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Sit, Stay, Slay
Linda O Johnston
Format: Print book
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Introducing Kendra Ballantyne...Former high-powered litigator (temporarily on the outs) Hollywood pet-sitter (desperately in need of cash) Crime-Solver (currently at wit's end) Canned from her L.A. law firm, Kendra Ballantyne is now a freelance pet-sitter. When her clien |
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"Twas the Bite Before Christmas
LEE CHARLES KELLEY - HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Format: Hardcover
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From Dust Jacket: Maine kennel owner and ex-cop Jack Field was hoping to spend a quiet evening in front of the fire with his canine pals and his smart and sexy ladylove, state medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter. But his plans go up in smoke when a young housemaid is found murdered in the Bright... |
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A Brace of Bloodhounds
Virginia Lanier
Format: Book
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Hard-boiled Georgia peach Jo Beth Siddon has a nose for trouble that rivals even the olfactory prowess of her beloved bloodhounds. This latest caper has her trying to dig up the dirt on what may be an insidious crime ring's marijuana field. The problem is, one of her friends has u |
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Crushing Crystal (Jane Stuart & Winky Mystery)
Evan Marshall - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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Jane couldn't say no when her nanny's sister needed a place to stay, but she's certainly glad to see her houseguest go. In just two short weeks as assistant director of the Shady Hills Public Library, Crystal Ryerson has proven herself a meddler par excellence. Relying on gossip... |
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Cat in the Dark
Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Format: Book
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I'm a cat," said Dulcie. "Of course I worry, Joe. What is the cops catch one of us opening a skylight and masterminding a robbery? The tabloids will love it. Every nut in the country will read about the trained burglar-cat...Or, heaven forbid the talking cat..." < |
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Ruff Way to Go
Leslie O'Kane
Format: Book
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Dog therapist Allie Babcock is back -- and she has a bone to pick with a killer! |
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Cattery Row
Clea Simon
Format: Book
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Spiky freelancer Theda Krakow has fallen on a bare patch. Changes at the newspaper have cut her regular assignments and magazine work is slim. When a call comes in asking her to profile Cool, a gifted musician who's being oddly reclusive, it's welcome relief from both Theda's man |
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A Cat With the Blues: An Alice Nestleton Mystery
Lydia Adamson
Format: Hardcover
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An Alice Nestleton Mystery Alice Nestleton is cat-sitting a beautiful Russian Blue - who also happens to be the center of a raging custody battle. Sidney and Beatrice Woburn are fighting over Frenchy, and just about everything else...so Alice, at the request of the lawyers, is |
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Movie Cat
Garrison Allen
Format: Paperback
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Empty Creek, Arizona, becomes the backlot for a shocking mystery when the film director of a big-budget western is found dead. For Penelope Warren, ex-Marine, bookstore owner, and occasional detective, finding the killer, with the help of her 25-pound Abysinian cat, is a scene she |
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The Burning of Rachel Hayes (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
Doug Allyn - Five Star
Format: Hardcover
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An Edgar Award-winning Author After a stint in jail which cost him his wife and career, Dr. David Westbrook takes his battered Jeep, a one-eyed cat, and his troubled past to northern Michigan to start over. He plans to open a small country clinic where he can heal injured animals - and maybe... |
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The Cat Next Door
Marian Babson
Format: Print book
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Returning home to England from New York, Margot finds her family in chaos. Her cousin Chloe is in prison awaiting trial for murdering her twin sister Claudia, their mother has withdrawn into the imaginary world of her romance novels, Claudia's 14-year-old daughter has regressed to |
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This Dog for Hire
Carol Lea Benjamin - Walker and Co.
Format: Book
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A female P.I. and her pit bull, Dashiell, become the most formidable new sleuths on the streets of New York in a crime novel that covers a territory as wide as the city itself. When Rachel and Dash start looking for a missing dog, the duo doesn't get off the streets until they've sniffed... |
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Dog Eat Dog: A Melanie Travis Mystery
Laurien Berenson - Kensington
Format: Hardcover
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When money turns up missing from the exclusive Belle Haven Kennel Club and one of the members is found dead in a parking lot, Melanie Travis--teacher, single parent, and proud owner of Faith, a rambunctious Standard Poodle pup--finds herself moving closer to a killer desperate enough to strike... |
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Chutes and Adders
Barbara Block
Format: Book
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Running a small pet shop that sells a variety of small animals, widow Robin Light becomes the chief suspect in a murder case when her partner is killed by a poisonous saw-backed viper that arrived in an unmarked package. Reprint. AB. PW. |
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The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers
Lilian Jackson Braun - Putnam; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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After dropping a bombshell that was a bestseller, Lilian Jackson Braun brings back James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, for the twenty-ninth installment of the beloved, bestselling Cat Who . . . series. Moose County, 400 miles north of everywhere, is in an uproar (good... |
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Wish You Were Here
Rita Mae Brown
Format: Print book
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Curiosity just might be the death of Mrs. Murphy--and her human companion, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. Small towns are like families: Everyone lives very close together. . .and everyone keeps secrets. Crozet, Virginia, is a typical small town-until its secrets explo |
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Cat Crimes
Martin Harry Greenberg
Format: Book
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Showcasing the top names in mystery fiction today, the seventeen tales included in this unique collection of feline who-dun-its will make anyone's fur stand on end! |
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Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter
Blaize Clement - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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Until three years ago, Dixie Hemingway was a deputy with the Sarasota County Sherriff's Department in southwest Florida. Then came a tragic accident. Now Dixie's a pet-sitter on Siesta Key, a lush, exotic barrier island where the people tend to be rich, suntanned, and tolerant of one another's... |
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Roughstock: A Gail McCarthy Mystery
Laura Crum
Format: Book
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A veterinarian and amateur sleuth, Gail McCarthy attends a equine seminar during which one of her colleagues is murdered, a case that tickles her curiosity and leads her on a trail leading uncomfortably close to home." |
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Cat in a Diamond Dazzle: A Midnight Louie Mystery
Carole Nelson Douglas
Format: Book
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Tough feline sleuth Midnight Louie and his human sidekick, Temple Barr, investigate when a romance writers' convention, complete with male Hunk pageant, is threatened by theft and the murder of one of the contestants. tour. |
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Whip Hand
Dick Francis
Format: Book
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"Challenging....First class."THE BALTIMORE SUNSid Halley, once a jockey, was now a private invesigator with only one good hand left after a horse fell on the other. His new life, though, could never erase the haunting memories of his past glories. But it was only when the wife... |
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Whose Dog Are You?
