It's springtime in Biarritz, France - and playtime for Edwardian society. But the fashionable crowd is shaken by the suicide of a high-class prostitute, Topaz Brown, who has left her fortune to England's suffragette movement. Suffragette Nell Bray is sent to Biarritz to protect the money and keep its embarrassing source private. She gets more than she bargained for, however, when she learns that Topaz's death may not have been suicide at all. She's...

When Caro Lamont's friend and neighbor, Kitty Bardot, is found gunned down on the Pacific Coast Highway, the police seem ready to call the well-loved Hollywood publicist a road-rage casualty. But when catty tidbits of information start to surface, Caro is determined to get to the bottom of who killed Kitty.

"From New Zealand author Donna Malane, My Brother's Keeper is a dark and twisting mystery that leave no stone -- or page -- unturned. Diane Rowe is a missing persons expert. Ex-con Karen needs Diane's help to track down her fourteen-year-old daughter, Sunny, whom she's lost contact with while she's been in prison. To Diane, this appears at first glance to be a simple case of a mother wanting to reunite with a beloved daughter. Tracking the girl down...

"A body is discovered in the water where a documentary crew search for legendary lake monster Cressie. As host of the cryptozoological documentary series Creature X, Laura Reagan and her team are shooting an episode of Creature X on Cressie, a legendary giant eel, in Robert's Arm, Newfoundland. But what begins as a simple TV shoot takes a drastic turn when a body is discovered in the lake by the crew, the first step in unravelling a cold case that...

"Wealthy widow Charlotte Hendrick had always promised that her riches would be divided equally between her seven closest relatives when she died. Now she has changed her mind and summoned her nearest and dearest, including her cousin, the Reverend Mother, to her substantial home on Bachelor's Quay to inform them of her decision. As Mrs Hendrick's relatives desperately make their case to retain a share of her wealth, riots break out on the quays outside...

"There's many who feel the Alaska Territory is no place for a woman on her own. But Charlotte Brody, suffragette and journalist, has never let public opinion dictate her life choices. She's come to the frontier town of Cordova, where her brother Michael practices medicine, for the same reason many come to Alaska--to start over. Cordova is gradually getting civilized, but the town is still rougher than Charlotte imagined. And when a local prostitute--one...

"February, 1390. The Church seethes with rebellion. Newly elected Pope Boniface faces a challenger: the anti-pope Clement, who sows discord from his power base in France.The quarrel threatens the very survival of the Cistercian Order. So when suspicions grow that distant Beaulieu Abbey may turn traitor, Hildegard's prioress summons her with a mission she can't refuse: travel to the isolated royal abbey and spy out their true allegiance.The public...

Detective Inspectors Hanna Ahlander and Daniel Lindskog investigate the murder of a former Olympic skier found bound and beaten in the woods at a Swedish ski resort, in the second novel of the series following Hidden in Snow.

When the set of Oriole Point's production of A Christmas Carol is plagued by strange accidents and then murder, Marlee Jacob, who is playing Jacob Marley, must find the culprit before it's curtains for someone else.

Murder takes center stage in a Southern small town's Christmas play in this cozy mystery by the New York Times—bestselling author of Down Home Murder. Laura Fleming's theater-loving husband, Richard, is getting an early Christmas present- he's been asked to direct a production of A Christmas Carol in Laura's hometown of Byerly, North Carolina. To Richard's annoyance, the play is beset by practical jokes and glitches, and Seth Murdstone makes an...