Nightingale series

Revenge was sweet. Or so Tristan Sharpe believed. Now he would repay Larissa for once having made a fool of him. He had never understood that she had broken their engagement out of fear--that her youth and inexperience had not prepared her to deal with his autocratic ways. He didn't know that Larissa had never ceased to love him, and that she was determined to beat him at his own game. But could she ever destroy the wall around his heart? Or would her own heart break for trying?

With one leg in a cast and a heart hardened by bitter holiday memories, Leslie wanted only one thing for Christmas: a quiet and restful vacation at her aunt's Vermont home. But that was before she met the new neighbor...handsome Tagg Williams. As the holidays heat up, Leslie finds herself in an awkward dance of attraction with Tagg, mesmerized by his warm smile and strong embrace and charmed by his sweet daughter, Holly. The more time they spend together, the more it feels like home...But even as her passion deepens, Leslie knows she will have to choose between the ghosts of her past and the once-in-a-lifetime chance to give herself and her heart to Tagg forever.

When Sarah's career as a model came to a disastrous end, and soon afterwards her finace jilted her, she knew she must find something else to do - preferably something that would take her a long way from England and its unhappy memories. But was she doing the wisest thing in taking a job as companion to the sisters of Zain Hassan bin Hamid, Khalifa of Ben Zain in the heart of the Moroccan desert? For once she had arrived at the Khalifa's casbah, with no hope of escape, Zain Hassan bin Hamid announced that he had other plans for her. He needed a son; Sarah was his chosen wife - and the marriage would take place in a few days...

All part of the showJessica Fletcher is in the Berkshires attending a writers' conference at a historic mansion where her friends the Savoys are hosting a murder-mystery party. As both a crime solver and a mystery author, Jessica is an old hand at this kind of thing. So she swears to the Savoys that she won't reveal the secrets of their play and goes about enjoying the weekend with her colleagues.But when a young actor's murder scene appears all too real, no one can tell what's scripted and what isn't. They say the show must go on, but everyone is wondering: Who really dunit?

Amy DeNovo, Lily Rowan's young assistant, wants Archie to help her find out who her father is. She collars Archie (not Nero Wolfe) in the lobby of Lily Rowan's apartment building and tells him he is the only man she can trust to find her father. She tells Archie that she only has $2000. Archie is interested in the challenge and the plea from an attractive young woman, but he provides her only some hard-earned advice because he is true to his employer and knows Wolfe wouldn't take the case with only $2000 in the pot, and wary of any conflicts of interests. Before too long, the young woman confronts Wolfe in his den and suddenly flashes enough cash to interest him in finding this man that Denovo never knew and has no record of (even on her birth certificate). To make the task more difficult, she can produce no photographs of either father or mother. We soon find out that the mother has been a recent victim of a hit and run and the case is stumbling from the start.

Horace Warren pays five hundred dollars to have Perry mason attend a buffet dinner to observe his guests. He also wants Mason to investigate a fingerprint and suspects his wife is being blackmailed. Mrs Warren’s mystery past may hold the clues.

It had all happened. The heavy gold band on her finger proved that she was now Mrs. Colter Langston. But even her name on his lips sounded strange, as if he were talking to someone else. "I don't particularly like myself," Colter was saying. "It's just as well you discover now the kind of man I am. That way you won't expect very much from our marriage." If Natalie had subconsciously hoped that something would grow between them, the dream died with his words ....

Abracadaver begins with a magic show at the St. Hilary’s parish center on a peaceful winter’s night in Fox River, Illinois. A ring inscribed “To FG from AG. Con amore” is used in a trick, but the inscription sticks in Father Dowling’s mind because the recipient’s initials are those of a woman who has disappeared without a trace. Her husband, a wealthy real estate developer, is linked by rumor to another woman, and when one of his parishioners is murdered, Father Dowling begins to investigate the complex web of connections behind the simple ring.

Sir Edward Fairmount had decided that his daughter Valeria must marry Perry Adaire. Despite her own opposition to the match, Sir Edward takes her to Vienna, where Perry's regiment is stationed, to make sure the betrothal proceeds. In Vienna, the Peace Congress is in progress, and amidst the intrigue and excitement, love touches Valeria at last. But it is not love for Perry. Valeria loses her heart to a man who seems to have no heart of his own.

Fourth in the Professor Peter Shandy mystery series > Professor Peter Shandy has some times been called the Hercule Poirot of the turnip fields. With due and ungrudging respect to the eminent Belgian egghead, it may be pointed out that Peter Shandy has by now carved a niche of his own in the Nightmare Abbey of crime detection. His previous adventures: Rest You Merry, The Luck Runs Out, and Wrack and Rune, have won him acclaim from readers here and abroad. > Had she but known her cat Edmund was hanging out with Chief Fred Ottermole at the Balaclava Junction Police Station, Mrs. Martha Lomax might not have been so dumbfounded when Edmund pulled off a brilliant piece of detection. Acting on Edmund's clue, she discovered the remains of her aged, unpleasant, but usually predictable boarder Professor Herbert Ungley impaled on a harrow peg behind the clubhouse of the exclusive Balaclavian Society. Fred Ottermole called his death an accident, but Mrs. Lomax didn't, for she and Edmund had found another clue. This one led them straight to Balaclava Agricultural College, whence Professor Ungley had been emeritized by President Thorkjeld Svenson under circumstances even Martha Lomax didn't know about. >Before another night had passed, the college was fighting for survival and all Balaclava County was involved in a power struggle that could only be resolved by a titanic clash between town and gown.

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Wealthy and sophisticated Joanna Morgan falls in love with a native of the Ozark hills, but their different life styles cause conflicts.

When Bridie, the youngest daughter of a strict Irish Catholic family, returns home after spending ten years in a convent, her arrival stirs up old loves, hates, and motives for murder.

A crafty businessman arrives incognito in a small town, where he takes up residence at a cabin. Using another name he starts buying up property. When he is found dead in his mountain cabin there is no shortage of suspects. Amateur detective Gramps Wiggins has to piece together the clues.

Wallace Webster lives alone in Kemah, Texas, at Forgetful Bay, a condo development where residents are passing away at an alarming rate. As he monitors events in the neighborhood, Wallace keeps in touch with his ex-wife, his grown daughter, a former coworker for whom he has much-averted eyes, and a somewhat exotic resident with whom he commences an offbeat affair that begins with his being locked in an Airstream trailer attached to the roof of her restaurant. He sifts through the curious accidents that plague his neighbors, all the while reflecting on his past and shortening future. Required to ponder his own mortality, he wonders if "settling for" something less than he aspired to is a kind of cowardice, or just good sense.

How long could their love last? She had been an impetuous teenager when she had defied her love for Slater MacBride to marry a Texas millionaire, and she regretted her mistake. After eleven years of marriage without love, Dawn Lord was returning to her home in the Florida Keys, seeking peace in the turquoise waters of the sea. But she found only storms of desire when confronted by Slater. Once a penniless speculator, now a local tycoon, he vowed to make up for lost time--in every way. Were they merely fooled by an intoxicating passion--or would they reach the heights and depths of love this time?

SHE COULDN'T DENY HER FEELINGS ANY LONGER. Three years after Shari escaped from the Lancaster family patriarchs, she returned home at the news of her mother's stroke. The reunion with her stepbrother, Whit Lancaster, brought the unexpected revelation that his feelings were far from brotherly. Could their love for each other grow amid the Lancaster family tradition of male superiority? Could Whit ever see her as a young woman to be loved rather than ruled?