Blood Lines (Anna Travis, #7) (Anna Travis Mysteries)
by Lynda La Plante and Plante La, Lynda
Under the watchful eye of DCS James Langton, DCI Anna Travis takes charge of an investigation for the first time. But is it purely a missing person's case - or a full blown murder enquiry? An ominous pool of blood and no victim lead Anna on a desperate hunt for a man who has disappeared without trace. As Anna becomes obsessed with seemingly irrelevant details, Langton fears that she is losing control. They still have no body and Anna is under increasing pressure to make an arrest...
The Cliff House Strangler (Sarah Woolson Mystery, #3)
by Shirley Tallman
Grave Shift (A Darcy & Flora Cozy Mystery, #2)
by Barbara Burgess and Blanche Day Manos
Shot Through Velvet (Crime of Fashion Mysteries, #7)
by Ellen Byerrum
Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is touring a failing velvet factory in Virginia on its final day of operations-and finds one of the factory owners dead, lashed to a spool of velvet and soaked in blue dye. The workers are delighted, since they blamed the "Blue Devil" for killing their jobs. But when another nickname, the "Velvet Avenger", makes the rounds, and ribbons of blue velvet start popping up, it could be more than Lacey's job at stake-it could be her life...
Flower shop owner Abby Knight is aglow with happiness now that she's officially engaged to her longtime beau, Marco Salvare. Nothing can possibly dampen her joy-until wealthy dowager Virginia Newport is killed, and Abby's assistant Grace Bingham is the prime suspect. The plot thickens when they stumble upon mysterious stolen art and a missing cat, all part of an elaborate heist. Before Abby can throw her bouquet, she'll have to save her friend and throw a killer and a thief in jail...
"In the midst of Sarah and Frank's wedding preparations, Sarah accompanies her mother on a condolence call to the Upper West Side, where Charles Fairfax, the son of family friends, has died unexpectedly after suffering from a mysterious disease. It is a tragic and all-too-common story or so it seems. Charles's father asks to speak with Sarah privately. He believes his son was poisoned and would like Sarah and Frank to look into the matter with the utmost discretion. Putting their own persona...
Murder Can Spoil Your Appetite (Desiree Shapiro Mysteries (Audio))
by Selma Eichler
'Just the thing to chase the blues away...' M. C. BeatonVicky Hill has two goals in life: to escape the never-ending boredom of funeral reporting and find the right man. Then a tip leads to what might be the scoop of a lifetime. There is a bizarre connection between three grisly chicken corpses and the unusual death of a local hedge-jumping enthusiast Sir Hugh Trewallyn. Suddenly, it seems that this quiet market town harbours more than its fair share of secrets but when Vicky opens Gipping's Pa...
A Death in the Life (Julie Hayes Mysteries, #1)
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Death Wore the Emperor's New Clothes (Prime Crime Mysteries)
by Orland Outland
A Deadly Bean Grind (Liz and India join forces to solve three murder cases)
by Cynthia Gallant-Simpson