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Dashing through the snow
Par Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark. 2008
Regan Reilly, Alvirah Meehan, and their families come to Branscombe, New Hampshire, for a holiday festival. Although four local market…
employees won millions in a lottery, a fifth coworker who normally plays is missing. While searching for the missing man, Regan and Alvirah discover wrongdoing in the town. Bestseller. 2008Bridesmaids revisited (Ellie Haskell Mystery Ser. #No. 10)
Par Dorothy Cannell. 2001
England. Ellie Haskell receives a letter from her grandmother Sophia's friends Rosemary, Thora, and Jane--collectively called the bridesmaids--informing her that…
Sophia would like to make contact. But Sophia has been dead for years. Ellie travels to Cambridgeshire for an adventure involving séances, a hidden diary, and a long-ago murder. 2000The spring cleaning murders (Ellie Haskell Mystery Ser. #No. 8)
Par Dorothy Cannell. 1999
Ellie Haskell, housewife extraordinaire, seeks a new maid after her beloved Roxie quits. But when Gertrude Large, a member of…
Roxie's local charwomen's association, is murdered, Ellie turns to sleuthing. Aided by her husband and various cleaning products, Ellie tackles Gertrude's former clients to tidy up--and snoop around--their homes. 1998The thin woman: an epicurean mystery (Ellie Haskell #1)
Par Dorothy Cannell. 1992
Ellie Simons, beautiful but overweight, hires escort Bentley Haskell to pose as her fiancé on a visit to her uncle…
Merlin's imposing estate. Ellie encounters unexpected romance and a treasure hunt when Merlin suddenly passes away, leaving his fortune to her and Bentley--provided that she shed sixty pounds. 1984Eight short detective tales and one of semisupernatural drama. In the title story, Mr. Parker Pyne seeks a thief when…
a diamond goes missing from a yachting party. In "Yellow Iris," Hercule Poirot solves one crime and thwarts another at a dinner party. Miss Marple shares a mystery tale. 1934Withering heights: An Ellie Haskell Mystery (Ellie Haskell Mysteries #11)
Par Dorothy Cannell. 2007
Housewife Ellie Haskell, her husband Ben, and maid Mrs. Malloy are called to Yorkshire, England, to find the missing buyer…
of a haunted Victorian mansion. Ben's cousin Tom won the lottery, bought the manor, and then disappeared--causing his wife and daughter to suspect former owner Lady Fiona. 2007Up in Honey's room: A Novel
Par Elmore Leonard. 2007
Federal marshal Carl Webster, from Hot Kid (DB 60336, BR 16125), travels to Detroit in 1944 to search for escaped…
German POWs. Webster interviews beautiful Honey Deal, the divorced wife of Nazi meatcutter Walter Schoen, and investigates Ukrainian spy Vera Mezwa. Strong language and some violence. 2007Santa cruise: a holiday mystery at sea
Par Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark. 2006
Millionaire Randolph Weed organizes a holiday charity cruise. Invited guests include a writers group, lottery winners Alvirah and Willy Meehan,…
and private detective Regan Reilly and her husband Jack. Weed's nephew Eric also smuggles aboard two wanted felons who plan to escape once they reach the Caribbean. Bestseller. 2006Prisoner of memory: A Novel
Par Denise Hamilton. 2006
Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond investigates the murder of seventeen-year-old Denny Lukin. She questions Denny's Russian émigré parents and…
uncovers Mafia and FBI connections. Meanwhile, a man from Moscow claiming to be Eve's cousin wants to help with the case. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some violence. 2006Easier to kill: a Tamara Hayle mystery (Tamara Hayle Mystery Ser.)
