A novella in the hilarious Haley Randolph Mystery Series.The Summer Santa Sale at Holt's Department Store becomes a Christmas nightmare when sales clerk Haley Randolph finds a murdered elf in the stores giant toy bag. Haley, a crazed fashionista obsessed with designer handbags, could find herself "bagged" if she doesn't untangle this mystery quicker than Saint Nick can slide down a chimney. --Provided by publisher.

After an argument with her grandmother at her Maryland home, sixteen-year-old Ginny Marshall - "born rotten," according to Gram - gets high and runs away. She turns up on the doorstep of Maggie Ryan and Nick O'Connor's Brooklyn brownstone. Her presence in Brooklyn is unsettling, but, more urgently, Ginny is a suspect in a murder investigation back home. Maggie travels undercover to Maryland, where she searches for a killer as threads from the past...

A tale of murder and intrigue that will ensnare knitters and non-knitters alike. I couldn't put it down."-Barbara Ross, author of Musseled Out Time has not been kind to sleepy Dorset Falls, Connecticut, where an erstwhile resident is hoping to bring a tattered yarn shop back to life-but with a murderer on the loose, the whole town is in knots. . . Josie Blair left Dorset Falls twelve years ago in hopes of making it big in New York City. But after...

Lara McClintoch, an antiques dealer based in Toronto, thought her life was finally getting back to normal. One failed marriage and a failed business behind her, Lara's new antiques shop is doing well and her personal life is nothing to complain about either. That is, until her ex-husband decides to set up shop across the street. After winning a bidding war just to spite her ex, Lara gets more than she bargained for when her antiques shop suddenly...

From USA Today bestselling authors Sally J. Smith, Jean Steffens, and Elizabeth Ashby...In this dog eat dog world, it's people you have to keep your eye on.When Lizzie Jones, pet sitter extraordinaire, is asked to watch over her best friend's two spoiled dogs at the posh gated community of Craggy Hill Estates, the last thing she expects is to wind up in the middle of a homicide. But that's exactly what happens when she finds her best friend's cheating...

"Rubbed OutRobin Light has had better days. Business at her pet store is painfully slow. Syracuse has had twenty-three consecutive days of snow. And she's trying to quit smoking. . .again. So when ex-cop Paul Santini calls, offering a cakewalk of a job finding some rich lawyer's runaway wife, Robin takes the case--without getting all the facts. She gets her first clue that something isn't right during a visit to the worried husband, Walter Wilcox....

Businesswoman Clara Carter knows her husband is cheating on her and is also sure someone is embezzling from her company. Is it her own husband, Sam? She hires a Minneapolis PI to investigate. Then she's found dead in her bed.PI Lacey Summers is struggling to make a go of her business. Most of her clients want her to find proof of their spouses' infidelity. Now she's asked to solve a murder case. New client Sam Carter says, "Sheriff Ben thinks I killed...

Short Story:Sultry New Orleans seethes with over 300 years of grim secrets. No one knows this better than psychic sisters Charmaine and Jessi Joliet.In That Awful Sound, they take on the case of an old moneyed Garden District resident. Something supernatural is creeping around her grand nineteenth century mansion, and she wants it gone. On the outside, she's the picture of respectability and decorum. Yet within those stately walls lurk generations...

It is election time in the beautiful resort area of Mountain County but it seems no one is willing to run against Sheriff Millie Boyd as she stands for re-election as County Sheriff. It is no surprise to the residents. Sheriff Millie is after all a modern folk hero who is generally respected and loved by the voters of Mountain County. She is two time state Police Chief of the Year because of her knack for solving mysteries and her ability to build...

In the small Cotswold village of Heyford Bassett, vicar's wife Monica Noble throws a party for the village's new residents. The guests include Margaret Franklyn and her philandering husband Sean, a celebrity chef and her cartoonist beau, a retired Oxford Don with a secret, a 40-something divorcee, and the owner of a chain of gyms. A shotgun blast heralds the discovery of the body of Margaret Franklyn and suspicion falls on a community already terrified...