Being a detective is a lot like trying to hit a piata in the dark, as evidenced in this novel about family, politics, and the devastating effects of tequila on a private detective's investigative abi
When the dead bodies of a former U.S. Senator and his son are found on a golf course in Mexico, the Senator's estranged daughter resolves to discover what happened before she becomes the next victim.
In this "prequel" to the popular David Mapstone mysteries, author Jon Talton takes us back to 1999, when everything dot-com was making money, the Y2K bug was the greatest danger facing the world, and
The fourth book in the Rep and Melissa Pennyworth series finds the pair dealing with frat boy hijinks, burglary, theft, jury-tampering, forgery of an explosive papal document from World War II--and m
Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Ami
Against an authentic backdrop of medieval life and lore, Royal once again brings alive characters who are true to their period yet exhibit emotions and feelings that 21st-century readers will recogni
Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Ala
The circus is in town, and St. Kilda is having its first Flower Festival. After one of her flower maidens vanishes, Phryne investigates the underworld with the help of Bert, Cec, her little beretta,
In the spring of 98 AD, friction between native farmers and Roman settlers over farmland turns to open violence. Both sides resort to terrorist tactics. Underneath it all flows a current of subtle, p
Brian McNulty, veteran bartender at Oscar's on the Upper West Side, respects his customers' privacy. And their space. But when a tarnished but innocent young woman seduced by New York's bright lights
Sam Kincaid and Kate McConnell must once again look beneath the obvious in an increasingly dangerous scenario.The armored car robbery went terribly awry, leaving two people dead. One was a member of
John the Lord Chamberlain spends his days counseling Emperor Justinian and passes the small hours of night in conversation with the solemn-eyed little girl depicted in a mosaic on his study wall. He
Mary Ryan, San Francisco pastry chef, is happy to be teaching at her alma mater. But when faculty and staff begin dying, Mary begins to think that a student's forced withdrawal from the school is par
An American who had come to Trafalgar, British Columbia, as a draft dodger leaves land and money to the town to build a garden to honor other draft dodgers. His bequest tears the town apart, and befo
It is 1928 and Phryne Fisher has packed her best dresses, her finest sportswear, and her elusive smile for a Sydney get-away. But, Dot's sister Joan has vanished. The neighbors think that Joan has run
Ex-amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive Jack Doyle, hero of Blind Switch, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing at a suburban Chicago track in this new thriller by the a
Things are never easy for Scottsdale private eye Lena Jones. Her partner in Desert Investigations is leaving for a wife and a job at Southwest Micro- Systems. Her old captain at the Scottsdale PD is m
Commitment-phobic Charley Van Leeuwen shocks everyone when she returns from London with a husband, Jack Fairfax, in tow. Charley wonders about his past, and before she can settle her post-wedding jit
Someone is stealing show cats, and both the feline-friendly Theda Krakow and her friend Violet, who runs the local shelter, are outraged. When a kindly cat breeder is implicated in the thefts, Theda
It's the spring of 1913, and love is in bloom for Alice Tucker. Alice's new beau, Walter Kelley, is handsome, popular, and wealthy. Everyone in Boynton, Oklahoma, likes him. Everyone but Alice's moth
Rachel Chavez only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. Then an executive from the nearby water agency is killed by a hit-and-run driver,
Phryne Fisher is bored. Life appears to be too easy, too perfect. Her household is ordered, her love life is pleasant, the weather is fine. And then a man from her past arrives at the door. It is Alan
David Mapstone, history professor turned deputy, is excited when a former student brings him a 40-year-old letter confessing to a murder and even providing directions to the body. But this body isnt
Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled 'Reconciliation, ' Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public serv
Alan Saxon flies to Honolulu to act as best man for Donald Dukelow, an American golfer who has always beaten Saxon in play-offs. Things get rapidly worse when Saxon and Dukelow go on to a nightclub.
Archaeologist Faye Longchamp and her friend, Joe Wolf Mantooth, have traveled to Neshoba County, Mississippi, to help excavate a site near Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound where tradition says the Choct
Searching for the murderer of a famous author, sexy, sassy Phryne goes undercover-and is up to her ears in fashion gossip and office politics....Phryne Fisher is asked to investigate the puzzling dea
Benteen County, Kansas, is a hellhole in summer, and turns even meaner in winter. As a howling blizzard blows down upon Buffalo Springs, the sparsely populated county seat, Sheriff English is present
Spring bursts into bloom-and a whole lot more-as murder-by-arrow rattles Benteen County, Kansas. Nothing ever happens in Benteen County, Kansas. Then, on a perfect spring morning, a member of the rea
In a time when anyone could be the enemy, the Mamur Zapt has to count friend and foe -- a killer task....Egypt, 1914. The outbreak of war in Europe casts ripples that can be felt even in Cairo. Garet
The world is changing aroung the Mamur Zapt, British Chief of Cairo's Secret Police. It's 1912 and there's a war on that no one's heard of. When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets,
As Frank Smith boards a plane headed for his 50th class reunion, he leaves behind him the highly suspicious disappearance of his wife four years before and the relentless quest of the investigator wh
During an excursion to Luna Park with her two daughters, sister, and maid, 1920s Australian sleuth Phryne Fisher comes face to face with a mummified, bullet-ridden corpse and embarks on an investigati
""On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead."" It doesn't help that her landlor
When a seasoned fisherman is found dead on his boat, John McIntire, a retired military intelligence officer and now the new constable of St. Adele, Michigan, suspects murder.
Barry Clayton has left the Charlotte police force to manage his ailing father's funeral home in the peace and quiet of the Appalachian mountains. But Buryin' Barry is an undertaker with a problem - h
Seven Australian soldiers carousing in Paris in 1918 unknowingly witness a murder and their presence has devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead under very suspicious circumstances. P
Autumn in Michigan's Upper Peninsula means hunting season, and the fall of 1950 finds most everyone in St. Adele township hunting for something-deer, grouse, uranium; love, redemption, escape; a stor
Maddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union right at nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, sh
