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Rosalie Hart's world has been upended. After her husband confesses to an affair, she exiles herself to her late aunt's farmhouse on Maryland's Eastern Shore. With its fields untended and the house itself in disrepair, Barclay Meadow couldn't be more different than the tidy D.C. suburb she used to call home. Just when Rosalie feels convinced things couldn't get any worse, she finds a body floating in her marsh grasses.

Rosalie Hart returns to the Chesapeake Bay in this delightful mystery series filled with to-die-for-recipes and small-town charm. Longer version: Rosalie Hart has finally opened the café of her dreams. Decked out with ochre-tinted walls and stocked with delicious farm-to-table organic fare, the Day Lily Café is everything she could have hoped for. But not five minutes into the grand opening, Doris Bird, a dear and trusted friend, cashes in on a favor-to help clear her little sister, Lori, of a first-degree murder charge.

Amateur sleuths, Erika Shawn-Wheatley, art magazine editor, and Harrison Wheatley, art history professor, attend a Zoom meeting of individuals from around the globe whose common goal is to expedite the return of African art looted during the colonial era. Olivia Chatham, a math instructor at London University, has just begun speaking about her recent find, a journal penned by her great-granduncle, Andrew Barrett, active member of the Royal Army Medical Service during England's 1897 "punitive expedition" launched against the Kingdom of Benin. Olivia is about to disclose what she hopes the sleuthing duo will bring to light, when the proceedings are disrupted by an unusual movement in one of the squares on the grid. Frozen disbelief erupts into a frenzy of calls for help as the group, including the victim, watch in horror the enactment of a murder videotaped in real time. It will not be the only murder or act of brutality Erika and Harrison encounter in their two-pronged effort to hunt down the source of violence and unearth a cache of African treasures alluded to in Barrett's journal. Much of the action takes place in London, scene of the crimes and quest for redemption.

It is October 1923. What looks like a routine report, on the heavy rains battering Melbourne, becomes another case of murder for The Argus's celebrated crime reporter, Reggie da Costa, devotee of fashionable suits and flamboyant automobiles. A flooded basement hides a ghastly secret: the decomposing remains of Cornelius Stout, a wealthy widower, who has been missing for over two years. With an unlikely partner in straitlaced Dotty Wright, Reggie pursues a cold-blooded, manipulative killer with deadly intentions. Deadly Intent is the second in the Reggie da Costa Mysteries.

Rook Campbell is broke, divorced, jobless, and in desperate need of steady employment, which is hard to come by in the small town of Rothdale, Kentucky. With the help of her friend and neighbor Bryan, she lands a good job at the Four Wild Horses Distillery and meets an attractive co-worker with lots of dating potential. Her life is finally headed in the right direction until a co-worker dies under suspicious circumstances and a shipment of rare small-batch bourbon goes missing. Worse, her personal life begins to unravel as her beloved grandmother falls ill. Normally she can depend on her ex, Cam, for help, but his new fiancée's jealousy is getting in the way. As the body count rises, Rook becomes ensnared in discovering who's committing the crimes-or she might be the next to die.

Jamie Forest, ex-New Yorker is on her way to her cabin to prepare for her first Thanksgiving in the Northwoods of Minnesota when she sees through the swirl of snow a ghostly apparition. It turns out not to be a ghost, but a young woman in labor. Not only is she about to deliver, but she doesn't speak English. Jamie can't ask her what she is doing in a lowland bog in the middle of a snowstorm. With the snow falling, she becomes an accidental midwife delivering a healthy baby girl in the backseat of her car. In the aftermath, it's clear the new mother is afraid someone will take her baby. Three days later a young woman is found drowned in Black Crow Pond. Is she Jamie's new mother? As she seeks answers, Jamie learns that winter in the Northwoods can be both beautiful and deadly.

When private banker Stefanie Adams travels to Greece on vacation, she is suspected of murdering a wealthy bride who accused her deceased father of artifact theft. Unfortunately, the bride's accusation also ties Stefanie, a former archaeology student, to the robbery of a newly discovered gold statue, the Akrotiri Snake Goddess. With two high-profile crimes to solve, Greek police are under pressure, and both crimes lead straight to Stefanie. Then her own life is threatened, and Stefanie must rely on her bank training for spotting potential criminals to identify which of her fellow travelers is the real killer. Is it the now-wealthy bridegroom? The popular travel blogger whose career the dead woman ruined, or the light-fingered British backpacker with an eye on the victim's valuable jewelry? Or could it be the flirtatious German tourist who is clearly after more than romance? Caught up in a web of international intrigue, theft, and murder, Stefanie doesn't know who to trust. Not everyone is what they seem, and as charming Thomas Burkhardt warns, Where Greed Leads, Murder Follows...

Emma Kelly races against the clock to countries with Virgin Mary apparition sites in an attempt to save the world's most beloved art. Can she stop the attacks before it's too late?

