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"On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person--but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance...

Finalist for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, and autonomy and fate. In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw...

During Spring Break, mystery lover Amy looks for clues to the disappearance of wealthy Ms. Sullivan's Saint Bernard puppy.

"There are more important things than being thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, and Lady Georgiana Rannoch knows her true love, Darcy O'Mara, is one of them. Luckily, the queen agrees, but she has a little mission for Georgiana before she can say 'I do!'"--Jacket.

Having melted easily into Cyprus's relaxed expat community, fugitive crime writer David Mitre is feeling relatively secure. His cash stashed in secret accounts and his exit routes mapped out, he can concentrate on his writing. All that changes when he's witness to a cold-blooded murder in broad daylight on Paphos Beach. The killing brings David to the attention of the FBI, who forcefully request his help in solving a crime far worse than anything...

While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.

Former Broadway actress Violet La Rue is holding auditions for A Midsummer Night's Dream, and everyone from the sour spinster librarian Ms. Cole to Lindsey's youthful library pages are trying out for parts. Brought in to play the mischievous Puck is the flirtatious professional actor Robbie Vine, who seems to have eyes for Lindsey. Before her blush has faded, the Bard's dream turns into a nightmare, when one of the cast is poisoned. Now Lindsey and...

Twenty years earlier, a 14-year-old girl from high society in Massachusetts vanished, leaving her clothes on a beach. At the time no one thought of linking the apparent suicide to the disappearance of a gardener at her school. Now PI Carlotta Carlyle hopes to make a connection. By the author of Hardware.

When Jazz's pet piglet gets sick and the veterinarian suspects it was poisoned, she and Milo use their detective skills to try to figure out who did it.

The author of "Death by Misadventure" brings back her outrageous heroine, Australian sleuth Phryne Fisher, in the second mystery of this delightful series set in the roaring '20s. This time, Phryne has to figure out who finished off a family man whose entire family hated him.