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Play Dirty
by Sandra Brown
After 5 years in prison, Griff Burkett is a free man. But the disgraced Cowboys quarterback can never return to the life he knew before he was caught cheating. Now working for the owner and CEO of SunSouth Airlines, he finds his boss demands secrecy.

Dead Heat
by Dick Francis & Felix Francis
Max Moreton is a rising culinary star, but when nearly all the guests at a private affair he catered fall victim to severe food poisoning, his reputation is at risk. Scrambling to meet his next obligation, he must provide the sponsors with a day to remember. Then a bomb blasts rips that event apart, and Max knows close calls are too close for comfort.

In the Woods
by Tana French
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers call their children home from play. When three children do not return, the police are called in. They find one child, gripping a tree trunk in terror, unable to recall a single detail. Twenty years later, the found boy is now a detective investigating a similar case.

Justice Denied
by J.A. Jance
Seattle investigator J.P Beaumont is investigating the murder of a former drug dealer, and his lover is looking into the deaths of several registered sex offenders. When the two investigations become entangled, they begin to uncover a nightmarish conspiracy that could involve people in high places.

Looks To Die For
by Janice Kaplan (Mystery/Humor)
Lacy Fields is the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a mother of 3, and a fabulous decorator to the stars. When her husband is accused of murdering a young wannabe actress, Lacy finds out she has a killer instinct for hunting down murderers.

The Burnt House
by Faye Kellerman (Detective)
After a small commuter plane crashes into a California apartment building, the fate of an unaccounted for flight attendant remains a mystery more than a month later. Her stepfather insists she was not on board, that she was most likely murdered by her abusive husband. L.A.P.D. Lt. Peter Decker works overtime on the case—a frightening picture begins to form of unimaginable evil that will challenge his beliefs about guilt, innocence and justice.

Up in Honey’s Room
by Elmore Leonard
It's the waning months of World War II, and Carl, no longer on the trail of Dust Bowl bank robbers, is tracking down a couple of escaped German POWs. The trail leads to Detroit, where it appears the POWs, Jurgen and Otto, are being hidden by a German-born butcher, Walter Shoen, who just happens to look exactly like Heinrich Himmler.

The Spellman Files
by Lisa Lutz (Mystery/Humor)
28-year-old Izzy Spellman is a successful licensed private investigator who has a history of romantic mistakes and drinking excessively; she is addicted to Get Smart reruns, and enters homes through windows. Can she make her life more normal by getting out of the family business?

Nothing But Trouble
by Michael McGarrity (Detective)
At the urging of an old friend, Kerney takes a job as a technical advisor on a contemporary Western being filmed near the Mexican border-and becomes embroiled in circumstances that will change his and his family's lives forever.

Now and Then
by Robert B. Parker (Detective)
Detective Spenser knows something is up when Dennis Doherty enters his office. Dennis wants his wife investigated, but Spenser discovers Dennis in an encounter with another man!

Case closed? Not So! Three days later, three people turn up dead and Spenser’s in the middle of a hornets nest!

Spare Change
by Robert Parker
The "spare change" killer executes victims with a single shot to the head, leaving three coins near the body. Sunny's dad, Phil, headed the old task force formed to catch the killer, who wrote Phil taunting letters as the killings piled up. A new killing and a fresh letter to Phil have him and Sunny serving as consultant and assistant respectively to a new task force. Gutsy Sunny takes the lead in identifying the most likely suspect, and then in playing him dangerously to get hard evidence.

The Quickie
by James Patterson (Bestseller)
Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiraling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for. Now, she's paralyzed by a deadly secret that could tear her life apart. With her job and marriage on the line, Lauren's desire for retribution becomes a lethal inferno as she fights to save her livelihood--and her life.

The Naming of the Dead
by Ian Rankin (Scotland)
As the leaders of the free world meet for a conference, every cop is needed for frontline duty – except for John Rebus, placed far away from VIPs at an abandoned police station. But when a delegate has fallen to his death, are the world’s most powerful men at risk from a killer?

No Safe Place
by JoAnn Ross (Detective)
Chicago homicide detective Kate Delaney is infuriated by the New Orleans police department’s blasé attitude toward her estranged sister’s death. She needs the help of cop-turned PI Nick Broussard; together they discover a dark secret too many are willing to keep.

Malice
by Robert Tanenbaum (Legal)
As Karp struggles to uncover those responsible for planning the terrorist murders of 6 schoolchildren, he goes to the aid of the younger brother of his college roommate who was suspended from his position as baseball coach at a university in Idaho.

Murder on K Street
by Margaret Truman
Senator Lyle Simmons finds his wife’s lifeless body. With plans for a presidential run, Senator Simmons contacts his old friend, retired DA Philip Rotundi. Suspicion for the murder falls on a K Street lobbyist. Rotundi, with the aid of a sleuthing couple, Mac and Annabel Smith, steps into the fray and the sleuthing begins in earnest!

Hit Parade
by Lawrence Block
John Keller is everyone's favorite hit man: a new kind of hero for a new, uncertain age. He's cool. Reliable. A real pro: the hit man's hit man. He's taken care of them all, quietly and efficiently. Just maybe it's time to pack it in and find a nice little place, but retirement takes money, and to get money means he's got to work...

Kidnapped
by Jan Burke
When Irene's profiles of missing children run in the paper, she doesn't expect a chain reaction that puts her life in peril. One of the more tragic disappearances was that of 4 year old Jenny. Jenny's father was bludgeoned to death, but she was never found.

Withering Heights
by Dorothy Cannell [British]
When Ellie's young cousin, Ariel, suddenly turns up on Ellie's doorstep asking her to investigate some mysterious happenings back home, Ellie can't refuse -- especially since Ariel lives in a fabulous Gothic mansion on the Yorkshire moors. But things in Bronte country are even worse than Ellie anticipated.

I Heard That Song Before
by Mary Higgins Clark [bestseller]
Is her husband a killer? As Kay plunges into the pursuit of a memory, she doesn't suspect that uncovering what lies behind her memories may cost her her life.

Damage Control
by Robert Dugoni
Dana Hill is accustomed to stress as a successful attorney, wife and mother. But her carefully balanced world collapses when Dana is diagnosed with breast cancer, her twin brother is beaten to death and her husband is having an affair. She decides to delay cancer treatment and investigate her brother's homicide.

Dust
by Martha Grimes [British]
When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelor's murder, Jury's not sure what's more perplexing: the circumstances of the fellow's death, the conflicting stories of the man's past, or the motivations of the cases's chief inspecting officer, the beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar.

The Alibi Man
by Tami Hoag [bestseller]
As Elena delves into her dead friend's secret life, she discovers ties not only to the Russian mob but also to a group of pwerful and wealthy Palm Beach bad boys known for giving each other alibis to cover a multitude of sins.

