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The Square Root of Murder

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Party Girls Die in Pearls: An Oxford Girl Mystery

Plum Sykes · 352 pages

"Internationally bestselling author of Bergdorf Blondes Plum Sykes returns with PARTY GIRLS DIE IN PEARLS, a charming murder mystery set at Oxford University in the 1980s. After Oxford's most popular classmate is found dead, new students Ursula Flowerbutton and Nancy Feingold believe she has been murdered and work to solve the mystery"--

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Stork Raving Mad

Donna Andrews · 315 pages

Hosting a Spanish playwright during a graduate student's production of his play, Meg, eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins, is on the case when the department dean cancels the play and is promptly found murdered.

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A Little Class on Murder

Carolyn G. Hart · 244 pages

What better place for a murder than a college campus? When Annie Laurance teaches a course on the three great ladies of mystery--Christie, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, and Dorothy Sayers--she quickly learns that murder is a subject most academic!

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How to Seal Your Own Fate

Kristen Perrin · 320 pages

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The Oxford Murders

Guillermo Martinez · 208 pages

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A Puzzle in a Pear Tree

Parnell Hall · 384 pages

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Rest You Merry

Charlotte MacLeod · 192 pages

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How to Murder a Millionaire

Nancy Martin · 254 pages

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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Catering to Nobody

Diane Mott Davidson · 266 pages

Catering a wake is not Goldy’s idea of fun. Yet the Colorado caterer throws herself into preparing a savory feast including Poached Salmon and Strawberry Shortcake Buffet designed to soothe forty mourners. And her culinary efforts seem to be exactly what the doctor ordered...until her ex-father-in-law gynecologist Fritz Korman is struck down and Goldy is accused of adding poison to the menu. Now,

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Real Murders

Charlaine Harris

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Loose Screw

Rae Davies, Lori Devoti

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A Pedigree to Die For

Laurien Berenson · 288 pages

Win, Place...Or Die. The apparent heart attack that killed kennel owner Max Turnbull has left seven pups in mourning, and his wife Peg suspecting foul play. But the only evidence is their missing prize pooch--a pedigreed poodle named Beau. Enter Melanie Travis. With her young son happily ensconced in day damp, the thirty-something teacher and single mother is talked into investigating her uncl

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Wormwood

Susan Wittig Albert

In a class with sleuths V.I. Warshawski and Stephanie Plum, (Publishers Weekly) China Bayles stumbles over old secrets in a Shaker village.Chinas friends and family are urging her to get some restand a Kentucky Shaker village seems the ideal place for it. At Mount Zion, China can assist with some herbal workshopswhile absorbing all things Shaker, from their furniture to their peaceful ways. But th

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Murder by the Book

Lauren Elliott · 305 pages

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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason

Susan Kandel · 304 pages

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Acts of Violets

Kate Collins · 309 pages

During the annual Pickle Fest, Abby's boyfriend Marco inexplicably disappears for a day. When he returns, he's the main suspect in the death of a clown. It seems the cops have found Snuggles pushing up water-spurting daisies-and Marco was the last person seen leaving Snuggles's house. Although Marco is still a mystery to her, Abby knows he's innocent. Now she has to find a way to prove it.

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Death by Pantyhose

Laura Levine · 244 pages

Freelance writer Jaine Austen has never been able to resist the siren call of an Eskimo Pie, just like she can't resist renewing her romance with Andrew, an old crush. With her bank account hitting new lows, she's also just agreed to write jokes for Dorcas, a stand-up comic who throws her pantyhose into the audience as a punch line. Not only is Dorcas's act a bomb, she is heckled by Vic, a gorg

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Strangled Prose

Joan Hess · 187 pages

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Evil Eclairs

Jessica Beck · 291 pages

"Donut shop owner Suzanne Hart admits her sweet treats don't exactly qualify as health food. But does she really deserve to be labeled a killer by local radio jockey Lester Moorefield? The annoying host is urging citizens to boycott Suzanne's deadly dough factory-until he's found dead himself, stuffed with one of Suzanne's eclairs. Everyone in April Springs knows about the feud between Lester and

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An Affair to Dismember

Elise Sax · 323 pages

"Three months has been Gladie Burger's limit when it comes to staying in one place. That's why Gladie is more than a little skeptical when her eccentric Grandma Zelda recruits her to the family's matchmaking business in the quaint small town of Cannes, California. What's more, Gladie is also highly unqualified, having a terrible track record with romance. Still, Zelda is convinced that her grandda

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Murder Most Frothy

Cleo Coyle · 272 pages

Clare Cosi's new friend, millionaire David Mintzer, has an offer no New York barista could turn down: an all-expenses-paid summer away from the sticky city. At his Hamptons mansion, she'll relax, soak up the sun, and, oh yes, train the staff of his new restaurant. So Clare packs up her daughter, her former mother-in-law, and her special recipe for iced coffee for what she hopes will be one de-latt

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