The White Cottage, by Margery Allingham

Eric Crowther is dead — horribly dead, in his neighbor’s home. A surprising number of people wanted him dead, and they’re openly happy that he’s gone. But none of them could have killed him. As one startling secret after another unfolds, it...

Lingerie Wars, by Janet Elizabeth Henderson

Invertary is a small Scottish town with a special distinction: it has two lingerie shops. They’re directly across the road from each other: Betty’s Knicker Emporium, run by a dragon of a woman in her 80s, and Eye Candy, the brain child of former lingerie...

Pickle in the Middle Murder, by Jessie Chandler

Shay O’Hanlon is enjoying her first Renaissance Faire with her girlfriend when she encounters a corpse in the Porta Potty — an unappealing guy with a pickle stuffed into his mouth. It’s a memorable — not to say traumatic – event, and it...

Waiting for Dead Men’s Shoes, by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Mini Monroe works in a bookstore and lives with her mother, but that doesn’t mean she’s a mild Minnie Mouse. In fact, she’s smart and sassy — and she needs to be to negotiate the complexities of the relationships in the bookstore. Owner Colin...

Grapes of Death, by Joni Folger

Elise Beckett is a horticulturist, working on drought-resistant grapes that will give her family’s Texas vineyard an advantage over the competition. She’s dividing her time between her Hill Country hometown and the bright lights of Dallas, where her...

The Battling Bluestocking, by Amanda Scott

This newly-reissued novel begins with two ladies and a gentleman in a stagecoach. We get descriptions of the pomona green sarsnet gown and chinchilla muff, and then up rides a dashing highwayman. The regular reader of Regency romance knows immediately that this will...