Past Perfect
by Susan Isaacs
15 years ago, Katie snagged her dream job as an analyst for the CIA. Then, 2 years into it, she was fired with no explanation. She got on with her life and wrote a wildly successful novel called "Spy Guys." But a single phone call changes everything. An Agency woman begs for Katie's help, and in exchange, will tell her of her sudden dismissal. Can Katie go from writing fictional spy stories to surviving the real world of espionage again?

Obsession
by Jonathan Kellerman [bestseller]
Tanya was a solemn girl when Dr. Alex Delaware treated her obsessive-compulsive symptoms. Now, Tanya confides in Delaware her aunt's deathbed confession of murder. Did the murder really occur or is it a strange obsession?

The Art of Detection
by Laurie R. King

No Good Deeds
by Laura Lippman
For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor seems a theoretical problem, until her boyfriend brings home a street kid who doesn't realize he holds a key to the man's death. Tess agrees to protect the boy's identity no matter what, but with feds determined to learn the boy's name, Tess finds out how far officials will go to get what they want.

Find Me
by Carol O'Connell
They are the parents of missing children, some recently disappeared, some gone a decade or more -- all brought together by the word that children's gravesites are being discovered there. Kathy drives with them. The child she seeks, though, is not like the others.

Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by Marisha Pessl [bestseller]
Blue's highly unusual parenting and talent draws her to a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. A sudden drowning, a series of inexplicable events, and finally a shocking death lead to a confluence of mysteries. Blue is left ot make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural lexicon to guide her.

Red Chrysanthemum
by Laura Joh Rowland [historical]
July 1698. Sano Ichiro, the samurai detective who has risen to become the shogun's 2nd in command, is investigating rumors of a plot to overthrow the ruling regime. When deputy, Hirata, makes an inquiry to Lord Mori, Hirata finds the Lord murdered and the only clue is a chrysanthemum soaked in blood.

A Deeper Sleep
by Dana Stabenow
Repeat offender, Louis Deem, has just now gotten away with murdering his young wife. P. I. Kate and state trooper Jim are devastated, certain that this man we'll do it again. A few weeks later, two men are dead and there's a witness. This time, Louis Deem won't get off... or will he?

A Grave Denied
by Dana Stabenow
Edgar-winning Kate Shugak series expands the lives of her beloved characters against the breathtaking backdrop of Alaska. Kate's an experienced sleuth, but this time she's after a bunch of red herrings while the real shark silently pursues her.

Mask Market
by Andrew Vachss
A shadowy man hands Burke a dossier of someone he wants found. Minutes later, Burke sees the man gunned down by a "professional." When Burke examines the dossier, he sees a now grown woman was the girl he'd rescued from a brutal pimp 20 years earlier.

Messenger Of Truth
by Jacqueline Winspear [historical]
London 1931. The night before an exhibition of his artwork opens at a Mayfair gallery, controversial artist Nick Bassinton-Hope falls to his death. Nick's twin sister seeks out fellow college graduate, Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator to help find the killer.

Painted Lady
by Peter Abresch [set in an Elderhostel]
As Dodee works on a commissioned painting, Jim attends a mystery convention only to witness a woman fall to her death from the building across the street. The next day, the woman mysteriously appears in Dodee's painting. Who is she?

Hard Truth
by Nevada Barr
Just 3 days after her wedding to Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves from Mississippi to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park, where 3 young girls have disappeared.

Monsieur Pamplemousse on Vacation
by Michael Bond [dog helper, humorous]
As Pamplemousse tries to vacation in the South of France, a dismembered body washes ashore. His ever-faithful bloodhound Pommes Frites is on hand as one of the top sniffer dogs, both hoping adventure #13 does not prove to be their last.

The Third Translation
by Matt Bondurant
An American Egyptologist living in London is unlocking the riddle of the Stela of Paser. In the final hours before his contract is up, Walter meets a young woman who puts his entire career and life on the line.

The Siren Queen: an Ursula Blanchard Mystery at Queen Elizabeth I's Court
by Fiona Buckley [historical]
Ursula, illegitimate half-sister to Queen Elizabeth I and sometime spy on the Queen's behalf, is happily married and watching her daughter grow up, but a new plot to put Mary, Queen of Scots, on the English throne demands Ursula's attention.

Last Car to Elysian Fields
by James Lee Burke
When Louisiana police officer Dave Robicheaux learns that his old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, Dave has to investigate. In doing so, he invites an ancestral evil into his life and the lives of those around him.

Hasty Death
by Marion Chesney [Edwardian England]
Leaving her parents' life in high society to join the working class wasn't easy for Lady Rose Summer. Murder called her back ... to uncover a devious blackmail plot and an unexpected killer.

Love For Sale: a Grace & Favor Mystery
by Jill Churchill [historical]
Sister and brother Lily and Robert Brewster inherited "Grace & Favor" mansion in the bleak 1930's. There's barely enough to pay the bills on salaries as part-time teachers at the local grade school, but it doesn't seem right to rent their home to a mysterious stranger wanting to have a political meeting right before the election.

Reluctant Spy
by Iris Collier [King Henry VIII period, historical]
When Nicholas Peverell begins investigating the murder of a wool merchant his suspicions are not only confirmed, the tables are turned ... as he becomes the hunted.

The Closers
by Michael Connelly
A formerly unsolved case is now anything but cold. A DNA match brings the case to life again, but as Harry pushes to find the truth, he wonders if this assignment was intended to be his last.

Vineyard Prey: a Martha's Vineyard Mystery
by Philip R. Craig
When old Vietnam buddy, Joe Begay, asks J.W. to virtually smuggle him back to his home on the Vineyard, J.W. knows something's not right. Soon the facts emerge, and J.W. will do anything for his friend -- anything but jeopardize the safety of his own family.

The Twelfth Card
by Jeffery Deaver
Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his protege, Amelia Sachs, try to outguess Thompson Boyd who has supposedly turned into a killing machine. Now he's after Geneva Settle, a high school girl from Harlem. Why?

The Good Sister
by Diana Diamond
As sisters Jennifer and Catherine get lured into the film imdustry by a high-powered, charming Irish celebrity, jealousies flare. Suddenly neither sister can trust the other in a game that has their love, wealth, and even their lives hanging in the balance.

Golden Lies
by Barbara Freethy
Riley McAllister reluctantly agrees to escort his grandmother to a televised traveling antique show. The ugly bronze dragon they found in her attic turns out to be a rare artifact worth a fortune. Suddenly, it seems as though every antique dealer around wants it. When the dragon goes missing, the search brings family scandals to light.

