"Josie flinches as she takes in the faded blue sports jacket wrapped around the girl they just pulled from the water. Josie knew someone who'd once owned that jacket. He had died in her arms five years ago. Heavy rain pours on the small town of Denton causing the riverbanks to break and the body of a young girl to float quietly to the surface. With no crime scene to examine, the odds are against Detective Josie Quinn and her team. Mercifully, the...

Castleton Manor prepares to host a retirement celebration for Red Maxton, the author of the best-selling spy series featuring Trey Connor. Before the event begins, a dead man is discovered in the hedge maze. He looks just like Red, and he was carrying the three of diamonds, Trey Connor's calling card. With the guest of honor dead, the event is canceled. Then Red shows up--alive and well. Will librarian Faith Newberry and her book club friends learn...

Facing enemies at every turn, freelance private spy Simon Riske dashes across Europe to find the truth behind a mysterious investor known as 3the Collector,4 in this fourth installment to the high-stakes, international espionage series.

Librarian Faith Newberry and her friends in the Candle House Book Club investigate the murder of a guest amid the festivities of the Everything Shakespeare event, showcasing the performances of a boisterous theater troupe. However, it's hard to discern the truth when everyone is playing a part.

A dog show has come to Liz Eckhardt's town of Pleasant Creek, but fur is flying. It seems one of the judges has a predilection for toy varieties, and the owners of the big dogs may not be getting a fair shake. When the judge goes belly-up, Liz knows she must race into action.

"The fighting has ended, the Armistice signed, but the war has left wounds that are still agonizingly raw. Battlefield Nurse Bess Crawford has been assigned to a clinic for amputees, and the Welsh patients worry her. She does her best to help them, but it's clear that they have nothing to go home to, in a valley where only the fit can work in the coal pits. When they are released, she fears that peace will do what war couldn't--take their lives. Their...

For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, just as Atlee is pressured to end her investigation into Mercy's disappearance, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet: the identity of her sister's kidnapper, Ito Vincenzo. With time running out, Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum race to Vincenzo's last known location in Trenton, New Jersey--and...

"Arnold sprang to his feet, his cheeks flaming. "I didn't do this. She was my girlfriend!" "Take it easy," the sheriff said. "You were in her room, so we need to eliminate your shoe prints from the others we find." Kaylee glanced at Arnold's shoes and squashed the thought that the sheriff was probably also thinking: Most victims are killed by people they know. -- from front flap.

"Join Kaylee Bleu and her faithful dachshund, Bear, as they put down roots on Orcas Island in the charming town of Turtle Cove, Washington. After working for years as a plant taxonomist and forensic botanist in Seattle, Kaylee turns over a new leaf by purchasing her grandmother's Victorian mansion flower shop, The Flower Patch, and cozy farmhouse, Wildflower Cottage." -- Page [4] of cover.

If there's one thing flower shop owner kaylee Bleu knows for dead certain, it's that where her flirtatious friend Nick Durham goes, romantic intrigue will follow. However, the notorious sheriff's deputy indicates he might be ready to settle down when he introduces his fellow Orcas Island residents to his lovely new girlfriend, Felicia Lewis--a woman who happens to look a lot like Kaylee. Unfortunately, Nick's budding romance goes from his-and-hers...