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2005
- Katherine Hall Page. The Body in the Snowdrift
- Caterer Faith Fairchild and her family go to Pine Slopes Ski resort to celebrate her father-in-law's 70th birthday. Faith has mixed feelings to begin with about the celebration, but then the dead start piling up.
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2004
- Jacqueline Winspear. Birds of a Feather
- Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery magnate's missing daughter. The case is complicated by the violent deaths of three of the heiress' friends. Maisie discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable agony of The Great War.
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2003
- Carolyn Hart. Letter
From Home
- World-renowned journalist G. G. Gilman does her best not
to think of the past. But one day she gets a letter - sent from
the small Oklahoma town where she grew up - that brings it all
back. Memories of people she had once known and loved dearly
- and of the sultry summer when her life changed forever...
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2002
- Donna Andrews. You've
Got Murder
- The first mystery to feature a computer with a mind like
Miss Marple and hardware that hides a suspiciously human heart.
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2001
- Rhys Bowen. Murphy's
Law
- Introduces Irish immigrant Molly Murphy, who flees her turn-of-the-century
homeland after killing a person in self-defense. When a man
is murdered on Ellis Island--a man Molly was seen arguing with--Molly
pounds the notorious streets of Hell's Kitchen and the Lower
East Side to find the killer and clear her name before her deadly
past comes back to haunt her new future.
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2000
- Margaret Maron. Storm
Track
- Judge Deborah Knott blows the lid off a murder investigation
with gale force winds in this newest entry in the award-winning
series. As Hurricane Fran strikes the North Carolina coast,
Judge Knott seeks clues to a motel murder and a determined killer
finds a perfect time to strike again.
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1999
- Earlene Fowler. Mariner's
Compass
- When Jacob Chandler dies, he leaves his home in Morro Bay
to Benni Harper--the only stipulation being that she must stay
in the house for two weeks alone before the inheritance becomes
hers. To discover whether he is her guardian angel or personal
demon, she must follow the scavenger hunt clues he has set up
for her throughout his home.
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1998
- Laura Lippman. Butchers
Hill
- Tess Monaghan has finally made the move and hung out the
shingle as a P.I.-for-hire, complete with an office in Butchers
Hill. Her first client is Luther Beale, the notorious vigilante
who five years ago shot a boy for vandalizing his car, just
sprung from jail. He wants to make reparations to the kids who
witnessed his crime for his own peace of mind, so he needs Tess
to find them. But once she starts snooping, the witnesses she
locates start dying.
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1997
- Kate Ross. The
Devil in Music
- While traveling the Continent with his friend, Dr. MacGregor,
English dandy Julian Kestrel reads of the recent uncovering
of a four-year-old murder involving the aristocratic Malvezzi
family and decides to try out his investigating skills once
again.
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- 1996
- Margaret Maron. Up
Jumps the Devil
- After
someone murders one of Deborah Knott's childhood friends, and
then another, suspicion falls on Deborah's father.
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1995
- Sharyn McCrumb. If
I'd Killed Him When I Met Him
- Elizabeth MacPherson, Southern sleuth and forensic anthropologist,
investigates a pair of murders for her brother's Virginia law
firm.
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1994
- Sharyn McCrumb. She
Walks These Hills
- A historian backpacking on the Appalachian Trail--attempting
to trace the tragic final journey of a young woman kidnapped
by the Shawnee in 1789--is unaware that the woman's spirit has
been seen wandering these hills.
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1993
- Carolyn G. Hart. Dead
Man's Island
- Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, known affectionately as Henrie
O, writes novels after working 50 years as a journalist. Longtime
friend Chase Prescott, multimillionaire media magnate, begs
her to visit his private island near Charleston so that she
can deduce which of the people there wants him dead.
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1992
- Margaret Maron. Bootlegger's
Daughter
- Unconventional,
North Carolina attorney Deborah Knott has done the unthinkable:
tossed her hat into the heated race for district judge of old-boy-ruled
Colleton County. While she's defending indigent clients and
reeling in voters, the young daughter of Janie Whitehead begs
her to investigate her mother's never-solved eighteen-year-old
murder. Deborah takes on the case: following twisted Southern
bloodlines; turning up dangerous, decades-old secrets; and inspiring
someone to go on an all-out campaign to derail her future .
. .
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1991
- Nancy Pickard.
I.O.U.
- Amateur
sleuth Jenny Cain examines her deceased mother's insanity, investigates
the bankruptcy of her family's business and reckons with an
attempt on her own life.
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1990
- Nancy Pickard. Bum
Steer
- Jenny Cain, director of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation,
goes to Kansas City where she hopes to discover why a dying
millionaire has willed a vast cattle ranch to her little-known
foundation.
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1989
- Elizabeth Peters
(Barbara Mertz). Naked
Once More
- Jacqueline
Kirby, former librarian turned bestselling novelist, is selected
to write the sequel to the greatest blockbuster of all time,
"Naked in the Ice". The original author, Kathleen Darcy, is
missing and presumed dead.
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1988
- Carolyn G. Hart. Something
Wicked
- "Arsenic and Old Lace" may be everybody's favorite play,
but someone on Broward Rock has spotted its murderous potential.
When the corpses on stage in the local amateur production become
real ones, bookshop owner Annie Laurance must move fast to save
her fiance, Max, from a murder charge.
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