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Accused of murdering her child, a suspected sufferer of Munchausen syndrome by proxy seeks help from Southern private eye Lena Padget, in this riveting thriller.   Lena Padget has dedicated her life to helping women in trouble, but she’s never dealt with a case as desperate and complex as that...

A jittery bride-to-be draws the Boston PI into an “utterly compelling” case of betrayal and dangerous love (Publisher Weekly, starred review). Six-foot-tall, redheaded ex-cop and Boston-based private eye Carlotta Carlyle is “the genuine article: a straightforward, funny, thoroughly American...

Can voodoo magic turn Nanette Hayes’s luck around—or will a tragic murder curse her life forever? Nanette Hayes, a high-styling, saxophone-playing street musician and reluctant amateur detective, is in a slump. Deep in the throes of a post-affair depression, Nanette is busy drowning her...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem make a revolutionary discovery in this “beautifully written” thriller from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Ruth Rendell). John Lambert, Catholic priest and professor of biblical archaeology, returns to London from an archaeological dig in Israel—and...

Locals in the English coastal town of Blackpool don't take kindly to strangers, but newcomers Michael and Molly Graham have managed to make a few good friends. Dylan Stewart has encouraged them to join him and go native during the town's annual Seafaring Days celebrations. The event makes for lively...

In the fourth book of the Jocelyn O’Roarke series, where the eponymous stage actress and sometimes-detective goes, murder follows—even all the way across the country . . . New York City has dried up for Jocelyn “Josh” O’Roarke. Her career on the stage has stalled. Her relationship...

Southern PI Lena Padget’s hunt for a missing coed leads her into a deadly mystery born in the fires of the ATF’s Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas. Though still haunted by ghosts from her past, Lena Padget has made a good life for herself in Lexington, Kentucky, as a private eye specializing...

Ivy Morris may be an adult, but she still lives at home with her widowed father long after her sisters have all left—until she gets a letter with the words "your inheritance" offering her a home and a business of her own 3000 miles away. When she arrives to assume her new life as homeowner and proprietress...

In the third book of the Jocelyn O’Roarke series, the actress and amateur detective finally gets her big break; too bad a murder has to come along and ruin it It has been a tough road thus far for the audacious Jocelyn “Josh” O’Roarke. Every time she feels like she’s moving up in...

Someone destroys the life of PJ’s partner, igniting a twisting, vengeful plot Within just a couple of days, detective Leo Schultz’s life unravels. His son Rick is kidnapped and horrifically murdered. The very next day, Schultz’s car runs over a little girl, and he is identified by witnesses...

Elena Jarvis, a police officer from Los Santos, Texas, has succeeded against all odds. Now she confronts possibly the biggest, most politically charged mystery ever. When a volunteer with the Citizens on Patrol (C.O.P.) program, last seen patrolling with a rookie officer, is found murdered, Elena...

To stop Continent-Eight, an evil executive of crime with outposts in nearly every major city in the world, secret agent Max Decker risked playing a deadly game. Forced to kill a leader of Continent-Eight, the notorious supercriminal known as the Gila, in self-defense, Decker risks all to masquerade...

In this Elena Jarvis mystery, a student at Herbert Hobart University has been murdered. Unfortunately for investigators, Graham Fullerton had made a lot of enemies in his short life--mostly female ones. Graham's love-them-and-leave-them attitude made him the most hated man on campus--and it's up to...

**A daughter’s research into her father’s life unearths shocking family secrets in this “**frightening” novel (Express on Sunday). After celebrated English author Gerald Candless dies of a heart attack at his clifftop home above Gaunton Dunes in Devon, his eldest daughter, Sarah, is...