Murder spins a deadly yarn of knitting bees, butterflies, and beauty queens. Every October, thousands of monarch butterflies flock to California's Monterey Peninsula to spend the winter there. To welcome their colorful guests, Cadbury by the...