When sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons cater a canine birthday celebration for Trudy the Pug, who is the mascot for the Colbert toy company, the big day is marred by murder when Trudy's pugnacious owner is poisoned, forcing Bernie and Libby to sniff out a killer among a lot of suspects - all of whom had a bone to pick with the deceased.

ORDER # M1010-1   $13-90   ISBN 9780758221957

Sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to travel to Texas, where horrible childhood memories resurface and Harper discovers what happened to her missing sister

ORDER # M1010-2   $13-90   ISBN 9780425237519

When one of her passengers on a steamboat trip down the Mississippi is found dead, Delilah Dickinson, the owner of a literary travel agency, must get to the bottom of the mystery with the help of a handsome actor playing the role of Mark Twain in a one-man show aboard the riverboat.

ORDER # M1010-3   $13-90   ISBN 9780758225696

While in San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class at Bay Area Book Arts, rare books and antiquities expert Brooklyn Wainwright must investigate the murder of Layla Fontaine, the horrible director of BABA whose past is inexplicably linked to Brooklyn's boyfriend Derek.

ORDER # M1010-4   $13-90   ISBN 9780451231697

Investigating the death of a woman that has been ruled accidental by the police but that her sister insists had been a murder by a known perpetrator, a reluctant Nameless begins to suspect that the victim's sister is telling the truth when he learns unsettling facts about her life.

ORDER # M1010-5   $13-90   ISBN 9780765349279

Claire Malloy's ninth mystery finds the resourceful owner of The Book Depot in smalltown Fayetteville trying to clear her friend Luanne's fiance from a murder charge involving the horrific deaths of his first two wives.

ORDER # M1010-6   $13-90   ISBN 9780312384647

While mystery-shopping at a chain of lingerie stores, Josie Marcus stumbles upon the dead body of an old high school acquaintance whose hands are bound with the bra she just purchased, prompting Josie to bust out her abundant sleuthing skills.

ORDER # M1010-7   $13-90   ISBN 9780451231703

During the English coastal town of Blackpool's Seafaring Days celebrations, Molly and Michael Graham investigate the murder of troublemaker Willie Myners - a crime linked to cursed 16th-century coins, gypsy gold and their best friend Dylan Malcolm's wife.

ORDER # M1010-8   $13-90   ISBN 9780373837526

When a local widow complains she is being tormented by witches, rancher and Ute tribal investigator Charlie Moon initially disregards the claims until the woman defends herself at the cost of her life, a situation that compels Charlie to look into covert activities on an adjoining oil company field.

ORDER # M1010-9   $13-90   ISBN 9780312532475