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Deadly Harvest

Detective Kubu #4

by Michael Stanley

Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they're being harvested for muti, a witch doctor's potion traditionally derived from plants and animals—and which, some believe, can be made more potent by...

The Body in the Piazza

Faith Fairchild #21

by Katherine Hall Page

Faith Fairchild is going to Italy, where murder and mayhem mix with pecorino, panna cotta, and Prosecco, in the latest entry in this "highly entertaining mystery series [that] effectively mixes modern-day moral...

Let's All Kill Constance

Crumley Mysteries #3

by Ray Bradbury

On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous...

The Girl Who Married an Eagle

by Tamar Myers

Based on actual events in Tamar Myers's life, The Girl Who Married an Eagle is a beautiful addition to her Belgian Congo mystery series

When Julia Elaine Newton, a young, pretty Ohio girl, volunteered to go on...

A Graveyard for Lunatics

Crumley Mysteries #2

by Ray Bradbury

Halloween Night, 1954. A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios. An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated...

Death Is a Lonely Business

Crumley Mysteries #1

by Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows...

Sidney Sheldon's The Tides of Memory

by Sidney Sheldon & Tilly Bagshawe

An addictive, edge-of-your-seat thriller filled with the hallmark elements that made New York Times bestselling author Sidney Sheldon—"the master of the story-telling game" (People)—an international legend:...

Sleight of Hand

by Phillip Margolin

Tenacious investigator Dana Cutler must take down a charismatic and diabolical lawyer before he can pull off the perfect crime in this powerhouse thriller from New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin....

Fear in the Sunlight

Josephine Tey #4

by Nicola Upson

Summer 1936. Mystery writer Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion, Wales, to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal...

There Was an Old Woman

by Hallie Ephron

There Was An Old Woman by Hallie Ephron is a compelling novel of psychological suspense in which a young woman becomes entangled in a terrifying web of deception and madness involving an elderly neighbor.

When...

Leaving Everything Most Loved

Maisie Dobbs #10

by Jacqueline Winspear

The death of an Indian immigrant leads Maisie Dobbs into a dangerous yet fascinating world and takes her in an unexpected direction in this latest chapter of the New York Times bestselling series "that seems...

The Money Kill

Karin Schaeffer #4

by Katia Lief

Former New York City police detectives-turned-Brooklyn private investigators Karin Schaeffer and her husband Mac survived when brutal terror invaded their lives more than once. Now the offer of thirty thousand...

The Guilty One

by Lisa Ballantyne

An eight-year-old boy is found dead in a playground . . . and his eleven-year-old neighbor is accused of the crime. Leading the defense is London solicitor Daniel Hunter, a champion of lost causes.

A damaged...

Irish Eyes

Callahan Garrity #8

by Mary Kay Andrews

Ex-cop Callahan Garrity was more than happy to leave the Atlanta P.D. behind her to start her own business -- the House Mouse cleaning service -- and to indulge in a bit of freelance private investigation on...

In the Blink of an Eye

by Wendy Corsi Staub

Welcome to Lily Dale, New York . . . a sleepy summer resort, home to a population of psychics, and the place where Julia Garrity and Kristin Shuttleworth formed a fast friendship broken only by death.

Ten Summer...

The Sound of Broken Glass

Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James #15

by Deborah Crombie

In the past . . .

On a blisteringly hot August afternoon in Crystal Palace, once home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed...

Into the Dark

Brenna Spector #2

by Alison Gaylin

Can a stranger share your memories?

That's the question that haunts Brenna Spector when she first sees footage of missing webcam performer Lula Belle. Naked but hidden in shadow, the "performance artist" shares...

Proof of Guilt

Inspector Ian Rutledge #15

by Charles Todd

Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge must contend with two dangerous enemies in this latest complex mystery in the New York Times bestselling series

London, summer 1920. An unidentified body appears to have been run...

Shadowkiller

Nightwatcher #3

by Wendy Corsi Staub

From the New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of suspense so terrifying it may make you afraid of the dark . . .

Allison Taylor MacKenna feels as though she'sawakened at last from a ten-year-long nightmare.But...

The Riptide Ultra-Glide

Serge Storms #16

by Tim Dorsey

Welcome to Paradise!

Freshly laid-off Wisconsinites Patrick and Barbara McDougall are going to sunny Florida for a modest romantic vacation. But the motel they picked isn't quite a pastel paradise, and they have...