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A Late Phoenix

Catherine Aird

Decades ago, Germans bombed the village at Lamb Lane. But now redevelopment is under way. During the excavation, a workman finds the skeleton of a pregnant girl with a bullet lodged in her spine. The trail is definitely stone cold whe...

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Published: Dec 2008

The New York Trilogy (Classics Deluxe...

Paul Auster

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

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Published: Apr 1990

Brewed, Crude and Tattooed (Maggy Tho...

Sandra Balzo

The new 'Maggy Thorsen' coffee-house mystery - Maggy Thorsen, co-owner of coffee-house Uncommon Grounds, is trapped in a shopping mall by a snow storm, which cuts the electricity and phone lines. She finds the body of Way Benson, the ...

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Published: Feb 2010

Death And the Chaste Apprentice (Felo...

Robert Barnard

At the Ketterick Arts Festival, the apprentice is just about the only fella that is chaste, know what I mean (wink wink nudge nudge)? Ah, the pleasures of smutty innuendo, and no one relishes them more than Des Capper, a font of dubio...

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Published: Feb 2006

Jane and His Lordship's Legacy (Jane ...

Stephanie Barron

In July 1809, novelist-turned-sleuth Jane Austen finds solace in her grief over her lost love, Lord Harold Trowbridge, in a new cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, but her newfound peace of mind is fleeting when the strangled corpse of a m...

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Published: Sep 2005

Paradise Valley: A Highway Novel (Hig...

C. J. Box

She almost caught the notorious Lizard King serial killer once. Now, he's back―with a vengeance.For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on the hunt for a serial killer known as the Lizard King, whose hunting grounds are...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Bitterroots: A Novel

C. J. Box

A riveting new audiobook from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box.Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2019

Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: A Novel

Rita Mae Brown

The chase is on in New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown's gripping new foxhunting mystery, featuring the irrepressible "Sister" Jane Arnold and the wily antics of her four-legged friends. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie...

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Published: Oct 2015

Probable Claws: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery...

Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return to Albemarle County, Virgina, as tangled mysteries past and present converge in the bestselling Mrs. Murphy series. “As feline collaborators go, you couldn’t ask for...

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Published: Apr 2019

Angel's Tip of Suspense

Alafair Burke

In a city full of victims . . . it's hard to choose just one. Indiana college student Chelsea Hart's wild evening with affluent young party boys in an elite Manhattan club was the most exhilarating and glamorous night of her life. I...

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Published: Apr 2012

Dressed To Kill

Lynn Cahoon

Jill Gardner, the owner of Coffee, Books, and More, has been suckered into playing a twenties flapper in murder/dinner theater. Though it is for charity... Of course everyone is expecting a "dead" body at the dress rehearsal...but t...

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Published: Jun 2015

A Trace of Smoke (Hannah Vogel)

Rebecca Cantrell

Even though hardened crime reporter Hannah Vogel knows all too well how tough it is to survive in 1931 Berlin, she is devastated when she sees a photograph of her brother's body posted in the Hall of the Unnamed Dead. Ernst, a cross-d...

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Published: Jan 2010

Outsider (Kate Burkholder, 12)

Linda Castillo

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBestselling author Linda Castillo returns with Outsider, an electrifying thriller about a woman on the run hiding among the Amish.While enjoying a sleigh ride with his children, Amish widower Adam...

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Published: May 2021

Murder on the Moor (A Rex Graves Myst...

C. S. Challinor

Book 4 in the acclaimed Rex Graves Mystery SeriesWhen Rex Graves holds a housewarming party in the Scottish Highlands, he doesn't anticipate the arrival of an old flame—much less a dead body or serial killer. Rex's houseguest and co...

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Published: Mar 2011

Cat Among the Pigeons: A Hercule Poir...

Agatha Christie

Another term has begun at Meadowbank, a prestigious, well-respected British girls' school. The indomitable headmistress is preparing to retire and name her successor. There is a disconcertingly mature Middle Eastern princess among the...

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Published: Jul 2011

Taken at the Flood

Agatha Christie

A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room! A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the for...

