The Last Word
10 best books like The Last Word (Lisa Lutz): The Alcatraz Escape, Isabel Spellman's Guide to Etiquette: What is Wrong with You People, The Fame Thief, Spy Mom, Free Fall, A Date You Can't Refuse, A Bad Day for Scandal, A Dangerous Fiction: A Mystery, The Question of the Unfamiliar Husband, Swift Run
| Author | Jennifer Chambliss Bertman |
Sleuthing duo Emily and James tackle their most challenging mystery yet set on the haunting Alcatraz Island in Book 3 of the New York Times bestselling Book Scavenger series!
Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action―this time with “Unlock the Rock.” For his...
| Author | Isabel Spellman |
| ISBN | 1476741417 |
In Isabel Spellman’s Guide to Etiquette: What is Wrong with You People Author Lisa Lutz provides those of us with manners a gut busting, knee-slapping, gonna wet my pants cracking up read. For the rest of the population (98% of them), it’s a must-read, especially for the slowpokes who take FOREVER...
| Author | Timothy Hallinan |
| ISBN | 1616952806 |
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED, LAUGH-OUT-LOUD THRID INSTALLMENT
OF THE FAN-FAVORITE JUNIOR BENDER MYSTERIES
There are not many people brave enough to say no to Irwin Dressler, Hollywood’s scariest mob boss-turned-movie king. Even though Dressler is ninety-three years old, LA burglar...
| Author | Beth McMullen |
| ISBN | 1401312705 |
Fall in Love with Sally Sin
One Unforgettable Heroine
2 X the Adventure
Meet Sally Sin. Wife. Mother. Retired Spy. Or so she thinks. After nine years with the USAWMD (United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction)--where she desperately tried to stay one step ahead of her dashing...
| Author | Chris Grabenstein |
| ISBN | 1605984752 |
“I didn’t do it!” is something cops hear all the time. But when the plea comes from a close friend who’s fallen on hard times,it’s tougher to ignore, especially for young Officer Danny Boyle. It’s the start of another action-packed summer for the wise cracking Boyle and straight-arrow...
Serial dater and greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley goes undercover in a media-training company suspected of video piracy, but when a dead body appears on the company’s property, she’s caught up in a conspiracy that goes way beyond some stolen DVDs.
Wollie Shelley isn’t happy about...
| Author | Sophie Littlefield |
| ISBN | 0312648375 |
When Prosper homegirl turned big-city businesswoman Priss Porter returns to town with a body in her trunk, she calls Stella Hardesty to dispose of it. Her uppity ways don?t convince Stella to take the job, and Priss attempts to blackmail her with a snapshot of Stella doing what she does best: curing...
| Author | Barbara Rogan |
| ISBN | 0670026506 |
A romp of a publishing mystery that introduces Jo Donovan, literary agent-cum-detective, that will delight fans of Janet Evanovich, Lisa Lutz, Alan Bradley, and ABC's
Castle
Jo Donovan always manages to come out on top. From the backwoods of Appalachia, she forged a hard path to life among...
For Samuel Hoenig, Asperger's isn't so much a syndrome as it is a set of personality traits. And as the sole proprietor of a business called Questions Answered, Samuel's put his personality traits to good use, successfully answering every question he's ever been asked.
But when his newest...
Finalist for the Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery
With Charlie convalescing from a gunshot wound, Gigi is temporarily running Swift Investigations when Heather-Anne Pawlusik, the tramp who ran off with Gigi's husband, Les, saunters into the office. Heather-Anne wants to hire the firm...
| Author | John F. Dobbyn |
| ISBN | 1608090922 |
What do Boston, Dublin, and Sierra Leone have in common? The movement of blood diamonds at enormous profit but grave human expense: mafia killings in Boston and Ireland and child enslavement and murder in Sierra Leone. And who is ensnared in the middle of all of this Michael Knight and Lex Devlin. Can...
| Author | Tori Carrington |
| ISBN | 0765317435 |
Like Janet Evanovich or Jennifer Crusie, Tori Carrington mixes humor with danger and stealth with sex. The intrepid Sofie, a good Greek girl from working-class Astoria, Queens, is finding her feet as a budding private investigator and as a single gal in the big city.
In Foul Play, Sofie's...
| Author | Sharon Potts |
| ISBN | 1608090493 |
Happily married and pregnant with her first child, artist Kali Miller probes Lillian Campbell, her ninety-three year old grandmother, for information about her roots and her mother’s accidental death when Kali was a child. But the impact on her grandmother and the answers that Kali gets are anything...
| Author | S.J. Rozan |
| ISBN | 0312981341 |
S. J. Rozan is widely regarded as one of the finest crime writers to emerge in the past decade. Praised by critics and colleagues alike, her works have been finalists for most of the major awards and have won both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards for Best Novel. Now, with Reflecting the Sky, she has written...
| Author | Maddy Hunter |
| ISBN | 0738727059 |
Who kilt Isobel Kronk?
Emily Andrew-Miceli, travel escort extraordinaire, is leading a group of Iowa seniors on a tour of Scotland. And to make the trip even more fun, Emily and her foxy husband, Etienne, have organized a high-tech scavenger hunt. But when one team’s underhanded strategizing...
| Author | Bill Pronzini |
| ISBN | 0765325640 |
Nameless may not like David Virden, but the case is simple enough: find his ex-wife—and they know where she is. Deliver some papers to her and it’s all done. But she refuses the papers, sends a message to Virden to never contact her again, and slams the door.
His colleague, Tamara,...
The romance between LA psychologist Christina McMullen and Lieutenant Jack Rivera is finally sizzling...until Chrissy catches the lieutenant in a compromising position. Still, when a vicious criminal from their past is released from prison, Rivera is willing to do whatever it takes to keep Chrissy...
