Chicago private eye Paul Whelan is hired by an elderly jazz musician to find a missing street hustler named Sam Burwell. When Burwell is found murdered, Whelan is swept up into a whirlwind of old feuds, dark pasts, unlikely romances...and a killer hiding in plain sight.

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An amateur sleuth and her detective husband inherit a country house where a maid goes missing in this mystery novella set in Victorian England.

Country star Matt Montana is playing a holiday benefit in Maggody, Arkansas, and the locals can’t wait to cash in on the event. But when one of his entourage is found dead, police chief Arly Hanks has to step in...

“Another delightful installment in a superbly comic series.” —Booklist

A Columbia University physician comes across a popular medieval text on dying well written after the horror of the Black Plague and discovers ancient wisdom for rethinking death and gaining insight today on how we can learn the lost art of dying well in this wise, clear-eyed book that is as compelling and soulful as Being Mortal, When Breath Becomes Air, and Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.

"I recommend this book to all who are mortal." —Mary Pipher, author of Women Rowing North