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Lethal Legacy

Linda Fairstein

Featuring a cast of elite and erudite characters, and a complex trail of clues that will have you guessing until the final pages, Lethal Legacy is Linda Fairstein's most beguiling thriller yet. When Assistant District Attorney Alex Co...

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Published: Nov 2009

In The Dark

Brian Freeman

This is one case that has haunted Jonathan Stride for thirty years. When he was a teenager, in the summer after his junior year of high school, he fell in love with Cindy Starr, the girl who would become his wife. But that same summer...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Dirty Secrets Club

Meg Gardiner

With this breakout novel, the meg gardiner fan club is growing...A string of high-profile murder-suicides has San Francisco more rattled than the string of recent earthquakes. Hired by the SFPD to shed light on the victims' lives, for...

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Published: Jun 2009

A Place of Safety (Chief Inspector Ba...

Caroline Graham

Chief Inspector Barnaby investigates when the charming English village of Ferne Basset is turned upside down by the murder of local man who had recently witnessed the "suicide" of a young woman who was in trouble with the la...

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Published: Jan 2001

Hooked on Murder: A Crochet Mystery

Betty Hechtman

Craft lovers and mystery readers alike will flock to this great new craft-based cozy- FIRST IN THE CROCHET MYSTERY SERIES Delicious Recipe and Crochet Pattern Included!When bookstore event coordinator Molly Pink stumbles across the de...

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Published: May 2008

Death in the Garden

Elizabeth Ironside

Gold Dagger nominee In 1925 beautiful, bohemian Diana Pollexfen was celebrating her 30th birthday. The celebrations soured when her husband died, poisoned by a cocktail that had been liberally laced with some of Diana's photographi...

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Published: Jan 1995

Uniform Justice: A Commissario Guido ...

Donna Leon

The death of a young cadet at Venice's highly acclaimed San Martino Military Academy raises red flags with the boy's parents, and Commissario Brunetti gets a call to examine the evidence in what has been called a suicide. Brunetti's i...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2004

Peaches and Screams: A Savannah Reid ...

G. A. McKevett

As the oldest of nine siblings, Savannah has attended her share of family weddings south of the Mason-Dixon Line...several of which have featured her sister Marietta as the bride. But before the fickle Southern belle can traipse down ...

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Published: Dec 2002

Cat Under Fire: A Joe Grey Mystery

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Joe Grey never regretted the mysterious accident that gave him the ability to talk and undersand human speech. Especially now that he had company -- for it had happened to his "girlfriend" Dulcie, too.The problem was, Dulcie...

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Published: Jan 1997

Just Plain Pickled to Death (Pennsylv...

Tamar Myers

IIt's another case of meals, mayhem and murder in Pennsylvania's Dutch country! Magdalena Yoder's finally getting married, but this special affair is quickly spoiling. The cook preparing the wedding feast has found a corpse in a barre...

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Published: Oct 1997

A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspec...

Louise Penny

"What happened here last night isn't allowed," said Madame Dubois.It was such an extraordinary thing to say it stopped the ravenous Inspector Beauvoir from taking another bite of his roast beef on baguette."You have a r...

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Published: Mar 2011

Harm None: A Rowan Gant Investigation...

M. R. Sellars

A young woman ritualistically murdered in her Saint Louis apartment. The primary clue -- a pentacle scrawled in her own blood. Enter practicing Witch, Rowan Gant. The information he uncovers testifies that this is only a prelude to ...

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Published: May 2000

Whiskey and Tonic: A Whiskey Mattimoe...

Nina Wright

Everybody in Magnet Springs is in on the not-so-secret curse of the Miss Blossom pageant. Everybody, that is, except Whiskey Mattimoe–full-time real estate agent, parttime sleuth, and long-suffering owner of Abra, her willful a...

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Published: Jun 2007

The Cat Who Tailed a Thief

Lilian Jackson Braun

Lillian Jackson Braun never seems to run out of ideas for her popular series of mysteries featuring journalist Jim Qwilleran and his feline cohort, Koko. In this latest, The Cat Who Tailed A Thief, Koko again exhibits her preternatura...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2006

Pray for Silence (Kate Burkholder)

Linda Castillo

One family. One horrific murder. An entire town under suspicion…The Planks moved from Lancaster County Pennsylvania to the small Amish community of Painters Mill, hoping to resume the comforts of the Plain Life in Ohio. Less than on...

