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The Secret of Lost Things: A Novel

by Sheridan Hay

A missing manuscript A young woman's voyage of discovery And the curious bookshop where it all begins... In this charming novel about the eccentricities and passions of booksellers and collectors, a captivating young Australian woman takes a job at a vast, chaotic emporium of used and rare books in New York City and finds herself caught up in the search for a lost Melville manuscript. Eighteen years old and... (more)

Murder Is Binding

by Lorna Barrett

The streets of Stoneham, New Hampsire are lined with bookstores...and paved with murder. When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get... (more)

Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife

by Sam Savage

"I had always imagined that my life story...would have a great first line: something like Nabokov's 'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins;' or if I could not do lyric, then something sweeping like Tolstoy's 'All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.'... When it comes to openers, though, the best in my view has to be the first line of Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier... (more)

Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.

by Jeremy Mercer

Wandering through Paris's Left Bank one day, poor and unemployed, Canadian reporter Jeremy Mercer ducked into a little bookstore called Shakespeare & Co. Mercer bought a book, and the staff invited him up for tea. Within weeks, he was living above the store, working for the proprietor, George Whitman, patron saint of the city's down-and-out writers, and immersing himself in the love affairs and low-down... (more)

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

When Margaret Lea opened the door to the past, what she confronted was her destiny. All children mythologize their birth ...So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish... (more)

Honeymoon With Murder

by Carolyn Hart

Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Laurance is well-acquainted with murder, but she never imagined one taking place on her honeymoon! A marvelous spoof of New Age mumbo jumbo by an author whose work has been compared to that of Agatha Christie. Original.

Death on Demand

by Carolyn Hart

The prime suspect in the murder of author Elliot Morgan, Annie Laurance Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, embarks on an investigation in an attempt to clear her name. Originally in paperback.

A Little Class on Murder

by Carolyn Hart

When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max... (more)

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale: A Haunted Bookshop Mystery

The Ghost and the Femme Fatale: A Haunted Bookshop Mystery

by Alice Kimberly

Haunted by her past...The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Penelope Thornton-McClure handling book sales for the guest speakers, including screen actress Hedda Geist. The legendary femme fatale has been out of the spotlight for decades. Unfortunately, the moment she steps back into it, she's nearly killed. Then other guests start to die, and Penelope wants to know why her... (more)

Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Victor Legris Mystery (Victor Legris Mysteries)

Victor Legris: Book 1

Murder on the Eiffel Tower: A Victor Legris Mystery (Victor Legris Mysteries)

by Claude Izner

The brand-new, shiny Eiffel Tower is the pride and glory of the 1889 World Exposition. But one sunny afternoon, as visitors are crowding the viewing platforms, a woman collapses and dies on this great Paris landmark. Can a bee sting really be the cause of death? Or is there a more sinister explanation? Enter young bookseller Victor Legris. Present on the tower at the time of the incident, and appalled by the media... (more)

Wheeler Cozy Mystery - Large Print - The Ghost and Mrs. McClure: A Haunted Bookshop Mystery (Wheeler Cozy Mystery - Large Print)

Wheeler Cozy Mystery - Large Print - The Ghost and Mrs. McClure: A Haunted Bookshop Mystery (Wheeler Cozy Mystery - Large Print)

by Alice Kimberly

Penelope Thornton-McClure manages a Rhode Island bookshop rumored to be haunted. When a bestselling author drops dead signing books, the first clue of foul play comes from the store's full-time ghost-a PI murdered on the very spot more than fifty years ago. Is he a figment of Pen's overactive imagination? Or is the likable, fedora-wearing specter the only hope Pen has to solve the crime?

The Ghost and The Haunted Mansion: A Haunted Bookshop Mystery

The Ghost and The Haunted Mansion: A Haunted Bookshop Mystery

by Alice Kimberly

Rhode Island bookshop owner Penelope McClure never believed in ghosts -- until she met the spirit of Jack Shepard, a big city private investigator who was gunned down in her store over sixty years ago. Now Penelope not only believes in her hard-boiled ghost, she asks for his help in solving a murder. A loyal customer of Penelope's bookshop has been found dead on posh Larchmont Avenue. The elderly woman left a... (more)

According to Their Deeds

by Paul Robertson

Charles Beale lives happily in the shadows of Washington, D.C., as a respectable rare-books dealer. Or mostly respectable. He has a streak of the gambler in him and when a devoted client dies--a man deeply connected to the Justice Department--Beale eagerly regains the man's book collection...and soon finds himself with more than he bid on. In one volume, Beale discovers documents incriminating a host of major... (more)

Once In A Blue Moon

by Eileen Goudge

Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls’ mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care. Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect... (more)

Passion Denied, A (The Daughters of Boston)

Passion Denied, A (The Daughters of Boston)

by Julie Lessman

Young Elizabeth O'Connor is the little sister John Brady always longed for. But she wants much more than that from her spiritual mentor. As she blossoms into a beautiful young woman intent on loving John, he must push back the very real attraction he feels for her. His past just won't let him go there. Unfortunately, Lizzie won't let him go anywhere else--until she discovers he is not all that he seems. Can true... (more)

Georgina Kincaid: Book 4

Succubus Heat

by Richelle Mead

Georgina Kincaid has been a bad, bad succubus. . . . . .which should be a good thing. But lately, thanks to her foul mood over breaking up with bestselling writer Seth Mortensen, she's been so wicked that Seattle's uber-demon Jerome, decides to "outsource" Georgina to a rival--and have her spy for him in the process. Being exiled to the frozen north--okay, Vancouver--and leaving Seth in the cozy clutches of his... (more)

Parnassus on WheelsChristopher Morley

Parnassus on Wheels

by Christopher Morley

Unpredictable

by Eileen Cook

Sophie isn't crazy, she just wants her guy back. And posing as a psychic to give his new girlfriend a fake reading designed to break them up isn't going overboard, is it? Don't answer that. Faking psychic powers turns out to be fun, especially after a few lessons from Nick, the cute skeptic, who teaches her all the tricks of the trade. But her readings do a lot more than she could have predicted. Now she must... (more)

In the Dead of Winter (Ivy Towers Mystery Series #1) (Heartsong Presents Mysteries #3)

In the Dead of Winter (Ivy Towers Mystery Series #1) (Heartsong Presents Mysteries #3)

by Nancy Mehl

Samantha "Ivy" Towers returns to Winter Break, Kansas, where she spent her summers as a child, to make funeral arrangements for her Aunt Bitty. While there, she begins to suspect her aunt's death, which resulted from a fall in her bookshop, wasn't an accident after all. Childhood friend Amos Parker, now sheriff of Winter Break, seems anxious to get Ivy out of town. A missing book, a message scrawled by an unknown... (more)

The Last Book

by Zoran Zivkovic

*Starred Review* When one person dies in a bookshop, it’s sad; although it requires calling in the police, it’s nothing more, especially since the deceased was old. But when two further deaths occur in the same shop within two days, and the coroner can ascertain no cause of death in all three cases, suspicion seems justified. Detective Inspector Dejan Lukic is suspicious and also concerned, since the shop’s... (more)

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by Sheridan Hay

by Lorna Barrett

by Sam Savage

by Jeremy Mercer

by Diane Setterfield

by Carolyn Hart

by Carolyn Hart

by Carolyn Hart

by Alice Kimberly

by Claude Izner

by Alice Kimberly

by Alice Kimberly

by Paul Robertson

by Eileen Goudge

by Julie Lessman

by Richelle Mead

by Christopher Morley

by Eileen Cook

by Nancy Mehl

by Zoran Zivkovic