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By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

A widowed amateur sleuth shadows an international art thief from London to Bruges in this “sprightly second cozy” by the author of False Charity Bea Abbot doesn’t do murder. The modest agency she runs from her Victorian home in Kensington is better at finding good domestic help and the best caterers. Yet how can she turn away her oldest friend? Velma’s prodigal stepson Philip has vanished. So has a valuable pre-Raphaelite painting from the home of Philip’s eccentric godmother, Lady Lucinda Farne. Seeing that Lucinda’s been stabbed to death, she can’t possibly clear Philip’s name.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

An Abbot Agency Mystery While Bea Abbot worries that she’s lost control of her domestic agency, she’s asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric little musician falsely accused of murder. She doesn’;t realize how dangerous this might be until Jeremy, fleeing from attempts on his life, lands up on her doorstep. Researching the gang who’d used an attractive girl to entrap Jeremy, Bea finds traces of them throughout high society.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

Bea Abbot discovers that at least one of her neighbours is hiding a shocking secret in the latest intriguing Abbot Agency mysteryWhen the party wall dividing the gardens of Bea Abbot and her fiancé Leon collapses, amongst the ensuing chaos a human skeleton is unearthed in Leon’s garden. Having only just purchased the property, Leon and Bea set out to discover more about the house’s previous owners. Before they can proceed in their investigation however, the pair fall victim to an elaborately-laid trap. With her home, livelihood and the agency under threat, Bea appears to be the subject of a meticulously-planned vendetta. But why? And why is Leon becoming strangely distant?

By Veronica Heley (Zondervan)

Minty must overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to keep her home and her relationship with the man she loves In Book Two of the Eden Hall series, Minty has inherited her beloved Eden Hall—and a host of problems. The villagers depend on the Hall for their livelihood, but there is no money to keep the massive Hall open. Members of her step-family do their utmost to undermine her reputation, and some of the staff at the Hall are up to no good. Everyone has high expectations for Minty but she is too inexperienced to avoid all the pitfalls in her new life. To make matters worse, Patrick, her true love, is having doubts about their future together.

By Veronica Heley (Zondervan)

Eden Hall, the ancient English stately home, has brought Araminta ‘Minty’ Sands more joy—and heartache— than she could ever have imagined. She’s worked hard to keep it open to the public; but, exhausted from looking after the twins, Minty has no energy to maintain the Hall as she once did. Worn-out and fearing another trouble-filled pregnancy, she’s also pushed her husband, Patrick, away physically and emotionally. And now her old enemy has returned: Judith Kent, known worldwide as amoral rock star Maxine. Claiming to be reformed, Judith begs Minty for a job.

By Veronica Heley (Severn House Publishers)

In the new Ellie Quicke mystery, Ellie is forced to think the unthinkable about her own daughter, Diana. Could she be a murderer?Ellie has always disliked the local big estate agent, aka Great White Shark, and is distressed when her daughter Diana announces that she is carrying his child and about to become his fourth wife. But Ellie is soon drawn into the family circle when one of the Hooper children dies in their private gym and another succumbs to a peanut allergy.

By Veronica Heley (Zondervan)

Grieving after a miscarriage, Araminta ‘Minty’ Sands has set aside the demands of running Eden Hall for a season of healing. But her convalescence in Europe is cut short when a crisis back home requires her husband Patrick’s immediate attention. Minty returns to Eden Hall early, unexpected.

By Dee Henderson (Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.)

The sheriff of Justice, Illinois, is hunting a killer. Women visiting town are being murdered, tourists in nice hotels, money still in their billfolds, jewelry still on the dresser. Quiet kills?they go to sleep and never awaken. The sheriff is not pleased to find the new detective in town, Rae Gabriella, working the case on behalf of one of the families. She’s staying in the same hotel as one of the victims?and her looks suggest she could be the next victim.

By Lynette Eason, Dee Henderson, Dani Pettrey (Bethany House Publishers)

In Dee Henderson’s novella “Betrayed,” Janelle Roberts is freed–thanks to people she doesn’t know–after serving six years of a twenty-year sentence for a murder she did not commit. But a murderer is still at large, and Janelle needs to be somewhere safe with someone she can trust. She may not survive another betrayal. In Dani Pettrey’s “Deadly Isle,” Tennyson Kent is trapped on the isolated island of her childhood by a storm surge, and she is shocked when the typically idyllic community turns into the hunting grounds of a murderer. Cut off from any help from the mainland, will she and first love Callen Frost be able to identify and stop a killer bent on betrayal before they become the next victims?In Lynette Eason’s “Code of Ethics,” trauma surgeon Ruthie St.

By Dee Henderson (Bethany House Publishers)

Dee Henderson Is Back!Ann Silver is a cop’s cop. As the Midwest Homicide Investigator, she is called in to help local law enforcement on the worst of cases, looking for answers to murder. Hers is one of the region’s most trusted investigative positions. Paul Falcon is the FBI’s top murder cop in the Midwest. If the victim carried a federal badge or had a security clearance, odds are good Paul and his team see the case file or work the murder.