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In the Lake of the Woods

Tim O'Brien

Pursued by rumors of the atrocities he committed in Vietnam, a politician and his wife seek refuge in a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota, where a mystery unfolds when the wife mysterious vanishes into the nearby wilderness. Reprin...

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Published: Sep 2006

Aunt Dimity and The King's Ransom (Au...

Nancy Atherton

In this new installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dark and stormy night kicks off a ghost chase in rural England On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye,...

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Published: Jul 2019

Read Herring Hunt

V. M. Burns

Mystery bookstore owner Samantha Washington is about to find out it's not so easy to play Monday morning quarterback when it comes to murder. . .   To the town of North Harbor, Michigan, MISU quarterback Dawson Alexander is a local h...

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Published: Apr 2018

Death by Pumpkin Spice

Alex Erickson

Bookstore café owner Krissy Hancock would rather spend Halloween serving pumpkin goodies than wearing costumes with Pine Hills’ wealthiest at Yarborough mansion, especially when the soiree shapes up to be more trick than treat . . ...

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Published: Sep 2016

Just Another Day in Paradise

A. E. Maxwell

Looking out his window, Fiddler can't help thinking that California's Gold Coast is pretty damn close to Paradise, even if that is a cliche. But he's about to catch a glimpse of the shady side of this sun-drenched Eden, thanks to his ...

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Published: Feb 2010

Nightmare in Shining Armor: A Den of ...

Tamar Myers

After a fire ruins her costume party, Den of Antiquity proprietress Abigail Timberlake is shocked to discover the body of her ex-husband's new wife, Tweetie Timberlake, stuffed into a suit of armor, and she must race against time to c...

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Published: Aug 2001

Star-Spangled Murder

Valerie Wolzien

Susan Henshaw and her family have been coming to their summerhouse in Maine for years, but when neighbor Humphrey Taylor is found bludgeoned to death in her living room, Susan's relaxing holiday goes out with the tide as she searches ...

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Published: Jul 1993

The Dead of Winter (Winston Crisp Mys...

D. A. Crossman

Retired National Security Agency code breaker Winston Crisp thought his career of delving into dark, unpleasant secrets was long over when he retired to a peaceful Penobscot Bay island. Little did he know he would be called upon to so...

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Published: Mar 2001

The Twenty-Seventh City (Bestselling ...

Jonathan Franzen

A suspenseful tale of love and politics, this novel takes place in St. Louis, where a young Indian woman has been chosen police chief. As the city becomes engulfed in a political conspiracy, she decides that the man at the center of i...

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Published: Sep 2001

The Necropolis Railway: A Jim Stringe...

Andrew Martin

Moving to London in 1903 in his endeavor to become a railway man, ambitious young Jim Stringer takes a graveyard shift moving coffins to cemeteries outside of the city and struggles with his predecessor's untimely disappearance and hi...

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Published: Jan 2007

Cards on the Table: A Hercule Poirot ...

Agatha Christie

Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he considers murder an art form, the detective has some reservations about ac...

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Published: Apr 1987

Mortal Friends

Jane Stanton Hitchcock

When the latest victim of the "Beltway Basher" is found in the woods of Montrose Park, Reven Lynch's favorite jogging spot, her crime-loving antenna goes up. The murder makes Reven and her best friend, Violet Bolton, recons...

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Published: Jul 2010

Time's Witness

Michael Malone

Street-smart and straightforward police chief Cuddy Mangum and his refined homicide detective Justin Savile V are determined to keep their town's cultural, political and racial divisions stable…even peaceful. But when a young bla...

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Published: Apr 2002

Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin'...

Donna Andrews

"Not many of us would admit, even to ourselves, that we had actually wished for something awful to befall anybody we knew. On the other hand, if we've ever felt exploited by an acquaintance, or undervalued in a job that we felt t...

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Published: Mar 2010

Murder Packs a Suitcase

Cynthia Baxter

From the author of the delightful Reigning Cats & Dogs mysteries comes a sparkling new series featuring a recently widowed travel writer who inadvertently becomes an amateur sleuth while on the job. Original.

