Carpenter Whitney Whitaker, her cousin Buck, and guard-cat Sawdust just scored a hot property near downtown Nashville in a tax sale. While the Music City Motor Court might not be much to look at now, the two plan to transform the motel's twelve units into six one-bedroom condominiums with popular mid-century styling. But surprises await when Whitney discovers a squatter living in Room 9 and her cat Sawdust uncovers a body in the bed next door.

After a childhood filled with heartbreak, Irene, a talented artist, finds herself in a small Central American village where she checks into a beautiful but decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona at the base of a volcano. The Bird Hotel tells the story of this young American who, after suffering tragedy, restores and runs La Llorona. Along the way we meet a rich assortment of characters who live in the village or come to stay at the hotel.

Following the clues of her sister's disappearance to Amarillo, FBI Special Agent Patterson Blake is hopeful she will finally learn the truth about Julie. But there's a problem. The man who might hold those answers has been accused of a heinous crime. One he claims to be innocent of. When Patterson starts to dig into the case, she stumbles upon a dangerous conspiracy that threatens to not only derail her search for Julie, but could also get her killed....

"A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in the latest mystery in Carola Dunn's beloved Daisy Dalrymple series. April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is visited in London by her young cousins. On the list of must-see sites is the Crystal Palace. Discovering that her children's nanny, Nanny Gilpin, has never seen the Palace, Daisy decides to make a day of it--bringing her cousins, her 3-year-old twins, her...

After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business-known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls-is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish and Indian meals from her grandfather can distract Tempest from the truth: they're being framed. When Tempest receives an urgent midnight phone...

"The Parsees are among the oldest, most secretive and most influential communities in the city: respected, envied and sometimes feared. When prominent industrialist Cyrus Zorabian is murdered on holy ground, his body dumped inside a Tower of Silence - where the Parsee dead are consumed by vultures - the police dismiss it as a random killing. But his daughter is unconvinced. Chopra, uneasy at entering this world of power and privilege, is soon plagued...

A young widow returns to her hometown in Texas Hill Country, never dreaming that the new schoolteacher holds the key both to the mystery surrounding her father's death-and to her heart.

Mary Ann and her best friend Kolleen love a mystery, so when Mary Ann's dog sniffs out foul play at the bottom of a muddy pit, the hunt for clues is on. Their search for answers brings Mary Ann and Kolleen into contact with three girls whose parents are part of a group of migrant workers who come to Minnesota each summer to help harvest sugar beets. Little is known about the migrant workers, so Mary Ann and Kolleen's parents caution them to be on...

Kolleen's dog Devil May Care insists on ending every walk at the spooky site of a long-abandoned, burned-down house. But Kolleen's resignation turns to fascination when the dog unearths a mysterious metal box wrapped in a tattered rug. Who buried the box, and why? And who will get to keep the valuable treasure the box contains? Kolleen and Mary Ann will need to do some digging of their own to get to the bottom of the mystery behind the garden gate.--Back...

When the farm community of Medicine Creek, Kansas, is terrorized by a series of disturbing murders, FBI agent Pendergast discovers a link between a moonshine operation and an unsolved killing from more than 150 years earlier.