Nine Lives to Murder
Год выхода: 1994
Someone is trying to kill leading British Shakespearean actor, husband, father, ladies man, and soon-to-be Knight of the Realm Winstanley Fortescue. The actor, rehearsing his starring role in the forthcoming play *Serpent in the Heather* , is conked on the head backstage. He falls off a ladder and lands on the resident Pest Control Officer, Montmorency D. Mousa (otherwise known as Monty), the company cat. When Fortescue comes to, he finds to his horror that he has been switched into Monty's...
Only the Cat Knows
Год выхода: 2007
Vanessa and her twin brother Vance are very close. So when someone pushes Vanessa down a flight of stairs and puts her into a coma, Vance wants revenge. He decides that masquerading as Vanessa will lead him to the villain. With her clothes, her makeup, and what he knows about his beloved sister, he pulls it off very well and is on the verge of learning what he needs to know. ..Until he discovers a serious threat that might destroy all his efforts. There is one pair of eyes he can’t pull the wool...


Playing with Poison
Год выхода: 2012
Серия: Cue Ball Mysteries (#1)
**Playing With Poison was a Quarter Finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award! Murder meets menopause. Take a guess which wins. ** **PRAISE for Playing With Poison** "I just love Jessie Hewitt. She is the bomb." Melina Mason, *Melina's Book Blog* "This was one of my favorite submissions so far. I loved the main character, Jessie Hewitt, a middle aged romance writer (ex-pool hustler) having the time of her life." *Amazon contest review* "These characters are a hoot!! A lighthearted cozy...
Pumpkins in Paradise
Год выхода: 2013
Серия: A Tj Jensen Mystery (#1)
Between shopping for Halloween costumes, volunteering for the annual pumpkin festival, and coaching her girls to the state soccer finals, high school teacher Tj Jensen finds her good friend Zachary Collins dead in his favorite chair. When the handsome new deputy closes the case without so much as a “why” or “how,” Tj turns her attention from chili cook-offs and pumpkin carving to complex puzzles, prophetic riddles, and a decades’ old secret she seemed destined to unravel.
Purr M for Murder
Год выхода: 2017
Серия: Cat Rescue Mysteries (#1)
Sydney McCall left behind an ex-fiance and a New York advertising job to return home to Deer Park, North Carolina and help her sister, Kat, run the local animal shelter, Friendly Paws. Determined to save the shelter from financial trouble, Sydney and Kat organize a cat cafe fundraising event at a local coffee shop. Things are looking up until their landlord, Trowbridge Littleton, threatens to shut down the event. When Sydney drops by his art gallery to make peace, she finds Kat--along with...
Purrs and Peril : A Norwegian Forest Café Cozy Mystery
Год выхода: 2018
Lauren Crenshaw, and her Norwegian Forest Cat Annie, run the Norwegian Forest cafe in a picturesque town in Northern California. Lauren's cousin Zoe also helps out. When one of Annie's favorite customers is murdered, the three of them try to figure out "whodunit"!
Reel Murder
Год выхода: 1985
Written by Marian Babson. When two grand dames of Hollywood, silent film star Eve Sinclair ('she put the sin in Cinema') and ex-hoofer Trixie Dolan set out for London to attend a film retrospective held in Eve's honour, they fully expect to be the centre of attention. What they don't expect is that all the lovely attention will be generated not by an appreciation of their talents but by a series of grisly murders associated with the retrospective. Even less do they expect to find themselves...
Romeow and Juliet
Год выхода: 2014
Серия: Whales and tails mystery (#1)
### Product Description Romeow and Juliet is the first in a cozy mystery series set on Madrona Island, a fictional island within the San Juan Islands off the coast of Washington State. As a fourth generation islander Caitlin Hart is struggling to make her way as the economy and culture of the island evolves toward a tourism based industry. Cait lives in a cabin on her aunt's oceanfront estate where she helps her aunt run Harthaven Cat Sanctuary. When she isn't working with the cats, she helps...
