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No Escape Claws

Sofie Ryan

Sarah Grayson and her feline ally, Elvis, get a chance to see if their sleuthing skills are up to scratch in the sixth installment of the New York Times bestselling Second Chance Cat Mysteries.It's fall in North Harbor, Maine, where S...

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Published: Jan 2019

Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Myst...

Dorothy L. Sayers

p When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies, and poison-pen letters, including one that says, "Ask you...

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Published: Oct 2012

Raiders of the Nile: A Novel of the A...

Steven Saylor

In 88 B.C. it seems as if all the world is at war. From Rome to Greece and to Egypt itself, most of civilization is on the verge of war. The young Gordianus--a born-and-raised Roman citizen--is living in Alexandria, making ends meet b...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Triumph of Caesar of Ancient Rome...

Steven Saylor

The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion – Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome's legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. App...

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Published: Jul 2009

Wrath of the Furies: A Novel of the A...

Steven Saylor

In 88 B.C., it seems as if the entire ancient world is at war. In the west, the Italian states are rebelling against Rome; in the east, Mithridates is marching through and conquering the Roman Asian provinces. Even in the relatively c...

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Published: Sep 2016

Nevermore

Harold Schechter

Praised by Caleb Carr for his 'brilliantly detailed and above all riveting' true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechte...

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Published: Jan 2000

The Loch Ness Papers: A Scottish Book...

Paige Shelton

Set in Edinburgh, Scotland, The Loch Ness Papers is the fourth in the Scottish Bookshop series by Paige Shelton.What do The Cracked Spine and the Loch Ness monster have in common? Delaney Nichols loves working at the Cracked Spine amo...

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Published: Feb 2020

Death on the Family Tree: A Family Tr...

Patricia Houck Sprinkle

After the death of her elderly Aunt Lucy, Katharine Murray discovers a priceless Celtic necklace and a mysterious diary written in German among her aunt's miscellaneous possessions, and her search for the truth about the artifacts lea...

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Published: Jan 2007

Fire and Ice (1) (Liam Campbell)

Dana Stabenow

Alaska State Trooper Liam Campbell, demoted and reassigned to the remote Bush town of Newenham, literally steps off the plane into a murder scene. Dealing with death is never simple, but when the woman leaning over the body proves to ...

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Published: Feb 2021

Missing, Presumed

Susie Steiner

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A page-turning mystery that brings to life a complex and strong-willed detective assigned to a high-risk missing persons caseNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NAMED O...

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Published: Feb 2017

Second Sunrise: A Lee Nez Novel (Lee ...

Aimee Thurlo

FBI agent Daine Lopez teams up with New Mexico state police officer--and Navajo vampire--Lee Nez to hunt down a trio of ruthless vampires led by Nez's old adversary Hans Muller before they can steal a hidden cache of stolen plutonium,...

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Published: Nov 2004

A Lonely Death: An Inspector Ian Rutl...

Charles Todd

Scotland Yard detective Ian Rutledge returns to solve his most exciting and shocking case yet in this latest entry in the bestselling series hailed as "outstanding" by the New York Times Book Review A breathtaking blend of ...

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Published: Dec 2011

The Bitter Taste of Murder (A Tuscan ...

Camilla Trinchieri

The follow-up to Murder in Chianti finds ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle recruited by Italian authorities to investigate the murder of a prominent wine critic. One year after moving to his late wife’s Tuscan hometown of Gravigna,...

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Published: Jul 2022

Murder on Capitol Hill (Capital Crime...

Margaret Truman

When Senate Majority Leader Cale Caldwell is found murdered at his own birthday party, the investigation scrutinizes the people of his murky past, including his wife, his two sons, a fledgling artist, political opponents, and more. Re...

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Published: Oct 2001

The Streetbird (Amsterdam Cops)

Janwillem Van De Wetering

What appears to be the welcome murder of a local, much-disliked pimp turns out to be much larger than that single crime as the Dutch authorities struggle to get to the bottom of the shocking truth. Reprint.

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Published: Jul 1997

While Drowning in the Desert: Hot San...

