Includes an excerpt from La cage aux foul play (p. [245]-255).

Dev Sinclair is the happy new owner of the old-fashioned shop in her small Missouri town. But if she doesn't focus on finding the killer of her ex's fiancée, this five-and-dime owner may find herself serving twenty-five to life...

Book shops, boutiques and small businesses are the lifeblood of small towns but what secrets lie behind those pretty display windows and in the alleyways behind these charming streets? Step inside for a personal retail experience like no other! 'The Little Shop of Murders' collects together fifteen superb cozy mysteries written by some of the finest authors in the genre. All author and publisher profits from the sale of this book go to children's charities, helping those most in need. Stories include: Don't Toy with Me by Diane Kelly A Man With No Imagination by Millie Ravensworth The Forget-Me-Not Antiques Mystery by Victoria Tait It Was Our Song by Nikki Knight Always and Furever by Eryn Scott Wild Irish Dreams by Lise McClendon Architect of a Murder by Carlene O'Connor Blooms and Blackmail by London Lovett Secondhand Murder by J. New The Lady of the House by Flora McGowan Requiem for a Violin by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne Nightly Nuisance by Kathryn Mykel The Gift of Dragons by ACF Bookens Nowhere to Hide by Debbie Young Murder in the Bookshop by Rachel McLean

When property surveyor and treasure hunter Sam Peters visits the Isle of Wight, the locals are surprised when he literally strikes gold… only to be murdered soon afterwards. The case is given to keen-minded Hampshire-based Detective Inspector Bruno Peach, who - as always - seeks the assistance of his trusty sidekick, headmistress Janet Gibson to bring the killer to justice. Together they seem to be unravelling the mystery piece by piece, but little do they know that their investigations will soon see an older unsolved local killing resurrected from the grave. This fantastic page-turner of a murder mystery is the latest release from much-loved and critically acclaimed author James London, who brings his usual fresh and unique style to this popular genre. The book will appeal to a wide range of readers, including fans of traditional British detective fare and those who have either holidayed in or live on the beautiful island.

Following her husband when he takes a new position, Rhonda leaves Wisconsin behind to begin a new life in Las Vegas, Nevada. Without a job for the first time, she is thrilled when she obtains a position with the Clark County Sheriff’s department. To celebrate her new job, she and her husband, Mark, go to Red Rock Canyon for a relaxing day of sightseeing. Even before she is scheduled to begin her job, she finds herself at the center of a murder. The victim, a college student, has been killed close to the petroglyphs using an ancient Native American weapon,. Have the ancients returned to protect their history or is there a modern-day predator trying to confuse her with the use of ancient weapons?

New Bedford artist Anna Rendle, her husband in prison, begins a new life by selling her art, and teaching. When the bodies of several mutilated women are found, a terrified city goes into virtual lockdown living behind shuttered doors. Anna learns the victims are all named for jewels. How then can she and her buddy Joe protect her two students, Chrystal and Garnet, from harassment by a young thug and possible killer? Their friend Pearl is maimed at the Whaling Museum and soon after Anna's long lost kid sister Beryl arrives from California. Working as a nightclub stripper she is smitten by the attentions of a brutal lowlife calling himself Leonardo. How Anna and Joe bring the killer to justice will keep surprised readers on the edges of their seats.

USA Today–bestselling author Amanda Flower returns with the third cozy mystery in her more-charming-than-ever Magical Bookshop series—for fans of Sofie Kelly and Heather Blake. Niagara region booksellers Violet Waverly and Grandma Daisy get a little help from Little Women as they sleuth the slaying of a sommelier whose book signing turned into her sayonara. January means ice wine season in the Niagara Falls region, but the festivities leave Charming Books owner Violet Waverly cold, still reeling from a past heartbreak. A past heartbreak who will be present at the annual midnight grape-harvest festival, and no magic in the world or incantation powerful enough could get Violet to attend. But Grandma Daisy, an omniscient force all on her own, informs Violet that she’s already arranged for the mystical Charming Books to host celebrity sommelier Belinda Perkins’s book signing at the party. Little do either Waverly women know, the ice wine festival will turn colder still when Violet finds Belinda in the middle of the frozen vineyard—with a grape harvest knife protruding from her chest. Belinda grew up in Cascade Springs, but she left town years ago after a huge falling-out with her three sisters. One of those sisters, Violet’s high school friend Lacey Dupont, attends the book signing in the hope of making amends with her sister, but Belinda and Lacey end up disrupting the signing with a very public shouting match and Lacey quickly becomes the prime suspect in the sommelier’s murder. Violet is sure Lacey is innocent, and to keep her friend out of prison, Violet asks for guidance from her magical bookshop. The shop’s ethereal essence points her to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, but what have the four March sisters to do with the four Perkins sisters? If she can’t figure it out, Violet, herself, may turn as cold as ice. Violet, Grandma Daisy, Emerson the tuxedo cat, and resident crow Faulkner are back on the case in Murders and Metaphors, USA Today–bestselling author Amanda Flower’s enchanting third Magical Bookshop mystery.