The BEST: Must-read Mysteries
If you are a fan of mysteries, you absolutely must read these. Let's compile a list of classics, old and new. Not too many thrillers, though, since mysteries have a comfort in the chase for clues that thrillers don't provide.
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List Votes: 25 Books: 221 Contributors: 11 Watchers: 50 List Type: Open
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Why had they been brought together?
Judge Wargrave had instructed a jury to hang a man everyone else thought innocent.
Vera Claythorne was a champion swimmer who had let a little boy drown.
General Macarthur had sent his wife's lover on a patrol that meant his certain finish.
Dr. Armstrong... more
Book Votes: 30
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One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, Bk 1) by Janet Evanovich
Watch out, world. Here comes Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with attitude. In Stephanie's opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She's a product of the "burg," a... more
Book Votes: 30
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millenium, Bk 2) by Stieg Larsson & Reg Keeland (T...
Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden, implicating well-known and highly placed members of Swedish society, business, and... more
Book Votes: 25
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, Bk 9) (aka Murder in the Calais Coach)...
Also published as Murder in the Calais Coach.
Snowbound in the Balkan hills, the passengers on the Orient Express awaken to shocking news: one of their number has been viciously murdered in the night. With a business more grim than murder afoot, Poirot has not a moment to waste. For the... more
Book Votes: 22
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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again."
So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the turning drive past ther beeches, white and naked, to the isolated gray stone manse on the windswept Cornish coast. With a husband she barely knew,... more
Book Votes: 21
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, Bk 2) by Dan Brown
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to... more
Book Votes: 20
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Bk 1) by Alex...
Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, then pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only -- and finest -- female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not... more
Book Votes: 20
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, Bk 4) by Agatha Christie
Roger Ackroyd knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her first husband and suspected that someone had been blackmailing her. Now he learnt that she had taken her life with a drug overdose. The post brought Roger one last bit of information, but he was stabbed to death before he could read it.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher's... more
Book Votes: 19
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First to Die (Women's Murder Club, Bk 1) by James Patterson
The Women's Murder Club pits four San Francisco women professionals against a serial killer who's stalking and murdering newlyweds in bestselling author James Patterson's newest thriller. Lindsay Boxer is a homicide inspector who's just gotten some very bad news. She deals with... more
Book Votes: 18
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A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, Bk 1) by Sue Grafton
When Laurence Fife was murdered, few mourned his passing. A prominent divorce attorney with a reputation for single-minded ruthlessness on behalf of his clients, Fife was also rumored to be a dedicated philanderer. Plenty of people in the picturesque southern California town of Santa Teresa had... more
Book Votes: 18
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The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
Did he kill his nephews? Or did they outlive him?
Now established as one of the most popular and enduring of crime classics, The Daughter of Time investigates the questions that surround Richard III, the most hated Kind of England.
Was he a murderer, the monster of nursery stories, a... more
Book Votes: 17
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Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, Bk 1) by James Patterson
A missing little girl named Maggie Rose. A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher. A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who calls himself the Son of Lindbergh. He is so terrifying that the FBI, the... more
Book Votes: 17
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Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, Bk 2) by James Patterson
In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful medical intern suddenly disappears. Washington D.C.'s Alex Cross is back to solve the most baffling and terrifying murder case ever. Two clever pattern killers are... more
Book Votes: 17
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Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Bk 1) by Elizabeth Peters
In Victorian England, a woman wasn't supposed to be an archaeologist or a detective. Amelia Peabody was both. Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has inherited her father's strong will as well as his considerable fortune. On her way to Cairo to indulge her passion... more
Book Votes: 16
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, Bk 1) by Caleb Carr
The year is 1896, the place, New York City. On a cold March night New York Times reporter John Schuyler Moore is summoned to the East River by his friend and former Harvard classmate Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist, or "alienist." On the unfinished Williamsburg Bridge, they view... more
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Classic Crime) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Perhaps the most popular of all Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles combines the traditional detective tale with elements of horror. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a... more
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Murder with Peacocks (Meg Langslow, Bk 1) by Donna Andrews
Three Weddings...And a Murder
So far Meg Langslow's summer is not going swimmingly. Down in her small Virginia hometown, she's maid of honor at the nuptials of three loved ones -- each of whom has dumped the planning in her capable hands. One bride is set on including a Native... more
Book Votes: 14
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Bk 1) by Laurie R. King
What would happen if Sherlock Holmes, a perfect man of the Victorian age -- pompous, smug, and misogynistic -- were to come face to face with a twentieth-century female? If she grew to be a partner worthy of his great talents? In 1914, a young woman named Mary Russell meets a retired beekeeper... more
Book Votes: 14
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Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this remote and barren island,... more
Book Votes: 13
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A Great Deliverance (Thomas Lynley, Bk 1) by Elizabeth George
To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.
Now into Keldale's... more
Book Votes: 13
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Naked in Death (In Death, Bk 1) by J. D. Robb
In a time and place where technology rules the world, one irresistible impulse still rules the heart: passion ...
Eve Dallas is a New York police lieutenant hunting for a ruthless killer. In over ten years on the force, she's seen it all -- and knows that her survival depends on her... more
Book Votes: 13
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The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, Bk 1) by Michael Connelly
For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal... because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch... more
Book Votes: 13
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In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, Bk 1) by Tana French
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing... more
Book Votes: 13
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The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, Bk 1) by Robert Crais
When quiet Ellen Lang enters Elvis Cole's Disney-Deco office, she's lost something very valuable -- her husband and young son. The case seems simple enough, but Elvis isn't thrilled. Neither is his enigmatic partner and firepower Joe Pike. Their search down the seamy side of... more
Book Votes: 12
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The international literary sensation -- a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to... more
Book Votes: 12
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded... more
Book Votes: 12
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Booked to Die (Cliff Janeway, Bk 1) by John Dunning
Denver homicide detective Cliff Janeway may not always play by the book, but he is an avid collector of rare and first editions. After a local bookscout is killed on his turf, Janeway would like nothing better than to rearrange the suspect's spine. But the suspect, local lowlife Jackie Newton,... more
Book Votes: 11
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The Cater Street Hangman (Charlotte and Thomas Pitt, Bk 1) by Anne Perry
While the Ellison girls were out paying calls and drinking tea like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was strangled to death.
The quiet and young Inspector Pitt investigates the scene and finds no one above suspicion. As his intense questioning causes many a composed facade... more
Book Votes: 11
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The Cove (FBI, Bk 1) by Catherine Coulter
The Cove is a quaint little postcard town made up only of old folk who sell the world's Greatest Ice Cream - a secret recipe that brings lots of tourists into town. Into The Cove comes Sally Brainerd, daughter of murdered Amory St. John of Washington, D.C., seeking sanctuary, and the FBI... more
Book Votes: 11
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, Bk 1) by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs isn't just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence -- and the patronage of her benevolent employers -- she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there that she learns that coincidences... more
Book Votes: 11
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Death at La Fenice (Guido Brunetti, Bk 1) by Donna Leon
Beautiful and serene Venice is a city almost devoid of crime. But that is little comfort to Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor whose intermission refreshment comes one night with a little something extra in it -- cyanide.
