When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi Jo Reese never expects to find more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls. But all that changes when she discovers eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes. Hidden in the boxes is the story of a...

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, this is "a page-turner... the perfect blend of mystery, adventure and romance" (The Charleston Mercury).
Teresa "Toots" Loudenberry has a knack for finding adventure, even when she's not looking for it. But ever since her friend Sophie convinced her to start holding regular séances, life in Los Angeles is getting a little too dramatic even for Toots's tastes. When their...

Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows, she is off on an adventure she never...

"Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that's their secret weapon. They've spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four women friends can't just retire--it's kill or be killed in this action-packed thriller by New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn. Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum,...

"The votes are in! Eccentric seventy-something Vivian Borne--elected county sheriff, to everyone's amazement but her own--springs into action. In her new role, the community playhouse diva appoints daughter Brandy reluctant deputy and makes their spunky shihtzu Sushi a K-9 unit of one. Soon the amateur-sleuths-turned-pro have a challenging case to solve as a series of creepy crimes plague an ill-fated Edgar Allan Poe festival, where a fiend is misguidedly...

A haunted bed and breakfast. A mummy. A mysterious key. A bank robber who is also a Goth. A strange but beautiful little old lady with dementia whose only words are, "Shut up and drink." Put all those together in the monster of a mansion that Dr. Robinson Leary, retired professor from Creighton University has inherited from an unknown great aunt, and the Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12 have their hands full and Geoffrey the mastiff is no protection...

The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12: Murder at Meadow Lakes Perculator Rasmussen lay face-down, spread-eagled on the dining room floor of Meadow Lakes Retirement Community. The back of his head was smashed in, his throat was cut, a nylon cord was around his neck. There was a bullet hole in his jacket and a knife in his back. "Are we sure he's dead?" Mary Rose McGill asked. "If he isn't," Wiley Vondra said. "He'd better have damn good insurance."...

There's a voodoo queen in training at Meadow Lakes Retirement Community and Chaos Cauldron's spells all go awry. Snowed in for months, the girls are trapped and Geoffrey the Mastiff is force to be host to three white rats in tiny sweaters. Double-Double, Toil and Trouble are Chaos' pets and not appetizers. But who killed Winifred Wyttch? And why are the pillows in the two ugly chairs in the lobby always on the wrong chair? But most importantly - we...

Their father was a notorious drunk; their mother, a self-absorbed shrew who callously abandoned them for life with another man. After their father is killed in a senseless accident, teenage brothers Klint and Kyle Hayes face being returned to their mothers custody against their will. For Klint, the move to Arizona would mean sacrificing his attention-getting baseball career at the height of the college and pro-scouting season. For sensitive...