Gail Anderson-Dargatz
A Recipe for Bees. Harmony, 2000, 1998.
While awaiting word of the results of her son-in-law’s brain surgery, Augusta reflects on her often tempestuous life, her half-century old marriage and the passion for bee-keeping that became her salvation.

Anthony Burgess
Honey for the Bears. Norton, 1964, 1963.
In this farcical satire of the secret capitalist desires of the Russians, an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, travels to Cold War Soviet Union to do one final deal on the black market as a favor for a dead friend's wife.

Sue Cameron
Honey Dust. Warner, 1993.
The stingers are in full force as two ambitious women—mother and daughter—vie for control of a motion picture dynasty.

Alisa Craig
Grub- and- Stakers Quilt a Bee. Doubleday, 1985.
The Grub and Stake Gardening and Roving Club inherit an old house to run as a museum. But things get off to a rocky start when the new curator is pushed off the roof. The clue to the murder may lie in deciphering a quilt decorated with multifarious bees.

Clive Egleton
The Honey Trap. Minotaur, 2001, 2000.
Secret Service agent Peter Ashton investigates the brutal murder of a messenger making what should be a routine delivery to Costa Rica, strong suggestions—both from within his own organization and without—are sent his way that he not too look too closely at the death.

Myla Goldberg
Bee Season. Doubleday, 2000.
Nine-year-old Eliza Naumann seems to be the square peg in her otherwise gifted family and is generally ignored by her parents, her teachers, and her classmates until she unexpectedly sweeps her school and district spelling bees.

Eileen Goudge
Taste of Honey: A Carson Springs Novel. Viking, 2002.
A season has passed in Carson Springs since Stranger in Paradise. And with a baby on the way, Samantha Kiley and Ian Carpenter will soon be loving parents. But Samantha’s joy is tempered by the pain of her best friend, Gerry, whose thirty-year-old secret has come back to haunt her.

Elizabeth Graver
The Honey Thief. Hyperion, 1999.
When eleven-year-old Eva is once again caught shoplifting her mother, Miriam, decides to leave the bad influences of the city for a quiet town in upstate New York. While Miriam tries to find the normal life she has always longed for, Eva befriends a reclusive beekeeper who may be the catalyst for mother and daughter coming to terms with their fears.

Charlaine Harris
A Fool and his Honey. Minotaur, 1999.
Series sleuth librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden has her hands full when her husband's niece shows up (and then vanished just as quickly) unannounced on their doorstep with a baby and the body of the girl's husband is subsequently found murdered in her own backyard.

Kate Hatfield
Drowning in Honey. St. Martin's, 1996.
When successful businesswoman Melissa Wraxall finds herself on a jury deciding the fate of a man accused of killing his physically abusive wife, she is forced to confront the reality of her own deteriorating, flawed marriage.

Faye Kellerman
Milk and Honey. Avon, 2003, 1990.
With his Orthodox Jewish girlfriend, Rina Lazarus, thousands of miles away in New York wrestling with his marriage proposal, LAPD detective Pete Decker finds an abandoned two-year-old child covered in blood (not hers) and bee stings. His investigation quickly leads him to the scene of a multiple murder on a honey farm.

Sue Monk Kidd
The Secret Life of Bees. Viking, 2002.
After her "stand-in mother," makes the mistake of insulting the three biggest racists in town, young Lily Owens flees with her to Tiburon, South Carolina, a town Lily believes has some connection to her dead mother, and where they are taken in by three black, bee-keeping sisters.

Karen Latuchie
The Honey Wall. Norton, 2004.
Nina, a kinetic toy builder living in rural Pennsylvania, learns about an ailing neighbor's long-ago affair with his sister-in-law and becomes obsessed with the story, which triggers her own memories of her troubled, infidelity-marked marriage to often absent painter, Tony.

Thomas McMahon
McKay’s Bees. H&R, 1979.
In 1855 Kansas, New Englander Gordon McKay pursues his dream of making a fortune raising bees in spite of Missouri border ruffians and the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.

Tim Sandlin
Honey Don’t. GPPS, 2003.
After Mafioso Jimmy Sebastiano discovers her mistress in bed with another man, he flies into a jealous rage and kills him. Too bad the victim is the President of the United States. Now sexy Texan Honey DuPont finds herself immersed in the machismo antics of dirty politicians, hitmen, and a journalist looking to score the biggest story of his career.

Haywood Smith
Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch. St. Martin's, 2002.
After her husband of thirty years runs off with a stripper, Lin Breedlove is left to contend with poverty, the IRS, hot-flashes and worse, having to move into the home of her opinionated, overbearing parents in Mimosa Branch, Georgia.

Diane Swanson
Murder of a Small-Town Honey. Signet, 2000.
School psychologist and amateur sleuth, Skye Denison, returns home (reluctantly) to Scumble River with no plans of staying there any longer than she has to, but when her brother is accused of murder, her escape plans are thwarted.

Matthew Witten
The Killing Bee: A Jacob Burns Mystery. Signet, 2001.
Along with other parents, work-at-home dad, Jacob Burns, has been lobbying for a gifted and talented program in his local school, their efforts have been thwarted by principal, Sam Mewckel…at least until he is whacked with a spelling-bee trophy. The accused is a friend of his, so Jacob investigates and finds that plenty of people had a bone to pick with the dead man.

Nancy Means Wright
Stolen Honey. T. Dunne, 2002.
Still determined to make a go of it running her farm and raising her two kids in rural Vermont, Ruth Willmarth is still willing to help her beekeeping neighbor, Gwen Woodleaf, after her daughter’s classmate is found murdered on her property and suspicion points to both Donna's over protective Native American father and a farmhand with an unrequited crush on the girl.

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