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Aunt Dimity and the Widow's Curse

NANCY ATHERTON · Viking
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover

Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared...
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Dancing with Death: A country house mystery

Amy Myers · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 215
Format: Hardcover

Introducing chef-sleuth Nell Drury in the first of a delightful series of 1920's traditional country house mysteries. 1925. The fashionable Bright Young Things from London have descended on Wychbourne Court, the Kentish stately home of Lord and Lady Ansley, for an extravagant fancy...
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Dangerous Minds: A Knight and Moon Novel

JANET EVANOVICH · Bantam
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

The irrepressibly charming duo of Emerson Knight and Riley Moon returns in another gripping mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. Buddhist monk Wayan Bagus lost his island of solitude and wants to get it back. The island was about two hundred miles northeast of Samoa....
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Endgame

Bill Pronzini · Forge Books
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The Nameless Detective has taken many cases over the years ... and this is one for the books. Or rather, two cases that will test his agency's resources. Love is in the air...more to the point, love gone awry. One case involves a woman whose husband who died accidentally in a remote cabin...
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Every Body on Deck

G A Mckevett · Kensington Pub Corp
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid has no problem mixing business with pleasure - especially if that means a free trip while on the job. But when a gruesome murder rocks the boat, Savannah may finally be in over her head ... Nothing satisfies Savannah's soul like nabbing bad guys - except maybe...
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False fire

Veronica Heley · Severn House
Pages: 235
Format: Print book

A dinner party descends into chaos - and death - in the latest gripping Abbot Agency mystery. Attending a birthday celebration for two young girls, Bea Abbot tries not to let superstition get the better of her when she realizes they are thirteen at dinner. What she doesn't anticipate is that...
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A Game of Ghosts: A Charlie Parker Thriller

JOHN CONNOLLY · Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

Internationally bestselling author John Connolly returns with another "superb fusion of noir and the supernatural" (My Bookish Ways) in this latest thriller in his gripping Charlie Parker series.It is deep winter and the darkness is unending. A private detective named Jaycob...
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The Graves

Pamela Wechsler · Minotaur Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

Abby Endicott, the chief of the District Attorney's homicide unit in Boston, returns in the heart-racing follow-up to Mission Hill. Things are looking good for Abby: she's top pick to be the next District Attorney, and her musician boyfriend Ty has moved in, despite her upper crust family's...
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Knife Creek

Paul Doiron · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

When Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is tasked with shooting invasive feral hogs that are tearing up the forest in his district, he makes a horrific discovery -- a dead baby buried in a shallow grave.Even more disturbing: evidence suggests the infant was the child of a young woman who was presumed...
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Lockdown: A Novel of Suspense

LAURIE R KING · BANTAM
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A classroom is held hostage by someone with a thirst for revenge in this stunningly intricate, ripped-from-the-headlines novel of rich psychological suspense from the New York Times bestselling author of the Mary Russell mysteries. Career Day at Guadalupe Middle School: a day given to innocent...
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Magpie Murders: A Novel

Anthony Horowitz · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Print book

From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan...
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MatchUp

Lee Child · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover

In this incredible follow-up to the New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller FaceOff, twenty-two of the world's most popular thriller writers come together for an unforgettable anthology.MatchUp takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a delicious new twist: gender....
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore: A Novel

MATTHEW SULLIVAN · SCRIBNER
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind in this fiendishly clever debut novel from an award-winning short story writer.Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously...
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Miles Off Course

Sulari Gentill · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

"Norman Lindsay is a complete and utter bastard!"With this curse heaped upon the renowned real-life Australian artist and cartoonist, Miles Off Course gets underway. It is early in 1933, and wealthy bohemian Rowland Sinclair and his companions, a poet, a painter, and a sculptress...
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Nearly Nero: The Adventures of Claudius Lyon, the Man Who Would Be Wolfe

LOREN D ESTELMAN · TYRUS BOOKS
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

Based on the Nero Wolfe series - one of the longest running, critically acclaimed, and bestselling series in the crime fiction world - a collection of Nero Wolfe-inspired crime stories from one of the most prominent crime writers of his era.From 1934 until his death in 1976, Rex Stout entertained...
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Odd Numbers (Hanne Wilhelmsen Series #9)

Anne Holt · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

When bombs explode at the Islamic Cooperation Council's headquarters in Oslo, detective Hanne Wilhelmsen is on the case in the ninth and penultimate installment of the award-winning series from Norway's bestselling crime writer Anne Holt - "the godmother of Norwegian crime fiction"...
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A Rising Man: A Novel

ABIR MUKHERJEE · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover

In the days of the Raj, a newly arrived Scotland Yard detective is confronted with the murder of a British official -- in his mouth a note warning the British to leave India, or else... Calcutta, 1919. Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately...
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The Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2

ANDREW CARTMEL · Titan Books
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

His first adventure consisted of the search for a rare record; his second the search for a lost child. Specifically the child of Valerian, lead singer of a great rock band of the 1960s, who hanged herself in mysterious circumstances after the boy's abduction.Along the way, the Vinyl Detective...
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Silent Rain

Karin Salvalaggio · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Grace Adams has spent three years trying to move on -- mentally, physically, emotionally -- from the traumatizing events of her past. But it's not easy when the world is morbidly curious about the crimes that shaped her childhood, when despite her changed name, people still track her down...
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Sticks and Bones

Carolyn Haines · Minotaur Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney and her friends are celebrating New Year's Eve at the party of the year, a smashing Winter White Garden party at the newly renovated King Cotton Boutique Hotel. It's a dazzling success ... until Frangelica "Sister" McFee walks through the door....
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Take Out

Margaret Maron · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Following the heartwarming conclusion to her Deborah Knott series, New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new mystery featuring NYPD detective Sigrid Harald.
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An Unjust Judge: A Mystery set in 16th century Ireland

Cora Harrison · Severn House Pub Ltd
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

An unfairly harsh judge meets a gruesome end in the latest intriguing Burren mystery. It was a macabre ending for an unjust judge: his throat slit by a sharp knife; his body stuffed into a lobster pot and left beneath a powerful jet of water shooting up through the cliffs from the turbulent...
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What the Dead Leave Behind

Rosemary Simpson · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Set amidst the opulent mansions and cobblestone streets of Old New York, this enthralling historical mystery by Rosemary Simpson brings the Gilded Age to life - in a tantalizing tale of old money, new love, and grave suspicion . . .WHAT THE DEAD LEAVE BEHINDAs the Great Blizzard of 1888...
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Your Killin' Heart: A Mystery

Peggy O'Neal Peden · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book

Contrary to popular belief, not everyone in Nashville is an aspiring country music star. Campbell Hall, for one, just wants to get her travel agency off the ground and move on from a break-up. But when she gets the opportunity to visit the mansion of mysterious country icon Jake Miller,...
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