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Mind of a Killer: A Victorian mystery

Simon Beaufort · Severn House Publishers
Pages: 278
Format: Hardcover

Newspaper reporter Alec Lonsdale discovers that a series of seemingly random murders may be connected in this absorbing historical mystery. London, 1882. Alec Lonsdale, a young reporter on the Pall Mall Gazette, is working on a story about a fatal house fire. But the post-mortem on the victim...
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Better Dead

PAMELA KOPFLER · Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback

As the owner of a charming Louisiana bed and breakfast, Holly Davis believes in Southern hospitality - but she draws the line at welcoming the ghost of her cheating husband . . . Burl Davis checked out of this life a little earlier than expected - before Holly could serve him with divorce...
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The Shimmering Road

Hester Young · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover

A pulse-pounding mystery from the author of The Gates of Evangeline featuring Charlotte "Charlie" Cates, an unforgettable heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will save or destroy those around her . . . When soon-to-be mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates...
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Fiction Can Be Murder

BECKY CLARK · Midnight Ink
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback

Mystery author Charlemagne "Charlee" Russo thought the twisty plots and peculiar murders in her books were only the products of her imagination. That is, until her agent is found dead exactly as described in her new, unpublished manuscript. Suspicion swirls around her and her critique...
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Tart of Darkness

Denise Swanson · Sourcebooks Landmark
Pages: 352
Format: Mass Market Paperback

Right when Dani thinks she's hit a dead-end in her career, she unexpectedly inherits an enormous old house in a quaint college town. This gives her the perfect opportunity to pursue her true passion -- cooking! So Dani opens Chef-to-Go, preparing delicious, ready-made meals for hungry students...
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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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Murder with a Cherry on Top

CYNTHIA BAXTER · Kensington
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Kate McKay had doubts about swapping her high-powered life in Manhattan for Wolfert's Roost, the quaint Hudson Valley village where she grew up. But when she moves back to care for her ailing grandmother, Kate decides to start fresh and indulge her dream of running an ice cream shop....
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Bloody Scotland: New Fiction from Scotland's Best Crime Writers

James Crawford · Pegasus Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover

Twelve of Scotland's most famous crime authors evoke the sinister side of the country's architecture in stories that are by turns calculating, chilling, and redemptive.Scotland has often been depicted as a land of haunting, misty moors and literary genius. But Scotland has also been a place...
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Lost Among the Living

Simone St James · New American Library
Pages: 337
Format: Print book

England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. Working as a paid companion to Alex's wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family's estate in the Sussex countryside. But there is much she never...
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19 Souls

J D Allen · Midnight Ink
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback

Private Investigator Jim Bean is a straightforward, to-the-point man. When his latest client, Sophie Evers, asks him to find her brother Daniel, Jim has no idea how complicated his life is about to become. Daniel is not Sophie's brother. He is her most coveted prey. Clinging to the belief...
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The Waters & The Wild: A Novel

DeSales Harrison · Random House
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Haunted by a past crime and a past lover, a psychoanalyst tries to protect his daughter from his mistakes - but what if he can't?Only then did I notice the two words written along the bottom margin of the photograph in the now familiar block capitals. Only then could I read them. Or rather...
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Diamonds Aren't Forever

Connie Shelton

A nearly flawless museum robbery, a missing million-dollar necklace, a stalled police investigation. For the victim of the crime, the situation calls for desperate measures. Penelope Fitzpatrick wasn't born to wealth. Her grandfather fed the family by selling his small sta
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