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The Cat Who Tailed a Thief

Lilian Jackson Braun

Lillian Jackson Braun never seems to run out of ideas for her popular series of mysteries featuring journalist Jim Qwilleran and his feline cohort, Koko. In this latest, The Cat Who Tailed A Thief, Koko again exhibits his preternatura...

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Published: Mar 1998

The Thunder Keeper

Margaret Coel

The apparent suicide of a young Arapaho on sacred ground shocks the populace of the Wind River Reservation. But strange events following the death lead Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley to suspect foul play.

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Published: Aug 2002

The Private Patient

P. D. James

Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn arrived there one late autumn afternoon, schedul...

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Published: Nov 2009

Buttercream Bump Off (Cupcake Bakery ...

Jenn McKinlay

Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura's Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery is gearing up for Valentine's Day. Unfortunately someone has iced Baxter Malloy on his first date with Mel's mother. Now Mom's a suspect, and Mel and Angie need to find tim...

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Published: Jan 2011

Cat Cross Their Graves: A Joe Grey My...

Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Readers and reviewers alike have consistently praised multiple-award-winning author Shirley Rousseau Murphy for her absorbing plots, her charming, lyrical prose, and most of all, her delightful and highly realistic feline sleuths -- t...

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Published: Sep 2005

Death of a Colonial (Sir John Fieldin...

Bruce Alexander

Blind magistrate Sir John Fielding returns to investigate the mysterious execution of a nobleman -- and the auspicious appearance of his long-lost brother.

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Published: Oct 2000

Endangered Species

Nevada Barr

Cumberland Island, off the coast of Georgia, is a breathtaking setting for tedious fire presuppression duty. But Anna's boring routine is shattered when two men die in a plane crash, victims of sabotage.

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Published: Nov 2008

The ABC. Murders

Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot is on the scene as a ruthless killer strikes down victims who correspond with each subsequent letter of the alphabet, from Mrs. Ascher of Andover, to Betty Bernard of Bexhill, and to Carmichael Clarke of Churston. Reiss...

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Published: Dec 1991

Scattered Graves (Diane Fallon Forens...

Beverly Connor

Local politics get nasty when Rosewood, Georgia, elects a new mayor—and Diane Fallon is replaced with an incompetent crony as head of the crime lab. But just as she's adjusting to life without murder, the newly appointed chief of po...

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Published: Feb 2009

Sovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Myster...

C. J. Sansom

The third installment of C. J. Sansom's acclaimed Matthew Shardlake mystery series C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake serie...

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Published: Mar 2008

The Final Deduction

Rex Stout

When the seemingly safe return of an abducted millionaire ends in his murder in his own home, Nero Wolfe sends Archie Goodwin to do his usual legwork, while Wolfe uncovers corruption and greed among Manhattan’s elite. Reissue. N...

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Published: Mar 1999

Assaulted Caramel

Amanda Flower

Sometimes you need a sweet tooth to take a bite out of crime . . .Bailey King is living the sweet life as assistant chocolatier at world-famous JP Chocolates in New York City. But just when Bailey's up for a life-changing promotion...

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Published: Aug 2017

The Book of Old Houses

Sarah Graves

Once upon a time, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree was a hotshot money manager to Manhattan's rich and dreadful—until she left city life behind for a centuries-old fixer-upper in the quaint seaside town of Eastport, Maine. But even ...

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Published: Nov 2008

Christmas Carol Murder

Leslie Meier

Lucy Stone normally loves the holidays, but this year, Tinker's Cove has fallen on hard times. The story's not so bleak at Downeast Mortgage, whose tightfisted owners, Jake Marlowe and Ben Scribner, are raking in profits from everyone...

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Published: Oct 2014

A Red Death : Featuring an Original E...

Walter Mosley

IIt's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of 'the hurting business' and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS agent nails him for tax evasion. Spe...

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Published: Oct 2002

Deadlock

Sara Paretsky

From Sara Paretsky, New York Times bestselling author, comes another V.I. Warshawski novel. When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin, the intrepid V.I. Warshawski, que...

