Spring: a time of rebirth and celebration. And a time of death…for April is the cruelest month. When a young archaeologist studying on a site at Lerwick discovers a set of human remains – the island community is intrigued. Is it an ancient find...
A hot summer on the Northumberland coast, and Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water, and covered with wild flowers. This stylized murder scene has Inspector Vera...
Its mid-summer in Shetland, the time of the white nights, when birds sing at midnight and the sun never sets. Artist Bella Sinclair throws a party to launch an exhibition of her work and to introduce the paintings of Fran Hunter. The Herring House,...
Dagger Awards
It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies buried beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunters eye is drawn to a vivid splash of colour on the white ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her...
"Hyzy's research into the backstage kitchen secrets of the White House gives this series a special savor that will make you hungry for more." – Susan Wittig Albert
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Chef Olivia Paras has too many eggs in one basket-and is feeling like a...
White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Lady's nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrimp with Ollie....
The New York Times bestselling
author of the Cat Who mysteries
presents a fantastic collection of
feline fiction which includes
fourteen short stories about
kitties who just can’t keep their whiskers out of trouble...
Filled with furballs like...
A twenty-ninth installment of
the popular series finds Moose
County in an uproar over a
string of lucrative inheritances
and a bee sting-related death,
throughout which Polly departs for Paris, Koko the irrepressible
Siamese meets a piano tuner,
and...
The magnificently mustached
local columnist Jim Qwilleran
(along with his two Siamese
cats, Koko and Yum Yum) has
his hands full with numerous
projects associated with the town's 150th birthday. But
when an aspiring young
architect visiting from...
Private Eyeful…Remember Llona Mayper-The Nude Who Never ? Well, she's a little more experienced now. Call her The Nude Who Hardly Ever, perhaps?At any rate, after becoming a bride and a widow all in one day, Llona had lots of reasons for finding...