Daughter of a famous chanteuse, Wanda Whipple prefers sleuthing to champagne and caviar. When an arsonist lights up the mayor's home, Wanda's investigative skills are put to a trial by fire...literally!Before long, a body is discovered in the rubble of the mayor's home, and the hunt is on for a killer. Wanda's old flame heads up the investigation, but Detective Rubio's no match for Wanda's talent for smoking out a suspect. Wanda soon learns, however, if you play with fire you're ap...

The Two Fellows Carnival has rolled into town! Residents of Portland's charming Alphabet District are flocking to Couch Park to enjoy the funfair's electrifying performances. But on opening night spectators get more bang for their buck when a carnie performer bites the big one in a spectacular way. Was it an unfortunate accident? Or is something more sinister afoot?Soon, more performers are taking their final curtain calls. Something must be done before the gig is permanently up. E...

The residents of Portland's charming Alphabet District are horrified when the neighborhood's favorite auntie goes missing--on the day of her funeral! Soon, other prominent citizens are meeting nasty ends and bodies are vanishing like pies on windowsills.When the boondoggling detective fails to provide the terror-stricken community with answers, amateur sleuth Wanda Whipple steps up to the plate. But the disturbing clues quickly lead her down a sinister path involving an enigmatic c...

Ruby Nash’s life has gone to the dogs. Since her husband passed, her once-thriving canine search and rescue business has hit the end of its leash. But when her mother, Donna, asks for help investigating her fiancé, Cecil’s, disappearance, Ruby leaves no bone unturned, roaming outside the boundaries of the law. But she’s caught faster than a three-legged cat at a dog show. With her tail tucked firmly between her legs, she and her remaining cadaver dog, a Weimaraner named Sasha, return to he...

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart comes a holiday novella that proves 'tis the season for pasta and mayhem...Chef Andy Buckland is determined that nothing will interrupt her first Christmas with her new man and her last holiday spent in her childhood home. But when the family recipe book disappears from their southern pasta shop, the Bowtie Angel, and Aunt Cecily threatens to put "The Eye" on the entire population of Beaverton, North Carolina if it isn't returned, ...

Full of humor and suspense, the bestselling Java Jive series heats up as the irrepressible heroine of Death Before Decaf faces off against Nashville’s upper crust to solve a shocking murder.Former musician Juliet Langley has barely had a day off since taking over management of the coffeehouse owned by her best friend, Pete Bennett. But there’s always more to be done—such as prepping for the annual Holiday 5K Race organized by Pete’s snobby socialite girlfr...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER • Caroline Fardig’s captivating mystery novel takes readers behind the counter of a seemingly run-of-the-mill coffeehouse . . . where murder is brewing.After her music career crashes and burns spectacularly, Juliet Langley is forced to turn to the only other business she knows: food service. Unfortunately, bad luck strikes yet again when her two-timing fiancé robs her blind and runs off with her best waitress. Flushing what’s left of h...

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Southern Pasta Shop Mysteries comes a new series that proves blood can be thicker than water...As a young single parent, Mackenzie Elizabeth Taylor has struggled to provide for her teenage daughter. She finally catches a break when she inherits half of an apartment building in Boston from her uncle Al...along with his P.I. business. So what if she doesn't know the first thing about investigation or if their hot-but-crabby downstairs tena...

From New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a holiday treat, Tahoe style...Tessie King thought she knew all there was to know about tracking down bad guys after helping to find her casino owner father's killer. But when she's locked out of the Royal Palace Casino in South Lake Tahoe during an ice storm, she's suddenly faced with the task of tracking her own would-be assassin.It's Christmas Eve, the town is encased in ice, and it's impossible to ge...

From the USA Today bestselling writing team of Sally J. Smith & Jean Steffens comes the next to-die-for novel in the Aloha lagoon Mysteries series...Travel agent Gabby LeClair, a divorced big-city transplant trying to find some aloha spirit in her soul, prides herself on working hard to give the Aloha Lagoon Resort guests a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But that turns out to be more than anyone bargained for when the body of a client is found dead during one of Gabby's island tour...

The author of Bun for Your Life returns to Destiny, New York, where bakery owners and amateur sleuths Molly Tyler and Olivia Williams never crumble under pressure...While the rest of Destiny is focused on the arrival of an upper crust perfume mogul, Molly is more concerned about what’s on the front page of the newspaper: her mother. Library director Anne Tyler was photographed at the most romantic restaurant in town having a cozy dinner with library adviso...

From USA Today Bestselling author Jennifer Fischetto comes another laugh-out-loud Gianna Mancini Mystery...When Gianna Mancini, reluctant ghost whisperer and plus-sized shoeista, attends a bridal shower for a family friend, she doesn't expect to see her favorite movie star, Raina Stone in attendance. Too bad Gianna's gift of communicating with the dead doesn't give her the ability to predict the future. If it did, she'd have known she was about to stumble on Raina's dead body....