Dreaming about becoming a screenwriter and meeting her favorite Hollywood star, former journalist Maggie Mars becomes determined to solve the murder of her long-time mentor, an effort for which she recruits the assistance of her legal eagle boyfriend, her eccentric father, and her L.A. cop ex-boyfriend.

ORDER # M607-1   $16-40   ISBN 0765352265 

Brandy Borne finds her return home met with mayhem and murder when her mother, a larger-than-life actress and gossip, is swindled out of some priceless antiques by Clint Carson who then winds up dead, making Brandy the prime suspect in the murder investigation.

ORDER # M607-2   $16-40   ISBN 0758211929 

Juliet's and Al's fledgling detective agency gets its most challenging case to date when they take on an investigation into the murder of an addict and prostitute who is the sister of Heavenly, a tall, gorgeous transsexual who will do anything to bring the killer to justice.

ORDER # M607-3   $16-40   ISBN 042521639X 

A pariah in the art world, Annie Kincaid hopes to redeem herself by returning Raphael's masterpiece La Fornarina to Italy when she wrestles it from the grasp of a sexy art thief, but when murder enters the picture, she finds herself in yet another messy situation.

ORDER # M607-4   $16-40   ISBN 0451221796 

When a college boyfriend strolls back into her life after dumping her to marry her former best friend, Tucker Sinclair is charged with the personally difficult task of solving his subsequent murder, a case that is challenged by a biker gang, a narcissistic soap star, and a hoard of mistresses.

ORDER # M607-5   $16-40   ISBN 044661629X 

On the run from a team of professional hitmen, Sheriff Cork O'Connor hides out at an old resort, owned by his widowed cousin Jewell DuBois, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and becomes caught up in the search for a ring of killers that preys on innocent youngsters.

ORDER # M607-6   $16-40   ISBN 1416514465 

In spite of her fear of flying, ex-nurse-turned-insurance fraud investigator Pauline Sokol finds herself taking on a new undercover assignment to uncover the fraudulent goings-on at a land-and-air ambulance company, only to have her case complicated by the murder of one of the company's owners.

ORDER # M607-7   $16-40   ISBN 006083708X 

When caterer Goldy Schulz stumbles upon a dead paralegal while on her latest catering job at a local law firm, she does her own snooping to find the killer, at the behest of the victim's mother, and is soon knee-deep in suspects.

ORDER # M607-8   $16-40   ISBN 0060527323 

Coping with the impending arrival of her second child, Sheriff Joanna Brady is suddenly confronted with the killing of an ex-con, who had served twenty years in prison for the killing of his pregnant wife, and a vicious attack on one of her female officers, who had been on an unauthorized stakeout.

ORDER # M607-9   $16-40   ISBN 0060540915 

Leaving both Hollywood and her husband behind, Liza Kelly, a Sudoku maven, puts her puzzle-solving skills to good use when her old friend Derrick Robbins, a puzzle master and conspiracy theorist, turns up dead after a high-profile competition.

ORDER # M607-10   $16-40   ISBN 0425216403 

Crossword puzzle editor Belle Graham comes to the aid of her husband, Roscoe, as they investigate a devastating fire at the Collins family stables, which is being blamed on a hard-drinking manager, and discover a dysfunctional family made up of an aged patriarch, his grown children, and his much-younger bride.

ORDER # M607-11   $16-40   ISBN 0425216373 

Turn-of-the-century Cornwall turns unexpectedly dangerous for amateur sleuths Lord and Lady Sheridan as they investigate a case of sabotage and death at a local transmission station for the new wireless communications technology.

ORDER # M607-12   $16-40   ISBN 0425210391 

Manager of the historic Village Blend coffeehouse, Clare Cosi discovers that trouble is brewing when an old friend of her ex-husband develops the world's first botanically decaffeinated coffee bean and smuggles it into the country, resulting in murder.

ORDER # M607-13   $16-40   ISBN 0425216381 

When a holiday sweater-hating diva is found beaten and left for dead wearing a hideous acrylic number that screams Christmas, "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian must unravel the mystery before she becomes the next fashion victim.

ORDER # M607-14   $16-40   ISBN 0451221788 

Hired by an alcohol-loving Baptist preacher to recover a stolen file, tough Dallas detective Lee Henry Oswald finds himself matching wits with a psychopathic assassin out to retrieve the same file, while confronting dark memories of the incident that cost his former partner, Billy Barganier, his life.

ORDER # M607-15   $16-40   ISBN 0312949200 

While attending the Oyster Festival in the village of Ballyclarin, Ireland, with Sister Eileen, Sister Mary Helen stumbles upon a corpse in the ladies' room of the Monk's Table, a local pub, and soon finds herself assisting the Irish police in solving the crime.

ORDER # M607-16   $16-40   ISBN 0312357680 

Elizabeth Goodweather and her daughter, Rosemary, confront a complex web of family relationships, dark secrets, and traditional Cherokee legend and magic, as they investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young girl, Maythorn Mullins, nearly twenty years after the child had vanished.

ORDER # M607-17   $16-40   ISBN 0440243599 

Braving poison ivy, recalcitrant livestock, briars, and other hazards while taking part in a contest of "Extreme Croquet," Meg Langlow stumbles upon the body of a dead woman, whose head has been bashed in by a croquet mallet, and launches a personal investigation into the crime.

ORDER # M607-18   $16-40   ISBN 0312997914 

When Maria Testa, better known to Brunetti as the nun who once had cared for his mother, turns up at the Commissario's door, after leaving her convent following the suspicious deaths of five patients, Brunetti launches a personal investigation into the situation to determine whether or not she has stumbled into a sinister scenario that could threaten her life.

ORDER # M607-19   $16-40   ISBN 0143112201 

When adoptee Lucille Jones arrives in town to research her roots, she discovers her striking resemblance to local Jan Henderson, but when Jan becomes a suspect in the murder of her great-aunt, Betsy Devonshire investigates to find the truth.

ORDER # M607-20   $16-40   ISBN 0425216365 

When the murdered bodies of two Minneapolis police officers are discovered in the aftermath of a snowman-building contest, detectives Magozzi and Rolseth become embroiled in an investigation that is complicated by an inexperienced sheriff.

ORDER # M607-21   $16-40   ISBN 0451412362 

While investigating the apparent suicide of a beautiful college student with a double life, detective John Blake finds his own life in danger when he makes a startling discovery that could blow the lid off New York City's sex trade.

ORDER # M607-22   $16-40   ISBN 0843957735 

When her Houdini-esque canine instigates a feud with her neighbor Mrs. Pratt, Lucy Stone becomes the number one suspect when Mrs. Pratt is murdered, while nudists, cranky lobstermen, and a rare purple-spotted lichen wreak havoc on the town of Tinker's Cove.

ORDER # M607-23   $16-40   ISBN 1575668378 

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's typically chaotic life is thrown into greater turmoil by the appearance of a mysterious female stalker with a close connection to Ranger.

ORDER # M607-24   $16-40   ISBN 031234953X 

Heading for the Isles of Scilly with his wife, who has been invited to attend a consortium hosted by a Russian expatriate, forensics professor Gideon Oliver, delighted to spend the time puttering around local Neolithic sites, stumbles upon a much newer bone that could be tied to a recent murder.

ORDER # M607-25   $16-40   ISBN 0425216055 

After finally agreeing to marry her long-time boyfriend Hy Ripinsky, San Francisco private investigator Sharon McCone tackles two difficult cases involving a pair of dark marriages, from a long-missing woman who may have led a double life to the disappearance of the woman's abandoned daughter.

ORDER # M607-26   $16-40   ISBN 0446619310