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Murder in Spades

Murder in Spades

The Ashgrove Bridge Club did not expect their newly elected president, Leonard Delaney, to be murdered on the day of his successful election, or did they? Could it have been a conspiracy to get rid of Leonard? After all, he was a man of insufferable superiority, his...

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Dial M for Merde

Dial M for Merde

This international bestseller from the author of A Year in the Merde “combines the gaffes of Bridget Jones with the boldness of James Bond” ( Publishers Weekly ).  When the glorious oceanographer Gloria Monday convinces Paul West to travel to the swank beaches of...

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Loose Ends

Loose Ends

Dying is what changed Mary O’Reilly’s life. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it. Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary’s trying to learn how to incorporate her...

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Seeking Justice

Seeking Justice

When a prominent naturalist is found dead in the owl sanctuary, the suspect list includes some of the town’s most influential citizens. Each one is up to something shady, but did one commit murder to hide what they were up to?When the case takes a sudden turn...

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Long Isle Iced Tea

Long Isle Iced Tea

Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight… A childhood chant turns near deadly for Lily Locke when she’s swept into The Faction’s latest triumph—the overthrowing of the hidden, magical city of Wishery. When Ainsley and her team at MAGIC, Inc. beg Lily for...

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The Writer

The Writer

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde College journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from...

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Pulse

Pulse

The body of a young man is found in a graveyard the night after a wild, drug-fuelled party. At first glance, there doesn’t appear to be anything sinister about his death, despite the shock of Detective Inspector Mark Olbeck realising that he once knew him.Detective...

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Appleby’s End

Appleby’s End

A Scotland Yard detective is snowed in with a strange family and a killer with a lethal passion for literature in this classic British mystery. Something’s afoot in the village of Snarl. Incidents include animals turned to stone and ominous tombstones inscribed with...

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Murder on the Marshes

Murder on the Marshes

The sun rises on a lush stone courtyard, where birds sing and ferns shade an ancient, burbling fountain. But in the fountain’s murky depths, a young woman’s body grows cold… Samantha Seabrook – an ambitious young woman with a chequered past – is found drowned in the...

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The Lost Ship

The Lost Ship

BRIDGERTON meets GHOST meets AGATHA CHRISTIE! From New York Times Bestselling Author, HP Mallory (co-author of the bestselling Haven Hollow series), comes a brand new paranormal women’s fiction mystery series! London, 1880 PHILIPPA:When a mysterious ship believed to...

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Runway Dreams a Pricey Affair

Runway Dreams a Pricey Affair

How far would you go to achieve the perfect life? Meet the beautiful young and naïve model , Bernadette Price, a party girl heiress with everything , except a smoking-hot romantic partner to share her exotic lifestyle with. To find the man of her dreams, she turns to...

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The Body in the Bouillon

The Body in the Bouillon

A minister’s wife is determined to find out who’s preying on the residents of a New England retirement home in this acclaimed cozy mystery series. Minister’s wife, sometime sleuth, and culinary artist Faith Sibley Fairchild is intrigued by rumors of mysterious doings...

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Murder at the Highland Castle

Murder at the Highland Castle

A majestic castle by a Scottish loch, a glass of whisky by a roaring fire, stockings hung by the chimney… and a body? It’s a midwinter murder for Kitty Underhay! Winter, 1935. Lightly dusted with snow and nestled on the edge of a sweeping Scottish loch, Finnglach...

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The Missing Mariner

The Missing Mariner

Holmes must choose between a missing sailor and an ingenious art heist. But Flynn is caught in the crossfire.When a distressed sister seeks help to find her long-lost brother, Sherlock Holmes, Lucy James, and Dr. Watson, swing into action. Even though a priceless...

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The Solitary Witness

The Solitary Witness

A noble lady is the only witness to a killer's crime.Sherlock and Lucy are about to bring a murderer to trial. But they will need newlywed Lady Constance to testify, and a killer's bullet has just narrowly missed her.For her protection, the Baker Street team sets up...

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Bluewater Killer

Bluewater Killer

A Serial Killer, Sex Traffickers, and Mercenaries in the CaribbeanA serial killer is roaming from Florida to the Eastern Caribbean. His victims are women who hitchhike on his sailing yacht. Picking up Dani Berger was his first mistake. After he leaves her for dead,...

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Murder with Motive

Murder with Motive

When Sylvia Shipman’s uncle plunges to his death on the eve of a catastrophic stock market crash, the verdict is suicide. But Sylvia doubts the official story after seeing a sinister stranger fleeing the scene. She doubts it even more after learning of her uncle’s...

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The Show

The Show

Seattle, 1941. Grace Vandenberg, 21, is having a bad day. Minutes after Pearl Harbor is attacked, she learns that her boyfriend is a time traveler from 2000 who has abandoned her for a future he insists they cannot share. Determined to save their love, she follows him...

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The Chairmen

The Chairmen

He hoped that his involvement in crime fighting was over. But life seems to have other ideas. Kurtz has settled back into work as a general surgeon, teaching students and residents and planning his wedding to graphic artist Lenore Brinkman, but things are not so...

