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A smart, well-crafted mystery set in a charming Midwestern small town, where bookstore-cafe owner Krissy Hancock has a sideline in sleuthing-just right for fans of Leslie Meier, Cleo Coyle, and Carolyn Hart.
Bookstore-café owner Krissy Hancock is stepping out from behind the counter to take part in the first annual Pine Hills, Ohio, marathon. But with a killer close by, she may soon be running for her life . . .
It's a brutally hot day...
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Since her only daughter left for college, widow Pamela Paterson has kept busy as associate editor of a craft magazine and founder of the Knit and Nibble knitting club in quaint Arborville, New Jersey. Now, she's trying out a new hobby-solving murders!
Pamela is hosting the next Knit and Nibble meeting and can't wait to liven up her otherwise empty home with colorful yarn, baking, and a little harmless gossip. She even recruits Amy Morgan, an old...
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It's official! Siobhán is now Garda O'Sullivan, and her five siblings couldn't be prouder. While brother James runs Naomi's Bistro, Siobhán is doing her part to keep the village safe. Of course, Kilbane is pretty quiet compared to a place like Dublin, where Macdara Flannery has gone to be a detective sergeant. Then one night the local priest summons Siobhán to the church cemetery. There's a dead man in the graveyard-aboveground. He lies shot on...
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"With Priceless, Alan Eysen brings another fast-moving mystery to the colorful guys of the Martini Club. It has a surprising climax that satisfies. The story delivers the goods." -George Black, Director, Author, UVA Professor of Theater Arts
A Martini Club search begins, almost casually with a marital dispute between a beautiful woman and her wandering husband. The quarrel evolves into sweeping questions about stolen art, undercover agents, religious...
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First published serially in 1861, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Lady Audley's Secret" is the wildly successful Victorian-era sensation novel. Sensation novels were very popular in English literature in the 1860s and 1870s. The novels were a combination of realism and romance and were usually tales of terrible crimes, such as murder, kidnapping, bigamy, adultery, and theft, occurring in otherwise normal, tranquil domestic settings. "Lady Audley's Secret"...
6) Dead ringer
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"Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their son Matthew may be in his terrible twos and Steve's daughter Emily a moody teenager, the kids bring light to their lives when their work is dark by its nature - Steve is a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal death investigator, aka medical examiner. They deal in corpses. The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was clearly an addict, but...
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Martin Chuzzlewit) was serialized between 1843 and 1844, and is considered to be one of Charles Dickens's last picaresque novels. Raised by his grandfather and namesake, Martin Chuzzlewit is disinherited after revealing his love for his nursemaid, Mary. With no fortune, Martin apprentices himself to the greedy architect Seth Pecksniff and befriends Tom Pinch. Although Dickens considered Martin Chuzzlewit...
8) Do No Harm
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The idyllic town of Baxter, Michigan, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. Katie LeClair to settle down after years toiling in medical school-until the murder of a patient shattered the peace she had found. Now on the mend and balancing the responsibilities of a new house and the joys of a new romance, Katie is finally ready to start enjoying life. But danger arrives just as the town is gearing up for its annual Halloween festival-and once again,...
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A Prank or a Crime of Passion? Sherlock Holmes is up to something. He doesn't believe Inspector Lestrade's story that Miss Susan Cushing is a victim of a prank. She received a parcel with two human ears packed in a coarse salt. And what about the precarious cuts? Or the writing and the spelling correction from the parcel? Doesn't these clues suggest something more than a prank made by a bunch of medical students?
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Trent's Last Case (1913) is a detective novel by E.C. Bentley. Adapted three times for the cinema-including a 1952 feature film starring Michael Wilding, Orson Welles, and Margaret Lockwood-Trent's Last Case, which was titled The Woman in Black in the U.S., earned the acclaim of such writers as Dorothy L. Sayers, and was followed by a sequel and a collection of short stories involving its main character.
When Sigsbee Manderson, a prominent American...