Terrier
Год выхода: 2008
### Amazon.com Review *Terrier* , Pierce returns to the Tortall universe (home to her Song of the Lioness, Immortals, Protector of the Small, and Daughter of the Lioness series). Want to learn more? Read an exclusive essay from Tamora Pierce below. *\--Daphne Durham* * * * **An Essay from Tamora Pierce** Sixteen-year-old Beka Cooper lives far removed from knights, palaces, and the nobility. Her world revolves around thieves, beggars, taverns, and the lowest of the low. She's a trainee for the...
The Butcher's Theater
Год выхода: 2013
For all its many crimes of passion and politics, Jerusalem has only once before been victimized by a serial killer. Now the elusive psychopath is back, slipping through the fingers of police inspector Daniel Sharavi. And one murderer with a taste for young Arab women can destroy the delicate balance Jerusalem needs to survive. *** They call the ancient hills of Jerusalem the butcher’s theater. Here, upon this bloodstained stage, a faceless...
The Cat Next Door
Год выхода: 2002
Margot returns to her well-to-do family in England on the eve of her Aunt Chloe's murder trial—she is accused of fatally stabbing her twin sister with a kitchen knife in the garden. Nothing has been the same since Claudia's body was found: her 14-year-old daughter, Lynette, refuses to leave her bedroom, the paparazzi are relentless, and Tikki, the family's beloved Abyssinian, goes to stay with the neighbors. When another body, whom no one recognizes, shows up facedown in the pond while the...
The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse
Год выхода: 2009
Серия: Cats in trouble mystery (#1)
### From Publishers Weekly Sweeney (Pick Your Poison) launches the Cats in Trouble mystery series with a meandering whodunit. Jillian Hart is content making and selling cat quilts and living quietly in Mercy, S.C., with her three cats, Syrah, Chablis and Merlot. When Syrah is catnapped, Jillian finds not only the thief-thanks to a state-of-the-art alarm system installed by charming PI Tom Stewart-but also a murder mystery to solve. The cats are entertaining four-legged assistants, with traits...
The Cats that Surfed the Web
Год выхода: 2013
Серия: The cats that mysteries (#1)
$44 million. A Victorian mansion. And a young career woman with cats. The prospect sounded like a dream come true. What could possibly go wrong? How could a friendly town’s welcome turn into a case of poisoning, murder, and deceit? When Katherine “Katz” Kendall, a computer professional in New York City, discovers she’s the sole heir of a huge inheritance, she can’t believe her good fortune. She’s okay with the clauses of the will: Move to the small town of Erie, Indiana, check. Live in her...
The Company of Cats
Год выхода: 1999
When millionaire Arthur Arbuthnot mistakes gossip maven Annabel Hinchby-Smythe for a decorator—and hires her to redecorate his apartment—the fiscally challenged Annabel can't refuse. When she sees Arbuthnot's tatty London flat, she knows anything will be an improvement. And any gossip she can dig up will be pure gold for the tabloids. But when Arthur is found dead, his frisky relatives begin to lick their chops. Arbuthnot's beloved tabby, Sally, was the only witness to the homicide—and the sole...
The Counterfeiter-Catching Cat
Год выхода: 2015
Ashbrook, New Hampshire. Beatrice Young and her two cats are hot on a local counterfeiting case. With the help of her ex-husband, Matthew, and the sheriff, Beatrice and her two crime-solving cats fight to solve the mystery of who's producing the bills.
The Diamond Cat
Год выхода: 1995
A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-eyed Balinese, a depressed ginger Persian with a cod-liver-oil addiction, and Adolf, an imperious mouser with a patchwork face. But a freak storm sets the pigeon among the cats—a carrier bird downed on the doorstep with a tiny load of large flawless diamonds. And Bettina's dilemma escalates, as...
The Man Who Knew
A youth is lying dead in Gray Square, Bloomsbury. Constable Wiseman is at the scene, as is the handsome Frank Merril, nephew of rich John Martin. Also there is May Nuttall, whose father was the best friend Martin ever had. A small, shabby man in an ill-fitting frock coat and large gold-rimmed spectacles pulls a newspaper advertisement from the deceased's waistcoat pocket. “At the Yard,” whispers the constable to Frank, “we call him The Man Who Knows.”
