Genres : Mystery

A small-town scandal. A buried secret. And one woman determined to uncover both. Miss Tony Cooper has spent years keeping the school district running smoothly-until everything begins to unravel.When missing funds trigger a quiet fraud investigation, Tony expects long hours and paperwork-not whispers, suspicion, and a growing sense that something isn't quite right. But when a principal is found dead and the superintendent is taken into custody, the situation turns far more serious than anyone in Apple Creek wants to...

Emma Frederick bolts upright in bed, pulse racing. It must be a bad dream.Except it’s not.Crrrrrreeeeeeeeaaaaaaakkkkkkk.The sound of the loose step sends her body into overdrive, and she rushes for the secret room behind the wall. The screech of old hinges echoes through the house as he enters her bedroom.He starts whistling.Three blind mice. Three blind mice.She slaps a hand over her mouth, stifling her scream.He’s coming for her, but that can’t be.She killed him last month.

Autumn leaves are spinning in Bluejay Ridge—and so are the rumors.Roberta “Betty” Benino craves a fresh start in the mountains of Georgia. Her lakeside cottage promises peaceful new beginnings, and her welcoming neighbors seal the deal—until she stumbles upon a body at the local garden center.Now gossip blooms as quickly as the mums, and Betty’s at the center of it all. A retired screenwriter with a flair for drama, she has no intention of playing detective … until her curiosity...

A body in a rundown Opera House. Simmering resentment in a small Virginia coastal town. A missing manuscript. A dark family secret. Former piano prodigy-turned FBI agent Scott Drayco is still suffering nightmares from his last case as a private consultant. To add insult to injury, he's bequeathed a rundown Opera House in Cape Unity, a down-on-its-luck seaside village where vacation homes were once a playground for the rich. His hopes for a quick sale are dashed when a new...

Some mornings start with coffee. Sage Holloway's started with a corpse.When Crescent Harbor's most hated developer drops dead, police zero in on the obvious suspect — Sage's employee, a single mom whose public threat against him now looks an awful lot like motive. But Sage knows her. And Sage knows better.Armed with a baker's instincts, a suspicious coffee cup with very strange sediment, and Shadow — her unnervingly perceptive cat — Sage starts asking questions that powerful people would rather...

The puzzling murder of a beloved teacher leaves Detroit homicide detective Sam Roma searching for answers. To her chagrin, not only does Sam have a murder to solve, she's been assigned a new homicide investigator, Tom Green, who comes with his own set of problems and challenges. As Tom makes a series of rookie mistakes, Sam wonders if she's up to mentoring a partner with personal struggles-one who she suspects is involved in departmental politics.To top it off, Sam's personal...

The second twisting mystery in the acclaimed Slim Hardy Mystery Series from Jack Benton, a series which is fast becoming a classic.A buried clock holds the key to a decades-old mystery.On holiday to escape the nightmares of his last case, disgraced soldier turned private detective John “Slim” Hardy comes upon something buried in the peat on Bodmin Moor.Unfinished and water-damaged but still ticking, the old clock provides a vital clue to an unsolved missing-persons case.As Slim begins to ask questions...

Book 1, Charley's Ghost series USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR When Amanda's lying, cheating, scam-artist husband, Charley, saves her life in a near-fatal motorcycle accident, she can almost forgive him for dragging his feet on their divorce. Then she discovers he'd been dead for several hours at the time she thought he rescued her. And not just dead…murdered. On the good side, at least they are no longer married. But she's the primary suspect in Charley's murder and, as if that...

A fundraiser. A sudden blackout. And a murder no one saw coming. Willie Wilder came to Grandview for a quieter life, not to investigate a body found backstage at the Community Center. But when a simple review of old bookkeeping ends in murder, Willie and her coffee-fueled Queenager friends are pulled back into the kind of trouble they never seem to avoid… despite repeated warnings by Sheriff CJ Corbin to stay out of it. With her sharp-minded circle and her...

All I wanted was a hot shower to start my day. Instead, I found my landlady stone-cold dead on the hallway floor.Things spiral downhill fast. First, a drop-dead gorgeous cop accuses me of murder. Next, I’m 'recruited' by a secret organization run by a snarky, talking cat named Mr. Fluffikins. It turns out Mrs. Haberdash was the Town Witch, and her magic is up for grabs. Since I was the one who stumbled over body, the Paranormal Temp Agency decides...