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Death in the Morning (Felony & Mayhem...

Sheila Radley

IIt's a glorious spring morning in the village of Ashthorpe. Birds are singing, and sunlight is dancing on the river, where Mry Gedge's dress drifts lazily in the shallows and flowers mingle in her hair. The scene is so altogether lov...

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Published: Aug 2006

A Demon in My View

Ruth Rendell

Mild-mannerd Arthur Johnson's empty and solitary existence is suddenly threatened when a worldly young man, a scholar working on a thesis on psychopathic personalities, arrives at the Trinity Road Lodging House at which he lives and s...

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Published: Jan 2000

The First Cut of Suspense

Peter Robinson

Martha Browne is a woman with a mission--to exact her revenge on the man known as the Student Slasher, who brutalized her and left her for dead. With a suitcase full of disguises and a partial memory of her attacker, she sets out on a...

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Published: Sep 2004

Clammed Up

Barbara Ross

Summer has come to Busman's Harbor, Maine, and tourists are lining up for a taste of authentic New England seafood, courtesy of the Snowden Family Clambake Company. But there's something sinister on the boil this season. A killer has...

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Published: Sep 2013

Justice for the Damned: A Medeival My...

Priscilla Royal

In May of 1272 Prioress Eleanor—recovering from a near fatal winter fever—returns to Amesbury Priory to visit her aunt and to continue her recovery. Instead, Death seems to lurk around every corner. When a man is decapitated near ...

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Published: Aug 2008

Working Stiff

Annelise Ryan

Former nurse-turned deputy coroner Mattie Winston has gone from working on live patients to cutting open corpses. But she has no idea that trading in her nurse's cap for a deputy coroner's badge will take her closer to her own death t...

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Published: Aug 2010

Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolf...

Rex Stout

Gourmet, orchid-growing sleuth Nero Wolfe and his dashing assistant, Archie Goodwin, are confronted with a medley of murder and mayhem featuring three baffling clues--an ear of corn, a shoeshine, and a bloodstained tie

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Published: Jan 1997

Loaded Dice: A Tony Valentine Novel

James Swain

When Tony Valentine, a master at catching casino cheaters, jets to Las Vegas to look for his missing son, he lands in the middle of a dangerous turf war between rival casinos. Valentine’s longtime pal then taps him to figure out...

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Published: Jan 2005

Happy Never After : A Callahan Garrit...

Kathy Hogan Trocheck

Callahan needs all the help she can get trying to keep Rita Fontaine, a washed up 1960s teenage rock star, out of jail. IIt's nothing less than murder when Stu Hightower, the vain, temperamental president of a thriving Atlanta recordi...

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Published: Jan 2005

A Useful Woman: A Useful Woman Myster...

Darcie Wilde

Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society—including who among the ton is capable o...

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Published: May 2016

Affair of the Mutilated Mink, The (Mi...

James Anderson

When Alderly, Lord Burford's seventeenth-century country estate, becomes the scene of blackmail and murder, Inspector Wilkins of the Westshire constabulary stumbles into the middle of a Hollywood film set, in a mystery set against the...

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Published: Jan 1999

Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince

Nancy Atherton

On the heels of two bestsellers, everyone's favorite paranormal detective embarks on her eighteenth cozy adventure It's a cold, dreary February in the sleepy village of Finch and Lori Shepherd has two stir-crazy kids on her hands....

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Published: Mar 2014

City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, ...

Paul Auster

A detective-story writer named Quinn becomes involved in a bizarre case. A phone call from a man who believes someone is trying to kill him leads to a case more mysterious than anything Quinn could concoct. In this tale of strange rev...

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Published: Apr 1987

In the Teeth of Adversity (A Perkins ...

Marian Babson

Hired to help a London society dentist Endicott remove a corpse from his office, Doug, his partner Gerry, and their cat Pandora must sort through a cast of characters that includes fashion model Morgana, General Sir Malcolm, and Endic...

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Published: Dec 2003

Hour Game (King & Maxwell)

David Baldacci

King & Maxwell, TNT's new series based on David Baldacci's blockbuster novels, premieres Monday June 10th, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)He's copying famous serial killers. And the HOUR GAME has just begun...A woman is found murdered in the woods...

