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Fool's Puzzle

Earlene Fowler · 237 pages

Leaving behind memories of her late husband, Benni Harper is making a fresh start...Moving to the trendy California town of San Celina, she takes an exciting new job as director of a folk-art museum. While setting up an exhibit of handmade quilts, she stumbles upon the body of a brutally stabbed artist. Hoping to conduct an investigation on her own, she crosses paths with the local police chief, w

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Rock Bottom

Jerusha Jones

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Murder in the Museum

Simon Brett · 362 pages

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Old World Murder

Kathleen Ernst · 325 pages

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The Perfectly Proper Paranormal Museum

Kirsten Weiss · 289 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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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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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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The Palace Guard

Charlotte MacLeod · 192 pages

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Homicide in Hardcover

Kate Carlisle · 289 pages

"Brooklyn Wainwright is a skilled surgeon. Sure, her patients might smell like mold and have spines made of leather, but no ailing book is going to die on her watch. The same can't be said of Abraham Karastovsky, Brooklyn's friend and former employer. On the eve of the celebration for his latest book restoration, Brooklyn finds her mentor lying a pool of his own blood. With his final breath, Abrah

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Capture the Flag

Kate Messner

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The Deeds of the Disturber

Elizabeth Peters · 304 pages

Returning from the winter events of Dahshoor (Lion in the valley), the Emersons are confronted with murder in the Egyptian wing of the British Museum, a murder attributed to a curse from one of the mummies recently donated. With the press, in the form of Kevin O'Connell and Miss Minton, dogging her heels--and hissing at each other whenever possible--can Amelia find the real murderer before becomin

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A Room Full of Bones

Elly Griffiths · 352 pages

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Dead Guilty

Beverly Connor · 411 pages

In Beverly Connor's absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. In this latest investigation, forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon must lead a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications: the murder of three people, hanged execution-style in an isolated patch of Georgia woods.

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The Bone Vault

Linda Fairstein · 506 pages

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The Missing Mummy

Ron Roy · 82 pages

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Murder in the Smithsonian

Margaret Truman · 292 pages

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Night Train to Memphis

Elizabeth Peters, Barbara Mertz · 400 pages

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The Mystery of the Whispering Mummy

Robert Arthur · 160 pages

The Three Investigators undertake a case involving an Egyptian mummy which whispers, but only to one man.

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The Shrunken Head

Lauren Oliver, H.C. Chester · 362 pages

Orphans Philippa, Sam, Thomas, and Max must find out who stole a valuable artifact in order to save to save their home, Dumfrey's Dime Museum of Freaks, Oddities, and Wonders.

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Corpus Christmas

Margaret Maron · 275 pages

A relic of Manhattan's Gilded Age, the Erich Bruel House on Gramercy Park contained three floors of glorious art--and one Christmas corpse. Now it's up to Lieutenant Sigrid Harald to wrap up this homicide before the killer strikes again.

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