"Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart."
Carolyn Hart

Cormac McCarthy has nothing on Mary Daheim—whose fabulous Bed-and-Breakfast mysteries win hands down when it comes to outrageous zaniness. In All the Pretty Hearses, Daheim,"the reigning queen of the cozies" (Portland Oregonian), embroils Hillside Manor hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn in a lethal case of insurance fraud and mystery meat gone bad, in the twenty-sixth

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"A volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter, Alayna Curry faces death every day--and is proud to carry on her retired father's legacy. But with cash always tight and her long-time boyfriend Levi pressuring her to give up what she loves to make more money, she knows she needs more cash flow to stay afloat ... All Alayna has to do is keep quiet about a scheme to burn down buildings for insurance-hungry 'clients.' And for a while she's on fire from the rush,...

A compulsive gambler, a bowling alley standup comic, an insurance agent for the uninsurable, and the most frightening assassin the former USSR could have manufactured all want one thing, the Interlock.

Sydney Simone is dedicated to helping those whose wrongs can't be righted by orthodox means. Via a cloaked identity, she first verifies the client's story and then accepts half payment up front and half on completion of her work. For cover, she works at a gallery in Palm Beach run by Oscar Leopold. Oscar's former partner Roy is arrested for murdering an attorney called Big Jack. At the same time, Sydney is dealing with a client who has seemingly penetrated...

Dispatched to repossess a Cadillac from a deadbeat pet-cemetery owner and his beautiful wife, an unscrupulous used-car salesman embarks on an affair that tests the limits of his character. Ed Edwards is in the used car business, a business built on adjusted odometers, extra-fine print, and the belief that "buyers better beware." Burdened by an aging, alcoholic mother constantly on his case to do something worthier of his lighter skin tone and dreaming...