When the dream job she has pursued all her adult life suddenly disappears, an ambitious journalist returns to her family's small-town newspaper before witnessing a car accident that ends the life of a local war hero.
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- Waking up in a nursing-home Alzheimer's Unit with no memory of how she got there, Rose Dennis orchestrates an escape but does not know who to trust.
- Bayou transplant Odessa Dean has a lot to learn about life in Brooklyn. So far she's scored a rent free apartment in one of the nicest neighborhoods around by cat-sitting, and has a new job working at Untapped Books & Café. But things turn…
- At his cousin's request, Joe Neptune returns to his tribal community on Abenaki Island to help protect the Penacooks as they stage a takeover of state lands, but a greater threat emerges when someone begins murdering people in the woods.
- Former pop star Heather Wells has lost her record company contract, her earnings (which her mother absconded with), and her boy-band boyfriend, Jordon. But plucky Heather has gained two new jobs (one working for Jordon's black-sheep…
- As a nurse ethnicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can't save have at least the dignity of a "good death." But when wealthy foreign travelers start to go missing all across…
- A sequel to Mimi Lee Gets a Clue finds pet groomer Mimi Lee and her sassy kitty cohorts scrambling to prove her sister’s innocence in the murder of a teacher whose demise is connected to three sketchy colleagues.
- A mystery author becomes the prime suspect after her agent is discovered murdered exactly as described in her new, unpublished manuscript and must work to clear her name in the first novel of a new mystery series.
- Nell Dysart's new job as a secretary in a detective agency opens the door to many adventures including romance, blackmail, and murder.
- When Stephanie Plum needs money (she's been laid off, her Miata has been repossessed, her rent is due, etc.), she turns to bounty hunting for quick cash...even though she has no idea what to do and doesn't own a gun. Luckily, her first…
- A novel spanning decades, generations and America in the 1940s and today, centers around five women who worked in a Phillips 66 gas station during the WWII years.
- A fantasy tale inspired by Sherlock Holmes finds multi-universe war soldier John Wyndham taking lodging in the home of lesbian sorceress Miss Shaharazad Haas, who draws him into a blackmail case against one of her former lovers.
- Roe Teagarden joins forces with police detective Arthur Smith and mystery writer Robin Crusoe to investigate a series of killings in which the victims are slain in the fashion of famous historical murders.
- A spin-off to the best-selling Iron Druid Chronicles follows the adventures of an eccentric magical defender who is cursed to be hated by anyone who hears his voice, a challenge that is complicated by his apprentices' fatal freak accidents.
- August Snow, the son of an African American father and a Mexican mother and a disgraced former member of Detroit's police department, investigates the suspicious death of a local business magnate and finds himself up against the city's…
- When two strangers, Eleanor Rigby-Donovan and George-Harrison Collins, receive letters alluding to a crime committed by their late mothers, they embark on a quest through the shadowy past of the Stanfields, a moneyed Maryland family full…
- :Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, a San Francisco private eye with a checkered past, has been working for her family's firm, Spellman Investigations, since age 12. Now 28, Izzy thinks she wants out of the family business, but elects to take on a…
- Tasked with their Swedish Police Department's most unusual cases, lead detective Ulf Varg and his colorful associates investigate a bizarre stabbing, a lost imaginary boyfriend and a haunted spa.
- When small-town assistant librarian Tru Beckett sets up a secret book room in her newly modernized library, she discovers that protecting the printed word is harder than she'd ever imagined. In fact, it's murder.
- On the verge of revealing the criminal mastermind behind a 1945 unsolved mystery, a famed theater critic is shot dead, leaving Sergeant Jim Brunswick and Constable Twitten to solve both the decades-old crime and the more recent murder.
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