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  • Woman without a past
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    From an Edgar and Agatha Award winner: A mystery writer must solve the puzzle of her past when she meets the South Carolina family she never knew existed. Popular mystery novelist Molly Hunt knows all about the twists and turns of...
  • When the flood falls : The falls mysteries, book 1
    Author:
    Barnard, J.E.
    Summary:

    2016 Unhanged Arthur Award for Best Unpublished First Crime Novel — Winner When a phantom stalker targets her friend, Lacey McCrae’s crime-busting skills are tested to their limits. With her career in tatters and her marriage receding...
  • The Windsor knot : a novel
    Author:
    Bennett, S. J.
    Summary:

    It is the early spring of 2016, and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her nintieth birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the castle bedrooms. Unhappy at the...
  • The Thursday murder club : a novel
    Author:
    Osman, Richard
    Summary:

    "A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom...SUCH FUN!" —Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Sky Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big...
  • The stone bull
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    The mysterious death of a prima ballerina raises haunting and sinister questions for her twin sister in this novel from "a master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark). Schoolteacher Jenny McClain is looking forward to a bright...
  • The singing stones
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    From the Edgar Award-winning "queen of the American gothics": A troubled girl in a remote mountain home grapples with a terrifying secret (TheNew York Times). New York clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod has never backed away...
  • The sentence is death : a novel
    Author:
    Horowitz, Anthony
    Summary:

    Death, deception, and a detective with quite a lot to hide stalk the pages of Anthony Horowitz's brilliant murder mystery, the second in the bestselling series starring Private Investigator Daniel Hawthorne. "You shouldn'...
  • The scarecrow
    Author:
    Connelly, Michael
    Summary:

    Forced out of the Los Angeles Times amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to go out with a bang, using his final days at the paper to write the definitive murder story of his career. He focuses on Alonzo Winslow...
  • The savage kind
    Author:
    Copenhaver, John
    Summary:

    Phillipa and Judy find themselves embroiled in a mystery when a classmate dies. As they follow clues and wrestle with their feelings for each other, they learn that the killer is closer to them than they imagined.
  • The red carnelian
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    A Chicago department store is the scene of gruesome crime in this mystery by a New York Times-bestselling Edgar Award winner. Linell Wynn, copywriter for Chicago department store Cunningham's, knows how to put a clever spin on...
  • The midwife murders
    Author:
    DiLallo, Richard, Patterson, James
    Summary:

    When two kidnappings and a vicious stabbing happen in a university hospital, something has to be done, and Senior Midwife Lucy Ryuan is fearless enough to try.
  • The Gina Gallo Mysteries Ebook Bundle : Books 1 - 6
    Author:
    Campbell, Melodie
    Summary:

    Follow along as reluctant mob goddaughter Gina Gallo gets dragged into one wild scheme after another by her bumbling mob family that never gets it right. This digital bundle includes the entire Gina Gallo Mystery series: The Goddaughter...
  • Star flight
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    A movie star's suicide draws a young woman into the deadly shadows of a Hollywood scandal in this novel from "a master of suspense" (Mary Higgins Clark). More than fifty years ago, Victoria Frazer and Roger Brandt were...
  • Spindrift
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    New York Times bestseller: A New Year's Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam...
  • Smoke screen
    Author:
    Blackstock, Terri
    Summary:

    A gripping new novel from New York Timesbestselling author Terri Blackstock. Nate Beckett has spent his life fighting wildfires instead of the lies and rumors that drove him from his Colorado hometown. His mother begs him to come back...
  • Silverhill
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    From a New York Times-bestselling author: A woman risks her life to piece together the puzzling past of her estranged New England family. After decades away, Malinda Rice returns to the New Hampshire estate of Silverhill to make sure...
  • Read or alive
    Author:
    Page, Nora
    Summary:

    When an antique book fair comes to town, septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins's cousin Dot is conned by a flirtatious book scout. And when he's found dead the very next morning, Dot's freedom is on the line.
  • Read on arrival
    Author:
    Page, Nora
    Summary:

    Septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins uses her librarian skills to investigate a murder. Another death is coming due, and Cleo fears the killer may be about to turn the final page on someone she loves.
  • Rainbow in the mist
    Author:
    Whitney, Phyllis A.
    Summary:

    A psychic investigates a mysterious disappearance high in the Appalachian Mountains in this novel from a "Grand Master of her craft" (Barbara Michaels). It's a legacy Christy Loren never wanted. The unwitting inheritor of...
  • Mimi Lee gets a clue
    Author:
    Chow, Jennifer J.
    Summary:

    When Mimi Lee opened her pet grooming shop in Los Angeles, she never imagined that the first cat she said hello to would talk back, or help clear her name as the main suspect in a murder case.

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