When the body of real-estate developer and wannabe actor Kyle Fipps is found after the Art Association's annual bash, amateur sleuth Sky Taylor's investigation leads straight to city hall, where she has landed a new cleaning contract.

ORDER # M608-1   $14-50   ISBN 0451224574

Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian pursues a course in private investigation in order to have a shot at a better job and gets to test her skills when a D.C. socialite is discovered dead outside the first class.

ORDER # M608-2   $14-50   ISBN 0451224566

A penniless twenty-something member of the extended British royal family, Lady Victoria, the daughter of the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch, puts her sleuthing talents to work when an arrogant Frenchman, who is determined to gain control of her family's eight-hundred-year-old estate for himself, ends up dead in her bathtub.

ORDER # M608-3   $14-50   ISBN 0425222527

Merlin and his apprentice Colin must catch a murderer when the Stone of Bran and the sword Excalibur are stolen and one of the king's squires is brutally killed during the theft.

ORDER # M608-4   $14-50   ISBN 0425222535

Heading for Antarctica to study glaciology with her venerable mentor, Dr. Emmett Vanderzee, Valena Walker, a masters student in geology, finds herself thrust into the role of amateur sleuth when Vanderzee is arrested for the killing of a reporter, who had died in Antarctica the previous winter, supposedly from exposure.

ORDER # M608-5   $14-50   ISBN 0312945965

Burnt out after nine brutal years as a Baltimore cop, Frank Coffin returns to his hometown of Provincetown, Massachusetts, to take on the less stressful job of sheriff, only to find himself caught up in an investigation into the killing of a vacationing TV evangelist, whose body turns up strangled and dressed in drag.

ORDER # M608-6   $14-50   ISBN 0312945213

Professional Scottish dancer Liss MacCrimmon finds herself in the middle of a bizarre mystery when, after returning home to Moosetookalook, Maine, the town gossip is found dead under a special bolt of fabric called the Flower of Scotland in the stock room of her aunt's store.

ORDER # M608-7   $14-50   ISBN 0758216440

When insinuations arise that one of movie theater owner Elliot Freed's boyhood heroes may have been involved in a Hollywood murder, Elliot sets out to discover the truth and finds that he may be on the killer's hit list.

ORDER # M608-8   $14-50   ISBN 042522256X

Forensics professor Gideon Oliver's supposedly peaceful Amazon riverboat jaunt with a group of research botanists turns deadly when one of the scientists is killed by a deranged passenger who then leaps overboard in the darkness, a case that is further complicated by the discovery of a fresh skeleton that turns up in the river, scoured clean by the local piranhas.

ORDER # M608-9   $14-50   ISBN 0425222500

Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, along with her offbeat family and associates, embarks on her thirteenth zany and perilous adventure, when, as a favor for Ranger, she agrees to meet with her old flame Dickie Orr, who promptly vanishes, leaving Stephanie the prime suspect in his disappearance.

ORDER # M608-10   $14-50   ISBN 0312349505

Evan Delaney is dressed as Diana Ross in order to crash a party and serve a summons when he hears that the driver who had sentenced Evan's lover to life in a wheelchair and killed his friend is back in town.

ORDER # M608-11   $14-50   ISBN 0451224728

When the Syndicate wants Joe Martin, who runs the biggest independent casino on the Las Vegas Strip, out, they bring in the most famous gambler in the world to challenge Joe to a marathon craps game.

ORDER # M608-12   $14-50   ISBN 0843959630

While digging a pool in the basement for a flock of penguins from the bankrupt local zoo, Meg Langslow's father accidentally stumbles upon a body buried beneath the floor, sending Meg on a desperate quest to find a killer before her generous father's offers to take in animals from the zoo leads to a personal zoo in Meg's backyard.

ORDER # M608-13   $14-50   ISBN 0312997922

When Linda Weeks, an old rival, drops dead after goading Jo McAllister into publicly losing her temper, sales at the Craft Corner start to crumble and Jo and her friends work to track the twisted trail of a killer, in a cozy mystery that come complete with instructions for a paper craft project.

ORDER # M608-14   $14-50   ISBN 0425222551

When the design team of Steve Sullivan and Erin Gilbert enters a competition to design and build an eco-friendly home in Crestview, Colorado, they never expected to find themselves investigating the murder of environmental guru Richard Thayers, Steve's former mentor and the judge of the contest, in a mystery complemented by home decorating tips.

ORDER # M608-15   $14-50   ISBN 0440336007

Debunking supernatural hoaxes for a living, journalist Joe Oakes finds everything he believes coming into question during a visit to a remote Scottish island, on which a secretive religious community lives apart from a violent band of isolationists who harbour a murderous strange creature.

ORDER # M608-16   $14-50   ISBN 0143113607

Heading out for what they believe will be a vacation at a castle in the Scottish highlands, Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cousin, Renie Jones, discover their unpopular host's murdered body, as well as numerous likely suspects, from his heiress widow to several executive employees.

ORDER # M608-17   $14-50   ISBN 006056654X

When a rash of strange occurences in and around Long Farnden leaves Lois Meade feeling unsettled, it soon becomes clear she had better figure out what is going on posthaste or she herself may take a nasty tumble.

ORDER # M608-18   $14-50   ISBN 0425222519

When Nikki and her boyfriend visit a winery where an epic film is being shot and the leading lady is found dead, Nikki agrees to step into the spotlight to take the actress's role and find the villain.

ORDER # M608-19   $14-50   ISBN 0425222543