Libby Sarjeant and her friend Fran are invited by Fran's creative writing tutor to investigate a house that is reputedly haunted. For once, Libby can be as nosy as she likes without ploughing straight into a murder investigation. But perhaps someone doesn't want Libby to continue.

As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder?.

When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV?s Big Blubber - the hot new celebrity weight-loss show - is murdered on live television in front of three-million viewers, the case seems pretty watertight. After all, everyone saw Martin do it - didn?t they? Cherry Hinton knows there?s more to this than meets the eye. As an investigative reporter, she went undercover on dating show Caravan of Love ? but after getting in too deep with one of the other contestants,...

At a local wedding, Mma Ramotswe bumps into a long-lost friend, Calviniah, who confesses that her only daughter Nametso has inexplicably turned away from her. Not only that, an old acquaintance has simultaneously lost all her money and found solace in a charismatic ex-mechanic turned reverend, who seems to have cast a spell over several ladies in the region. With little work on at the agency, Precious and her colleague Mma Makutsi see no harm in investigating...

Libby Sarjeant finds herself distracted from involvement with her local pantomime by her friend Harry, who asks her to help a friend of his who has been receiving threatening letters. At first she believes it to be a simple case of prejudice, but soon Libby uncovers links to particularly nasty crimes in the past.

Her publisher needs her to tour on behalf of her newest blockbuster, and Melanie Joan needs a bodyguard-cum-escort to protect her from an overbearing ex-husband whose presence unnerves her to the point of hysteria. Sunny's cool demeanour, cop background, and P.I. smarts are an instant balm for the older woman. She begins to sense that Melanie Joan's ex-a psychotherapist-is not your basic stalker, and when an incident at a book signing leaves the ex...

New edition includes map of Steeple Martin, list of characters and free bonus chapter from the next title in the bestselling Libby Sarjeant Murder Mystery series. Artist and ex-actress Libby Sarjeant is busy directing a play for the opening of a new theatre in her village when one of her cast is found murdered. The play, written by her friend Peter, is based on real events in his family, disturbing and mysterious, which took place in the village during...

But as soon as she does, she remembers that when she does have time on her hands, she doesn't know what to do with it. So it doesn't take much for the vicar of a nearby village to persuade her to help publicize the church fete - especially when the event organizer, George Selby, turns out to be a handsome widower. Agatha brings out the crowds for the fete all right, but there's more going on than innocent village fun. Several of the offerings in the...

The seventh Aim�e Leduc investigation set in Paris by two-time Anthony Award nominee Cara Black Aim�e is working on a tight deadline when she discovers an abandoned infant in the courtyard of her home on the Ile Saint-Louis. While seeking the child?s mother, Aim�e becomes involved with environmental protesters and her life and that of little Stella are endangered by a cold-hearted killer. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Meet Aim�e Leduc, the smart, stylish Parisian private investigator, in her bestselling first investigation Aim�e Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation-no criminal cases for her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But when an elderly Jewish man approaches Aim�e with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a woman in his synagogue, Aim�e unwittingly takes on more than...