For Guido Brunetti, vice-commissario of police and... more
Book Votes: 10
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
"There in the middle of the broad, bright high-road-there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven-stood the figure of a solitary woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments." Thus young Walter Hartright first meets the mysterious woman in... more
Book Votes: 10
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Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott, Bk 1) by Margaret Maron
Deborah Knott, an attorney attempting to infiltrate the old boy network of tobacco country by running for district judge, is distracted from the race, and almost eliminated, when she finds new evidence to an old small-town murder.
Book Votes: 10
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
From Library Journal
Eco's popular 1983 mystery here is bound with his 1985 Postscript to "The Name of the Rose," in which he describes the creation of the book and offers his theories of modern literature. This is the first paperback pairing of the two works.
Book Votes: 9
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The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The story introduces detective Sam Spade, a man of few words who displays little emotion. Hired by a woman -- Miss Wonderly -- to locate her sister, Spade gives the assignment to his partner Miles Archer. Archer tails the missing sister's companion, and within a single evening both Archer... more
Book Votes: 9
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, Bk 1) by Raymond Chandler
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
Book Votes: 9
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Airs Above the Ground by mary Stewart
Lovely Vanessa March did not think it was strange for her husband to take a business trip to Stockholm. What was strange was the silence that followed. Then she caught a glimpse of him in a newsreel shot of a crowd near a mysterious circus fire in Vienna and knew it was more than strange. It was... more
Book Votes: 9
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Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallender, Bk 1) by Henning Mankell
Faceless Killers marks the "brilliant US debut" (Library Journal) of Henning Mankell's highly successful Kurt Wallander detective series. Taut and atmospheric, this winner of Sweden's Best Mystery Award is a gripping mystery in the classic detective tradition, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as... more
Book Votes: 9
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The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins & J. I. M. Stewart
Introduction by Catherine Peters
The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine.
Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realize that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John... more
Book Votes: 8
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The Ice House by Minette Walters
With this stunning debut--a marvelous marriage of classic convention and contemporary sophistication--Minette Walters sets a new standard of excellence for the mystery novel.The three women living in seclusion at an elegant Hampshire country house have long been fodder for village gossip...even... more
Book Votes: 8
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Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, Bk 11) by P. D. James
The setting is the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm's. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school's young ordinands.
He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely... more
Book Votes: 8
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The Thin Woman (Ellie Haskell #1) by Dorothy Cannell
Overweight and unmarried, Ellie Simons balks at the prospect of attending her family reunion. But with a hired escort in tow--posing as husband--she summons the courage to go, little realizing that the weekend will lead to unexpected romance, a treasure hunt--and murder.
Book Votes: 8
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Blind Justice (Sir John Fielding, Bk 1) by Bruce Alexander
In 1768, thirteen-year-old Jeremy Proctor arrived in London. The city streets, bustling with gamblers, prostitutes, and thieves, were certainly no place for a boy on his own, and trouble wasted no time in finding the lad. He was falsely charged with theft and arrested.
Jeremy was saved only... more
Book Votes: 8
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The Nine Tailors by Dorothy Sayers
aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and his valet are storm-bound over the New Year at a rectory in east Anglia. While there, Peter willingly lends a hand in the ringing of a New Year's Eve peal of the ancient church bells. Some months later, a headless, disfigured corpse is discovered ina... more
Book Votes: 8
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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey) by Dorothy L. Sayers
GAUDY NIGHT is a time when all manner of strange things happen, but never so strange as when Harriet Vane returned to Oxford. She was confronted with poison pen letters, loathsome drawings, scrawled obscenities, and attempted murder. Only her old friend and lover, Lord Peter Wimsey could rescue... more
Book Votes: 8
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Firestorm (Anna Pigeon, Bk 4) by Nevada Barr
An insatiable, unstoppable beast, the wildfire called Jackknife has already devoured 17,000 acres of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. A devastating force of nature, it has brought out the very best -- and worst -- in those sworn to defeat it.
Ranger Anna Pigeon is among the... more
Book Votes: 7
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A Thief of Time (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 8) by Tony Hillerman
A noted anthropologist vanishes at a moonlit Indian ruin where "thieves of time" ravage sacred ground for profit. When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to... more
Book Votes: 7
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The Sign of Four (Penguin Classics) by Arthur Conan Doyle
Yellow fog is swirling through the streets of London, and Sherlock Holmes himself is sitting in a cocaine-induced haze until the arrival of a distressed and beautiful young lady forces the great detective into action. Each year following the strange disappearance of her father, Miss Morstan has... more
Book Votes: 7
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Deja Dead (Temperance Brennan, Bk 1) by Kathy Reichs
In the year since Tempe left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. But when an unidentified female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in garbage bags, Tempe detects an alarming pattern within the grisly... more
Book Votes: 7
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Death of a Gossip (Hamish MacBeth, Bk 1) by M. C. Beaton
Lady Jane Winters, society widow and gossip, is found dead at an angling school in Scotland. Who wouldn't want her shrills silenced? Local policeman, Hamish Macbeth is suspicious. With the inspiring aid of Priscilla Halburton-Smythe, Hamish pursues the case.
Book Votes: 7
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The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, Tom Ripley is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father. But Ripley finds himself very fond of Dickie Greenleaf. He wants to be like him--exactly like him. Suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral,... more
Book Votes: 7
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A Morbid Taste for Bones (Brother Cadfael, Bk 1) by Ellis Peters
In the remote Welsh mountain village of Gwytherin lies the grave of Saint Winifred Now, in 1137, the ambitious head of Shrewsbury Abbey has decided to acquire the sacred remains for his Benedictine order. Native Welshman Brother Cadfael is sent on the expedition to translate and finds the rustic... more
Book Votes: 7
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The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Classic mystery first copyright 1908
Rachel Innes considers herself a rational woman. But the shadowy face peering in the window and the ominous sounds that seem to emanate from every shadow almost convince her that the summer house she rented in the Adirondacks is haunted. Perhaps the... more
Book Votes: 6
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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, Bk 1) by Martin Cruz Smith
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except... more
Book Votes: 6
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The Man with a Load of Mischief (Richard Jury, Bk 1) by Martha Grimes
Long Piddleton had always been wary of newcomers, but the quiet town was stunned when the first stranger was found dead, upended in a butt of ale in the cellar of The Man With A Load Of Mischief. Then the second body appeared, swinging in place of the mechanical man above the door of the Jack... more
Book Votes: 6
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Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, Bk 1) by M. C. Beaton
Putting all her eggs in one basket, Agatha Raisin gives up her successful PR firm, sells her London flat, and samples a taste of early retirement in the quiet village of Carsely. Bored, lonely and used to getting her way, she enters a local baking contest: Surely a blue ribbon for the best... more
Book Votes: 6
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River of Darkness : A Novel of Suspense by Rennie Airth
In the tradition of The Alienist, a chilling thriller of murder and psychological detection. In rural England, in a landscape shadowed by the sorrow of World War I, the peace of a small Surrey village is shattered by a murderous attack, which leaves five butchered bodies and no motive for the... more
Book Votes: 6
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Brat Farrar (aka Come and Kill Me) by Josephine Tey
It was eight years since Patrick had vanished leaving a pitiful note, “I’m sorry but I can’t bear it any longer. Don’t be angry with me, Patrick.” Now it seemed, he had returned -- just in time to claim the family inheritance. But if Patrick really had... more
Book Votes: 6
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Smilla's Sense of Snow (aka Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow) by Peter Hoeg & Tiina...
