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One Book in the Grave: A Bibliophile ...

Kate Carlisle

Brooklyn's chance to restore a rare first edition of Beauty and the Beast seems a fairy tale come true-until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend of hers. Ten years ago, Max Adams fell in love with a stunning beauty, E...

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Published: Feb 2012

Old Haunts (A Haunted Guesthouse Myst...

E. J. Copperman

The ghosts haunting Alison Kerby's Jersey Shore guesthouse are sad. Maxie wants to know who murdered her ex-husband, and Paul pines for his still-living almost-fiancee. The only one who isn't missing her ex is Alison-because The Swine...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Bookwoman's Last Fling: A Cliff J...

John Dunning

In his fifth mystery, Cliff Janeway, an ex-cop turned rare book dealer, takes a commission from the estate of H.R. Geiger, a recently deceased horse trainer, to appraise Geiger's valuable books. Investigating the mysterious gaps withi...

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Published: Mar 2007

The Deer Leap (Richard Jury Mysteries...

Martha Grimes

When a series of 'accidents' befalls both animals and humans in the village of Ashdown Dean, Superintendent Richard Jury, his aristocratic assistant, Melrose Plant, the local police, and a fifteen-year-old animal lover join the search...

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Published: Jun 2005

Dismissed With Prejudice

J. A. Jance

Japanese businessman Tadeo Kurobashi had many passions, including computers, poetry, money, and Samurai lore. So his suicide method of choice would naturally be the ancient art of seppuku -- what the uninitiated call 'hara-kiri.' But ...

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Published: Jun 1989

Cookie Dough or Die (A Cookie Cutter ...

Virginia Lowell

Olivia Greyson is the proud owner of The Gingerbread House-a quaint shop that specializes in all things cookie-and her best friend, Maddie, is her sidekick, baking up scrumptious treats for their cookie-themed parties. But now they mu...

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Published: Apr 2011

The Careful Use of Compliments

Alexander McCall Smith

Isabel Dalhousie is back, in the latest installment of this enchanting, already beloeved, best-selling series.In addition to being the nosiest and most sypathetic philosopher you are likely to meet, Isabel is now a mother. Charlies, ...

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Published: Aug 2008

Midnight Clear: A Callahan Garrity My...

Kathy Hogan Trocheck

IIt's a few days before Christmas and sometime sleuth/full-time cleaning lady Callahan Garrity has things under control for a change, until her ne'er-do-well brother, Brian -- missing for over ten years -- appears with his toddler dau...

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Published: Nov 1999

Murder in the Secret Garden: A Book R...

Ellery Adams

Things really go to seed in the newest novel in the New York Times bestselling Book Retreat mysteries...  There is a hidden garden bordering the grounds of Jane Steward's book-themed resort—a garden filled with beautiful but deadly...

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Published: Aug 2016

Aunt Dimity: Vampire Hunter (Aunt Dim...

Nancy Atherton

Penguin's popular Aunt Dimity series returns and "loyal fans will be thrilled by every new revelation"(Kirkus Reviews) Everyone's favorite paranormal detective is back in Nancy Atherton's thirteenth Aunt Dimity mystery—but...

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Published: Feb 2009

Plaster and Poison (A Do-It-Yourself ...

Jennie Bentley

Home renovation and design tips included! Ex-New York designer Avery Baker left the bustle of the big city to start her own home renovation business in Maine. But as she renovates an old carriage house on behalf of a soon-to-be wed f...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Chocolate Snowman Murders: A Choc...

JoAnna Carl

The scrumptious—and deadly— hardcover debut of the national bestselling Chocoholic Mysteries. Lee McKinney Woodyard knows that being in the luxury chocolate business isn't all sweetness and light, and neither is the holiday season...

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Published: Oct 2009

One Hot Mess

Lois Greiman

In southern California it's raining crime—and psychologist Christina McMullen could use an umbrella. Her clients are crazy, her on-again-off-again relationship with LAPD lieutenant Jack Rivera has just started heating up again, and ...

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Published: Mar 2009

Hail to the Chef: White House Chef My...

Julie Hyzy

White House executive chef Ollie Paras has to put her own interests on the back burner when a kindly electrician is electrocuted to death, and the First Lady's nephew dies in an apparent suicide less than 24 hours after cleaning shrim...

