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A plain vanilla murder
by Susan Wittig Albert
China Wilcox teams up with pregnant police chief Sheila Dawson to investigate the death of a botany professor, a case that is complicated by an extinct orchid and an innocent child. By the best-selling author of Queen Anne's Lace.
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Murder at the mansion
by Sheila Connolly
Katherine Hamilton never wanted to return to her dead-end hometown. But when she is called in to help save Asheboro from going bankrupt, Kate can't refuse. The town has issued its last available funds to buy a local Victorian mansion. One day while touring the property, Kate stumbles over a dead body. Impossibly, the victim is none other than Kate's high-school nemesis Cordelia Walker. Soon Kate is immersed in a murder investigation and with the history of the old Victorian.
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Death by dumpling
by Vivien Chien
When Thomas Feng, one of the property managers of the shopping plaza that houses Lana Lee's family restaurant, is found dead, the police immediately suspect Lana Lee and her relatives, and Lana, with her family’s restaurant at stake, must find the real killer before they are all in even more hot water.
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Whiskers in the dark
by Rita Mae Brown
A massive nor'easter on the eve of an annual National Beagle Club benefit finds Harry Harristeen and her crime-solving kitties linking the murder of a foreign services officer to an unsolved killing from the 18th century.
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The woman in the blue cloak
by Deon Meyer
Investigating the murder of a Dutch Masters recovery expert, Captain Benny Griessel of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations and his colorful partner, Vaughn Cupido, trace leads to the mid-17th-century disappearance of a rare painting by Rembrandt's most accomplished student.
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The scholar
by Dervla McTiernan
Summoned by his medical researcher girlfriend when she discovers the body of the heir to a successful pharmaceutical company, Detective Cormac Reilly is embroiled in an investigation that raises questions about both his girlfriend and the victim.
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The old man in the corner
by Baroness Orczy, Emmuska Orczy
The Old Man in the Corner is a classic collection of mysteries featuring the Teahouse Detective - a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes, with a brilliant mind and waspish temperament to match that of Conan Doyle's creation.
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The Darwin affair : a novel
by Timothy Mason
Unsettling connections between an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria and the gruesome murder of a petty thief lead Chief Detective Inspector Charles Field to a shocking conspiracy related to the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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The book supremacy
by Kate Carlisle
Newlyweds Brooklyn and Derek find their post-honeymoon return to San Francisco overshadowed by two murders that are linked to Derek's past and a valuable first-edition James Bond novel. By the best-selling author of the Fixer-Upper Mysteries.
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The body in the castle well
by Martin Walker
The suspicious death of an American in an ancient French castle catapults Bruno into a case involving an art historian's false claims, a young falconer and a Vichy law officer with a complicated past. By the author of Fatal Pursuit.
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Skin game
by Stuart Woods
Launching a search for a treasonous criminal in Paris, former CIA operative Teddy Fay follows a trail of clues that reveal complicated secrets, power grabs and an unprecedented global threat. Co-written by the Edgar Award-winning author of Chiefs.
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Murder in Bel-Air
by Cara Black
Preparing to deliver a keynote address at a tech conference, private investigator Aimée Leduc is entangled in a dangerous web of international spycraft, post-colonial Franco-African politics and neighborhood secrets in Paris's 12th arrondissement.
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Conviction
by Denise Mina
An upper-class Edinburgh housewife who enjoys listening to the sordid details of true-crime podcasts has her world turned upside down when a new podcast turns out to have connections to her own dark past.
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