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories -- a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime ...
It happened in the... more
Book Votes: 6
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The Poet (Jack McEvoy, Bk 1) by Michael Connelly
Our hero is Jack McEvoy, a Rocky Mountain News crime-beat reporter. As the novel opens, Jack's twin brother, a Denver homicide detective, has just killed himself. Or so it seems. But when Jack begins to investigate the phenomenon of police suicides, a disturbing pattern emerges, and soon... more
Book Votes: 6
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The Raphael Affair (Jonathan Argyll, Bk 1) by Iain Pears
When a long-lost Raphael resurfaces, it triggers a chain of events from vandalism... to murder! As English art scholar Jonathan Argyll investigates, he ends up on a run for the truth... and his very own life.
Book Votes: 5
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If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O (Ballad, Bk 1) by Sharyn McCrumb
Sheriff Spencer Arrowood keeps the peace in his small Tennessee town most of the time. Every once in a while, though, something goes wrong.
When 1960s folksinger Peggy Muryan moves to town seeking solitude and a career comeback, and she receives a postcard with a threatening message, her... more
Book Votes: 5
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The Romanov Prophecy by Steve Berry
Ekaterinburg, Russia: July 16, 1918. Ten months have passed since Nicholas II's reign was cut short by revolutionaries. Tonight, the White Army advances on the town where the Tsar and his family are being held captive by the Bolsheviks. Nicholas dares to hope for salvation. Instead, the Romanovs... more
Book Votes: 5
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The Face of a Stranger (William Monk, Bk 1) by Anne Perry
His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of... more
Book Votes: 5
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, Bk 1) by Walter Mosley
Los Angeles, 1948: Easy Rawlins is a black war veteran just fired from his job at a defense plant. Easy is drinking in a friend's bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen suit walks in, offering good money if Easy will simply locate Miss Daphne Money, a blonde... more
Book Votes: 5
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Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen
The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami Beach. The second victim, the head of the city's chamber of commerce, was found dead with a toy alligator lodged in his throat. And that was just the beginning ...Now Brian Keyes, reporter turned private eye, must... more
Book Votes: 5
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The Bone Garden by Tess Gerritsen
Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But... more
Book Votes: 5
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Odds on Miss Seeton (Miss Seeton, Bk 5) by Heron Carvic
Playing for Keeps
Miss Seeton in diamonds and furs at the roulette table? Scotland Yard has disguised the genteel spinster as a high roller to get a police sketch of a mysterious crime boss. But she's soon playing a very dangerous game of big money and murder, and it's a sure bet... more
Book Votes: 5
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Double Indemnity (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by James M. Cain
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
Book Votes: 5
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Jar City (aka Tainted Blood) (Reykjavik, Bk 1) by Arnaldur Indridason & Bernard S...
When a lonely old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat, the only clues are a cryptic note left by the killer and a photograph of a young girl's grave. Inspector Erlendur, who heads the investigation team, discovers that many years ago the victim was accused, though not convicted, of... more
Book Votes: 5
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A Fatal Grace (aka Dead Cold) (Chief Inspector Gamache, Bk 2) by Louise Penny
Welcome back to Three Pines, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas ... and murder.
When Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to investigate a woman's murder, it doesn't take long for him to realize that no love was lost on the victim. But even if... more
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The List of Adrian Messenger (Anthony Gethryn) by Philip MacDonald
Anthony Gethryn is an Oxford-educated WW1 veteran who was discharged from service, as a Colonel, following his wounding; he is left with a permanent limp. He went on to serve in the British Secret Service and then retired to a quiet life in the English countryside. Unfortunately, crimes continue... more
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The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of... more
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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, Bk 6) by Raymond Chandler
Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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Shroud for the Archbishop (Sister Fidelma, Bk 2) by Peter Tremayne
In 7th Century Rome, the man due to be the next archbishop of Canterbury is strangled while awaiting his consecration. An Irish brother is a suspect and the motive is believed to be political. Sister Fidelma of the Celtic Church goes to work.
The second book in the first-ever Irish medieval... more
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Death in a Tenured Position (Kate Fansler, Bk 6) by Amanda Cross
It's only because Janet Mandelbaum is no feminist that the stuffy old boys at Harvard agree to make her the first woman professor in the English department. But they're not happy about it.
At a sedate and proper afternoon tea someone slips a mickey into Janet's... more
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The Three Coffins by John Dickson Carr
The Invisible Murderer...
He killed his first victim and literally disappeared. He killed his second victim in the middle of an empty street, with watchers at either end, yet not a soul saw him, and no footprint appeared in the snow.
The perplexing murder of Professor Grimaud and the... more
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Shakespeare's Landlord (Lily Bard, Bk 1) by Charlaine Harris
Lily Bard is a loner. Other than the day-to-day workings of her cleaning and errand-running service, she pays little attention to the town around her. But when her landlord is murdered, Lily is singled out as the prime suspect, and proving her innocence will depend on finding the real killer in... more
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Burglars Can't Be Choosers (Bernie Rhodenbarr, Bk 1) by Lawrence Block
Bernie Rhodenbarr is a personable chap, a good neighbor, a passable poker player. His chosen profession, however, might not sit well with some. Bernie is a burglar, a good one, effortlessly lifting valuables from the not-so-well-protected abodes of well-to-do New Yorkers like a modern-day Robin... more
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Dissolution (Matthew Shardlake, Bk 1) by C. J. Sansom
The year is 1537, and the country is divided between those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the king and the newly established Church of England. When a royal commissioner is brutally murdered in a monastery on the south coast of England, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s... more
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Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
In a WWII field hospital in rural England, removed (for the most part) from the threat of Nazi bombing, a patient dies on the operating table. Inspector Cockrill is called in when it appears the death was not related to his injuries. As more deaths occur, it appears obvious that one of the staff... more
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The League of Frightened Men (Nero Wolfe, Bk 2) by Rex Stout
Paul Chapin's college cronies have never completely forgiven themselves for the tragic prank that left their friend a twisted cripple. Yet with their Harvard days behind them, they thought it was all in the past - until a class reunion ends in a fatal fall, and mysterious poems swearing... more
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The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon & Lucia Graves (Translator)
Barcelona, 1945 -- just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer,... more
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The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, Bk 3) by Agatha Christie
Dolly Bantry's reaction on seeing the body of a beautiful, but dead, blonde in her library is to immediately call for her friend Jane Marple. The police identify the girl as Ruby Keene. She was reported missing by elderly invalid Conway Jefferson who, fond of Ruby, planned to adopt her-much... more
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A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge, Bk 1) by Charles Todd
It's 1919, and the War to End All Wars has been won. But for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France, there is no peace. Suffering from shell shock, tormented by the mocking, ever-present voice of the young Scot he had executed for refusing to... more
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The Last Templar (Medieval West Country, Bk 1) by Michael Jecks
The Knights Templar
They had all joined taking three vows: poverty, chastity, and obedience...for they were monks: warrior monks, dedicated to the protection of pilgrims in the Holy Land -- until stories spread by an avaricious king who wanted their wealth for his own destroyed the... more
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The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
Boston, 1865. A series of murders, all of them inspired by scenes in Dante's Inferno. Only an elite group of America's first Dante scholars -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, and J. T. Fields -- can solve the mystery. With the police baffled, more... more
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The Old Fox Deceiv'd (Richard Jury, Bk 2) by Martha Grimes
There was a murder in the quaint North Sea village of Rackmoor. The body of a mysterious woman in a mummer's costume lay sprawled on a backwater street. Half her face had been painted black, the half white, and the blood on her satin blouse had already turned a deep, dark red.
