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The Deadhouse

Linda Fairstein

Smart, sexy, Manhattan assistant DA Alexandra Cooper--hero of Linda Fairstein's increasingly popular series--is taking her latest murder case very personally. Lola Dakota, abused wife and brilliant university professor, wouldn't coo...

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Published: Jan 2003

Aunt Dimity and the Duke (Aunt Dimity...

Nancy Atherton

Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her for a younger woman, Emma escapes the cloying sympathy of family and friends by setting out on a summer-long driving tour of Engla...

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Published: Nov 1995

Through the Grinder (A Coffee House M...

Cleo Coyle

When several of her customers meet an untimely demise, Clare Cosi, owner of the Village Blend coffee shop, is confronted by a rich blend of murder and betrayal when her new boyfriend is named the prime suspect. Original.

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Published: Oct 2004

High Profile (Jesse Stone Novels)

Robert B. Parker

Stone investigates a shocking double murder-that of a controversial radio talk-show host and his pregnant mistress.

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Published: Mar 2008

Everywhere That Mary Went

Lisa Scottoline

Who can you trust when everyone you know is a lawyer? Mary DNunzio has been slaving away for the past eight years trying to make partner in her cutthroat Philadelphia law firm. Shes too busy to worry about the crank phone calls tha...

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Published: Feb 2000

Bootlegger's Daughter

Margaret Maron

While attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by campaigning for district judge of Colleton County, North Carolina, attorney Deborah Knott tries to solve a senseless, eighteen-year-old murder and stumbles upon ...

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Published: Jun 1993

A Veiled Deception (A Vintage Magic M...

Annette Blair

A fun new mystery series from the author of Gone with the Witch. The right dress can be magic; the wrong one—murder! From the national bestselling author of Sensation's Witch series comes the new Vintage Magic mystery series, featur...

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Published: Jan 2009

The Main Corpse (Culinary Mysteries)

Diane Mott Davidson

When Colorado caterer, Goldy Bear, is asked to cater a party for her friend Marla's business, Prospect Investment Partners, she finds that her talents as an amateur sleuth come in handy when Marla's partner absconds with the company's...

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Published: Jul 1997

The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime

Jasper Fforde

Jack Spratt is the detective in THE BIG OVER EASY, the first in a projected trilogy of books based on nursery rhymes by Jasper Fforde. The case begins when the broken body of Humperdink "Humpty" Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III is ...

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Published: Aug 2006

Mortal Fear

Greg Iles

A commodities trader by day, at night Harper Cole serves as a systems operator for an on-line service that caters to the rich and famous, but when a stranger penetrates the security system, brutally murdering six clients, Harper is fa...

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Published: Feb 1998

Killer Smile

Lisa Scottoline

In this eleventh mystery in a series about the all-women Philadelphia law firm Rosato & Associates, Italian-American author Lisa Scottoline uses the true story of her own grandparents' experience as World War II internees to enrich th...

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Published: Jul 2005

Cold Paradise (Stone Barrington Novel...

Stuart Woods

A thriller set on the Gold Coast of Florida finds street-smart former cop-turned-private investigator Stone Barrington on the trail of an elusive stalker who seems to be able to mimic people at will and who is targeting Allison Mannin...

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Published: Apr 2002

Witches' Bane (China Bayles 2)

Susan Wittig Albert

The second China Bayles mystery. Herb shop owner China is shocked when Halloween hijinks take a gruesome turn in Pecan Springs, ending in a brutal murder. And China is even more shocked when her friend Ruby, a New Age expert in tarot ...

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Published: Sep 1994

A Dilly of a Death

Susan Wittig Albert

China Bayles and her husband, Mike McQuaid, become involved in the tangled affaire of Phoebe the Pickle Queen, owner of the largest pickle business in Texas, but things take a dangerous turn when Phoebe mysteriously vanishes. Reprint.

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Published: Apr 2005

Entombed (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)...