Gerald Hammond
Format: Book
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Gundog breeder John Cunningham and his new wife are on a wildfowling expedition when a dead body comes drifting to their feet. Why was there fresh water in the lungs when the body was found in salt water? When a spaniel is found running loose nearby,at least one person is despera |
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The Serpents Trail
Sue Henry - NAL Hardcover
Format: Hardcover
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Cruising across America in her new Winnebago, with her dachshund at her side, independent retiree Maxie McNabb must put her wanderlust aside to investigate a burglary at her friend's Colorado home, but the closer she gets to the answer to the puzzle, the more her life is in danger. By the author... |
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Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris - Ace Hardcover; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Visit our Sookie Stackhouse series feature page. For years, Charlaine Harris has delighted fans with her mystery series featuring small-town waitress-turned- paranormal sleuth Sookie Stackhouse. Now, we are pleased to offer her first novel in the series in a special hardcover edition.... |
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One for the Money
Janet Evanovich - Scribner's
Format: Hardcover
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Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She's a product of the "burg,... |
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Mistletoe Murder
Leslie Meier - Kensington
Format: Paperback
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While working the night shift at a famous Maine mail-order company called Country Cousins, Lucy Stone discovers the dead body of Sam Miller, the company's founder, and she sets out to find the truth about Sam's murder. Reprint. AB. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable... |
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A Pedigree to Die for: A Melanie Travis Mystery
Laurien Berenson - Kensington Books; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This first mystery in a classy new series features Melanie Travis, a 30-something Connecticut teacher and single mom with an unerring nose for detection. When Melanie's Uncle Max is found dead on the floor of his championship kennel, Melanie investigates. And suddenly she finds herself... |
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Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear - Soho Crime
Format: Paperback
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"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie DobbsMaisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady... |
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries)
Joanne Fluke - Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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Discover the delicious mystery that started it all! No one cooks up a delectable, suspense-filled mystery quite like Hannah Swensen, Joanne Fluke's dessert-baking, red-haired heroine whose gingersnaps are as tart as her comebacks, and whose penchant for solving crimesone delicious... |
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The Cold Light of Mourning: A Mystery
Elizabeth J Duncan - Minotaur Books
Format: Hardcover
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Elizabeth J. Duncan spins a charming tale of murder and intrigue in this winning first novel.The picturesque North Wales market town of Llanelen is shocked when Meg Wynne Thompson, a self-made beauty who has turned out to be something of an unpopular bride, goes missing on her wedding day ... and turns... |
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Murder at the Vicarage: A Miss Marple Mystery
Agatha Christie - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Murder at the Vicarage marks the debut of Agatha Christies unflappable and much beloved female detective, Miss Jane Marple. With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe,... |
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Her Royal Spyness (A Royal Spyness Mystery)
Rhys Bowen - Berkley Prime Crime
Format: Print book
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The Agatha Award winner debuts a 1930s London mystery series, featuring a penniless twenty-something member of the extended royal family. Her ridiculously long name is Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, daughter to the Duke of Atholt and Rannoch. And she is flat broke. As the thirty-fourth... |
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith - Polygon
Format: Paperback
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This first novel in Alexander McCall Smith's widely acclaimed The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series tells the story of the delightfully cunning and enormously engaging Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to "help people with problems in their lives." Immediately... |
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Catering to Nobody
Diane Mott Davidson - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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Even though working a wake isn't Goldy Bear's idea of fun, the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast featuring Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. Her culinary efforts seem to be exactly what the doctor ordered . . . until... |
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery
Alan Bradley - Bantam
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION DEBUT DAGGER AWARD and the AGATHA AND DILYS AWARD - "A wickedly clever story, a dead-true and original voice" - Laurie R. KingIt is the summer of 1950-and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist... |
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Introducing Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death/The Vicious Vet
M C Beaton - Minotaur Books
Format: Paperback
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Beloved author M. C. Beaton has delighted readers and fans alike with her Agatha Raisin mysteries. The Quiche of Death and The Vicious Vet, the first two books in the series, are now together for the first time in one volume. . . .The Quiche of DeathPutting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha... |
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Murder in Three Volumes
Lorna Barrett - Berkley Trade; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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Murder In Three Volumes The first three books in the Booktown Mystery Series!Stoneham, New Hampshire, was a dying town until community leaders invited booksellers to open up shop. Now, its streets are lined with bookstores--and paved with murder... Murder is Binding When she opened her mystery... |
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