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When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious.

It’s September 1592, and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures.

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.

Several years have passed since we last saw Rachel Gold. The stunning and savvy attorney was then engaged to be married.

In a culture obsessed with celebrity, baby Muffin’s death is big news. Crib death or something more sinister? Everyone wants to know, including the police.

Pianist Evan Horne’s European interlude lands him a gig in Amsterdam, where the old jazz clubs are alive and well.

Done Deal is the first in the series featuring reluctant sleuth John Deal, a South Florida building contractor who has a penchant for stepping into the path of the wrong people.

Phryne Fisher loves dancing, especially with gorgeous young Simon Abrahams.

Desperate Jack Doyle accepts a sketchy job which leads to a deadly game of fixing horse races and murder—of the four-legged kind.

The Eighth Veil is a mystery set in the year 28 C.E. in Jerusalem during the feast of Tabernacles. A murdered servant girl is found in the palace of King Herod Antipas.

Laurel Beach is one of the last old-fashioned villages in the West Florida panhandle, one that has, so far, escaped commercial over-development.

Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano-playing fool, hears Scott Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” played one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It’s destiny calling.

Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt is peaceful and prosperous under the dual rule of the Pharaohs Amenhotep III and IV, until the younger Pharaoh begins to dream new and terrifying dreams.

It’s Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

Someone is bumping off rock’s wrinkled royalty.