Linda Fairstein

The discovery of a bricked-up skeleton in a partially demolished brownstone is a scenario straight out of Edgar Allan Poe. What makes the find more amazing is the fact that the building is actually one of Poe's former residences. Manh...

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Published: Jan 2005

Murder on Astor Place (Gaslight Myste...

Victoria Thompson

A Gaslight Mystery-- The new mystery series Catherine Coulter calls 'Tantalizing...' As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more--a search for justice--in a c...

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Published: May 1999

The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern

Lilian Jackson Braun

Jim Qwilleran is not exactly thrilled by his new assignment for the Daily Fluxion--a weekly magazine on interior design. But Qwilleran finds himself on familiar territory when a murder is committed, and he and Koko, the brilliant Siam...

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Published: Oct 1986

Charmed to Death: An Ophelia and Abby...

Shirley Damsgaard

Five years after her close friend Brian is killed by an unknown assailant, another friend is killed in an almost identical fashion, and Ophelia Jensen, unable to count on her nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, decides to utilize...

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Published: Apr 2006

Dead Run

P. J. Tracy

Monkeewrench founders Grace McBride and Annie Belinsky, along with Deputy Sharon Mueller, are driving from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where they believe a new serial killer is just warming up, when their car breaks down, dee...

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Published: Apr 2006

Love Lies Bleeding: A China Bayles My...

Susan Wittig Albert

Ex-lawyer and herb-shop proprietor China Bayles investigates the murder of a retired Texas Ranger while trying to sort out some mysteries about her own relationship with her boyfriend, discovered when she overhears a suspicious phone ...

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Published: Nov 1998

Fatally Flaky (Goldy Schulz)

Diane Mott Davidson

Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz encounters bridezilla—and murder—in another delectable novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Sweet Revenge, Dark Tort, and Double ShotCynics say getting married is a death wish. . . . It...

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Published: Apr 2010

Murder of a Sweet Old Lady

Denise Swanson

When her beloved grandmother is found dead, the victim of foul play, school psychologist Skye Denison sets out to uncover the truth about the murder and unwittingly stirs up a hotbed of family tensions, old secrets, violence, and deat...

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Published: Apr 2001

Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladie...

Alexander McCall Smith

From universally beloved author Alexander McCall Smith, comes this seventh installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series featuring Botswana’s best-loved detective. Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as sh...

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Published: Mar 2007

Indigo Dying (China Bayles Mystery)

Susan Wittig Albert

Indigo, a Texas town now long past its heyday, beckons China Bales to teach a dyeing workshop. China becomes involved in the town's revival--it has begun to attract artists from the cities--and is pitted against old-timer Casey Ford, ...

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Published: Jan 2004

Hard Truth

Nevada Barr

In the 13th Anna Pigeon mystery, she and a wheelchair-bound woman confront a fundamentalist religious sect. Anna Pigeon's promotion to district park ranger takes her many miles away from her new husband into Colorado's Rocky Mountain ...

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Published: Feb 2006

French Pressed: A Coffeehouse Mystery...

Cleo Coyle

Murder takes the plunge in the sixth book in the Coffeehouse mystery series. Clare Cosi's daughter, Joy, is interning-and falling- for a top New York chef when his kitchen turns cutthroat, and Joy becomes a murder suspect. Clare know...

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Published: Apr 2008

Bubbles A Broad (Bubbles Books)

Sarah Strohmeyer

Armed with newly polished nails, spandex, and big hair, reporter and sleuth extraordinaire Bubbles Yablonsky investigates the murder of a local steel executive while dealing with her mother's crazy antics and a drop dead gorgeous phot...

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Published: Mar 2005

Lavender Lies: A China Bayles Mystery...

Susan Wittig Albert

As former lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles prepares for her upcoming wedding, the festivities are interrupted by the most uncooperative corpse of local real-estate mogul and blackmailer Edgar Coleman. By the author of Chile Death....

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Published: Oct 2000

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pi...

Alan Bradley

It is the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder ...

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Published: Jan 2010

Crimson Joy

Robert B. Parker

A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give. Spenser plays...

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Published: Apr 1989
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