Who was... more
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The Anodyne Necklace (Richard Jury, Bk 3) by Martha Grimes
ALL ROADS LEAD TO LITTLEBOURNE
A spinster whose passion was bird-watching, a dotty peer who pinched pennies, and a baffling murder made the tiny village of Littlebourne a most extraordinary place. And a severed finger made a ghastly clue in a killing that led local constables from a corpse... more
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Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has finally arrived in her homeland. Throughout her... more
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Old Bones (Gideon Oliver, Bk 4) by Aaron Elkins
When the treacherous tides of Mont St. Michel claim the aged patriarch of the du Rocher family, the authorities accept the verdict of "accidental drowning." But the unfortunate event is followed too quickly by a strange discovery: the discovery of a human skeleton, wrapped in butcher... more
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The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, Bk 1) (Large Print) by Carol...
Badger’s Drift is the ideal English village, complete with vicar, bumbling local doctor, and kindly spinster with a nice line in homemade cookies. But when the spinster dies suddenly, her best friend kicks up an unseemly fuss, loud enough to attract the attention of Detective Chief... more
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder, Bk 6) by Lawrence Block
In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to... more
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Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 3) by James Lee Burke
Ex-cop Dave Robicheaux: His wife had been murdered... Now they're after his little girl...
From the Louisiana bayou to Montana's tribal lands,he's running front the bottle, a homicide rap, aprofessional killer... and the demons of his past.
In this winner of the 1990 Edgar... more
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The Queen's Man by Sharon K. Penman
Epiphany, 1193. Eleanor of Aquitaine sits upon England's throne. Her beloved son Richard Lionheart is missing, presumed dead--and the court whispers that her younger son John is plotting to seize the crown.Meanwhile, on the snowy highroad from Winchester, a destitute young man falls heir to a... more
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Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett by Georges Simenon
Pietr the Lett had for yewars been clocked across the European frontiers by interpol. Who was he, this international swindler with the kin of a chameleon? Was he Oswald Oppenheim, friend of multi-millionaires? Or Olaf Swann, a Norwegian merchant officer down at Fecamp? Or Fedor Yurovich, a... more
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Miss Melville Regrets (Miss Melville, Bk 1) by Evelyn E. Smith
What can a woman do? Susan Melville's trust fund is dwindling, her teaching job is terminated, her lover is abroad for the season, and her apartment is going co-op.
So naturally Miss Melville decides to shoot herself at a posh society party. Unfortunately, she misses -- and kills... more
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The Laughing Policeman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo
With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and "must reading for anyone who claims to be [a... more
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Mortal Fear (Mississippi, Bk 1) by Greg Iles
By day, Harper Cole is a successful commodities trader working from his home in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at night he is a system operator for EROS, a sexually explicit on-line service that caters for the erotic appetites of an exclusive clientele. But Harper's secret life is about... more
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The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence,Bk 1) by Agatha Christie
Full of energy and short of funds, old chums Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley decide to form the "Young Adventurers," and advertise themselves as willing to "go anywhere and do anything." Asked by a British Intelligence official to find a woman named Jane Finn, who... more
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The Dreadful Lemon Sky by John D. MacDonald
We had had something together once. Carrie Milligan & I. But it was long gone. She came to me now, years later, looking older and used and very scared. She had a lot of money with her. Over a hundred thousand dollars. She wanted me to keep it safe. Until she returned. And no questions,... more
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The Corpse in the Waxworks (Henri Bencolin, Bk 4) by John Dickson Carr
M. Bencolin was most assuredly not looking for murder in the sepulchral gloom of Augustin's famous was museum. His surprise, then, was formidable when he discovered the body of a young girl, stabbed in the back, lying grotesquely in the wax arms of the Satyr of the Seine.
From the eerie... more
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The Uninvited by Dorothy MacArdle
When brother and sister Roderick and Pamela Fitzgerald happen on a cliff-side house while on a motoring holiday on the coast of England, they impulsively look into buying it so they can move out of London. Finding it cheaper than they would have thought, they buy it and move in. During a... more
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The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New Yorks coolest crime-solving couple. Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once... more
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Sacred (Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro, Bk 3) by Dennis Lehane
A beautiful, grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. Enter savvy, tough-nosed private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro. Rooted in the no-nonsense streets of Boston's blue-collar Dorchester, they've seen... more
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Death on Demand (Death on Demand, No 1) by Carolyn Hart
At Annie Laurance's Death On Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, murder most foul is no longer confined to the well stocked shelves. Author Elliot Morgan's abrupt demise during a weekly gathering of local mystery writers called the Sunday Night Regulars is proof positive... more
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One was a Soldier (Rev. Clare Fergusson / Russ Van Alstyne, Bk 7) by Julia Spencer-Fl...
At the Millers Kill Community Center, five veterans gather to work on adjusting to life after war. Reverend Clare Fergusson has returned from Iraq with a head full of bad memories she's using alcohol to wipe out. Dr. George Stillman is denying that the head wound he received has left him... more
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Murder at the National Gallery (Capital Crimes, Bk 13) by Margaret Truman
When the senior curator at Washington's famed National Gallery finds a missing painting by the Renaissance master Caravaggio, he mounts a world-class exhibition--and plots a brilliant forgery scheme that will stun the art world.
