Bree Butler shelved her dream of becoming an investigative journalist long ago. But when she finds a young biotech executive dead on his office floor, she begins to think she might have another shot at it – even though she’s a suspect in the homicide investigation. Bree and her old college friend, Detective Gen Delacourt (who we first met in Mark of the Loon), begin a danger-filled quest to unravel the puzzle. The deeper they dig, the more truth about their own personal lives is revealed along with the dead man’s. They’ll both begin again after this is solved … if Bree makes it out alive.

(Previously titled "Rapunzel")

It was a simple job: keep surveillance on the minister's wife until she went safely to bed. Then all hell broke loose.

The death of Katherine Delp, wife of Chicago's most beloved televangelist, is only the beginning. Someone is homiciding their way through the congregation of the Temple of Majesty Church. Thanks to his eager and awkward young secretary, private eye Nod Blake, an aging throwback to a by-gone era of detecting on the mean streets, a dinosaur who never got the memo he was extinct, who sometimes thinks he's Bogart, George Raft, and Lee Marvin rolled into one, has been dumped in the middle of it all, on his head.

The resulting injuries have somehow opened a door to the hereafter. Blake believes dead people are talking to him. Are the victims really begging the last gumshoe for help from the other side of the grave? Is he hallucinating? Or has he lost his friggin' mind? When his nemesis, Detective Lieutenant Wenders finds evidence that Blake is the murderer, the private dick's life becomes a great big soup sandwich.

Corpses Say the Darndest Things is a paranormal murder mystery with a sly sense of humor, set in 1979 Chicago where a maniacal killer on the loose in The Windy City... is the good news.

All Charlotte Ross wanted was a get-away vacation. She wasn't counting on solving a centuries-old mystery or falling for a handsome aristocrat.

A young woman in her prime, Charlotte has become bored living in the small Illinois town where she grew up--and is tired of her controlling mother trying to marry her off to the oldest and wealthiest men in town. So when her mystery-loving friend Jane Marshall suggests a driving trip across England, Charlotte eagerly packs her bags. But Charlotte gets more than she bargained for. Just two days in, their car breaks down in a thunderstorm, and the women take refuge inside Blake Hall, an ancient aristocrat's lair with a long and rumored past. As guests of the British aristocracy, these out-of-place Americans stumble their way through a fox hunt, encounter imagined ghosts and discover a mysterious clue to a centuries-old murder that has remained unsolved--until now at least.

Influenced by the novels of Jane Austen, Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Romancing a Mystery is smart, savvy and at times, warmly romantic.

Bad enough that Jolie ends up in the emergency room because she tried to avoid hitting a deer. Worse to find a dead woman in the hospital restroom after Jolie gets patched up. As the chief budget cutter at the hospital, Tanya Weiss was unpopular, especially in the Radiology Department, where Scoobie works.

In between appraising houses and feeding her pet skunk, Jolie’s on the lookout for a runaway teenager and whoever planted the dead woman in her path. Thanks to Scoobie, she’s also planning another crazy fundraiser for the food pantry—this one a Corn Hole Contest. It’s sort of a bean bag game for grown-ups, and the polite term is Corn Toss Contest. So of course, Scoobie prepares to name winners in the Harvest for All Corn Hole Contest.

Just when Jolie’s ready to leave the murder investigation to the police, she gets a surprise—and it’s not a good one. Will her need to know see her hurt—or worse?

Ainsley Waylon, people watcher extraordinaire, is stuck in a rut. She's taken all of her pre-requisite classes for her undergrad degree but can't seem to pick a career that she'd be happy with. To help her relax and take a step back from everything, her brother Harper books a cruise for the two of them.

When Ainsley and Harper meet meet Detective Joelle Matthias during breakfast one morning, Harper is thrilled that his sister is taking an interest in interacting with something besides a book. Though the two women hit it off immediately, the murder of another guest draws both of them into the center of the action.

With a ship full of suspects, Ainsley's eye for detail leads Joelle to ask for her help with the investigation, but can they follow the clues to solve the case before the ship docks and lets a murderer go free?

When Japanese chef Meg O'Connor's mother is killed in a car crash, she comes home to Shady Harbor to find the family business, Harbor Diner, in a bind. Her father has been trying to run it by himself while dealing with a medical condition of his own. On Meg's first day back, the man involved in her mother's car accident is brutally murdered.

As Meg and her sisters jump in to keep the diner running, the investigation into the murder continues. To her horror, all of the evidence seems to point to Meg's new beau, Hunter. Something just isn't adding up and Meg finds it tough to believe that the man she may be falling for could be involved.

When the girl who identified Hunter as the murderer turns up dead, Meg starts to question her own judgement and decides to do some digging of her own, which leads to more questions than answers.

Together with her sisters, Meg finally solves the mystery but the revelation is a shock to them all.

