When planning her vacation, Georgia magistrate MacLauren Yarbrough envisioned a tropical isle with she and her husband sunbathing, snorkeling, and reading a stack of good books. Instead Mac--minus her husband--is bound for chilly Scotland. And when the bodies of two Americans are discovered in coffins that appear in the village church where Mac is staying, she finds herself back on the job.

When New York PI Desiree Shapiro is hired by an attorney to look into the suspicious death of his Aunt Bessie, she is faced with a wealth of suspects, from Bessie's greedy son and his conniving fiancée to a dishonest dry cleaner.

College English professor Alison Bergeron thought that dating a cute NYPD detective like Bobby Crawford would be exciting, but he hasn't really invited her on any stakeouts. Things do rev up when a friend asks her for help finding his nephew -- the same missing boy Bobby pulled from the Hudson days earlier. The boy's employer calls it a suicide, but Alison and Bobby, not convinced, take the case into their own hands.

In Emma Lord's newest outing, a fight erupts at the local tavern and a patron is murdered with a pool cue. What initially seems to be an open-and-shut case disintegrates with the contradictory and confused accounts given by the murder's many witnesses. Each one has an agenda behind the story - some of them committed enough to lie. And it's up to Emma and her longtime compatriot, Sheriff Milo Dodge, to figure it out.

Granny Apples was famous for her award-winning apple pies - and notorious for murdering her husband in the orchard. The trouble is, Granny didn't kill her husband. She was framed, and then murdered. For over a hundred years, Granny's spirit has searched for someone to help her find justice. Now Granny and Emma Whitecastle, a modern-day divorced mom and Granny's great-great-great granddaughter, team up to solve mysteries of the past - starting with...

"Newly promoted Inspector Ghote of the Bombay Police is thrilled to be granted casual leave until he takes up his post, as it allows him to spend time with his heavily pregnant wife, who is desperate to watch a showing of Hamlet at the cinema. Their plans are ruined, however, when Sir Rustom Engineer asks Ghote to investigate the suicide of his friend's wife. Worried about his wife's imminent deliver, Ghote nevertheless travels to the home of Mr....

Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.

"Chet has smelled a lot of unusual things in his years as trusted companion and partner to P.I. Bernie Little, but nothing has prepared him for the exotic scents he encounters when an old-fashioned traveling circus comes to town. Bernie scores tickets to this less-than-greatest-show-on-earth because his son Charlie is crazy about elephants. The only problem is that Peanut, the headlining pachyderm of this particular one-ring circus, has gone missing--along...

"In Atherton's sixteenth mystery, Lori Shepherd returns from Down Under to her normal life in the village of Finch. But Lori's normal quickly becomes anything but. Her debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. William Sr. expects a quiet, small-town life, but among the spinsters vying for his attention, shifty servants, and the discovery of a mysterious painting of a family tree in Fairworth's...

As a wave of spring tilling and planting sweeps over Crozet, Virginia, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen is especially excited: this is her first year harvesting grapes to sell. But then a health crisis sends her reeling into the forbidding world of hospitals and doctors, treatments and procedures. Although surviving this journey will be tough, Harry will have lots of support. Others will have worse luck ...