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Published: Dec 2008

Electric Blue

Nancy Bush

Some days are just weird city. Take today. Jane Kelly, thirtysomething ex-bartender, current process server, and owner of The Binkster, a pug, is dutifully putting in slave-labor hours working for Dwayne Durbin, local 'information s...

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Published: Sep 2007

The House of Seven Mabels: A Jane Jef...

Jill Churchill

Hired by a rebellious group of feminists for a huge house renovation, Jane Jeffry and Shelley Nowack become increasingly alarmed when the project is overshadowed by malicious pranks, a suspicious death, and numerous secrets. Reprint.

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Published: May 2003

Sour Apples (An Orchard Mystery)

Sheila Connolly

Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, r...

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Published: Aug 2012

The Diva Wraps It Up

Krista Davis

In the latest novel in the national bestselling Domestic Diva Mystery series, it's beginning to look a lot like murder… The holidays are domestic diva Sophie Winston's favorite time of year. But this season, there seem to be more mis...

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Published: Jun 2014

Thai Die: A Needlecraft Mystery

Monica Ferris

Back from a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine is eager to show Betsy, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, her souvenirs. Later when the souvenirs are stolen from DorisÂ's apartment, Betsy thinks there is something more to some...

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Published: Dec 2009

Untitled Manor House #4

Julie Hyzy

A trip to Italy's Tuscan countryside is a dream come true for curator and manager of Marshfield Manor, Grace Wheaton. At least until her boss-and benefactor of this whirlwind excursion-becomes the target of a murderer…  When Grace a...

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Published: Jul 2013

Mother's Day Murder (Lucy Stone Myste...

Leslie Meier

Spring in Tinker's Cove, Maine, finds local reporter Lucy Stone wishing she were digging in her garden instead of languishing in her office at the Pennysaver newspaper. But flowerbeds will have to wait when Mother's Day rings in a f...

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Published: May 2010

The Christmas Mystery: A Detective Lu...

James Patterson

Have yourself a scary little Christmas. In the heart of the holiday season, priceless paintings have vanished from a Park Avenue murder scene. Now, dashing French detective Luc Moncrief must become a quick study in the art of the stea...

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Published: Dec 2016

Wall-to-Wall Dead (A Do-It-Yourself M...

Jennie Bentley

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Published: Sep 2012

Love Kills: A Britt Montero Novel (Br...

Edna Buchanan

'Where the hell is Britt Montero?'So says Sgt. Craig Burch of Miami's Cold Case Squad at the end of the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's new novel, Love Kills. So have readers been wondering since reporter Britt Montero vanished after...

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Published: Apr 2008

Agony of the Leaves (A Tea Shop Myste...

Laura Childs

In the latest novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Scones & Bones, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning finds herself in hot water when a body surfaces at the grand opening of Charleston's Neptune Aquarium… The o...

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Published: Mar 2013

Faux Paw: A Magical Cats Mystery

Sofie Kelly

Magical cats Owen and Hercules from A Midwinter's Tail are back and ready to help librarian Kathleen Paulson pounce on a killer art thief…Normally, the arrival of an art exhibition at the Mayville Heights library would be cause for ...

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Published: Oct 2015

A Haunting Dream (A Missing Pieces My...

Joyce Lavene

The mayor of Duck, North Carolina, Dae O'Donnell, is a woman with a gift for finding lost things. Sometimes it leads her to lost keys or earrings—and sometimes it leads her to murder… When her boyfriend Kevin's ex-fiancee Ann arri...

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Published: Dec 2012

Murder on Lexington Avenue (Gaslight ...

Victoria Thompson

When Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy is assigned to investigate the murder of an influential man in the deaf community-presumably because his own son is hearing impaired-midwife Sarah Brandt lends a hand, only to find herself searchin...

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Published: Jun 2011

Antiques Disposal (Trash 'n' Treasure...

Barbara Allan

Storage wars erupt when Brandy Borne and her suspiciously well-informed mother, Vivian, win an abandoned storage unit's "mystery" contents. The good news is a rare vintage cornet. The bad news is the recently stowed body of ...

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Published: Apr 2013

A Fatal Chapter: A Booktown Mystery

Lorna Barrett

New York Times bestselling author Lorna Barrett presents another page-turning chapter in her Booktown Mystery series as mystery bookshop owner Tricia Miles finds out that murder is no walk in the park…  While out walking Sarge, her...

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Published: May 2016
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