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When Sydney Bonner overhears a fellow mah jongg player arguing on the phone with her husband, she realizes the couple’s “perfect marriage” isn’t all it appears to be. A few days later, the husband is found dead, his head bashed in. Fearing she’ll be considered the most likely suspect, the widow prevails upon Sydney and her three friends—Marianne, Kat and Micki—to find out who really killed him. Though none of these four fun-loving, take-charge retirees has any training as detectives,...

She’s looking for a fresh start. But with eerie noises in the night and murder most foul, can she keep from going down for a crime she didn’t commit?Skye Brigid O’Shea is desperate for an escape. Losing big in a nasty divorce and taking the fall for a patient’s death, the stressed-out thirty-two-year-old jumps at the chance to move to Ireland after inheriting her grandmother’s B&B. But the nosy American quickly lands back in hot water when she investigates unearthly...

Twelve-year-old Leslie Adams is found covered in blood, standing over the lifeless body of a boy named Tommy. Everyone said she did it—after all, she was the only one there when he died. The most terrifying part? Leslie doesn’t remember a thing.Years later, she still can’t escape the shadow of that day. Now in college, Leslie is desperate for a fresh start... until the blackouts return. Night after night, she wakes from these fugue states with fresh bruises and unexplained...

Set in St. Albans, a small British town, this is the second novel in the DI Maggie Dent Trilogy.A contemporary British fiction murder mystery with family drama and developing disloyalties.DI Maggie Dent is thrust into a major investigation when three members of the same family are found murdered,but her team is hard pushed to uncover motives and links.What they discover are secrets, hidden lives and harboured jealousy.This police procedural will have you wondering, not only about the case, but about...

Illustrated edition of book 1 in award-winning Anna Kronberg & Sherlock Holmes series.She's London's most brilliant bacteriologist. She's also not supposed to exist.By day, Dr Kronberg cuts through corpses in Guy's Hospital's gaslit laboratories, hunting microscopic killers that claim more lives than Jack the Ripper. All the while, hoping no one discovers the woman beneath the gentleman's attire.When a body surfaces in London's waterworks bearing marks of medical torture, Kronberg draws the attention of Sherlock Holmes. He sees through her...

When rancher Cassidy Casey discovers a frozen body tied to a fence line on her Montana property, she expects the sheriff to investigate. What she doesn't expect is for the death to be written off as a tragic accident. But Cass knows her land, and something about the scene doesn't sit right. With her sharp-eyed Border Collie Scout alerting to danger at every turn, Cass starts asking questions that no one in the tight-knit community of Frost Valley wants to...

If only the missing French socialite was the least of her problems.Hale Seton is great at bad decisions. Case in point: she left a perfectly good career in the States to manage a nineteen-year-old Spanish Formula One driver whose mother might actually be the devil in Manolo Blahniks.But the job has its perks — Monaco, a borrowed Lamborghini, and a personal trainer who flirts like it's an Olympic sport. Life is almost manageable. Then a French socialite vanishes after a...

A novelist writing a tell-all memoir, a society beauty asking for help, an international explorer in danger. This is one for Posie Parker!Summer, 1921.Newly successful Private Detective Posie Parker was about to enjoy a restful summer. Think again!Invited by society beauty Lady Violet Boynton-Dale to her ancestral home, Boynton Hall, to investigate dangerous threats which are being made against her brother, the dashing Explorer Alaric Boynton-Dale, Posie leaves London for the sun-dappled beauty of the Cotswolds. She finds that Boynton...

No secret is safe, not even with the dead.Former Texas Ranger and now private investigator, Mason Redstone, can investigate the dead, but as a medium, he can also talk to them.When Mason’s estranged partner, Trick Monroe, appears asking for Mason’s help to solve a murder, it forces Mason to confront the past and attempt to rebuild their fractured relationship. But when Trick reverts to his old ways, Mason must question whether it’s best to leave the past behind.Old bonds don’t...

The perfect tenant is hiding the perfect lie.Sela Belew is a forty-two-year-old single mother and real estate agent barely keeping her head above water. Struggling to stay ahead of a hemorrhaging bank account and a mortgage she can no longer afford, Sela decides to rent out her basement apartment in the affluent, rain-slicked suburb of Oakstream, Washington.When Audra Calton applies, she seems like the answer to every prayer. Polished, professional, and possessing spotless references, she is the ideal tenant. But...