Noel Galliano has always wanted her own business, and despite critics who believe she won't succeed, she opens a tiny French Quarter Voodoo shop. What she doesn't count on is finding a dismembered corpse upstairs. Detective Mathieu Bergeron is considered a screw up around the district station, until he puts away the Bayou Ripper...

Olivia Bartlett is stunned to find her old friend, Deputy Tucker Hawkins, living in the house she has inherited, but she's even more shocked to glimpse her cruel stepfather lurking in the shadows. Has Walter come back to haunt her, or is he really alive...

Detective Emily Rawson has always considered fellow detective John Cutter a friend, until she finds herself falling head over heels in love with him. She’s managed to keep her distance so far, even taking the huge step of changing squads so she doesn’t have to work with him. Then she hears he’s following her to her new unit, and they argue...

It's Christmastime in Stone's Throw, S.C., and amid all the caroling, cooking and cheer, a murderer casts a not-so-jolly pall on the festivities. Did a grieving ghost push an itinerant stranger from the balcony at Willowbrook, the family's deserted estate...

Charlotte LaRue, owner of New Orleans’s Maid for a Day cleaning service, is swept into jeopardy when an uninvited guest arrives on her doorstep . . .
 
As the saying goes, “No good deed goes unpunished.”  Charlotte LaRue knows she should take a broom and chase Joyce Thibodeaux off her front porch.  Once married to Charlotte’s tenant Louis Thibodeaux, Joyce is fresh out of detox for her alcoholism and has no place to go.  She swears she’s clean and sober and will find her own place in a few days.  She pulls on Charlotte’s heartstrings . . . and soon she’s staying in Charlotte’s guest room.
 
Charlotte survived Hurricane Katrina, but Joyce proves to be an ill wind of a different kind.  Soon a valuable gold watch left to Charlotte by her father is missing, and worse, a stranger is watching the house.  Charlotte knows she has to show Joyce the door, but she never gets the chance.  Instead her beloved parakeet Sweety Boy vanishes, her living room gets trashed, and Joyce ends up in the middle of the mess . . . stone cold dead...

Last I heard, being a five-foot-two, green-eyed redhead wasn't a crime. But that's precisely why I, Abby Knight, was yanked out of my car by a state trooper, handcuffed, and thrown in jail.
 
This isn't your average case of mistaken identity.
 
Eight years ago Abby babysat Elizabeth Blume, a teen who seemed intent on making Abby's life miserable. Elizabeth imitated Abby's dress, pored over her diary, and sabotaged her love life. Now Elizabeth is back in New Chapel, and she soon adopts a new look: Abby's. But when Libby comes between Abby and her hunky boyfriend Marco, imitation becomes the sincerest form of trouble, and that's before Abby is accused of murder...

Summertime has finally arrived in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen, owner of The Cookie Jar bakery, is looking forward to warm, lazy days, eating ice cream, and sharing picnics with friends. But when a family reunion takes a deadly turn, it's up to Hannah to find a killer.

Between baking up a storm for The Cookie Jar and unraveling the mystery of her cat Moishe's recent strange behavior, Hannah Swensen has a lot on her plate. But she'll always make time for her business partner, Lisa, who's in the midst of preparing for a big family reunion. Everyone is delighted when Lisa's long-lost uncle makes a surprise appearance. No one has heard from Gus in twenty-five years-and his arrival has everyone buzzing with excitement.

Uncle Gus is immediately the hit of the reunion, telling tales of his great success and flashing money for all to see. He's almost as popular as Hannah's scrumptious carrot cake, which is also Gus's favorite dessert. But the next morning, as the whole family gathers for the group photo, one person is missing...

GERALDINE PORTER, a recently retired high school English teacher in a small northern California town, has organized a crafts fair for her lifelong hobby: dollhouses and miniatures. But even before the doors open, there’s a snag in the program. Geraldine’s fellow crafter and her prized miniature Governor Winthrop desk are missing...

Geraldine Porter, a recently retired high school English teacher in a small northern California town, teaches miniature crafts at a retirement home. When one of her elder students is accused of murder, Gerry and her 10-year-old granddaughter are drawn into the investigation...

High School was deadly…

Forty years ago, two teenagers witnessed a vile crime.  Terrified, one buried the memory; the other wrote it in her diary and hid the journal.

