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Crazy Like a Fox: A Novel

RITA MAE BROWN · Ballantine Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

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 Arnold and a pack of four-legged friends must catch the scent...
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Eaves of Destruction

Kate Carlisle · Berkley
Pages: 304
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Murder is on the to-do list when construction contractor Shannon Hammer looks for a killer in the fifth Fixer-Upper Mystery....At the annual Victorian Home and Garden Tour, Lighthouse Cove, California's premier contractor, Shannon Hammer, realizes that the competition is about to turn deadly.......
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A Christmas Return: A Novel

ANNE PERRY · Ballantine Books
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

'Tis the season of giving - and with this wonderful book, New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry shares a brand-new holiday mystery filled with bygone relationships and hidden secrets. As Charlotte Pitt's grandmother Mariah Ellison finds herself investigating a long-unsolved slaying,...
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Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales

P D JAMES · Knopf
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

No one gets inside the head of the murderer - or makes it a more thrilling read - than the late, great P. D. James. Fast on the heels of her latest best seller: a new, fiendishly entertaining gathering of previously uncollected stories, from the author of Death Comes to Pemberley and The Private...
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The House of Unexpected Sisters: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH · Pantheon Books
Pages: 227
Format: Hardcover

"Precious Ramotswe learns valuable lessons about first impressions and forgiveness in this latest installment of the beloved and best-selling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are approached by their part-time colleague, Mr. Polopetsi, with a troubling...
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Queen of the Flowers

Kerry Greenwood · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback

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Easy Errors

Steven Havill · Poisoned Pen Press
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback

When the first Posadas County Mystery, Heartshot, published in 1991, Bill Gastner was the county Undersheriff. Over time Bill became Sheriff, then retired, and Robert Torrez took over the top spot. But what were Torrez's first days as a rookie officer like? Terrible!It's 1986. Undersheriff...
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Death in St. Petersburg: A Lady Emily Mystery

TASHA ALEXANDER · Minotaur Books
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover

After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen....
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Elementary, She Read: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery

Vicki Delany · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover

Gemma Doyle, a transplanted Englishwoman, has returned to the quaint town of West London on Cape Cod to manage her Great Uncle Arthur's Sherlock Holmes Bookshop and Emporium. The shop--located at 222 Baker Street--specializes in the Holmes canon and pastiche, and is also the home of Moriarty...
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Murder in July: Historical mystery set in New Orleans

Barbara Hambly · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Benjamin January investigates the murder of a mysterious Englishman in this absorbing New Orleans-set mystery. When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal,...
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Righteous

JOE IDE · Mulholland Books
Pages: 330
Format: Hardcover

In this hotly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit IQ, a New York Times Critics' Best of the Year and nominee for the Best First Novel Edgar Award, Isaiah uncovers a secret behind the death of his brother, Marcus.For ten years, something has gnawed at Isaiah Quintabe's gut and kept him up nights,...
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Blackberry Burial

SHARON FARROW · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Between a booming art scene and elaborate Independence Day festivities, July in lakeshore Oriole Point, Michigan, is always a blast. Especially when an explosive murder case crashes the fun . . . As owner of The Berry Basket, Marlee Jacob has learned a thing or two about surviving the summer...
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Cremains of the Day

MISTY SIMON · Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback

There's no reverse on the hearse . . . For Tallulah Graver, marrying wealthy Waldo Phillips seemed like the best way out of the family business, the Graver Funeral Home. But when her marriage falls apart and Tallie is left with next to nothing, she turns to cleaning houses to make ends...
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Teetotaled

Maia Chance · Minotaur Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

After her philandering husband died and left her penniless in Prohibition-era New York, Lola Woodby escaped with her Swedish cook to the only place she could -- her deceased husband's secret love nest in the middle of Manhattan. Her only comforts were chocolate cake, dime store detective...
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Death of a Lobster Lover

LEE HOLLIS · Kensington
Pages: 320
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is off on a girls' getaway with her two best friends. But soon they'll have to get away from a killer...The quaint fishing village of Salmon Cove, Maine, seems like the ideal location for a girls' weekend with Hayley's gal pals, Liddy and Mona....
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