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Playmates

Robert B. Parker

Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze -- from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees -- have their fingers in the pot. ...

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Published: Mar 1990

Search the Dark (An Ian Rutledge Myst...

Charles Todd

The death of a woman and the disappearance of two children bring Inspector Rutledge to the quiet Dorset town of Singleton Magna where he suspects he will find the perpetrator of these crimes hidden among the wealthy citizens. Reprint.

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Published: May 2000

Fade Away: A Myron Bolitar Novel

Harlan Coben

The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legos—and blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories—...

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Published: Nov 1996

K' is for Killer (The Kinsey Millhone...

Sue Grafton

Janice Kepler is on the way home from the support group she joined after the death of her beloved daughter, Lorna. When she sees a light on in the offices of Millhone Investigations, she believes it's a sign…and decides to knock on ...

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Published: Nov 2009

Shutter Island

Dennis Lehane

Summer, 1954.U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels has come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient.But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital i...

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Published: Sep 2009

The Wine of Angels (A Merrily Watkins...

Phil Rickman

Over the years, Phil Rickman has won high acclaim for his chilling supernatural tales, including Celtic thrillers as well as the Reverend Merrily Watkins Mysteries, featuring Britain's first female exorcist. Meticulously researched, r...

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Published: Aug 2002

A Fearsome Doubt

Charles Todd

Bestselling author Charles Todd has earned a special place among mystery's elite writers with his acclaimed series featuring Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, a former soldier seeking to lay to rest the demons of his past in the a...

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Published: Jul 2003

The Cat Who Lived High

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jim Qwilleran and his feline companions, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the murder of Dianne Bessinger, the founder of an organization out to save an old apartment house, the Casablanca, from the real-estate developers who plan to tear...

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Published: May 1991

Drop Shot: A Myron Bolitar Novel

Harlan Coben

In the second Myron Bolitar novel from Edgar Award–winner Harlan Coben, a young woman’s tragic death spirals into a shattering drama of menace, secrets, and rage. Suddenly Myron is in over his head—and playing the most dangerous...

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Published: Jan 2013

Stardust (Spenser)

Robert B. Parker

When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way. First, there's Jill herself. She's spoiled, arrogant, drugged ou...

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Published: May 1991

Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

Stephanie Barron

In her seventh captivating adventure, Jane Austen finds her crime-solving mettle put to the test in a confounding case of intrigue, murder, and high treason. Among the haunted ruins of an ancient abbey, Jane is drawn into a shadow wor...

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Published: Apr 2004

Back Spin: A Myron Bolitar Novel

Harlan Coben

Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspec...

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Published: Jul 1997

The Lost Bird

Margaret Coel

Father O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden must uncover a baby-selling scheme at a clinic forty years ago.'Suspenseful...Solid characters and a keen sense of place...keep this tale humming.'-Publishers Weekly 'Among the best ...

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Published: Aug 2000

Irish Chain (Benni Harper Mysteries)

Earlene Fowler

Probing the death of the San Celina Senior Citizen Prom king, museum curator Benni Harper goes against the wishes of her police chief boyfriend and uncovers the victim's fifty-year-old affiliation with a World War II Japanese blackmai...

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Published: Feb 1996

Seven Sisters (Benni Harper Mysteries...

Earlene Fowler

Quilter and rancher Benni Harper is forced to use all of her amateur sleuthing talents, when she becomes entangled in the dark and tragic secrets of a feuding family as she investigates a brutal crime that hits all too close to home. ...

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Published: Apr 2001

Sixth Grave on the Edge (Charley Davi...

Darynda Jones

Sometimes I wrestle my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle.—Bumper StickerMost girls might think twice before getting engaged to someone like Reyes Farrow—but Charley Davidson is not most girls. She's a paranormal private eye and gr...

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Published: Aug 2014

Copycat Killing: A Magical Cats Myste...

Sofie Kelly

Everyone thinks their cats are special—but Owen and Hercules have powers that go far beyond an adorable look or an irresistible purr. Along with their owner, librarian Kathleen Paulson, they have an uncanny instinct for solving crim...

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Published: May 2012

Mrs. McGinty's Dead: A Hercule Poirot...

Agatha Christie

In this classic Hercule Poirot mystery from the Queen of Crime, a kindly widow is bludgeoned to death. Is her lodger guilty? Or is he being framed? Either way, the condemned man's time is running out. 'The plot is perfect and the cha...

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Published: Jul 2000

They Came to Baghdad

Agatha Christie

Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Vict...

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Published: Jun 2002

Death Without Company

Craig Johnson

Sheriff Walt Longmire finds unspeakable viciousness in Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains Craig Johnson garnered both praise and an enthusiastic readership with his acclaimed debut novel featuring Sheriff Walt Longmire, The Cold Dish. Now ...

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Published: Mar 2007

Little Scarlet: An Easy Rawlins Novel...

Walter Mosley

When a man who fled the 1965 Watts riots is suspected of killing a woman in a nearby apartment building, Easy Rawlins begins a murder investigation and learns that the case has sobering racial origins that will result in changes for E...

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Published: Apr 2005

Play Dead

David Rosenfelt

Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter's affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara. After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another golden's death sentence, Andy discovers that this g...

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Published: Aug 2009

Murder of a Creped Suzette: A Scumble...

Denise Swanson

Plans to build a country music theater in Scumble River fall flat whena female country singer is murdered, and the motives and suspects stretch back decades.

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Published: Oct 2011

When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matth...

Lawrence Block

In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing 'favors' for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll ne...

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Published: May 2002

Dreaming of the Bones

Deborah Crombie

When a talented poet is found dead, a suspected suicide, her biographer asks her ex-husband, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, and Sergeant Gemma Jones to prove a case of murder, but Kincaid and Jones soon discover startlin...

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Published: Feb 2007

And Be a Villain (Crime Line) (Crime ...

Rex Stout

For the third time I went over the final additions and subtractions on the first page of Form 1040, to make good and sure. Then I swiveled my chair to face Nero Wolfe, who was seated behind his desk to the right of mine reading a book...

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Published: Feb 1994

Before Midnight

Rex Stout

When a contestant is killed during the final round of the Pour Amour perfume contest, Nero Wolfe must find the person who stole the recipe to the dead contestant's perfume in order to solve the crime. Reissue. NYT.

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Published: Jun 2003

Grass Roots (Will Lee)

Stuart Woods

Attorney Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. He has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies, and to argue a case that has the potential to seriously damage his poli...

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Published: Jan 2009

Mrs. Jeffries Stalks the Hunter (A Vi...

Emily Brightwell

Mrs. Jeffries, the housekeeper for Inspector Witherspoon, employs her keen skills of detection to solve the murder of Sir Edmund Leggett, who, after becoming the object of a disturbed young woman's affection, is found dead at his enga...

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Published: Oct 2004

Justice (Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus ...

Faye Kellerman

Investigating the murder of a high school prom queen, Detective Pete Decker encounters the erotic subculture of Southern California's rootless, affluent, and sometimes violent teenagers. Decker, himself is the father of a 19-year-old ...

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Published: Jul 1997
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