New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes...

The ingredients of this mystery plot run all the way from the fancies of some old ladies in a home for the elderly, to dark hints at child murder, the machinations of a clever criminal gang, and the secret life of a supposedly peaceful English village.

Special Agent Will Trent investigates a prisoner's death in Grant County, where he finds a tight-lipped police department following a second death--that of the county's police chief--and as he tries to help the dead chief's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, he is forced to put pressure on officer Lena Adams, who he believes is concealing a dark secret.

Ten brief cases in which the reader pits his wits against those of Encyclopedia Brown, an ingenious twelve-year-old detective.

Brunetti struggles to find a connection between the death of a powerful attorney, who was supposedly murdered during an attempted robbery, and the alleged suicide of an accountant.

Fifth-grader "Encyclopedia" Leroy Brown solves ten mysteries and, by putting the solutions at the back of the book, challenges the reader to do the same.

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's most northerly island, to celebrate the marriage of one of their friends to a Shetlander. But late on the night of the wedding party, one of them, Eleanor, disappears - apparently into thin air. It's mid-summer, a time of light nights and unexpected mists. The following day, Eleanor's friend Polly receives an email. It appears to be a suicide note, saying...

"Clouds of Witness" by Dorothy L. Sayers is the second novel featuring the charming and intelligent amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey. The story is set in the English countryside, where a family scandal erupts into a gripping murder mystery. The plot centers around the death of Captain Denis Cathcart, who is found shot outside the country house of the Duke of Denver, Lord Peter's elder brother. The Duke, Gerald Wimsey, is immediately implicated...

From New York Times bestselling author Diane Mott Davidson—now a Hallmark Mystery Curious Caterer Original Movie

“A classic whodunit . . . the perfect book for food lovers.”—New York Daily News
Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless...

"Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client. But the Belgian detective arrives just too late: the man who had summoned him is found dead on a golf course, stabbed in the back with a letter opener and wearing an ill-fitting coat with a mysterious love letter in its pocket. Strange circumstances multiply, culminating in the discovery of a second body stabbed with the same murder weapon. While the local authorities...