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Up Jumps the Devil

Margaret Maron · 278 pages

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The Dark Lake

Sarah Bailey · 384 pages

The lead homicide investigator in a rural town, Detective Sergeant Gemma Woodstock is deeply unnerved when a high school classmate is found strangled, her body floating in a lake. And not just any classmate, but Rosalind Ryan, whose beauty and inscrutability exerted a magnetic pull on Smithson High School, first during Rosalind's student years and then again when she returned to teach drama. As mu

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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson · 400 pages

Everyone is talking about A Good Girl's Guide to Murder! With shades of Serial and Making a Murderer this is the story about an investigation turned obsession, full of twists and turns and with an ending you'll never expect. Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyo

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A Killing in the Hills

Julia Keller · 400 pages

"When three elderly men are gunned down over coffee at a local diner, the town of Acker's Gap is shaken. But a pattern of violence is taking shape that prosecutor Bell Elkins is becoming all too familiar with. Bell's daughter, Carly, a witness to the crime and desperate to prove that she is an adult, decides to help her mother work the case. As Bell's investigation unfolds, one thing is certain: t

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Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 563 pages

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

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Pretty is as Pretty Dies

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 210 pages

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Thirty-Six and a Half Motives

Denise Grover Swank · 428 pages

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Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 256 pages

***Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie.*** Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. **The local inspector and Miss Marple sort

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Low Tide

Dawn Lee McKenna · 190 pages

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The Saltmarsh Murders

Gladys Mitchell · 292 pages

A quick-witted, clever mystery from the Golden Age of crime writingNoel Wells, curate in the sleepy village of Saltmarsh, likes to spend his time dancing in the study with the vicar's niece until one day the vicar's unpleasant wife discovers her unmarried housemaid is pregnant and trouble begins. It is left to Noel to call for the help of sometime-detective and full-time Freudian Mrs Bradley, who

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The Last Party

Clare Mackintosh · 432 pages

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Down the Rabbit Hole

Peter Abrahams · 375 pages

Welcome to Echo Falls, home of a thousand secrets.Ingrid is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are. And getting them back will mean getting tangled up in a murder investigation as complicated as the mysteries solved by her idol, Sherlock Holmes. With soccer practice, schoolwork, and the lead role in her town's production of Alice in Wonderland, Ingrid is swamped. But as th

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If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O

Sharyn McCrumb · 287 pages

The Hamelin High School class of 1966 plans a grand reunion. In the meantime, a famous singer has bought the town mansion and is stalked by a killer.

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Pinned for Murder

Elizabeth Lynn Casey · 278 pages

"Tori Sinclair feels like she's known her new sewing sisters forever. That is until the richest and meanest woman in Sweet Briar turns up murdered--and Rose, the circle's feisty matriarch, refuses to believe her troubled former student and responsible. With suspicion and gossip spinning out of control, something worse than just ruffled feathers is threatening to tear the town apart... Now Tori mus

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K is for Killer

Sue Grafton · 415 pages

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Wolfhunter River

Rachel Caine · 330 pages

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Fixin' To Die

Tonya Kappes · 221 pages

Kenni Lowry likes to think the zero crime rate in Cottonwood, Kentucky is due to her being sheriff, but she quickly discovers the ghost of her grandfather, the town’s previous sheriff, has been scaring off any would-be criminals since she was elected. When the town’s most beloved doctor is found murdered on the very same day as a jewelry store robbery, and a mysterious symbol ties the crime sce

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No Strangers Here

Carlene O'Connor · 320 pages

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In the Heat of the Night

John Dudley Ball · 186 pages

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The Quiet Game

Greg Iles · 564 pages

Widower Penn Cage returns to his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, where, finding that his father is being blackmailed, he reopens a notorious murder case that involves powerfully dangerous town forces, the FBI, and his own past.

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Shine

Lauren Myracle · 359 pages

When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.

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A Lesson In Dying

Ann Cleeves · 184 pages

Who hung the headmaster in the playground on the night of the school Halloween Party? Almost everyone in Heppleburn either hated or feared the viper-tongued Harold Medburn. Inspector Ramsay is convinced it was the headmaster’s enigmatic wife but Jack Robson, school governor and caretaker, is determined to prove her innocence. With the help of his restless daughter Patty, Jack digs into the s

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Faithless

Karin Slaughter · 537 pages

"Brilliant plotting, relentless suspense," raved the Washington Post. "A new synonym for terror," crowned the Detroit Free Press. The critics agree: no one writes suspense like Karin Slaughter, whose thrillers featuring medical examiner Sara Linton and her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, have propelled her to the top of bestseller lists the world over. Now Slaughter fuses her unmatched

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