Poodle owner Melanie Travis searches for the killer of a businessman who was intending to open a coffee bar in Stamford, Connecticut. Suspects include residents who were opposed to the presence of a cafe in a family neighborhood.

CRIME & MYSTERY. The famous Orient Express, thundering along on its three days' journey across Europe, came to a sudden stop in the night. Snowdrifts blocked the line at a desolate spot somewhere in the Balkans. Everything was deathly quiet. "Decidedly I suffer from the nerves," murmured Hercule Poirot, and fell asleep again. He awoke to find himself very much wanted. For in the night murder had been committed. Mr. Ratchett, an American millionaire,...

While a mysterious stalker terrorizes her life, Melanie Travis also deals with the amorous advances of both her ex-husband and ex-fiance, and sets out to find a missing Dachshund puppy, the victim of a divorced couple's tug-of-war.

Invited to the country hotel, Puzzel Manor, for Christmas weekend, Jack Tarrant and his lover, Maria, soon find themselves embroiled in a case of double murder in a work that encourages readers to follow the clues and solve the case.

Detective Ruggiero Carlucci of the Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, police department investigates the after-hours rape and beating of a woman in the offices of a company. By the author of Cranks and Shadows.

"Little Virginia lives in an apartment complex in Sydney with her widowed father. She must be left with a babysitter over the Christmas holiday while her father travels on business. Isobel, the sitter, is a reluctant neighbor, pressed into service at the last minute. Annoyed with her lively young charge, she locks the child in the kitchen when her boyfriend visits. Then something unforeseen occurs and the little girl's life is placed in jeopardy."--Jacket....

When a young boy who has been struck by a car is found to have her name and address sewn into his clothes, barrister Trish Maguire finds herself embroiled in a murder case and shaken to the core when her father is accused of the crime.

As gruesomely dismembered corpses of young women are discovered one after another in his small Montana ranching town, Gabriel Du Pre angrily begins the hunt for a murderer and finds that he must try to think like the serial killer in order to catch him.

Daisy and her new husband, DCI Alex Fletcher embark on an ocean voyage to America, only to have a series of deaths ruin their trip.

A comic mystery featuring sleuth Ellie Haskell as she investigates an urn containing the ashes of her father's lady love. A lot of people seem overly interested in the urn, could it contain something else than ashes?