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The Quilt Before the Storm

A storm is bearing down on Foggy Point, Washington, promising strong winds, flooding and power outages.

Perplexity on P 1/2

Mabel Wickles never won anything in her life. So when she found herself one of five winners in a national contest, with the grand prize an all-expense paid trip to Las Vegas, she rejoiced.

Third Breath (The Cleary Case Files Book 3)

…… Must Read For Followers Of The Cleary Case Files! …….

Murder at Cape Foulweather

Roz, Ruby Jean, Babs, Jamie and Paige-forty-ish and full of hell, call themselves the Sun City Sluts.

A Seamless Murder

With a needle and thread, Harlow Jane Cassidy is capable of magic. Her neighbors in Bliss, Texas, on the other hand, are capable of murder.

Smoky Mountain Murder

Finding the body of a missing mountain hiker in the woods behind her small cafe launches Annie Murphy Malone into her third new career-sleuthing.

Nowhere in Sight

The curious phrase written on the backing board of a misplaced portrait-your future is in the past-sounds like a curseto Kate Lambrose.

Advent of Dying: A Sister Mary Helen Mystery

Readers have come to delight in the murder-solving exploits of septuagenarian Sister Mary Helen and her cohort Sister Eileen, two nuns with a nose for nabbing killers.

Secrets of Jackson County

It is the fourth of July, deep in the heart of Dixie, and everyone from miles around is celebrating at the park, but Jenny Justice senses that evil is afoot.

Murder Most Evil: The Laura Curtis, Female Private Investigator Series (3), #4

Someone Wants Her DeadLaura wakes up in the bare bedroom of a deserted house, her leg hurts. she's been shot!

Plaster and Poison

In the third installment of the Do-It-Yourself mystery series, Avery Baker must refurbish her friend's reputation, in a mystery perfect for lovers of HGTV's renovation shows.

Milkshakes, Mermaids, and Murder

This series is a winner. -Denise SwansonEllie Avery planned a perfect family getaway: fun in the sun on Florida's Gulf Coast, with a side visit to the eBay vendor who'd mistakenly sent her the wrong handbag.

Question of Identity, A

A new Rona Parish mystery. - An old school photograph in which someone has been deliberately blacked out marks the start of a new case for Rona Parish.

Murder in a Surrey Tribe

Seeking a civilised sanctuary from her sordid marriage, anthropologist Impey Dalrymple joins a grand old golf club. There she finds herself plunged into strange old-fashioned customs.

No Money Down

Me and the legendary Zimmerman twins-it's a friendship made in geek heaven. And it all started back when I worked for the NSA.

No Conscience, No Crime

Kathryn Patton is an energetic, strong-minded mother of three who is always up for a good mystery. While she barely feels part of her marriage and family, Kathryn earnestly strives to be a devoted young professional climbing toward partnership at her CPA firm.

Fifth Member

Claire Rayner's 'Fifth Member' is the fifth featuring George Barnabas, the female Head of Pathology at the Old East Hospital.

Murder My Neighbour

The new Ellie Quicke mystery - Ellie Quicke is confronted by an angry young man, demanding to know what has happened to his elderly great aunt.

Muzzled (A Kat McKinley Greyhound Mystery #2)

Kat McKinley, professional greyhound trainer and sometimes sleuth, is determined to find out whos behind the slow dog scam plaguing country tracks.

Haunted House Murder Mystery

Miss Tayke receives a mysterious invitation from a knight of the realm to spend a weekend at his haunted ancestral home.

Strings of Glass (A Sydney Rye Mystery, #4)

Justice with a VengeanceCould you ignore injustice?Trouble finds Rye when she stops the attempted rape and murder of Anita, a reporter working on a story of corruption and child trafficking.

Private Deception: A Jade O'Reilly Mystery

Sassy private investigator Jade O'Reilly thinks she's hit rock bottom when, in the midst of obtaining photos of a cheating spouse in a second-story apartment, she falls off a swing set to the feet of an attractive mystery man.

The Silver Shawl: A Mrs. Meade Mystery

A girl has disappeared. but did she go of her own accord?

And Baby Will Fall

Indianapolis social worker Adele Buffington's caseload is unusually heavy: Solve a murder, find a missing mother and her young daughters, stay aliveAdele Buffington is working late when she's startled by an intruder.

The Girl with the Phony Name: A Mystery

So reads the fine lettering on the back of the intricate, ornate Celtic brooch Lucy MacAlpin Trelaine has just inherited.

Red Hot Deadly Peppers

Some Like it Hot

When an old friend buys a trenchcoat and opens his own detective agency, PI Cat DeLuca sees a train wreck. Everything Billy Bonham knows about being a private dick he learned from Humphrey Bogart.

Il caso dell'eredità Duchien. Indagine a Huelgoat per Mary Lester

Ecco Mary Lester ad Huelgoat, nel cuore della Bretagna misteriosa. Due coniugi anziani, i Duchien, vengono aggrediti di notte in casa propria.

Sisters in Silence

A medical thriller about a fertility counselor who goes on a killing spree of barren women in the belief her "acts of mercy" will save her "sisters" from a life of suffering. She hides her crimes by making them appear to be suicides or accidents.

Dying on Principle

A Vow of Silence

When Sister Joan of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion is transferred to the convent in Cornwall she goes with instructions from the Mother Superior to solve the puzzle in the last letter of a dying nun.

Death of a Coupon Clipper

Hayley Powell, food and cocktails columnist for Bar Harbor's Island Times, is. well, kind of broke.

Fatlands

A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, author Sarah Dunant won Britain's prestigious Silver Dagger award for Fatlands, a Hannah Wolfe mystery.

Say Yes to the Death: A Debutante Dropout Mystery

Someone old, someone cruelDebutante dropout Andrea Kendricks is beyond done with big hair, big gowns, and big egos-so being dragged to a high-society Texas wedding by her socialite mama, Cissy, gives her a bad case of déjà vu.

Missing Clayton

Five-year-old Clayton Kingsley was in his backyard building a sandcastle two minutes ago. Now the sandbox is empty, so is the swing.

Murder, She Wrote: Murder at the Powderhorn Ranch

While visiting an old friend's ranch in Colorado, bestselling mystery author Jessica Fletcher is caught in a fiendish plot of revenge when one of the guests is found stabbed to death.

A Little Birdie Told Me

""Lickety Split Lit: like kids' books for grown folks! Great lunch break reads!

Total Silence

TOTAL FEAR In the woods of North Carolina, it awaits, ready to unleash a shocking plan of revenge. Soon the victims will understand what it is to be helpless and alone.

Two Guys Detective Agency

TWO GUYS DETECTIVE AGENCY is a new humorous mystery series! Linda and Octavia are estranged sisters.

Ripple of Secrets

RIPPLE OF SECRETSAfter her assistant DA boyfriend's near brush with death, Rose Gardner hopes to make it through the holiday season with a minimal amount of drama.