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When a man is murdered in the woods and the main suspect appears to be a big-footed legend, amateur sleuth Hannah Ives steps in to solve the mystery. Hannah is delighted to reconnect with her former roommate, Susan Lockley, owner of Scarborough Fairs, at a college reunion, and agrees to step in when Susan's assistant drops out of managing the Sasquatch Sesquicentennial in Granite Falls, Oregon. But when Martin Radcliffe, a professional debunker, is...
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In Shamus Award–winning author Carol Lea Benjamin's riveting mystery, dog trainer–turned-PI Rachel Alexander and her pit bull, Dash, take a walk on the wild side-with a little help from a courageous dachshund-to solve a series of murders Rachel and Dash have a new client. Well, three new clients. A trio of transvestite working girls want Rachel to investigate the death of one of their own. Rosalinda's throat was slashed on Halloween right...
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In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis's third Julie Hayes mystery, the intrepid former actress and amateur sleuth returns to Broadway to catch a killer Julie Hayes has come up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to a globe-trotting journalist, keeping up with her friends from her fortune-telling days, and celebrating a year of gainful employment at the New York Daily. But one of her colleagues...
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A church party turns deadly for antiques dealer Lina Townend when she thwarts a thief in this British mystery. Helping out at a church fête is about the last thing Lina Townend wants to do on a beautiful summer's afternoon. But since the vicar is an old friend, Lina finds herself agreeing to sell a bunch of bric-a-brac. Nothing too exciting happens at the harmless event-until someone tries to steal a tatty old snuff box. While the piece doesn't look...
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After almost ruining her marriage to husband Willis months earlier because of her habit of involving herself in murder cases, E.J. Pugh is determined to stay out of drama and pay attention only to her husband, children and writing career. How hard can it be? But through no fault of their own, E.J. and Willis are plunged into another crisis when someone chooses Willis' truck to hide a satchel. Finding the satchel with no ID inside, their foster daughter...
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A special three-in-one edition of Susan Dunlap's Vejay Haskell Mysteries, about an intrepid meter reader who solves the crimes that the police can't crack In An Equal Opportunity Death, Vejay Haskell is playing hooky from her job as an electric-meter reader in Henderson, California. She skirts around the edge of town, making her way to Frank's Place, a cozy saloon owned by her friend Frank Goulet. After two cups of hot buttered rum, they have an...
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Hannah learns that old wounds never die, especially in a retirement community full of vengeful murderers. When Hannah Ivy visits her friend Nadine Smith Gray at the Calvert Colony retirement community, she didn't expect to be introduced to such a wide range of characters. Nor did she expect to become a volunteer in the memory care unit. Even more surprising is her discovery of the dead body of one of the residents. As it's clearly not a victim of...
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A gripping novel of politics, academia, and murder Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan's blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan's bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead...
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A California crime blogger left her radio job to find missing people. Now she's searching for her best friend… Farley Black, Kit's friend and former radio co-host, is missing. He was supposed to be surfing with his girlfriend but never arrived at his Malibu Beach destination. As the last person to hear from him, Kit is determined to find out what's happened. Kit searches Farley's home and what she finds there threatens her ideas about friendship,...
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Scots are gathering in Murdoch Kerr's Edinburgh tavern, plotting to drive out the English forces. Margaret takes her place there as innkeeper, collecting information to pass on to William Wallace-until murder gives the English an excuse to shutter the tavern. The dead man was a witness to the intruders who raided chests belonging to Margaret's husband and her father, the latest in a string of violent raids on Margaret's family, but no one knows the...
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TV news reporter Robin Hudson descends into New York's underground sex clubs to solve the murder case of her Paul Newman–lookalike gynecologist in this mystery that Entertainment Weekly calls "hilarious" and "keenly written," by award-winning author Sparkle Hayter Robin Hudson has a new secret weapon: Positive Mental Attitude. And it is about to be put to the test when her aunt Mo comes to town for a church convention-and to reform her rebel...
