Old Detective Mysteries

He's a predator. She's his latest prey. Will she fall for him or bring him to his knees? When it is revealed there is a serial predator in the midst, the women of the congregation must come together to stop him before someone else gets hurt. It may already be too late. Scroll up and "Click Buy to Buy" for your Instant Copy

Thrift shop til someone drops... Welcome to Pine Grove, where Minnesota nice is just a suggestion, and the sheriff is a real dog. Turning her garage into a thrift store was a lakeside picnic compared to having her mother come to visit. And when the scandalously young boyfriend she brought with her disappears, Jessica Braun has her work cut out for her. With the help of the canine sheriff and her new friends in town, Jess will have to think fast to keep her mother from taking the blame for the body that turns up. And as if a mother and a murder aren’t enough, her shop faces competition ...

The aging millionairess has a problem: where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? To help find the answer, Archie infiltrates a party at her palatial estate. But her late-night murder ruins the festive mood...and a letter bomb from a powerful crime boss makes Nero Wolfe do the unthinkable - run for his life. Suddenly Archie finds himself on his own, trying to find a killer without the help of his old mentor. For to all appearances, Wolfe has vanished. The career of the world’s most famous detective has ended in cowardice and disgrace...or has it?

When Barb, my bestie, gets duped by an online Casanova, it's not just her heart that's on the line but also her horde of hairless cats. I mean, come on, Barb—haven't we learned anything from those true-crime podcasts? Now, here I am, stepping in to clean up the mess, armed with my knowledge that 'true love' is the biggest scam since that prince emailed me asking for my bank details. But then, in walks this FBI agent with a dad-bod that could make a nun blush, and my own heart starts doing the Macarena. Great. Just what I needed. As we team up to untangle this web of deceit, I'm trying ...

Brad Hunter is doing everything he can to keep his private investigation agency open, but the women of Honolulu keep distracting him from his work. His latest desire, a Chinatown barmaid, occupies too much of his time, and his money. At least until she is eliminated from his life the hard way--by murder. Within hours, his HPD detective brother puts Brad at the the top of the prime suspect list. Now that he is being scrutinized by the Honolulu Police Department, Brad heads to Chinatown to start his own investigation. What does Brad find first? A new woman, of course.

Where Old Bones Lie is set on an isolated archaeological dig in the Cotswolds. When a body is found near the site, the suspects, witnesses, and clues all conflict, and the disappearance of a group of New Age travellers just seems to add to the mystery. Superintendent Markby and Meredith Mitchell must untangle the mess, and in doing so find themselves in a dangerous and uncompromising situation.

In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn, amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes to he could perform one as he drives his impossible Aunt Agatha to the Old Swan in Harrogate.

In 1890, the first Japanese diplomatic delegation arrives in London to open an embassy. Cyrus Barker, private enquiry agent and occasional agent for the Foreign Service Office, is enlisted to display his personal Japanese garden to the visiting dignitaries. Later that night, Ambassador Toda is shot and killed in his office and Cyrus Barker is discovered across the street, watching the very same office, in possession of a revolver with one spent cartridge.

Grab your magnifying glass and curl up on the couch! You're about to enter the mysterious and action-packed world of the North Hollywood Detective Club. A world of secret staircases, dangerous double-crosses, and graveyards at midnight, cloaked in mist and concealing hidden treasure. A page-turning world of teenage detectives uncovering clues and matching wits with blond blackmailers, cunning counterfeiters, and fifteen-year-old femme fatales. Together for the first time in one volume, here are Books 1 & 2 of this mystery and adventure series for teens and tweens: The Case of the Hollywood ...

Just when I think my happily ever after is within reach, I find out I’m accidentally married. To make matters worse, a serial killer is blackmailing me into tracking down an antique shotgun stolen from his family. Not only am I eleventy-million months pregnant, but now I’ll have to track down gun dealers, pawnbrokers, and a very eccentric “collector” to find the item. Did I mention dodging lions and landmines in the process? I finally get things under control, but a welcome home party leads to a major misunderstanding. My family is ripped away. The bad guys misjudged my willingness ...

One minute, my favorite pop star, Lizzie Lizard was on stage right in front of me, and in the next minute, she was passed out in front of the whole audience. They say that it was an accident, but in all my years of detective work, I've discovered there are no such things as coincidences. No one gets away with hurting my favorite singer.

