Mystery
1) The art of mystery & detective stories: the best illustrations from over a century of crime fiction
Author
Publisher
Treasure
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Author
Series
Cape Cod foodie mystery volume 1
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is known for seafood, sand, surf, and, now...murder. Samantha Barnes was always a foodie. And when the CIA (that's the Culinary Institute of America) came calling, she happily traded in Cape Cod for the Big Apple. But then the rising young chef's clash with another chef (her ex!) boils over and goes viral. So when Sam inherits a house on the Cape and lands a job writing restaurant reviews, it seems like the perfect...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the rural hamlet of Hampshire is plagued by a series of brutal murders as German bombers launch a relentless attack on England during World War II, Detective Inspector Thomas Lamb races against time to solve these crimes that are seemingly linked tothe occult.
Author
Series
Bone Gap travellers mystery volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In the Appalachian town of Bone Gap, Tennessee, backwoods justice is more than just blind. It's swift, silent, and shockingly personal. Especially for Irish Traveller turned deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan... "Hear No Evil." The first message is found in a playground. A few feet away, a pair of human ears hang from the monkey bars. Deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan isn't sure what to make of this grisly scene. Do the ears belong to a murder victim? And...
Author
Series
Handcrafted mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Snowcapped pines and glittery dusted sidewalks adorn tranquil Heartsford, Wisconsin, while residents cuddle beneath heirloom quilts in front of cozy wood fires. But come the next day, the below-zero temperatures won't keep the locals away from Heartsford's annual Fire & Ice event. To boost customer traffic at Community Craft's one-night-only sale, Samantha 'Sammy' Kane persuades a few of the craftspeople who sell their wares at the store to participate...
Author
Series
Christmas tree farm mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Reindeer Games Christmas Tree Farm is going into the B&B business, and Holly White is looking forward to her new role as innkeeper. Even better, Mistletoe, Maine's sheriff, Evan Gray, has deputized his little sister Libby to help Holly wrap presents for Mistletoe's toy drive. But a cold wind ruffles the cheery holiday decorations when a new guest checks in: Cleo, a vicious B&B critic, who could make or break the new inn. And the short December days...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In a historical mystery, a serial killer is on the loose in Jazz Age Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1921. When Edie Shippen returns home after spending years in California recovering from Influenza, she's shocked to discover her childhood sweetheart is engaged to her twin sister. Heartbroken and adrift, Edie vows to begin living her life as a modern woman--and to hell with anyone who gets in her way. But as young women start to disappear from the city,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek, Vermont, seems like the perfect place to start over after losing her Boston job to a merger and her relationship to her ex's gambling addiction. She's bought and redecorated the old grist mill pub, transforming the Inkwell into a cozy spot where tourists and regulars alike can enjoy a pint or a literary-themed...
11) The shift
Author
Publisher
Xlibris Corporation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Sedona is well-known as a very spiritual place. It is also known as a congregation ground for crystal crunchers, self-proclaimed visionaries and mystics. There are a few true healers here, but they shun the media and the publicity that others come here to seek. Two of them feel a shift in balance one evening, and know something bad has come to this healing spot. A father and son serial killer team has stopped by in Sedona on the way north to Canada....
Author
Publisher
Xlibris Corporation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Sedona is well-known as a very spiritual place. It is also known as a congregation ground for crystal crunchers, self-proclaimed visionaries, and mystics. There are a few true healers here, but they shun the media and the publicity that others come here to seek. Two of them feel a shift in balance one evening and know something bad has come to this healing spot again. A father-and-son serial killer team was stopped in Sedona on the way north to Canada...
13) A pair of Sedona miracles: life as seen by Sam and Athena a pair of hybrids in a land of conformity
Author
Publisher
Xlibris
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Sam's story is well known to Sedona residents. He is a coyote hybrid whose story is well told in the book The Miracle of Sam. Now he has a beautiful sister named Athena, a wolf hybrid who came to us from the local shelter, just like Sam. Things changed for the better when Sam, Athena, Mike, and Linda became a family unit. This book tells how Sam, Mike, Linda, and Athena found each other and created a pack of hiking buddies, all of whose lives were...
Author
Series
Jane Doe book club mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lyla Moody and her book club, the Jane Does, are hosting a Halloween party at Magnolia Manor, tailored after Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced, but when the lights come on after the staged murder, a real victim lies dead from a gunshot wound in her chest. The victim was an estranged relative of Elaine Morgan, operator of the B&B, who'd earlier been seen arguing with her about the fate of the property. Suspicion immediately falls on Elaine, and...
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Series
Kitty couture mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Grandeur and opulence are everything in the famed New Orleans Garden district, where pets are family and no bling is too big. Opening Furry Godmother, pet boutique and organic treat bakery, is Lacy Marie Crocker's dream come true. After returning home following a nasty breakup with her (now ex) fiance, Pete the Cheat, it's exactly the fresh start she needs, despite her old money mother's disapproval. Full of peanut butter pupcakes and bacon-infused...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the late summer of 1941, as the war in Europe drags on, long-buried secrets begin to surface in the Hampshire village of Winstead, when the body of a young woman--a former conscientious objector - is found shot to death in the church cemetery. The woman's only connection to Winstead seems to be that she lately had joined a group of conscripted workers who are building a prisoner of war camp on an abandoned farm near the village. But Detective Chief...
Author
Series
Jane Doe book club mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lyla Moody loves her sleepy little town of Sweet Mountain, Georgia. She likes her job as receptionist for her uncle's private investigative firm, her fellow true crime obsessed Jane Doe members are the friends she's always wanted, and her parents just celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. But recently, with her best friend Melanie on vacation, and her ex-boyfriend and horrible cousin becoming an item and moving in next door to her, her idyllic...
Author
Series
Jane Doe book club mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a diabolical murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book Club than Agatha Christie's Crooked House? Lyla Moody and her friends are soon embroiled in debate over whether the heroine's actions are particularly believable. But not long after the meeting, sleepy Sweet Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel in question. When Lyla and...
Author
Series
Literary pub mystery volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Sadie Coleman, owner of a literary-themed pub in Shady Creek, Vermont, investigates after a Renaissance Faire "wizard" dies in the middle of his magic act.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Sadie is delighted to have booked famous romantic suspense novelist Linnea Bliss for an event at The Inkwell, her literary-themed pub, housed in a renovated grist mill. The author and her personal assistant Marcie are staying at Shady Creek Manor, a grand historical hotel that was once a private mansion and is rumored to still hold hidden treasure somewhere within its walls. But the hotel's storied past is nothing compared to its tragic present when...