Showing results by publisher "Random House Audio" in Amateur Sleuths

Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball -- particularly not after the voluptuous brunette made a pass at Annie's husband, Max. So when her dizzy mother-in-law, Laurel, made a surprise visit to Broward's Rock Island, Annie...

Everyone--including mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance--loves Arsenic and Old Lace. But something wicked is poisoned a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged. Worst of all, the star, aging Hollywood beach-blanket hunk Shane...

When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school...

Timothy Carrier, having a beer after work at his friend’s tavern, enjoys drawing eccentric customers into amusing conversations. But the jittery man who sits next to him tonight has mistaken Tim for someone very different—and passes to him a manila envelope full of cash. “Ten thousand now...

4th in Death On Demand series Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance, and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events threatens to unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. The ceremony is barely over when the phone rings and a woman on the other end...

A dazzling novel spanning two continents—and six decades of secrets—Who is Mr. Satoshi? is a “quietly masterful” (The Independent) work of fiction from the author of High Dive and The Great Mistake. When his mother dies, Rob “Foss” Fossick—a fortysomething photographer whose best...

International bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney, author of The Face on the Milk Carton, returns with a thrilling mystery filled with devastating secrets Freddy leads a life of little responsibility. His mother is dead, his sisters are far-flung across the globe, and he can't quite work up...

Her life didn't turn out the way she expected―so she made herself a new one When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable neighbor Dom, he isn't there. But something else is. Something stunning, beautiful and inexplicable. Clemmie photographs the wondrous object on her...

Krimi-Podcaster Markus Heger wird von seinem Vater Frank, der noch immer im Gefängnis sitzt, um Hilfe gebeten. Dessen Zellengenosse Terje Wekre, verurteilt wegen des Mordes an seiner Frau Emma, beteuert nach wie vor seine Unschuld. Markus' Nachforschungen bringen den Fall mit dem Verschwinden der Schwedin Maja Gunnström in Verbindung.

Nie zuvor hat die junge Flavia de Luce einen so aufregenden Theaterabend erlebt. Der begnadete Puppenspieler Rupert Porson schlägt das Publikum in seinen Bann, und beim furiosen Finale gibt es sogar eine echte Leiche! Nur die Hobbydetektivin Flavia findet heraus, dass jemand die elektrische Anlage der Bühne manipuliert hat.

Maria erfährt es aus erster Hand: Die berühmte Schauspielerin Diana Major, die einst das Kreuzfahrtschiff Soleil taufte, will ihre Memoiren herausbringen. Sie sollen von einer Ghostwriterin auf dem Schiff geschrieben werden. Mit diesen Neuigkeiten versammeln sich neben ehemaligen Liebhabern, die voll Sorge auf die Memoiren blicken, auch die Familie der Berühmtheit sowie Reporter und Schaulustige an Bord. Mit im Gepäck sind Skandale, Geheimnisse, Intrigen und Lügen – sowie jemand, der die Memoiren um jeden Preis verhindern will.

In the follow-up to A Novel Murder, mystery author Jane Hepburn is back and determined to keep her sleuthing skills in the pages of her novels. That is, until she’s invited to a prestigious literary party in London—where the gathering of glamorous attendees may be hiding a killer. Jane...

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST MYSTERY NOVELS OF 2024 A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age: the follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Molly the Maid has a whole new mystery to solve in this heartwarming novella from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid and The Mystery Guest. “[Molly is] the most interesting (and endearing) main character in a long time.”—Stephen King, on The Maid...

Tarot card reader extraordinaire Katie True gets embroiled in another local murder when her best friend becomes the prime suspect in this exciting mystery from the Edgar Award-winning author of Play the Fool. “A delicious blend of suspense and madcap humor.”—Library Journal, starred review...

A thief who can travel through mirrors, a video game that threatens to spill out of the virtual world, a doomsday cult on a collision course with destiny, and a missing teenager at the center of it all. With the world on the brink of every kind of apocalypse, humanity needs a hero. What it gets...

The fourth book in the Shady Hollow mystery series sees Vera embroiled in a case involving star-crossed lovers whose affair may have turned deadly. It's spring in Shady Hollow, and romance is in the air. Even reporter Vera Vixen is caught up in the season as her relationship with new police...

In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled in danger when her friend, a controversial entrepreneur, goes missing. When her daughter Lotte was born, Dani had welcomed the chance to be a stay-at-home mother. To be good at something...

Who knew fighting for a living wage could be so deadly? Bernie Sanders and his Gen Z intern are drawn into a murder investigation in a small Vermont town in this hilarious spin on cozy mysteries from the New York Times bestselling author of Hope Never Dies: An Obama Biden Mystery Fall is...

The welcome return of C. C. Benison’s delectable series featuring Father Tom Christmas—“an irresistible addition to the ranks of clerical sleuths” (Julia Spencer-Fleming) Father Tom Christmas, the recently widowed vicar adjusting to life in the English village of Thornford Regis...