Encumbered by her overbearing future mother-in-law's schemes for her wedding to Mel, Jane Jeffry signs up for a self-defense class with Shelley but finds herself enmeshed in a dangerous investigation when one of her classmates is murdered by a killer with intentions that hit uncomfortably close to home. By the author of A Midsummer Night's Scream.

When the husband of a former pupil, the coach of a celebrated girls' soccer team, is found dead, as is the team's star player, Sister Mary Teresa resolutely follows her intuition as she searches for the murderer

Examining mysterious fragments found buried near her mother's home in Kankakee, Illinois, antique collector Jane Wheel identifies the remains of a murdered city official and become embroiled in the ensuing investigation.

While working her way through the works of Charles Dickens with her students, English teacher and amateur sleuth Beth Austin finds herself enmeshed in an investigation of a fortyyearold love triangle involving her mother. Reprint.

While cataloguing her loot from a Chicago-area estate sale, antiques lover Jane Wheeler discovers among the contents of a 1950s-era tavern that she had bought a human finger in a tiny jar and embarks on an investigation into a decades-old mystery. By the author of Killer Stuff. Reprint.

From Bakelite jewelry to jadeite dishes, antiques "picker" Jane Wheel has a knack for hunting down vintage collectibles. And when a Chicago estate sale yields a room full of dusty tavern memorabilia, she hits pay dirt once again. Most of this "dead guy's stuff" is just perfect for decorating her parents' newly renovated bar & grill in Kankakee, Illinois. Most of this stuff...except for the finger pickled in a jar of formaldehyde. Uncertain what to do about the mysterious "body part," Jane asks former homicide detective Bruce Oh to see if the detached digit is connected to a crime. Meanwhile she is carting her tavern treasures down to Kankakee unaware that her hometown's darkest secrets are buried in her boxes...or that her talent for finding things will lead to a corpse, a kidnapping, and a chilling threat to those she loves most....

A mystery complemented with illustrations and photographs from the nineteenth century serves up the story of Sadie Greenstreet and her husband, a Pinkerton detective, as they set out to solve a murder on a Mississippi riverboat. (view table of contents)

Caterers Jane and Shelly are pleased as punch to host a lavish wedding in the old monastery, but when a sudden thunderstorm knocks out the electricity, murder breaks the guests' nuptial spell, and Jane steps in to investigate. Reprint.

When a serial killer begins stalking the streets of suburban Chicago near the convent of Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey, the enterprising nun turns sleuth and begins putting together the clues to help police detective Richard Moriarity find the killer.

Heading to Hollywood when Wren Bixby, owner of Bix Pix Flix, purchases the rights to her story, private detective Jane Wheel becomes embroiled in a murder mystery when a screenwriting friend is accused of killing his old writing partner.

Hired by a rebellious group of feminists for a huge house renovation, Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack become increasingly alarmed when the project is overshadowed by malicious pranks, a suspicious death, and numerous secrets.

Hired by a rebellious group of feminists for a huge house renovation, Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack become increasingly alarmed when the project is overshadowed by malicious pranks, a suspicious death, and numerous secrets.

Black businesswoman Virginia Kelly is called in by her business school classmate, Beverly, when Bev's lover is found dead in back of a lesbian bar

Product Description: Hired by the head of Chicago's biggest bank to find his son's missing girlfriend, private investigator V.I. Warshawski soon finds herself up against the worst of the city's white-collar criminals in a fight to save the life of an innocent young woman.

Only the missing Anita can explain the bizarre links between the union, the mob, and big business, and investigator V.I. Warshawski discovers that she has to act fast because she is not the only one looking for Anita. (Mystery).

Becoming suspicious about facts surrounding a tragic vehicular homicide for which a young man blames himself, psychic Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband find the case complicated by a scandal involving the diary of a nineteenth-century priest.

Becoming suspicious about facts surrounding a tragic vehicular homicide for which a young man mournfully blames himself, psychic fey Nuala Anne McGrail and her haphazard husband find the case complicated by a modern-day scandal involving the diary of a nineteenth-century priest. By the author of Irish Stew! 100,000 first printing.

"There's evil people around, Dermot love. . . . I knew about them even before me dream. Really evil people. Won't we have to fight them!"This latest tale of Nuala Anne McGrail, the engagingly fey heroine of such irresistible books as Irish Cream and Irish Lace, begins with a foreboding dream of some terrible impending evil. Dermot Michael Coyne, Nuala's adoring husband and spear-carrier, knows better than to ignore his wife's second sight, but from whence does this nameless peril originate? From the Homeland Security goons determined to deport the Irish-born Nuala on the basis of nothing more than vague suspicions and accusations? From the spiteful neighbors campaigning against their family's beloved Irish wolfhounds? Or from the tangled dealings of the Currans, a prosperous clan of Irish-American aristocrats, with whom Nuala and Dermot have recently become acquainted?The true danger becomes shockingly apparent when a catastrophic car-bombing rocks the Chicago riverfront. Uncovering the twisted minds behind the bombing is not easy; Dermot and Nuala soon find themselves enmeshed in a complicated tapestry of lies and secrets. Nuala's preternatural instincts also lead her to a forgotten manuscript revealing the treachery and deceit behind a tragic chapter in Irish history: the saga of bold Robert Emmet and the failed uprisings of 1798 and 1803.Between the past and the present, our heroine and her devoted spouse have more than enough mysteries to contend with, but the two of them are bound to make the truth just as clear as . . . Irish Crystal.

A woman born, like her mother, with visions of a mysterious shipwreck, becomes a famous singer and attempts to unravel the mystery of her life, despite attacks from a vicious media and the Balkan mafia.

When a young man from her Chicago neighborhood, vanishes in Iraq and the U.S. government denies knowledge of his whereabouts, Nuala launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth, while, in a parallel case, she stumbles upon the memoirs of the Irish ambassador to Nazi Germany, a man who risked his life for a beautiful German widow and a secret plot to kill Hitler. Reprint.