detective fiction

While visiting Michigan's Upper Peninsula to prepare their Great-aunt Sophie's big old house for sale, the Boxcar Children encounter a mystery involving a valuable ring supposedly hidden somewhere in the house.

In 1924 Denver, private investigator Annalee Spain becomes the suspect in a murder when she offers her lace handkerchief to a distraught woman in a local library, whose husband is later found murdered. Battling a corrupt police force filled with Klu Klux Klan members searching for a way to bring her down, and the disappearance of her boyfriend Jack, a pastor, Annalee must rely on her faith and wits to weed out a growing list of suspects, stay one step ahead of her enemies, and find Jack.

After her boyfriend leaves her, twenty-something Scarlett Gardner tries to keep the Palm Trees and Page Turners bookshop in Southern California afloat with her only employee, Evelyn Maxwell. Then a customer is found dead and it turns out she left a small fortune to Scarlett. Now Evelyn's husband, police detective Steve Maxwell of the Oceanside Police, believes Scarlett is a prime suspect. To clear her name, Scarlett must find out just how she is connected to the victim.

When the popular TV series "Only Murders in Gotham" chooses the Village Blend as a place to shoot its new season, shop manager and master roaster Clare Cosi is thrilled at the chance to show off the shop, especially when her bulletproof coffee lands her a craft services contract for the production. But when a real bullet is fired from a prop gun that could have killed one of Clare's baristas working as an extra, she knows she has to get to the bottom of what is really going on before someone dies.

At Christmastime, Virginia blacksmith Meg Langslow enters a weaponsmithing competition after someone attacks Faulk, her blacksmithing mentor, eliminating him from the contest. Meg agrees to replace him at the competition held at a Goth castle on the estate of Ragnarshjem owned by her friend Ragnar, a retired heavy metal drummer. With ruthless contestants, old grudges and feuds, and weapons everywhere, Meg sets out to learn who is behind the drama and strange incidents.

Massachusetts bookstore owner Gemma and her tea-shop owner friend Jane are called in to investigate purported hauntings at a historical reenactment museum known as Scarlet House. When they discover a dead body on the property and a museum filled with secrets, their list of suspects grows, as does the threat to their lives.

Agnes Sharp opens Sunset Hall, her family home in the English village of Duck End, to fellow retirees to live out their twilight years in peace, but they are shocked to learn that a dead body has been discovered in the house next door to theirs. Agnes and the rest of her friends hope that this death can explain the death of one of their own: Lilith, whose body they're currently hiding in their shed. The group begins to investigate and soon discover shocking secrets.

Sherlock Holmes and Watson set out to solve the mystery of the mysterious and terrifying beast which is lurking on the desolate moor.

Shortly after her Reindeer Games Christmas Tree Farm opens up its B&B side of business, Holly White, the new innkeeper, finds herself a suspect in a murder mystery: the B&B critic and generally disliked local resident Cleo is found bludgeoned to death by a metal nutcracker, her body stuffed into the toy donation box. Holly is not the only suspect, though, for Mistletoe, Main's sheriff, Evan Gray, and local sleuth, Cookie--many townspeople held utter disdain for the critic and her scathing review pieces. Cookie is especially eager to solve this murder case, since her fingerprints were on the nutcracker.

When Christmas nears in Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swenson begins baking her holiday cupcakes at The Cookie Jar. She's busy with orders and family drama, but she gets involved when a John Doe with amnesia appears on her doorstep. He only remembers he can restore antique furniture. Hannah sets out to solve the mystery of the man's identity and soon finds herself in danger. Includes over a dozen cookie and dessert recipes.