As Monongahela County's new coroner Zoe Chambers-Adams gears up for a third day searching for a missing woman, she receives the news she's been dreading: a body has been found. What she discovers at the scene leaves no doubt-the missing woman was violently murdered. Worse, the manner of death mirrors the Monongahela Strangler case that terrorized the county when Zoe was in high school. Those murders stopped, but the case was never satisfactorily solved. And with people arriving in town for Zoe's twentieth high school reunion, the memories of those scary days return with a vengeance. ¿ But Zoe's new husband, Vance Township Police Chief Pete Adams, sees the murder differently. His investigation reveals two feuding families and a forbidden relationship between their children. The homicide appears to be a crime of passion until Pete's relentless digging unearths a link between his prime suspect and Zoe's serial killer. Suddenly,¿with the predator threatening to strike someone near and dear to both Zoe and Pete, they must race to uncover the truth and catch a madman before another innocent victim is brutally murdered.

Being a Good Samaritan can be deadly. Single mom and attorney Jessie Martin learns that lesson the hard way.During a violent spring thunderstorm, Jessie discovers an unconscious woman lying in a roadside ditch and dials 911 for help. Little does she know her compassion will propel her on a collision course with her estranged best friend, Detective Ebony Jones...and one of the most shocking mysteries in the Hudson Valley.The badly beaten victim, Lissie Sexton, is a prostitute who claims she's escaped from the clutches of a killer. She's also a client of Jessie's new boss, and former nemesis, Jeremy Kaplan, and fearing for Lissie's life, he's hidden her away from everyone.Ebony is investigating a series of cold cases, and the missing women's profiles bear a striking resemblance to Lissie's. She's willing to stake her career on the hooker being the key to solving the serial crimes. However, Jessie is the major obstacle to her investigation- she won't give up Lissie's location. Jessie's in a bind. She wants to help Ebony, but she can't compromise her client, her boss, or her legal ethics. To catch the killer, can Jessie and Ebony put aside their past? Can they persuade Lissie to identify her assailant to prevent future attacks?

Thousands of shoulder-fired missiles vanished from U.S. military bases in the early 1990s. Most ended up in the hands of the Mujahideen fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, while military investigators were quietly ordered to look the other way. But at an army base near Coldwater, New York, scores of missiles are diverted, cached, and later sold to the highest bidder. When Coldwater's sole law enforcement officer stumbles onto a clandestine delivery to a domestic terrorist group, he is brutally murdered.In this second book in the Coldwater mystery series, the Morgan brothers again combine skills to investigate a trio of unexplained local deaths, including their sheriff father's. In doing so, they confront difficult moral choices when suspects include their mother, each other, and the newest teacher at Our Lady Of The Lake Elementary School in whom both brothers take a hazardous romantic interest.

After an assault that landed her in a hospital two years earlier, Olivia Callahan has regained her speech, movement, and much of the memory she lost due to a traumatic brain injury.

Ryan Spencer won't get on a plane...and a major league ballplayer who won't get on a plane better hit .400, knock in one hundred and fifty runs and never chase the high cheese. So, it's fortunate that Ryan is a five-tool player. He can take one low and outside and turn it into two. He can jack a mistake, back-row bleachers, and cherry-pop quick. He can smother the short hop like an unwanted puppy and throw strikes from shallow leftfield. But he won't fly.So, like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Ted Williams before him, Ryan rides the rails from town to town. But as he travels across the continent he also travels back in time. The first time Ryan wakes on the train, he's in 1939, sitting beside thirteen-year-old Georgie Abbott who has snuck aboard and is looking for the man who murdered his sister. Ten days later, Ryan wakes between Denver and Kansas City, it's 1941, Georgie's two years older, more determined, and looking for help. More help than Ryan can give.Two weeks later, when Ryan falls asleep on the train from Montreal to New York City, the Expos are struggling, Ryan can't lay off the outside slider, and his teammates hate him. When he wakes up, Hiroshima is still smoldering, Richard Nixon is running for Congress, seven more girls have been murdered and Georgie Abbott won't take no for an answer. Georgie and Ryan spend seventy years and the rest of that summer tracking down the men who killed Georgie's sister and a dozen other young women. And in between Ryan and the Montreal Expos scramble after a wild-card spot and a shot at the big prize.Long Train Home, a literary thriller, owes something to WP Kinsella and Field of Dreams. It's about baseball, time's thin veil, and the weight of accumulated regret, but it's a new story and a new voice.

Chicago detective Joe Erickson returns to the force following medical leave, and right away a high-profile murder falls in his lap. The body of a graduate student, the son of a prominent Jewish attorney, washes up on the shore of Lake Michigan with a swastika cut into his back. The hate-crime investigation leads Joe and his partner to suspect neo-Nazis, and as he digs deeper into the young man's death, he uncovers a conspiracy that nearly gets him killed.

