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Intrigue lurks everywhere - even at Diamond Head, one of the world's most beautiful places.
Ten talented people dedicated to the preservation of the Hawaiian Islands gather on the summit of the volcanic crater in Oahu for a filmmaking project. But two of the men suddenly vanish after they clash on the clifftop.
Due to highly suspicious past events, sleuth Pari Malik fears the worst. One of the men, the benevolent leader of a historic nature reserve,...
62) Betting Blind
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For Lennox Cooper, helping out a friend means gambling with her life. In the rainy city of Portland, Matilda Bauer has been blackmailing her parole officer, Fulin Chen. Just when Fulin's ready to come clean, Matilda disappears. Bad news for Fulin, because once Matilda is arrested for breaking parole she'll show the photos she has on him and end his career. Fulin turns to his longtime friend and poker buddy, Lennox Cooper, P.I., to help him find the...
63) Votive Candles
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The River Front: Introduces Alex as Cincinnati's first Black female detective.
The Girl on the Grill: Deals with the murder of a young woman by a local drug distributor.
Missing: Alex solves a fifteen year old abduction cold case
Maggot: Alex's work with the DEA has a Mexican Drug cartel boss attacking her.
Racist: Alex is targeted to be killed by a racist.
Votive Candles: A local priest gives Alex a new perspective of crime.
Country Road: An...
64) Madame Midas
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Madame Midas (1888) is a mystery novel by Fergus Hume. Although not as successful as The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886), an immediate bestseller for Hume, Madame Midas is a gripping novel with forbidden romance and a tightly wound mystery worthy of the best of Victorian fiction. From an author whose work inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, Madame Midas is a story of fortune and loss set in the shadow of Australia's nineteenth century gold rush.
In the mid-nineteenth...
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Hannah seems to have a perfect life. She has a perfect job, perfect boyfriend and perfect university grades. Planning her life away, Hannah is deliriously happy. That is, until two mysterious deaths plague her, throwing her life into chaos and despair and pain. Hannah's world is turned upside down; everything she thought she knew is a lie. Jay, her perfect boyfriend is a successful businessman. He treats her wonderfully and makes her happier than...
66) Dead ringer
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"Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their son Matthew may be in his terrible twos and Steve's daughter Emily a moody teenager, the kids bring light to their lives when their work is dark by its nature - Steve is a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal death investigator, aka medical examiner. They deal in corpses. The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was clearly an addict, but...
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Twenty-two-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother. It's been a rough year for Siobhon, but it's about to get rougher. One morning they discover a man seated at a table with a pair of scissors protruding from his chest. It's up to Siobhon to solve the crime.
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"A Catskills resort's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes a wickedly ironic turn when the leading lady, Lauren Richmond, is first poisoned and then stabbed. Who would extinguish the life of such a beautiful young thespian? Who wouldn't? Seems like just about everyone had a motive to pull the ropes on her final curtain call"--Dust jacket flap.
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On a dig at the edge of the sun-seared Sonoran Desert, archaeologist Nicolette Scott witnesses a bizarre plane crash that leaves a young man dead in the cockpit of his mangled, burning Cessna. Federal investigators call it "pilot error," but the dead man's grieving grandfather, John Gault, a man who shares Nick's passion for aviation, is demanding answers. Nick knows what she saw with her own eyes-a chopper shadowing the Cessna before it went down-but...
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Nicolette Scott is an archaeologist whose knowledge of early airplanes has won her kudos as an expert, a reputation for ignoring authority, and a job at the Smithsonian. Shortly after she begins working there, she is thrilled to be included in the museum's latest project. E-Group, a large pharmaceutical company, is equipping an expedition to a remote region of Alaska, where a Japanese "Val" bomber plane was shot down during World War II. It's a gamble,...
71) Splitsville
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A struggling lawyer. A bitter custody battle. A deadly fire. This case could cost Kenzi her career-and her life.
