A neighbor vanishes. A human bone turns up at the recycling drop-off. Something is wrong in Cypress Grove.Former Miss Crawdad Queen of Houma Parish, Louisiana, Sashé Boudreaux has an eye for fashion, a heart for her community, and some of the best cooking skills in the state.Monday through Friday, she's delivering home cooked meals to the shut-ins and color-coordinating the ladies of Cypress Grove—a charming little bayou town of moss-draped oaks, porch swings, and gossip ov...

A Nighttime Adventure + Wildlife Field Guide in One Beautifully Illustrated Book!Grab your flashlight and venture into the shadow-filled jungles of Japan's Ryukyu Islands! Night Hunt! Ryukyu is a gorgeously illustrated watercolor adventure that combines interactive storytelling with real science education.HOW IT WORKS:Rhyming riddles on each page describe mysterious jungle creatures. Kids guess the animal before the page turn reveals it. Watercolor illustrations bri...

Village idyll...Budding romance...And an old murder!American Eve Holdsworth is living her quintessential English dream in a picturesque countryside village. New friends, including a dog, bird-watching and a cosy pub - her new life has everything she could have wanted.Meeting an attractive stranger adds to the appeal. But Ben Dryden is a pariah: his wife was murdered five years ago, and he was the only suspect. Eve is absolutely sure someone as charming as Ben ...

Abigail Summers, dressmaker in life, brilliant sleuth in death, is investigating a death at The Chiltern Valley Flying Club.Trevor Patterson was a radio ham, so could he have heard something over the airwaves? When another body is found, Abigail, psychic medium, Hayley, and her police constable husband, need help from the pilots, alive and dead.Anonymous love letters are being delivered to Becklesfield and the other villages, but deaths take place not long afterwards. Abiga...

In Pine Hills, Ohio, the bars are hopping—and bodies are dropping—as bookstore-café owner Krissy Hancock gets drawn into a deadly St. Patrick’s Day mystery . . .Krissy is ready to provide one of the essential ingredients for Irish coffee this St. Patrick’s Day—though without a liquor license, she’ll have to team up with a local bar owner to complete the recipe. It’s a perfect chance to distract herself from her upcoming wedding . . . and her worries about how her b...

It was like they vanished into thin air ...Twenty-two years ago, young Bron Temperley and his baby brother Theo disappeared without a trace. No ransom demand. No sightings. No clues. Only an empty pram left behind.Now, a strange discovery in the garden of the old Temperley house sets private investigators Jenny Meaden and Neeta Biddle on the path to solving the mystery.The memories of the middle Temperley brother, Graham, lead them to a charming and successful young...

Murder. Theatre. Community secrets.Journalist Jade Riley hosts a dinner at her parents’ idyllic country property with members of the local amateur theatre society. The next morning, she finds one of her guests dead in a dam.As Jade investigates, the players tighten their grip on long-held secrets. Grudges and tangled motives emerge, and the past refuses to stay buried.At the same time, a proposal from her boyfriend forces Jade to consider how much s...

Together with her sister-in-law Kara and ex-coworker Tea, Miranda Marquette has finally stepped with both feet into the food truck business. But just as the burners start heating up, her personal life begins to crumble.Three employees at the local motorcycle dealership turn up dead and Miranda's husband, Steve, is arrested for the murders. But why were the victims carrying cryptic notes addressed to Miranda, and could her long-standing friendship with the dealership’s manager be mo...

November in the Berkshires is a time of retreat—when shadows stretch longer and tourists return to their homes. So when Kathryn Stinson, a Boston photo archivist, arrives in New Nottingham to investigate a family mystery, the locals eye her with suspicion.What begins as a search for the identity of a mysterious woman in an old photograph unearths a more recent mystery: the unsolved murder of Diana Farley, a woman who once lived in the house Kathryn now rents. Was Diana killed by he...

Miranda finds adjusting to a new life challenging, when the upstairs neighbor in the apartment building is found dead.Her past comes rushing back to haunt her, with the internet and the press declaring her the “Princess of Death". Murder seems to follow her wherever she goes.An ex-cop working on building a new life in Northern California, Miranda will need all her wit and resolve to find the murderer and clear her own name. But can she find the peace in Santa Clara that she...

Once upon a time in La-La-Land: When theme park princesses start vanishing, a free-spirited P.I. goes undercover and finds her prince: a cautious ex-military spy who'd rather be left alone.Fired from her job, Allie Kincade has a house in escrow, an eviction notice from her landlord, and nothing in the bank. So when she's offered an insanely large paycheck to dress up as a princess and find three women who've gone missing from their jobs as costume characters at GrimmLand, ...

Light pink, robin’s egg blue, daffodil yellow, mint green—Easter eggs hiding sweet treats come in every pastel color. But in a few small towns this year, cracking them could be more fatal than fun…EASTER EGG MURDER by LESLIE MEIERIn Provence to visit her daughter, part-time reporter Lucy Stone is soaking up the atmosphere, even if it includes one Carole Capobianco, the empty-nester she encountered on the flight over. Not exactly tw...