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  • Author:
    Royal, Priscilla
    Summary:

    It is late summer in the year 1270 and England is as weary as its aging king, Henry III. Although the Simon de Montfort rebellion is over, the smell of death still hangs like smoke over the land. Even in the small priory of Tyndal on...

  • Author:
    Denning, G. S.
    Summary:

    Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot. A good man, perhaps; a font of arcane power, certainly. But he's...

  • Author:
    Silvis, Randall
    Summary:

    When long-buried secrets come back to the surface... The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago...'hat's all Sergeant Ryan DeMarco knows about the unsolved crime he has...

  • Author:
    Kellerman, Jonathan
    Summary:

    "Unraveling the madness behind L.A.'s most baffling and brutal homicides is what sleuthing psychologist Alex Delaware does best.

  • Author:
    Hogsett, Annie
    Summary:

    Lonely and broke, Cleveland divorce-survivor Allie Harper believes all her problems would be solved if she could find a nice, smart, hot guy and enough money to get her car fixed. The hot guy arrives first: he's in a crosswalk...

  • Author:
    Gilman, Dorothy
    Summary:

    Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent....

  • Author:
    Gardner, Lisa
    Summary:

    Officer Rainie Conner is leading her first homicide investigation, a school shooting. The police chief's 13-year-old son is the prime suspect, but Rainie doesn't believe he pulled the trigger. With the help of FBI profiler...

  • Author:
    Lundrigan, Nicole
    Summary:

    Warren Botts is a disillusioned Ph.D., taking a break from his lab to teach middle-school science. Gentle, soft-spoken, and lonely, he innocently befriends Amanda, one of his students. But one morning, Amanda is found dead in his...

  • Author:
    Fluke, Joanne
    Summary:

    Haunted by her dreams. Kathi Ellison is an English literature major at the University of California in Berkeley, living with her boyfriend off-campus. She is also the daughter of a candidate for the U.S. Senate and his wife, a role that...

  • Author:
    Atkins, Ace.
    Summary:

    He is only in his early thirties, but now Quinn Colson is jobless-voted out of office as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi, thanks to the machinations of county kingpin Johnny Stagg. He has offers, in bigger and better places, but...

  • Author:
    Karp, Larry
    Summary:

    It takes one moment in 2016 for ragtime music expert Alan Chandler to go from sitting in his hotel room in Sedalia, Missouri, to standing beside the King of Ragtime-Scott Joplin-at his upright piano in 1899. Chandler suddenly finds...

  • Author:
    Royal, Priscilla
    Summary:

    In the winter of 1282, snow and ice ravage East Anglia while Prioress Eleanor awaits the decision of her young maid, Gracia, found starving on the streets some years ago, whether to take vows or to leave Tyndal Priory to make her way in...

  • Author:
    Camilleri, Andrea
    Summary:

    When a shop burns down, and its owner vanishes into thin air, Montalbano at first thinks it a trivial case, but a string of abductions and the discovery of a body hints at something far more serious.

  • Author:
    Casey, Donis
    Summary:

    Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neighborly requires hard muscle and a clear...

  • Author:
    Harwood, Michael
    Summary:

    In this bitingly witty, saucy, acutely observed debut novel, Michael Harwood pulls back the damask drapes to reveal life among the modern aristocracy--upstairs, downstairs, and occasionally, behind stairs... Anthony Gowers assists...

  • Author:
    Wiley, Michael
    Summary:

    PI Joe Kozmarski is asked to clear an old friend, Bob, of murdering his girlfriend. Her death isn't a surprise. She had a taste for liquor, drugs, and stripping, and Bob has a history of violence. But someone thinks Bob is innocent...

  • Author:
    DiLallo, Susan, DiLallo, Max, Arnold, Tim, Patterson, James
    Summary:

    James Patterson presents three pulse-pounding thrillers in one book: The House Next Door (with Susan DiLallo), The Killer's Wife (with Max DiLallo), and We. Are not. Alone (with Tim Arnold).

  • Author:
    Mattich, Alen
    Summary:

    The third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series. Autumn 1991. Civil war has broken out in Yugoslavia with Croatia's declaration of independence, and former secret policeman Marko della Torre...

  • Author:
    Greenwood, Kerry
    Summary:

    Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things-dancing at the Green Mill (Melbourne's premier dance hall) to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers, the band who taught St Vitus how to dance. And she's wearing a...

  • Author:
    Wechsler, Pamela
    Summary:

    Abby Endicott, the chief of the District Attorney's homicide unit in Boston, returns in the heart-racing follow-up to Mission Hill. Things are looking good for Abby: she's top pick to be the next District Attorney, and her...

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