Par Valerie Wilson Wesley. 2003
Radio star Mandy Magic hires private investigator Tamara Hayle to look into the murder of Mandy's stylist, who was also…
her second cousin. Vandalism and an anonymous note that reads "movin' on up" may be ominous clues that Mandy is also a target. Some violence and some strong language. 1998Pardonable lies: a Maisie Dobbs novel (Maisie Dobbs Novels #3)
Par Jacqueline Winspear. 2005
London, 1930. Psychologist/investigator Maisie Dobbs is hired by Sir Cecil Lawton to discover the fate of his son Ralph, who…
was supposedly killed in France during the Great War. Maisie, a former battlefield nurse, faces her own demons from the past when she returns to the continent. 2005Right behind her (Bree Taggert novels #04)
Par Melinda Leigh. 2021
Twenty-seven years ago, sheriff Bree Taggert's father killed her mother and then committed suicide. Now Bree and her younger brother…
Adam find human remains on their family farm, murdered in the same manner. The two suspects are Bree's dad and an unlikely squatter. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2021Burned: a Regan Reilly mystery (Regan Reilly Mystery Ser. #No. 8)
Par Carol Higgins Clark. 2005
Los Angeles private investigator Regan Reilly, about to be married, joins her girlfriend Kit Callan in Hawaii for a last…
fling. When the body of the resort's social director, Dorinda Dawes, washes ashore, the hotel manager persuades Regan to investigate. Suspects include assorted guests and a local millionaire. 2005Savage garden: a novel
Par Denise Hamilton. 2005
Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond investigates the murder of Latin stage actress Catarina Velosi, a friend of Eve's lover,…
Silvio Aguilar. While forced to mentor Felice Morgan, a rising African American star at the newspaper, Eve interrogates several suspects. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2005A newlywed's guide to fortune and murder (Countess of Harleigh Mystery #6)
Par Dianne Freeman. 2023
Newly married Frances Hazelton, formerly the Countess of Harleigh, should be planning her honeymoon. Instead, she's unmasking a murderer among…
the upper crust ... With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Wingate needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for presentation to Queen Victoria. Frances-who understands society's quirks and constraints as only an outsider can-is the perfect candidate. Kate is charming and intelligent, though perhaps not quite as sheltered as she might first appear. More worrying to Frances is the viscountess's sudden deterioration. The usually formidable dowager has become shockingly frail, and Frances suspects someone may be drugging her. The spotlight falls on Kate, who stands to inherit if her aunt passes, yet there are plenty of other likely candidates within the dowager's household, both above and belowstairs. Joining forces with her beloved George, Frances comes to believe that the late viscount, too, was targeted. And with the dowager seeming to be in greater danger every day, they must flush out the villain before she follows in her husband's footsteps, directly to the graveBirds of a feather: a novel (Maisie Dobbs Mystery Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Jacqueline Winspear. 2005
London, 1930s. Wealthy Joseph Waite hires private investigator Maisie Dobbs, a former battlefield nurse, to locate his missing thirty-two-year-old daughter,…
Charlotte. Maisie finds chilling links to Scotland Yard inspector Stratton's latest murder case and the Great War's terrible legacy. 2004Last lullaby: an Eve Diamond novel
Par Denise Hamilton. 2004
L.A. reporter Eve Diamond accompanies a U.S. Customs supervisor meeting a plane from China. Shots ring out leaving three people…
dead and a two-year-old toddler missing. Eve and a score of unsavory characters search for the child amongst the immigrant population. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2004An unthymely death and other garden mysteries (China Bayles Mystery #12)
Par Susan Wittig Albert. 2003
China Bayles has settled into the quaint town of Pecan Springs, fallen in love with a former detective and opened…
an herb shop, all the while solving more than her share of mysteries. Interspersed in this collection of then puzzling cases are wonderful herbal tidbitsMelancholy baby (Sunny Randall Ser. #No. 4)
Par Robert B. Parker. 2004
Boston PI Sunny Randall, upset over her ex-husband's remarriage, seeks counseling from Dr. Susan Silverman. Meanwhile Randall's latest case involves…
a young woman who's convinced her parents have adopted her--and the father is soon murdered. Strong language and some violence. 2004Alice in jeopardy: A Novel
Par Ed McBain. 2005
Young Florida widow Alice Glendenning struggles to raise her daughter and mute son following their father's drowning. When the kids…
are abducted from their school, the kidnappers demand Alice's nonexistent insurance money. Bungling law enforcement agencies force Alice to act alone. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2005