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Third Degree

Maggie Barbieri · 313 pages

On her way to meet her boyfriend's parents, college professor Alison Bergeron stops by a coffee shop to steel her resolve. It's a big event. Not only is it the first time she's met NYPD detective Bobby Crawford's entire family, but it's coming on the heels of a wedding proposal that she has left unanswered so far. Then, as she steps into the shop, a brawl breaks out that ends in the death of Ca

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The Skeleton Haunts a House

Leigh Perry · 289 pages

What holiday could bring more warmth to a skeleton's chest cavity than Halloween? And when you're a living skeleton who's not supposed to be seen outside the house, it's a welcome chance to get some fresh air and rub bony elbows with people. That's why Sid doesn't mind wearing a full-body dog suit and going as Scooby-Doo along with Georgia Thackery's Velma to the Halloween Howl.

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Calamity Jayne Goes to College

Kathleen Bacus · 326 pages

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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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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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Vane Pursuit

Charlotte MacLeod · 224 pages

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Catnapped!

Elaine Viets · 276 pages

The one thing celebrity Trish Barrymore and her no account accountant husband, Mort, can agree on in their bitter divorce is shared cat custody. But when Mort is found brained by a mahogany cat tower, and Justine, their pedigreed Chartreux show cat, goes missing, Trish calls on Helen and Phil. Despite a ransom note from the catnapper, Trish is still the prime murder suspect in the eyes of the poli

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Never Kissed Goodnight

Edie Claire · 284 pages

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With this Puzzle, I Thee Kill

Parnell Hall · 322 pages

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A Bite of Death

Susan Conant · 179 pages

Holly Winter had her hands full with one dog. Still, when therapist Elaine Walsh is found dead, Holly eagerly adopts the orphaned Kimi-and vows to teach her some manners. But when questions arise about Elaine's death-following close on the heels of a patient's suicide-Holly suspects the misbehaving malamute Kimi might be the key witness. Digging for clues all over Cambridge, Holly hopes to untangl

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Just The Pits

Jinx Schwartz · 366 pages

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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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The Square Root of Murder

Ada Madison · 292 pages

While celebrating famous scholars of the past with her students, Dr. Sophie Knowles, a much loved math teacher at Henley College, must add up the clues to prove her assistant's innocence when she is accused of killing Dr. Keith Appleton, the most disliked professor on campus.

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Tombs of Endearment

Casey Daniels · 320 pages

Cemetery tour guide Pepper Martin never imagined she'd get to meet rock legend Damon Curtis, the bad boy poet who made millions of teenage girls scream. After all, he kicked the bucket years before she was born. But thanks to her newfound ability to chat up the dead, Pepper's got a front row seat perfect for swooning over the still-sexy Damon's latest lyrics. He's convinced that his former bandmat

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No Place Like Rome

Julie Moffett · 256 pages

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Citizen Insane

Karen Cantwell · 190 pages

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Steamed

Jessica Conant-Park, Susan Conant · 309 pages

Known in local chatrooms as GourmetGirl, Chloe Carter, a food connoisseur and expert in failed romances, continues her quest to find the perfect man, but a blind date with a fellow food lover goes horribly wrong when he is stabbed to death.

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Dirty Deeds

Christy Barritt · 314 pages

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Unfinished Business

Carolyn Ridder Aspenson · 240 pages

"Stay-at-home mom Angela Panther is living the good life. Happily married with kids, a house in the suburbs and a fantabulous best friend - she's got it all. But hours after Angela's mother dies, her ghost pops in for a visit, leaving the door to the other side wide open. Suddenly Angela's life is filled with ghosts - ghosts who need her help. Now she must find a way to balance the needs of the li

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Buried In Buttercream

G.A. McKevett · 304 pages

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The Ghost and the Dead Deb

Alice Kimberly · 262 pages

Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure wants her resident sleuth-ghost, Jack, to stop haunting her customers. But when a pretty author is murdered, Jack can't rest in peace.

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September Fair

Jess Lourey

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Seasoned

Gina LaManna · 392 pages

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