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2011-2040 of 2095

Before I Say Good-bye

Mary Higgins Clark

America’s "Queen of Suspense' delivers a genuine nail biter featuring Nell MacDermott, a young congressional hopeful with psychic powers, and her husband, Adam Cauliff, a successful architect. Adam, along with a few of his ...

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Published: Apr 2000

Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter

Lee Child says it's "stunning… certain to be a book of the year." Kathy Reichs calls it "extraordinary… a major achievement."Jeffery Deaver says that "fiction doesn't get any better than this." Gill...

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Published: Apr 2016

The Kept Woman: A Novel (Will Trent)

Karin Slaughter

Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future.Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy them.With the discovery of a murder at an abandoned construction site, Will Trent and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ar...

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Published: Apr 2017

A Perfect Evil

Alex Kava

A killer is watching . . . The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. When Sheriff Nick Mor...

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Published: Jul 2001

Booked for Trouble: A Lighthouse Libr...

Eva Gates

The author of By Book or By Crook returns to the Outer Banks and the Lighthouse Library, where Lucy Richardson must shed light on a shocking murder…Lucy has finally found her bliss as a librarian and resident of the Bodie Island Lig...

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Published: Sep 2015

The Nightingale Before Christmas (Meg...

Donna Andrews

Murder never takes a holiday! 'Tis the season for tree trimming, mistletoe-dangling, and a cut-throat competition that has everyone in Caerphilly on edge. Whatever happened to the simple joys and magical spirits of Christmas? Meg La...

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Published: Oct 2015

Death by Chocolate Lab

Bethany Blake

Pet sitter Daphne Templeton has a soft spot for every stray and misfit who wanders into the quaint, lakeside village of Sylvan Creek. But even Daphne doesn't like arrogant, womanizing Steve Beamus, the controversial owner of Blue ...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Curse of Tenth Grave: A Novel (Ch...

Darynda Jones

If one door closes and another one opens,your house is probably haunted. ―Bumper Sticker As a Part-time PI and fulltime grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who i...

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Published: Jun 2016

Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher Mystery)...

Kerry Greenwood

It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sig...

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Published: May 2012

Halloween Murder

Leslie Meier

For Lucy Stone, Halloween in Tinker’s Cove, Maine, the treats aren’t just sweet and delicious. Sometimes they’re also deadly . . . Trick or Treat Murder While Lucy Stone is whipping up orange-frosted cupcakes for her town’s a...

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Published: Aug 2018

Fatal Reservations: A Key West Food C...

Lucy Burdette

In the latest Key West Food Critic mystery, Hayley Snow's beat is reviewing restaurants for Key Zest magazine. But she sets aside her knife and fork when a dear friend is accused of murder…Hayley Snow looks forward to reviewing For ...

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Published: Jul 2015

Two Parts Sugar, One Part Murder: A D...

Valerie Burns

In a brand-new culinary cozy series with a fresh edge and a delightful small-town setting, the acclaimed author introduces Maddy Montgomery, a social media expert who’s #StartingOver in small town Michigan after inheriting her g...

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Published: Aug 2022

Long Island Iced Tina (A Catering Hal...

Maria Dirico

In the second installment of Maria DiRico's new Catering Hall Mystery series, Mia Carina is back in the borough of Queens, in charge of the family catering hall Belle View Banquet Manor, and keeping her nonna company. But some events&...

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Published: Feb 2021

Bootlegger's Daughter: A Deborah Knot...

Margaret Maron

Deborah Knott was expected to be a conventional little girl and eventually a conventional woman, worshipped on a pedestal by a conventional husband.Instead, she became an attorney, infiltrating the old boy network that still rules the...

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Published: Jun 1993

Southern Discomfort: A Deborah Knott ...

Margaret Maron

Deborah Knott may have lost the district election, but a bigoted judge's sudden death--and some old-fashioned political horse trading--have won her a governor's appointment. True to Southern form, her swearing-in is followed by a rauc...