 

Summer. Montana, 1985. When seven-year-old Ryan Novak suddenly disappears from his home in a small rural town, Detective Newton picks up the case. Convinced that the boy’s grandfather - school janitor and former woodsman Bill O’Donnell - knows what happened to the boy, Newton’s growing obsession with his only suspect begins to take its toll.

Winter. Montana, 2010. Twenty-five years later and, in the final days of Newton’s tarnished career, Bill O’Donnell is found murdered. Newton’s successor, a city-toughened young Texan detective named Ward, is the lead investigator. As Newton readies himself for retirement, Ward draws him back into the mystery he couldn’t solve. Can they find the old man’s killer and finally uncover the truth about what really happened to Ryan?

The silence is about to be shattered.

Cooking is nourishing. Murder isn’t. Kelly and her husband, Sheriff Mike, take a belated honeymoon and travel to a cooking school at the Castello di Nardo in Tuscany. The day after they arrive, they learn that Signora Nardo, the owner of the cooking school, has been murdered.
The Signora had her share of people who would like to see the first lady of the castle dead, including her brother, Salvadore, her lover, Giovanni, her lover’s wife, Angelica, the Signora’s husband, a rival cooking school owner, and her sister-in-law, who happens to be the resident chef at the cooking school. Identifying suspects isn’t the problem – finding out which of the suspects killed the Signora is.
Follow Kelly, Mike, and her new four-legged furry friend, Caesar, while they help the local chief of police try to solve the murder. There’s plenty of mouth-watering food, recipes, and a very big guard dog.

Book 1 of the NEVER SAY SPY series

Despite her penchant for weapons and ripe language, Aydan Kelly’s resumé reads ‘bookkeeper’, not ‘badass’. She’s leaving the city to fulfill her dream of rural tranquillity when she gets carjacked by a man who shouldn’t exist.

When RCMP officer John Kane kills her would-be abductor, Aydan thinks her troubles are over. But Kane’s investigation implicates her in an international espionage plot, and criminal charges become the least of her worries when she’s targeted by the very spies Kane suspects her of aiding.

Pity her enemies. Because nobody’s tougher than a middle-aged woman who wants her dream back.

 

Autumn, 1888. The population of London is horrified by the atrocious murder spree being conducted by Jack the Ripper. While Metropolitan Police Commissioner Charles Warren throws the bulk of his investigative resources into the search for The Ripper, another, less well publicized killer is at large.

Tucked away on the inner pages of the daily press, a few short articles tell of the strange, unsolved murders taking place on board the carriages of the new-fangled and much-heralded London Metropolitan Railway. Each murder takes place the day after the Ripper killings, as the murderer appears to be taking advantage of the lack of police resources to tackle two major investigations simultaneously.

Inspector Albert Norris is charged with bringing the railway killer to justice, but clues are few and the killer's motive unclear. He is forced to carry out his investigations 'quietly and without causing a public panic' as the authorities seek to maintain confidence in the underground railway system's safety. The press is being told even less, and Norris can count on little help from above as he attempts to solve the inexplicable series of murders.

What would you do if your child went missing?...

Meet retired cop, Sam Prichard.

Sam Prichard was a cop, and a good one, until the bullets took out the joint of his right hip. Now he's trying to learn to live without being a cop, and getting to know his neighbors, learning to walk again and even ride a motorcycle. Life is bearable, barely, but then he gets asked to find a missing child, and the lure of getting back into some kind of police work is too much for him to resist. When he teams up with computer whiz Indiana Perkins, he suddenly becomes one of the best investigators he's ever even known.

Now, he's found the missing child, but it's thrown him right into the middle of something that may be a drug war--or could be a chance to stop the next 911! There's no way out for Sam, so he's in for the ride of his life, but when the girl he's becoming fond of is suddenly drawn into the line of fire with her own little daughter, Sam is ready to forget all the rules and do whatever is necessary to win the day.

 

Jolie has gotten readjusted to life in Ocean Alley and manages to balance appraising real estate with chairing the Harvest for All Food Pantry. What she can't quite do is mind her own business. This boxed set puts together books four through six of the Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery Series.They are Any Port in a Storm, Trouble on the Doorstep, and Behind the Walls (finalist for 2014 Chanticleer Mystery and Mayhem Awards).

Join Jolie and friends as they figure out who is trying to sell drugs to high school students, determine if the death of two young men relates to contracts they were bidding on for Hurricane Sandy repairs, and learn who put a stash of jewels behind the walls of the house Jolie just bought. And why they are willing to kill to keep that secret.

Newspaper reporter John Teddy’s miserable life is turned upside down when he uncovers a voice from the past—a voice that suspiciously knows far too much about the would-be future. John’s natural curiosity to understand the hidden message takes him to places he never imagined seeing, and ongoing conspiracies he never thought existed. The more John gets involved, the more he is led towards mysteries that are beyond his understanding. The circle of people involved grows bigger stretching from west to east; each step forward is like a step backward.

