When the matriarch of a rich Seattle family dies under suspicious circumstances, private investigator Thomas Austin is on the case. This time, the suspect list is easy. Seven people were in the lakefront mansion with the millionaire when she died: a spoiled son, a jealous brother-in-law, a beloved chef, a rebellious grandson, an arrogant memoirist, and a pair of successful daughters. All had motive. All had opportunity. But which one is the killer?...

"Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what's real and what's imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty's surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly...

"Eight-year-old Ada, who has a knack for science, math, and solving mysteries, teams up with her best friend, Nina, to find a missing dog."--

"Someone is stalking poachers that are capturing Maui's rarest birds, and Lei pursues the case with her usual leap-first, look-later style-- but will she be able to catch a killer, save the birds, and still make it to her own wedding?"--Page 4 of cover

Thirty years ago, four children went missing from rural Tennessee. FBI Special Agent Chase Adams' sister was one of them. She's been searching for her ever since. Now, after more than three decades of silence, seven-year-old Stacy Peterson's bike is found at the end of her driveway. Only problem is, Stacy isn't riding it. When her abduction is linked to three other girls who vanished into thin air, Chase fears that this is the start of another kidnapping...

"Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights." - Raymond Chandler. In a world of criminals, thugs, con artists, cheats, and swindlers, there must be a man to stand against the powers of darkness and corruption. A man not afraid to walk the mean streets--whether they be those of 1930s Los Angeles, an ancient fantasy realm, or some far-flung planet of a future star empire. He is a man who knows that a "good man" is not always a...

When a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed during Movie Town Theater's first ever Film Noir Festival, Penelope Thornton-McClure turns to P.I. Jack Shepard, a hard-boiled ghost who remembers the victim's dark past, for help in solving the mystery.

"The Streel is the story of Brigid Reardon and her brother Seamus, who leave Ireland in 1880 and make their way across the United States. Brigid ends up working at a mansion on Summit Avenue in St. Paul and Seamus continues on to Deadwood, SD to find his fortune. Shortly after, Brigid goes out to meet him, arriving on Christmas Eve only to find a young woman dead the next morning outside of Seamus' house. Because he is suspected of the murder, Seamus...

"A dead police officer... A department desperate for answers... Maddie Castle must take on the role that nearly took her life... She must once again become The Handler. Wounded in the line of duty, former K9 Handler Maddie Castle finds herself back to square one. The bullet that shredded her leg took the life of her four-legged partner. The pain of recovery goes well beyond the daily physical torment she endures. Time is the supposed healer of all...