New Mystery & Detective Books
New arrivals added to our Mystery & Detective Collection in the last 7 days
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| "O" is for outlaw by Grafton, Sue. |
Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days. |
May 22, 2013 |
| A bat in the belfry by Graves, Sarah. |
When a local teen beauty-pageant winner from a troubled family is found murdered in the beloved 200-year-old Seaman's Church steeple, Jacobia Tiptree, while preparing for an epic nor-nor'easter, must wade through the rising waters of gossip and suspicion to find the truth. |
May 25, 2013 |
| A dance at the slaughterhouse - a Matthew Scudder crime novel by Block, Lawrence. |
Private investigator Matthew Scudder searches for the missing link between two horrific crimes -- the rape-murder of wealthy Amanda Thurman and a snuff film involving a young homeless boy. |
May 22, 2013 |
| A dangerous fiction - a novel by Rogan, Barbara. |
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May 25, 2013 |
| A Dark Redemption by Sherez, Stav |
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May 25, 2013 |
| A Decent Interval by Brett, Simon |
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May 24, 2013 |
| A murder at Rosamund's Gate by Calkins, Susanna. |
For Lucy Campion, a seventeenth-century English chambermaid serving in the household of the local magistrate, life is an endless repetition of polishing pewter, emptying chamber pots, and dealing with other household chores until a fellow servant is ruthlessly killed, and someone she loves is wrongly arrested for the crime. In a time where the accused are presumed guilty until proven innocent, lawyers aren't permitted to defend their clients, and---if the plague doesn't kill them first--public e |
May 25, 2013 |
| A Murder in Passing - A Sam Blackman Mystery by De Castrique, Mark |
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May 24, 2013 |
| Angora alibi by Goldenbaum, Sally. |
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May 25, 2013 |
| Another sun by Williams, Timothy. |
The sun-drenched Caribbean island of Guadeloupe is technically part of France, subject to French law and loyal to the French Republic. But in 1980, the scars of colonialism are still fresh, and ethnic tensions and political unrest seethe just below the surface of everyday life. French-Algerian judge Anne Marie Laveaud relocated to this beautiful Caribbean island confident that she could make it her new home. But her day-to-day life is rife with frustration. Now she is assigned a murder case in w |
May 24, 2013 |
| Antidote to murder by Young, Felicity, 1960- |
In pre-WWI London Dr. Dody McCleland, is accused of performing a botched illegal abortion that claims the life of a scullery maid, Esther Craddock, who was taking lead pills to end her pregnancy. Dody had encountered those "medications" elsewhere -- her autopsy of a three-year-old boy found that he was poisoned by lead pill -- and must trace their source to clear her name. |
May 25, 2013 |
| Antiques chop by Allan, Barbara. |
The quaint Midwestern town of Serenity is about to hit the small screen. Brandy Borne and her dramatically ditzy mother, Vivian, will be starring in Antique Sleuths, a reality TV show based on the duo's antiquarian adventures--and their troubling talent for solving deadly crimes. What better shooting set than a creepy old house, the site of a 60-year-old unsolved axe murder? |
May 25, 2013 |
| As she left it - a novel by McPherson, Catriona, 1965- |
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May 25, 2013 |
| As she left it - a novel by McPherson, Catriona, 1965- |
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May 20, 2013 |
| At the dying of the year by Nickson, Chris. |
In 1733, Richard Nottingham hunts a child-killer preying on the street children of Leeds, but he has to go up against the wealthy and powerful of the city to do it, including the new mayor. |
May 25, 2013 |
| Bled & Breakfast by Rowen, Michelle |
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May 25, 2013 |
| Blood tango - a mystery by Alfieri, Annamaria. |
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May 25, 2013 |
| Blotto, Twinks and the rodents of the Riviera by Brett, Simon. |
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May 25, 2013 |
| Board stiff - a dead-end job mystery by Viets, Elaine, 1950- |
"There's a dark cloud over Sunny Jim's Safety First Parasailing and Stand-Up Paddleboarding business on Florida's Riggs Beach--especially after one of his clients is killed in a tragic paddleboarding mishap. Sunny Jim is sure it was no accident, and he hires Helen and Phil to find the murderer. Between cutthroat competitors poaching his territory, the city threatening to revoke his license, a restaurant owner wanting his beach spot for a parking lot, and a wrongful death suit filed by the victim |
May 25, 2013 |
| Bordeaux - A Vengeance in the Vineyard Mystery by Hubbard, Janet |
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May 25, 2013 |