Now one is dead and the other fighting for her life after a deliberate case of food poisoning.  Has someone discovered their disturbing secret...

As Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry’s frantic search for a missing woman pulls him deeper and deeper into an edgy world of voodoo and death curses, beautiful young attorney Mackenzie Lee lands an interrelated case...

In this sixth Laws thriller, Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry is thrust into his most bizarre case yet, and finds his life inextricably intertwined with London Fontelle, a Jamaican woman as hypnotically intoxicating as she is mysterious.

While Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry hunts the killer of a young woman who was murdered with a wooden stake through her heart as if she was a vampire, beautiful young blues singer Heather Vaughn finds herself swept into the throes of a modern-day thriller born of ancient and deadly obsessions...

One day Odelia's tiny world of contented boredom is rocked by the news that her friend Sophie London has committed suicide by putting a gun into her mouth and pulling the trigger. To add to the shock, Sophie's final actions were viewed on the Internet by dozens of people via a web camera. To Odelia it did not make sense...

Just hours after a meeting with plus-size paralegal Odelia Grey, Sterling Price, a long-time client and lunchbox collector, is found murdered in his spacious office suite. Missing is the jewel of his collection, a lunchbox nicknamed The Holy Pail, worth a small fortune and rumored to be cursed. Despite her protests, everyone believes Odelia has the missing lunchbox; a possibility shared by Detective Devon Frye and attorney Michael Steele after Odelia’s law firm is vandalized...

With the class bully murdered at her 30th high school reunion and her boss, the annoying Michael Steele, missing, Odelia doesn't know which hole to poke her big nose into first. This decision is made for her as she's again swept into the action involving contract killers, tangled relationships, and fatal buyer's remorse...

When writer-for-hire Jaine Austen signs on to script vows for the ultimate Bridezilla, "I do's" soon become "I wish I hadn't's"-and curtains for the bride spell a veil of woes for Jaine...

Jaine's accepted her share of lame gigs to pay the bills, but rewriting Shakespeare's got to be an all-time low. The fiasco begins with a call from Jaine's high-school nemesis, uber-rich uber-witch Patti Devane. It seems Patti will soon be sashaying down the aisle with another former classmate from Hermosa High, and she'd like the exchange of vows to evoke Romeo and Juliet...except without the "downer" of an ending.

Even worse than the assignment itself is dealing with Patti as a client. At least Jaine's not alone, as nobody can stand the demanding, spoiled, and incredibly rude Bridezilla from Hell. Patti's managed to rack up an amazingly long list of enemies in a short time, not the least of whom include her prospective mother-in-law, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Patti's stolen soon-to-be groom, and just about everyone involved in the wedding preparations. So it isn't a complete surprise when the erstwhile Juliet plunges to her death during her balcony scene...

A missing child, strange burglaries, the stalking of a teenager, and the horrendous murders of a mother and her daughter disrupt the peace of the beach community of Rocky Bluff. Officer Stacey Wilbur, first on the scene of both murders, assists Detective Doug Milligan with the investigations...

As if running a successful laundromat and writing a popular (and soon to be national) household tips column weren't enough to keep Josie Toadfern busy, she's taken a gig on the side. The Mayfair Sisters, a local singing group from the 1960s, are reuniting for a benefit, and they need Josie to perform her stain-busting magic on their old tie-dyed costumes. But the dresses go missing, only to reappear in a fashion more deadly than retro.
 
Although Josie's the prime suspect in the murder and mayhem that ensue...

There's a wedding in the works and it's going to be a killer!
 
Ivy Morris never thought she'd be walking down the aisle, especially to take her new stepmother to her old father. It's not flawless because, really, when is anything in Ivy's life flawless? But she does manage it without tripping. It's the reception that has her all atwitter when the wedding singer nearly chokes to death on a glass of water.
 
On top of that almost-catastrophe, something is going on with the women in the sleepy little town of Martha's Point, Virginia. For some reason no one under the age of fifty can keep their hands off of the delicious Ben Fallon. Ivy's little back shop isn't suffering from all the females running in to get that perfect tiny something to wear under their clothes, but her heart is another matter.
 
What will it take to get to the bottom of these mysteries...

Meet Della Carmichael, owner of a cooking school in Santa Monica, California, and star of a brand-new cable TV cooking show. When some dies on the air while tasting her chocolate mousse...