Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Amateur Sleuth

A newly registered private investigator attempts to track down Alice B. Toklas's reputed horn in this smart, hilarious, sexy, and unexpectedly poignant detective novel Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas are the most famous married couple of Modernism, icons of literary queer history. But...

When a retired mobster ends up murdered and one of her grandmother's best friends is the last one to see him alive, Lexy Baker can kiss her plans to spend an uneventful summer dreaming about her upcoming wedding to detective Jack Perillo good-bye.Lexy agrees...

**LIMITED EDITION WITH DELUXE DESIGNED EDGES** Perfect for fans of Freida McFadden's The Housemaid, Riley Sager's The Only One Left and Alice Feeney's My Husband's Wife, this addictive psychological suspense-thriller is a must-read for anyone who loves dark secrets, isolated settings, and jaw-dropping twists.SOME...

Rosie Weaver treasures her simple, steady life - tending her garden, sharing tea with her monthly book club, and keeping danger safely tucked inside her books. Still, widowhood has left her the time to be watchful, even when she pretends otherwise.When a young man's...

Jordan Marlowe needs a plan.Fresh out of her MFA program, she's bombed an interview at Columbia, collected a stack of rejections from agents and publishers, and stalled out in a spiral of writer's block. Meanwhile, her best friend is thriving in a PhD program,...

A country music singer trying to outrun tragedy. A businessman eager to make him pay for his crime. Haunted by the tragic accident that claimed his girlfriend's life, Tanner Banks is stuck on luck's bad side, busking on the streets with only his notebooks...

A virgin phone sex operator. A detective. And a murder. Love shows up at the oddest times in this funny, emotional, and suspenseful romantic comedy by New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe.Down and almost out in Nashville, Hannah May takes a job at...

Includes a note from the author, questions for discussion, and an excerpt from "The Rooster Bar."Author: John GrishamPublisher: JG PublishingPublished: 03/06/2018Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70dISBN: 9781524797140Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.1Point Value: 14Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 195241 / Camino IslandAbout...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The perfect crime scene . . . in the type of wild but smart caper that Grisham's readers love."--Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of...

An entertaining series perfect for fans for Joanne Fluke that highlights delicious new recipes for you to try this holiday season! A merry Christmas mystery is the festive read you need this time of year... "The lavish food descriptions and appended recipes are the...

A skier plunges to her death from a chairlift in Colorado. But her long fall doesn't appear to be an accident. The bloody opening of the new ski resort has a red ribbon cutting.Author: Phil BaylyPublisher: ShirespressPublished: 10/07/2025Pages: 346Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.50h x...

Summertime has finally arrived in Lake Eden, Minnesota, and Hannah Swensen, owner of The Cookie Jar bakery, is looking forward to warm, lazy days, eating ice cream, and sharing picnics with friends. But when a family reunion takes a deadly turn, it's up to...

One impulsive decision changes the lives of two best friends forever in a powerful novel of suspense by the USA Today bestselling author of The Last Caretaker.If Lark and Mikki didn't have each other, they'd have nothing in this miserable town. So the best...

Welcome to Torte--a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the oven is heating up as high as the body count... Jules Capshaw is still chewing over her husband Carlos's return to Ashland, Oregon. Could there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Whatever is...

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it...but when one of the new human arrivals on a space shuttle is murdered, she's back in the game. Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective,...

Librarian Minnie Hamilton and her clever cat Eddie solve a purr-fect murder, in the newest installment of the delightful Bookmobile Cat Mystery series. Minnie and her rescue cat Eddie can often be found out and about in their bookmobile near Chilson, Michigan, delivering great...

Hannah Swensen and her bakery, The Cookie Jar, bask in the glow of Hollywood glamour when Main Street becomes a movie set. And although tensions simmer as the cameras roll, no one expects the action to turn deadly . . . until it's too...

Pastry chef and amateur sleuth Juliet Capshaw finds herself on thin ice as she attempts to solve her latest case of small-town murder in Ellie Alexander's Chilled to the Cone: A Bakeshop Mystery. The deep freeze has thawed in Ashland, Oregon and Torte is...

"Part mystery, part magical, and completely captivating."--Karen Winn, author of Our Little WorldQueenie Rivers was raised by her grandparents in coastal Los Angeles. As she approaches thirty, her erratic lifestyle is forced back on course by a car accident and her grandmother's intervention.But her...

Librarian Charlie Harris and his cat Diesel must catalog a killer in this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat in the Stacks series. Suspecting that someone is stealing from him, the aging and eccentric James Delacorte wants Charlie to do an inventory...