But an artful deception suddenly becomes a portrait of... more
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Death in Bloodhound Red (Bloodhound, Bk 1) by Virginia Lanier
1996 Anthony Award for Best First Novel
Finalist 1995 Agatha Award for Best First Novel
Finalist 1996 Macavity Award for Best First Novel
Jo Beth Siddon is a bloodhound trainer with a special talent for harrowing search-and-rescue missions, and a bad habit for mouthing off to deputies... more
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Mistress of the Art of Death (Mistress of the Art of Death, Bk 1) by Ariana Franklin
A chilling, mesmerizing novel that combines the best of modern forensic thrillers with the detail and drama of historical fiction.
In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that... more
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Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe, Bk 1) by Rex Stout
As any herpetologist will tell you, the fer-de-lance is among the most dreaded snakes known to man. When someone makes a present of one to Nero Wolfe, Archie Goodwin knows he's getting dreadully close to solving the devilishly clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. As for... more
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The Collector by John Fowles
Hailed as the first modern psychological thriller, The Collector is the internationally bestselling novel that catapulted John Fowles into the front rank of contemporary novelists. This tale of obsessive love -- the story of a lonely clerk who collects butterflies and of the beautiful young art... more
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Last Seen Wearing (Inspector Morse, Bk 2) by Colin Dexter
Valerie Taylor has been missing since she was a sexy seventeen, more than two years ago. Inspector Morse is sure she's dead. But if she is, who forged the letter to her parents saying "I am alright so don't worry"? Never has a woman provided Morse with such a challenge, for... more
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Dance Hall of the Dead (Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Bk 2) by Tony Hillerman
Two young boys suddenly disappear. One of them, a Zuni, leaves a pool of blood behind. Lt. Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks the brutal killer. Three things complicate the search: an archeological dig, a steel hypodermic needle, and the strange laws of the Zuni.
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Hags Nook (Dr. Gideon Fell, Bk 1) by John Dickson Carr
The Starberths die of broken necks. That was the legend in the village where Chaterham Prison, abandoned for a hundred years, had kept its secrets of death and terror. Scotland Yard learned of the legend when Martin Starberth was murdered. But it took Gideon Fell to solve the many riddles and... more
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The Silver Pigs (Marcus Didius Falco, Bk 1) by Lindsey Davis
Winner of the Best First Novel award from the Authors' Club, and debut of the Didius Falco mystery series.
It is A.D. 70, when Roman P.I. Marcus Didius Falco runs into comely Sosia Camillina on the steps of the Forum. It seems she's being chased by a few unsavories for a stockpile of... more
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Death of a Mystery Writer : A Murder Mystery (Of Course) (A Scribner Crime Classics) ...
From master mystery writer Robert Barnard, one of his early novels, Death of a Mystery Writer. First published in 1979, Death of a Mystery Writer received an Edgar Award nomination for "Best Novel" of that year. It's with great pleasure that Scribner reissues this beloved novel from one of the... more
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The Novice's Tale (Sister Frevisse, Bk 1) by Margaret Frazer
To the priory a lady came for mischief... and for murder.
It is the year of Our Lord's grace 1431, and the nuns of England's St. Frideswide sweetly chant their Paternosters behind gracious, trellised walls. But their quiet lives are shattered by the unwelcome visit of the... more
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When the Bough Breaks (Alex Delaware, Bk 1) by Jonathan Kellerman
In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry.Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. Handler paid for his sins when he was brutally murdered in his luxurious Pacific Palisades apartment. The police have no leads, but... more
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Body Trace (C.S.U. Investigation, Bk 1) by D. H. Dublin
A C.S.U. Investigation In the City of Brotherly Love, it's known as the C.S.U. Crime Scene Unit (C.S.U.): A group of forensic investigators who use cutting-edge technology to carry out crime scene investigations, helping to bring killers to justice. Fresh out of med school and new to... more
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The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, Bk 3) by Jasper Fforde
When soon-to-be single parent Thursday Next emerges from her comfortable life inside an unpublished book, she steps into a new age of fictional narrative. The entire book world is abuzz with anticipation of an improved Text Operating System that moves from the 8-plot to the new 32-plot story... more
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The Paper Moon (Inspector Montalbano, Bk 9) by Andrea Camilleri
Salvo Montalbano is a police inspector in Sicily who is both cynical about the world and a lover of its pleasures. According to a review by Bill Ott, "He teeters on the emotional seesaw of those extremes in his latest adventure, which concerns the murder of a pharmaceutical salesman, who is... more
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Roman Blood (Roma Sub Rosa, Bk 1) by Steven Saylor
Elena asks that you come to the House of Swans at once . . . Compelled by this message, the wealthy, sybaritic Sextus Roscius goes not to his harlot, but to his doom—savagely murdered by unknown assassins. In the unseasonable heat of a spring morning in 80 B.C., Gordianus the Finder is... more
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City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense by Ariana Franklin
A cultured city scarred by war. . . . An eastern émigré with scars and secrets of her own. . . . A young woman claiming to be a Russian grand duchess. . . . A brazen killer, as vicious as he is clever. . . . A detective driven by decency and the desire for justice. . . . A nightmare political... more
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Faded Coat of Blue by Owen Parry
Veteran of Queen Victoria's wars and recent immigrant to America, Abel Jones believed he had left his days in uniform behind. Now, firmly rooted on the shores of his adopted land-where American has taken up arms against American in this most terrible of conflicts-he has signed on as a... more
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The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Neither threats nor unearthly sounds could budge Miss Cornelia from the isolated country mansion she shared with her pretty niece, hysterical maid, laconic butler, and the nice young man who just might be a fugitive. Even knowing that she was a prime target for the vicious, elusive killer known... more
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The Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte & Margaret Jull Costa (Translator)
Julia is a young art expert in Madrid. Her specialty is the restoration of paintings about to go up for auction. But her latest project could also be her last. A fifteenth-century masterpiece, the painting depicts a chess game between the Duke of Flanders and his knight, as a lady in black... more
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Maigret at the Gai-Moulin (Inspector Maigret, Bk 10) by Georges Simenon & Geoffre...
It's closing time at the Gai Moulin, and Jean Chabot and René Delfrosse are planning to rob the till to pay of their debts. To their surprise, they stumble upon a dead body. What at first seems to the police an open and shut case proves more complicated when the body turns up next at... more
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Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
"Today at half-past two in the afternoon I was acquitted of the murder of my husband."
That’s a line from the diary of beautiful, bohemian Diana Polixfen, who in 1925 was celebrating her 30th birthday. The celebrations soured when her husband died, poisoned by a cocktail that... more
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Vanishing Act (Jane Whitefield, Bk 1) by Thomas Perry
JANE WHITEFIELD is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membership in the Wolf Clan of the Seneca tribe, she can fool any pursuer, cover any trail, and then provide her clients with new identities, complete with authentic paperwork. Jane knows all the... more
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Surfeit of Lampreys aka Death of a Peer (Rodderick Alleyn) (Large Print) by Ngaio Ma...
Murder becomes a family affair...