The Shooting Script: Diagnosis Murder
by Lee Goldberg
Dr. Mark Sloan is drawn to the sounds of gunfire at his neighbor's Malibu beach house. There, he discovers the bullet-riddled bodies of an aspiring actress and a Hollywood producer. An obvious suspect is the producer's wife, who has gunpowder residue all over her clothing, but she also has a perfect alibi.

Irish Cream: a Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
by Andrew M. Greeley
Damian "Day" O'Sullivan is a troubled young man who blames himself for a tragic vehicular homicide he may not have committed. Trouble is, Day's entire family seems to be conspiring to pin the crime on the poor lad, which leads Nuala and Dermot to wonder who really ran over Rodney Keefe in the parking lot.

The Serpent's Trail
by Sue Henry
Sixty-something retiree, Maxie McNabb, is a gypsy at heart, but before she can take to the open road in her brand-new Winnebago, she needs to figure out who burglarized her friend's home. As she gets closer to solving the puzzle, she gets closer to putting her life on the line.

Maitland
by James Patrick Hunt
For bounty hunter Evan Maitland, it seemed an easy job to get Barry McDermott back from skipping bond. Problem was... the Posses want their money back and want McDermott dead. For Maitland ... he's on the wrong side at the wrong time.

Blood Memory
by Greg Iles
"Cat" Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide detectives. One morning at a grisly murder scene, she's struck by a panic attack. She retreats to her family estate in Mississippi, but instead of recovering, she discovers clues that bind past and present murders.

Viva Las Vengeance
by Daniel Klein [1962 Elvis fiction]
A King's work is never done. Before long, during what should be R&R in Las Vegas, Elvis finds himself under immense pressure to find something entirely different: a killer!

Straight into Darkness
by Faye Kellerman
Lustmord -- the joy of murder. Panic sets in as Inspector Axel Berg investigates the "artful" homicides occuring in 1920s Munich, especially as Hitler and his Brownshirt party thugs roam the streets.

The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor."

Always Time to Die
by Elizabeth Lowell
Carly May was adopted and doesn't know her own biological roots, so tracing genealogical roots for others is how she makes a living. Now hired by Winifred Simmons y Castillo, aunt of the governor of New Mexico, she finds that she may have been hired for revenge.

Icing Ivy
by Evan Marshall [cat helper named "Winky"]
When best friends Jane and Ivy attend a fiction writers' retreat, Ivy unexpectedly invites the new man in her life. As the group becomes snowbound, Jane discovers Ivy stabbed with an ice pick, and the new man vanished in the frosty air.

The Weedless Widow
by Deborah Morgan
Bill Rhodes has a collection of fly fishing lures that any collector would kill for... and someone does just that. As Jeff gets too close to solving the crime, the killer abducts his housebound, agoraphobic wife. Can Jeff reel in the killer in time to save his wife?

Cold Service
by Robert B. Parker
When his closest ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend and infiltrate the Ukranian mob responsible for the hit.

Thicker Than Water
by P. J. Parrish
Jack Cade pleaded guilty 20 years ago to a murder he didn't commit. A few days after his release, the police arrest him again for the murder of his defense attorney. Now, Jack's son hires a P.I. to clear his father's name... and find the real murderer.

The Devil To Pay
by Ellery Queen
Stocks rose, stocks fell. But for Solly Spaeth, the fat little man with the computer mind, he always made a killing at the expense of others. Now, someone decided the devil must pay ...

Thieves Break In
by Cristina Sumners
Reverend Kathryn Koerney is looking forward to guiding a group through historical England, but just before she departs, she gets word that her cousin Richard has fallen to his death from the tower. Fortunately, her friend, Police Chief Tom Holder, is anxious to accompany her to the scene and lend his expertise.

A Cold Treachery
by Charles Todd
Someone has murdered the Elcott family at their kitchen table without the least sign of struggle. When the victims are tallied, the local police are in for another shock: one of the children is missing.

Two Dollar Bill
by Stuart Woods [bestseller]
As Stone and acquaintance, Billy Bob, leave a restaurant, someone shoots at them. Against his better judgment, Stone offers Billy Bob a safe haven for the night -- and almost immediately begins to suspect that he's made a mistake.

Family Sins
by David Compton
Father Michael Driscoll's hunt for the killer of a heroin-addicted former lover places him in the middle of a major crime family's deadly power struggle over a multi-million-dollar Powerball payoff.

The Lavender Butterfly Murders
by Sharon Duncan
At a yoga retreat on nearby Santa Maria Island, Scotia becomes embroiled in a nasty struggle between the spa's innkeeper and her rustic neighbors, a series of "accidents" and what looks like murder.

The Winds of Change
by Martha Grimes [British]
When Richard Jury bends over the body of the little girl, he knows this will be one of the saddest investigations of his life.

Scarecrow
by Robin Hathaway
When a young patient dies, Dr. Jo Banks blames herself, abandoning her Manhattan practice landing in a motel off the New Jersey highway. Taking up a deal to play doctor to nearby motels, Jo unknowingly gets tangled in a series of gruesome murders.

Cold Company
by Sue Henry
Building a new home for herself and her sled dogs on the charred ashes of her old one, Jessie Arnold's progress is halted by unearthing a skeleton entombed in a crumbling basement wall. Now, red roses are being sent to her, the gifts of a secret admirer or cold killer?

Skinny Dip
by Carl Hiaasen
Marine scientist Chaz Perrone has a lucky wife. When Chaz joins a scheme with a ruthless agribusiness tycoon to illegally dump fertilizer in the Everglades, his wife figures it out, and he pushes her overboard. Luckily for her, she survives to play dead and screw up his plans.

Skeleton Man
by Tony Hillerman
Leaphorn and Chee race to unearth a 50 year old skeleton, one of 172 bodies scattered among the cliffs of the Grand canyon in an airline disaster, to prove a friends innocence.

One False Move
by Alex Kava
Melanie, her son Charlie, and her brother Jared decide to pull one last job to rob a local bank. Within seconds, everything goes wrong, shots are fired and Jared and Charlie run out of the bank empty-handed.

Out of Sight
by T. J. MacGregor
Ambitious scientist George Nash and Luis Manteles, and Ecuadoran shaman, have created the technology to make humans and objects invisible, but their project gets out of hand.

Melancholy Baby
by Robert B. Parker [female P.I.]
When a college student comes asking for help in finding her birth parents, Sunny takes the case to distract her from her personal life. Before the investigation takes off, 2 key players are dead, and life and work have dangerously intersected.

Witch Hunt
by Ian Rankin
Working with and against one another, 3 detectives must stop "Witch" before she pulls off her most daring and ingenious assignment yet, a killing whose repercussions will reverberate throughout the world.

