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  Department Q: Book 1

  The Keeper of Lost Causes

  by Jussi Adler-Olsen

  Original title: Woman in a CageCarl Mørck used to be one of Copenhagen's best homicide detectives. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl--who didn't draw his weapon--blames himself. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl's got only a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases for company. His colleagues snicker, but Carl... (more)
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  Plain Truth

  by Jodi Picoult

  A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the center of the storm... Plain Truth The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that... (more)
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  And Then There Were None

  by Agatha Christie

  Alternate title: Ten Little IndiansTen people, each with something to hide, are invited to a lonely mansion on Indian Island by a host who, surprisingly, fails to appear. On the island they are cut off from everything but one another and the inescapable shadows of their own past lives. One by one, the guests fall victim to the dark secrets of their pasts. And one by one they start to die...
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  Beguiled

  by Deeanne Gist, J. Mark Bertrand

  When novelists Deeanne Gist and J. Mark Bertrand first met in a Houston critique group, they never expected where friendship would take them. She wrote romance; he wrote crime novels. But growing respect for each other's work culminated in the decision to try blending their talents into this wonderfully engaging story merging romance and mystery. Rylee Monroe walks dogs in old-money Charleston, a part of... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 9

  Murder on the Orient Express

  by Agatha Christie

  Alternate title: Murder in the Calais CoachAgatha Christie's most famous murder mystery. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 12

  The A.B.C. Murders

  by Agatha Christie

  Also published as The Alphabet Murders.Alice Ascher, a shopkeeper in Andover, is bludgeoned to death at her place of work. Next to die is Miss Bernard in Bexhill, then Mr. Clarke in Churston. More disturbing than the alphabetic sequence of the killings or the ABC Railway guide that the killer leaves at the scene of each crime are the taunting notes Hercule Poirot receives each time the killer is about to... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 17

  Death on the Nile

  by Agatha Christie

  Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle (used to be Ridgeway) sparks the interest of Detective Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband Simon Doyle take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Reprint.
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  The Birthday Present

  by Barbara Vine

  Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter–a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe–the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call “adventure sex.” It’s the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that... (more)
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  Smaller and Smaller Circles

  by F. H. Batacan

  Smaller and Smaller Circles is unique in the Philippine literary scene--a Pinoy detective novel, both fast-paced and intelligent, with a Jesuit priest who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist as the sleuth. When it won the Carlos Palanca Grand Prize for tbe English Novel in 1999, it proved that fiction can be both "popular" and "literary."
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  Dr. Laszlo Kreizler: Book 2

  The Angel of Darkness

  by Caleb Carr

  In one of the most critically acclaimed novels of the year, Caleb Carr-- bestselling author of The Alienist--pits Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his colleagues against a murderer as evil as the darkest night. . . .
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  The Thin Man

  by Dashiell Hammett

  Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve crimes in between wisecracks and martinis.
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  Cordelia Gray: Book 1

  An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

  by P. D. James

  Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces P. D.... (more)
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  Cotton Malone: Book 1

  The Templar Legacy

  by Steve Berry

  The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was–and its true nature could change the modern world. Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S.... (more)
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  Martin Vail: Book 1

  Primal Fear

  by William Diehl

  "Spine-tingling...Mr. Diehl can sustain suspense." THE NEW YORKTIMES Martin Vail, the brilliant "bad-boy" lawyer every prosecutor and politician love to hate, is defending Aaron Stampler, a man found holding a bloody butcher's knife near a murdered archbishop. Vail is certain to lose, but Vail uses his unorthodox ways to good advantage when choosing his legal team--a tight group of men and women who must uncover... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 11

  Death in the Clouds

  by Agatha Christie

  Alternate title: Death in the AirIn this "crime puzzle of the first order" (New York Times), an ordinary flight to London turns extraordinary when a female passenger is shot to death with a venom-tipped dart. Even more bizarre is that the murder went unnoticed by everyone on board-- including the brilliant Hercule Poirot.
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 22

  Evil Under the Sun

  by Agatha Christie

  Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of England, Evil Under the Sun is one of Agatha Christie’s most intriguing mysteries. When a gorgeous young bride is brutally strangled to death on the beach, only Hercule Poirot can sift through the secrets that shroud each of the guests and unravel the macabre mystery at this playground by the sea.
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  Jackson Brodie Series: Book 1

  Case Histories

  by Kate Atkinson

  Case one: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape. Thirty years after the first incident, as private investigator Jackson Brodie... (more)
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  Simon Ziele Mysteries: Book 1

  In the Shadow of Gotham

  by Stefanie Pintoff

  Dobson, New York, 1905. Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancée in the General Slocum ferry disaster—a thousand perished on that summer day in 1904 when an onboard fire burned the boat down in the waters of the East River. Still reeling from the tragedy, Ziele transferred to a police department north of New York, to escape the city and all the memories it conjured. But only a few months into his new life in a... (more)
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 1

  The Murder at the Vicarage

  by Agatha Christie

  'Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe', declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world at large a favour!' It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman's study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village... (more)
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  Agent Pendergast: Book 7

  The Book of the Dead

  by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

  DESCRIPTION: The New York Museum of Natural History receives their pilfered gem collection back...ground down to dust. Diogenes, the psychotic killer who stole them in Dance of Death, is throwing down the gauntlet to both the city and to his brother, FBI Agent Pendergast, who is currently incarcerated in a maximum security prison. To quell the PR nightmare of the gem fiasco, the museum decides to reopen the Tomb... (more)