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Killer Cruise

by Jennifer Shaw

Onboard facilities Pool 1, Caribbean Deck Met hot crewmember while soaking up the sun! The Santorini Restaurant, Olympia Deck Heard about last year's mysterious disappearance on board. What could have happened? Movie Theater, Fiesta Deck Still can't stand horror flicks. Too scary. Paris Boutique, Panama Deck Then again, so was my near-death fall overboard last night . . . Glamorama Spa, Bermuda Deck... (more)

Aunt Dimity Mysteries: Book 7

Aunt Dimity, Detective

by Nancy Atherton

When Lori Shepherd returns from her trip to America, she is shocked to hear that Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed. This is the first murder in the village of Finch in more than a century, and everyone is in an uproar. Before the town implodes in the wake of this scandal, Lori sets out to solve the murder. Unfortunately, nearly everyone in Finch had a reason to want Mrs. Hooper dead. With the help of the... (more)

Aunt Dimity Digs In (Aunt Dimity (Paperback))

Aunt Dimity Mysteries: Book 4

Aunt Dimity Digs In (Aunt Dimity (Paperback))

by Nancy Atherton

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles, striving to be the perfect mother to twins! Luckily, a beautiful Italian nanny arrives just in time--so Lori can help settle the local civil war stirred up by a visiting archaeologist's... (more)

Shoofly Pie to Die (A Thomas Dunne Book)Joshua Quittner, Michelle Slatalla

Shoofly Pie to Die (A Thomas Dunne Book)

by Michelle Slatalla, Joshua Quittner

Antique collectors Sam Popkin and Sara Amstel are ill-prepared for the ""treasure"" they discover in the Pennsylvania Dutch chest they have purchased--a dead body--and soon they are involved in an adventure-filled mystery.

Deadly Valentine

by Carolyn Hart

Southern Ghost

by Carolyn Hart

Bookstore owner Annie Darling must set aside her shame and do some serious sleuthing when her husband Max becomes the prime suspect in an unspecified crime involving a beautiful blonde. Reprint. PW.

White Elephant Dead:: A Death on Demand Mystery (Death on Demand Mysteries (Paperback))

White Elephant Dead:: A Death on Demand Mystery (Death on Demand Mysteries (Paperback))

by Carolyn Hart

Murder is, surprisingly, not all that uncommon on timy Broward's Rock, an idyllic sea island community off the South Carolina coast. Annie Darling's popular mystery bookshop, Death on Demand, is where the locals come to discuss the juicy details of each criminal offense--under the watchful gaze of a pampered feline prima donna named Agatha. But now Annie's dear friend (and best customer) Henny Brawley stands... (more)

Sugarplum Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery (Death on Demand Mysteries (Paperback))

Sugarplum Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery (Death on Demand Mysteries (Paperback))

by Carolyn Hart

It's getting to look a lot like Christmas on the sea island of Broward's Rock, South Carolina. At the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, owner Annie Darling's Yuletide preparations have to be put on hold thanks to several rather inconvenient distractions -- including murder. Across the windswept isle, in the spacious, spooky mansion of Marguerite Dumaney Ladson, a motley crew is gathering for the onetime movie... (more)

Midnight Louie Short Stories: Book 7

Death Dines In

by Claudia Bishop, Dean James

Stories by New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry and Carole Nelson Douglas, Lyn Hamilton, Claudia Bishop, Donna Andrews, Rhys Bowen, Don Bruns, Meg Chittenden, Nick DiChario, Marcos Donnelly, Elizabeth Foxwell, and many more.

Booked for Murder (Lighthouse Inn Mysteries)

Booked for Murder (Lighthouse Inn Mysteries)

by Tim Myers

The Agatha Award-nominated series continues--featuring Alex Winston and his inland lighthouse getaway. When a cursed gem disappears--and dead bodies appear--Alex must stop a killer and save his beloved inn before the next life claimed is his.

