SUSPICION. It burned through every nerve and fiber of Julie Carlson -- the heartbreaking, infuriating suspicion that her husband was having an affair. To the rest of the world, Sid Carlson was a wealthy contractor with friends in highly influential places. But to Julie, he was a man who had cheated on their marriage vow. Heartbroken by her husband, Julie turns to a handsome stranger. Mac McQuarry knew better than to mix women and work. And he had...

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds herself on the trail of a killer when she is hired by two ill and aging cops to help them solve the mystery of an eighteen=year-old murder in which the victim was never identified.

Precious Ramotswe, owner of Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, finds herself beset with problems with a strange intruder in her house, the mysterious appearance of a pumpkin, the desertion of one of her husband's apprentices, and a visitor bearing secrets from the past.

Terrified by her goth-associated daughter's disappearance and the signs of a deadly struggle in their home, a widow implores Lucas Davenport to use his connections to local authorities to expedite the investigation, which subsequently reveals the wor

When P.I. Stone Barrington crosses paths with a fetching Broadway actress--and sometime lip model--Stone gets a little more deeply involved with business than he'd expected. When his new lady love turns out to be a lady with a shady past, Stone and d

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone puts herself in the gravest danger of her career when she is hired by the widow of Nota Lake detective Tom Newquist to discover what it was that had been bothering Tom in the last six weeks of his life before he died of a heart attack.

V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangb

Spencer Quinn's New York Times best-selling Chet and Bernie mysteries are a welcome treat for fans. In this fifth installment, Hollywood star Chad Perry is causing quite a stir in the Valley. But when Chad is linked to an old crime, the P.I. duo must sniff out the truth, even if it means tangling with Chad's cat Brando.

Having cleared a man of a murder charge three years earlier, Elvis Cole and his sideick, Joe Pike, find themselves on trial when the former defendant is found dead holding photographs of the victim he had been accused of killing.

Sunny Randall is hired by rich producer Buddy Bollen to protect his rising star and girlfriend, Erin Flint, when Erin's sister and personal trainer end up dead, and Sunny joins forces with Paradise, MA chief Jesse Stone to solve the case.