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Published: Apr 2011

Fowl Prey (Bed-And-Breakfast Mysterie...

Mary Daheim

Leaving the Hillside manor in capable hands, bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle heads north to Vancouver's Hotel Clovia with her irrepressibly voracious cousin Renie for a pre-Thanksgiving getaway. But when an addled and impo...

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Published: Nov 1991

Come to Grief

Dick Francis

Convinced that one of his closest friends, a renowned racer, is behind a series of violent acts, Sid Halley faces the most troubling case of his career and becomes the target of backlashing fans and media representatives. Reprin...

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Published: Oct 1996

The King of Lies

John Hart

When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface, and he sees his own carefully constructed faade begin to crack in this stunning debut mystery. Unabridged. 10 CDs.

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2006

A Pinch of Snuff

Reginald Hill

Splitting a main character into two parts that compliment and confound each other has worked well for mystery writers from Conan Doyle to Rex Stout (and for non-mystery writers such as Patrick O'Brian in his Aubrey/Maturin sea stories...

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Published: Jul 1990

The Ritual Bath

Faye Kellerman

Phenomenal...[The Ritual Bath] combines likable characters, a superb mystery plot, and valid insights into Jewish life.'MURDER INKThe quiet, ordered world of a yeshiva in the California hills is shattered when a woman is brutally rape...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2008

If She Should Die

Carlene Thompson

Three years after her adopted sister, Dara, vanishes, leaving behind a note announcing her intent to run away, a body turns up that Christine Ireland believes could be that of her sister, a discovery that plunges Christine into a nigh...

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Published: Jan 2004

Murder By the Slice: A Fresh-Baked My...

Livia J. Washburn

At this year's school carnival fund-raiser, the obnoxious president of the Parent Teacher Organization is found stabbed through the heart with Phyllis Newsom's own knife, with traces of incriminating frosting. Clearing her name will b...

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Published: Sep 2007

The Winter Queen (An Erast Fandorin M...

Boris Akunin

Set in 1876 Moscow, THE WINTER QUEEN is nominally a detective story in which a dashing young Sherlock Holmes-like detective gets at the truth behind a series of suicides by using his considerable wits. A New York Times Notable Book fo...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2004

Killer Deal

Sheryl J. Anderson

Once again, journalist Molly Forrester takes Manhattan—and this time, she’ll do whatever it takes to get a KILLER by-line…if it doesn’t kill her first. “You need a body. A really cool dead body…&#...

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Published: Jul 2007

Smoky Mountain Tracks: A Raine Stockt...

Donna Ball

Raine Stockton, a dog trainer who gave up her career as a Search and Rescue worker after a tragic loss, reluctantly returns to active duty when a mother and daughter are kidnapped and taken deep into the forest where nothing is what i...

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Published: Mar 2006

Introducing Agatha Raisin: The Quiche...

M. C. Beaton

Beloved author M. C. Beaton has delighted readers and fans alike with her Agatha Raisin mysteries. The Quiche of Death and The Vicious Vet, the first two books in the series, are now together for the first time in one volume. . . .The...

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Published: Sep 2008

The Broken Hearts Club (Conrad Voort ...

Ethan Black

They meet every week in the dingy back room of a bar in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger turns to hate. The rejection turns to rage. And ...

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Published: Mar 2000

Face of a Killer

Robin Burcell

Facts lie . . . Two decades after the murder that shattered her world, FBI agent and forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick confronts her father's killer face to face. But the inmate who's scheduled to be executed for the crime is not wha...

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Published: Dec 2008

Tragic Magic (A Scrapbooking Mystery)...

Laura Childs

The next Scraooking mystery takes readers back to New Orleans, where there are spookies, foodies-and crafty killers. Carmela, owner of Memory Mine scraook shop, and her best friend, owner of Juju Voodoo, have a big project. Melody Ma...

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Published: Oct 2010

The Big Four: A Hercule Poirot Myster...

Agatha Christie

When a man collapses at Poirot's door, he implicates a vicious international organization called the Big Four. Left in the care of Poirot's landlady, the man dies, and the dapper sleuth realizes this crime may be a deadly diversion. P...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2005
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