Jane Austen aficionado, Kate Sharp, is thrilled when her company is tapped to find locations for a new film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. But when her boss vanishes on the job, Kate goes to England to control the damage. Bad turns to worse when Kate arrives in Nether Woodsmoor, a quaint village of stone cottages and rolling green hills, only to find no trace of her boss. Fending off worry about her boss's welfare as well as an anxious

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"...she left her son the sum of four hundred million francs." When the heirs to a tremendous fortune are nowhere to be found, Don Luis Perenna, a friend to the deceased, must track them down. But it isn't long before someone turns up dead and the investigation turns into a murder case. And where is master thief Arsène Lupin in all this? He's believed to be dead, but are things what they seem?

"This first volume of G.K. Chesterton's mysteries marks the debut of a most unusual detective: Father Paul Brown, a short, stumpy priest with an extraordinary and uncanny ability to spot the evil that lies in human hearts. In these twelve stories, Father Brown uses his wisdom, common sense, and experience as a confessor to solve baffling, fascinating crimes -- and save lost souls along the way." --

Christmas Cocoa Murder: Siobhan O'Sullivan's hopes for a quiet Irish Christmas are dashed when the local Santa turns up dead in a carnival dunk tank of hot cocoa. Now instead of hunting down holiday gifts, she's pursuing a heartless killer. Seems the dead Santa was no angel either, stealing neighborhood dogs to guide his sleigh. But was it his holiday antics--or worse--that led to his death by chocolate? Christmas Cocoa and a Corpse: When local businessman...

Homer defends a crazed poet accused of using an eclipse as cover for murder For all her life, poet Kitty Clark has waited to see a total eclipse of the sun. News of an impending eclipse thrills her until she learns it will be visible only from Nantucket, where one year ago her ex-lover Joe Green moved with his new wife. Unable to resist the astronomical lure, she flies in from Boston, and makes her way to an isolated lighthouse, hoping to avoid seeing...

When the woman he loves is accused of murder, Dominic Felse sets out to find the true culprit Is a vulgarity ground for murder? Alfred Armiger had antagonized many with his greed and crass acquisitiveness. So when the ruthless beer baron is discovered dead, his head beaten in by a magnum of champagne, there is no shortage of suspects. All of Comerford is shocked when Detective George Felse arrests Kitty Norris, the daughter of a rival beer baron,...

Robbie has transformed a rundown country store, but when a flirtatious widow turns up dead, Robbie must clear her friend's name.

"As the creator of the world-famous Helene doll, designer Helene Strauss is equally well-known for her exquisite taste and her brassy, take-no-prisoners style. While Helene's business acumen made her a huge success, it also made her enemies. So when the feisty 80-year-old has several suspicious brushes with death, Savannah Reid is hired to find out why. She soon learns that tensions within the Strauss family have been raging for years, leading her...

Former police officer Abigail Mackenzie has made a fresh start as a beekeeper and farmer in picturesque Las Flores, California -- but she never suspected her new hometown would prove to be a hive of criminal activity. When Abby invites her free-spirited friend, Fiona Mary Sullivan, owner of Ancient Wisdom Botanicals, to her farmette for lunch, she never imagines that Fiona's no-show will lead to a murder investigation. Only hours after their lunch...

"Pamela Paterson and her Knit and Nibble club must clear the name of one of their knitters when he's accused of murdering the mayor. The trees in Arborville, New Jersey, have started sporting sweaters. Part of the trend of public knitting art? Not exactly. An anonymous activist has been wrapping trunks in yarn to cover red X's that mark certain trees for removal by the town so they don't interfere with power lines. When the town's mayor, who supports...