"Eight years ago, a man walked five-year-old Hannah out the front doors of her school and spirited her over the Mexican border, taking her into the world of a cult known as The Chosen. For eight years, followers of The Prophet have hidden the child, moving her from country to country, shielding the man who stole her. Now, those who've searched the longest know where to find her. They are childhood survivors of The Chosen, thirty-somethings born and...

Nord Lafferty hires Kinsey Millhone to watch his daughter, thirty-two-year old Reba, who has just gotten out of jail, and make sure that she stays away from drinking, drugs, and gambling, but Reba is soon re-united with the ex-boss who got her into jail, land developer Alan Beckwith.

It's time for the annual Halloween festival in Sinful, and Fortune, Ida, Belle and Gertie can't wait to suit up and enjoy the food and activities! When a dead man gallops through the park on a black stallion and slides to a decapitated stop in front of them, the festival is about to be turned on its head ... so to speak. Gil Forrest's body was supposed to be at the funeral home, so how did it end up on a horse in the middle of the festival? It may...

When a mother is shot in her own home, journalist Kathryn McCoy turns to her best friend, Rhea Jensen, and the self-righteous Officer Dahl to get her exclusive on putting the killer behind bars. What Kathryn doesn't expect is for Dahl to awaken the ghosts of her past that will set her on the path to healing.

When Salt Lake City PI Rhea Jensen and her best friend Kathryn realize a soon-to-be-father has been set up to take the fall for a crime he didn't commit, Rhea decides to poke around. Little does she know that the ghosts from her past are about to close in, and that the secret society behind the mystery is much more powerful than she could have imagined.

Savannah Reid of the Midnight Magnolia Detective Agency takes on the case of a rising-star actor whose wife and toddler went missing right before their nanny was found murdered.

Chicago politics—past, present, and future—take center stage in this complex and compelling V.I. Warshawki novel from New York Times bestselling author Sara Peretsky.
Tracking down missing persons is part of V.I. Warshawski’s job. But Lamont Gadsden has been missing for more than forty years—last seen heading out into the 1967 blizzard, in the midst of Chicago’s racial unrest. V.I. figured the search...

With family tensions intensifying in Tinker's Cove, part-time reporter Lucy Stone could really use some time off the grid—but disconnecting from reality comes at a deadly price . . .
Lucy doesn't know what to expect as she arrives on a private Maine island owned by eccentric billionaire Scott Newman, only that the exclusive experience should make for a very intriguing feature story. An avid environmentalist, Scott has stripped...

"When the body of Tess Grey's former university roommate is found on a rocky Maine beach, having fallen from the cliffs above, the initial verdict is suicide. But why would Chelsea Grace, who was terrified of heights, have chosen to end her life in a way that invoked her very worst fear? Tess determines to find out."--Publisher's description.

"The Christmas season at the Cackleberry Club cafe is marred by murder in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling series. Some say that casting crusty attorney Allen Sharpe as Scrooge in the Kindred Players production of "A Christmas Carol" isjust playing to type. He's not the most beloved man in town. In fact, you'd have a dickens of a time finding someone who liked him. Still it's a shock when the Ghost of Christmas Past stabs him during...