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Better Off Wed: An Annabelle Archer Mystery

Better Off Wed: An Annabelle Archer Mystery

by Laura Durham

The murder of a particularly difficult mother-of-the-bride has cast a pall on wedding planner Annabelle Archer's latest triumph -- and suspicion falls heavily on her sometime-business partner and friend Richard Gerard. Annabelle knows that even her trusted wedding emergency kit won't be able to salvage their careers if she and Richard can't find the real culprit. It's no easy task since the slain matron was... (more)

A Fatal Grace: A Three Pines Mystery (Armand Gamache Mysteries)

Armand Gamache: Book 2

A Fatal Grace: A Three Pines Mystery (Armand Gamache Mysteries)

by Louise Penny

Winner of the 2007 Agatha Award for Best Novel! Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder. No one liked CC de Poitiers. Not her quiet husband, not her spineless lover, not her pathetic daughter—and certainly none of the residents of Three Pines. CC de Poitiers managed to alienate... (more)

Prime Time (Harlequin Next)

by Hank Phillippi Ryan

In the cutthroat world of television journalism, seasoned reporter Charlotte McNally knows that she'd better pull out all the stops or kiss her job goodbye. But it's her life that might be on the line when she learns that an innocent-looking e-mail offer resulted in murder, mayhem and a multimillion-dollar fraud ring. All too soon her investigation leads her straight to Josh Gelston, who is a little too helpful... (more)

Death on a Silver Tray: A Beau Brummell Mystery (Beau Brummell Mysteries)

Death on a Silver Tray: A Beau Brummell Mystery (Beau Brummell Mysteries)

by Rosemary Stevens

In Regency England, Beau Brummell stood at the forefront of genteel Society-and, against all expectations, in the middle of a murder mystery. Excellent. ( Publishers Weekly ) Delightful. (Dean James) Simply inspired. ( Mystery Reader )

Heat of the Moon, The

by Sandra Parshall

Young veterinarian Rachel Goddard's world begins to crumble when a client rushes into the animal hospital with a basset hound struck by a car during a thunderstorm. The dog owner's terrified tot, drenched with rain, loses sight of her mother in the flurry of activity and screams, "Mommy! I want Mommy!" Instantly Rachel is hurled back in time to a day in her own childhood when her baby sister Michelle uttered the... (more)

Dating Dead Men: A Novel

by Harley Jane Kozak

Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host’s upcoming book, How to Avoid Getting Dumped All the Time . Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado—a state-run mental hospital—and is momentarily taken hostage by a charismatic “doctor” who is on... (more)

Maisie Dobbs: Book 1

Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs Mysteries)

by Jacqueline Winspear

Hailed by NPR’s Fresh Air as part Testament of Youth , part Dorothy Sayers, and part Upstairs, Downstairs , this astonishing debut has already won fans from coast to coast and is poised to add Maisie Dobbs to the ranks of literature’s favorite sleuths. Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way ... (more)

In the Bleak Midwinter (A Rev. Clare Ferguson Mystery)

In the Bleak Midwinter (A Rev. Clare Ferguson Mystery)

by Julia Spencer-Fleming

Heavy Snow...Icy Desires...Cold-Blooded Murder Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady," she's a tough ex Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good... (more)

Bubbles Unbound (Unabridged)

by Sarah Strohmeyer

Meet Lehigh, Pennsylvania's own Bubbles Yablonsky-a tube-top-wearing, gum-snapping hairdresser-turned-gun-toting gumshoe. From solving dark crimes to lightening dark roots, this hot sleuth in hot pants has everyone talking.

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