Jane Tesh
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
What does a woman do when she discovers her husband is an incurable cheater? If she's Cat DeLuca, she launches the Pants On Fire Detective Agency to do what two years of unholy matrimony taught her: she catches cheaters.
After client Cleo Jones shoots her cheating husband's bum full of buckshot, he disappears, taking her money, her dog, and her sister with him. Cat promises to return the dog and money if her client stops shooting at Walter. She finds...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Who is audacious enough to steal an antique box once owned by Harry Houdini? This collector's treasure, skillfully hidden in the local Magic Club- a nightclub where magicians perform-is not merely an old theatrical prop. It is the prize in a contest that promises to jumpstart a magician's career. At least that's what Taft and Lucas Finch hoped before their prized possession was stolen.Private investigator David Randall is already busy searching for...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A terrific read. Buddy Steel is my kind of Sheriff."-Tom Selleck
MISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times bestselling author, Michael Brandman. Even in a town called Freedom, justice has its price…
LAPD homicide detective Buddy Steel finds himself detoured from his own life when his ailing father, Sheriff Burton Steel, calls him home to Freedom to take over as deputy. Though relations between father...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A sharply written adventure/mystery debut." -Kirkus Reviews
Women Air Force Service Pilot and undercover agent Pucci Lewis did not want to go to jail. But how else could she unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen, an imprisoned countess/counteragent suspected of triple-dealing and possibly putting the country's future at risk?
Buchanan-Dineen was a real-life figure who led a German spy ring operating in Detroit during WWII. Confronted by the FBI, she agreed...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After solving her first big murder case in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina, Madeline Maclin hopes at last to be taken seriously as a private investigator. She?s opened an office in the home of her best friend Jerry Fairweather, a man haunted by his past who enjoys running harmless scams. Jerry doesn?t feel worthy of anyone?s love?bad news for Madeline?although she thinks Jerry?s sister Harriet knows more about the accident that killed their...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead. It doesn't help that her landlord Reid Kent, does a brisk business and briskly hits on Mac to rejoin his agency. He maintains no one will hire a former Miss Parkland as a serious PI.
Mac has been friends forever with Jerry Fairweather. Jerry claims to be psychic and is, unlike his two...
7) Evil Turns
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Life in the clergy is quiet, respectful, peaceful, or so Callie Anson believes when she begins her new job as curate to the Reverend Brian Stanford at All Saints' Church in Paddington. Little does she realize how wrong she could be.
After the traumatic end of her relationship with fiancé Adam, the last thing Callie needs is more emotional turmoil. But it seems she is not destined for a quiet life just yet. Knowing that women in the clergy are still...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A fresh-voiced heroine, down-and-dirty legal detail, and more honest detection than you'd expect make this a winner." -Kirkus Reviews
The smart and savvy Rachel Gold has established herself in Chicago legal circles as a tough litigator, when a case calls for moxie, and a discreet counselor, when a client faces what the chairman of her former firm, Abbott & Windsor, labels an "awkward situation."
The odd disappearance and messy suicide of Stoddard...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The next mystery book-with a touch of paranormal women's fiction-in an amusing historical cozy series! With a string of suspicious deaths threatening her guests, a horribly depressing love life, and a handsome detective on her doorstep, the last thing Lady Adelaide needs to deal with is the ghost of her dead husband.
Gloucestershire, 1925. A week-long house party in the country-why not? Lady Adelaide has nothing else to do, now that her year of mourning...
10) Baby, Take a Bow
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"…readers seeking a cozy, feel-good mystery will enjoy this outing to Grace Street. The delightful characters navigate their worldly and otherworldly challenges with affection and humor, and Tesh maintains a whimsical tone that doesn't detract from the serious subject matter." -Publishers Weekly
Camden's friend Rufus Jackson receives a letter from his ex-wife, Bobbi, and he's surprised to learn he's the father of a baby. When Bobbi is found murdered...
11) A Bad Reputation
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Wendall Clarke announces plans to open a new art gallery downtown, it's both the talk of Celosia, North Carolina and the envy of its residents. But the news is upstaged when Clarke is found murdered, prompting beauty queen turned private investigator Madeline Maclin to take on the case.
Faced with a laundry list of suspects including a furious exwife, a competing business owner, and jealous local artists, Madeline's also struggling to keep her...