Women Sleuths

By Elizabeth Peters

The once a year ancient Romance Writers of the realm conference in manhattan urban is looking to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately wants a few pleasure. yet all isn't love and kisses at this august amassing of starry-eyed eccentrics and nostalgic scribes. so far as Jacqueline is worried, the surprising "natural" loss of life of a gossip columnist turns out whatever yet. And while she's approached by means of a favored style superstar who fears for her personal lifestyles, the imaginative Ms. Kirby fast is going again to work...as a sleuth. simply because there is a sinister situation being penned at this crimson prose congregation. And whilst jealousy and fervour are given loose rein past the limits of the published web page, the outcome could be homicide.

By Hazel Holt

Author Sheila Malory, visible earlier than in Mrs. Malory Investigates and different mysteries, visits the once a year Taviscombe pageant, which has been appropriated and aggrandized by means of Adrian Palgrave, a poet and biographer of little renown. Palgrave, who has been named literary executor for author and man-of-the-world Lawrence Meredith, a number one literary determine of the Twenties and 30s, is located crushed to demise through the first functionality of the pageant, and suspects are throughout. television documentary-maker Oliver Stevens fears disclosure of an affair. younger Robin Turner, treasurer for the pageant, have been criticized often via the lifeless poet different deaths and an try to wreck Meredith's papers lead Sheila to go looking for long-held secrets and techniques that bred deadly results.

By Stephanie Barron

In her 7th beautiful experience, Jane Austen reveals her crime-solving mettle positioned to the try in a confounding case of intrigue, homicide, and excessive treason. one of the haunted ruins of an historical abbey, Jane is drawn right into a shadow international of harmful secrets and techniques and traitorous hearts the place not just her existence is at stake—but the destiny of England.

As Jane Austen stands sooner than the deserted ruins of Netley Abbey, she imagines that ghosts quite do hang-out the centuries-old monastery. however the green-cloaked determine who startles her is all too human and he bears an unforeseen missive from Lord Harold Trowbridge, one of many British government’s so much depended on advisers—and a guy who holds a excessive position in Jane’s life.Trowbridge tells Jane a couple of suspected traitor of their midst—and the disastrous outcomes if she succeeds. yet is Sophia Challoner, a gorgeous widow with rumored ties to Emperor Bonaparte, fairly an agent of the enemy?

Dispatched to Netley hotel, Jane units approximately gaining the boldness of the mysterious and fascinating girl at the same time Trowbridge’s grim prediction bears fruit: a British frigate is determined afire and its shipwright came across along with his throat cut.It’s transparent that somebody is waging a clandestine warfare of terror and homicide. yet earlier than Jane can keep on with the path of conspiracy to its resource and unmask a calculating killer, the chilly hand of homicide will fall mercilessly but again—and unexpectedly Jane may perhaps locate herself death for her country.

Elegantly fascinating, Jane and the Ghosts of Netley is a superbly crafted novel of wit, personality, and suspense that transports Jane and her many lovers right into a secret of actually ancient proportions—and a case that would try the beginner sleuth’s real colours below hearth.

By Lawrence Block

A brand new name from the BURGLAR sequence, within which after a yr going instantly, Bernie Rhodenbarr returns to burgling which will pay his lease elevate. whilst he breaks into an condo, he discovers a useless guy within the toilet, merely to discover himself framed for the crime.

