Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts. It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for. Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity-grim, funny, and desperate-wafting...

On the police beat for her Miami newspaper, Cuban-born Britt Montero has a lot on her hands. She's investigating a series of bizarre deaths involving sex, electrocution, and freshly poured concrete. As if that isn't enough, there's the long-unsolved murder of a young girl that may implicate the frontrunner in the governor's race. And at the same time, she's on the trail of a serial rapist-who targets her in retaliation for her stories . . .

"The Assassins' Village" by author, Faith Mortimer introduces, Diana Rivers, writer, sometime actor and amateur sleuth. NB. Although the Diana Rivers mystery suspense murder novels are a 'series', they can be read in any order.When an expatriate theatrical group gather to discuss their next play there will be murder. A blackmailer stalks their picturesque Cypriot village. The group is riven with jealousies, rivalry, sexual tension and illicit affairs.Unbeknown...

"Patricia Sprinkle has done it again!" - Margaret Maron "As Southern as Sunday fried chicken and sweet tea. Sprinkle's Hopemore is as captivating as Jan Karon's Mitford." - Carolyn Hart, praise for the Thoroughly Southern Mystery series "An intricate web of suspense and intrigue lead to an enthralling mystery." - Romantic Times BOOKclub, praise for DID YOU DECLARE THE CORPSE? "This mystery keeps you turning each page in suspense….I can't wait...

A stressed out, super-powered private investigator puts herself in harm's way in pursuit of justice in this original Marvel story.   As a private eye in New York City, it's Jessica Jones's job to investigate humanity's worst, unleashed impulses. Possessing superhuman strength and endurance does nothing to help her process other people's tragedies, much less her own slate of unresolved traumatic issues. Realizing drinking and hitting things is...

He tastes like chocolate and sin, but is he a murderer? "Written with precision and care, this intriguing romance/murder mystery is a fun read that will keep readers guessing until the very end." - Publisher's WeeklyTess Madison walked away from her two-timing fiancé, a multi-million dollar trust fund and a cushy corporate law job to pursue the single life indulging in chocolate and fancy French underwear. But her newly reordered life comes unraveled...

In 1940s Portugal, everyone is willing to trade secrets if the price is right. Britain stands alone against the forces of Nazi Germany. Livvy Redmond is a young newspaperwoman determined to serve Britain's spymaster in the face of danger. When she arrives in neutral Lisbon, she discovers a city full of spies, refugees, and the secret police. At an elegant party to meet a double agent, Livvy witnesses him fall to his death from a balcony and must now...

Change is in the air for New Year's Resolutions!Cat Latimer and her friends have made some changes at the Warm Springs Writers' Retreat. The new retreat will be a joint session with new attendees and return visitors. The theme? Goal setting for the next year as well as finding the word count magic. First up on the schedule is a joint snowshoeing session. They'll come back to the warm Victorian for a soup and fresh bread dinner before starting on the...

A crazed killer. A town in terror. A mystery ten years in the making… Lady Violet Thorn's awful Aunt Igitha arrives uninvited to stay, wreaking havoc in the household. When Violet plucks up courage to ask her to leave, Igitha's chilling threats are soon realised with deadly effect. In a devastating series of events, a woman is impaled, another is hanged outside Violet's window, and a wild beast is delivered to her house. Violet is soon struck...