In the foothills of South India a man struggles against ropes tying him to an old bridge while the monsoon rages and wild animals forage for food. In the valley below, Anita Ray and Auntie Meena are stopped at a roadblock while their car is searched. When Anita and Meena arrive at their destination, Lalita Amma s household is in turmoil. During a break in the rain, Anita discovers a body washed into the riverbank. The police whisk away the corpse and refuse to answer questions. For the Love of Parvati brings Anita Ray face to face with a killer determined to exact revenge for a code of honor broken, a lover determined to rescue his beloved, and a woman desperate to build a new life.

Product Description: Anita Ray arrives at her grandmother's old estate along a quiet river in South India to comfort the family and try to locate her cousin Surya, who was expected but never arrived. While she is there, a maidservant falls into a trance and reports that Devi, the Great Goddess, is angry with the family and that Surya will never arrive...read more

Product Description: Crimes, capers, and mayhem abound when eleven New England writers turn their talents to the art of the short story. Here we meet an eclectic cast of good guys and bad guys, including a battle-scarred PI who repairs cars when she's not investigting murders, a Jamaican cook who traffics with ghosts, and a Protean temp worker with a touch of larceny in her soul...read more

As the town prepares for the twenty-fifth reunion of Mellingham High School, police chief Joe Silva discovers that some members of the Class of '69 are more interested in revenge, violence, and murder. Reprint.

Socially prominent and manipulative Beth O'Donnell visits her brother in the small Massachusetts village of Mellingham and is promptly murdered, and Police Chief Joe Silva has too many suspects

When a student at Massasoit College is murdered, Mellingham's chief of police Joe Silva investigates and discovers some surprising secrets about the local art world and small-town life

Product Description: Gwen McDuffy has returned to Mellingham with her two children, but something is haunting her. Distracted by her own worries, she barely notices the tension at the Arbella Society, where George Frome, determined to bring questionable practices to the attention of the board of directors, is systematically offending everyone he encounters...read more

'Entertaining and authoritative, this alphabetically arranged companion is an indispensable reference guide to crime and mystery writing. Unique in its biographical and critical treatment of major detective writers, it is a comprehensive digest to the genre's lexicon, characters, themes, time periods, milieus, and curiosities.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2001.Gathers essays by such crime and mystery authors as Sara Paretsky, Edward D. Hoch, Ruth Rendell, and Tony Hillerman

Lists and summarizes the best British mysteries, and indexes characters, periods, locations, and settings