The Lampreys were a charming, eccentric happy-go-lucky family, teetering on the edge of financial ruin. Until the gruesome murder of their uncle-and unpleasant Marquis, who met his untimely death while leaving the Lamprey flat-left them with a fortune. Now... more
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Hell Gate (Alex Cooper, Bk 12) by Linda Fairstein
New York City politics have always been filled with intrigue and behind-the-scenes deals. In Hell Gate, Alex finds her attention torn between investigating a shipwreck that has contraband cargo-human cargo-and the political sex scandal of a promising New York congressman now fallen from grace.... more
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The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham
Meg Elginbrodde's wedding plans to millionaire Geoffrey Levett stop dead when she begins receiving snapshots of a man who could be her husband-if he hadn't been killed at war five years before. When Meg's old friend, the charming and erudite Albert Campion, takes on this case of perplexing... more
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Medicus (Medicus Investigations, Bk 1) by Ruth Downie
Gaius Petrius Ruso is a divorced and down-on-his-luck army doctor who has made the rash decision to seek his fortune in an inclement outpost of the Roman Empire, namely Britannia. His arrival in Deva (more commonly known as Chester, England) does little to improve his mood, and after a straight... more
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Gallows View (Inspector Banks, Bk 1) by Peter Robinson
Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors -- among them a... more
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Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, Bk 1) by Ian Rankin
Once John Rebus was a Para, served in the elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh policeman who spends time evading his memories and missing promotion opportunities. Then there is the small matter of the brutal abduction and murder of two young girls and a third missing. Detective Sergeant John... more
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The Eight (Montglane Service, Bk 1) by Katherine Neville
Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years ... In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide... more
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The Long Quiche Good-bye (Cheese Shop, Bk 1) by Avery Aames
Charlotte Bessette's French grandparents brought her up to love food and life. But at the gala re-opening of The Cheese Shop in quaint Providence, Ohio, she doesn't savor either, not when she finds her grandmother, Bernadette, kneeling beside a dead body the murder weapon in her... more
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Blindsighted (Grant County, Bk 1) by Karin Slaughter
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear.
Sara's ex-husband,... more
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Acqua Alta (Guido Brunetti, Bk 5) by Donna Leon
Venice braces for the onslaught of acqua alta -- the rising waters from torrential rain. But Brunetti has his own problems, beginning with the savage beating of an old friend. When a man’'s body is discovered, Brunetti must wade through the chaos to solve one of his deadliest cases.
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Night of the Generals: A Novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst & Hans Kirst
The famous novel about three Nazi generals and a brutal wartime sex crime--and the inspiration for the 1967 film. When a Polish prostitute is murdered in 1942, the suspects come down to three German generals. But nothing happens. Then, in 1944, when the trio gathers again, another killing... more
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Shoulder the Sky (World War I, Bk 2) by Anne Perry
By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down England's youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-man's-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. A nephew of... more
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Fletch by Gregory McDonald
FletchHe’s an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he’s living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for. FletchHe’s taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn’t appreciate... more
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Satan in St. Mary's (Hugh Corbett, Bk 1) by P. C. Doherty & Paul C. Doherty
1284 and Edward I is battling a traitorous movement founded by the late Simon de Montfort, the rebel who lost his life at the Battle of Evesham in 1258. The Pentangle, the movement's underground society whose members are known to practice the black arts, is thought to be behind the apparent... more
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My Lady Judge (Mystery of Medieval Ireland, Bk 1) by Cora Harrison
The Burren on the western seaboard of Ireland was then, in the year of 1509, as it is now, a land of stony fields and swirling mountain terraces. The people of the kingdom lived peacefully by the ancient Brehon laws of their forebears.
On the first eve of May hundreds of people from the... more
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The Judas Judge (Kevin Kerney, Bk 5) by Michael McGarrity
Six people are murdered in a remote New Mexico campground. Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney suspects these slayings weren't random, but calculated to eliminate one high-profile victim: retired judge Vernon Langsford. Kerney discovers the judge's dark past, but as he gets closer to... more
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Florida Roadkill (Serge A. Storms, Bk 1) by Tim Dorsey
Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with righ dead men's money.
Then there's Sean and David, who love fishing--and helping turtles cross busy... more
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Farthing (Small Change, Bk 1) by Jo Walton
Over a summers weekend in 1949 -- but not our 1949 -- the upper-crust "Farthing set," the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace with Hitler eight years before, enjoys a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter of two politicians in the group; since her marriage to a... more
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The Yellow Room Conspiracy by Peter Dickinson
Two aging lovers, preparing to live out their final days as she prepares to enter a home and succumb to Alzheimer's Disease, agree to clear up a mystery that has intrigued them both for almost 40 years: who was responsible for the death of her ex-lover and his great friend.
Each thought the... more
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The Grey Mask (Miss Silver, Bk 1) (Large Print) by Patricia Wentworth
After Charles was jilted at the altar by Margaret, he discovers that she is mixed up in a vicious kidnapping plot masterminded by a sinister figure in a grey mask.
Charles turns to Miss Silver to uncover the strange truth behind Margaret's complicity, and the identity of the terrifying... more
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Metzger's Dog by Thomas Perry
The much-loved comic thriller by the author of the Edgar Award–winning The Butcher’s Boy is now, by popular demand, back in print, featuring a new Introduction by bestselling author Carl Hiaasen.
When Leroy “Chinese” Gordon breaks into a professor’s lab at the... more
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The Caves of Steel (R. Daneel Olivaw, Bk 1) by Isaac Asimov
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must... more
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Trent's Last Case by E. C. Bentley
Written in reaction against the solemnity of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Trent's Last Case, with its ingeniously twisting plot and cheerfully self-mocking hero, is the first classic of the golden age of English detective fiction. A powerful and ruthless American capitalist is found dead in the... more
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Cover Her Face (Adam Dalgliesh, Bk 1) by P. D. James
Sally Jupp was a sly and sensuous young woman who used her body and her brains to make her way up the social ladder. Now she lies across her bed with dark bruises from a strangler's fingers forever marring her lily-white throat.
Someone has decided that the wages of sin should be death...And... more
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Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed by Patricia Cornwell
Between August and November 1888, at least seven women were murdered in London's Whitechapel area. The gruesome nature of their deaths caused panic and fear in the East End for months, and gave rise to the sobriquet that was to become shorthand for a serial killer -- Jack the... more
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Jolie Blon's Bounce (Dave Robicheaux, Bk 12) by James Lee Burke
New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from a one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin has been tagged as the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular opinion, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it's not Hulin behind the atrocities. But while... more
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The Winter Queen (Erast Fandorin, Bk 1) by Boris Akunin & Andrew Bromfield (Trans...