The African Quest (Archaeological Mystery)

The African Quest (Archaeological Mystery)

by Lyn Hamilton

Lara McClintoch's Tunisian tour group sails into trouble when the story of a sunken merchant ship stirs one person's murderous interest in finding the priceless artifacts that went down with it. The Archaeological Mysteries are: "A passport to adventure." ( Booklist ) "Captivating." ( Mysterious Woman ) "Terrific." ( Drood Review of Mystery )

Henrie O Mysteries

Death in Lovers' Lane

by Carolyn Hart

A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that was the cornerstone of her own illustrious career. So when beautiful, ambitious Maggie Winslow decides to investigate a trio of hitherto unresolved local crimes, Henrie O urges her to pursue the story with uncommon... (more)

Set Sail for Murder (Henrie O Mysteries (Hardcover))

Set Sail for Murder (Henrie O Mysteries (Hardcover))

by Carolyn Hart

Though retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, once turned down a marriage proposal from Jimmy Lennox, he's still one of her most cherished friends. So when he asks for her help on behalf of his wife, world-famous documentary filmmaker Sophia Montgomery, Henrie O reluctantly agrees to join them on a Baltic cruise. Sophia is the stepmother to the now-grown heirs of a great... (more)

Murder Walks the Plank: A Death on Demand Mystery

Murder Walks the Plank: A Death on Demand Mystery

by Carolyn Hart

Annie Darling's murder mystery cruise in the waters off her not-always-idyllic isle of Broward's Rock is going swimmingly -- until one of the revelers plunges overboard. And despite hubby Max's courageous rescue attempt, faux murder turns all too quickly into real-life death. As the body count rises over the next few days, the popular proprietress of the Death on Demand bookstore begins to suspect that all the... (more)

Engaged to Die: A Death on Demand Mystery

Engaged to Die: A Death on Demand Mystery

by Carolyn Hart

When wealthy, widowed art patron Virginia Neville officially announces her engagement to Jake O'Neill -- her handsome, charming, and much younger fiancé -- at a gala gallery opening, not all the gathered friends and stepfamily are pleased. And before the last champagne bubble pops, murder disrupts the grand celebration. Bookstore owner Annie Darling has a vested interest in the investigation, and she's determined... (more)

Scandal in Fair Haven

by Carolyn Hart

When her friend is murdered in her lavish Fair Haven estate, all signs point to the victim's husband, and ex-journalist Henrie O. tries to learn the truth by questioning suspects from the area's best families. Reprint.

Dead Man's Island

by Carolyn Hart

Retired reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins--better known as ""Henrie O""--is called in by an old lover, arrogant media tycoon Chase Prescott, to investigate a murder plot against him. Reprint. LJ.

Claire Malloy: Book 12

A Holly Jolly Murder

by Joan Hess

THE GIFT THAT GIVES ON GIVING. . . With Farberville’s college on holiday break, Claire Malloy’s bookstore is quiet . . . deadly quiet. Breaking the silence is a little old lady looking for volumes on pagan rituals, applied magick, and Celtic mysticism. Claire is intrigued and—miffed that her lover, Farberville police Lieutenant Peter Rosen, says she’s in a rut—happily accepts an invitation to welcome the winter... (more)

April Fool Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery (Death on Demand Mysteries (Paperback))

April Fool Dead: A Death on Demand Mystery (Death on Demand Mysteries (Paperback))

by Carolyn Hart

Ha-ha! You're dead! Someone is playing a rather nasty April Fool's prank on mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling. A felonious forger on the idyllic -- if rarely tranquil -- South Carolina island of Broward's Rock has made it appear as if Annie is accusing some of her neighbors of murder. In the wink of a bloodshot eye, the Darling name is mud . . . and then the Broward's Rock body count starts mysteriously... (more)

Something Wicked (A Bantam Crime Line Book)

Something Wicked (A Bantam Crime Line Book)

by Carolyn Hart

"Arsenic and Old Lace" may be everybody's favorite play, but someone on Broward Rock has spotted its murderous potential. When the corpses on stage in the local amateur production become real ones, bookshop owner Annie Laurance must move fast to save her fiance, Max, from a murder charge. Original.

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