Lawyer Celeste Maher is arrested for the murder of Count Velimir Radojka, one of her clients. After the arrest her boyfriend, Detective Shea Tyrone gets on the case, determined to prove Celeste innocent.

While investigating the Vampire Killings in East Harlem, he comes across an impending gang war between drug posses that correlate to Amber Alerts and rumors of human sacrifices throughout the ghetto area. Both Celeste and Shea begin to suspect that the elderly philanthropist may have brought a demonic cult to America, along with the Serbian vampire legend.

As Shea digs deeper to the case, he finds himself entangled in a web of Serbian military investigations, European vampire superstitions and folklore, and a trail of ritual murder across two continents.

An ex-New York cop, now working as a freelance investigator in London; Thomas Blume searches for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge.

But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled police, he unwittingly becomes part of a world full of criminals, thugs and corrupt cops that will do anything to stop him.

Now, in a country he doesn’t understand and a city stacked against him, Blume must fight to expose the truth…

Discover the first book in the killer new Thomas Blume Detective series today!

Phoebe McFarland has just moved back to her hometown of White Oak, Tennessee, a sleepy rural community nestled in the mist-shrouded ridges and isolated hollows of the Smoky Mountains. Now she spends her days working as a rural home health care nurse, making calls on a quirky roster of housebound characters she's determined to take care of whether they cooperate or not.

She applies this same optimism to her love life, despite the fact that she's been dating for 38 years without locating any husband material. When she runs into her childhood sweetheart, Henry Matthews, a wildlife ranger for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it looks like she might've found her man.

But Phoebe and Henry's chance for romance has to be put on hold while they undertake a desperate search for a young woman who mysteriously vanished from the park during a gathering of world famous biologists and botanists, including a charismatic Frog Whisperer.

It's the winter of 1450 and Paris is in a panic. A pack of ravenous wolves is loose in the city, feasting on human flesh. Lorenzo Boccaccio is summoned by a Dominican inquisitor who claims that Lorenzo's business agent is tied to the sorcery behind the wolf attacks. He demands that Lorenzo and his brother Marco help him root out the evil.

Rivals in business and love, the brothers make for a reluctant partnership. Even so, they are confident the wolves are a natural phenomenon, not men or demons traveling in wolf form.

But events soon prove that the monks and peasants are right. These are no ordinary wolves. And if they are not defeated, the city's filthy alleys will be awash in blood.

Peyton knows the first suspect is always the husband, but Jake Ryder isn’t acting like a typical suspect. Jake truly loved his wife. So what went wrong?

Stepping into the circle of the social elite, Peyton finds that things work differently when you’re at the top. And Jake Ryder seems to be caught in the epicenter.

Ultimately, Peyton finds that you never know what darkness lurks in the human mind and that some will murder to keep that darkness hidden.

This box set edition includes the first three books in the best-selling Redwood Violet Series, featuring the resilient and resourceful, Kate Reid. That's nearly 700 pages of highly rated, taut, crime-solving suspense.

MEET KATE REID

A life built on lies. That's what Katie has come to discover and so her journey for the truth begins and it will change her forever.

REDWOOD VIOLET (book 1)

Follow Katie Reid on her path to uncover a dark secret from her past. Determined, but limited in her powers, Katie turns to Detective Marshall Avery of the San Diego Police Department. He is the one who can direct her towards the truth. But the price Katie must pay for the answers will be costly. When her desire for vengeance grows, will Marshall be able to prevent her from going too far?

ALL THE SHINY THINGS (Book 2)

The truth is out, but it has only raised more questions. Katie is more determined than ever to find the man responsible for taking the lives of those children, and for nearly taking her own. Marshall continues to stand by her, but he soon realizes this investigation has grown much larger than what the two of them alone can handle. The FBI is pulled in and Agent Nick Scarborough finds himself entangled in a decades-old investigation that has put Katie's life into great danger. With the killer still on the loose, it will be up to the three of them to put this nightmare to rest.

LAW OF FIVE (book 3)

Kate and Marshall work hard to put the events of the past behind them. It hasn't been easy, but Kate has built a new life and is working towards a new career, one that will see her talents put to good use. But is seems her plans may have become derailed. The media's attention to her case last year has made life difficult and it isn't until Kate is pulled into a new investigation that she realizes how much that attention has harmed her. She again crosses paths with her friend, Agent Scarborough. This time, the killer dubbed, "The Highway Hunter" works his way towards California. Leaving a calling card of bodies in his path. But it isn't until Kate learns that an acquaintance might be involved that it comes to light there could be more than one killer. Four lives have already been taken, who will be number five?