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Whiskey Sour
by J.A. Konrath
A serial killer is on the loose and Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels must catch him before he strikes again.
First in an explosive series, millions sold worldwide... Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Quiche of Death
by M.C. Beaton
Amateur sleuth navigates a small-town murder mystery, uncovering secrets and solving the crime.
Agatha Raisin retires from her profitable position as a PR agent in London, she moves to the Cotswolds expecting a peaceful country life. She enters a local baking contest with a quiche she bought in ... (Wikipedia)
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
A mysterious adventure to uncover a secret society, prevent a world war, and solve a murder.
In the Prologue, a man quietly gives important papers to a young American woman, as she is more likely to survive the sinking RMS, Lusitania, in May 1915. In 1919 London, demobilised soldier Tommy ... (Wikipedia)
Milk and Honey
by Faye Kellerman
A gripping murder mystery set in Los Angeles, where a detective must solve a case involving a wealthy family and their secrets.
Decker finds a toddler with blood-soaked pajamas in the early morning hours while driving home from the yeshiva . He brings her in to the station to turn her over to child services and starts trying ... (Wikipedia)
Someone Else's Daughter
by Linsey Lanier
Private investigator finds herself in a dangerous game of cat and mouse while trying to solve a missing person case.
A Miranda's Rights Mystery - Book I Book I of the popular Miranda's Rights Mystery series by bestselling author Linsey Lanier., A woman can never make herself too tough, too strong, or too street ... (Barnes & Noble)
Black Cross
by Greg Iles
A WWII thriller about a young American pilot who uncovers a sinister plot involving the Nazi regime and the Vatican.
It is January 1944 — and as Allied troops prepare for D-day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly ... (Goodreads)
Body Surfing
by Anita Shreve
A woman's life is changed when she becomes involved with a family during their summer vacation. Love, loss, and self-discovery ensue.
At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Trying to regain her footing once again, she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as they ... (Barnes & Noble)
Murder on the Mind
by L.L. Bartlett
Jeff Resnick, a man with psychic abilities, becomes a suspect in a murder investigation. He must use his powers to clear his name and find the real killer.
Jeff Resnick hardly knew his well-heeled half-brother. But after suffering a fractured skull in a vicious mugging, he reluctantly accepts the fact that he has a long and brutal recovery to face—and ... (Goodreads)
Once Upon a Crime
by Michael Buckley
A group of fairy tale characters must solve a mystery to clear their names and avoid being punished for a crime they didn't commit.
Henry and Veronica Grimm are still under a sleeping spell and Puck, their fairy friend, is terribly sick after being attacked by the Jabberwocky. Puck is rapidly running out of time so Granny Relda, ... (Wikipedia)
Wild Irish Heart
by Tricia O'Malley
A young woman discovers her Irish heritage and magical powers while navigating a romance with a mysterious man.
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Tricia O'Malley, comes a romance series set on the rocky shores of Ireland.It is time...An ancient book, a power untouched, and a heart unloved ... (Barnes & Noble)
Magic and Other Misdemeanors
by Michael Buckley
The Sisters Grimm must solve a mystery involving the disappearance of fairy tale characters from a magical town.
The Sisters Grimm set out to catch a thief in this fifth adventure in the beloved, New York Times, bestselling fantasy series In this latest adventure, intrepid fairy-tale detectives Sabrina and ... (Barnes & Noble)
The One You Love
by Paul Pilkington
When Emma's husband goes missing, she discovers secrets that threaten to unravel her life and marriage.
Emma Holden's nightmare has just begun. Her fiancé vanishes, leaving the battered and bloodied body of his brother in their London apartment. Someone is stalking her, watching her every move. And her ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Senator's Wife
by Sue Miller
A story of two women, one married to a senator and the other her neighbor, whose lives become intertwined in unexpected ways.
Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding ... (Goodreads)
Spying in High Heels
by Gemma Halliday
Fashionista Maddie Springer becomes an amateur detective to clear her best friend's name in a murder case.
L.A. shoe designer, Maddie Springer, lives her life by three rules: Fashion. Fashion. Fashion. But when she stumbles upon the work of a brutal killer, her life takes an unexpected turn from Manolos ... (Goodreads)
Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist
by M.C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin investigates the murder of a tourist in a Cotswold village. Her investigation leads to unexpected twists and turns.
Cold-blooded murder heats up Agatha's summer holiday! Agatha travels to Cyprus, only to contend with her estranged fiance, an egregious group of truly terrible tourists, and a string of murders...In ... (Goodreads)
Meet Me at the Cupcake Café
by Jenny Colgan
Issy Randall opens a bakery after losing her job, finding love and friendship along the way.
