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Venice, 1734: Castrato soprano Tito Amato has let fame go to his head.

Reporter Theda Krakow is caught up in investigating the rise of a dangerous new designer drug that threatens the musicians and fans who make up the club scene she considers her second home.

Stella Crown works hard and loves her life.

Nearly a year after Pittsburgh psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi helped unravel a baffling murder, he finds himself drawn into another case.

Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life.

When Barry Clayton’s father developed Alzheimer’s, Barry gave up his career in law enforcement to return to the North Carolina mountain town of Gainesboro and run the family’s funeral home.

Russell Mullins has left intelligence work. When his wife dies of ovarian cancer, Rusty quits the Secret Service to repurpose his life. He joins a Washington D.C.

When P.I. Lena Jones’ Pima Indian partner Jimmy Sisiwan is arrested in the remote northern Arizona town of Walapai Flats, Lena closes the Desert Investigations office and rushes to his aid.

Four years ago Emily Locke’s life was shattered when her infant daughter and husband were lost in an inexplicable accident.

The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest.

As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory.

Ike Schwartz and Ruth Harris had to delay a vacation in Las Vegas because at the last moment, Ruth was required to go to Scone Island, Maine to settle an estate.

A sinister Episcopal Bishop shows up to confirm Lottie and Josie Albright’s niece at the new frame church built on the corners of four Western Kansas counties.

For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner, it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home.

The Elements of Mystery Fiction: Writing the Modern Whodunit has guided and inspired mystery writers, veterans as well as beginners, for nearly a decade. Here William G.