Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

A fascinating mystery featuring Ladarat Patalung, the first and only nurse detective in Thailand. As a nurse ethicist, Ladarat Patalung works to save the lives of her patients, and to make sure the ones she can’t save have at least the dignity of a “good death.” But when wealthy foreign travelers start to go missing…

When the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society results in murder, reading specialist Lizzie Turner teams up with the police chief, her former high school crush, to close the book on a clever killer before he writes someone else out of the story. Original.

While filling in for the culinary reporter at the Ranchero Globe, Jordan McAllister, who dreams of being a sports reporter, finds her first assignment taking a deadly turn when a waiter from the new steak house in town is found murdered outside her door. Original. 30,000 first printing.

While catering a fund-raiser for her best friend, Charlotte Bessette–the owner of Providence, Ohio’s Cheese Shop–soon discovers that murder is also on the menu when a dead body is found in the wine cellar and her niece Quinn becomes the prime suspect in the case. Original. 20,000 first printing.

After a judge orders three squabbling ladies to attend a library book discussion group together, reading “Murder on the Orient Express” inspires them to investigate the murder of the owner of the Orient Express restaurant.

Flavia’s discovery of an old Gypsy woman who’s been attacked in her wagon sends the girl off on an investigation that will reveal more of Buckshaw’s secrets as well as new information about Harriet, the mother Flavia never knew.

Eleven-year-old amateur detective and ardent chemist Flavia de Luce is used to digging up clues, whether they’re found among the potions in her laboratory or between the pages of her sisters’ diaries. What she is not accustomed to is digging up bodies. Upon the 500th anniversary of St. Tancred’s death, the English hamlet of Bishop’s…

The Shakespeare Festival returns to Ashland, Oregon, for the season and Torteis cast as the supplier of Elizabethan-era treats for the main event. Original.