"[A] heartwarming story a la Bridget Jones' Diary with a twist...Colgan folds in a colorful cast of characters and whips up an easy, sweet read."— USA Today A smart, quirky contemporary confection of ... (Barnes & Noble)
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
Epic historical fiction recounting the tumultuous events of World War I and its aftermath.
The novel begins with the thirteen-year-old Billy Williams, nicknamed 'Billy With Jesus', going to work his first day in the coal mine underneath the fictional Welsh town of Aberowen in 1911. Three ... (Wikipedia)
Falling Angels
by Tracy Chevalier
Family drama spanning three generations of two Victorian families in London.
In her New York Times bestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Told through a variety of shifting perspectives- wives ... (Goodreads)
Grave Goods
by Ariana Franklin
A medieval mystery novel following Adelia Aguilar, a female doctor, as she investigates a series of murders in a small English village.
Combining the best of modern forensic thrillers with the drama of medieval fiction,, New York Times,' bestselling author Ariana Franklin returns with the third title in the Mistress of the Art of ... (Goodreads)
Deadly Stillwater
by Roger Stelljes
A small-town Minnesota sheriff investigates a murder that leads to a dangerous conspiracy.
THE CRIME SERIES WITH 2.5+ MILLION DOWNLOADS and 50,000+ REVIEWS,New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Mystery Series TWO GIRLS GONE...,Shannon hustled to her car and dug into her black purse, ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Krishna Key
by Ashwin Sanghi
A fast-paced thriller that follows a history professor on a quest to uncover the truth behind a 5,000-year-old secret society and its connection to Lord Krishna.
The Krishna Key centers around Professor Ravi Mohan Saini, the protagonist and a historian who has been accused of the murder of his childhood friend Anil Varshney, a famous archaeologist who has ... (Wikipedia)
And Eternity
by Piers Anthony
The final book in the "Incarnations of Immortality" series, where the Incarnations of Death and Time must work together to save the universe.
In the seventh novel of the series, three women—the ghost of Jolie, the ghost of Orlene (daughter of Orb), and a fifteen-year-old drug-addicted prostitute named Vita—try to discover a way to restore ... (Wikipedia)
Saint Maybe
by Anne Tyler
A man's journey of atonement, struggling to make amends for his past mistakes.
Tyler's plot explores the ways ordinary people react to disastrous events with quietly heroic behavior. When seventeen-year-old Ian Bedloe confronts his older brother Danny with his belief that the ... (Wikipedia)
Noah's Compass
by Anne Tyler
A retired teacher, Liam, struggles to find meaning in his life after a mysterious incident leaves him with memory loss.
On the surface, Liam Pennywell leads an ordered, decent life. Once widowed and once divorced, with three grown-up daughters, he has just been dismissed from his teaching job and, for lack of funds, ... (Wikipedia)
The Cradle Will Fall
by Mary Higgins Clark
A doctor's mysterious death leads a young lawyer to uncover a web of deceit and danger.
A “superbly plotted” (,Los Angeles Times,) page-turning classic from the undisputed Queen of Suspense and #1, New York Times, bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark. A minor road accident landed ... (Barnes & Noble)
Flying Too High
by Kerry Greenwood
Phryne Fisher, a glamorous detective, investigates the disappearance of a young woman in 1920s Melbourne.
Having established herself as a private detective in Melbourne and solved a number of cases after the events in Cocaine Blues , Phryne Fisher is engaged by Mrs. William McNaughton to investigate a ... (Wikipedia)
77 Shadow Street
by Dean R. Koontz
The residents of a luxurious apartment building are plagued by terrifying nightmares and supernatural occurrences.
I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton’s history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my ... (Goodreads)
Back When We Were Grownups
by Anne Tyler
A middle-aged woman questions her life choices and identity after inheriting her deceased husband's family business.
Tyler's 15th novel, like most of her work, is set in Baltimore, Maryland . It opens with the sentence, "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person." The ... (Wikipedia)
Burning Bright
by Tracy Chevalier
A young woman in 18th century London struggles to find her place in society while caring for her mentally ill mother and working as a printmaker.
Burning Bright follows the Kellaway family as they leave behind tragedy in rural Dorset and come to late 18th-century London. As they move in next door to the radical painter/poet William Blake, and ... (Goodreads)
The Returned
by Jason Mott
The dead return to life in a small town, causing chaos and forcing people to confront their past.
The series follows the residents of Arcadia , North Carolina , in particular the Hargrave family, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since their deaths. Among ... (Wikipedia)
