Hoping to prevent her best friend's suicide, Sydney Reardon rushes to Puerto Vallarta where she becomes entangled with witchcraft, a handsome Gringo lawyer, a New York cop, a huge black dog -- and murder. This book, one of a series, was a selection of the Mystery Book Club. ...

It was the best of times. It was the worst of crimes. <BR>On a sweltering summer night, a woman dies mysteriously in her hospital bed in New York City. A thousand miles away, amateur sleuth and Midwestern University professor Beth Austin prepares for a class on The Mystery of Edwin Drood, when her mother drops a bombshell: Fifty years ago, she was involved in a similar Dickensian love triangle and unsolved murder at the University of ...

When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis McGee thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was when his wife was killed.... <BR>"Proves again that MacDonald keeps getting better with each new adventure." <BR>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

While donating delicious rejects to the Random Acts of Kindness Mission, Chef Angie Amalfi volunteers to help organize their first fund raiser--despite the fact that her police detective boyfriend, Paavo Smith, warns her away from the place. Next thing she knows, Paavo is facing charges as a murderous cop, and Angie discovers that the mission harbors more than the needy. It's up to her to save not only Paavo's reputation--but his life, too.
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Phoebe Mullins's love of music took her around the world with her conductor husband, and more recently helped her solve a murder in an opera colony. Now her musical passion may prove instrumental in solving the case of another slain singer...if it doesn't prove to be her swan song. <BR> Death of a Pooh-Bah <BR>A long-lost aunt's invitation brings Phoebe to Northampton, Massachusetts, and a post as stage manager of a lively community ...

Crime runs rampant in the picturesque town of Leixleap -- and on Ireland's famed River Shannon, where brazen thieves illegally harvest the gourmet-prized eels that flourish there. But while poaching may be something the local Eel Police division is well-equipped to handle, murder is wholly another matter.<P>Chief Inspector Peter McGarr has been called out from Dublin to investigate a troubling double homicide. The nude body of young, ...

Marty Goldman was the consummate Hollywood player -- a high-powered lawyer who could make things happen at the studios. So why would he commit suicide?<P>That's what Kurt Goldman wonders when he arrives for his brother's funeral. As he struggles to make sense of Marty's tangled business affairs Kurt begins to think that maybe it wasn't suicide at all. Maybe Marty was murdered. And maybe his own life is now in danger too.... ...

Elvis Presley staged his death and is alive. Elvis is making a living in Paris, France in the only manner he could escape notice, as an Elvis Presley impersonator. ...

Tough, philosophical, and world-weary detective Aurelio Zen returns in Michael Dibdin's latest foray into the maze of Italian criminal and political entanglements. <BR>This time Zen finds himself with an assignment he'd rather have avoided. After years of, shall we say, flirting with the enemy, he finds himself in the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been known to flow like wine, if not ...

For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn't when he'll explode, but who he'll take with him when he does. "My favorite crime novelist--often imitated but never duplicated."--Stephen King. ...