The Marriage. Свадьба
Год выхода: 2023
Топ-100 рейтингов Amazon. «Триллер года 2021» по версии читателей Amazon 10 лет назад он убил моего сына. Сегодня я выхожу за него замуж… Пронзительный, полный любви и ненависти психологический триллер о браке молодого мужчины и женщины на двадцать лет старше него. И о противостоянии двух матерей, которые были лучшими подругами, а стали заклятыми врагами. Затягивающий психологический триллер, который будет держать читательниц в напряжении до последней страницы. Десять лет назад любимый и...
To Catch A Cat
Год выхода: 2000
The last thing 11-year-old Robin wants to hear is that his mother and her new husband are extending their honeymoon indefinitely. Not that staying with his Aunt Mags is so bad, but there's her boyfriend to contend with, and the members of the school gang are insisting that he complete a dare before they let him join the group. They want Robin to kidnap Mrs. Nordling's prize-winning cat when no one is home. Getting into the Nordling's house is easy, and Robin manages to find the cat and put him...
Yappy Hour
Год выхода: 2016
Серия: Roundup Crew Mystery Series (#1)
With side-splitting humor, an irresistable cast of characters--both human and canine--and an intimate small town setting, *Yappy Hour* is sure to delight fans of Rita Mae Brown and Diane Kelly. Every Friday night in the idyllic seaside town of Pacific Cove, CA, the Roundup Crew, a group of dog-loving friends, meet at a neighborhood wine bar for Yappy Hour. When Rachel, the owner, mysteriously leaves town and asks her sister, Maggie (who is neither pet friendly nor business savvy), to run the bar...
Yarn to Go
Год выхода: 2013
Серия: A Yarn Retreat Mystery (#1)
*Dessert chef Casey Feldstein doesn’t know a knitting needle from a crochet hook. But after her aunt dies unexpectedly, leaving Casey to run her yarn retreat business, the sweets baker finds herself rising to the occasion—and trying to unravel a murder mystery* When Casey finds out that her late aunt’s business, Yarn2Go, has one more yarn retreat scheduled, she decides to go ahead and host the event, despite her complete lack of experience as a knitter. At least the retreat is on the beautiful...
Агент ЗЕРО
Год выхода: 2019
38-летний Рид Лоусон, блестящий профессор истории Европы в Колумбийском университете спокойно живет в пригороде Нью-Йорка с двумя дочерьми-подростками. Вся его жизнь резко переворачивается верх ногами, когда однажды ночью раздается стук в дверь и он обнаруживает в своем доме троих террористов, а затем просыпается в подвале Парижа, где его пытают. Они убеждены, что Рид – самый сильный шпион из всех, кого когда-либо нанимало ЦРУ. Он же убежден, что они взяли не того. Так ли это?С тайным сговором...
Адская женщина. Сборник рассказов
Год выхода: 2021
Он неуловим и необычайно умен. Решителен, храбр и неимоверно предан своему делу. Его вера в справедливость непоколебима. Он умеет мастерски перевоплощаться в кого угодно: в женщину, юного афроамериканца или аристократа, старуху или пожилого мужчину. Его имя – Ник Картер. Он – американский Шерлок Холмс, самый гениальный сыщик детективного мира. Ему противостоят опаснейшие виртуозы преступного мира: короли мафии, сильные мира сего, ученые, обернувшие свои знания во зло, неуловимые шпионы и агенты...
Азартная игра
Год выхода: 2000
Серия: Семья Маккензи (#5)
Линда Ховард / Linda Howard Азартная игра / A Game of Chance, 2000 Его единственный шанс... Агент под прикрытием Ченс Маккензи знает, что лучший способ добраться до неуловимого террориста – использовать в качестве наживки его дочь. Поэтому он умело соблазняет Санни Миллер с целью узнать о местонахождении ее отца. Непричастность самой Санни под большим вопросом, влезть ей в доверие оказывается почти невозможно. Со всем обучением и опытом Ченсу очень трудно не обращать внимания на ее...