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Old World Murder

Kathleen Ernst · 325 pages

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Rattle His Bones

Carola Dunn · 256 pages

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Grace Against the Clock

Julie Hyzy · 341 pages

"When Marshfield Manor hosts a charity event, Grace Wheaton, the museum's curator and manager, is happy to lend a helping hand--until a killer makes an unwanted donation. With the town clock in desperate need of repair, local lawyer Joyce Swedburg and her ex-husband, Dr. Leland Keay, are trying to put aside their differences to organize a benefit at Marshfield Manor to raise money for restoration

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Steps to the Altar

Earlene Fowler · 320 pages

Ninth in the Agatha Award-winning series that's been hailed as engrossing, Steps to the Altar finds California folk art expert Benni Harper preparing for two upcoming weddings, digging up clues to a decades-old unsolved murder-and struggling with a very personal crisis of the heart..

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The Body in the Gallery

Katherine Hall Page · 272 pages

Faith's catering business has been slow with the downturn of the economy, so when her friend Patsy Avery proposes that she take over the cafe at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum, it seems like a not-to-be-missed opportunity. And Patsy has an ulterior motive—she discovers that the Romare Bearden piece she lent the museum has been switched with a fake and wants Faith to snoop around to find the culprit.L

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Murder in the Museum

Simon Brett · 362 pages

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Rock Bottom

Jerusha Jones

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The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum

Kirsten Weiss · 289 pages

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A Pocketful of Eyes

Lili Wilkinson · 311 pages

Bee is in her element working in the taxidermy department at the Museum of Natural History, but her summer job turns out to be full of surprises: A dead body in the Red Rotund. A mysterious benefactor. A large stuffed tiger in the Catacombs. A handsome boy with a fascination for unusual animal mating habits. And a pocketful of glass eye. Can Bee sift through the clues to discover whether her mento

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The Bone Vault

Linda Fairstein · 506 pages

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A Fool and His Monet

Sandra Orchard · 334 pages

FBI art crime agent Serena Jones must fight her way through questionable politics and an assortment of lies to expose the ruthless mastermind behind the recent theft of a priceless work of art.

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Murder in the Smithsonian

Margaret Truman · 292 pages

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The Missing Mummy

Ron Roy · 82 pages

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The Murder Room

P.D. James · 432 pages

Commander Dalgliesh investigates a horrible death at the Dupayne, a private museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, dedicated to the years 1919-1939. One of the museum galleries displays exhibits from the most notorious murder cases of those inter-war years, and now a modern killer is at work, the crimes uncannily echoing the cases on display. All the people at the Dupayne - the trustees, the staff

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Murder under Cover

Kate Carlisle · 291 pages

"When she receives an exquisite copy of the Kama Sutra from her best friend, Robin, to appraise and restore, Brooklyn Wainwright anticipates both recreating a beautiful book and spicing up her love life. But then Robin's apartment is ransacked, and the great guy she recently met is murdered in her bed. Now Robin is the #1 suspect ... "--P. [4] of cover.

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Dead to the Last Drop

Cleo Coyle · 590 pages

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Once Upon a Grind comes an exciting new installment in the "highly satisfying" Coffeehouse Mystery series. After the White House asks coffeehouse manager and master roaster Clare Cosi to consult on the coffee service for a Rose Garden Wedding, she discovers a historic pot was used as a CIA "dead drop" decades before. Now long-simmering secrets boil ov

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The Palace Guard

Charlotte MacLeod · 192 pages

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Keepsake Crimes

Laura Childs · 285 pages

New Orleans scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But among her client's keepsakes she finds a tip of her own-about a murder...

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Home for the Haunting

Juliet Blackwell

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A Diet to Die For

Joan Hess · 256 pages

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Peaches and Screams

G.A. McKevett · 301 pages

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I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason

Susan Kandel · 304 pages

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Silent Auction

Jane K. Cleland · 309 pages

Josie Prescott arrives at the renovated lighthouse in the llittle New Hampshire coastal town of Rocky Point to conduct an antiques appraisal and is horrified to discover the bludgeoned body of her neighbor Zoë's beloved nephew. The owners of the lighthouse are avid antiques collectors, and Josie soon begins to suspect that a scrimshaw tooth from their collection may be the key to solving the crime

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