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Hot Fudge Murder

Cynthia Baxter · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Just six weeks after the grand opening of Lickety Splits Ice Cream Shoppe, owner Kate McKay has been enlisted to whip up sundaes at the most decadent soiree in the Hudson Valley. If only Kate knew how deadly sticky her sweet deal will turn out . . . Once Kate arrives at a glamorous gala...
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Hot Lights, Cold Steel

Douglas P. Lyle · Medallion Press; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Forensic criminalist Dub Walker is once again called upon when an old friend enlists his help in finding her 19-year-old daughter. When the bodies of two young women show up in a shallow grave, one of whom is the daughter, Dub is back to work and hard at it. Soon other bodies start turning...
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Some Like it Hot

K J Larsen · Poisoned Pen Press
Format: Hardcover

When an old friend buys a trenchcoat and opens his own detective agency, PI Cat DeLuca sees a train wreck. Because everything Billy Bonham knows about being a private dick, he learned from Humphrey Bogart. And that's just enough to make him dangerous. The bungling detective is way over...
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Hot Stuff: A Novel

Don Bruns · Oceanview Publishing; 1 edition
Format: Book

An attractive sous chef at the famous restaurant L'Elfe Is murdered and half of the employees are suspect.? The lack of police progress toward solving the murder leads Chef Jean Bouvier to seek a quicker solution.? He hires private eyes James Lessor and Skip Moore to go undercover and discreetly...
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The Hot Country

Robert Olen Butler · Mysterious Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In The Hot Country, Christopher Marlowe Cobb (“Kit”), the swashbuckling early 20th century American newspaper war correspondent travels to Mexico in April and May of 1914, during that country’s civil war, the American invasion of Vera Cruz and the controversial presidency...
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Killer On A Hot Tin Roof

Livia J. Washburn · Kensington; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Delilah Dickinson is finally looking forward to a nice, relaxing time leading her literary travel agency's latest tour at the annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans. After all, a group of intelligent, low-key English professors can't be too much trouble, right?...
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Hot Mahogany: A Stone Barrington Novel

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 304
Format: Book

A rock-solid new stone barrington novelStone Barrington is hired to protect a former intelligence agent with a penchant for antique furniture-and a bad case of amnesia. And what he's forgotten, some will kill for...
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Hot Stuff

Janet Evanovich · St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1st edition
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Dear Reader,  If you like hot men, hot action and hot attraction you're going to love this HOT new series! HOT STUFF introduces Cate Madigan, a Boston native from a large and crazy Irish family. Cate has far too much going on to get involved in extracurricular activities, like...
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Hot Dog: A Melanie Travis Mystery (Melanie Travis Mysteries)

Laurien Berenson · Kensington; First Edition edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

This ninth sleuthing adventure in Laurien Berenson's lively and clever mystery series, finds prize-winning poodle owner Melanie Travis on the trail of a missing dachshund while trying to figure out who is stalking her. In an effort to escape tail-chasing males--namely her ex-husband...
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Cat in a Red Hot Rage

Carole Nelson Douglas · Forge Books; 1st edition
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Catnbspinnbspa Red HotnbspRage is the nineteenth title in Carole Nelson Douglass sassy Midnight Louie mystery series This tough talking twenty-pound tomcat PI is playing at the top of his game as he walks the walk and talks the talk on the mean streets of Las VegasnbspTemple Barr and Midnight...
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Hot Pursuit

Stuart Woods · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

Stone Barrington is back in the exciting new adventure from perennial fan favorite Stuart Woods. It's not often that Stone Barrington finds a woman as accustomed to the jet-set lifestyle as he, so he's pleasantly surprised when he meets a gorgeous pilot who's soon moving to New York,...
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Hot Rocks

Randy Rawls · Midnight Ink
Pages: 345
Format: Paperback

South Florida private eye Beth Bowman's latest philandering-husband case has ended with a nasty bump on the head and a smoking gun - her own. The good news is that neurologist Dr. David Rassmussen is keeping the cops off her tail . . . and charming her off her feet. The bad news? An ill-mannered...
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