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The Year of the Gadfly

The Year of the Gadfly

A darkly witty mystery set at a New England prep school: “Part Dead Poets Society. Part Heathers. Entirely addictive” (Glamour).  “Do you know what it took for Socrates’ enemies to make him stop pursuing the truth?”“Hemlock.”   The fiercely competitive Mariana Academy...

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The Maggie Newberry Mysteries (Books 1–3)

The Maggie Newberry Mysteries (Books 1–3)

Murder travels nicely in this popular mystery series featuring expat Maggie Newberry who lives in France with her winemaker French chef husband. Enjoy the sights and smells of Provence, the Côte d'Azur and Paris as Maggie uses her amateur (and very American) sleuthing...

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The Girl That Vanished

The Girl That Vanished

Ring…Ring… One call from her past was all it took to change everything.A ten-year-old girl has vanished on her way home from camp.And things took a turn for the worse when another child, a child that Emma knows, goes missing.Disappearances, death, and tragedies have...

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Trickster

Trickster

When a mysterious teenage girl appears at his door, Thorn’s attempt to help her sends him on a journey that leads to a shocking discovery: every calamity in Thorn’s life for the past twenty years—and there’ve been plenty—has been engineered by a powerful enemy. This...

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Murder Goes Mumming

Murder Goes Mumming

Murder turns a Christmas trip into a working holiday for Mountie Madoc Rhys and his bride-to-be in this holiday whodunit from the “cozy mystery queen” ( Early Bird Books ).  Though he may not look the part, Madoc Rhys is a Mountie—and his keen sense of detection tells...

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Gone South

Gone South

From Melanie Jackson, Best-Selling author of the Chloe Boston series comes "Gone South", the third installment in the Butterscotch Jones Cozy Mystery Series.Butterscotch receives a call from the states informing her that her father is dying. But is it a genuine...

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The Reek of Red Herrings

The Reek of Red Herrings

Agatha Award Winner for Best Historical Novel: Something fishy is going on in this clever mystery with “an exciting climax” set in a tiny Scottish village (Publishers Weekly).Winner, Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel Finalist, Macavity/Sue Feder Memorial...

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The Long Way Home

The Long Way Home

Haunted by the death of her co-worker and good friend, reporter Samantha Church sets out on a journey to find his younger sister, Jenny, who he last saw as a baby and never got the chance to know.Driven by the need to fulfill her friend’s final wish, Sam travels to El...

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Once Upon a Lie

Once Upon a Lie

Little did, businessman and entrepreneur, Michael Rossi know that the telephone call he answered on that fateful Friday would be the catalyst for his death, and the subsequent recovery of his body from the waters of Sydney Harbour the following morning. Recalled from...

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The Headhunter’s Daughter

The Headhunter’s Daughter

Tamar Myers returns to Africa in The Headhunter’s Daughter, the second book in her wonderful mystery series set in the Belgian Congo in the mid-twentieth century—a riveting and atmospheric follow-up to The Witchdoctor’s Wife. Raised in the Congo herself, the child of...

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Baker Street Irregulars

Baker Street Irregulars

Sherlock Holmes is reimagined in this anthology of 13 new stories by contemporary authors including Gail Z. Martin and Jonathan Maberry.   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal character Sherlock Holmes has been captivating mystery lovers since his first appearance on...

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The Blue Coyote

The Blue Coyote

The Blue Coyote is an IndieBRAG Medallion honoree and a finalist in the 2013 CLUE Awards. Frannie and Larry Shoemaker love taking their grandchildren, Sabet and Joe, camping with them. But at Bluffs State Park, Frannie finds herself worrying more than usual about...

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Hanging Ten in Paris

Hanging Ten in Paris

He doesn’t speak French. He’s never been to Paris. Kai Cooke is an unlikely detective to investigate the hanging death there of a study abroad student from Hawai‘i named Ryan Song. Except that Ryan was a surfer. With this thin connection to the case, Kai tries to...

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Murder of a Lady

Murder of a Lady

Set in the Scottish Highlands, a “cunningly concocted locked-room mystery” from the Golden Age of detective fiction (Booklist, starred review). Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place. It is there that the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is...

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Night at the Vulcan

Night at the Vulcan

“The theatre plays backdrop to romance and murder . . . Good reading.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Newly arrived from New Zealand and in need of funds, Martyn Tarne takes a job as a dresser to the Vulcan Theater’s leading lady. Along with a paycheck, this also...

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Shamus in a Skirt

Shamus in a Skirt

When a man offers 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan twice her usual fee to look into a "possible" jewelry theft from his hotel safe, she’s skeptical — until a maid’s body tumbles out of a trash can and a jeweler known for high quality fakes is murdered. Does...

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Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father

Please note: this book runs to 50,000 words and 246 printed pages, not the estimate listed by Amazon. For the first thirty-three years of my life I had no knowledge of my father, no idea what he looked like, his name, whether he was dead or alive. Then fate brought us...

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