Moscow, May 1876. What would cause a talented student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it is presumed. But young sleuth Erast Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this death is an open-and-shut case, nor with the... more
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Mayhem (aka Mirage) (St. Cyr & Kohler, Bk 1) by J. Robert Janes
December 1942. The body of a bicyclist is found on a deserted road in the Forest of Fontainebleau. A Resistance execution is suspected, and the Germans want the killer found within two days, or else. This is the debut adventure of St-Cyr and Kohler, originally published in the United States as... more
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Death of a Dissident (Inspector Rostnikov Bk 1) by Stuart Kaminsky
The first in the Edgar-winning Inspector Rostnikov series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has a lot on his plate. His superiors in the Moscow police force are suspicious of his Jewish wife, the black-market copies of his beloved Ed McBain novels are getting tough to find, and his dreams of... more
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The Sacred Bones (Charlotte Hennesey, Bk 1) by Michael Byrnes
A brazen and violent crime occurs at the crossroads of the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish faiths—the shocking theft of ancient artifacts hidden for many centuries in a secret vault beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount. In its wake, thirteen Israeli policemen and soldiers are dead—and... more
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Edge by Jeffery Deaver
Henry Loving, 'a lifter', specializes in extracting information from human targets by any means necessary (i.e., torture). Corte, 'a shepherd', is an agent in the Strategic Protection Department of a secret government agency normally assigned to protect high-profile... more
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The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell & Laurie Thompson (Translator)
The acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries, writing at the height of his powers, now gives us an electrifying stand-alone global thriller.
January 2006. In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjövallen, nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the... more
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Lost and Fondue (Cheese Shop, Bk 2) by Avery Aames
The fair town of Providence has settled down to normal after last year's murder. Jonquils are in bloom. The Cheese Shop is thriving. and Charlotte's romance with Jordan is flourishing. But when her friend, Meredith, decides to throw a fund-raiser to create a... more
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People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be... more
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The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth Redfern
To the ranks of Caleb Carr, Iain Pears, and Umberto Eco comes a stunning new voice in historical fiction."Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made... more
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The Artful Egg (Kramer and Zondi, Bk 7) by James McClure
Naomi Stride was a wealthy woman, and her death has left several people richer -- none more so than her twenty-six-year-old son Theo, with whom she had long had bitter differences over money. She was also a controversial woman, a writer whose novels had been banned in South Africa. But was it... more
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The Steam Pig (Kramer and Zondi, Bk 1) by James McClure
In this crime story a body of a woman is sent to the police surgeon by mistake. He discovers that she died not from cardiac weakness, but from an almost imperceptible wound made by a bicycle spoke -- a method of murder peculiar to certain Bantu gangsters.
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Die Dancing (Dr Clare Burtonall, Bk 3) by Jonathan Gash
Dr Clare Burtonall is unwittingly pulled into Manchester's criminal underworld by her lover Bonn, and the Agency for which he works - as a gigolo...
At the Palais Rocco Dr Clare Burtonall is taking dancing lessons with her lover Bonn, hired from the Pleases Escort Agency. The vibrant... more
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The Chill by Ross Macdonald
A beautiful, half-mad bride desperately running from her husband--a trail of murder that leads halfway across America and twenty years back into the past--an iron-willed matriarch--an amorous French instructress--a Las Vegas blackmailer--a strange voice from the past screaming: "I'm going to... more
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Monsieur Lecoq by Emile Gaboriau
After a fight in a seedy bar leaves three men dead, the police arrest a man who claims to be a circus performer. But a young detective named Lecoq suspects the man isn't who he claims to be, and that there is more at stake than meets the eye... Written in 1869, Monsieur Lecoq is not only a... more
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I Kill by Giorgio Faletti
A detective and an FBI agent embark upon the most harrowing case of their careers as they attempt to track down an enigmatic killer in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller. The killer announces his heinous acts in advance with desperate phone calls and ties his crimes together with songs that... more
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Black Dog by Stephen Booth
Every once in a while a new writer comes along with the voice, the passion, the originality, and the humanity to become a star. Such a writer is Stephen Booth, whose debut suspense novel Black Dog is already a bestseller in Britain. It's a long, hot summer in Northern England's Peak District,... more
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The Brotherhood of the Rose (Mortalis, Bk 1) by David Morrell
They were orphans, Chris and Saul -- raised in a Philadelphia school for boys, bonded by friendship, and devoted to a mysterious man called Eliot. He visited them and brought them candy. He treated them like sons. He trained them to be assassins. Now he is trying desperately to have them... more
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The Unbelievers by Alastair Sim
Scotland's richest man has been shot dead and dumped down a well. Was the Duke of Dornoch murdered by one of the miners whose wages he cut because of "market forces"? Was he killed in return for his part in clearing the Highlands of their people? Did a discarded lover take their final... more
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Cue For Murder by Helen McCloy
Two cold-blooded murders done on the stage of the Royalty Theater before the very eyes of audience and cast... An order in a near-by bar for a Rum, Gum, and Lime... A house fly which helps to solve the mystery ... A dark and faceless figure on the top landing of the theater fire escape... A... more
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Death from a Top Hat by Clayton Rawson
"Death From a Top Hat" has been called a great first novel. The book features two locked-room murders and pays homage to the master of the impossible crime, John Dickson Carr, by containing a discussion of the sort found in Carr's "The Three Coffins."
The book, one of the "Golden Age"... more
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Full Dark House (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit, Bk 1) by Christopher Fowler
Edgy, suspenseful, and darkly comic, here is the first novel in a riveting new mystery series starring two cranky but brilliant old detectives whose lifelong friendship was forged solving crimes for the London Police Department's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In Full Dark House, Christopher Fowler... more
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The Penguin Pool Murder (Hildegarde Withers, Bk 1) by Stuart Palmer
For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and is making his way to the exit when their teacher, the prim Hildegarde... more
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The Problem of the Green Capsule: Being the Psychologist's Murder Case (Gideon Fell S...
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Rim of the Pit by Hake Talbot
Hake Talbot wrote only two mystery novels and Ramble House is proud to bring both of them back into print for modern readers. RIM OF THE PIT is his masterpiece of an "impossible crime" that takes place in the far north where snow surrounds a group of desperate people, one of whom is bent on... more
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Speedy Death (Beatrice Lestrange Bradley Bk 1) by Gladys Mitchell
At Chayning Court during a house party, one of the guests is very late for dinner. Everard Mountjoy, reknowned explorer, appears to still be in his bath hours after entering the bathroom. Mountjoy turns out to have drowned, and the guests of the Bing family are all under suspicion as the police... more
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Wilders Walk Away by Herbert Brean
"A WALK ON THE WILDERS SIDE -- Other people die of mumps, Or general decay. Of fevers, chills or other ills; But Wilders walk away.
That's the little ditty they all sing in the quaintly picturesque New England village of Wilder's Lane. That's part of the mystery too, of course. You see, from... more
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The Sands of Windee (Inspector Bonaparte) by Arthur W. Upfield
No one but Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte saw anything unusual about the abandoned car in the background of the police photograph. But to Bony it signifies that the disappearance of Luke Marks near Windee station was no accident. Why had Marks driven out to Windee? Had he been... more
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The Man Who Tried to Get Away (The Man Who... , Bk 3) by Stephen R. Donaldson
Ex-alcoholic private investigator Mick "Brew" Axbrewder is in trouble again - he's taken a bullet in the stomach, and someone wants to finish the job. His partner, Ginny Fistoulari, is determined to keep him safe, so she takes an 'easy' job, an assignment so straightforward... more
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Political Suicide by Robert Barnard
CANDIDATE FOR MURDER
Bootham was a dreary Yorkshire town, without wealth, beauty, and especially class. But it did have a Member of Parliament ... until the Honorable James Partridge sinned against both God and Bootham by throwing himself into the Thames.
