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Takedown Twenty

Janet Evanovich · 337 pages

New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in -- not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even

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Limoncello Yellow

Traci Andrighetti · 324 pages

An unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces Francesca "Franki" Amato that she just isn't cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move from Austin to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica's detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. Hopes for a more stable life are dashed when Private Chicks is hired to find ou

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Them Bones

Carolyn Haines · 327 pages

If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog...but the ransom paid the mortgage....Now I seem to be a private eye....I shouldn't have listened to that ghost....Meet Sarah Booth Delaney...an unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesn't make her the deadest.No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end

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First Grave on the Right

Darynda Jones · 328 pages

Meet Charley Davidson -- PI and grim reaper extraordinaire... Charley sees dead people. That's right, she sees dead people. And it's her job to convince them to 'go into the light.' But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been

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Unzipped

Lois Greiman · 336 pages

ANALYZE THIS....Chrissy McMullen has made a career leap, all the way from slinging drinks at Chicago's most notorious nightclub to dispensing psychotherapy from her sleek new practice in L.A. Even if she can't quite shed her too-loud, too-curvy alter ego--or the brawling family that insists on claiming kinship. So when her most famous client, buff football star "Bomber" Bomstad, starts chasing he

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Whiskey Rebellion

Liliana Hart · 312 pages

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Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

Donna Andrews · 314 pages

Operating the switchboard at the business office shared by her brother's computer-game company and six unusual therapists, Meg Langslow finds herself drawn into a mystery when the company's practical joker is murdered on top of a mail cart.

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Shoes To Die For

Laura Levine · 288 pages

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Obsession, Deceit, and Really Dark Chocolate

Kyra Davis · 350 pages

Sophie Katz's relationship with the irresistible and occasionally insufferable P.I. Anatoly Darinsky is on the fritz when a friend recruits Sophie's investigation skills to decode her possibly two-timing husband's strange behavior. When Sophie shows up in a short, red cocktail dress and her friend's hubby winds up dead, the loveable would-be sleuth can't help but take on the job. Suddenly plunged

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Dog on It

Spencer Quinn · 305 pages

Fabulous, funny new detective novel featuring Bernie, a slightly down-at-heel PI and his offsider, Chet, a dog (and the captivating narrator of the story).I could smell him - or rather the booze on his breath - before he even opened the door, but my sense of smell is pretty good, probably better than yours.So begins this fabulous, funny new detective novel featuring Bernie, a slightly down-at-heel

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Family Jewels

Denise Grover Swank · 406 pages

Trouble always comes to those who court it. Rose Gardner's ability to see glimpses of the future has gotten her into hot water time and again, but so have her curiosity and her sense of daring. Those very qualities helped her defeat the most powerful man in Arkansas----- a man so adept at hiding his crimes there was no way to defeat him inside of the law ---but her success came at s steep personal

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Cocaine Blues

Kerry Greenwood · 195 pages

In 1920s London, the Honourable Phryne Fisher has become bored with the party season. She set her sights on detective work in Melbourne, Australia. Once she books into the Windsor Hotel she's embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops and communism.

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B is for Burglar

Sue Grafton · 229 pages

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Bubbles Unbound

Sarah Strohmeyer · 341 pages

Against all odds, Bubbles Yablonsky has returned to school, but while on her way to journalism school, she happens upon a crime scene and finds herself drawn into a murder investigation.

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The Perfect Run

Maxime J. Durand · 667 pages

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Decked

Carol Higgins Clark · 277 pages

When P.I. Regan Reilly attends a class reunion in England, the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up. Clues to the mystery follow Regan as she sails home--and into the hands of a killer.Cantu

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Succubus Blues

Richelle Mead · 368 pages

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Crocodile on the Sandbank

Elizabeth Peters · 280 pages

Thirty-one-year-old Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody has not only inherited her father's fortune, but she is also blessed with his strong will as well. Now she's headed for Cairo, accompanied by a girl with a tarnished past, to indulge her passion for Egyptology. Little did she know that murder and a homicidal mummy lay in wait for her.

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The Spellman Files

Lisa Lutz · 368 pages

The first novel of a comic mystery series. Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to *Get Smart* reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private invest

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Louisiana Longshot

Jana Deleon · 248 pages

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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Spying in High Heels

Gemma Halliday · 288 pages

An L.A. fashionista finds herself in over her head when murder, embezzlement, and a hot detective collide in her life.

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The Hexologists

Josiah Bancroft · 318 pages

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