The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth [alternative history]
When renowned aviation hero, Charles Lindbergh, defeated FDR by a landslide in the 1940 election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America.

A Taint in the Blood
by Dana Stabenow
As Kate begins an investigation to clear a mother's name, it seems the mother isn't the only one who wants to leave the past in the past. In this spell-binding novel, Kate's confrontation with 30 years of secrets, regret and murder in one of Alaska's most powerful families shows award-winning crime writer Dana Stabenow at the top of her game.

Firebreak
by Richard Stark
When the telephone rang, Parker was out in the garage killing a man. With new hit men on his tail Parker is feeling the pressure to get focused on the project at hand: breaking into a computer mogul's compound to retrieve some priceless goods.

Sing It To Her Bones
by Marcia Talley
Hannah almost lost her life to cancer and is now taking her first brave steps back into the world, wearing a wig and her heart on her sleeve. Instead of finding some relaxation, she finds a body. As she looks into facts of the case, she can feel her spirit surging back to life. After all, she beat death once.

Unbreathed Memories
by Marcia Talley
Everything in Hannah's life was coming up roses until her sister's therapist takes a nosedive off a balcony. With her sister as a prime suspect, Hannah dares to seek the real killer and enter the darkness of a killer's twisted mind.

Shop Till You Drop
by Elaine Viets
After a judge's ruling that Helen should pay her cheating husband alimony, she takes a step down to work as a sales clerk in an exclusive ladie's boutique in Fort Lauderdale. Then her new boss is found dead, and she can hide from the authorities no longer.

Disordered Minds
by Minette Walters
When a local councillor and an anthropologist re-investigate the controversial murder conviction of a mentally retarded 20-year-old, they're unprepared for the disturbing facts that come to light--and the personal demons with which they must come to terms.

Outside Valentine
by Liza Ward
14-year-old Caril Ann Fugate meets a real-life killer, red-haired Charles Starkweather. Caril Ann senses that she and Starkweather are meant to be together and begin an eery romantic union destined for disaster. Starkweather pledges eternal love to the teen as he entangles her in murders that change their lives forever.

The Hanging In the Hotel
by Simon Brett [British]
A young solicitor is found hanged from his four-poster bed in a country house hotel, following an all-male society dinner the night before. Jude doesn't believe it was suicide, and with her friend Carole's help, it would appear that The Pillars of Sussex are involved in a grand collusion.

In The Moon of Red Ponies
by James Lee Burke
Billy Bob Holland moved his family to west Montana to have a more quiet law practice. His first client is Johnny American Horse, a young activist for land preservation and Native American rights, charged with the murder of 2 men.

The Rule of Four
by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason [Bestseller]
Two Princeton students are close to solving the final clue of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has hypnotic power over those who study it. Then someone is murdered.

R is for Ricochet
by Sue Grafton [Bestseller]
Reba Lafferty, 32 and a daughter of privilege just can't seem to stay out of trouble. Kinsey agrees to "babysit" her as she's out on parole, thinking she's on a straightforward assignment. But life is never that simple. Its time to grow up.

Haunted Ground
by Erin Hart
Farmers cutting turf in a peat bog in the Irish countryside discover the perfectly preserved head of a young woman with long red hair. Irish archaeologist Cormac Maguire and American pathologist Nora Gaven team up in a case that will open old wounds.

The Price of Murder
by Bruce Alexander
Blind 18-th Century London judge Sir John Fielding returns in the 10th novel of the series. When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, Sir John and Jeremy Proctor begin to investigate.

The Omega Deception
by John F. Bayer [WWII]
To save America from a death-blow by the Nazis, one man takes on the S.S. the only way he knows how - - by becoming one of them.

Full Cry
by Rita Mae Brown [dog-lovers]
In the hills of Jefferson County, Virginia, the New Year's fox hunt is marred by the murder of Harvard Law alum, Sam Lorillard. "Sister" Jane and Shaker investigate with the help of their trusty hounds.

The Trophy Wife
by Diana Diamond
For 25 years, Emily Childs has been the perfect wife, devoting herself to her successful husband, Walter. Now he's about to dump her for the younger trophy wife, until Emily vanishes.

Lord John and the Private Matter
by Diana Gabaldon [historical]
The Crown appoints Lord John Grey to investigate the brutal murer of a comrade-in-arms, possibly a traitor. Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery that threatens all he holds dear.

The Poyson Garden
by Karen Harper [historical]
As Queen Mary releases Elizabeth from the Tower of London, Elizabeth is plunged into an investigation of a multiple murder where she might very well become a master poisoner's next victim.

Letter From Home
by Carolyn Hart
After receiving a letter from the small town where she grew up, Gretchen relives events from the summer of '44. Men being away at war gave her an opportunity to work as a newspaper reporter.

Shadow Men
by Johnathon King
Max finds he has more to worry about than just 80-yr old ghosts, his missing ancesters in the Florida Everglades, and enlists the help of former Philadelphia cop Max Freeman.

The Game
by Laurie R. King
In the early days of 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, are given an urgent task by his brother Mycroft: find a British spy gone missing along Indias NW frontier. Spy's name: Kim. The grown-up boy of Rudyard Kipling's story Kim.

A Spectacle of Corruption
by David Liss [historical]
London 1722. Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who slips him a lock pick. After a daring escape, he sets out to prove his innocence.

The Frumious Bandersnatch
by Ed McBain
As pop singer Tamar Valparaiso finishes doing a live performance of her video "Bandersnatch", two masked men dressed as Sadam Hussein and Yassir Arafat storm the yacht and kidnap her.

Hard Revolution
by George Pelecanos
A volcanic chain of events ignites a fire in the nation's capital that forever changes the lives of its working-class inhabitants.

A Fatal Thaw
by Dana Stabenow [dog-lovers]
A man went berserk killing 8 of his neighbors, only there were 9 bodies in the snow. Kate and her Husky track down the suspects before the Alaskan Spring melts the crime scene.

Mr. Paradise
by Elmore Leonard
The lives of roommates Kelly and Chloe take a turn for the worse when they get involved with Mr. Paradise. An 84-yr old, retired lawyer named Tony Paradiso.

Blacklist
by Sara Paretsky
Geraldine Graham keeps a fretful eye on her family estate from a retirement apartment across the street. When she sees lights on in the middle of the night, V.I. Warshawski checks it out and finds a dead man in the ornamental pond.

McNally's Dare
by Lawrence Sanders (written by Vincent Lardo)
The dowager duchess of Palm Beach dies, leaving behind a fabulous fortune and a handsome young heir -- and Archy McNally is left trying to figure out who's who.

