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Small-town librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden is yanked out of the rut she felt her life was in when she inherits the estate of Jane Engle, a former member of her disbanded crime discussion group, and finds that Jane has left her not only a house, money, and jewelry, but a mystery to solve.

Trying to recover from a recent case, Detective Cassie Maddox is transferred out of the murder squad and starts a relationship with Sam O'Neill. When Sam calls her to the scene of a new case, they find a young woman stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says Lexie Madison, the identity Cassie used years ago undercover, and she looks like Cassie.

Sam Kincaid, investigator for the Utah Department of Corrections, and Salt Lake City homicide lieutenant Kate McConnell team up to solve the murder of Levi Vogue, the chairman of the Board of Parole, who was gunned down while getting ready to meet his latest lover. Mindful of political landmines and the power of the Mormon Church, they investigate and manage to avoid acting on romantic sparks.

Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody and disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector...

"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby park. They...

"From the ... bestselling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man--and no idea what happened. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the...

When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance conducts a class on Agatha Christie and other great female mystery writers, she finds that life sometimes imitates art.

"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...

When one of their customers is accused of killing her boss, London hat-shop owners Scarlett Parker and Vivian Tremont investigate in order to find the real murderer.

Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is well-acquainted with murder, but she never imagined one taking place on her honeymoon! A marvelous spoof of New Age mumbo jumbo by an author whose work has been compared to that of Agatha Christie.