Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

Olivia Limoges agrees to join the Bayside Book Writers to break her writer’s block and make a few friends, but the Book Writers are all suspects when townspeople start turning up dead with haiku poems left by their bodies.

Includes an excerpt from Wedding cake murder.

“In the course of his tenure with the Thames River Police, Commander Monk has yet to see a more gruesome crime scene: a Hungarian warehouse owner lies in the middle of his blood-sodden office, pierced through the chest with a bayonet and eerily surrounded by seventeen candles, their wicks dipped in blood. Suspecting the murder…

‘For Christmas, I would like all of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir novels.’ Sam Mendes, Guardian ‘Philip Kerr is the contemporary master of the morally complex thriller…’ New York Observer The third in Philip Kerr’s universally loved ‘Berlin Noir’ trilogy, A German Requiem sees detective Bernie Gunther enter the new and terrifying world of post-war Vienna.…

“October in Cascade Springs means tourists are pouring in for the annual Food and Wine Festival, and Daisy hopes to draw those crowds to the store. She asks Violet and the local writing group, the Red Inkers, to give a reading of the works of Edgar Allan Poe on the shop’s front porch to entertain…

“There is a hidden garden bordering the grounds of Jane Steward’s book-themed resort–a garden filled with beautiful but deadly plants such as mandrake and nightshade. Tucked away behind ivy-covered walls and accessible only through a single locked door–as described in the pages of Frances Hodges Burnett’s classic novel–the garden is of special interest to Jane’s…

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Jane Steward is organizing a week of activities for fans of love stories at her book-themed resort. Then Rosamund York, one of the most celebrated authors in attendance, is killed. It’s up to Jane, with the help of her book club, the Cover Girls, to catalogue the list…

During her resort’s “Mayhem and Mystery Week,” Jane finds herself investigating a real murder when the winner of the scavenger hunt is found dead.

Things heat up for bookstore owner Jenna Hart in the latest Cookbook Nook mystery from the Agatha Award-winning author of Fudging the Books. As the Wild West Extravaganza rides into Crystal Cove, California, Cookbook Nook store owner Jenna Hart is ready to indulge her appetite for grilled and barbecued treats and maybe even try the…

When an amateur chef competing in Grill Fest is murdered, it is up to Jenna Hart to find out which of the many cooks in the kitchen conjured up the killer recipe. Original. 20,000 first printing.