Light Mysteries

Family bedtime stories about her were one thing, but when Lori is set to inherit a sizeable estate from her aunt, Lori must unearth a secret hidden in letters first.

She should be enjoying her retirement, but after a handyman goes missing and is discovered murdered, Auntie Poldi just can’t help but ask questions.

Rosie Lee is a feisty widow and sometimes sleuth, building a culinary empire and tracking down clues to a wealthy patron’s murder.

A gawky, orphaned teen stumbles into the quietly retired Sherlock Holmes and finds a mentor, and an intellect to match her own.

His new news beat might seem uneventful, but award-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cat Koko find murder and mystery in the art world.

His lab is underfunded, his boss incompetent, but the new national coroner of Laos will always seek out the truth for the dead.

The appearance of a charred body leads a retired private school principal and an aging socialite to decide to give justice, and the deputy sheriff, a helping hand.

Chet and his faithful human Bernie investigate the disappearance of a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped.

A young woman who was left abandoned as a child on an Australian dock is determined to learn her real identity.

Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie is flat broke, but her move to London will give her freedom and a dead Frenchman in her tub.

Wealthy young widow Frances Wynn moves to London, where a string of burglaries implicates her in her late husband’s death.

A reappearance of a dead man at a reclusive communal farm for veterans of World War I uncovers a disturbing mystery.

The new British prime minister’s secretary uses her skills to unravel an assassination plot while the Blitz thunders around London.

Texas genealogist Lucy Lancaster loves a good taco and tracking down clients' long-dead ancestors, but some family trees should not be shaken.

A widow’s sudden suicide and the murder of her supposed lover sparks rumors in a quiet village crawling with suspects.

The death of a local advice columnist in her garden shed turns Janet Marsh and the three other new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives.

Agatha Raisin is used to getting her way, but her ready-made entry in the local baking contest poisons the judge.

The owner of a unique bookstore and a group seeking to earn their personal redemption work together to uncover the truth surrounding a visiting businessman’s death.

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is certain a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines died at the hands of someone much more sinister than a careless bowhunter.

When a young man falls from a balcony to his death, a trained philosopher and amateur sleuth takes the case.