Ghost Detective Library

While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's son who longs to be a samurai, joins a group of kabuki actors in eighteenth-century Japan...

Death is overdue at the New Oslo Library. Lena Larsen just wanted to return a library book. Instead, she found the head librarian dead under a collapsed bookshelf. While it looks like a tragic accident, Lena's ghostly grandmother Ingrid has other ideas—and she's usually right about these things. As Lena digs deeper with Sheriff Mark Hanson, they discover that their quiet town of New Oslo harbors dark secrets worth killing for. With financial fraud, workplace rivalries, and a killer who is closer than they think, this investigation will test both Lena's amateur sleuthing skills and her ...

Six down-on-their-luck people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust. The challenge seems simple but exciting: Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer in a remote but wonderfully atmospheric village in north...

Book conservator Tory Van Dyne and a woman claiming to be Agatha Christie on holiday from the Great Beyond join forces to catch a killer in this spirited mystery from Amanda Chapman. Tory Van Dyne is the most down-to-earth member of a decidedly eccentric old-money New York family. For one...

Basil of Baker’s Street, the masterful mouse detective who studied under Sherlock Holmes, is on his way to a school reunion with his old friends from Ratcliffe College. Along for the trip is his steadfast companion, Doctor Dawson. But all is not well, as they soon learn that the dastardly Ratigan has escaped from prison in London. Could the rat possibly be planning revenge against his old nemesis, Basil himself?

This bundle includes Basil and the Lost Colony, Basil and the Big Cheese Cook-Off, Basil and the Royal Dare, and Basil and the Library Ghost.

It’s all hands on deck when a dead body is found near the small town of Briar Creek in this Library Lover’s Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Merry Little Murder Plot. Just off the shores of the coastal Connecticut town of Briar Creek are two small islands, which...

Daphne Marriott strolls into Clover Ridge and informs librarian Carrie Singleton that she's a psychic. But if she had foreseen what fate awaited her, Daphne would have steered clear of the quaint Connecticut town. Evelyn, the library ghost, tells Carrie that there's more to Daphne than she lets on. The mysterious woman grew up in Clover Ridge with her no-good dad, who apparently met his end at the hands of Daphne's brother, Billy. Still, Daphne proves a welcome distraction when Carrie's overbearing mother hits town. Mom's much younger husband, Tom, is in a movie that's lensing locally.

They’ve been stuck In the Loretta Grey Memorial Library – formally the Loretta Grey Memorial Library – for the past seven to eight decades…and now they want to be free. When Sally O’Brian visits the library, the two ghosts overhear her conversation and realize that she might be their salvation. Sally O’Brian, ex-school teacher, untimely widow, and near-death survivor can speak to the dead. But this ability has come with a cost.Sally O’Brian has to find a way to get the dead to pass on to their eternal resting place. But to do that, she has to solve two murders, both of which ...

New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Hart treats readers to another visitation by ghostly gumshoe Bailey Ruth Raeburn as she lends a hand to an ethereal matchmaker who haunts a library... Bailey Ruth’s supervisor, Wiggins, is worried about a dear old friend—the ghost of elegant...

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1907, the Old Time English volume of The Lock and Key Library features ten classic mysteries and ghost stories by Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas de Quincey, Charles Robert Maturin, Laurence Sterne, and William Makepeace Thackeray. This volume of The Lock and Key Library is sure to haunt and charm fans of ghost and detective mysteries alike.

Bookshop owner Sarah never expected to find a dead body at her former high school. Sarah Smith loves books, coffee, and quiet. All that is shattered when her father figure and a high school principal is found dead. Sarah has read so many of her mystery books that now she has to face one. Sarah unites with Jacob Rider, her ex-boyfriend and a charming detective who loves solving mysteries. Together they uncover misleading clues, multiple suspects, and a thick plot of intrigue. Time is running out as Sarah delves deep into books and theories. With every page she turns, she inches closer to ...