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Death by the Riverside

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Heart Trouble

Kathy Hogan Trocheck, Mary Kay Andrews · 278 pages

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The Devil Went Down to Austin

Rick Riordan · 335 pages

Tres Navarre goes to Austin to teach a summer session when his brother Garett's oldest friend and business partner is murdered, leaving Garett as the only suspect, so Tres investigates to clear his brother's name.

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Booty Bones

Carolyn Haines · 369 pages

"Sarah Booth Delaney's fiance, Graf Milieu, has become depressed while recovering from a severe leg injury, but Sarah Booth knows just how to help him heal. She's arranged a romantic getaway for the two of them at a lovely beach cottage on Dauphin Island off the Gulf Coast. On the first day of their island adventure, they take a historical tour led by Angela Trotter, a young woman well-versed in l

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Don't Talk to Strangers

Amanda Kyle Williams · 322 pages

"Hailed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as "one of the most addictive new series heroines," Keye Street is the brilliant, brash heart of a sizzling thriller full of fear and temptation, judgments and secrets, infidelity and murder. He likes them smart. In the woods of Whisper, Georgia, two bodies are found: one recently dead, the other decayed from a decade of exposure to the elements. The she

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To Live & Die in Dixie

Kathy Hogan Trocheck · 320 pages

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Peaches and Screams

G.A. McKevett · 301 pages

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Lowcountry Bombshell

Susan M. Boyer · 271 pages

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Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Sara Gran · 273 pages

This knock-out start to a bracingly original new series features Claire DeWitt, the world’s greatest PI—at least, that's what she calls herself. A one-time teen detective in Brooklyn, she is a follower of the esoteric French detective Jacques Silette, whose mysterious handbook Détection inspired Claire’s unusual practices. Claire also has deep roots in New Orleans, where she was mentored by Silett

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Whiskey for Breakfast

Liliana Hart · 312 pages

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Malevolent

Jana Deleon · 356 pages

Emma Frederick bolts upright in bed, pulse racing. It must be a bad dream. Except it’s not. Crrrrrreeeeeeeeaaaaaaakkkkkkk. The sound of the loose step sends her body into overdrive, and she rushes for the secret room behind the wall. The screech of old hinges echoes through the house as he enters her bedroom. He starts whistling. Three blind mice. Three blind mice. She slaps a ha

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Dead By Midnight

Beverly Barton · 444 pages

In the ten years since her Hollywood career imploded, Lorie Hammonds has built a good life in her Alabama hometown. When the first death threat arrives, she assumes it's a joke. Then she gets a second note. Sheriff Mike Birkett, her high-school sweetheart, has avoided Lorie since she returned to Dunmore, but when investigators uncover her connection to a string of recent murders, he's drawn into a

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Dead Aim

Joe R. Lansdale · 102 pages

Roughneck detectives Hap Collins and Leonard Pine take on an apparently straightforward assignment -- discourage a man from harassing his estranged wife -- that is, until the husband is murdered and more bodies turn up.

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Pushing Up Bluebonnets

Leann Sweeney · 288 pages

When asked to help identify a young woman who may not survive an attempted murder, Abby discovers a possible connection between the girl and a prominent Houston family-the questions about her past are getting stickier than pecan pie. Abby's about to learn the hard way that when she crawls out on a limb, she'd better be certain there's not someone behind her with a saw and a mean spirit.

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The Singing Of The Dead

Dana Stabenow · 320 pages

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Mint Juleps and Justice

Nancy Naigle · 322 pages

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L is for Lawless

Sue Grafton · 322 pages

"L" Is for Lawless: Call it Kinsey Millhone in bad company. Call it a mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map, a quest novel with truly mixed-up motives. Call it the return of Kinsey as bad girl - quick-witted and quicksilvery, smart-mouthed and smart-alecky - poking her nose into everyone's dirty laundry as she joins up with a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde in an Our Gang comedy that

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Crossroad Blues

Ace Atkins · 265 pages

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The White Road

John Connolly · 405 pages

In South Carolina, a young black man faces the death penalty for the rape and murder of Marianne Larousse, daughter of one of the wealthiest men in the state. It's a case that nobody wants to touch, a case with its roots in old evil, and old evil is private detective Charlie Parker's speciality. But Parker is about to make a descent into the abyss, a confrontation with dark forces that threaten al

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Crack Down

Val McDermid · 246 pages

English PI Kate Brannigan has to resort to her Thai boxing training as she investigates fraud in the car dealership industry. The crooks reply by framing her boyfriend with a car full of drugs. By the author of Dead Beat.

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Murder in the Sentier

Cara Black · 325 pages

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In Big Trouble

Laura Lippman · 342 pages

Tess receives a clipping featuring her musician ex-boyfriend, prompting her to investigate his disappearance and that of the woman who was with him, as well as the victims of a killer who dances to his own deadly tune.

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Hugger Mugger

Robert B. Parker · 308 pages

"Spenser heads for horse country, with a dangerous and multilayered case that takes him to the heart of the horse-racing world, as the Boston P.I. travels to a Georgia stable to protect the two-year-old colt destined to become the next Secretariat.". "When Spenser is approached by Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, to find out who is threatening his horse Hugger Mugger, he can hard

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