Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780425219584
ISBN-10: 0425219585
Call Number: [PBK] M BAR

When fellow bookstore owner Doris Gleason is murdered, Tricia Miles, deciding to investigate, discovers that someone wanted to get their hands on a rare cookbook in Doris's possession and that the locals believe that someone is her.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/27/2007
ISBN-13: 9780553588446
ISBN-10: 0553588443
Call Number: [PBK] M BAX

Heading to Hawaii for a conference, veterinarian and amateur sleuth Jessica Popper suddenly finds herself once again embroiled in murder, when the body of an ambitious young reporter whom Jess had befriended washes up on a local beach and the unknown killer believes that Jess may know too much about the crime.

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Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/18/2009
ISBN-13: 9781594148903
ISBN-10: 1594148902
Call Number: M BRE

Business at the venerable Crown and Anchor pub is flagging—and with good reason—in Brett's droll 10th mystery set in the West Sussex town of Fethering.  An outbreak of food poisoning, with attendant bad press, temporarily shuts down the establishment. Then the grand reopening is spoiled by a rowdy biker gang and the brutal stabbing death of a beloved, mentally challenged kitchen helper.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9780425229897
ISBN-10: 0425229890
Call Number: M CHI

Scrapbook shop owner, Carmela, helps her friend renovate an old mansion in New Orleans into a crafty haunted house for tourists, but finds herself investigating a series of murders when a flaming body comes crashing through the window.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9780425225554
ISBN-10: 0425225550
Call Number: [PBK] M DAN

Pepper Martin, a heiress-turned-cemetery-tour guide who can communicate with ghosts, finds her business trip to Chicago taking an otherworldly turn when the specter of Madeline, a young woman in a lab coat, needs her help in warning Dr. Dan Callahan that his life is in danger.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/01/2010
ISBN-13: 9781590585856
ISBN-10: 1590585852
Call Number: M DOB

Professor Karen Pelletier is about to realize her dream; after six years in the English Department at New England’s exclusive Enfield College, she is up for tenure. Then Professor Joseph Lone Wolf, her rival for the one tenured spot in the department, whose ethnicity gives him minority-preference status, is found dead from an overdose of Peyote buttons.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/27/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312364618
ISBN-10: 031236461X
Call Number: M DOS

When a local widow complains she is being tormented by witches, rancher and Ute tribal investigator Charlie Moon initially disregards the claims until the woman defends herself at the cost of her life, a situation that compels Charlie to look into covert activities on an adjoining oil company field.

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Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/04/2009
ISBN-13: 9780765318626
ISBN-10: 0765318628
Call Number: M DOU

Feline gumshoe, Midnight Louie, has his paws full when a killer strikes the set of a week-long Las Vegas charity dance event, and Temple Barr must resurrect her teen persona to ensure the safety of her fiancé and future step-daughter.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/06/2009
ISBN-13: 9780425229903
ISBN-10: 0425229904
Call Number: M FER

Part-time sleuth and needlework shop owner Betsy Devonshire works to clear murder suspect Leona Cunningham and find the real killer after the victim was last seen blaming the peaceful Wiccan and microbrewery owner for a series of local “accidents.".

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/24/2009
ISBN-13: 9780553807196
ISBN-10: 0553807196
Call Number: M FOW

Drawn together again by a series of bizarre murders involving beheaded victims, the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit search for clues beneath the medieval buildings of St. Pancras Church, where they unearth a disturbing history of Christian rites and pagan rituals. By the author of The Victoria Vanishes.

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Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/08/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312384111
ISBN-10: 0312384114
Call Number: M GAS

Released from jail on condition that he join the elegant Laura Moon's speed-dating agency, a reluctant Lovejoy is finagled into a temporary marriage of convenience to help the millionaire divorcee track down her dangerous former husband.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/30/2008
ISBN-13: 9780553806793
ISBN-10: 0553806793
Call Number: M GRA

Thirty-five years after the murder of her mother, Jacobia Tiptree prepares for the long-delayed trial of the killer, whose actions she had witnessed as a toddler, but life becomes complicated by the disappearance of the defendant, her best friend's missing infant daughter, and her desperate efforts to keep her 1823 fixer-upper from falling down on her head.

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Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/01/2009
ISBN-13: 9781590586341
ISBN-10: 1590586344
Call Number: M GRE

The irrepressible and defiantly unflappable Phryne Fisher decides to attend a lavish four-day celebration in Melbourne, the Last Best Party of 1928, despite anonymous and deadly warnings to keep away, which include a coral snake. One of the party's hosts, Gerald Templar, becomes worried after Tarquin, the orphan boy he's adopted, disappears.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312375270
ISBN-10: 0312375271
Call Number: M HAR

Taking a seemingly easy job in her first case as a fledgling private investigator, Jane Lawless attempts to track down the missing father of client Annie Andrews, a successful effort with unanticipated consequences.

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Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/29/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312381929
ISBN-10: 0312381921
Call Number: M MAY

Joe Gunther must balance the official investigation into the murder of Wayne Castine, a suspected child predator, with a private probe into the possible murder of his girlfriend Lyn Silva's father and brother, who were originally believed lost at sea.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/22/2009
ISBN-13: 9780375425141
ISBN-10: 0375425144
Call Number: M MCC

Encountering high-flying financier Minty Auchterlonie while attending a birthday party, Isabel learns of Minty's complicated monetary troubles and wonders if the ambitious woman is perpetuating a fraud, a situation that is further complicated by a plagiarism battle with Professor Dove and Cat's problematic new man.

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Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/13/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312582647
ISBN-10: 0312582641
Call Number: M MCI

Tough economic times have put St. Hilary's on the chopping block and Father Dowling in search of support among his parishioners, a search that leads him to the wealthy Devere family, who are being stalked by a killer.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/27/2009
ISBN-13: 9780061123993
ISBN-10: 0061123994
Call Number: M MUR

Feline investigators Joe Grey, Dulcie and Kit track a killer whose plans soon entangle the lives of the cats' human companions, in a story where a feral-cat stranger leads Joe and his friends to an unlikely crypt that might have lain for generations undiscovered.

Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/01/2008
ISBN-13: 9780060763671
ISBN-10: 0060763671
Call Number: M PAG

Secretly assisting her museum president friend in a case involving a stolen piece of fine art, Faith Fairchild stumbles upon a murder scene near a controversial exhibit and becomes increasingly exasperated by the police's inability to recognize important clues.

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Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 10/27/2009
ISBN-13: 9780312375652
ISBN-10: 0312375654
Call Number: M TRE

Counseling a hostile Irish delegation to the Celtic church of 670 A.D., Fidelma of Cashel is embroiled in a politically tenacious investigation when one of the delegates is found murdered, a case that is complicated by the theft of a priceless reliquary and rumors of a slave trade.