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The Etruscan Chimera

Lyn Hamilton · 304 pages

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The Samurai's Daughter

Sujata Massey

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Owls Well That Ends Well

Donna Andrews · 322 pages

Meg and Michael are having a garage sale to empty their new house of all the clutter gathered by the Sprocketts. The sale brings an influx of relatives and a horde of visitors. A bargain seeker wants to buy a chest but insists on seeing inside it first - when Meg unlocks it a body is found and a murder investigation begins with a vast array of suspects from the large crowd that just wants to shop

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How to Murder a Millionaire

Nancy Martin · 254 pages

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Murder at Honeychurch Hall

Hannah Dennison · 304 pages

"Former TV celebrity host Kat Stanford is just days away from starting her dream antique business with her newly widowed mother Iris when she gets a huge shock. Iris has recklessly purchased a dilapidated carriage house, on an isolated country estate, Honeychurch Hall, several hundred miles from London. When Kat arrives at the house, she discovers that Iris has yet another surprise in store. Iris

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Tarnished and Torn

Juliet Blackwell · 325 pages

As the owner of a popular vintage clothing store, Lily Ivory can enjoy a day of antique jewelry shopping and still call it work. But as one of San Francisco's resident witches, searching for hidden treasures can sometimes lead to dangerous discoveries... When Lily arrives at an antique jewelry fair, her bargain sensors go off left and right--but she also picks up a faint vibration of magic. Cou

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The Maid's Secret

Nita Prose · 411 pages

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The House on Tradd Street

Karen White · 339 pages

A brilliant, chilling series debut, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses — and the secret histories inside them. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she’s going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog — and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her the

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And Only to Deceive

Tasha Alexander · 339 pages

Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger. But her discovery of his journals nearly two years later reveals a far different man than she imagined—a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who apparently loved his ne

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Antiques Bizarre

Barbara Allan · 240 pages

Spring has sprung a major leak in small town Serenity, as the Mississippi River drops in for an extended stay. With hundreds of homes and dozens of business flooded, how better to help the cozy town get back to normal than staging a city-wide church bazaar?Brandy Borne knows the outcome of her mother Vivian's plan, however, is more likely to lean toward bizarre, especially when she hears Mother wh

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Echo

Jack McDevitt · 371 pages

After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.

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Killer Stuff

Sharon Fiffer · 339 pages

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Home for a Spell

Madelyn Alt · 290 pages

Maggie O'Neill's dream of a new place to live turns into a nightmare: the apartment manager is found dead before she can even sign the lease. And Maggie finds herself not only searching for a new home--but for a frightfully clever killer.

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The Cutting Room

Louise Welsh · 294 pages

When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous autioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly distrubing photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who coveted them. What follows is a compulsive journey of discovery, decadence and deviousness...

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Antiques to Die For

Jane K. Cleland · 320 pages

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Loose Screw

Rae Davies, Lori Devoti

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The Art Forger

B.A. Shapiro

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The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt · 817 pages

"The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade, a smartly written literary novel that connects with the heart as well as the mind....Donna Tartt has delivered an extraordinary work of fiction."--Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review Composed with the skills of a master, The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present day America and a drama of enthra

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The Pot Thief Who Studied Pythagoras

J. Michael Orenduff · 248 pages

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The Whole Cat and Caboodle

Sofie Ryan · 352 pages

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The Flanders Panel

Arturo Perez-Reverte · 294 pages

A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned off. Hired to clean the painting, a young art expert in Madrid discovers in an X-ray an inscription hidden in the corner, setting off a sophisticated whodunit around the European art world.

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The Distance Between Us

Kasie West · 312 pages

"Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers knows better thant to trust a rich boy. But then she meets the richest guy of all, who proves money might not matter after all"--Provided by publisher. Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers knows better than to trust a rich boy, but then she meets the richest guy of all, who proves money might not matter after all.

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Shattered Silk

Barbara Michaels · 330 pages

Karen Nevitt has brought new life to old, abandoned things. Her vintage clothing collection, nestled away in Washington, D.C.'s picturesque Georgetown, features exquisite designer originals from decades past. But there is something deadly sewn into the lace and delicate fabrics she has—clues to a forgotten mystery that is pulling Karen into a dark and terrifying place. A secret once locked away in

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The Mystery of Nevermore

C.S. Poe · 216 pages

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