By Lou Jane Temple

Heaven Lee has lived in Kansas urban decades, and he or she inspiration she knew up to there has been to grasp approximately her place of origin. but if her longtime pal Stephanie Simpson starts off a brand new enterprise as a chocolatier after divorce, Heaven is shocked and overjoyed to determine that Stephanie is getting again to her kinfolk roots along with her new firm. because it seems, her mom was once inheritor to the well-known Foster's goodies fortune, a chocolate corporation that could be a Kansas urban establishment. that's, until eventually her brothers, Stephanie's uncles, swindled her out of her percentage lo those a long time ago.Still, Stephanie is worked up to be again within the relatives enterprise, albeit in a small manner along with her personal downtown chocolate store, and Heaven cannot wait to benefit all approximately chocolate. She's obtained a restaurant to run, after all, and is often in search of new how you can use conventional materials. The pair's pleasure turns suscpicious, even if, while a tremendous blimp advertisements the fiftieth anniversary of Foster's is shot down nearly at once on best of Stephanie's new shop, it truly is pilot useless earlier than he hits the ground.Is this negative occasion a right away hazard to Heaven's friend's new company? Or is all of it only a large twist of fate? Heaven suspects the previous, and while her friend's livelihood, let alone her existence, is at the line, nobody can cease her from getting on the fact. She'll work out what is going on and be again in time for dessert during this shrewdpermanent, saucy access within the Heaven Lee sequence from fan favourite Lou Jane Temple. entire with many sinfully scrumptious chocolate recipes!

By Sue Henry

Up north, the summers are short -- and wintry weather, like dying, is chilly and lengthy . . .

getting better from knee surgical procedure that would reason her to overlook the approaching dogsled racing season, champion ''musher'' Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored -- so she grabs a chance to fill her days manning the Iditarod sales space on the Alaska country reasonable. yet homicide turns into an charm right here to boot -- an extremely brutal one -- whilst the corpse of a small-time hoodlum slain through a double-blade awl blow to the cranium turns up at the fairgrounds. Jessie will not become involved, having already noticeable an excessive amount of violent dying in her lifetime. yet unusual connections are linking the killing with a kid's kidnapping . . . and with the surprising disappearance of her personal cherished lead sled puppy. quickly associates previous and new could be pulled in in addition whilst the unthinkable happens: Jessie herself vanishes and not using a hint.

By Wendy Clinch

Heavy snow is falling on Spruce top whilst Stacey Curtis returns in her moment snowboarding secret. Hollywood has-been Harper Stone arrives in Stacey’s little Vermont city to shoot a mouthwash advertisement, and he’s faraway from satisfied approximately it. whilst the actor turns up dead—and the final individual to work out him alive is Brian Russell, Stacey’s jealous ex-fianc?—Stacey can’t aid yet get entangled.

By Julie Hyzy

Introducing White residence Assistant Chef Olivia Paras, who's rising-and sleuthing-to the head. comprises recipes for an entire presidential menu! by no means allow them to see you sweat-that's White condominium Assistant Chef Olivia Paras's motto, that's beautiful tough to honor within the most crucial kitchen on the earth. She's hell-bent on incomes her dream activity, govt Chef. there is only one factor: her nemesis is vying for it, too. good, that and the truth that an elusive murderer desires to see her fry.

By Cara Black

The village-like local of Passy, domestic to lots of Paris’s wealthiest citizens, is the final position one may count on a homicide. but if Aimée Leduc’s godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to envision on his female friend at her domestic there, that’s precisely what Aimée unearths. Xavierre, a haut bourgeois matron of Basque starting place, is strangled in her backyard whereas Aimée waits within. Circumstantial proof makes Morbier the best suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimée needs to establish the genuine killer. Her research leads her to police corruption; the novel Basque terrorist staff, ETA; and a abducted Spanish princess.

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By Anne Kelleher

An otherworldy intrigue . . . With the courts of either the Sidhe's Otherworld and the mortals' Shadowlands in rivalry, not anything turns out secure anymore. Now blacksmith's daughter Nessa is stuck up in political and army intrigues that may free the goblin horde. Widowed queen Cecily is scuffling with for a throne she by no means anticipated to have. And Delphinea, woman in ready to the Faery throne, is stuck among the powers of Sidhe and her future. A determined peril . . . the 1st battles are over; and devastation wracks either lands. With Nessa crossing among worlds to additional figuring out of every humans, Cecily and Delphinea needs to struggle to include the evil that edges ever nearer. simply because their honor calls for that their nations come sooner than something -- even love. And existence . . .