Don Winslow

divEdgar and Shamus Award-nominee Don Winslow combines breathless suspense, zany wit, and whiplash action in his latest novel featuring grad student/private eye Neal Carey. Now Neal's assigned to escort monkeyish octogenarian Natty Si...

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Published: Dec 1998

The Student Body (Susan Henshaw Myste...

Valerie Wolzien

BAD CHEMISTRYLike many fiftysomething housewives facing empty nests, Susan Henshaw decides that returning to college will give her life new meaning. But a murdered lab partner isn't what she had in mind--especially since the victim wa...

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Published: Aug 1999

Nature Girl

Carl Hiaasen

From 'the funniest important writer in America' (Miami Herald) comes a tale that is gleefully zany and incisively sharp and now available in trade paperback for the first time.

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Published: Oct 2007

The Chatham School Affair

Thomas H. Cook

Attorney Henry Griswald has a secret: the truth behind the tragic events the world knew as the Chatham School Affair, the controversial tragedy that destroyed five lives, shattered a quiet community, and forever scarred the young boy....

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Published: Oct 1997

Do Unto Others

Jeff Abbott

Jordan Poteet has left the big city to work as a librarian in his hometown of Mirabeau, Texas. But his dream of the quiet life is shattered when he locks horns with Miss Beta Harcher, the town's prize religious fanatic, in a battle ov...

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Published: Oct 1994

Dead Canaries Don't Sing: A Reigning ...

Cynthia Baxter

As a veterinarian, she’s more experienced with paw prints than fingerprints. But thanks to her dogged persistence and her knack for landing on her feet, Jessie’s got murder on a very short leash.The sun is barely up and t...

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Published: Feb 2004

Cooking Up Murder

Miranda Bliss

When Annie Capshaw and her best friend Eve take a gourmet cooking class together, they discover that murder is on the menu when a mysterious man is found dead in the parking lot after arguing with a fellow student, causing this case t...

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Published: Nov 2006

Borrower of the Night: The First Vick...

Elizabeth Peters

Meet art historian Vicky Bliss, She is as beautiful as she is brainy--with unassailable courage, insatiable curiosity, and an expertise in lost museum treasures that often leads her into the most dangerous of situations.A missing mast...

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Published: Sep 2000

A Killer Plot (A Books by the Bay Mys...

Ellery Adams

In the small coastal town of Oyster Bay, North Carolina, you'll find plenty of characters, ne'er-do-wells, and even a few celebs trying to duck the paparazzi. But when murder joins this curious community, the Bayside Book Writers are ...

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Published: Jun 2010

Unplugged

Lois Greiman

Struggling to cope with her needy clients and her up-and-down romance with Lieutenant Jack Rivera, psychologist Christina McMullen joins the investigation into the disappearance of her secretary Elaine's boyfriend, computer geek J. D....

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Published: Feb 2006

Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just My...

G. M. Malliet

From deep in the heart of his eighteenth century English manor, millionaire Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk writes mystery novels and torments his four spoiled children with threats of disinheritance. Tiring of this device, the portly patri...

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Published: Jul 2008

Burn Factor

Kyle Mills

Feisty FBI programmer Quinn Barry discovers that there's a serial killer on the loose--and nobody at the Bureau is trying to track the perpetrator down. The case is being deliberately swept under the rug, and Quinn decides to find out...

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Published: Feb 2002

A Taste for Murder

Claudia Bishop

A delightful new series featuring two sleuthing sisters who run the Hemlock Falls Inn. While Sarah takes care of business, her sister Meg runs the inn's kitchen. During the annual History Days festival, a mock witch stoning takes a gr...

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Published: Sep 1994

A Midsummer Night's Scream: A Jane Je...

Jill Churchill

All the world's a stage in this delightful new whodunit from the incomparable Jill Churchill -- as suburban mom and sometime sleuth Jane Jeffry and best friend Shelley Nowack try to bring the curtain down on a killer. ...Jane Jeffry h...

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Published: Nov 2005

Dead Man Talking (Pepper Martin Myste...

Casey Daniels

Heiress-turned-cemetery-tour-guide Pepper Martin is not happy to discover that a local reality TV show, Cemetery Survivor, will be filmed at ClevelandÂ's Monroe Street Cemetery—and she has to be a part of it. To make matters wors...

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Published: Oct 2009
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