Ellie Haskell embarks on a rollicking hunt for the killer of a fellow member of the Chitterton Fells Charwomen's Association

Farberville, Arkansas is playing host to its first ever mystery convention. Sponsored by the Thurber Farber Foundation and held at Farber College, Murder Comes to Campus is playing host to five major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. Dragooned into running the show when the original organizer is hospitalized, local bookseller Claire Malloy finds herself in the midst of a barely controlled disaster. Not only do each of the writers present their own set of idiosyncracies and difficulties (including one who arrives with her cat Wimple in tow), the feared, distrusted, and disliked mystery editor of Paradigm House, Roxanne Small, puts in a surprise appearance at the conference. Added to Claire's own love-life woes with local police detective Peter Rosen, things have never been worse. Then when one of the attendees dies in a suspicious car accident, Wimple the cat disappears from Claire's home, and Roxanne Small is nowhere to be found, it becomes evident that the murder mystery is more than a literary genre.

When a beautiful, beguiling newcomer to Maggody turns up murdered, police chief Arly Hanks traces her e-mails and begins to suspect that someone in town may have killed her--perhaps one of the many women she made jealous.

When a member of an Internet mailing group turns up dead, his peers take it upon themselves to investigate the crime, much to the annoyance of the FBI and Anneke Hagen, who is having enough trouble preparing for her wedding

In her fifth case, Elizabethan herbalist Susannah, Lady Appleton, must root out a killer when two women are accused of witchcraft while the real killer, an expert in poisons, remains free to strike again.

American anthropologist Penny Spring and British archaeologist Sir Toby Glendower embark on their twelfth adventure aboard a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, where a rakish father-and-son pair of millionaires meet their end

Sunny McCoskey is the independent chef/owner of Wildside, a little cafe nestled in Napa Valley, where the food is exactly right. When the heir apparent to a major vineyard is shot dead, and Sunny's eccentric winemaker friend, Wade, is arrested for the murder, she launches her own investigation. The solution lies in the tangled personalities and politics of the wine industry, and in the threat posed to the valley by the glassy-winged sharpshooter. Set in a region renowned for its food and wine, Sharpshooter launches an entertaining mystery series featuring Sunny and an engaging cast of wine professionals, cooks, socialites-and suspects.

Ellie Haskell becomes unwittingly drawn into a mystery with her moonlighting housekeeper when a modish matriarch reports that the surviving daughter of a late ex-employee may be seeking revenge by killing off her mother's former employers and their descendants. 20,000 first printing

In her most gripping mystery yet, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles returns readers to the streets of London and the ever-struggling Detective Inspector Bill Slider. When the body of Phoebe Agnew, radical left-wing journalist, champion of the underdog, and prominent critic of the police force, is discovered, Inspector Slider must put aside any personal feelings for the victim and find her killer. One of the first clues Slider finds is that on the day of her death the horribly undomesticated Agnew cooked an elaborate meal for someone. Was it her old friend and reputed lover, Josh Prentiss? Slider tries to pursue that angle, but since Prentiss is a Government advisor, the pressure is on Slider to look elsewhere. There are plenty anomalies for him to chase: unidentified fingerprints, the object used to strangle Agnew is missing, alibis offered where none are required, the downstairs tenant lying about his whereabouts, and papers missing from Agnew's file. As Slider struggles to untangle the web of lies and hidden relationships, his task is made harder by the strange behavior of his friend and colleague, Atherton, who seems to be on the verge of a breakdown. Tightly plotted and full of fascinating characters, Slider searches to find the key to Agnew's chillingly lonely life, but will he find it in time to prevent further tragedy?

A fun book about genre fiction and the ways women have appropriated the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer and the writings of Hammet, Chandler, Spillane, and others. A story of texts, movies, TV shows, and publishing, it goes quite beyond textual analysis. A bit like Jan Radway's and Tania Modleski's analysis of culture in the making (and we'll probably have blurbs from both on the cover of our book).

Een alleenstaande jonge vrouw, moeder van een zoon, wordt gekozen als jurylid in het proces tegen een maffiabaas. Dit maakt haar het slachtoffer van chantage. Als zij 'schuldig' uitspreekt zal haar zoon vermoord worden. De afperser is een verleider, een psychotisch moordenaar en taoistische kreten prevelende waanzinnige. Hij blijkt van alle handelingen van de hoofdpersoon op de hoogte te zijn. Hoe precies blijkt nergens. Het verhaal leidt ook niet naar een ontmaskering, maar probeert een dreiging in stand te houden

De idealistische advocaat Greg Monarch leidt een onopvallend, zelfs bekrompen bestaan in een kleine, hechte gemeenschap ergens aan de noordkust van Californië. Als beginnend advocaat verliest hij een belangrijke zaak waardoor zijn cliënt ter dood wordt veroordeeld. Die mislukking zit hem nog steeds dwars en doet hem 's avonds naar de fles grijpen. Wanneer zijn vroegere collega collega en beste vriend, Ira Sullivan, wordt beschuldigd van een gewelddadige drugsmoord, neemt Greg aarzelend de verdediging op zich, omdat hij de kans ruikt om zich te revancheren. Hij stuurt onverbiddelijk op vrijspraak aan maar hij raakt daarbij al snel verstrikt in een web van bedrog en intriges. De hoofdrol in de strategie van het openbaar ministerie is weggelegd voor een angstwekkend stoïcijnse leugenaarster: de perfecte getuige