The first Blanche White novel follows a middle-aged maid who becomes involved in a crime and investigates it while moving through tensions of race, class, and gender.

From the work of a maid, the distortions of society come into view.

The first Deborah Knott novel sends its heroine back to North Carolina, where old family secrets and an unsolved murder are tied to land and local politics.

Secrets left in the hometown set the present case in motion.

A co-written short mystery by Aaron Elkins and Charlotte Elkins, it builds its puzzle from small misreadings and brisk, witty exchanges.

A small discrepancy turns into an unexpected mystery.