Henry Carter Hull

Brisk walks on the bright chilly beach, cinnamon buns at tea time, blooming forsythia and ... murder? East Hampton innkeeper and chef Antonia Bingham has settled in to town and taken on extra work as an estate manager, giving her entree into some of the area's most glamorous homes. Once inside, Antonia checks the heat, looks for leaks or damage, and finds the occasional dead body. It's up to Antonia -- a modern day Miss Marple with an adoration of...

Main Street Mysteries #2 A small lake town tucked into the mountains of North Carolina, picturesque Sutherton charms tourists and locals alike -- though Sutherton may have more sinister secrets hiding behind its gentle Southern comfort ... Back home to care for her help her mother with her main street restaurant, Annalise Griggs is mortified to run into her former lover -- and his family. Driven to distraction worrying that small town mouths are wagging...

When a mystery writer cries bloody murder, everyone blames her overactive imagination ... Thriller scribe Sophie Katz is as hard-boiled as a woman who drinks Grande Caramel Brownie Frappuccinos can be. So Sophie knows it's not paranoia or post-divorce, living-alone-again jitters, when she becomes convinced that a crazed reader is sneaking into her apartment to reenact scenes from her books. The police, however, can't tell a good plot from an unmarked...

Sophie Katz has just offered a man $12,000 for his services ... Is she desperate or just meshugeneh? Considering the kind of disasters that usually befall the half-black, half-Jewish mystery writer, probably both. Because the last time Sophie saw sexy P.I. Anatoly Darinsky, he practically danced a jig when she waved goodbye; a normal reaction for a man who'd nearly bought the farm trying to protect her from her own foolishness. What are the chances...

"There are two things Hamptons innkeeper and sleuth Antonia Bingham can't resist-carbs and an unsolved murder! Despite a busy high-season schedule and an inn booked to capacity, Antonia has agreed to investigate a cold case in her beloved adopted hometown, East Hampton, NY: the killing of Susie Whitaker, whose brutal 1990 slaying on a tennis court in the poshest part of town was never solved. And the person who has hired Antonia? Prime suspect Pauline...

"Your favourite sleuths are back in this festive-themed latest instalment of the bestselling Kat and Mouse series. The lead up to Christmas sees the Connection private investigation team planning their festive season. Until a new case arrives... Catapulted into their biggest mystery yet, they are tasked with finding a killer who has been released on parole, and subsequently disappeared. Has he returned to finish the murder he tried to commit before...

"A New Mexico pottery dealer cracks a perplexing mystery in this "winning blend of humor and character development" ( Publishers Weekly ). Hubert Schuze is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and he has a fairly lucrative side gig digging up ancient relics and selling them. He also seems to have a talent for finding killers. When Hubie discovers a body outside his pottery shop, it appears the victim was stabbed in...

These cases might prove to be West's toughest yet... Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West could do with a break. He's had his fill of complicated cases and wants nothing more than to settle down with his fiancé. But, life has a habit of getting in the way... Two new cases come in: A hit and run, where the family of the victim act suspiciously and a missing woman, who is, found dead from natural causes until the post-mortem suggests foul play. With...

"A bizarre murder in the suburbs of Dublin leads a Garda S och na detective into a perplexing investigation in this gritty crime novel. When Detective Garda Sergeant Mike West and his partner answer an emergency call from St. Monica's church, they discover a dead body suspended from the beams in front of the altar. The victim is identified as Ian Moore, a man recently released from prison after serving time for rape. Revenge seems like the obvious...

Accidents happen. But so does murder ... On the night of August 11, 1956, in a quiet East Hampton hamlet, Jackson Pollock crashed his car into a tree. The accident killed Pollock, the world-renowned abstract painter and notorious alcoholic, and his 25-year old passenger, Edith Metzger ... or did it? Metzger's autopsy reveals that she was already dead before the crash. Was it murder? This shocking question draws vacationing Detective Juanita Diaz and...