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Lily Moonbeam’s kitchen had three modes: simmer, sputter, and smoke. She preferred the first, but the cottage stove had opinions of its own. This morning it gurgled a warning as she whisked dried foxglove into a viscous red broth, the spoon already sticky with what she hoped would be the final step in curing Midnight chronic hairball problem. She leaned over the pot, breath held, as the mixture shifted from angry burgundy to a soothing, peony pink.

When Cyra Griffin's younger sister is murdered by a serial killer, Cyra knows better than to expect justice from the hands of the police department. With the investigation already dying its own slow death, Cyra follows the blood trail and finds her own way forward. Using insider information (don't ask), Cyra infiltrates a support group for serial killers by pretending to be one herself in the hopes of finding the person who ended her sister's life. Proving herself to them comes at a cost, but it's one Cyra is willing to pay in the name of revenge.

The reclusive genius Winky Whisker is the creative force behind Kong’s favorite brand of kibble. When he opens up his factory to the five lucky cats that find the Silver Tickets, Kong is determined to get one. But right away, Kong and Francie sense something dark hiding behind the factory’s cheerful surface. There are grudges and rivalries going back decades… and when Winky Whisker is found dead, drowned in a vat of salmon gravy, Kong vows to avenge his death.

I squeeze into my not-so-little red dress because I’m meeting my handsome detective boyfriend for Valentine’s dinner. When my cat pulls his ‘finicky eater’ act, I detour to the store to buy him something yummy. I’m in the cat food aisle staring at the ugliest cat carrier I’ve ever seen when I hear gunshots. A panicked, lost, black cat, is skittering toward the front door. I do what any sensible person would: I tackle the cat. I rip my dress. I lug that cat around in the ugliest carrier trying to find his owner. But the only guy that will help me is the ghost of the man who was just murdered…

Znane w całej Polsce członkinie Koła Gospodyń Wiejskich w Stupsku postanawiają nad stupskim stawem zorganizować Wianki, czyli piknik w wigilię św. Jana. Zanim jednak do tego dojdzie, miejscowy wędkarz wyławia z wody zwłoki Rysia, skarbnika gminy. Aldonka, Monia i Kasiunia postanawiają wyjaśnić zagadkę jego śmierci, uciekając się do niekonwencjonalnych metod.

Sadie Greene returns to Burning Hills, Georgia expecting a quick trip: settle her late grandmother’s estate, and escape back to her life in the city. But her grandmother’s house has caught the attention of Claire Caldwell, a cutthroat real estate agent and Sadie’s high school nemesis. After a public blow-up and a suspicious planner swap, Claire turns up dead… and Sadie lands squarely in the hot seat. Now the talk of the town, Sadie teams up with James—her old almost-flame and the local sheriff—to unravel Claire’s shady dealings, and piece together the truth buried beneath it all.

Late summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Bim Mayer and Hank Johnson from the Finder Team try to enjoy the lull between missing-person cases while they soak up some sun in Boone, North Carolina. But the quiet days of summer suddenly turn dark when half a dozen people go missing in less than a week. And the only clues the team can find are a strange assortment of black keys.

Henry Bins has a rare sleep disorder where he's only awake for 60 minutes a day, from 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m. His meticulously regimented life—three minutes to shower, five minutes to eat, seventeen minutes of school, four minutes to play Zelda—is turned upside down when his dad leaves for a week-long cruise.

The Homefront Sleuths thought their biggest challenge would be planning Blake and Katherine's perfect autumn wedding. But when a mysterious government inspector turns up dead at the Harvest Festival, their cozy village celebration becomes the scene of something sinister. What starts as a puzzling murder quickly becomes a race against time. Missing microfilm, coded messages, and suspicious "diplomats" suggest this case is far more dangerous than anything the Sleuths have faced before. With potential Nazi spies lurking behind familiar faces, no one in Crofter's Green is above suspicion.

This story is about a researcher who was sent by her boss to research the brides that have disappeared from Ashwood Manor.

Still nursing a broken heart after her split from Peter, Maybelle tries to keep her distance—especially now that he's dating someone younger and stunning. But when a deadly car accident and a suspicious house fire happen on the same night, it’s clear something sinister is at play. Peter dives headfirst into the investigation, and Maybelle, sidelined due to their breakup, starts digging on her own. What begins as two separate investigations soon becomes a tangled web of conflicting theories, clashing egos, and unresolved feelings.

A seemingly idyllic picnic ends in a macabre murder that echoes a pair of slayings fourteen years earlier in this riveting new historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Cries for the Lost.

Growing up in Montana, siblings Raymond and Barbara Lansdale held their chaotic world together through their shared childhood fantasy of The Long Ago: a distant place where happiness and tranquility reigned, far from the dysfunction at home. But imagination only goes so far. To escape his painful past, Ray joins the army and finds a career that gives him a sense of purpose and the promise of adventure.

June 1815. The people of London wait breathlessly for news as Napoléon and the forces united against him hurtle toward their final reckoning at Waterloo. Among them is Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, frustrated to find himself sidelined while recovering from a dangerous wound he recently received in Paris. When the mutilated corpse of Major Miles Sedgewick surfaces from the murky waters of the Thames, Sebastian is drawn into the murder investigation, which threatens one of his oldest and dearest friends, Irish surgeon Paul Gibson.

The Bourbon King Louis XVIII has been restored to the throne of France, Napoléon is in exile on the isle of Elba, and Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, and his wife, Hero, have traveled to Paris in hopes of tracing his long-lost mother, Sophie, the errant Countess of Hendon. But his search ends in tragedy when he comes upon the dying Countess in the wasteland at the tip of the Île de la Cité. Stabbed—apparently with a stiletto—and thrown from the bastions of the island’s ancient stone bridge, Sophie dies without naming her murderer.

Drawing upon her background in ancient history and her experiences on archaeological digs, author C.S. Harris crafts authentic, compelling novels that appear regularly on best-seller lists and have won numerous awards. In 1812, surgeon Paul Gibson discovers a stiletto wound in the base of a corpse’s skull and immediately contacts Sebastian St. Cyr. And when another body turns up with the same injury, the lives of St. Cyr’s family are threatened if he doesn’t back off. Now, the pressure’s on to find the culprit before anyone else gets killed.

It's 1811, and the threat of revolution haunts the upper classes of King George III's England. Then a beautiful young woman is found savagely murdered on the altar steps of an ancient church near Westminster Abbey. A dueling pistol found at the scene and the damning testimony of a witness both point to one man - Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, a brilliant young nobleman shattered by his experience in the Napoleonic Wars.

Ayleswick-on-Teme, 1813. Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and on a quest to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme, a bottle of laudanum at her side, the village's inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help.

In the latest mystery from the national best-selling author of When Falcons Fall, the gruesome murder of a young boy takes Sebastian St. Cyr from the gritty streets of London to the glittering pleasure haunts of the aristocracy....

London, 1812. The brutal slaughter of eight young prostitutes in a house of refuge near Covent Garden leaves only one survivor - and one witness: Hero Jarvis, reform-minded daughter of the prince regent's cousin, Lord Jarvis. When the Machiavellian power broker quashes any official inquiry that might reveal his daughter's unorthodox presence, Hero launches an investigation of her own and turns to Sebastian St. Cyr, viscount Devlin, for help.