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Published: Oct 2008

Sick of Shadows

M. C. Beaton

From New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton: Imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murder Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience-convenien...

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Published: Feb 2013

Tanner's Virgin

Lawrence Block

The CIA, the FBI, the KGB, Interpol—not one of the world's premier intelligence organizations knows quite what to make of Evan Michael Tanner. Is he a spy, a mercenary, a footloose adventurer, or simply a screwball sucker for h...

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Published: Sep 2007

Seven Threadly Sins

Janet Bolin

Fashion turns killer in the latest novel from the national bestselling author of the Threadville mysteries… Threadville, Pennsylvania, is famous for its fabric, needlecraft, and embroidery, so it's only natural that it would become...

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Published: May 2015

Demise in Denim

Duffy Brown

It's springtime in Savannah, Georgia, in the newest Consignment Shop Mystery from the national bestselling author of Pearls and Poison. The azaleas and magnolias are in bloom-and Walker Boone is on the run. . . When Reagan Summersi...

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Published: Mar 2015

Killer in Crinolines

Duffy Brown

It's August in Savannah, Georgia—hardly the season for a traditional Southern wedding with hoopskirts and crinolines. One could die from the heat—or from a cake knife in the back...Reagan Summerside should be devoting all her ener...

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Published: May 2013

Killer Crust (A Pizza Lovers Mystery)...

Chris Cavender

Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi - the sketchy frozen pizza dough baron - walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria. But the contract for his pizza-making contest seems on the up-and-up...and sprucing up her ...

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Published: Nov 2013

A Caribbean Mystery: A Miss Marple My...

Agatha Christie

The Queen of Mystery has come to Harper Collins! Agatha Christie, the acknowledged mistress of suspense—creator of indomitable sleuth Miss Marple, meticulous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and so many other unforgettable characte...

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Published: Apr 2011

Al Dente's Inferno

Stephanie Cole

An American chef will have to serve up more than good eats if she wants to establish a successful farm-to-table cooking school in Tuscany, in this charming first installment in a new cozy mystery series set in Italy.   When Nell Val...

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Published: Feb 2020

We'll Always Have Murder: A Humphrey ...

Bill Crider

Humphrey Bogart teams up with down-and-out Hollywood private detective Terry Scott to uncover a blackmailer out to frame Bogie for murder, an investigation that leads them from the glamorous haunts of the stars to L.A.'s dark underbel...

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Published: Sep 2004

The Demon of Dakar: A Mystery (Ann Li...

Kjell Eriksson

Already a huge star in Europe and the Nordic countries, Kjell Eriksson has American critics also raving, with almost every review studded with words like 'stunning,' 'chilling,' 'suspenseful,' 'haunting,' and 'brilliant.' In The Demon...

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Published: Jun 2009

Bitter Sugar: A Lupe Solano Mystery

Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

The dearest friend of Lupe Solana's beloved 'Papi,' Ramón Suarez was the owner of a prosperous sugar mill back in Cuba until Castro forced him into exile. Now an unnamed Spanish source wants to purchase the confiscated property at a ...

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Published: Jun 2002

ROADSIDE 66

John Green

Following the premature death of his wife, Earl Garnett, a professional writer, decides to drive across America. Along the way, he discovers the country, as he never imagined it. Soon, cryptic writings appear on his laptop, often coin...

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Published: Jul 2017

Murders at Moon Dance

A. B. Guthrie

At a difficult and sad time in his family life, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., turned for surcease to reading western and whodunit novels. In his autobiography, The Blue Hen's Chick (also a Bison Book), he touches on that moment when he realized...

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Published: Apr 1993

Jade Dragon Mountain: A Mystery (Li D...

Elsa Hart

On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires' rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now, he is an exile. Arriv...

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Published: Jul 2016

Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy)

Jean-Claude Izzo

The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean noir, and made its author an overnight c...

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Published: May 2013
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