London, 1935, and the Blackshirts of the British Union of Fascists are on the march. Disgraced army officer Hugh Clifton is recruited by MI5 to infiltrate the Blackshirts, but unwittingly becomes a hero of the movement. Drawn into street battles against communists he uncovers a plot to bring mayhem to Britain and undermine the government. He is being watched by the sinister fascist intelligence unit Department Z and decides the best way to beat them is to join them. Socialite Sissy is searching for a friend who vanished inexplicably and the two investigations become entwined. The mis-matched couple face danger and treachery as they unravel the facts, and Hugh must decide who to trust-and who to betray.

Introducing Rupert Wilde, the smart and sophisticated new sleuth in the first of his Golden Age mysteries.

Lisa Jamison must keep a stranger hidden while she gathers enough evidence to turn the case over to city police or the FBI. At least three lives depend on it.

A late-night call is all it takes for rookie lawyer Corrie Locke to kiss her day job at the movie studio goodbye, and do what she does best: flex her sweet P.I. skills and go undercover to find a senior who''s missing from a posh retirement community. One small stumbling block: skirting past security to gain inside access to the exclusive Villa Sunset. Time to call in the heavy artillery. Besides former security guard turned legal assistant-now wannabe P.I.-Veera, Corrie relies on a secret weapon: her mother, a surprisingly eager addition to Corrie''s team. Armed with enough pepper spray to take down a band of Navy Seals, Mom impersonates a senior to infiltrate the Villa, Corrie and Veera in tow. Turns out the job''s not as easy as they''d thought. These seniors have tricks tucked up their sleeves and aren''t afraid of using them.The action gets dicey when the missing senior case turns into attempted murder by a criminal mind who''s always one step ahead. Corrie''s hot on the trail, but finds more than she bargained for...when her mother becomes a target.

Three teenagers are unwilling participants in a horrific event that results in a young man's death.

Five authors, each with their own secrets, are chosen to complete a deceased novelist's unfinished manuscript. When one of them turns up dead, theories and accusations abound.

Darcy Gaughan is celebrating five years of sobriety and is confident that there are good things in her future. She doesn't expect to find her boss dead in his office.

When hood rat D. Wayne Tyrone is charged with the mass murder of eleven women and kids, rookie Parole Officer Stedman Groove must march to hell and back to prove his friend''s innocence.Into the Groove is a work of fiction, but the Palm Sunday Massacre was very real. The senseless murder of eleven women and children in 1984 will live on as one of the ugliest moments in New York City history and possibly one of the Big Apple''s most appalling miscarriages of justice. A jury of twelve sent an innocent man to prison for thirty-four years. Slide Into The Groove with Steady as he uncovers the startling truth. 

March 1943. As the Buffalo winter ends, the father of Betty Ahern''s friend, Lee Tillotson, disappears. At first his absence is a relief, providing Lee, his mother and sisters refuge from the man''s frequent drunken rages. But when Mr. Tillotson is discovered drowned in the Buffalo River and the police charge Lee with the murder, the family''s newfound peace shatters.Worse, Lee becomes secretive and unwilling to cooperate with Betty or the police. Betty is certain of Lee''s innocence, but there she has very little time to investigate before he must enter his plea in court. To prove Lee''s innocence, Betty digs into Mr. Tillotson''s life, discovering a seamy and dangerous underside to Mr. Tillotson, and to Buffalo itself. With time running out, Betty soon learns who her friends really are, how much Lee loves his family and friends and is loved in return, and just how far the corruption leaking from Buffalo''s City Hall has reached. But can she prove Lee''s innocence before it''s too late? 

THIS NEW FANTASY NOVEL TAKES READERS TO A WORLD THEY'VE NEVER ENCOUNTERED BEFORE, IN WHICH THE VAST SWEEP OF JEWISH MYTH AND MAGIC IS COMPLETELY REAL. The historical horrors of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe are interwoven with fantastic creatures drawn from 3,500 years of Jewish myth and magic. For the first time, THE HIDDEN SAINT conjures up a very human origin story for one of the greatest superheroes of Jewish folklore: Rabbi Adam, famous for battling wizards, witches, and demons. The story opens on a long-awaited family wedding, which turns to horror as Rabbi Adam's children are abducted by an ancient supernatural evil. To save them, the rabbi is joined by a golem, a man of clay pained by the burden of living among, but always apart from, humans. He's goaded and mentored by an elderly, wisecracking housekeeper who is secretly one of the thirty-six hidden saints, or Lamed-Vavniks, upon whom the fate of the world depends. And he's blessed and challenged by his wife, Sarah, who leads him to a garden named Eden. As tidal waves and fires ravage the earth and the very stars above begin to disappear, can Rabbi Adam and his companions succeed in time?

Until one sweltering summer day, a killer begins targeting police officers. Detective Ben Winters and his partner, Tommy Mason lead an investigation the likes of which Parker City has never seen.