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Published: Jan 2017

Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, The

Alexander McCall Smith

Modern ideas get tangled up with traditional ones in the latest intriguing installment in the beloved, best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe has taken on two puzzling cases. First she is approached by t...

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Published: Nov 2013

Killer Research (A Library Lover's My...

Jenn McKinlay

Spring has sprung in Briar Creek, but it is not all sunshine and roses, in the newest Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of One for the Books. Spring is livening up Briar Creek after ...

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Published: Sep 2022

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Penzler Pick, July 2001: Working in a mystery tradition that will cause genre aficionados to think of such classic sleuths as Melville Davisson Post's Uncle Abner or Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee, Alexander McCall Smith creates an Afri...

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Published: Apr 2003

The English Breakfast Murder (Childs,...

Laura Childs

While helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning stumbles upon the dead body of art dealer Harper Fisk whose untimely demise is linked to the sunken treasure and gold bullion that is ru...

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Published: Aug 2003

Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter (Dixi...

Blaize Clement

While going to the home of a vacationing client in Sarasota, Florida, professional pet-sitter Dixie Hemingway, a former sheriff's deputy, stumbles upon a traumatized cat and the corpse of a mysterious intruder, sending Dixie on a sear...

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Published: Jan 2007

Cover Her Face

P. D. James

Headstrong and beautiful, the young housemaid Sally Jupp is put rudely in her place, strangled in her bed behind a bolted door. Coolly brilliant policeman Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard must find her killer among a houseful of suspec...

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Published: May 2001

Trouble in the Town Hall (Dorothy Mar...

Jeanne M. Dams

A lovely old building hides a nasty crime...PA Shereby resident for a year now, American Dorothy Martin is still learning her way around the charming English cathedral town.But she recognizes a dead body when she sees one. As town de...

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Published: Feb 1998

Fudging the Books

Daryl Wood Gerber

The Agatha Award–winning author of Stirring the Plot returns to the Cookbook Nook in Crystal Cove, California, where February brings Pirate Week, National Chocolate Month—and bitter murder…Pirate Week is sweeping through Crystal...

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Published: Aug 2015

Shear Trouble: A Southern Quilting My...

Elizabeth Craig

As the leaves begin to fall in idyllic Dappled Hills, someone puts too fine a point on a local ladies' man. Fortunately, the detective skills of quilter Beatrice Coleman are a cut above the rest....  The Village Quilters of Dappled...

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Published: Aug 2014

Bitter River

Julia Keller

In the next stunning novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning Julia Keller, following the popular A Killing in the Hills, a pregnant teenager is found murdered at the bottom of a river.Phone calls before dawn are never good news. And whe...

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Published: Jul 2014

Garnethill of Crime

Denise Mina

At once wry and shocking, humane and raw, ironic and visceral, Denise Mina brings a distinctive new voice to crime fiction in this gritty, award-winning debut novel set in the grim precincts of Glasgow's Garnethill. There the unlucky ...

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Published: Jan 2001

The Game: A novel of suspense featuri...

Laurie R. King

It's only the second day of 1924, but Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, find themselves embroiled in intrigue. It starts with a New Year's visit from Holmes's brother Mycroft, who comes bearing a strange package containin...

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Published: Apr 2010

The Green Mill Murder (Phryne Fisher ...

Kerry Greenwood

Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things - dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a sparkling lobel...

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Published: Apr 2012

Six Geese A-Slaying (Meg Langslow Mys...

Donna Andrews

Meg Langslow and Michael's house is serving as the marshalling point for the annual Caerphilly holiday parade. The theme is The Twelve Days of Christmas, and it features twelve drummers from the school's marching band, eleven bagpiper...

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Published: Dec 2017

Once Upon a Grind

Cleo Coyle

Fresh Pick - Fresh Fiction Top Pick - RT Book ReviewsA Best Books of the Year Pick - Kings River Life MagazineFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Billionaire Blend comes an enchanting new entry in the "satisfyingly...

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Published: Sep 2015
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