- The Saint Valentine's Day Murders (1984) by Ruth Dudley Edwards
- British civil servant Robert Amiss becomes enmeshed in a complex web of mystery and murder when he attempts to find the individual responsible for sending poisoned chocolates on St. Valentine's Day.
- Broken Hearts Club (1999) Ethan Black
- Detective Conrad Voort races against time to catch an elusive serial killer, an investigation that leads him to an informal group of men whose only connection lies in their unsuccessful love lives.
- How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams (1995) Dorothy Cannell
- Investigating the mysterious death of the local librarian, Ellie Haskell is entranced by the arrival of romance cover model Karisma, whose muscle-bound fund-raiser is upended by second and third murders.
- Saint Valentine's Night (1989) Andrew M. Greeley
- Top television investigative reporter Neal Connor finds romance--and danger--when he returns to his hometown of Chicago on assignment and reunites with his childhood sweetheart, the recent widow of his best friend.
- Daughter of the Stars (1994) Phyllis A. Whitney
- While her mother battles a life-threatening illness, Lacey Elliot receives a letter from an unknown woman claiming to be her aunt, a piece of correspondence that unlocks dangerous secrets from the past.
- Bleeding Hearts (1994) by Jane Haddam
- Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian races to prevent a Valentine's Day murder that would keep the perpetrator of a long-unsolved crime secret forever.
- Deadly Valentine (1991) by Carolyn G. Hart
- An innocent Valentine's Day Ball on Broward's Rock turns deadly, and soon Annie Laurance is investigating a murder for which her own mother-in-law is the prime suspect
- Valentine Murder: a Lucy Stone Mystery (2000) by Leslie Meier
- Knee-deep in cupcakes with pastel frosting and candy hearts, Lucy Stone is shocked when new librarian Bitsy Howell is murdered and Detective Horowitz announces that the murderer is among them, so she casts aside her culinary concoctions to investigate and comes face to face with a killer.
- Love lies bleeding : a China Bayles mystery (1997) by Susan Wittig Albert
- Expecting a surprise in the form of a marriage proposal on Valentine's Day, China Bayles gets a shock instead when her lover, Mike McQuaid, is shot.
- Valentine: a novel (1996) by Tom Savage
- Suspense novelist Jillian Talbot finds her idyllic and fashionable life in Greenwich Village shattered by the pervasive attentions of a stalker, who grows more deadly as Valentine's Day approaches.
- Caveman's Valentine (1994) by George Dawes Green
- Homeless and delusional, Romulus Ledbetter lives in a cave in Inwood Park, until his discovery of a body and his obsessive quest for the truth force his reentry into "civilized" society as he attempts to solve the mystery.
- Crimes of the heart: short story collection (1995) edited by Carolyn G. Hart
- A collection of fourteen original short works follows themes of fatal attractions and includes Sharyn McCrumb's "Matchmaker," Barbara D'Amato's "Hard Feelings," and P. M. Carlson's "The Rosewood Coffin, or the Divine Sarah."
- Crimes of Passion: short stories (2002) Nancy Means Wright and others
- Four gripping stories of obsession and desire from the masters of mystery includes B. J. Daniels's "The Lovebirds," in which hotel detective Tempest Bailey must solve the mystery surrounding the murder of Peggy Kane, a mistress who received a deadly Valentine's Day gift, as well as other works by Maggie Price, Jonathan Harrington, and Nancy Means Wright.
- Love and Death: short story collection (2001) edited by Carolyn G. Hart
- Romance and mystery combine in a Valentine's Day anthology of fourteen original whodunits from Dorothy Cannell, Caroyn Hart, Nancy Pickard, Gar Anthony Haywood, Peter Robinson, Eve Sandstrom, Ed Gorman, Margaret Maron, Jean Hager, Robert J. Randisi, M. D. Lake, Susan Dunlap, Marilyn Wallace, and Kathy Hogan Trocheck.
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