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Include books by the same authorThe Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
Alan Bradley · 368 pages
From Dagger Award--winning and internationally bestselling author Alan Bradley comes this utterly beguiling mystery starring one of fiction's most remarkable sleuths: Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders. This time, Flavia finds herself untangling two deaths--separated by time but linked by the unlikeliest of threads.
Snow White Red-Handed
Maia Chance · 328 pages
"Miss Ophelia Flax is a Victorian actress who knows all about making quick changes and even quicker exits. But to solve a fairy-tale crime in the haunted Black Forest, she'll need more than a bit of charm. 1867: After being fired from her latest variety hall engagement, Ophelia acts her way into a lady's maid position for a crass American millionaire. But when her new job whisks her off to a foreb
Dolled Up to Die
Lorena McCourtney · 320 pages
When Cate Kinkaid gets a frantic call about a triple homicide, she drives to the scene against her better judgment -- isn't this more up the police department's alley? -- to find that the victims are not who she expects. Cate adds a new rule to her list for assistant private investigators: always find out if the victims actually have human DNA. But who would shoot this nice lady's dolls? And then
Armed and Glamorous
Ellen Byerrum · 313 pages
Trench coats— hot or not? The author of Grave Apparel proves you can solve mysteries without sacrificing style... Unchallenged and unappreciated, fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian slips on her trench coat and high-heeled gumshoes to pursue a course in private investigation and a shot at a better job. When a wealthy and erratic D.C. socialite is discovered quite dead outside the classroom, Lacey g
Hide & Snoop
Sue Ann Jaffarian · 387 pages
There's been a merger at Odelia Grey's law firm, and her new icy-cold boss, Erica Mayfield, has it in for her. The humiliation doubles when Erica dumps her three-year old niece with Odelia and disappears for the weekend. Primed for a confrontation, Odelia impulsively goes to her boss's house in the middle of the night - and finds Erica's sister murdered. Odelia's madcap misadventures to prove her
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die
Nancy Martin · 288 pages
You could say my sisters and I are hot-blooded bluebloods with a flair for fashion—and for solving crimes. But things have NOT been going well for us Blackbirds: Emma has busted out of a very exclusive clinic. Libby’s hormones are in overdrive from selling paraphernalia for Potions and Passions, a company that promises its customers full satisfaction. And I’m still dating mobster’s son Mick Abruzz
Dead and Kicking
Wendy Roberts · 280 pages
Sadie Novak cleans up crime scenes for a living, and often finds herself face-to-face with the earthbound spirits. Her dad passes away and is reluctant to leave, and while she's cleaning up the house of a hoarder, she finds the 17-year-old mummified remains of an infant, as well as a very angry ghost who wants to keep Sadie away from the house.
Physical Education
Maggie Barbieri · 342 pages
College English professor and sometime amateur sleuth Alison Bergeron would've been thrilled to hear that her husband, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, was leaving Homicide if that were the whole story, but it turns out that Bobby's next assignment is even worse--undercover. As if worrying about his involvement in a case he won't talk about at all wasn't bad enough, Alison is forced to take over the
Goodbye, Ms. Chips
Dorothy Cannell · 288 pages
Ellie Haskell returns to her old boarding school to solve a case of robbery--and finds herself tracking a murderer.
Double Dip
Gretchen Archer · 270 pages
Things are dicey at work. A personal assistant goes missing, a little old lady goes on a suspicious winning streak, and a Bellissimo executive goes gaga for Davis Way. She follows a disappearing slot-tournament player trail to the So Help Me God Pentecostal Church in Beehive, Alabama, then jumps headlong into a high stakes holy scandal. She's on a losing streak at home, too. Her days, nights, and
A Grave Prediction
Victoria Laurie · 306 pages
"In Victoria Laurie's new Psychic Eye mystery, Abby Cooper learns that following the money often leads to murder. Professional psychics learn to deal with skeptics, but Abby has to prepare herself for one steep uphill battle when she's sent to San Diego to help train FBI officers to use their intuition. Her first challenge: a series of bank robberies in which the thieves made off with loads of ca
The Satanic Mechanic
Sally Andrew · 368 pages
When Slimkat the Bushman's life is threatened by an unknown adversary, recipe writer-turned-crime fighter Tannie Maria becomes embroiled in a nature-reserve land dispute among Bushmen descendants, diamond miners, and cattle companies.