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  • Author:
    Silvis, Randall
    Summary:

    Pittsburgh, 1847: A cholera epidemic rages, and young women are disappearing... Augie Dubbins, a former street urchin now grown up and looking for adventure, rushes to be with his old friend Edgar Allan Poe upon hearing of the death of...

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    Rose, Karen
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    Baltimore prosecutor Daphne Montgomery believes her son's kidnapping is related to a recent high-profile trial in which she helped put a man away for murder. At first FBI special agent Joseph Carter agrees, but together they find...

  • Author:
    Webb, Betty
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    At the age of four, Lena Jones was found lying unconscious by the side of an Arizona Highway, a bullet robbing her of any memories. Now a private detective and scarred survivor of a dozen foster homes, Lena has vowed to find the truth...

  • Author:
    Langley, Mark Edward
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    Arthur Nakai must dive into the multi-billion-dollar world of the oil and gas industry, confront an old adversary, and discover who killed his childhood love's two sons, before the killer sets his sight on Arthur.

  • Author:
    Green, Simon R.
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    At an unveiling of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, Ishmael Jones finds a body next to the empty sarcophagus. Ishmael rejects the theory that the mummy's curse is to blame. But he can't explain the strange, shuffling footsteps in...

  • Author:
    Fluke, Joanne
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    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The last thing Maura Thomas remembers before her car careened over a steep embankment is having dinner with her college roommate.over twenty years ago. Everything in between is a blank. Maura has...

  • Author:
    Kaehler, Tammy
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    With an introduction by Tammy Kaehler. Aspiring race car driver Kate Reilly goes looking for a full-time ride in the American Le Mans Series-and stumbles over a dead driver. When she takes that driver's job just hours later, she also...

  • Author:
    Greenwood, Kerry
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    Dot unfolded the note. "He says that his married couple will look after the divine Miss Fisher...I'll leave out a bit...their name is Johnson and they seem very reliable." Phryne got the door open at last. She stepped...

  • Author:
    Woods, Stuart
    Summary:

    Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House.

  • Author:
    Ramsay, Frederick
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    It's 1920. Jesse Sutherlin has returned to Buffalo Mountain a war hero, having after survived the trenches of World War I. Not only did he fight the enemy, reaching the rank of officer, he went a few rounds with some of his fellow...

  • Author:
    Slaughter, Karin
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    Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job, and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer. It's clear the APD doesn't welcome women, and when a move is made to keep Kate out...

  • Author:
    Rose, Karen
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    Psychologist Faith Corcoran is desperate to escape the stalker who's made her life a nightmare for the past year--desperate enough to run to her hometown. Her recent inheritance of her grandmother's house offers sanctuary, but...

  • Author:
    Lanh, Andrew
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    Rick van Lam is bui doi, "a child of dust," as the Vietnamese scornfully called a mixed-blood kid whose father was an unknown American GI. But Rick was lucky-in time he was sent to America. And he's ended up in Hartford,...

  • Author:
    Johansen, Iris
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    Meet Alissa Flynn, a CIA agent who is willing to go rogue if it means catching a cold-blooded killer in this high-stakes thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. When CIA agent Alisa Flynn flaunts the rules by...

  • Author:
    Evans, Mary Anna
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    A woman waits under five feet of dirt-a woman who is by now nothing but bones stained the deep red of Oklahoma clay. A delicate silver necklace, a handful of ancient pearls, and a priceless figurine rest with her. Twenty-nine years is a...

  • Author:
    Hubbard, Janet
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    Max Maguire of the NYPD, daughter of a legendary NY cop and a French mother disowned by her aristocratic family when she married, met examining magistrate Olivier Chaumont over murder at the wedding of an old friend in the Champagne...

  • Author:
    Stein, Triss
    Summary:

    From the earliest days of the Republic until the administration of LBJ, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was, proudly, both an arsenal of democracy, in FDR's words, and the creator of 70,000 local jobs. In time it became best known as the...

  • Author:
    Axelrod, Steven
    Summary:

    In celebration of our 20th anniversary, Poisoned Pen Press has commissioned original short stories from thirty-five of its authors, past and present. Some names will be immediately recognizable to mystery aficionados-Kerry Greenwood...

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    Mayor, Archer
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    While Joe Gunther and the VBI set about solving two murders, Sally Kravitz and Rachel Reiling combine their talents and resources to go where the police cannot.

  • Author:
    Easley, Warren C.
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    Cal Claxton's old farmhouse sits high in Oregon's Red Hills, home of scores of wineries and some of the most coveted acreage for growing the pinot noir grape in the world. Former Los Angeles prosecutor Cal settled in this...

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