"These characters seem so real that I want to visit them and disappear into their world!
Christmas falls on Peridale, but that does not mean cafe-owner and part-time sleuth, Julia South, can sit back and enjoy the festivities. When the opening night...
Grandma Sal's Soup-To-Nuts Cooking Challenge is coming to town, and Skye Denison is entering. And though she can't solve the mystery of the perfect mousse, murder is another story. Because a cocky contestant has been found delectably drowned in a...
A young couple are mown down in a hit and run incident. The girl is badly injured, the boy dies on the way to hospital. According to the sole witness the boy was in the middle of the road giving the approaching car the finger. Operation Melody is...
This mesmerizing original short story - a prequel to The Sleepwalker - from Chris Bohjalian, best-selling author of The Sandcastle Girls and The Guest Room, tells the tale of one strange summer when a pair of horses die, an odd boy moves to a small...
"Rich and satisfying . . . [a] relentless thriller that reads like a literary novel." - Michael Sims, Washington Post
Tom Bouman's Dry Bones in the Valley won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The New York...
"I thought for sure I had this one figured out. Obviously, I don't have those great detective skills of Julia!"
When Julia's gran, Dot, wins an all-inclusive spa trip to Scotland, Julia finds it difficult to refuse the offer of a relaxing week away...