The latest adventures of Lucy Stone, housewife-cum-investigator. Despite being pregnant with a fourth child and busy with school, baseball and dance lessons, she still manages to track down the killer of the owner of the local hardware store.

In Regency England, a high-society party is interrupted when the host is found bludgeoned with a poker. Suspects include the widow, a member of parliament, a servant and a wealthy spinster. Sleuth Julian Kestrel investigates. By the author of Cut to the Quick.

New York TV producer Robin Hudson invites Kathy, an intern, to a girls' night out. When Kathy fails to show up Robin and the girls go looking for her, encountering murder and men from their past. By the author of Nice Girls Finish Last.

Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter adds yet another adventure to his list when he attempts to find out who shot an arrogant young man at an outdoor war games center near Los Angeles. Newscaster/lover Cecil remains in the background as Dave questions the dead man's wealthy parents, follows the man's jumpy girlfriend to Winter Creek, runs afoul of a dangerous, neofascist military group in the area, and outwits the not-so-clever-after-all culprit.--...

Karl Alberg was a big-city cop, for Pete's sake. He solved crimes involving gangsters, druglords, real hardened criminals. He couldn't possibly be stumped by a murder in the sweet coastal town of Sechelt, British Colombia. Yet here he is, facing one of the most gruesome and baffling murders of his career. The woman was found propped against a tree, her face scrubbed clean, and her neck slit from one side to the other. And that is all anyone can tell...

While moonlighting during the Christmas rush for a trendy mail-order house, Lucy Stone stumbles upon the body of the company's founder and turns sleuth to find a killer in the small town of Tinker's Cove, Maine.

Punch Carrie Foster was still young when she started breaking the law. And she was good at it. Gordon Matthews had transgressed only once, but the crime was far more serious. It was a pity Carrie didn't suspect anything when he proposed to her, but why should she? Nicholas was different - a shy young man - and for Carrie their affair began as an amusing diversion. A bit of harmless fun, and Nicholas need never know about her other life with Gordon....

No one suspects that Lydia Cunningham has something to hide, but the arrival of her daughter Thelma with Edward, an unappealing arsonist, unleashes events that reveal in Lydia's past a sordid tale of illegitimacy and murder.

Georgia Lee Maxwell eagerly agrees to help ghostwrite a book in Provence until she arrives at the home of the would-be author--a wealthy widow and an accused murderer, who presides over a houseful of suspicious characters.