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The Tavern in the Morning

Hawkenlye Mysteries #3

di Alys Clare

At the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne's inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. But while Anne's serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber-poisoned...

Fortune Like the Moon

Hawkenlye Mysteries #1

di Alys Clare

It is 1157, and a young nun from Hawkenlye Abbey has been found with her throat slashed. The people of rural Kent are quick to jump to conclusions: Surely the murderer must be one of the felons released by the...

Caught In the Shadows

Becky Belski #1

di C. A. Haddad

Becky Belski: a nice small-town girl with a nice computer research job in Chicago.  Sort of.Okay, so she's not always nice, and her "research job"--which entails digging up electronic dirt on people through...

Ashes of the Elements

Hawkenlye Mysteries #2

di Alys Clare

In this, Book II of the Hawkenlye Trilogy, the Abbess Helewise takes on another strange case with her French partner, Josse d'Acquin. A lumberjack in the Wealken forest has been found dead. The locals would...

Smarty Bones

Sarah Booth Delaney #13

di Carolyn Haines

Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body. Olive claims she...

Requiem Mass

Andrew Fenwick #2

di Elizabeth Corley

The first deaths are just a warm-up…

A Buried Past.

When Deborah Fearnside, a young wife and mother, goes missing, police interest is minimal.  She would hardly be the first woman to abandon a tired marriage. ...

The Last Girl

Maeve Kerrigan #3

di Jane Casey

“Maeve Kerrigan [is] a fascinating and plausible character…What she has is persistence, integrity and emotional intelligence, and a very deft way of insinuating herself into a reader's affections.”—The...

The Caretaker

di A .X. Ahmad

Who is the caretaker hiding in the shadows of the Martha’s Vineyard mansions he tends?

Back in India, Ranjit Singh commanded an elite army squad. But that was years ago, before his Army career ended in dishonor,...

Cuts Through Bone

di Alaric Hunt

Winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Competition

At first, Rachel Vasquez found her new job working for private detective Clayton Guthrie promising. He got her a gun and a license and took her to target...

Shotgun Lullaby

Conway Sax #3

di Steve Ulfelder

From critically acclaimed, Edgar-nominated author Steve Ulfelder—Conway Sax is back in a thrilling and heart-wrenching story of how far a father will go to save his son

Conway Sax is a man seeking redemption. ...

The Lark's Lament

Fools' Guild #6

di Alan Gordon

In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is in hiding, under attack from the forces of Pope Innocent III. Theophilos and Claudia, jesters with the Guild, are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member - the minstrel...

The Doctor and the Detective

di Martin Booth

This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be known as the creator of the great detective, Sherlock...

Silent Voices

Vera Stanhope #4

di Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves has thrilled readers everywhere with her critically acclaimed mystery series set in the Shetland Islands, which began with the award-winning Raven Black. Now, Cleeves is back with another compelling...

Nobody Dies in a Casino

Charlie Greene #5

di Marlys Millhiser

Charlie, stay out of this.  Vegas may be a great place to have fun, but it's a bad place to get involved. If only she's listened to her conscience.  But literary agent Charlie Greene never listens.  This...

Long Lost

di Linda Castillo

From the New York Times bestselling author of SWORN TO SILENCE and GONE MISSING comes a powerful and moving story about a troubled young woman and a decades old mystery set in the world of the Amish.

It’s autumn...

Foal Play

di Kathryn O'Sullivan

Colleen McCabe is enjoying an uneventful summer in North Carolina's Outer Banks supervising her firefighters, making rounds with her Border collie, Sparky, and keeping an eye on the wild horses escaped from...

Every Broken Trust

Skeet Bannion #2

di Linda Rodriguez

A party to celebrate the arrival of George "Mel" Melvin, a Kansas City politician accompanied by his troubled teenage daughter, wealthy wife, even wealthier backer, and mysterious employee, rapidly turns into...

A Murder at Rosamund's Gate

di Susanna Calkins

For Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other...

The Dead Caller from Chicago

Dek Ekstrom #4

di Jack Fredrickson

“Everything I want in a mystery.” —Nancy Pearl, National Public Radio on A Safe Place for Dying, A Pearl Pick

"Jack Fredrickson is one hell of a writer.  He has an ear for dead-on dialogue, and an unerring...

When the Devil Doesn't Show

di Christine Barber

An intriguing contemporary mystery that exposes the dark side of life in historic Santa Fe by Hillerman Prize-winner Christine Barber  Christine Barber's acclaimed mysteries explore not just the folklore,...