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Espionage and intrigue light the fuse of rebellion in medieval Scotland for sleuth Margaret Kerr. In late summer 1297, Margaret Kerr heads to the town of Stirling at the request of William Wallace's man James Comyn. Her mission is to discover the fate of a young spy who had infiltrated the English garrison at Stirling Castle, but on the journey Margaret is haunted by dreams-or are they visions?-of danger. He who holds Stirling Castle holds Scotland-and...
13) Hot Fudge
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The plus-size parole officer returns in this new novel by the author of Anthony Award finalist Devil's Food and Double Espresso. This time around, a sexy colleague "borrows" Loretta Kovacs's partner-and paramour-Frank Marvelli for an assignment in San Francisco, and jealous Loretta tails them. Then Marvelli is kidnapped, and the women must team up to find him and nab the fugitive in question-a successful ice-cream entrepreneur . . .
14) Alegría
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Alegría no quiere ser como su madre. Ha crecido al borde de un abismo y se aferra a sus estudios y a su trabajo para no caer en él. Pero llega Mario, criado a base de golpes y humillaciones, tan fuerte y a la vez tan frágil. Abraza como un rosal, que huele bien y se clava en la piel. Al primer pinchazo, Alegría intenta zafarse, pero el rosal se ha transformado en zarza. Ya no sabe salir. Ese mundo nuevo-de camaradería adolescente, tardes en la...
15) Fresh Kills
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Wracked by guilt, Cass searches for a young mother's killer On the western edge of Staten Island, not far from the city dump, lies a watery patch of earth known as Fresh Kills. It's an old Dutch name, and it has nothing to do with violence-until now. A defense lawyer in private practice, Cass lets a friend talk her into handling something she wouldn't normally touch: an adoption case. It was meant to be open and shut, but it gets messy when the mother,...
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In an old Californian house, a young man commits a thoroughly modern crime Maria Estrada, a hard-partying girl with family ties to some of the toughest gangsters in California, had no idea an old mansion could be so beautiful. The boy who broke into it with her had a feeling she might be impressed. But by the time the night is over, Maria has been brutally killed, and the boy is nowhere to be found. It's up to PI Kate Blanchard and Luke Garrison,...
17) The Ice Bridge
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She'll fall in love again…with a man and the island. Charlotte returns to her Aunt Bess and Mackinac Island, a quaint retreat that welcomes summer tourists and allows no cars, to renew herself and write about the island's ghosts.She's come to help Bess with her heartache, an ended love with Shaun, and to renew a friendship with neighbor Hannah.In winter Mackinac closes down and everyone looks forward to the ice bridge that freezes across the Straits...
18) Unleavened Dead
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A full-time rabbi becomes a part-time sleuth when three suspicious deaths arise in this cozy mystery by the author of Chanukah Guilt.
Rabbi Aviva Cohen has her hands full with Passover preparations, she certainly has no time to deal with anything else. Yet tragedy soon changes her plans when two members of the congregation are found dead. Their cause of death is believed to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, but Aviva is not so sure. Soon...
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Meet Kate Jasper, Marin County, California's own organically grown amateur sleuth. ("She's smart, funny, vulnerable, and unpretentious," says Marilyn Wallace, editor of the Sisters in Crime series.) In this first Kate Jasper mystery, Kate visits her chiropractor for a simple spinal adjustment, but instead finds a dead man on one of the tables . . . dead of a broken neck. And it seems everyone in the chiropractor's office knew the victim, Scott Younger,...
20) Chanukah Guilt
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A small-town New Jersey rabbi is compelled to investigate when a funeral leads to a suspicious death in this cozy mystery series opener.
Aviva Cohen is a fifty-something, twice-divorced rabbi living an uneventful life in southern New Jersey. Although her family is unconventional, her days are otherwise routine. Services, religious education, and counseling mostly. She also officiates the occasional funeral . . .
But the funeral of unpopular...
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