This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to ₃help people with problems in their lives.₄?Immediately upon setting up shop in a small storefront in Gaborone, she is hired to track down a missing husband, uncover a con man, and follow a wayward daughter. But the case that...

"Holly's Jack Russell, Trixie, and kitten, Twinkletoes, find a young woman drowned in the Wagtail Springs Hotel's bathhouse--the spot of the town's most infamous haunting. The crime scene is eerily similar to the creepy legend, convincing Holly that the death wasn't just accidental"--

Liss MacCrimmon, newlywed and proud owner of the Scottish Emporium in Moosetookalook, Maine, is organizing the Halloween fundraiser. The abandoned Chadwick Mansion will be the perfect setting for a creepy haunted house. After all, the last owner was Blackie O'Hare, a notorious Boston hit man, so Liss knows those stories of buried victims and hidden loot may not be too far-fetched. And the mysterious lights, strange sounds, and very real-looking body...

Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce is an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. In the summer of 1950, a series of inexplicable events strikes Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that her family calls home. A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp pinned to its beak. Later, Flavia finds a man dying in the cucumber patch. For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.

Ready for romance : As a teenager, Jessica Kellerman was in love with one of the boys next door, Evan Dryden. Now an adult, Jessica is working for the Dryden brothers at their law firm. Evan finds her past crush amusing, but there's a bigger problem—Jessica has actually fallen for Evan's brother, Damian. No one will let Jessica forget her girlish infatuation, least of all Damian, who's trying to be the ultimate matchmaker and set Jessica and Evan...

After a truck spills a million honeybees on the Las Vegas Strip, hotel customer relations head Lucky O'Toole discovers that a prominent district attorney has been murdered during the ensuing chaos and that private investigator Jeremy Whitlock is being unfairly scrutinized.

Already hobbled by a nasty tumble off a ladder, Jacobia Tiptree finds her life further complicated by the disappearance of a foul-minded curmudgeon, whose corpse turns up sandwiched between the walls of her cellar.

For years Libby Morgan dreamed of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career, including her friends, her marriage, and her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it will finally be good news, but nothing can prepare her for the shocking reality: She's been let go and must rebuild her entire life-- starting now.

Liss MacCrimmon, purveyor of all things plaid at the Moosetookalook Scottish Emporium, is delighted that her hometown is hosting the First Annual Maine-ly Cozy Con. The mystery-book conference promises to attract plenty of authors, and her new fiance Dan's hotel is rapidly filling with attendees. When a muckraking reviewer with a grudge takes a swan dive off a scenic lookout, no one wants to believe it was homicide. But the more Liss learns, the more...

Winter in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is the perfect time to curl up by a cosy fire with something - and someone - sweet. But while bakery owner Hannah Swensen can provide herself with the confections, cuddling will have to take a back seat to sleuthing when her sometime-squeeze becomes a murder suspect...With the launch party of her mother's novel around the corner, Hannah has a dress to fit into and a date with her sister, Andrea, at Lake Eden's new health...