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Published: Mar 1992

In a Dry Season

Peter Robinson

Detective chief inspector Alan Banks is a walking midlife crisis, full of rage because of his recently failed marriage, a career crippled by a jealous superior, and problems with his son. In less skilled hands, Banks could have quick...

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Published: Jul 2000

Dead and Gone: A Burke Novel

Andrew Vachss

When Burke, a career criminal and man for hire, agrees to act as the middleman in an exchange of money for a kidnapped child, things go horribly wrong when his partner is killed and Burke himself is left wounded, his appearance radica...

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Published: Sep 2001

Sacrifice

Andrew H. Vachss

When a gifted little boy transforms into a murderous creature who calls himself 'Satan's Child,' private investigator Burke travels from a festering welfare hotel to a neat frame house where a voodoo priestess leads a congregation of ...

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Published: Jan 1996

A Quarter for a Kiss (Clark, Mindy St...

Mindy Starns Clark

Callie and Tom have just spent a wonderful few weeks getting to know each other. But as their time together draws to a close, they are called to the hospital bed of mutual friend Eli Gold, who has just been shot. Eli asks Callie to fi...

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Published: Jan 2004

Darkest Fear: A Novel

Harlan Coben

In his seventh Myron Bolitar thriller, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben brings us his most astonishing—and deeply personal—novel yet. And it all begins when Myron's ex tells him he's a father . . . of a dying thirteen-year-old boy....

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Published: May 2001

Wife of Moon (Berkley Prime Crime Mys...

Margaret Coel

This is the tenth Vicky Holden/Father O'Malley mystery, set on the Arapaho Wind River Reservation. In 1907, Edward S. Curtis photographed Arapaho life at Wind River. Wanting some excitement in his pictures, he staged a raid on the res...

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Published: Sep 2005

Pictures of Perfection

Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill's ironic humor, polished prose, and keen insight have placed him squarely alongside such great mystery writers as P. D. James and Ruth Rendell. In his latest novel his much-appreciated team of detectives, the incomparabl...

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Published: Sep 1995

The Spellmans Strike Again

Lisa Lutz

AT THE RIPE OLD AGE OF THIRTY-TWO, FORMER WILD CHILD ISABEL "IZZY" SPELLMAN HAS FINALLY AGREED TO TAKE OVER THE FAMILY BUSINESS. AND THE TRANSITION WON'T BE A SMOOTH ONE. First among her priorities as head of Spellman Invest...

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Published: Mar 2011

The Nature of the Beast: A Chief Insp...

Louise Penny

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one ...

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Published: Jul 2016

Distant Shores, Silent Thunder

Radclyffe

No matter how much we plan, life—and people—have a way of surprising us. For Doctor KT O'Bannon, a near-fatal tragedy derails a career and disrupts everything she thought she knew about herself and her future. Battered and nearly...

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Published: Mar 2005

Innocent Graves

Peter Robinson

A schoolgirl is murdered and a morose young teacher with sordid tastes in reading and viewing material seems the logical suspect. But, is he too a victim in this case--his untraditional ways an easy target for a town desperate to solv...

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Published: Apr 2004

Revelation: A Matthew Shardlake Myste...

C. J. Sansom

"We can't recommend this book too highly; it's another virtuoso performance from a truly great talent." -The Denver Post Readers across America are discovering C. J. Sansom's marvelous Shardlake novels. Now, with the brilli...

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Published: Feb 2010

Every Trick in the Book

Lucy Arlington

The national bestselling Novel Idea Mysteries return with Lila Wilkins, who has just been promoted to full-time literary agent. But great new writers aren't the only people she's trying to catch…Lila Wilkins has it all: the home of ...

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Published: Feb 2013

Wicked Autumn: A Mystery (A Max Tudor...

G. M. Malliet

"Hugely funny, exquisitely well written, a tongue-in-cheek village mystery to be savored. G.M. Malliet's arch tone and wry humor make her a writer to be treasured."--Julia Spencer-Fleming, bestselling author of ONE WAS A SOL...

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Published: Aug 2012
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