" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...

"Robert B. Parker's iconic and irresistible PI Sunny Randall is back, and the stakes are higher than ever as she races to protect her ex-husband--and his Mafia family--from the vengeful plan of a mysterious rival. Sunny Randall is "on" again with Richie, the ex-husband she never stopped loving and never seemed to be able to let go, despite her discomfort with his Mafia connections. When Richie is shot and nearly killed, Sunny is dragged into the thick...

"In her latest thrilling adventure, PI Sunny Randall takes on two serpentine cases that converge into one deadly mystery"-- When Spike's restaurant is taken over under a predatory loan agreement, PI Sunny Randall has a chance to return a favor. She begins digging into the life of the hedge fund manager who screwed Spike over, and finds this new enemy may have the backing of even badder criminals. At the same time Sunny's cop contact Lee Farrell asks...

Three Christmas themed novellas feature Hayley Powell, Mia Malone, and Cece Barton all trying to solve suspicious deaths in unexpected circumstances.

"Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. But when she stumbles across the dead body of a respected member of the community, it's up to her to prove a murderer is on the loose." -- Publisher annotation. Former cop Cass Raines has found the world of private investigation a less stressful way to eke out a living in the Windy City. When Father Ray Heaton asks Cass...

To help save her family's floundering bookstore, Emma Starrs agrees to plan a mystery-theme dinner for her wealthy, well-connected high school classmate. It's a delightful evening of cocktails and conjecture until her friend's husband winds up murdered.

"Maintaining good personal relationships with their suppliers is one of the secrets of the Cackleberry Club Café success, so Suzanne doesn't mind going out to Mike Mullen's dairy farm to pick up some wheels of cheese. She's looking forward to a nice visit with the mild-mannered farmer before heading back to their hectic kitchen. But when she arrives, Mike's nowhere to be found. The moaning of his cows leads her to look in the barn, where she discovers...

When a notorious gang leader is found poisoned in small-town McGill, Georgia, Stella "Granny" Reid investigates a flood of suspects who reveal dark secrets about the victim and several respected locals. Back in the 1980s, the town of McGill, Georgia had a way of attracting downright dubious characters. The residents usually welcome society's oddballs and outcasts into the community with open arms, but the three members of the Lone White Wolf Pack...

"In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice P.I. when she's handed her first solo case: uncover the identity of the man who rescued Bethany before he was swept downriver. When Annie's search turns up a different victim-shot...

"Savannah is shaken to the core when coroner Dr. Jennifer Liu appears on her doorstep late one night with a disturbing confession. In a potentially career-ruining move, a remorseful Dr. Liu admits to fudging an autopsy report to keep her friend Brianne's suicide a secret--fulfilling a final promise made before the terminally ill woman administered a lethal drug cocktail. But after Dr. Liu finds the same unique mixture in a second body, she fears the...