Open Season On Lawyers
by Taffy Cannon
Somebody is killing the sleazy attorneys of Los Angeles. LAPD detective Joanna Davis matches wits with a serial killer who tailors each murder to a specific abuse of legal practice.

Murder In The Hearse Degree
by Tim Cockey
Hitchcock Sewell really should know better by now. His job as an undertaker is to bury people, not to go snooping into the reasons why they've ended up on his slab.

Blindside: an FBI Thriller
by Catherine Coulter
When 6 yr-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and then manages to escape, husband-and-wife FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich join the father to determine why the boy was abducted.

A Vineyard Killing: a Martha's Vineyard Mystery
by Philip R. Craig
Millionaire real estate developer Donald Fox has targeted the island for his newest moneymaking scheme. Sell or we'll fight you in court. When his brother is shot was Donald really the intended victim?

Land of the Living
by Nicci French
Abbie escapes her kidnappers only to have another nightmare begin. Her memories of the recent past - home, work relationships - become oddly out of synch with reality.

The Killing Hour
by Lisa Gardner
Kimberly Quincy, rookie FBI agent, will have to break some rules to beat a vicious criminal at a game he's had time to perfect. He waits for the first body to be found which leads cops to the next. Now, two girls have disappeared and the clock ticks...

Everybody's Somebody's Fool
by Ed Gorman
Sam McCain does not want for clues in 1961 Iowa for the set-up of David Egan who's charged with murdering the daughter of the wealthy Griffin family, but it's the conclusive evidence that surprises Sam.

Exit Wounds
by J. A. Jance
Recent slayings are as oppressive as the blistering heat in Arizona for Sheriff Joanna Brady, shouldering the double burden of a reelection campaign and major developments at home.

Street Dreams
by Faye Kellerman
While on patrol, LAPD Officer Cindy Decker rescues a newborn abandoned in a dumpster. Now the hunt is on for the mother, and Cindy arms herself with advice from her father, Detective Peter Decker. Can the Decker-Decker duo battle the inner-city demons?

Fear Itself
by Walter Mosley
Paris Minton is a man who would just as soon walk away from trouble as stand up to it. But in 1950s Los Angeles, sometimes trouble just comes and gets you.

Cyanide Wells
by Marcia Muller
Matt comes to Cyanide Wells looking for revenge on his ex-wife whose disappearance branded him a murderer. Ironically, she's in the land known to be poisoned by cyanide. Will cyanide be sweet revenge?

Soul Circus
by George P. Pelecanos
Doing whatever it takes to keep their witness alive, Derek Strange and partner Terry Quinn crack the street's code of silence, and the secrets they uncover are explosive.

No Graves As Yet: a Novel of World War I
by Anne Perry
Author Perry's new series. College professor and chaplain Joseph Reavley is interrupted while watching a cricket game by his intelligence officer brother, Matthew, reporting the sudden death of their parents in a car crash. This news sets off a long investigation by the brothers.

Bare Bones
by Kathy Reichs
It's a summer of sizzling heat - and bones - in Charlotte NC where forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan investigates mysterious cases of charred remains. It all comes down to the bones.

A Body To Die For
by Kate White
Bailey Weggins goes back to the spa massage room to retrieve her lost watch and finds a dead body getting a seaweed wrap. Her detective instincts are immediately summoned back from rest and relaxation.

Not Quite Kosher: an Abe Lieberman Mystery
by Stuart Kaminsky
First, there's the confession of a murder that didn't happen made by a man who thinks he's talking to a rabbi, then his grandson's bar mitzvah threatens to send him to the poorhouse and then his partner's love life...

Death in the Family
by Jill McGown
The 12th in the British author's series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Judy Hill and her partner and fiance, DCI Lloyd. This time around, the partners are facing new challenges along with their baby daughter arriving early.

Suspecion of Madness
by Barbara Parker
As an idyllic vacation for Gail and Anthony turns into a nightmare of terror and death, they find themselves isolated among strange and secretive islanders.

Back Story
by Robert B. Parker
The perpetrators of a bank robbery have been at large for three decades. When the daughter of the woman killed in the robbery decides she needs closure, she turns to P.I. Spenser.

Samaritan
by Richard Price
Detective Nerese Ammons is charged not only with uncovering the perpetrator of an assault but with understanding what kind of victim is more afraid of the truth than of his potential murderer.

Wolf Pass
by Steve Thayer
Deputy Sheriff Pennington of Kickapoo County, WI singlehandedly solves a set of sniper murders in which he is the chief suspect. Set in 1962, when Catholic Pennington is running for sheriff. He meets with a good deal of suspicion from his largely Protestant electorate.

Flashback
by Nevada Barr
Anna Pigeon escapes to a new post on the remote island of Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles off Key West. Soon crimes of yesterday and today close in on her, threatening her sanity and her life.

The Cat Who Brought Down the House
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Will Qwill's Siamese, Koko, who's debuting in the Kit Kat Revue, help his master find those responsible for dastardly deeds?

Out of the Shadows
by Sigmund Brouwer
The dark secrets of the city and his mother's disappearance have been buried for too long. Nick is determined to find the truth at any cost, even if it means meeting a man on his deathbed.

The Importance of Being Ernestine
by Dorothy Cannell
Ernestine carries the key to a curse on the Krumley family, who have started meeting with fatal accidents. P.I. duo Ellie & Mrs. M take pity on the family and set out to find Ernestine before more Krumley's succumb.

The Dogfather: a Dog Lover's Mystery
by Susan Conant
Between jumpstarting a romance on the side of teaching a tough pup to fetch, Holly Winter has found herself in the middle of a vendetta with a family well-trained in murder. Her animal instinct will help her get away without getting bitten.

Shadow of Dreams
by Eva Marie Everson and G.W. Francis Chadwick
No one knows the full details of Katie's secret, shameful past...what she did to survive after she ran away from home at 18. Now, from all appearances, she has the life most people dream about...until she runs for her life.

Irish Stew! A Nuala Anne McGrail Novel
by Andrew M. Greeley
Nuala senses that self-made Chicago lawyer and tough guy Seamus Costelloe is doomed after meeting him at a Milan music festival. Nuala persuades her beloved husband, Dermot, that they must find out why in time to prevent tragedy.

The Sinister Pig
by Tony Hillerman
Hillerman's 16th novel featuring the retired "Legendary Lieutenant" Joe Leaphorn and Navajo Tribal Police Sergeant Jim Chee.

Out of Hormone's Way
by Jane Isenberg
Community College prof, Bel Barrett, finds herself determined to get justice for sweet, shy Belinda who didn't have an enemy in the world...except for the creep who killed her.

Children of the Storm
by Elizabeth Peters
With members of Amelia's circle plagued by myterious "accidents," she investigates an adversary more fiendish than any she has ever before encountered.

