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The Witness

Sandra Brown

Millions of readers clamor for the compelling contemporary novels of Sandra Brown. And no wonder! She fires your imagination with irresistible characters, unexpected plot twists, scandalous secrets...so electric you feel the zing.

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Published: Jan 1996

Never Look Back

Linda Lael Miller

This police thriller/romantic suspense novel is a sequel to DON'T LOOK NOW. Clare Westbrook's love life could use some improvement--she's currently estranged from boyfriend Tony Sonterra, an ambitious Scottsdale homicide detective. Th...

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Published: Jun 2005

The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme No...

Jeffery Deaver

Bestselling master of suspense Jeffery Deaver is back with a brand-new Lincoln Rhyme thriller.Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose ingenious staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying acces...

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Published: Apr 2009

Family Honor (Sunny Randall)

Robert B. Parker

Commissioned by actress Helen Hunt, who will star in the film version, FAMILY HONOR finds petite, blond private detective Sunny Randall going head-to-head with the mob, corrupt politicians, and the uppety parents of a teenage prostitu...

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Published: Nov 2000

Paradise Lost

J. A. Jance

Arizona sheriff Joanna Brady's 12-year-old daughter, Jenny, and Jenny's friend, troubled and rebellious Dora, find the body of a woman in the woods. Days later, Dora is brutally murdered. Terrified for Jenny's safety, Joanna tries to ...

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Published: Aug 2002

Claws and Effect

Rita Mae Brown

There's nothing like a cat who can solve crimes, as Rita Mae Brown once again demonstrates in this impeccable feline cozy. In the midst of a dreary February in Crozet, Virginia, murders start to occur at the local hospital. Postmistre...

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Published: Jan 2002

Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Nov...

Jeffery Deaver

The latest Kathryn Dance thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sleeping Doll!The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways -- not in memoriam, but as announc...

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Published: Feb 2010

Breach of Promise

Perri O'Shaughnessy

When wealthy couple Lindy and Mike Markov split over Mike's affair with a younger woman, he thinks he can abscond with the $200-million-dollar industry they built together. Lindy hires attorney Nina Reilly to help her win back what sh...

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Published: Jun 1999

Second Grave on the Left

Darynda Jones

Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper Extraordinaire, is back in this sexy, suspenseful novel of supernatural shenanigans When Charley is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by her best friend who tells her to get dressed quickly and t...

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Published: Apr 2012

Tombs of Endearment (Pepper Martin My...

Casey Daniels

Cemetery tour guide Pepper Martin never imagined she'd get to meet rock legend Damon Curtis, the bad boy poet who made millions of teenage girls scream. After all, he kicked the bucket years before she was born. But thanks to her new...

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Published: Oct 2007

Butchers Hill (Tess Monaghan Mysterie...

Laura Lippman

Tess Monaghan has finally made the move and hung out the shingle as a P.I.-for-hire, complete with an office in Butchers Hill. Her first client is Luther Beale, the notorious vigilante who five years ago shot a boy for vandalizing his...

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Published: Jul 1998

Laced (Regan Reilly Mystery Series #1...

Carol Higgins Clark

Private Investigator Regan Reilly and her new husband, Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, are off to Ireland. But their very first night at romantic Hennessy Castle is interrupted by a fire alarm that distracts hotel employees f...

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Published: Feb 2008

The Dry: A Novel

Jane Harper

A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper.Everyday life in one small, rural town is about to take a shocking turn. . .Federal agent Aaron Falk hasn...

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Published: Jun 2018

Devil May Ride (Ghost Dusters Mysteri...

Wendy Roberts

When Sadie and her sexy partner Zack stumble on evidence of a chilling cult ritual in an abandoned meth lab, Sadie comes face to face with an evil spirit unlike any she's ever seen before. And it's no coincidence that a bundle of stol...

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Published: Dec 2008

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's B...

Alan Bradley

Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over—until beloved puppetee...

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Published: Dec 2010

The Purrfect Murder (Mrs. Murphy Myst...