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"There is missing, then there is being made to disappear." Mick Hart Private Investigation Agency finds deadbeat parents whose child supports payments are in arrears. On occasion, P.I. Hart will take on a case to find a missing person. In The Shakers, Sapphire Jenkins (Mary's Little Lamb) asks Hart to find her younger brother Gerald who is away at college and has been missing for two weeks from his classes. Hart travels to Atlanta, Georgia, searching...
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Chris Landrum is, dragged out of peaceful retirement when the theft of a priceless, hand-carved figurine from a church's nativity scene threatens to suck the spirit of Christmas out of Folly Beach. If that's not bad enough, pieces of valuable jewelry and surfboards are stolen off homeowners' porches on the small, South Carolina island located in the shadows of historic Charleston. Are the crimes related? All that's known for sure is that nothing is...
13) Never Going Back
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Before she went to prison, Alison Kidd was the best thief in the city. But Ali has changed. All she wants now is to clean up her act and work in her brother Dean's restaurant. She never wants to go back inside.
On the day she gets out, Dean is supposed to pick her up. But he never shows. Ali makes her way to Dean's apartment and uses her unique skill set to let herself in. Dean is missing. After some investigation, Ali discovers that he was kidnapped...
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"In my criminal work, everything that wears skirts is a lady, until the law proves her otherwise," declares Jack Knox, attorney at law and narrator of this sprightly mystery. Jack's cautiously chivalrous observation is prompted by the beauty and distress of his newest client, Margery Flemming. It seems that Margery's father, a crooked politician, has been missing for over a week. Unwilling to involve the police in her father's corrupt activities,...
15) Dangerous Dance
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Jealousy... Drugs... Murder...
Book eleven in the Shandra Higheagle Mystery Series
At the reservation to make final arrangements for her upcoming wedding, potter Shandra Higheagle gets caught up in the murder of a young woman about to turn her life around.
Having no jurisdiction on the reservation, Detective Ryan Greer pulls in favors from friends in the FBI to make sure there is no delay in their wedding.
However, the death occurs in a sacred place...
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Retired CIA agent Barbara Gold decides to take up gardening to pass the time in Cheerville, a quaint New England town. Before she can pay for her peat moss and a copy of Gardening for Numbskulls at the garden shop, she overhears two ladies gossiping about the death of Cheerville's best gardener.
Based on her extensive secret agent training, Barbara quickly concludes Archibald didn't die in a freak accident via hedge clippers, but was murdered. The...
17) Fatal Fall
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Book eight of the Shandra Higheagle Native American Mystery Series
Avarice...Family...Murder
When the doctor is a no-show for her appointment, Shandra Higheagle becomes wrapped up in another murder. The death of the doctor's elderly aunt has everyone questioning what happened and who's to blame. Shandra's dreams soon tell her she's on the right path, but also suggests her best friend could be in grave danger.
Detective Ryan Greer knows not even an...
18) Hot Roll
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One of their own becomes a target…
A voice on the phone says Jennifer's best friend has tragically died in a fatal fall at a national park. Her certainty that it was no accident starts TV reporter Elizabeth Danniher, with friends Mike, Tom and Diana plus the rest of the Caught Dead in Wyoming crew, on an investigation that moves faster -- and closer to them -- than any of them could ever expect. They've barely had time to catch their breath since...
19) The Crows
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The crows are cawing when accountant P.J. Benson takes a walk in the woods with her four-month-old Rhodesian Ridgeback. Next comes gun shots. Quickly she returns to her house, ready to call the police, only to find a man dying in her dining room. It's tax season, and she's just started her home-based business. She doesn't have time to devote to solving a murder, but when she becomes the prime suspect, she has no choice. Either someone is breaking...
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A new cozy mystery series from USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. Follow gardener and amateur sleuth Doreen Montgomery-and her amusing and mostly lovable cat, dog, and parrot-as they catch murderers and solve crimes in lovely Kelowna, British Columbia.
Riches to rags. ... Chaos calms. ... Crime quiets. ... But does it really?
After getting involved in two murder cases in the short time she's lived in picturesque Kelowna, divorcee and gardener...
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