Juggling the responsibilities of opening her shop with the demands of Christmas, Hannah Swensen is surprised by the writing talents of an elderly local whose murder story chillingly comes true.

When Worm, a young orphan boy who works at the local clinic, sees Eloise being kidnapped by two men in the days leading up to Christmas, he immediately recruits Squeaky Robinson to help rescue her. But as they track Eloise down, they're surprised to hear that she does not, in fact, wish to be rescued. Instead, Eloise intends to bring the kidnappers, who drew her father into their shady business deals and then murdered him, to justice.

After an informant is murdered at a training camp, Rachel Getty goes undercover in a small-town Canadian mosque to gain information on a terrorist cell planning an attack on New Years Day.

When potent moonshine is smuggled onto the Cherokee reservation, resulting in the death of a marshal, Jack Slade, a reformed drinker and gambler, must find the killers and put an end to the bootleggers' operation once and for all.

A prequel that goes back to the very beginning of Private Investigator Charlie Parker's astonishing career with his first terrifying case, in which his efforts to bring his wife and chid's killer to justice are stymied by corruption.

The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O'Donnell, is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings and sometimes it leads her to murder .

When the jet-setting, brain surgeon husband of her veterinarian friend dies after making a champagne toast at a star-studded party, plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid investigates.

Stepping in for her ailing husband in the wake of a political assassination, private informer Flavia Albia uncovers unsettling truths about the victim and a disturbing number of suspects against a backdrop of an erratic emperor's ill-advised military celebrations.

While working on a reality TV show in the tropics, freelance writer Jaine Austen finds murder entering the script when one of the finalists dies in a freak accident, forcing Jaine to join the investigation before any of the other contestants suffer the same fate.

A housemaid from Five Points who works in a Fifth Avenue brownstone during the Gilded Age of Manhattan takes it upon herself to investigate after her employer, who she is certain is in trouble, suddenly and mysteriously disappears.