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How to Raise an Elephant: No. 1 Ladie...

Alexander McCall Smith

In this latest installment in the cherished No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Mma Ramotswe must balance family obligations with the growing needs of one of Charlie’s pet projects.   Precious Ramotswe loves her ...

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Published: Sep 2021

The Three Stations: An Arkady Renko N...

Martin Cruz Smith

Arkady Renko returns in a new mystery about crime and corruption in the cold, dark, impenetrable landscape of modern-day Moscow.

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

A Purely Private Matter

Darcie Wilde

The Rosalind Thorne Mysteries—inspired by the novels of Jane Austen—continue as the audacious Rosalind strives to aid those in need while navigating the halls of high society…Rosalind Thorne has slowly but assuredly gained a rep...

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Published: May 2017

Fortieth Birthday Body

Valerie Wolzien

Down-to-earth housewife Susan Henshaw is turning forty -- and feeling ancient. Adding insult to injury is the return of gorgeous local hussy Dawn Elliott, rumored to have slept with half the married men of quiet Hancock, Connecticut. ...

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Published: Jan 1991

A Loyal Character Dancer

Qiu Xiaolong

Praise for Qiu Xiaolong:'A sequel [to Death of a Red Heroine] that in many ways is even more impressive. . . . [Qiu] has moved from the poetic, exotic milieu of his first book (although plenty of elements remain) into a tougher, wider...

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Published: Sep 2003

For Cheddar or Worse

Avery Aames

In the new Cheese Shop Mystery from the Agatha Award-winning author of As Gouda as Dead, an extra-sharp tongued cheese critic is cut down during a summer cheese festival.It's time for the annual Cheese Festival in Providence, Ohio, an...

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Published: Feb 2016

To Brie or Not to Brie

Avery Aames

Murder, revenge, and secrets: Shakespeare has arrived in Providence, Ohio... Charlotte Bessette—owner of Fromagerie Bessette, known by locals as The Cheese Shop—has a lot on her plate: setting a date with her fiance, feeding the ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Uneasy Lies the Crown: A Lady Emily M...

Tasha Alexander

In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward VII.On her deathbed, Queen Victori...

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Published: Jul 2019

Rapid Fire (Raine Stockton Dog Myster...

Donna Ball

"A simply fabulous mystery starring a likeable, dedicated heroine..." --Midwest Book Review "A delightful protagonist..." --Romantic Times Raine's old boyfriend Andy Fontana is back in town... and at the top of...

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Published: Jan 2014

Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargr...

Stephanie Barron

In a time of near Jane Austen-mania, what better heroine to solve a mystery than Jane herself? Only two things are required: a satisfying, well-structured whodunit plot and a knack for rendering Austen's style at picking up the most d...

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Published: Dec 1996

Frozen Assets: An Officer Gunnhildur ...

Quentin Bates

A body is found floating in the harbor of a rural Icelandic fishing village. Was it an accident, or something more sinister?  It's up to Officer Gunnhildur, a sardonic female cop, to find out. Her investigation uncovers a web of corr...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Witch and the Dead: A Wishcraft M...

Heather Blake

The national bestselling author of Gone with the Witch returns as wish-granting witch Darcy Merriweather uncovers dangerous skeletons in the closet—and the garage....  When Darcy moved to Salem, Massachusetts, she never expected he...

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Published: Oct 2016

A Question of Proof

Nicholas Blake

Nigel Strangeways is called in to find a murderer who is prowling the halls of Sudeley Hall, a boys preparatory school. First published in 1935, this was the first mystery by C. Day-Lewis, the future English Poet Laureate.

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Published: Jun 2008

Night of the Living Thread

Janet Bolin

Zombies, killer dresses, and ancient curses prove that Halloween in Threadville can be sew spooky…  It's early October, and hordes of visitors have descended on the tiny, celebrated village of Threadville, Pennsylvania, to attend a ...

