A thief making his get-away from a jewelry store heist runs into an antiques shop and hides a priceless loose-cut diamond in one of the little drawers of an old slant-front desk, unaware that he has been observed by the store’s mascot, Murfy the...
Kathleen is excited to meet
three old pals of her beau,
Detective Marcus Gordon, while
they visit charming Mayville
Heights on business. But the
reunion is cut short when one of the friends is killed—and the
evidence points towards Marcus
as the...
Two intriguing tales of criminal strategy that feature The Saint at his best. In The Pastor’s Problem, Father Bernardo, pastor of St. Jude’s church, has a dilemma: the church owns a three-hundred-year-old jewel-encrusted silver chalice,...
Here, for the first time in one volume, are the best stories of the year from Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine — featuring the incomparable Mike Shayne himself. Whether you prefer your crimes brutal, clever, daring or disastrous... whether you...
Back home in sleepy Pickax, Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese companions, Koko and Yum Yum, are looking forward to country peace and quiet. But their newly converted apple barn home turns out to be not quite the refuge they were hoping for when a corpse...
“That was no accident.”
Escaping Los Angeles and
theugly memories of her son’s
recentmurder, Maudie Toola
returns to her childhood home
of Molena Point with her orphaned grandson, facing the
upcoming Christmas holiday
with trepidation. But she...
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series.
It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again....
Quincy the butterscotch tabby has a talent for sniffing out sweets—and uncovering crimes—in this Fat Cat mystery from the national bestselling author of Fat Cat Spreads Out.
When former classmate Rich “Dickie” Byrd throws a high school...