A Fine Line
by William G. Tapply
Brady Coyne finds himself at the center of an ecoterrorist plot while trying to find his dead friends killer and missing teenaged son.

No Certain Rest
by Jim Lehrer
National Park Service archaeologist Don Spaniel is called in to examine the remains of an unmarked grave of a Union officer.

The First Law
by John Lescroart
Prodded by his father, Lieutenant Abe Glitsky rebukes top brass by investigating the death of his father's closest friend.

Fat Ollie's Book: a novel of the 87th Precinct
by Ed McBain
Pity the schmuck who lifts Ollie's only copy of his manuscript from his car. The author is in desperate need of what he's sure will be his ticket to fame and fortune.

Celt and Pepper: a Notre Dame Mystery
by Ralph McInerny
Professor Kilmartin is found dead in his office. While some question the official explanation for his death, Professor Roger Knight, amateur sleuth, gets curious.

Resurrection Men
by Ian Rankin
Inspector John Rebus has done it again. A few days into a murder inquiry following the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, Rebus blows up at his superior. He joins a group of cops being given one last chance - the "Resurrection Men."

Twelve Mile Limit
by Randy Wayne White
Four divers head out from Florida's west coast to dive a deep-water wreck fifty-six miles offshore. Two days later, one of them is found alive in the Gulf of Mexico.

An Experiment in Treason
by Bruce Alexander
In their 9th adventure, Sir John Fielding and assistant Jeremy Proctor enlist the aid of Samuel Johnson to interrogate American envoy Benjamin Franklin as a suspect.

Agatha Raisin and the Day the Floods Came
by M. C. Beaton
Agatha Raisin's attempt at a little vacation after her beloved left to live in a French monastery gets her revved up for another mystery when she hears that a fellow vacationer was murdered.

Evans to Betsy
by Rhys Bowen
Welsh barmaid Betsy has her psychic powers verfied by a spirituality center. When her "vision" revealing where the center's murdered director will be found puts her in danger, Constable Evans comes to her defense.

Moonshell
by Bea Carlton
What secret danger does the mansion Moonshell hold? Linn and Clay Randolph find their loving relationship on edge, and their faith in God put to the test.

Vineyard Enigma: a Marthas Vineyard Mystery
by Philip R. Craig
Abraham Mahsimba, a cultivated and attractive African, may have given J.W. a fresh mission to find priceless artifacts, but he's also struck J.W.s wifes fancy.

Killjoy
by Julie Garwood
Avery Delaneys aunt Carolyn has disappeared, lured by an assassin into an elaborate plot of madness and lethal vengeance.

I, Richard
by Elizabeth George
In 5 tantalizing and original tales, George plumbs the depths of human nature as only she can.

The Grave Maurice: a Richard Jury Mystery
by Martha Grimes
In a pub called the Grave Maurice, the story of the disappearance of a teenaged girl ignites a case for Jury.

Death In a Hot Flash
by Jane Isenberg
Professor Bel Barrett has enough on her plate teaching English at a Jersey City community college when a dead man shows up, and Bel makes it her business to right the wrong.

A Touch Of Betrayal
by Catherine Palmer
Fashion designer Alexandra Prescott fully expects her latest business trip to be an adventure. After all, she is looking for inspiration for a line of exotic fabrics.

Death of a Stranger
by Anne Perry
As Hester ventures into the violent streets to learn who is brutalizing her patients, Monk visits the site of a new rail line and breaks through the wall of amnesia to discover, at last, who he once was.

Grave Secrets
by Kathy Reichs
The 5th novel in the Tempe Brennan series. Brennan is on loan to the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation to help give voices to victims of a twenty-year-old killing field. But the violence seems not to be over.

About the author Kathy Reichs:
Like her heroine, Dr. Temperance Brennan, Kathy Reichs is, in real life, a forensic anthropologist at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, and a consultant for the Laboratoire de Sciences Judiciares et de Medecine Legale for the province of Quebec. Her work as a forensic anthropologist is internationally recognized. She has traveled to Rwanda to testify at the UN Tribunal on Genocide, and done forensic work at Ground Zero in New York. She has identified war dead from World War II; from all of Southeast Asia she even examined the remains from the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Previous titles: Deja Dead, Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, and Fatal Voyage.

Butterfly
by Sharon Sala
Chaz Finelli, a celebrity photographer, is brutally murdered for the secrets his camera could expose.

Murder At Fords Theatre: a Capital Crimes Novel
by Margaret Truman
The body of an attractive young woman who worked for Senator Bruce Lerner, and who volunteered at Fords has been discovered in the alley behind the theatre.

Never Kissed Goodnight: A Leigh Koslow Mystery
by Edie Claire
If Leigh's sister Cara's life is so wonderful, why does she show up in the middle of the night with tears in her eyes?

Eureka
by William Diehl [Noir-like]
1940's Police detective Zeke Bannon investigates an electrocution that soon builds to a bloodbath that could end up in the echelons of California's elite.

Hard Eight
by Janet Evanovich [Tart-Noir]
Plum has a big problem on her hands...7-yr old Annie and her mother have disappeared and bounty hunter Plum is obligated to find them.

Steps To The Altar
by Earlene Fowler
Benni becomes fascinated by the potential murder charge against Maple Sullivan, while trying to plan multiple weddings.

Save The Last Dance for Me
by Ed Gorman (quilting theme)
This fourth Sam McCain mystery is another dead-on perfect journey to 1960s Iowa, where President Richard M. Nixon is due to make a campaign stop.

Shakespeare's Counselor: Lily Bard, Bk 5
by Charlaine Harris
Lily Bard, karate-kicking cleaning lady, becomes embroiled in a disturbing murder meant to send a message to a therapy group in Shakespeare, Arkansas. [Bk 1 - Shakespeare's Landlord, Bk 2 - Shakespeare's Champion, Bk 3 - Shakespeare's Christmas, Bk 4 - Shakespeare's Trollop]

Caroline Minuscule
by Andrew Taylor
Harmless Dr. Gumper is murdered because he happens to be an authority on the Caroline Minuscule script.

If Looks Could Kill
by Kate White
Ms. Bailey Weggins is a 30-something true crime writer who finds no shortage of suspects while delving into the murder of a live-in nanny working in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Death Of a Hired Man
by Eric Wright
Mel Pickett, a sixtyish retired Toronto police officer, rents out his beloved cabin on the river, but someone murders his renter. Pickett investigates, suspecting that he himself was the intended victim.

Jinxed: a Regan Reilly Mystery
by Carol Higgins Clark
Reilly is hired to deliver a wedding guest to a wedding, but unbeknownst to Reilly, someone else is on the hunt to prevent the guest from showing.

