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Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend's upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she's definitely having a hard time dealing with the... (more)

Partners in Crime (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection (Library))

Partners in Crime (Agatha Christie Mysteries Collection (Library))

by Agatha Christie

Tommy and Tuppence take over a detective agency and assume the methods of such great fictional detectives as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot to solve case after case...

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)

Not a Girl Detective (Cece Caruso Mysteries)

Not a Girl Detective (Cece Caruso Mysteries)

by Susan Kandel

"I spent my entire youth idolizing Nancy Drew. I'm pushing forty now, but some fantasies die hard." Besides her beloved collection of vintage designer clothing, there is nothing Cece Caruso cherishes more than her childhood memories of Nancy Drew. Her near obsession with the fictional teenage sleuth led her to become a professional biographer of classic mystery writers. And now that she's working on a book... (more)

The Man in the Brown Suit (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)

The Man in the Brown Suit (St. Martin's Minotaur Mysteries)

by Agatha Christie

Searching for a bit of adventure to spice up her everyday life, Anne Beddingfield becomes an unlikely sleuth after a diamond heist, a murder, and attempts on her own life that make her the only person capable of solving the crimes. Reissue.

Shades of Earl Grey (A Tea Shop Mystery)

A Tea Shop Mystery: Book 3

Shades of Earl Grey (A Tea Shop Mystery)

by Laura Childs

Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater-but trouble is brewing at the engagement soiree of the season...

Kelly Flynn Knitting Mystery: Book 4

A Killer Stitch

by Maggie Sefton

Now in hardcover-the fast-growing mystery series featuring Kelly Flynn and her knitting circle! The House of Lambspun has been bombarded for the holidays. Then an alpaca sheep rancher is found dead in Bellevue Canyon-and knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn quickly puts Yuletide frivolities aside. With the deceased's reputation for loving and leaving the ladies of Fort Connor, many women had a motive to... (more)

What's a Girl Gotta Do? (A Robin Hudson Mystery)

What's a Girl Gotta Do? (A Robin Hudson Mystery)

by Sparkle Hayter

Poor Robin Hudson. Her husband has left her, she's been demoted at work and a blackmailer knows some of her worst childhood secrets. Just when things can't possibly get worse--they do. She becomes a suspect in a brutal murder and must turn reluctant gumshoe to find the real killer and clear her name.

May the Best Man Die (Dell Mystery)

by Deborah Donnelly

A KILLER BACHELOR PARTY Carnegie Kincaid plans weddings, not stag parties. When a client asks Carnegie to manage a pre-wedding blow-out—complete with a stripper—she tactfully refuses the job. So why is Carnegie peering through binoculars across the Seattle Ship Canal, watching a shapely Santa Claus turn naked inside a hip dockside bistro? Because her own significant other—with whom she is having some significant... (more)

The Last Blue Plate Special

by Abigail Padgett

Blue McCarron is a gay social psychologist who lives in the shell of Wrens Gulch Inn, an abandoned motel. She has teamed up both personally and professionally with Roxie Bouchie, an African American prison staff psychiatrist. And now theyve taken on a baffling case. Now, Blue and Roxie will have to decipher cryptic notes signed by someone called The Sword of Heaven.

Robert Langdon: Book 1

Angels & Demons

by Dan Brown

An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization -- the Illuminati.... (more)

Agatha Raisin: Book 1

Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

by M. C. Beaton

Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best quiche will make her the toast of the town. But her recipe for social advancement sours when Judge Cummings-Browne not only... (more)

Blue

by Abigail Padgett

Blue McCarron, the savvy, gay social psychologist with a yen for crime detection, is captivated by the bizarre case of Beatrice "Muffin" Crandall, a proper grande dame of 72 who has just confessed to murdering a man, chopping him up, and storing his body parts in a frozen locker. But why is Muffin's brother Dan asking Blue for her help in getting Muffin to retract her confession? And why are Muffin's wealthy... (more)

String of Lies

by Mary Ellen Hughes

After nearly six months in business, Jo's Craft Corner is finally in the black. Owner Jo McAllister would like nothing more than to savor the accomplishment, tend to the store, and teach her new beading workshops. That's before a local developer has her seeing red-then turns up dead.

The Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

A sensation across Europe—millions of copies sold...

Dance Of The Scarecrows

by Sipherd

To renowned ornithologist and bird artist Jonathan Wilder, it is a situation that becomes more and more strange with each turn of events. First, a local politician with whom he had publicly argued is found dead in a cornfield, propped up like a scarecrow. Then it is realized that the murder weapon not only is covered in Jonathan's fingerprints, but came from his house. Once he becomes the prime suspect in the... (more)

The Book Stops Here: A Mobile Library Mystery (Mobile Library)

The Book Stops Here: A Mobile Library Mystery (Mobile Library)

by Ian Sansom

Disgruntled, disheveled, fish-out-of-water mobile librarian Israel Armstrong is finally going home to London, rattling along with his irascible companion Ted Carson in their rust bucket book van en route to the Mobile Meet. The annual library convention gives Israel the opportunity to catch up with his family, eat paprika chicken and baklava, and drink good coffee. But they've barely found parking when the... (more)

Lulu Dark and the Summer of the Fox

by Bennett Madison

The last thing Lulu Dark needs is a mystery getting in the way of her Important Summer Plans (which include snacking, sunbathing, and trash TV). But when Lulu’s mother, B-list celebrity Isabelle Dark, drops into town to shoot a movie, Lulu gets just that. Isabelle disappears, and despite her mother’s reputation for flakiness, Lulu has a hunch she’s in real trouble. Especially when she finds a note among ... (more)

I Am Not a Cop!: A Novel

by Richard Belzer

IN THIS CAPTIVATING, OFTEN HILARIOUS DEBUT MYSTERY, ONE OF THE GREAT COMEDIANS OF OUR TIME BLENDS FACT WITH FICTION, AS LAW & ORDER: SVU'S RICHARD BELZER'S OFF-CAMERA PERSONA COMES TO LIFE ON THE PAGE, EMPLOYING INVESTIGATIVE KNOW-HOW AND COMEDIC TIMING IN EQUAL MEASURE TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A TRUSTED FRIEND. When Richard Belzer meets Rudy Markovich, nyc medical examiner, for... (more)

Bundle of Trouble

by Diana Orgain

“Cigars all around”( LOUISE URE, SHAMUS AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR) for the new Maternal Instincts mystery series. First-time mom Kate Connelly is bringing up baby— and bringing down a killer. Kate Connelly may have found the perfect work-from-home Mommy job: private investigator. After all, the hours are flexible, she can bring the baby along on stake-outs, and if you’re going to be up all night anyway, you might as... (more)

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by Susan Kandel

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by Maggie Sefton

by Sparkle Hayter

by Deborah Donnelly

by Abigail Padgett

by Dan Brown

by M. C. Beaton

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by Mary Ellen Hughes

by Stieg Larsson

by Sipherd

by Ian Sansom

by Bennett Madison

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