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Published: Sep 2011

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta)

Patricia Cornwell

Discover the “dazzling...fascinating” (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Timesbestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virg...

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Published: Mar 2021

Crimson Snow: A Hilda Johansson Myste...

Jeanne M. Dams

Based on a 1904 unsolved murder case, Crimson Snow weaves immigrant life, class and ethnic tensions into a taut drama centered around the Studebaker mansion in South Bend, Indiana. Hilda Johansson, a Studebaker housemaid, doesn't want...

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Published: Sep 2005

Polished Off (Southern Beauty Shop)

Lila Dare

Audrey Faye sashays into Violetta's Salon looking for stylists for the Miss Magnolia Blossom pageant. Hairdresser Grace Terhune's opportunity quickly turns into a nightmare with anti-pageant protestors, angry mothers, frantic contesta...

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Published: Feb 2011

Rest Ye Murdered Gentlemen

Vicki Delany

FIRST IN A NEW SERIES!In Rudolph, New York, it's Christmastime all year long. But this December, while the snow-lined streets seem merry and bright, a murder is about to ruin everyone's holiday cheer…As the owner of Mrs. Claus's Tre...

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Published: Nov 2015

Bolt

Dick Francis

Kit Fielding will do whatever it takes to stop the killing of racehorses. Not an easy task considering that the woman he adores is leaving him, an international arms dealer is threatening him, and Kit's nemesis has plans to knock him ...

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Published: May 2005

Ship Possessed, A

Alton Gansky

The USS Triggerfish--an American World War II submarine--has come home over fifty years after she was presumed lost in the Atlantic. Now her dark gray hulk lies embedded in the sand of a San Diego beach, her conning tower barely above...

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Published: Mar 1999

The Liar's Lullaby

Meg Gardiner

Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner returns with a third propulsive, groundbreaking thriller about forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and the lies that are even more dangerous than fame. Tasia McFarland is a washed-up country-pop singer des...

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Published: Jun 2011

The Case of the Postponed Murder

Erle Stanley Gardner

When Mae Farr becomes the presumed stalking victim of wealthy playboy Penn Wentworth, she asks Perry for help. Wentworth say he merely wants her for forging his name on a check. Farr claims he just wants her. Mae is willing to play ha...

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Published: Dec 1995

Mr. Monk is Miserable

Lee Goldberg

Based on the hit USA network series— from edgar® Award - nominated Monk screenwriter lee GoldbergAdrian Monk and his assistant Natalie are in Paris, touring the shadowy catacombs that wind beneath the city streets, lined with mi...

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Published: Jun 2009

Blackwater Sound

James W. Hall

The Braswell family had everything people would kill for: money, looks, power. But their eldest son, the family's shining light, died in a bizarre fishing accident. And when he disappeared - hauled into the depths by the giant marlin...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jun 2004

The Tidal Poole (Elizabeth I Mysterie...

Karen Harper

Assisted by her band of loyal courtiers and retainers, young queen Elizabeth I spearheads the investigation into the brutal murder of a high-living lady of her court, only to stumble upon a sinister plot against the queen herself. By ...

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Published: Feb 2001

A Tangled Yarn

Betty Hechtman

Betty Hechtman knits up murder and mayhem in the latest in the national bestselling Yarn Retreat Mystery series.Casey Feldstein has her hands full with preparations at the Vista Del Mar hotel on the scenic Monterey Peninsula as anothe...

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Published: Aug 2017

Ripley's Game

Patricia Highsmith

Scorned at an elegant gala, art connoisseur, millionaire, and psychopath Tom Ripley comes up with an ingenious and subtle way to exact his revenge for the insult. Reissue. (A Fine Line Features film, directed by Liliana Cavani, writte...

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Published: Nov 1993

The Price of Butcher's Meat

Reginald Hill

After a close encounter with a bomb, Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel recuperates at the Avalon Clinic in the quaint seaside resort of Sandytown. But soon he begins to suspect that those outside the convalescent home have just as...

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Published: Oct 2009
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