A foul-mouthed parrot keeps babbling about a murder scene. But is it just repeating, or is it telling the truth? A bad-girl animal psychic must solve the case, with the help of a crotchety tabby and a single-minded service dog.

Three-Day Town is the winner of the Agatha award for best novel where Deborah and Dwight must team up with Lt. Harald to catch the killer before he strikes again.

“Straightforward, funny, thoroughly American mystery heroine” Carlotta Carlyle has only two weeks to find a mysterious blonde woman with a snake tattoo, whose eyewitness testimony can save the most honest cop in Boston from going to jail (New York Post).

“The most refreshing, creative female character to hit mystery fiction since Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone.” —People

In this “tightly plotted who-done-it,” a dry cleaner-turned-amateur sleuth searches for clues behind a missing person who is found murdered (Publishers Weekly).

The handwriting is on the wall for Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, when an author is killed at a book signing. Can Kate read it before the murderer plots a sequel?

When a charismatic priest is murdered on the altar, Detective Mike Cancini delves into a world of church secrets and hidden sins. Can he expose the killer before another priest falls victim, or will faith be the ultimate casualty?