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Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union.

In the autumn of 1915, Shaw Tucker, his brother James, and their sons, go on a hunting trip to the derelict farm his stepfather had bought years before.

The year is 542. While plague stalks Constantinople, an angel sets John the Eunuch on the trail of a human killer.

The spring of 98 A.D. is a time of optimism in the turbulent frontier province of Britannia.

But if Lucy, the pregnant Giant Anteater from Belize, didn’t kill the man found dead in her enclosure, who did?

Running late to a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets some thugs in dark alley and handles them convincingly before they can ruin her silver dress.

Tai Randolph doesn’t want to hear about homicide.

Ike Schwartz thought he could return to his hometown and ditch the demons that pursue him.

Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth, and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne’s two daughters, Ruth and Jane.

Herman Jackson has chosen St. Paul as his place of permanent exile from Detroit, where his former life as a bookie got too hot to hold.

In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side.

When Pru Marlowe gets the call that there’s been a cat shooting, she’s furious.

It’s September 1592, and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures.

After solving her first big murder case in the small town of Celosia, North Carolina, Madeline Maclin hopes at last to be taken seriously as a private investigator.

Several years have passed since we last saw Rachel Gold. The stunning and savvy attorney was then engaged to be married.