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Tired of writing an advice column for the obscure magazine Zeitgeist, Molly Forrester is looking for the right story to propel her career in new directions, which she finds when she stumbles upon the bloody corpse of a co-worker and sets out to uncover the truth about the crime.
Molly Forrester Series

After her husband dies, Samantha Shaw discovers that he had been stealing money from an illegal drug trade, and she is forced to revamp her business in order to come up with the money to pay off the drug dealers.
Samantha Shaw Series

Unfulfilled in her job as a nurse, thirty-something Pauline Sokol takes up a new career as a private detective and goes undercover to expose a medical fraud scheme involving fraudulent insurance claims, but her mission takes a bizarre turn when the healers around her start turning up dead.
Pauline Sokol Series

When her stolen car turns up with the body of one of her students in its trunk, English professor Alison Bergeron suddenly finds herself on handsome NYPD Homicide Detective Bobby Crawford’s list of suspects and embarks on a determined quest to clear her name — while dealing with a jailed ex, the victim’s distraught parents, and Shakespeare exams to grade.
Murder 101 Series

When Annie Capshaw and her best friend Eve take a gourmet cooking class together, they discover that murder is on the menu when a mysterious man is found dead in the parking lot after arguing with a fellow student, causing this case to come to a boil as they get closer to the truth.
Cooking Class Mystery Series

Jane Kelly, a thirty-year-old single woman working as a process server in Lake Chinook, Oregon, becomes entangled in a case involving the disappearance of Bobby Reynolds, a man accused of murdering his own family.
Jane Kelly Series

“Crimes of Fashion” columnist Lacey Smithsonian delves into her latest mystery when hot new stylist Angie Woods supposedly commits suicide, but Lacey believes otherwise and teams up with a gorgeous ex-cop to find the truth, an investigation that leads her to a congressional staffer.
Crime of Fashion Series

Former pop star Heather Wells has left behind hordes of screaming fans, to settle into a new adult life, but when strange things start happening at her college, she finds herself once again in the spotlight, this time starring as a spunky female detective.
Heather Wells Series

When her despicable ex-husband is accused of murdering his third wife, Marla Shore, the owner of the Cut ‘N Dye Salon and an occasional sleuth, believes in his innocence and goes undercover as a nurse at the victim’s family’s lavish South Florida compound to catch a killer.
Bad Hair Day Series

After Jackson Dubuisson, a client of her housecleaning service, is found murdered in his study, Charlotte LaRue finds herself unwillingly drawn into the mystery when those who knew the victim insist on confiding in her.
Charlotte LaRue Series

When her vintage Corvette falls victim to a hit-and-run, flower shop owner Abby Knight, crusader for all things good, joins forces with gorgeous cop Marco Salvare to catch the culprit, an investigation that becomes filled with deadly twists and turns.
Flower Shop Mystery Series

When a famous Hollywood director and a popular rapper are murdered, mystery writer Sophie Katz, armed with caffeine and a knack for trouble, discovers that a deranged killer is emulating the plot of her best-selling novel.
Sophie Katz Series

When the unpleasant mother-of-the-bride, a Washington, D.C., socialite, drops dead at her daughter’s wedding reception, wedding planner Annabelle Archer and her sometimes business partner Richard Gerard must navigate the difficult water of the city’s high-power social scene to uncover a ruthless killer.
Annabelle Archer Series

Fashion stylist Dallas O’Connor turns sleuth to investigate the brutal killing of a beautiful young model, after she and Cuban artist Raul Domingo become prime suspects in the crime.
Dallas O’Connor Series

With the help of a three-hundred-pound psychic, her post-menopausal mother, and her oversexed best friend, L.A. shoe designer Maddie Spring digs her heels into mystery and mayhem when her boyfriend absconds with $20 million dollars in embezzled funds and she is placed under surveillance by a sexy cop who makes her toes curl.
Maddie Springer Series

Attorney December Vaughn’s first client, whose wife died because of defective insulin, pits her against a major drug company determined to stop her in her tracks, but this blonde bombshell, with a little help from her friends, proves that she has what it takes to win the case.
December Vaughn Series

Mystery author, biographer, and nosy former beauty queen Cece Caruso interviews a prison inmate for her latest book only to find herself embroiled in a double murder case with forty-year-old ties.
Cece Caruso Series

Private investigator Abby Cooper relies upon her psychic abilities to help her do her job, but when she fails to foresee the death of one of her clients, her future suddenly appears bleak.
Psychic Eye Series

When savvy scribe Jaine Austen is hired by nerdy Howard Murdoch to pen a love letter to gorgeous aerobics instructor Stacy Lawrence, she gets caught up in a murder investigation when Stacy is found beaten to death and Howard is accused of the crime.
Jaine Austen Series

Izzy Spellman, a twenty-eight-year-old amalgamation of Nancy Drew and Bridget Jones, launches her career as a private investigator while working for the firm of her outlandishly dysfunctional family.
Izzy Spellman Series

Determined to escape her life as a socialite, much to the dismay of her high society mother, Dallas heiress and Web site designer Andy Kendricks turns sleuth when her friend, Molly O’Brien, is accused of killing her boss at the sleazy local restaurant “Jugs,” an investigation that embroils her with a shady TV evangelist, a fanatical anti-porn activist, and a killer.
Debutante Dropout Series

Coerced by Alexandre Drake — one of her fictional characters who has become all too real — to attend a writer’s conference, author Maggie Kelly is faced with murderous fanatics, backstabbing colleagues, and NYPD Lieutenant Steve Wendell.
Maggie Kelly Series

College friends, Rachel, Hilary, Luisa, Jane, and Emma, make a pact to rescue each other from romances with the wrong men, until Emma decides to marry the despicable Richard, who ends up dead the day of their wedding.
Rachel Benjamin Series

Fired from her job, jilted by her boyfriend, and rejected by her credit cards, school psychologist Skye Denison reluctantly returns to her hometown of Scumble River, where she finds plenty of mystery and romantic intrigue.
Scumble River Mystery Series

Hired to inspect the stores of designer Denessa Celedine anonymously, mystery shopper Josie Marcus’s less than stellar report is the least of the designer’s problems, after she is found strangled with one of her own expensive snakeskin belts.
Josie Marcus, Mystery Shopper Series

When her boss’s nanny is murdered, Bailey Weggins is persuaded to find the killer before the police do, an investigation that takes her from New York City to the glamorous retreats of Bucks County, where everyone is a suspect.
Bailey Weggins Series