Well, perhaps he was pushed.... more
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The Germanicus Mosaic (Libertus Mystery of Roman Britain, Bk 1) by Rosemary Rowe
It is the 2nd century A.D., and Libertus, a freedman and pavement-maker, has a reputation for solving crime. When his influential patron asks for his help in a politically-sensitive murder case, Libertus is in no position to refuse. When the main suspect is also found murdered, the truth seems... more
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A Famine of Horses (Sir Robert Carey, Bk 1) by P. F. Chisholm
Carlisle 1592.
The only law on the Scottish Border is the elegant Sir Robert Carey -- newly appointed Deputy Warden -- and his seven dubious henchmen. He has wangled his appointment to be nearer his true love. And of course, he can use the money....
His first case is dealing with the... more
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The Perfect Daughter (A Nell Bray Mystery) by Gillian Linscott
"She was the perfect daughter before you got to her."Summer 1914.In her family's eyes, Verona North was all a girl should be at nineteen-talented, brave, and attractive, with the world opening out in front of her.But only a few months after leaving home to study art in London, she was found... more
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The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver
His code name is Phate -- a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates people's computers, invades their lives, and with chilling precision lures them to their deaths. To stop him, the authorities free imprisoned former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid the investigation. Teamed with old-school... more
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Death of a Dancer by Caro Peacock
Duelling, derring-do, and dastardly deeds are all in a day's work for Liberty Lane, a new heroine for fans of Georgette Heyer and Sarah Waters's Victorian novels. The Augustus theatre likes to put on a good show. But when a public spat erupts between two dancers on the London stage, it... more
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The Murders of Mrs. Austin and Mrs. Beale (Lloyd and Hill, Bk 4) by Jill McGown
Both victims were dishy, but that's all murder victims Leonora Austin, struggling artist, and Rosemary Beale, ex-call girl had in common. It's a disturbing case for newly promoted Detective Inspector Judy Hill, who knew Leonora, but also for her boyfriend, Detective Chief Inspector... more
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Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer
Meet the Matthews--while they last...Gregory, Harriet, Gertrude, Zoe, Guy, Stella and Randall. An intriguing family. Fascinating and clever to a fault. The fault is murder. The method most bizarre...as Georgette Heyer's witty, world-famous detective, Inspector Hannasyde, discovers in the... more
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Fellowship of Fear (Gideon Oliver, Bk 1) by Aaron Elkins
Travel in Germany, Sicily, Spain, and Holland -with all expenses paid- sounds more like a dream vacation than a visiting fellowship to Gideon Oliver. That is, until some black-clad and desperate men try to kill him. And it just so happens that two other visiting scholars have met with mysterious... more
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The Dragon Scroll (Sugawara Akitada, Bk 1) by I. J. Parker
In an adventure filled with highway bandits, unscrupulous politicians, and renegade monks, The Dragon Scroll introduces readers to the lively world of eleventh-century Japan and an irrepressible hero -- Sugawara Akitada. On his first official assignment, Akitada -- an impoverished nobleman and... more
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The D'Arblay Mystery (A Dr Thorndyke Mystery) by R. Austin Freeman
When a man is found floating beneath the skin of a green-skimmed pond one morning, Dr Thorndyke becomes embroiled in an astonishing case. This wickedly entertaining detective fiction reveals that the victim was murdered through a lethal injection and someone out there is trying a cover-up.
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A Plague On Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew Chronicle, Bk 1) by Susanna Gregory
A Plague on Both Your Houses introduces the physician Matthew Bartholomew, whose unorthodox but effective treatment of his patients frequently draws accusations of heresy from his more traditional colleagues. Besides his practice, Bartholomew is teacher of Medicine at Michaelhouse, part of the... more
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Murder on a Kibbutz: A Communal Case (Michael Ohayon, Bk 3) by Bayta Gur & Dalya ...
Israeli policeman Michael Ohayon must once again solve a murder that has taken place within a complex, closed society: the kibbutz. Told repeatedly that "one who hasn't lived on a kibbutz can't possibly understand life there," Ohayon becomes increasingly determined to penetrate... more
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The Wolves of Savernake (Domesday, Bk 1) by Edward Marston
In 1086 England's mighty king, William the Conqueror; sends out surveyors and census takers to record the resources of his land and its people. Some welcome these inquisitive royal agents and their "day of judgment." Others hate them. But wherever the king's men go they bring... more
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The Queen's Head (Nicholas Bracewell, Bk 1) by Edward Marston
1587, and Mary, Queen of Scots, dies by the executioner's axe, her head, shorn of its auburn wig, rolling across the platform. Will her death end the ceaseless plotting against Mary's red-haired cousin, Elizabeth?
1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, is a time of more terror and... more
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The King's Evil (Christopher Redmayne, Bk 1) by Edward Marston
In a London ravaged by the Great Fire, Christopher Redmayne envisages the rebuilding of the city. He is thrown together with Jonathan Bale, a decidedly Puritan constable, when one of his clients is killed, leading the pair on a journey through the dark underbelly of London and the hedonistic... more
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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery by Gyles Brandreth
One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteriesLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's... more
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The Man in the Green Chevy (Milt Kovak, Bk 1) by Susan Rogers Cooper
Meet Milt Kovak, divorced, overweight, mid-40s Chief Deputy of Prophesy County, Oklahoma.
When his sleepy little burg and the surrounding towns suddenly get some horrific murders, Milt's cool intuition and great people-skills are put to the test.
Someone is raping and killing old... more
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The Fourth Door: The Houdini Murders by Paul Halter
Someone has volunteered to spend the night in the haunted room at the Darnley House. The room is sealed by pressing a unique coin, selected moments before, on the wax. But when the door is re-opened, someone else?s body is lying there, the seals are unbroken, and the coin has not left the... more
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Torpedo Juice (Serge A. Storms, Bk 7) by Tim Dorsey
The drinks are on us!
Serge A. Storm returns -- and so does Tim Dorsey -- for another hilarious tour of the wacky underside of the Sunshine State. And this time our lovable but maniacal hero is on a mission: Stay off police radar and reinvent himself.
Naturally Serge makes a beeline to... more
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The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James
1920s England: Sarah Piper’s lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis, rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I, has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who... more
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Policeman's Evidence (Inspector Beale, Bk 5) by Rupert Penny
As a guest at a country home where the loss of a valuable gem occurs, Tony Purdon enlists the help of his friend Inspector Beale, to discover what happened. But when Beale arrives he is confronted with not a jewel theft, but a suspicious death. It appears to be an obvious suicide since the dead... more
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