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1st to Die

James Patterson

Introducing the Women's Murder Club--a quartet of San Francisco women who have teamed up to apprehend the city's most terrifying serial killer. They are, in no particular order: a journalist; a medical examiner; an assistant DA; and S...

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Published: Feb 2002

Death du Jour

Kathy Reichs

Forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs exploded onto bestseller lists worldwide with her phenomenal debut novel Deja Dead -- and introduced '[a] brilliant heroine' (Glamour) in league with Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta. Dr. Temper...

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Published: Aug 2000

Unnatural Exposure

Patricia D. Cornwell

Always packed with unrelieved tension and constant surprises, a new novel from Patricia Cornwell is cause for celebration. Virginia's chief medical examiner, Kay Scarpetta, is called in to examine the remains of a woman found in a lan...

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Published: Jul 1998

Grave Secrets

Kathy Reichs

Forensics expert Temperance Brennan travels to Guatemala City to help investigators solve decades-old political murders, but when four new murders occur, Temperance realizes that someone in the Guatemalan political community might not...

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Published: Jul 2003

Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan No...

Kathy Reichs

Temperance Brennan, like her creator Kathy Reichs, is a brilliant, sexy forensic anthropologist called on to solve the toughest cases. But for Tempe, the discovery of a young girl's skeleton in Acadia, Canada, is more than just anothe...

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Published: Jun 2008

Abby Cooper, Psychic Eye

VICTORIA LAURIE

We predict amazing success for this brand-new mystery series starring Psychic Abby Cooper Abby Cooper is a P.I., psychic intuitive. But her insight failed her when she didn't foresee the death of one of her clients-or that the lead...

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Published: Dec 2004

Visions of Sugar Plums: A Stephanie P...

Janet Evanovich

Christmas in bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's world isn't quite like Christmas in Whoville. With only four days to go before December 25, she doesn't have a decorated tree in her apartment or any presents bought. Plus she's chasing ...

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Published: Nov 2004

Shakespeare's Trollop (The Fourth Lil...

Charlaine Harris

Shakespeare, Arkansas, is home to endless back roads, historic buildings, colorful residents--and the occasional murder. It is also home to Lily Bard, the local karate expert/cleaning woman with a particular knack for finding skeleton...

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Published: May 2004

Better Read Than Dead: A Psychic Eye ...

VICTORIA LAURIE

Hired by a Mob boss who wants to use her psychic talents to assist in some of his business matters and who refuses to take no for an answer, Abby Cooper finds herself working for both sides of the law when the police ask her to use he...

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Published: Jun 2005

A Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden Myst...

Charlaine Harris

Death comes calling on a small-town librarian whose life is passing her by. Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden's fortunes change when a deceased acquaintance names her as heir to a rather substantial estate, including money, jewelry, and a house...

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Published: Feb 2008

Cradle and All

James Patterson

This reworking of Patterson's second novel, VIRGIN (1980), features former nun turned private eye Anne Fitzgerald, who is hired to protect a rich Rhode Island teenager eight months pregnant--and a virgin. It seems that the Third Secre...

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Published: Jan 2000

The Third Victim

Lisa Gardner

Rainie Connor joins the police force in the small town of Bakersville, Oregon, because she longs for a relatively peaceful existence. But when a Columbine-style high-school massacre takes place in the town, its peacefulness is shatter...

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Published: Jan 2001

Cruel and Unusual: A Kay Scarpetta No...

Patricia Cornwell

Trying to solve the murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, Dr. Kay Scarpetta and police lieutenant Pete Marion race against time to find a killer after the fingerprints of a recently executed murderer turn up at a new crime scene. Reprint.

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Published: Nov 2005

Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Te...

Charlaine Harris

Deciding if she wants to go into real estate becomes a life-or-death choice for Aurora 'Roe' Teagarden. A naked corpse is discovered at her first house showing. And when a second body is found in another house for sale, it becomes obv...

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Published: Mar 2008

Stealing Shadows (Shadows Trilogy)

Kay Hooper

Burned out after she has helped the police solve one too many sordid cases, psychic Cassie Neill leaves L.A. for the peaceful town of Ryan's Bluff, North Carolina. Before long, however, Cassie senses the presence of an evil and sadist...

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Published: Aug 2000

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies De...

Alexander McCall Smith

In her second outing (following THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY), Precious Ramotswe tries to help a women whose son disappeared into the plains years earlier, while also dealing with a number of changes at the agency and in her per...

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Published: Sep 2002

Grave Secret (A Harper Connelly Myste...

Charlaine Harris

Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her sterother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as family. But as they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood re...

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Published: Nov 2010

Buried Bones

Carolyn Haines

Southern belle-turned-private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney struggles to cope with her antebellum Delta estate's local ghost, who is determined to save her from spinsterhood, and with Lawrence Ambrose's dinner party, a lavish occas...

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Published: Oct 2000

Morality for Beautiful Girls (No. 1 L...

Alexander McCall Smith

Sleuth Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of a Botswana detective agency, and her assistant, Mma Makutsi, investigate two very different cases--the alleged poisoning of the brother of an important government official and the moral characte...

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Published: Nov 2002

Sticks & Scones

Diane Mott Davidson

When an eccentric millionaire reassembles an English castle in Aspen Meadow, Goldy Shulz is hired to cater a banquet with authentic Elizabethan fare. When Goldy discovers a body lying in a nearby creek, someone she loves soon is in th...

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Published: May 2002

Some Like it Lethal: A Blackbird Sist...

Nancy Martin

This humorous mystery is the third in the BLACKBIRD SISTERS series, which is set in Philadelphia and chronicles the adventures of Nora Blackbird, a cash-strapped ex-socialite employed as a society columnist, and her two sisters. In th...

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Published: Apr 2004

The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next...

Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde's third Thursday Next novel finds his heroine pregnant and working for Miss Havisham in the department of Jurisfiction. The legal stuff is getting her down, and a temporary assignment at the Well of Lost Plots, subbing f...

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Published: Aug 2004

Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)...

Jacqueline Winspear

Having served in the War to End all Wars, nurse Maisie Dobbs defies societal conventions by becoming a private investigator. After an apprenticeship with the esteemed investigator Maurice Blanche, Maisie sets out on her own to solve a...

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Published: Jun 2004

Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

SARA PARETKSY

Checking up on empty family mansions for an old client, V.I. discovers the dead body of a missing reporter who disappeared during the McCarthy era, a find that is linked to two prestigious Chicago families and leads to her involvement...

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Published: Sep 2004

Tough Cookie

Diane Mott Davidson

The New York Times bestselling author of Prime Cut serves up another tantalizing tale of culinary mystery and suspense-as chef turned sleuth Goldy Schulz goes on live television to prepare a meal to die for--but discovers that murder ...

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Published: Apr 2001

In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No...

Alexander McCall Smith

Overwhelmed by work at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Precious Ramotswe is further challenged by a strange intruder at her home, the appearance in her yard of a mysterious pumpkin, troubles at her husband's motorworks, and a visi...

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Published: Mar 2006

Prime Cut

Diane Mott Davidson

Gourmet chef and sometimes amateur sleuth Goldy Schulz teams up with her professional mentor to cater a fashion photo shoot at a 19th-century mountain cabin. As Goldy stirs up mouth-watering delights for a group of rail-thin models an...

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Published: Feb 2000

Sweet Revenge

Diane Mott Davidson

Goldy Schulz is thrilled to be catering a holiday breakfast feast for the staff of the Aspen Meadow Library. But little does she know that on the menu is a large helping of murder. While setting up at the library, Goldy spots a woman...

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Published: Sep 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

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
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