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Recently retired from teaching high school English, Ernestine Carpenter freely admits that she's more than a bit nosy. Ernie-(as she's called by her nearest and dearest) is also good at solving problems, and she's let it be known, amongst them, that she's willing to take on...interesting...jobs. Mary Tucker McElroy, well-known in Southern literary circles as a generous patron. Six months earlier, her literary group had gathered for the Christmas festivities...

Two books that follow a father and son detective team on a trip to the Himalayas to explore an ancient legend. A dark legend. But the reality of the legend is far worse than what any sane person could or would expect, andNow the two have been changed by what they discovered. No longer are they just human detectives. A two in one book that will suck you into tales to quicken your pulse and grab you for a journey you won't forget. Now they are vampire...

Une jeune fille est découverte assassinée, la peau du visage dévorée. Le docteur Marcel Fortesse, médecin urgentiste et généraliste, se met en quête du tueur pour disculper son fils accusé à tort. Et comme l'existence est rarement simple, il doit mener de front ses multiples activités professionnelles tout en accompagnant sa chère maman, atteinte d'un cancer, jusqu'à son dernier souffle. Avec l'aide de quelques amis, et seulement armé...

Hidden away and decaying for decades, a cryptic mural holds deadly clues in this intoxicating mix of art, murder, and buried secrets, perfect for fans of Simone St. James. It was a blood-curdling crime that rocked the town to its core, leaving some with permanent scars and others with deep regrets. A young girl had been brutally slain. Memories were beginning to fade, but during the renovation of the old parsonage, the murder rears its ugly head again...

A murdered source. A board room power play. Reporting this story may prove fatal. Investigative reporter Andrea Kellner is under fire. After she inherits a media company from her husband, a hostile board member hires an efficiency consultant to force her out. Turning a blind eye to the power struggle, she throws herself into her next story only to find her key source dying in her home with an X slashed across her mouth. While even Andrea thinks...

Famed Cellist Dies Fashionably in Murder on Stilettos by P. J. Conn-- Los Angeles, 1947 –-Constance Remson, a wealthy young society woman, hires Joe Ezell to follow the man she is dating, Matteo de Milano--a famed cellist known for his brief but torrid affairs. Joe finds the amorous musician dead, the victim of a savage assault with a stiletto heel. Now, Constance wants Joe to solve the mystery surrounding her former lover's death. But, with a long...

Surreal. That's the first feeling that pops up. Seeing Sally the Loner at an ice cream social is surreal. But when she turns her van around to go to an ice cream social, it becomes a phantasmagoric moment for the record books.Add to it that she comes away with three new friends that call themselves the 3 Houseketeers… Well. Now we've surpassed surreal and flew right into fantasyland on a pink elephant.Why does it matter? Because suddenly Sally is...

After tracking down a crazed sniper last year, homicide detective Mike Houston opted to leave Boston for the isolated mountains of Maine. He adjusted nicely to chopping his own firewood, relaxing in his log cabin, and simply enjoying the solitude of the mountains. But then his former partner, Lt. Anne Bouchard, pays him a visit and dangles the words serial killer in front of him. And suddenly he finds himself back in the game beside her-though not...

The hotly anticipated follow-up to Nobody Move (Best First Novel, Arthur Ellis Awards; "screams cult classic"--Booklist) "Nobody knows Los Angeles until they've been entranced by it, corrupted by it, cast out from it, and returned to it on their knees begging it to save them, and Richie knew Los Angeles. He knew it better than anyone. This time he would tame the beast and make it his own--this time he would win." It's the year...

What types of mysteries do you prefer? Cozies? Hard-Boiled? With romantic suspense elements? Historic? Or perhaps a little harder to describe? This collection of mysteries from Leah R. Cutter has it all! They all share that same love of Voice that she has for mystery, plus some very interesting characters who you're sure to fall in love with, like the fast-talking Frankie (who knows everyone) or Rabbit, from the Tang Dynasty China era, with a passion...