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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

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

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

The Curse of the Pharaohs

Elizabeth Peters

One of the best-loved of mystery writers weaves another tale of intrigue featuring Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe of Crocodile on the Sandbank. This time the willful and witty duo must catch a murderer at an excavation of an ancient Egy...

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Published: Feb 1988

Dying In Style:: Josie Marcus, Myster...

Elaine Viets

Hired to inspect the stores of designer Denessa Celedine anonymously, mystery shopper Josie Marcus's less than stellar report is the least of the designer's problems, after she is found strangled with one of her own expensive snakeski...

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Published: Oct 2005

Aunt Dimity Digs In

Nancy Atherton

The latest in this enchanting and fast-selling series, featuring the beloved ghost Aunt Dimity, opens in a picturesque English cottage where the lovable Lori Shepherd is up to her elbows in pureed carrots and formula bottles, strivin...

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Published: Mar 1999

Hunting Season (Anna Pigeon Novels)

Nevada Barr

There's something delightfully perverse about the way Nevada Barr lovingly describes the sylvan beauty of our national parks and then introduces a cast of cruel and greedy humans to ugly things up. In HUNTING SEASON, her 10th book abo...

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Published: Feb 2003

Whisker of Evil

Rita Mae Brown

With rabies on the rise and a new post office threatening her position, Harry Haristeen and her trio of feline detective friends find themselves in even more trouble when they start snooping around an irresistible mystery. Reprint.

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Published: Jan 2005
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