Absolute Certainty
by Rose Connors
With her career on the line and lives at stake, Martha Marty Nickerson follows her moral compass and sets out to serve Justice, not merely the Law.

Q is for Quarry
by Sue Grafton
Two soon-to-be-retired Santa Teresa County Sheriffs Department detectives want one last shot at an unsolved murder case of a body dumped near a quarry.

Seventh-Inning Stretch: a Jake Hines Mystery
by Elizabeth Gunn
There's very little to laugh about in Rutherford, Minnesota, where a gang of grifters has hit the town hard.

North of Nowhere
by Steve Hamilton
In the middle of a poker game, masked robbers invade the premises, hold the players at gunpoint and rob the homeowner. Alex McKnight is roused back into action and so is his former detective partner.

The Blue Edge of Midnight
by Jonathon King (debut novel)
Suddenly Max Freeman is thrust into the center of the search for a killer responsible for a string of slayings that is baffling both local authorities and the FBI.

Slow Dollar: a Deborah Knott Mystery
by Margaret Maron
In North Carolina, judge Deborah Knotts newest case, a ragtag carnival comes to Colleton County with murder as the main attraction.

Bad Boy Brawly Brown: an Easy Rawlins Mystery
by Walter Mosley
Easy Rawlins is back working a case on the streets of Los Angeles, looking for justice and sometimes managing to create his own.

Dead Midnight
by Marcia Muller
Sharon McCone, who has faced and survived many personal crises, must endure another when a new case hits achingly close to home.

The Truth Hurts
by Nancy Pickard
Marie Lightfoot faces an unusually challenging case. When the 1st email arrives it seems like a joke, but then Marie is forced to play along.

Who Invited the Dead Man?
by Patricia Sprinkle
How many secrets can one small town hold? Which party guest had the strongest motive? Who invited the dead man to Joe's birthday gala?

Past Tense: a Brady Coyne Novel
by William G. Tapply
Brady and his love interest, Evie Banyon, are weekending in Cape Cod when a stalker from Evies past turns up to torment her anew.

First Light: the First Ever Brady Coyne/J.W. Jackson Mystery
by Philip R. Craig and William G. Tapply
Buddy detectives join forces to solve crime on Marthas Vineyard.

Basket Case
by Carl Hiaasen
Previous investigative reporter, Jack Tagger, now demoted to obituary writer plots his career resurrection by investigating the death of a famous stiff.

The Wailing Wind
by Tony Hillerman
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee are back in the 15th plot intwined with Navajo lore and the sound of a missing woman's voice.

Charm City
by Laura Lippman
After Baltimore Blues, Tess Monaghan comes to believe that homicide is the second most popular sport next to baseball.

Hunting Season
by Nevada Barr
District Ranger Anna Pigeon finds murder in historic Mt. Locust, Mississippi, proving yet again that mankind is as unpredictable as the great outdoors.

Motive for Murder
by Anthea Fraser
When Emily Barton applies for the post of temporary secretary to the writer Matthew Haig, it does not occur to her that she may be putting her life in danger.

Other Fraser titles in Large Print: The Stand-In, Dangerous Deception, The Ten Commandments, Island-In-Waiting, The Stone, Laura Possessed, The Macbeth Prophecy.

Slow Burn
by Heather Graham
Graham's skill allows her to place equal emphasis on the romance and suspense. Former lover's are partnered in search of a killer driven to commit another crime.

Cold Flat Junction
by Martha Grimes
This smartly written, quietly paced sequel to her 1996 hit Hotel Paradise revisits precocious 12-year-old sleuth Emma Graham, working in her family's fading resort hotel.

Smoke In Mirrors
by Jayne Ann Krentz
Sparks fly between a sexually repressed college librarian and a handyman venture capitalist while they attempt to hunt down a killer who can make murder look like suicide.

Saturday Scare: a Juli Scott Super Sleuth Book 6
by Colleen L. Reece
As Juli and her friends enjoy the outdoors, an unexpected blizzard leaves the group stranded and brings unwelcome guests to their cabin retreat.

Elliott Roosevelt's Murder at the President's Door
by William Harrington for the Estate of Elliott Roosevelt
In her most intriguing adventure to date, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt traces an assassination attempt to the depths of Washington, D.C.'s underworld.

Last Man Standing
by David Baldacci
Web London is an elite member of the FBIs Hostage Rescue Team. During a drug raid his team was ambushed and everyone but he was killed.

Isle of Dogs
by Patricia Cornwell
Virginia State Police Superintendent Judy Hammer and Andy Brazil, a state trooper, find themselves at wits end to protect the public in this comical romp.

Vineyard Shadows: a Marthas Vineyard Mystery
by Philip R. Craig
Intruders have invaded the Jackson residence on Marthas Vineyard. They are more than burglars and JW knows who they are looking for.

A Finer Find: A Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James Novel
by Deborah Crombie
Duncan is looking forward to a relaxing weekend with Gemma at an ancient burial site outside of London. There they find an ancient chronicle revealing a terrible crime.

By My Hands
by Alton Gansky
Dr. Rachel Tremaine teams with Rev. Adam Bridger to investigate miraculous healings and mysterious vanishings of patients and parishioners.

The Next Accident
by Lisa Gardner
FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy is prepared to learn everything about his daughter's death in a car accident.

Murder Carries a Torch
by Anne George
Three hilarious southern sisters drive to the top of Chandler Mountain in search of their cousin's wife. While snooping around the grounds they find the body of a woman and a live rattlesnake.

The Surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
The killer is a deranged man of medicine and Dr. Catherine Cordell is about to crack the case.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?: A Sam McCain Mystery
by Ed Gorman
In Iowa, 1959, the slogan Better Dead Than Red assumes a truth. A leftist political writer turns up dead.

The Skull Beneath the Skin
by P. D. James
Private detective Cordelia Gray was hired to find the source of threatening notes being sent to Carlissa Lisle, a comeback actress.

Under Suspicion
by Rachel Lee
Anna Lundrens career is on the line because someone has stolen an ancient dagger from the museum and used it to murder a security guard.

The Omega Network
by Thomas Locke
Chase Bennett is haunted by the suspicion that he is being lured into a dangerous conspiracy a suspicion that soon solidified into fear.

Mad Hatters Holiday
by Peter Lovesey
Keen student of human nature, Albert Moscrop is captivated by a beautiful married woman and sets out to befriend her. In doing so, he is thrown into the center of a murder investigation by Sergeant Cribb.

The Marble Mask
by Archer Mayor
A frozen body is found on top of Vermont's tallest mountain. The body reveals clues of a smuggler, a crime syndicate and a sculpture stolen during World War II.