Rita Mae Brown

IIt's autumn in cozy, idyllic Crozet, Virginia—a time for golden days, crisp nights…and murder. Mrs. Carla Paulson is one of the diamond-encrusted "come-here" set who has descended on Crozet with plenty of wealth and no ...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Murder Room

P. D. James

Commander Adam Dalgiesh investigates a murder which seems to be tied to a dispute over whether or not to close a private museum dedicated to London's interwar years of 1919-1939. After a second murder occurs, Dalgiesh realizes the kil...

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Published: Nov 2004

Hornet Flight

Ken Follett

In separate locations across the war-ravaged landscape of northern Europe in 1941, a plot is slowly being uncovered. The trouble is that no one person--a policeman in Copenhagen, a teenager on a remote island in the North Atlantic, an...

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Published: Dec 2003

The Manolo Matrix

Julie Kenner

Searching for Mr. Right as well as the perfect pair of designer shoes, aspiring actress Jennifer Martin finds herself playing bodyguard when a would-be assassin forces her to participate in a life-or-death scavenger hunt. By the autho...

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Published: Feb 2006

The Art of Detection

Laurie R. King

The fifth present-day police procedural starring San Francisco police detective Kate Martinelli will definitely appeal to fans of author Laurie R. King's other series, early 20th-century mysteries with Mary Russell and her husband, Sh...

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Published: May 2007

Tragic Toppings: A Donut Shop Mystery...

Jessica Beck

Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart sees customers come and go all day long. But when one of them up-and-disappears, the police start asking questions. It seems Suzanne is the last person to have seen Emily Hargraves, who runs the local new...

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Published: Aug 2011

The Lies That Bind: A Bibliophile Mys...

Kate Carlisle

Book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright returns home to San Francisco to teach a bookbinding class. Unfortunately, the program director Layla Fontaine is a horrendous host who pitches fits and lords over her subordinates. But when...

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Published: Nov 2010

Winter Study

Nevada Barr

Anna Pigeon returns—in the remarkable new novel from the New York Times–bestselling writer. It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as h...

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Published: Apr 2009

The Cat Who Wasn't There

Lilian Jackson Braun

Qwill agrees to join his beloved Polly on a group tour of Scotland to keep her safe from the Pickax Prowler. On their sixth day in Scotland, however, the tour organizer--Polly's best friend Irma--dies of an apparent heart attack, and ...

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Published: Jun 1993

Zapped (Reagan Reilly Mysteries, No. ...

Carol Higgins Clark

IIt's a hot, humid July night in New York City. Where were you when the lights went out?A New York City resident for many years, Carol Higgins Clark was there during the blackout of 2003. Not surprisingly, she felt that Regan and Jack...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Whole Enchilada: A Novel of Suspe...

Diane Mott Davidson

Goldy Schulz knows her food is to die for, but she never expected one of her best friends to actually keel over as she left a birthday party Goldy catered. It turns out to be a generous serving of cold-blooded murder. And the clever c...

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Published: May 2014

Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum)

Janet Evanovich

This isn't just another case. This is family. How far will Stephanie Plum go to protect the one person who means the most to her? The stakes have never been higher in this #1 New York Times bestseller from Janet Evanovich. Grandma...

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Published: Sep 2020

Obsession, Deceit and Really Dark Cho...

Kyra Davis

Sophie Katz's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable P.I. Anatoly Darinsky is on the fritz when a friend recruits Sophie's investigation skills to decode her possibly two-timing husband's strange behavior. Wh...

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Published: Sep 2007

Red Velvet Cupcake Murder (A Hannah S...

Joanne Fluke

It's a hot, muggy evening, and the last thing Hannah wants to do is squeeze into a pair of pantyhose for the Grand Opening of the refurbished Albion Hotel. But with Hannah's famous Red Velvet cupcakes being served in the hotel's new R...

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Published: Feb 2014

Blindman's Bluff

Faye Kellerman

LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murder in this twisting tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman. "They say dead men don't t...

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Published: Aug 2010
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