Aristide Leonides is poisoned and suspicion falls on his beautiful, young widow but criminologist Charles Hayward has his doubts and sets out to find the real killer.

On a mission to reclaim the Zhen throne, Ning, a young but powerful wielder of magic using the ancient and delicate art of tea-making, must stop an evil darkness from spreading throughout the kingdom.

Pursuing an assassin who has murdered a duke's family, Greatcoats swordsman Falcio val Mond discovers that he has been poisoned by a deadly enemy.

A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful rollercoaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations...

When the Countess of Broughton is poisoned during the height of the London social season, Anna Harrington, the daughter of the rector of Kurland St Mary, is accused and her sister recruits an old friend, Major Robert Kurland, to find the real killer.

"In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime."--Publisher.

When rat poison is discovered in the jars of Naomi's strawberry jam sold at the Swiss Miss, Cheryl sets out to prove her friend is not the one responsible for poisoning anyone. But first, she needs to figure out who did it and why. After several people in Sugarcreek end up in the hospital due to the contaminated conserve, Cheryl follows the trail to the perpetrator of the crime and ends up in an unexpected place. As she and Naomi's stepson, Levi....

Hilde and her sister/photographer Izzy have two cases to investigate for their paper, the Orange Street News: someone is stealing vegetables from the local greenhouse, and a lot of people seem to be getting sick eating the hot dogs from a local food stand--and soon Hilde starts to believe that the two cases may be related.