Swift Run
10 best books like Swift Run (Laura DiSilverio): An Angel to Die For, Murder of the Bride, Die Job, Beef Stolen-Off, How to Dine on Killer Wine, Dead Man Waltzing, Till Death Do Us Purl, Corpse in the Crystal Ball, Slay Belles, Fire Engine Dead
| Author | Mignon F. Ballard |
| ISBN | 0312241747 |
Prentice Dobson has just lost her job, her boyfriend, almost everything that has until now made her feel complete. To collect her thoughts and mourn her younger sister's recent passing, Prentice leaves the city for her small hometown in Georgia. But there is no comfort to be found in the beloved town...
| Author | C.S. Challinor |
| ISBN | 0738723355 |
Scottish Barrister Rex Graves and his fiancee Helen have traveled to Aston-on-Trent in Derbyshire, England to attend the wedding ceremony of one of Helen's former students. The dreary gray skies and bickering families underscore Rex's private reservations about the unlikely couple's long-term...
| Author | Lila Dare |
| ISBN | 0425245888 |
2.5**
High school senior Rachel Whitley enlists Grace Terhune, a stylist in the beauty shop where Rachel is the shampoo girl, as a chaperone for a class field trip. The students are going to investigate purported paranormal activity at a local antebellum mansion. It’s said that the spirit...
As the food columnist for The Ranchero Globe, Jordan McAllister catches the eye of cattle baron Lucas Santana, who invites her to the Cattleman's Ball, hoping a positive review from the ball might boost the county's sagging beef sales.
To ensure Jordan enjoys herself, Santana sets her up with ...
How to Dine on Killer Wine
| Author | Penny Warner |
| ISBN | 0451237862 |
Presley Parker’s event-planning business is the toast of San Francisco. But when she ventures into Napa Valley to oversee her first wine tasting, an unexpected death could leave a stain on her reputation.…
For Presley Parker, a wine-tasting event at the boutique winery the Purple Grape...
Bad form…
When Corinne Blakely, a grande dame of international ballroom dancing, is poisoned, the dance community—including champion dancer Stacy Graysin—is left in an uproar. Corinne was penning a tell-all memoir, but now her secrets might well remain hidden, just as the killer...
| Author | Anne Canadeo |
| ISBN | 1439191409 |
The fourth in the charming knitting mystery series that is “sure to hook cozy fans” (Publishers Weekly) featuring Maggie Messina and her close circle of knitting-club friends, who must unravel another murder in their cozy coastal town of Plum Harbor, Massachusetts.
The Black Sheep...
Corpse in the Crystal Ball
| Author | Kari Lee Townsend |
| ISBN | 1101580844 |
Psychic Sunshine Meadows makes a dark discovery in the woods... After clearing her name as the prime suspect in a murder, Sunny Meadows hopes she can finally enjoy some serenity in the idyllic town of Divinity in upstate New York. She'd also like a second chance with Detective Mitch Stone. But when Mitch's...
| Author | Nancy Martin |
| ISBN | 1101563559 |
Whoever coined the phrase “Shop till you drop” certainly never meant “Shop till you drop dead.” But premier personal shopper Popo seems to have done just that—except this shopper’s been murdered. After Popo’s body is found on a display bed in the luxurious Haymaker’s department...
| Author | Sheila Connolly |
| ISBN | 0425246701 |
Reading a cozy is a lot like eating tomato soup and grilled cheese for dinner: it might never hit a menu in a restaurant that serves cuisine, but sometimes you just want it more than something a chef could create, and it fills a hollow spot in a way that something fancier couldn't.
I like this series...
| Author | Joanna Campbell Slan |
| ISBN | 0738727474 |
For Kiki Lowenstein, only one thing is (marginally) worse than her selfish, hyper-critical mother coming for an extended visit — dodging bullets. In the merry midst of the timehonored May Day celebration at Kiki’s daughter’s private school, a sniper fires shots into the crowd, killing deep-pocketed...
| Author | Tracy Kiely |
| ISBN | 1250007429 |
A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the annual Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend, Peter.
On the plane ride to England, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Richard Baines, a self-proclaimed...
| Author | Kylie Logan |
| ISBN | 0425251357 |
Button collector Josie Giancola has a sharp eye for detail, and a love for keeping things together. But when a murder interrupts her button business, she’s always ready to snap into action…
As chairwoman of an international conference for button collectors, Josie has plenty to worry...
| Author | Bill Crider |
| ISBN | 0312348096 |
It was the cat who "told" Sheriff Dan Rhodes that something was wrong. It ran into the house when he opened the door. His wife, Ivy, recognized the cat as belonging to their neighbor and told Dan to go check on the widow--Helen Harris never let the cat out of the house.
When Dan finds Helen's body on...
Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, have just visited Buckingham Palace, where Alan was awarded the George Cross, when they and a friend, retired Chief Inspector Jonathan Quinn, stumble across the body of a young girl hidden in St James's Park. Wondering what led...
Death, Taxes, and Extra-Hold Hairspray
| Author | Diane Kelly |
| ISBN | 0312551282 |
When you’re an agent for the IRS, it’s always tax time. And this season, Tara Holloway is up to her neck in work with two very knotty cases. One involves a charismatic minister who’s using his mega-church as a tax shelter. The other is a crazy militant who’s trying to turn Texas into a separate country....
| Author | Ellen Hart |
| ISBN | 1250001862 |
DeAndre Moore came to Minneapolis from St. Louis with a purpose, but things aren't going as he planned. When it becomes clear he's in way over his head, DeAndre can think of only one person to call for help—his Uncle Nolan's business partner, newly licensed private investigator Jane Lawless. However,...
| Author | B.B. Haywood |
| ISBN | 0425251888 |
In the quaint seaside village
of Cape Willington, Maine, Candy Holliday has a mostly idyllic life, tending to the Blueberry Acres farm she runs with her father and occasionally stepping in to solve a murder or two…
Halloween is fast approaching, and preparations for the Pumpkin...
| Author | Jessica Beck |
| ISBN | 1479348244 |
Husband and wife team Victoria and Greg run The Charming Moose Diner in Jasper Fork, North Carolina, along with the rest of her extended family. Greg’s in the kitchen at the grill while Victoria runs the register and takes care of any trouble that comes their way, something that happens all too often....
| Author | Joyce Lavene |
| ISBN | 0425215814 |
Peggy Lee is just about to deliver some endangered sunflowers to Darmus Appleby when a gas explosion blows out his door-and Peggy finds her fellow botanist dead on the kitchen floor. Two weeks later his brother dies, with an overpoweringly sweet purple hyacinth tucked in his pocket. Now Peggy must follow...
| Author | Jacklyn Brady |
| ISBN | 0425246221 |
First impressions: Though it lacked the endearing qualities I loved in the first book of the series, CAKE ON A HOT TIN ROOF highlights bakery owner Rita Lucero’s savvy for solving murders she unwittingly becomes involved in.
What really worked: The story is set in New Orleans in the days leading...
