An English "cozy" with plenty of action and lots of humor.

A first novel, this "cozy" has a wedding background and a Yorktown, Virghina setting.

Hired to find a young teacher named, Brodie Farrell learns that the people who hired her had deadly intentions when she discovers her cleDaniel tortured and left for dead, and feeling responsible, she agrees to help him find his attackers.

After inheriting the Grace and Favor Cottage from their wealthy great-uncle, Lily Brewster and her brother Robert move in and discover a body,

When the misogynistic and offensive Charles Haycock, professor of Victorian literature, is found murdered, his son hires private investigator Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven to find the killer, and Woody enlists the assistance of academic sleuth Kate Fansler, in Cross's 13th Kate Fansler novel.

While attending a festival in Chicago to honor the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, journalist Cat Marsala witnesses the stabbing murder of the chief security guard and confronts a case in which the evidence points to her own brother as the killer.

Bakery owner and sleuth extraordinaire Hannah Swensen investigates the murder of a pompous cable TV cooking show host; murdered while eating one of Hannah's famous blueberry muffins.

Annabel Kendal heads for the annual family holiday with trepidation. This year she decides to solve the murder: her aunt died during one such holiday. Good psychological suspense

Twenty years ago, Henry Evans left the English girl he fell in love with on a backpacking trip in India, and he has regretted it ever since. When he finds her she is in prison for killing her son Harry, a five-year-old with cerebral palsy.

Suffragette and amateur sleuth Nell Bray investigates the death of her young cousin, who had returned home from art school pregnant, with her body full of morphine.

Minister's wife, professional caterer, and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild does not know if she can stand the heat in the kitchen when a woman drops dead, ostensibly from Faith's yummy but poisoned dessert.

When English teacher and amateur sleuth Amanda Pepper attends an extravagant gala at a local prep school, murder is on the menu.

Celia Grant travels to Madeira as executrix of an in-law's estate and discovers a puzzling family, some beautiful orchids, and evidence of murder.

New Mexico rare books librarian Claire Reynier retrieves a batch of particularly valuable Southwest titles from a remote ranch only to have someone steal them from her truck. That same night the ranch owner is found dead.