It's frigid in snow-covered Tinker's Cove, and Lucy Stone is fighting the winter blues - and her widening waistline. The town is launching a travel promotion for Valentine's Day, and as a reporter for the Pennysaver, Lucy is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer's Chocolates and its deliciously handsome owner, Trey Meacham. But when a local fisherman drowns suspiciously, Lucy's certain her investigative skills could be put to better use ......

2nd Chance reconvenes the Women's Murder Club, four friends (a detective, a reporter, an assistant district attorney, and a medical examiner) who used their networking skills, feminine intuition, and professional wiles to solve a baffling series of murders in 1st to Die. This time, the murders of two African Americans, a little girl and an old woman, bear all the signs of a serial killer for Lindsay Boxer, newly promoted to lieutenant of San Fransisco's...

"This is my family: Vanished without a trace. ... Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you'd find in the pages of a glossy magazine. A beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. This is what I know: Pain has a flavor. ... When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes' home, she finds...

Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill, but she's too badly shaken to make a commitment to him or to her career. Then Sam calls her to the scene of his new case: a young woman found stabbed to death in a small town outside Dublin. The dead girl's ID says her name is Lexie Madison--the identity Cassie...

Stephanie Plum, New Jersey bounty hunter, is after Kenny Mancuso, whose inadvertent shooting of his best friend sets off an all-out manhunt for gunrunners and illegal weapons. Also hot on his heels, and Stephanie's is a vice cop Joe Morelli. Through back streets, dark alleys and funeral parlors, Stephanie staggers knee-deep in corpses and caskets when suddenly the stakes soar: embalmed body parts begin arriving on her doorstep, and she's targeted...

During the Christmas party at Lake Eden's community center, Hannah Swensen stumbles upon a murder when Martin Dubinski's new wife, a former Las Vegas showgirl, is found dead with Hannah's mother's silver cake knife buried in her cleavage.

First a meth lab on wheels explodes into the San Francisco night, bringing detective LIndsay Boxer rushing to the scene. Later, she and her lover, Joe Molinari, are interrupted by reporter Cindy Thomas, who has come upon the body of an itinerant preacher, known for his kindness. It isn't until a glamorous, wealthy couple is killed in their home - with not a trace of evidence left behind - that Lindsay begins to wonder, crazy as it seems, whether all...

Healthy patients are dying of unknown causes in a San Francisco hospital, and the Women's Murder Club decides to investigate the hospital's personnel. They discover a hospital administrator determined to shield the hospital's reputation.

When a series of blond, pregnant teens go missing from the Magdalene Laundry in 1929 Melbourne and a pushy woman reporter disappears while investigating, Phryne and Dot uncover a dark plot involving piracy, convents, and creepy cellars.

A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsay's homicide department to report a murder that hasn't yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says he's ready to tell where the...