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Fast Women
by Jennifer Crusie
Nell Dysart's in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage. Gabe McKenna isn't doing too well, either. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner has... (more)
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Basement Blues
by J. H. Sked
Billy's client has a couple of problems. She's dead, for starters. She smells bad. And her laundry equipment is trying to kill her all over again. Saving the (undead) girl shouldn't be this hard..
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Book 7
Blue Shoes and Happiness
by Alexander McCall Smith
From universally beloved author Alexander McCall Smith, comes this seventh installment in the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series featuring Botswana’s best-loved detective. Life is good for Mma Ramotswe as she sets out with her usual resolve to solve people’s problems, heal their misfortunes, and untangle the mysteries that make life interesting. And life is never dull on Tlokweng Road. A new and... (more)
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Book 6
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
by Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe, that cheerful Botswanan private investigator of 'traditional build', is well-known to millions across the world through the best-selling No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Those who have been following her exploits in five previously published novels will soon be able to savour the next instalment, in which, as usual, circumstances are never as straightforward as they seem and events take a... (more)
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Book 5
The Full Cupboard of Life
by Alexander McCall Smith
In the fifth book in the prodigiously successful series, traditionally built, eminently sensible Mma Precious Ramotswe continues her enterprise at the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana, a country that is indeed fortunate. Still engaged to the estimable Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe understands that she should not put too much pressure on him, as he has other concerns, especially a... (more)
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Black Oak: Book 4
Hunting Ground
by Charles L. Grant
Ethan Proctor, the brilliant, enigmatic head of Black Oak Security, reluctantly submits to his employees' orders to take some R&R in Atlantic City. But his vacation soon develops into something entirely different--a web of murder, lies, and...vampires? Praise for the Black Oak novels: "Highly effective."-- Science Fiction Chronicle "Attractive entertainment."-- Locus Praise for Charles Grant: "A... (more)
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Deadly Illusions (Greg McKenzie Mysteries)
by Chester D. Campbell
Molly Saint hires new PI's Greg and Jill McKenzie to check into her husband's background, then disappears. It starts them on a tangled trail of deceit. Complicating matters further, Greg gets drawn into a troubling police investigation stemming from the assassinatiion of the Federal Reserve Board chairman at a Nashville hotel. The case resurrects old problems with a Murder Squad detective and his colleagues among... (more)
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The Ransom
by Kathi Mills-Macias
Toni Matthews is back—and the stakes have never been higher. After her honeymoon, Toni returns to her detective agency with a new partner, her former police officer husband, Abe. But a new case soon puts them in harm’s way again. A seemingly routine missing person’s case quickly draws them unknowingly into the dangerous underworld of drugs, violence, and murder. Even as Toni and Abe become involved in... (more)
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Ed and Am Hunter: Book 5
Death Has Many Doors
by Fredric Brown
Fifth in the Ed and Am series, but last for several years (Brown worked on other projects from '52-58.) Having opened their own detective agency, Ed and Am start by taking cases passed along by former employer Starlock. One day a girl walks into their door, in fear of murder caused by Martians. The pair don't take her too seriously... until she winds up dead.
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The Fitzgerald Ruse: The Sam Blackman Series
by Mark de Castrique
Former Chief Warrant Officer Sam Blackman, a disabled veteran, is opening a detective agency with his partner Nakayla Robertson. Their first client, a quirky elderly woman in a retirement community, makes a strange request. She wants Sam to right a wrong she committed over seventy years ago. Her victim--F. Scott Fitzgerald; her crime--stealing a manuscript when Fitzgerald resided in the stately Grove Park... (more)