Kenzi Rivera is furious. Passed over for promotion at her own father's firm, the talented divorce lawyer is tired of fighting chauvinism every single day. When a desperate scientist begs for help getting her daughter back, Kenzi can't resist...even though this client is involved in Hexitel, a group she calls her religion but others call...
72) Greedy Givers
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He claims God gave him the gift to read troubled souls. Will he be able to read hers?Special Agent Kari Wheeler refuses to accept the hero label, even after receiving the FBI and the City of Philadelphia's Medal of Bravery. She just wants to get back to work. Her new case has her investigating Cuthbert "Cuddy" Mullins, a self-described do-gooder who says he is changing the world for the glory of God. He's accused of running the largest charity Ponzi...
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Nicolette Scott is an archaeologist with an unusual specialty, the recent past, and an even odder passion: uncovering lost airplanes. But ancient civilizations are where the funding is, and the New Mexico badlands are where her father is, so Nick bides her time on a dig of prehistoric Anasazi dwellings. When a prospector brings word of his unexpected find-an airplane buried in the shifting sands of the desert-Nick is eager to investigate.
What she...
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Bloody pearls, a high society corpse, and chopsticks don't usually go together. Harpeth Hollow's, own vintage loving sleuth, Joy-Li Judson, is confidently on the case. When one of her personal shopping customers from Franklin's Department Store is discovered murdered, Joy-Li springs into action. Lesley Jane Cranemoore's body is discovered on the eve of one of her posh, charity, pool parties. Tonight's party is to benefit an international Chinese adoption...
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What do you do when one of your best girlfriend's is convinced her house is haunted? If you're Joy-Li Judson, Harpeth Hollow's vintage loving sleuth, you don your ghostbusting clothes and solve the mystery. Stephanie Tice, Joy-Li's BFF, is recovering from a bad break up. Actually Stephanie's boyfriend died before she could end the relationship. That makes it complicated. Joy-Li becomes concerned when her girlfriend complains of items going missing...
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Tiffany Swanson is finally living the dream when she quits her stressful job to become a poker pro. Except her dream job doesn't turn out to be so perfect when she picks up the troubling vision of a murdered man from one of her opponents. Even more disturbing, Tiffany didn't know she was telepathic. Before long she finds herself spending more time investigating a homicide than playing cards. But with an entire wedding party to suspect and only one...
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After a bizarre attack, a petty feud between neighbors turns serious Although the citizens of Berkeley are famously tolerant, that progressive attitude disappears at the property line between the homes of Dr. Hasbrouck Diamond and Leila Sandoval. In the Berkeley hills , there are no worse neighbors than Diamond and Sandoval. What began as a tiff about garbage cans and street parking has exploded into full-blown war, drawing in the city, the press,...
78) Pawsitively Dead
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Three witches and their magical cats solve paranormal murder cases in the mystical town of Wonder Falls. From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Harper Lin.
When Cath visits her parents' graves, she finds the dead body of the local hairstylist. What's even stranger is that she also stumbles upon an older corpse, nearly a skeleton, of a woman who died in 1958. It has been exhumed from her grave, but who would do that?
While the police are stumped, Cath,...
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Secrets have a way of getting out. And around Sandy Beach Island, secrets can get you killed. Jersey girl and beauty shop owner Annie Addison is thrust into another hair-raising scandal. Blackmail, murder, and mayhem have this small barrier island turned upside down. Annie will do whatever she can to solve the mystery. Can this amateur sleuth find the missing piece of the puzzle? Or will tables turn, putting her in danger?
80) Mag Gatling
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Mag Gatling started her journey to become a female adversary dreaming in a sandbox. The nature of her vendetta against a particular antagonist unfolds across richly, illustrated pages, short hints, and teasers. Her adventure pursuing a mysterious but tainted target takes her to many, different areas designed to either slow her progress or kill her outright. Who is the mysterious Kruger, and why is she so, intent on catching and ending him? From boot...
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