Blondie McGhee loves solving mysteries and one day hopes to be a top-notch detective. First she must survive the fourth grade with all the mysteries elementary school holds. Blondie's dad has a mystery for Blondie to solve, but Blondie doesn't have time to solve his funny riddles, she has a serious case of her own. Blondie's teacher, Mrs. Clemmons, has been acting weird lately. Between getting sick from mystery brownies to threatening notes left on her desk, can Blondie find out who is messing with her favorite teacher before its too late? Praise for At Your Service! Blondie McGhee ...

Blondie's back, and someone is going to be in trouble. A horrible smell has forced the fourth grade class to retreat to the library, but at least they can look forward to the school's fall festival Friday night. Or can they? When spooky noises start filling the gym, it looks like fall festival will be canceled after all. Can Blondie figure out the source of the smell and the scary noises before Friday night? She might need a special nose to help her! If you love mysteries like Nancy Drew, Nancy Clancy, or Cam Jansen, then Blondie McGhee is your girl. Of course, Blondie would not the great ...

PI Hallie James is asked to assist in the investigation into the robberies at local banks. The crafty criminals change their MO with each bank, making them difficult to predict. When they begin to kill, Hallie knows they must be stopped before they strike again. At the same time a friend asks her to look into a string of mysterious deaths at a seniors only apartment building. Is it murder or just unfortunate accidents? With two cases heating up, a major glitch in her personal life threatens to change everything. Hallie must fight to keep herself from becoming distracted and solve the cases-...

Little has changed structurally to Dreadbury Manor since Trench’s last visit almost six years ago – but other things have: The manor-house is now empty; the Lord of the Manor resides abroad and the sixteenth-century property is up ‘For Sale’. But… What is causing the strange creaking sounds that plague the hallways? Who is the ethereal woman in white who flows between the house and the grounds? And what is the significance of the old coin found near the stables? Trench and Old Tom must look to the past to discover just who is menacing the manor-house of today...

Confronted with a development he’d long dreamt of, a weak link in the iron-hard chain of Professor Moriarty’s criminal empire, Sherlock Holmes undertakes a series of quests which arise from clues left in a number of locations around London, each message leading onto the next, and in order to keep a prearranged meeting with the mysterious informant who has sent the challenge, the great detective must unravel a complex series of psychological puzzles before he can keep his rendezvous with the unnamed defector. It’s all in The Case of Moriarty’s Betrayer, the twelfth volume in The ...

How many concussions have I had this year? That's the only explanation for the news I just received. It’s been a crazy year. I’ve been shot at, blown up, and knocked out more times than I can count. But this next phase takes the cake. Now - you can also add knocked up to that list. Sweet Oprah! If you think a surprise pregnancy at the age of 40 was a shock to me, you should see what happened to Luke. But adding a baby into our lives is going to be a challenge. My cottage is barely big enough for the two of us. Especially since he’s one of those dreaded morning people. Sometimes I ...

You can’t keep the past buried forever… When private investigator Nikki Garcia comes to New Mexico, raging wildfires in the nearby mountains force her and her family to evacuate. In the ensuing chaos, people close to her, including her husband, mysteriously disappear. Join Nikki as she races across the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and the Colorado prairie in a desperate attempt to save her loved ones. Her search unearths decades-old secrets and an international spy network that will stop at nothing to steal secrets from the heart of Cheyenne Mountain. As she navigates treacherous terrain ...

A mystery in miniature… Ralph, Gardner and Buttercup are three wooden dolls who are also old friends of Trench. The dolls ‘decide’ to visit Trench for a while and soon become involved in a mysterious Victorian dolls’ house situated inside Stokeham Museum. The dolls explore the dolls’ house, but Buttercup senses something very bad happened there a long, long time ago. Buttercup sees that Trench and Old Tom are struggling, and decides that the three wooden dolls must help out once again…

The Dodge City Murders Book One of the Earp, Masterson Murder Mysteries In the shadow of Dodge City, 1883, something wicked plays beneath the silence… When a series of ritualistic murders strikes the gritty frontier town, lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson find themselves chasing not just a killer—but a conductor orchestrating death like a symphony. From candlelit corpses on Boot Hill to blood-soaked altars in Kansas opera houses, the two must face a haunting enemy known only by a chilling nickname: The Conductor. As they unravel a dark musical conspiracy stretching across the American...