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High Tide

by Jude Deveraux

Jude Deveraux's sizzling New York Times bestseller is a page-turning mix of thrilling sensuality, warmhearted wit, and hot-blooded suspense. A rising corporate star, Fiona Burkenhalter is a New Yorker through and through. When her boss sends her to the Florida Everglades to accompany a wealthy new client on a rustic fishing expedition, it may as well be another planet to city slicker Fiona. She's more than a... (more)

Name Withheld: A J.P. Beaumont Mystery

by J. A. Jance

Nobody is grieving over the death of Donald Wolf, a biotechnology corporation executive whose numerous criminal activities includedillegally trading industrial secrets ... and rape. Too many people, in fact, are almost too eager to take responsibility for his murder.At the start of a brand new year, Seattle Homicide DetectiveJ.P. Beaumont has his own life-shattering problems to worryabout-from the imminent death... (more)

Alex Barnaby: Book 2

Motor Mouth

by Janet Evanovich

Miami is still freakin' humid. The nights are even hotter. And there's a body on ice. And that's just the beginning of this adrenaline-rush of a hot-wired ride from phenomenal number one New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. A woman with a taste for speed and a talent for breaking the rules, Barney also knows a little too much about cheating. First there was Hooker and that salesclerk. Now she's... (more)

Lord John Grey: Book 2

Lord John and the Private Matter

by Diana Gabaldon

Includes a sneak preview of the next Outlander novel, An Echo in the Bone . Adored bestselling author Diana Gabaldon brings us the first book in a new trilogy featuring many of the characters from her wildly popular Outlander series. In her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and adventure — a world of vibrant... (more)

Hercule Poirot: Book 13

Murder in Mesopotamia

by Agatha Christie

When nurse Amy Leatheran agrees to look after American archaeologist Dr Leidner’s wife Louise at a dig near Hassanieh she finds herself taking on more than just nursing duties – she also has to help solve murders. Fortunately for Amy, Hercule Poirot is visiting the excavation site but will the great detective be in time to prevent a multiple murderer from striking again?

Hercule Poirot: Book 5

The Big Four

by Agatha Christie, Jean-Pierre Boyer

An emaciated stranger approaches Hercule Poirot, shouts a warning about "the big four" and drops dead. Who knew Poirot's inquiry into the man's odd behavior would lead to an underground laboratory, an insane asylum, and rumors of a secret weapon?

Mary Russell: Book 1

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

by Laurie R. King

In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own–until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes’s reluctant... (more)

Swimming to Catalina

by Stuart Woods

Sinking Like A Stone Stone Barrington thought he'd heard the last of former girlfriend Arrington after she'd left him to marry Vance Calder, Hollywood's hottest star. The last thing Stone expected was a desperate call from Calder. Arrington has vanished, and her new fiance; wants Stone to come to LA and find her. In a town where the sharks drive Bentleys and no one can be trusted, Stone soon discovers he's... (more)

NUMA Files: Book 1

Serpent

by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a... (more)

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1989 Penguin)P. D. James

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1989 Penguin)

by P. D. James

Darkness & Light: A Frank Elder Mystery (Frank Elder Mysteries)

Darkness & Light: A Frank Elder Mystery (Frank Elder Mysteries)

by John Harvey

Former cop Frank Elder is once more drawn out of retirement by a phone call from his ex-wife, this time asking him to look into the disappearance of her friend Jennie's older, widowed sister Claire in Nottingham. Elder reluctantly agrees to return to the city where his family disintegrated. Elder soon uncovers sexual secrets of Claire's that take Jennie by surprise. But when Claire is found dead at home--unmarked... (more)

Montgomery: Book 17

A Knight in Shining Armor

by Jude Deveraux

To coincide with Legend, Jude Deveraux's exciting new release in hardcover, she was asked to select a favorite work to reissue--and then it was given a classic price! Featuring a chapter teasing to Legend, along with a $2.00 coupon toward its purchase, this special promotion is designed to send romance fans home happy, and sales soaring!

Hercule Poirot: Book 14

Cards on the Table

by Agatha Christie

It was the match-up of the century. Four sleuths -- Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, Colonel Race of His Majesty's Secret Service, and the incomparable Hercule Poirot -- invited to play bridge with four specifically invited rivals, each of whom had once gotten away with murder. For the host it was irresistible entertainment -- until his own murder became part of the game. Now... (more)

Hercule Poirot: Book 9

Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. 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... (more)

NUMA Files: Book 3

Fire Ice

by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

The hero of "Serpent" and "Blue Gold" confronts a deadly global plot, in the breathtaking new Kurt Austin adventure. Austin, leader of NUMA's Special Assignment Team, faces a new menace, in the form of a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself Czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions of dollars, he is determined to overthrow the already-shaky Russian government - and US opposition doesn't... (more)

The Summoning God (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 2)

The Summoning God (The Anasazi Mysteries, Book 2)

by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Step back into the year A.D. 1263...and the secret lair of a killer. He walks the ruins of a dying civilization, stalking the weak, the chosen, stalking them into terror. When War Chief Browser stumbles into a subterranean ceremonial chamber filled with headless bodies, he know it is just the beginning. The darkness that has haunted him for most of his life has returned. A murderer lurks in the shadows around... (more)

The Visitant

by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

An all-new series, featuring a seamlessly integrated blend of ancient history and intriguing mystery that could only come from the international and USA Today bestselling authors of The First North Americans series. Award-winning archaeologists Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear have enriched and entertained an avid international audience of millions with their rousing historical epic of the... (more)

Payment in Kind (A J.P. Beaumont Mystery)

Payment in Kind (A J.P. Beaumont Mystery)

by J. A. Jance

It looks like a classic crime of passion to Detective J.P Beaumont: two corpses found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building. The prime suspect, Pete Kelsey, admits his slain spouse was no novice at adultery, yet he swears he had nothing to do with the brutal deaths of the errant school official and her clergyman-turned-security guard companion. Beau believes him, but there's... (more)

Dismissed With Prejudice

by J. A. Jance

Japanese businessman Tadeo Kurobashi had many passions, including computers, poetry, money, and Samurai lore. So his suicide method of choice would naturally be the ancient art of seppuku -- what the uninitiated call "hara-kiri." But despite the bloody Samurai sword Kurobashi clutches tightly in his lifeless hand, Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont senses the dead software magnate played a less active role in... (more)

Injustice for All: A J.P. Beaumont Mystery

Injustice for All: A J.P. Beaumont Mystery

by J. A. Jance

It was like a scene from a movie: the beautiful blond screaming on a Washington beach, a dead man lying at her feet; the dashing Homicide detective arriving to offer kindness and solace to the distressed lady. What it wasn't was a restful vacation for J.P.Beaumont. And now a murderous mix of politics and passion is turning Beau's holiday into a nightmare -- and leading the dedicated Seattle cop into the path of a... (more)

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by Jude Deveraux

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by Janet Evanovich

by Diana Gabaldon

by Agatha Christie

by Agatha Christie, Jean-Pierre Boyer

A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

by Laurie R. King

by Stuart Woods

by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

by P. D. James

by John Harvey

by Jude Deveraux

by Agatha Christie

by Agatha Christie

by Clive Cussler, Paul Kemprecos

by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear

by J. A. Jance

by J. A. Jance

by J. A. Jance