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Maria Worth's gluttonous friend, Peta Gore, is always spoiling her carefully planned singles' gatherings.

In a Lao village, a woman is killed and her body burned. Three days later she is back home as if nothing happened--and she can speak to the dead.

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has unwillingly been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean has been found dead in his camper.

All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wants to do is fish and drink coffee with his fiancée.

Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost whose population is shrinking every day.

Martha Lawrence came to Ellery Queen claiming that her husband's jealousy was putting her in danger. But did the man have grounds for his rage?

This crime fiction novel from the author of the Bino Phillips series follows former Dallas police officer Frank White as he matches wits with an attractive ex-convict, who tries to entrap him in a

Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession.

Elizabeth Church has been murdered, but her husband, Sam Lattimore, still sees her. In fact, he holds conversations with her almost every evening and watches her line up books on a beach.

When an illegal immigrant falls from the sky, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat's investigation into his death quickly captures the imagination of her boyfriend, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Glamorous reporter Crystal French blows into Lochdubh and is promptly given a speeding ticket by Constable Hamish Macbeth. She then rakes up old local scandals, outraging the entire village.

Martin Terrier is a hired killer who wants out of the game so he can settle down and marry his childhood sweetheart. After all, that's why he took up this profession.

Naples, 1932. At the high-class brothel in the center of town known as Paradiso, Viper, the most famous prostitute of all, is found dead after being suffocated with a pillow.

Inspector Montalbano is stumped when two bombs explode outside empty warehouses, one of which is connected to a big-time drug dealer.