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Blue Shoes and Happiness

Alexander McCall Smith · 256 pages

In this seventh installment in the internationally bestselling, universally beloved series, there is considerable excitement at the shared premises of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency and Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medical clinic reveals to Mma Ramotswe that faulty blood-pressure readings are being recorded there.

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Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

Marion Chesney · 207 pages

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Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 256 pages

***Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie.*** Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. **The local inspector and Miss Marple sort

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Real Murders

Charlaine Harris

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Corpse Suzette

G.A. McKevett · 281 pages

P.I. Savannah Reid, accompanying her assistant's cousin Abigail to a glamorous new luxury spa called Emerge, investigates the mysterious disappearance of a renowned plastic surgeion, a strange case that reveals that dark side of beauty.

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

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Decked

Carol Higgins Clark · 277 pages

When P.I. Regan Reilly attends a class reunion in England, the long-dead body of her former roommate turns up. Clues to the mystery follow Regan as she sails home--and into the hands of a killer.Cantu

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Them Bones

Carolyn Haines · 327 pages

If only I hadn't kidnapped the dog...but the ransom paid the mortgage....Now I seem to be a private eye....I shouldn't have listened to that ghost....Meet Sarah Booth Delaney...an unconventional Southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi...if it doesn't make her the deadest.No self-respecting lady would allow herself to end

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Murder Before Evensong

Richard Coles · 352 pages

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M is for Malice

Sue Grafton · 372 pages

"M" is for money. Lots of it. "M" is for Malek Construction, the $40 million company that grew out of modest soil to become one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. "M" is for the Malek family: four sons now nearing middle age who stand to inherit a fortune - four men with very different outlooks, temperaments, and needs, linked only by blood and money

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Murder of a Small-Town Honey

Denise Swanson · 304 pages

Advance praise for Murder of a Small Town Honey:"A delightful mystery that bounces along with gently wry humor and jaunty twists and turns." --Earlene FowlerWhen Skye Denison left Scumble River years ago, she swore she'd never return. But after a bout with her boyfriend and credit card rejection, she's back to home sweet--homicide....

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The Last Devil to Die

Richard Osman · 369 pages

The fourth installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, now streaming on Netflix “The best Murder Club book yet. . . A poignant complement to both the fair-play mystery plot and the characters’ lively humor.” —The New York Times Book Review It's rarely a quiet day for the Thursday Murder Club. Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a d

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Due or Die

Jenn McKinlay · 304 pages

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An Affair to Dismember

Elise Sax · 323 pages

"Three months has been Gladie Burger's limit when it comes to staying in one place. That's why Gladie is more than a little skeptical when her eccentric Grandma Zelda recruits her to the family's matchmaking business in the quaint small town of Cannes, California. What's more, Gladie is also highly unqualified, having a terrible track record with romance. Still, Zelda is convinced that her grandda

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Busy Bodies

Joan Hess · 272 pages

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Portrait of a Dead Guy

Larissa Reinhart · 280 pages

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Wicked Autumn

G.M. Malliet · 297 pages

Max Tudor, former MI5 agent, has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold’s in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. Wanda Batton-Smythe, highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women’s Institute, turns up dead at the Harvest Fayre. Peanut allergy looks accidental, but Max has many suspects for murder. from Goodreads

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Progressive Dinner Deadly

Elizabeth Spann Craig · 214 pages

Retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover is fit to be tied when her book club votes to change to a supper club. Outrageous! The first supper club is a progressive dinner ... where Myrtle loses interest during the hors d'oeuvres. But when a body is discivered during the main course, the evening quickly gets interesting.

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Strawberry Shortcake Murder

Joanne Fluke · 309 pages

In her debut mystery, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen proved that when it comes to crime, nothing is sweeter than a woman who knows how to really mix it up. Now, the flame-haired, tart-talking (and baking) heroine is back, judging a contest where the competition is really murder. Strawberry Shortcake Murder When the president of Hartland Flour

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Assault and Pepper

Tamar Myers · 321 pages

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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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The Skeleton in the Closet

Angie Fox · 250 pages

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A Dead and Stormy Night

Steffanie Holmes · 302 pages

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A Witch Before Dying

Heather Blake

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