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 ...

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 ...

Elise Andrioli is back on the case. Having solved the mystery of the child serial killings outside Paris, Elise has become sort of a minor celebrity, selling the rights to her story to a mystery writer named Brigitte Aubert. ...

For homicide detective Lieutenant Starletta Duvall and her partner, Dominic Parisi, the torching of a homeless woman is a random act of unspeakable violence. The autopsy, however, turns up an enigmatic calling card, suggesting that the crime scene's chilling proximity to the exclusive prep school is no coincidence. Before Star and Dom can prove their gut instincts, another corpse is found. When the killer delivers the third victim gift-wrapped, ...

Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey. She's a product of the "burg," a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at ...

Energetic, sexy, and funny -- Claire and Dan know there's a catch when rich and stingy Mrs. Shelby Bell invites them to be her guests at The Bell Sands, her oceanfront resort hotel east of Biloxi, Mississippi. They accept, but when they arrive at the hotel during a torrential rainstorm, they become caught up in a beauty contest run amok. No carefree bliss in sun and surf -- the Claibornes have their work cut out, trying to discover who's ...

The stunning wife of the Austrian Ambassador is kidnapped and murdered. The bones belonging to a vanished young girl are discovered. Both share the same starling clues that point to a powerful, seductive and womanizing Senator. Besides solving the mystery, will Fiona FitzGerald, homocide detective on the Washington D.C. police force and daughter of a Senator herself, submit to the powerful sexual forces of Senator Love?" ...

The daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered, and a Supreme Court Justice with a sadomasochistic fetish is the target of Fiona FitzGerald's investigation. This is one case that brings Fiona to the darker side of the Washington scene in which sexual aberration and fear of exposure plays a role in murder. Fiona travels through the labyrinth of upper-crust Washington in pursuit of this powerful man, who may or may not be the killer, leading ...

The frontier spirit is alive and well in the old silver-mining town-turned-trendy resort of Aspen, Colorado, despite an influx of the rich and famous - and Regan Reilly. Regan has arrived with her mystery-writing mom and suave, funeral director father to spend the Christmas holidays on the slopes and visiting friends. Secretly, she wouldn't mind meeting a single man or two. She never expects to be rubbing shoulders, and maybe risking her neck, ...