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Sadie Snow was excited to qualify as a Pinkerton agent, but now her first official case has put her own life and the lives of the family she's supposed to be protecting in danger. On the serene St. John’s River in the wilds of 1865 Florida, Sadie is on her first official job as a lady Pinkerton agent, tasked with protecting a wealthy family in a small town in the middle of nowhere. The former actress is determined to prove herself as a capable investigator. She is skilled in self-defense and has a sharp mind, but her inexperience may prove to be her downfall.

"Reading this series is like eating potato chips, you can't read just one!" Hobby farming takes a back seat to crime-solving for Ivy and her clever team. There's no end to the secrets for amateur sleuth, Ivy Galloway, and her canine and feline detectives in quaint Clover Grove.

L'arrivo di una lettera inattesa sconvolge la vita ordinata delle sorelle Murdock e della gatta Samantha a Los Angeles. Ad inviarla è stata Prudence Mills, la nipote di una vecchia amica, che spera di poter contare sulle doti investigative di Miss Rachel. Prudence ha paura: pochi giorni prima, l'inquietante disegno di una mano mutilata, accompagnato da una scritta sibillina, è stato lasciato sotto la porta di casa Mills.

Ein Neuanfang im Bayerischen Wald! Davon träumt Romy Fuchs, als sie nach einer gescheiterten Ehe und Jahren als Journalistin in München in ihr Heimatdorf Schweinhütt zurückkehrt. Hier will sie zur Ruhe kommen, als Keramikkünstlerin arbeiten und das Leben inmitten von Natur und Familie genießen. Doch die Idylle währt nicht lange. Ein Mordfall erschüttert das Dorf: In dem luxuriösen Altenheim Gut Luisenau wird der attraktive Brennmeister Mike Walters tot aufgefunden – offenbar in Waldmeisterlikör ertränkt.

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." It's theatre season in Te Kohe, and the director has decided to liven things up with a production of Macbeth. Except... something sinister happened when this play was performed twenty years ago, and the ghosts of past murders are...

A dog handler disappears in this "entertaining mystery" by the Agatha and Macavity Award finalist (Publishers Weekly). With her former fiancé off finding himself, Melanie Travis figures the only ring she'll be seeing in the near future is one where she's showing her prized poodles. But love is...

A sleuth must find a killer amid a plethora of poodles in this "charming" cozy mystery by an Agatha Award finalist (Publishers Weekly). There are dog shows. And then there's The Poodle Club of America National Specialty Dog Show. For poodle purists, it's the pinnacle of the season, drawing...

It’s the dead of winter, and it isn’t just the weather that can be chilling. When a visiting cross-country skier goes missing right before a snowstorm hits, dog trainer and amateur sleuth, Eve, and her beloved German Shepherd, Willow, are called out to find him.

A mystery from the Agatha Award finalist: "Melanie's poodles are as lovable and real as the story's human characters." —Publishers Weekly In an effort to escape tail-chasing males—namely her ex-husband and her current boyfriend—Melanie Travis opts to track down the elusive owner of Dox, an...

The eighth in the House-Flipper Mystery series set in Nashville, where the real estate market is to die for. In Nashville, carpenter Whitney Whitaker is ecstatic when the owner of an antebellum livery stable approaches her about rehabbing the barn and offers Whitney free rein with the design...

Murder's brewing in Estes Park, where the tea is hot, the dead don't rest, and curiosity might just get you in a whole steep of trouble. Just when Ellie thought she was getting the hang of her supernatural gift and running Spines & Steeps, construction workers discover a skeleton in the wall of...

Nothing says fall in the Rockies like cider, ghosts, and a dead guy. Halloween in the charming mountain town of Estes Park promises to be magical for bookstore owner Ellie Read. The town's Fall Festival and haunted hayride are in full swing, complete with spooky decorations and ghostly displays...

Someone's dishing the dirt on the dog-show world, until she's muzzled for good: "[A] winning cozy . . . the ending is a surprise."—Publishers Weekly Summer means two things to Melanie Travis: a break from her teaching duties at Connecticut's elite Howard Academy and a chance to plan the...

The week before Christmas marks a year since dog trainer and amateur sleuth, Eve, and her boyfriend Aidan, shared their first kiss. They’ve made plans to celebrate, but an unexpected visit from Eve’s adopted mother throws their plans into chaos.

Two gripping mysteries. One unforgettable collection. A suspicious death. A trail of secrets. And a pair of investigators—one human, one canine—who won't let the truth stay buried. In Neil S. Plakcy's "Dog Moves in Mysterious Ways," Steve Levitan and his golden retriever, Rochester, uncover a hidden online world where access is currency—and silence can be deadly.

A Gothic abbey, an eccentric family and a body in the great hall? Sounds like a case for Polly Hope! Yorkshire, December 1941. Polly Hope and her friend Freddie Fairbank are looking forward to visiting Westerby Abbey—a vast, stone-dark manor on the Yorkshire moors—to see if it will be...

In small-town Maine, winter isn’t the only thing that’s deadly. Retirement has bored Ruth out of her wits, so when the dispatcher job opens at the county jail, she jumps at the chance. There she meets Marmalade, the mysterious Maine coon cat who manages to keep sneaking into the jail—no matter how many times the sheriff kicks her out.

Santa calls about a reindeer problem that puts Christmas in deadly peril. Clausville has been a hill country institution for decades. The festive holiday theme park and petting zoo always attracts a crowd. This year, the resident reindeer is in quite a predicament. While another ornery ruminant wasn’t on Ivy’s wish list, there’s always room at the inn for an animal in need. Turns out the reindeer isn’t the only one in trouble. Santa himself is on the hook for a terrible crime. All signs point to him, but has the jolly old elf been framed?

When the past wants to stay buried, it's up to a librarian-turned-dispatcher and a guilt-sniffing cat to dig up the truth. Ruth Daigle is still adjusting to her new life as a dispatcher at the Moose Head Mills Sheriff's Department when spring floods lead to a chilling discovery in the town library: a skeleton sealed behind a wall for thirty years.

A body in the pasture. A killer on the loose. And Verity's freedom on the line. Verity Cade's peaceful Vermont farmhouse turns into a crime scene when a stranger's body is discovered in her cow pasture—and she becomes the prime suspect. With no alibi and the FBI swarming Evansfield, Verity's...