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Banana Cream Pie Murder (A Hannah Swe...

Joanne Fluke

A romantic seven-day cruise is the perfect start to bakery owner Hannah Swensen's marriage. However, with a murder mystery heating up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, it seems the newlywed's homecoming won't be as sweet as anticipated . . . ...

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Published: Jan 2018

Raspberry Danish Murder (A Hannah Swe...

Joanne Fluke

Thanksgiving has a way of thawing the frostiest hearts in Lake Eden. But that won't be happening for newlywed Hannah Swensen Barton—not after her husband suddenly disappears . . .  Hannah has felt as bitter as November in Minnesota...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Fla...

Alan Bradley

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A finger in a wedding cake is only the beginning in this deliciously shocking mystery featuring Flavia de Luce, “the world’s greatest adolescent British chemist/busybody/sleuth” (The Seattle Times)....

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Published: Aug 2019

The Secret Adversary: A Tommy and Tup...

Agatha Christie

"Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere.Pay must be good. No reasonable offer refused."With that bold declaration, Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley launch their career as sleuths. The childho...

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Published: Mar 2017

Berried at Sea (A Cranberry Cove Myst...

Peg Cochran

It's a marriage made in murder in the new Cranberry Cove Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Peg Cochran!The long-awaited wedding of Monica and Greg is the highlight of the harvest season in Cranberry Cove, drawing friends from ...

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Published: Mar 2018

Premeditated Peppermint

Amanda Flower

Someone's sweet on revenge . . .  Christmas is Bailey King's favorite time of year. For her first Yuletide in Harvest, Ohio, the former big-city chocolatier is recreating a cherished holiday treat: peppermint combined with molten whi...

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Published: Sep 2018

Lemon Meringue Pie Murder (A Hannah S...

Joanne Fluke

The residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, are planning to paint the town red, white, and blue to celebrate the Fourth of July—but the fireworks are already going off at Hannah Swensen's bake shop, The Cookie Jar. . .Lemon Meringue Pie ...

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Published: Feb 2012

The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Mu...

Richard Osman

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.  “The quartet of aging amateur sleuths&hellip...

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Published: Jun 2023

Death by Dumpling

Vivien Chien

Welcome to the Ho-Lee Noodle House, where the Chinese food is to die for. . .The last place Lana Lee thought she would ever end up is back at her family’s restaurant. But after a brutal break-up and a dramatic workplace walk-out, sh...

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Published: Mar 2018

Cherry Cheesecake Murder

Joanne Fluke

Hannah Swensen and her bakery, The Cookie Jar, bask in the glow of Hollywood glamour when Main Street becomes a movie set. And although tensions simmer as the cameras roll, no one expects the action to turn deadly . . . until it's too...

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Published: May 2011

Digging Up the Dirt: A Southern Ladie...

Miranda James

The New York Times bestselling author of Dead with the Wind and Bless Her Dead Little Heart is back with more of those sleuthing Southern belles, the Ducote sisters...An'gel and Dickce Ducote, busy with plans for the Athena Garden Clu...

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Published: Sep 2016

Turkey Trot Murder (A Lucy Stone Myst...

Leslie Meier

It's late autumn in Tinker's Cove, Maine, and the last surviving flowers on Lucy Stone's porch have fallen victim to the first frost of the season. But as the part-time reporter learns, this cold November morning will claim more than ...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Man Who Died Twice: A Thursday Mu...

Richard Osman

An instant New York Timesbestseller! The second gripping novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series, soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment “It’s take...

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Published: Jul 2022

The Bookshop Murder: An absolutely gr...

Merryn Allingham

Bookshop owner Flora Steele escapes the sleepy English village of Abbeymead through the adventures in the stories she sells. Until one morning, everything changes when she discovers a body amongst her own bookshelves... The young m...

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Published: Jul 2021

Crazy Like a Fox: A Novel ("Sister" J...

Rita Mae Brown

In this thrilling new foxhunting mystery from New York Times bestselling author Rita Mae Brown, an investigation into a missing and valuable object flushes out murder, ghosts, and old family rivalries. Now "Sister" Jane Arno...

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Published: Oct 2018

A Justified Murder (A Medlar Mystery)...

Jude Deveraux

The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was recently rocked when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the...

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Published: Jan 2020

Toxic Toffee

Amanda Flower

A sweet tooth for murder . . .    Bailey King’s in New York wrapping up a six-week shoot on her first cable TV show, Bailey’s Amish Sweets, when she gets a call from her Ohio town’s resident busybody. With Easter around the co...

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Published: Jun 2019

Stormy Weather (Skink)

Carl Hiaasen

"Hysterically funny. . . . Hiaasen at his satirical best." —USA Today When a ferocious hurricane rips through southern Florida, con artists and carpetbaggers waste no time in swarming over the disaster area. Am...

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Published: Mar 2021

The Sentence Is Death

Anthony Horowitz

Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne.""You shouldn't b...

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Published: May 2019

The Word Is Murder

Anthony Horowitz

SHE PLANNED HER OWN FUNERAL. BUT DID SHE ARRANGE HER OWN MURDER?New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime novel, this time writing a ficti...

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Published: May 2019

Rotten to the Core (A Lady Hardcastle...

T. E. Kinsey

Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, ...

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Published: Jun 2022

'tis the Season Murder

Leslie Meier

Christmas has come to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and sleuthing skills are at the top of Lucy’s Stone’s wish list in these two beloved mysteries—now collected in one festive volume for the very first time! . . . NEW YEAR’S EVE MU...

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Published: Oct 2019

Wedding Bell Blues (A Tourist Trap My...

Lynn Cahoon

In the California coastal town of South Cove, Jill Gardner, owner of Coffee, Books, and More, becomes more engaged in sleuthing than wedding preparations when there’s a murder in a dress shop . . . Jill couldn’t love poli...

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Published: Mar 2022

Murder Lo Mein

Vivien Chien

The third in a tasty series, Murder Lo Mein by Vivien Chien is a delight!Everyone agrees that the food at Ho-Lee Noodle House is delicious―unless it happens to be deadly. Lana Lee's stake in her family's Chinese restaurant is higher...

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Published: Mar 2019

The Case of the Rolling Bones (Perry ...

Erle Stanley Gardner

Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to grow his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Millicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, the...

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Published: Apr 2016

Saguaro Sanction (National Park Myste...

Scott Graham

Janelle Ortega and Chuck Bender are drawn deep into a threatening web of hostility and deceit in Saguaro National Park in this page-turner of a mystery. "A winning blend of archaeology and intrigue, Graham's series turns our ...

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Published: Mar 2023

A Line to Kill: A Novel (A Hawthorne ...

Anthony Horowitz

TheNew York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sentence Is Death returns with his third literary whodunit featuring intrepid detectives Hawthorne and Horowitz. "Horowitz is a master ...

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Published: Oct 2022

The Sentence Is Death: A Novel (Detec...

Anthony Horowitz

New York Times-bestselling author Anthony Horowitz and eccentric detective Daniel Hawthorne team up again in a new mystery, the sequel to the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder, to delve deep into the killing of a high-profile d...

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Published: May 2020

The Twist of a Knife CD: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fourth literary whodunit following The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, and A Line to Kill, Horowitz becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigationR...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2022

The Burning Issue of the Day

T. E. Kinsey

January 1910. A journalist has been killed in a suspicious blaze. Everything points to a group of suffragettes, but the apparent culprit insists she is innocent.When Lady Hardcastle receives a letter from a suffragette requesting her ...

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Published: May 2019
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