When smutty romance writer Mildred Twiller is found dead in her home—strangled with a tightly knotted silk scarf—it's up to Clair Malloy to find the killer. It won't be easy—the two-bit author had a lot of enemies. But who could have hated Mildred with such smoldering passion?

In sunny Charm, North Carolina, Everly Swan opens her dream seaside café—only to land in hot water when a councilman dies with her chai at the scene. With gossip swirling, a café at risk, and a brooding detective in her path, Everly must catch a killer before she’s brewed her last cup.

Deirdre “Foxtrot” Lancaster keeps an eccentric estate running, but things get wild when she starts seeing animal spirits and her once-dead cat begins talking. With a shape-shifting ghost dog as her partner, she’s pulled into a coworker’s mysterious death and must unravel the killer hiding among a very unconventional menagerie.

When a ghastly murder rocks the Thurberfest beauty pageant, Claire Malloy's investigative instincts take over. But when she digs too close to the truth, the race is on to discover the killer's identity before Claire herself is crowned the next victim...

National Book Award finalist Howard Norman delivers another “provocative ... haunting” novel, this time set in a Vermont village and featuring a missing child, a newly married private detective, and a highly relatable ghost (Janet Maslin, New York Times).

Newly widowed Sarah Kelling prefers running a boardinghouse to being in the poorhouse, so she opens up her Boston residence to lodgers. But then her guests start dying off, and she must turn to detective Max Bittersohn for help before her boarders bolt...

This collection includes a trio of full-length novels featuring crimesolver Amelia Adams, corporate secretary-turned-Scottish Highlands hotelier.

Faith Fairchild, a transplanted New Yorker, finds herself embroiled in a murder mystery in a quaint Massachusetts village. When the local church’s belfry reveals a dead body, Faith’s curiosity is piqued. But as she digs deeper into the victim’s scandalous past, she becomes a target in this small-town game of deceit and danger.

Antiques expert Josie Prescott uncovers a chilling deception when a wealthy client’s wife turns up dead—and she’s not the woman Josie met. As secrets swirl around a priceless Tiffany lamp, Josie teams up with Rocky Point’s police chief to expose envy, greed, and a killer hiding behind a carefully crafted lie.