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"When Emma Cotton, Kelly Grace and other members of the Nimble Thimbles quilting group decide to embark on a quilting cruise to investigate the next suspect in their friend's murder, they don't plan on getting mixed up in a missing person's case onboard. But thanks to Dottie Faye Sinclair, Emma's wild aunt who insists on coming along, they do. Within a day of departure, Dottie Faye's antics land her under a cloud of suspicion, forcing Emma to solve...

A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.

When the tomb of St. Tancred is opened at a village church in Bishop's Lacey, its shocking contents lead to another case for Flavia de Luce, where greed, pride and murder result in old secrets coming to light, along with a forgotten flower that hasn't been seen for half a thousand years.

Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him ... but never imagines...

Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. and a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth. His sister is haunted by fearful visions. And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople.

In 1934, the nation’s most legendary crime-fighter–fresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American history–arrived in Cleveland, a corrupt and dangerous town about to host a world's fair. It was to be his coronation, as well as the city's. Instead, terror descended, as headless bodies started turning up. The young detective, already battling the mob and crooked cops, found his drive to transform American policing subverted by a menace...

Rand Kenzie watches the runaway stage race through the streets, its driver wounded, the reins held by lively Benita Ellison, and realizes he's reached Palo Pinto too late. Benita's father sent an appeal to the Kenzies for help; but he's been dead a week - murdered - leaving no clue to the nature of the trouble or the identity of his enemies, and the bullets are still flying. Though Rand has no idea where to begin, he is determined to solve the mystery....

When Grace Wheaton's former professor calls to warn her of a rash of thefts at various historical sites, she isn't surprised, because Marshfield Manor has been targeted, too. Grace wonders if the thefts have something to do with a film crew roaming the grounds, digitally immortalizing the manor. But soon she gets distracted by an incident much more dire: the shooting of one guest and the murder of another.

Pressured by the FBI to secure a murder suspect's testimony against a corrupt law firm, con artist-turned-lawyer Eddie Flynn begins to believe the suspect is innocent in spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary in a case that tests the limits of his skills on both sides of the law.

Jason Kolarich is a midwestern everyman with a linebacker's build and an easy smart-ass remark. He's a young, intelligent, and successful attorney; but he's also struggling with a horrific tragedy that threatens to unravel his own life, and possibly the lives of everyone he holds dear.--From publisher's description.