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Published: May 2013

Coyote (Carlotta Carlyle)

Linda Barnes

A mutilated body found in the Boston Fens draws the six-foot tall, hard-edged Carlotta Carlyle into an investigation of the shady underworld of illegal aliens. When her little sister Paolina becomes entangled in the case, Carlotta mus...

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Published: Mar 2005

The Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin My...

M. C. Beaton

When Agatha Raisin comes home to cozy Carsely and finds that a new woman has piqued the interest of her handsome bachelor neighbor, James Lacey, she's less than thrilled. The beautiful newcomer to the Cotswolds, Mary Fortune, is super...

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Published: Jun 2009

North By Northanger, or The Shades of...

Carrie Bebris

After the intrigues and excitements of their time in the city, the Darcys are more than prepared for a bit of peace and quiet at Pemberley. This is time that they can spend together as Elizabeth settles into her pregnancy. However, ...

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Published: Apr 2007

Bourbonunt1-12: A Magical Dressmaking...

Melissa Bourbon

After a year of hard work in her Texas hometown, Harlow Jane Cassidy's dreams are finally within reach-if she can just get it all done in time… Harlow's designs will be featured in a big magazine spread, but she only has a few da...

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Published: Jul 2013

The Last Song Dogs (Trade Ellis Myste...

Sinclair Browning

Trade Ellis is a dirty-shirt cowgirl--part Apache, part rancher, and all private eye. Unfortunately, there's not much call for investigators on horseback. But as her 25th high school reunion approaches, someone starts thinning the ran...

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Published: May 1999

A Dark and Stormy Murder: A Writer's ...

Julia Buckley

An aspiring suspense novelist lands in the middle of a real crime, in the first in a captivating new series by the author of the Undercover Dish Mysteries. Lena London's literary dreams are coming true—as long as she can avoid any ...

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Published: Jul 2016

The Chocolate Book Bandit: A Chocohol...

JoAnna Carl

When it turns out a member of Warner Pier's library board has been living on borrowed time, Lee is determined to discover who wrote the victim's final chapter…  Lee McKinney Woodyard, manager of TenHuis Chocolade, has been offered a...

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Published: Nov 2014

The Chocolate Moose Motive: A Chocoho...

JoAnna Carl

When Lee hires a free-spirited employee with a tie-dyed, troubled past, she discovers that even the counterculture can conceal a killer....  As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis Chocolade can tantalize people's tongues, ...

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Published: Oct 2013

Tailing a Tabby: A Bookmobile Cat Mys...

Laurie Cass

In the bookmobile, librarian Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, roll out great summer reads to folks all over the lake town of Chilson, Michigan. And when real-life drama turns deadly, Minnie makes sure justice is never overdu...

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Published: Jul 2014

Sworn to Silence: A Kate Burkholder N...

Linda Castillo

Now the subject of the Lifetime original movie An Amish MurderSworn to Silence is the first in Linda Castillo's New York Times bestselling Kate Burkholder series.Some secrets are too terrible to reveal. Some crimes are too unspeakable...

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Published: Mar 2011

Silent Voices: A Vera Stanhope Myster...

Ann Cleeves

Ann Cleeves has thrilled readers everywhere with her critically acclaimed mystery series set in the Shetland Islands. Now, Cleeves is back with another compelling mystery series featuring detective Vera Stanhope.   When Vera finds t...

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Published: Jul 2014

Flesh and Blood: A Scarpetta Novel

Patricia Cornwell

It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why a...

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Published: Nov 2014

Where Memories Lie

Deborah Crombie

Erika Rosenthal has always been secretive with her friend and neighbor, Detective Inspector Gemma James, about her past, except for one telling detail: She and her long-dead husband, David, came to London as refugees from Nazi German...

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Published: Jul 2010

Murder, My Suite (Bed-And-Breakfast M...

Mary Daheim

Bed & Breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's nerves are shot after the visit of nasty gossip columnist Dagmar Delacroix Chatsworth and her yappy lap dog Rover. Desperate for some relaxation, Judith travels with her cousin Renie to...

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Published: Jun 2000

The Alpine Legacy

Mary Daheim

KILL THE COMPETITIONEmma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, has never faced such cruel competition--especially not the fierce personal attacks mounted by Alpine's radical new publication, Crystal Clear. So when Crystal...

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Published: Oct 1999
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