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Published: Jun 2014

Paradise Valley (Cassie Dewell)

C. J. Box

For three years, Investigator Cassie Dewell has been on a hunt for a serial killer known as The Lizard King. He works as a long haul trucker. His prey are the "lot lizard" prostitutes who frequent truck stops. And she almost...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2017

Father Paolo Baldi Mysteries: Three i...

Simon Brett

Two full-cast BBC Radio dramatisations starring David Threlfall as the crime-solving priest. On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo Baldi is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when his life takes an unexpected t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2011

A Nose for Justice

Rita Mae Brown

The thrilling start of a tail-wagging new series!With her high-powered Wall Street job in the rearview mirror, thirty-four-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep Reed's sprawling Nevada ranch to reassemble her life. In th...

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Published: Sep 2011

Butter Off Dead

Leslie Ann Budewitz

As the national bestselling Food Lovers' Village Mysteries continue, the merchants of Jewel Bay, Montana, try to heat up chilly winter business with a new film festival. But their plans are sent reeling when a dangerous killer dims th...

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Published: Jul 2015

Ashes and Bones: An Emma Fielding Mys...

Dana Cameron

Enjoying her job at a respected university and the love of her devoted husband, archaeologist Emma Fielding is stunned when an unknown enemy launches an insidious campaign of personal terror against her as part of a plot to destroy he...

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Published: Aug 2006

August Heat

Andrea Camilleri

When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vigata and endure the August heat. Montalbano's long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend—husband and young son in tow—t...

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Published: Mar 2009

The Burning

Jane Casey

"Astute, complex, layered—and very twisted. You'll remember this one for a long time." —Lee Child The Burning Man. It's the name the media has given a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death before setti...

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Published: May 2012

The Innocence of Father Brown Volume ...

G. K. Chesterton

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2009

A Murder of Crows

P. F. Chisholm

 September 1592 – and the redoubtable Sergeant Dodd is still in London with that dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey, dealing with the fall-out from their earlier adventures. Carey urgently needs to get back to Carlisle where he is t...

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Published: Jun 2010

Lord Edgware Dies: A BBC Full-Cast Ra...

Agatha Christie

John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatization. "Monsieur Poirot, somehow or other I've just got to get rid of my husband!" No sooner had she uttered the words than Lady Edgware's...

Abridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Murder on the Orient Express CD

Agatha Christie

"The murderer is with us—on the train now . . ."Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabb...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2013

Buffalo Bill's Dead Now

Margaret Coel

In the latest Wind River novel from New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel, Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley are witnesses to history-and murder…      After more than 120 years, the regalia worn ...

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Published: Sep 2013

Permed to Death (Bad Hair Day Mystery...

Nancy J. Cohen

Meet Marla Shore, a Florida beauty salon owner with a knack for creating dazzling 'dos-and solving mysteries... Marla was already having a bad day, but when one of her clients dies while getting a perm in her salon, her day just ca...

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Published: Jun 2009

In Hot Water (A Sweet Pepper Fire Bri...

J. J. Cook

Sweet Pepper, Tennessee, has the world's hottest and sweetest peppers-as well as a ghost that cooks and a fire chief who fights crime… SPARK OF INTEREST  Stella Griffin should be bubbling over with joy now that she's the full-time ...

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Published: Jan 2015

So Damn Lucky (Lucky O'Toole Las Vega...

Deborah Coonts

Lucky O'Toole—Head of Customer Relations at The Babylon, premier mega-resort on the Vegas Strip—thinks it's just another night in Las Vegas. But then a magician pulls a disappearing act, right under Lucky's nose. Is it a stunt? Or...

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Published: Feb 2013

Unexpected Night: Henry Gamadge #1

Elizabeth Daly

First in the Henry Gamadge series. Bibliophile-sleuth Henry Gamadge investigates the bizarre death of Amberly Cowden and uncovers murder and mayhem in the midst of a troupe of impoverished actors.

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Published: Jul 2013
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