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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

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

A Body to Die For

Kate White

Kate White brings back Bailey Weggins from IF LOOKS COULD KILL to help an old friend investigate a series of murders at her country bed-and-breakfast--which will be in big trouble if the crimes aren't solved. As the situation gets mor...

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Published: Apr 2004

Lion in the Valley (Amelia Peabody My...

Elizabeth Peters

Amelia and her Egyptologist husband are in Dahshoor on a much-coveted burial chamber dig at the Black Pyramid. But the brazen moonlight abduction of their 8-year-old son has alerted Amelia to the presence of her arch nemesis, the Mast...

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Published: Sep 1999

Track of the Cat

Nevada Barr

Fleeing New York to find refuge as a ranger in the remote backcountry of West Texas, Anna Pigeon stumbles into a web of violence and murder when fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed and another ranger vanishes. Repri...

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Published: Jun 2003

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

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GONE GIRLLibby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen...

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Published: May 2010

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

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta)

Patricia Cornwell

Discover the “dazzling...fascinating” (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the New York Timesbestselling Kay Scarpetta series from #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virg...

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Published: Mar 2021

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

Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons: A Dixie...

Blaize Clement

Author Blaize Clement has earned herself a legion of fans with the first five books in her pet-sitting mystery series. Now Blaize's beloved heroine, Dixie Hemingway, is back, and when Dixie's latest assignment turns dangerous, it's up...

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Published: Nov 2011

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

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

Bagpipes, Brides and Homicides (Liss ...

Kaitlyn Dunnett

Book by Dunnett, Kaitlyn

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Published: Jul 2013

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

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 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

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

Unnatural Causes

P. D. James

A famous mystery writer is found dead at the bottom of a dinghy, with both hands chopped off at the wrists. Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh, with help from his remarkable Aunt Jane, must discover who typed the writer's death sentence be...

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Published: Aug 2001

Nine Lives to Die: A Mrs. Murphy Myst...

Rita Mae Brown

NATIONAL BESTSELLERRita Mae Brown and her feline co-author Sneaky Pie Brown return with an all-new mystery starring Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, intrepid kitty sleuths Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, and Tee Tucker, the ever-faithf...

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Published: Mar 2015

Kilt Dead (Liss Maccrimmon Mysteries)...

Kaitlyn Dunnett

As a professional Scottish dancer, Liss MacCrimmon has performed strathsprays and reels, jigs and Highland flings until a knee injury cuts her career short. Returning to her hometown of Moosetookalook, Maine, she decides to help her a...

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Published: Jul 2008

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

Here Comes the Body

Maria Dirico

After her philandering husband's boat went down, newly single Mia Carina went back to Astoria, the bustling Queens neighborhood of her youth. Living with her nonna and her oversized cat, Doorstop, she's got a whole new life—includin...

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Published: Feb 2020

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

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
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