The latest from the author of By Hook or by Book finds the Murder by the Yard reading group touring famous murder sites -- and reopening an infamous case.
Reference librarian Megan Clark persuades the Murder by the Yard book group to accompany her to do research on string figures. But when a valuable, unpublished manuscript about the hobby disappears--and its owner is found dead--the group gets strung along
Megan Clark is a reference librarian with a passion for mysteries. But true crime hits close to home when a member of her book group is murdered. Now Megan and her fellow mystery buffs must read between the lines to solve a real-life whodunit...
Following the success of Malice Domestic 1--recipient of the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and called "outstanding" by Publishers Weekly--acclaimed author Nancy Pickard serves a feast of original traditional mystery stories in classic Agatha Christie
A collection of mystery tales presents the work of such masters of the genre as Charlotte MacLeod, Barbara Paul, Charlotte and Aaron Elkins, and Audrey Peterson.Contents: An idea whose time had come / Elizabeth Peters — The perplexing puzzle of the perf
Antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is targeted by ruthless criminals while tying to recover an eighth-century Tang Dynasty silver box-with an alchemical formula for the elixir of immortality etched on the inside of the lid. The rare item holds the key not on
Now, in The Etruscan Chimera, antiques dealer Lara McClintoch is hired by a reclusive billionaire to purchase an obscure Etruscan sculpture. But the land of old Tuscany hides danger behind its charm, as Lara finds out when she discovers a prominent collec
After the unveiling of the Magyar Venus--a head and torso of a woman carved from mammoth ivory during the Upper Paleolithic period--one of Lara's friends commits suicide. Determinedly tracing the Venus's provenance to Budapest, Lara discovers a truth that
Lara McClintoch's Tunisian tour group sails into trouble when the story of a sunken merchant ship stirs one person's murderous interest in finding the priceless artifacts that went down with it. The Archaeological Mysteries are: "A passport to adventure.