A Place of Execution
by Val McDermid
In the winter of 1963, George Bennett is involved in the most difficult case of his career. Decades later, he tells the story of the unsolved case to a journalist who decides to reinvestigate the past.

Scene of Crime: A Novel of Suspense
by Jill McGown
The Riverside Theatre Company is rehearsing a Christmas production when the playwright is found dead. Lloyd and Hill don't believe that it was a robbery gone wrong.

The Book of Kills: A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
by Ralph McInerny
Roger and Philip Knight are called to find the roots of several malicious acts on the grounds of Notre Dame in Indiana.

Point Deception
by Marcia Muller
A killing at the same sight as a murder thirteen years ago revives the fears of Rhoda Swift and the community of Point Deception, California.

Oxygen: a mission gone desperately wrong and no way out short of blind faith
by John Olson
In the year 2012 Valkerie Jansens dream of being an astronaut turns to nightmare when their mission to Mars is sabotaged by another member of the crew.

Writ of Execution
by Perri OShaughnessy
In South Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly is called to help a frightened woman who has just won a huge jackpot and is unable to collect her winnings.

In An Evil Time
by Bill Pronzini
A father makes difficult choices when someone is threatening his family and restraining orders or police don't help.

Friday Flight
by Colleen L. Reece
Book 5 in the super sleuth series. Juli Scott, her best friend Shannon, and their friends and families go on vacation to British Columbia. They suspect they are being followed by the cult leaders who had caused them trouble in the past.

Chosen Prey
by John Sandford
When a professor kills one of his students, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport takes the case.

McNallys Chance: An Archer McNally Novel
by Lawrence Sanders
Best-selling author Sabrina Wright hires Archy McNally to find her husband who supposedly ran away. McNally gets into a family quagmire in which Sabrina ends up dead.

The Manhattan Hunt Club
by John Saul
College student Jeff Converse has been falsely convicted of a crime and sees his life vanishing before his eyes. He goes underground in a landscape of tunnels and chambers under Manhattan.

Biggie and the Quincy Ghost
by Nancy Bell
Biggie is called to nearby Quincy for a historical society meeting. J.R. goes along intrigued by the inn's legendary ghost. After a night of ghostly noises, a woman is found dead in the hotel swimming pool.

All the Dead Were Strangers
by Ethan Black
NYPD detective Conrad Voort returns in his most compelling and seductive case. Meeting his boyhood friend for drinks leads him on a case that connects mysterious deaths around the country.

Viking Funeral
by Stephen J. Cannell
It's been three years since LAPD cop Shane Scully's best friend and fellow cop Jody Dean blew his brains out. So how could Shane spot Jody driving in the next lane on the freeway?

Close To You
by Mary Jane Clark
Someone wants to get closer to anchorwoman Eliza Blake even if it takes murder. Who is no longer content with watching her on TV?

Manhattan Is My Beat
by Jeffery Deaver
Manhattan Is My Beat is named for the (invented) 1947 film noir watched obsessively by the murdered Mr. Kelly. On a routine pickup to retrieve the video, the heroine Rune discovers Kelly is shot dead.

Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express
by Stuart M. Kaminsky
The 6,000 mile-long rail line from Moscow to Vladivostok carries Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov to an explosive pursuit of murder.

Suspicion of Vengeance
by Barbara Parker
A local felon had been convicted of savagely murdering a beautiful young mother in her bed one sunny afternoon 12 years ago. After new evidence surfaces, Miami attorney Gail Connor takes the case.

Funeral in Blue
by Anne Perry
To investigator William Monk and his wife, Hester, the murders of two beautiful women in the studio of a well-known London artist are a nightmare. It is Hester's colleague who becomes the principal suspect.

Ring of Truth
by Nancy Pickard
Mystery writer Marie Lightfoot finds a plot in a Florida headline. Marie learns a bone-chilling lesson as there is more to this story.

The Shape of Snakes
by Minette Walters
When "Mad Annie," a black woman who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, dies in a gutter in West London in 1978, it changes the lives of everyone in the neighborhood.

Also available in LP by Walters is a thriller titled The Breaker.

Into the Night
by Suzanne Brockmann
Skilled at being "one of the guys" in the mostly male world of politics, Joan is dismayed when Lt. Muldoon breaks through her defenses, but a far more sinister danger is lurking.

The Edge of Doom: a Kate Fansler Novel
by Amanda Cross
Kate never seemed to fit into the Fansler clan, and one evening over a drink with elder brother Laurence, he calmly tells her that a strange man came to him claiming to be her father.

Mistress of Justice
by Jeffery Deaver
Taylor Lockwood is a paralegal requested to help the handsome attorney in a multi-million dollar case that will save his career. Problem isthe hidden secrets are not only enough to smash careers, but also push someone to commit murder.

The Bone Vault
by Linda Fairstein
A 12th Dynasty sarcophagus is about to take a voyage to Cairo when a not-so-mummified body of a woman is found inside.

Shaker Run
by Karen Harper
Kate escapes her former husband and accepts a job as a gardener at Shaker Run, but something strange and deadly is going on beneath the flawless surface of this idyllic town.

Last Scene Alive: an Aurora Teagarden Mystery
by Charlaine Harris
Librarian Teagarden gets back in the sleuth business as old friend Robin Crusoe blows back into town. Bodies start dropping on his Lawrenceton movie set.

Crime School
by Carol O'Connell
A woman is found hanging in a burning apartment with tufts of her own blond hair stuck in her mouth and red candles scattered all around. The fire was set so the woman would be discovered.

Blood Orchid
by Stuart Woods
Holly joins forces with an undercover FBI agent, and together they track the clues straight to the source, only to find a scam more lucrative and more dangerous than any this idyllic town - or Holly - has ever seen.

British Mystery

A Fine and Private Place
by Freda Davies
The villagers of Tolland prove uncooperative while Detective Inspector Tyrell investigates the unearthing of a set of bones with dog tags of the WWII AWOL GI who was dishonorably discharged.

Justice Hall
by Laurie R. King
A murdered heir brings Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes -- spouses and intellectual equals -- to an investigation that takes them from the trenches of WWI France to the heights of English society.

A Case Of Spirits
by Peter Lovesey
In 1885 London the new craze is spiritualism, but it's the human murder mystery that brings Sergeant Cribb into the picture.

Southampton Row
by Anne Perry
Victorian London's policeman, Thomas Pitt, has been ordered to forego his long awaited vacation to foil the political ambitions of a ruthless republican.

Acid Row
by Minette Walters
Young doctor Sophie Morrison gets trapped in a pedophile's apartment in the "Acid Row" housing project while trying to care for a patient.

Other Mystery titles in the County

Bestselling series by R.A. McCall Smith: