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Mr. Monk is a Mess

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Mr. Monk Helps Himself

Hy Conrad Β· 310 pages

While studying for her private investigator license, Natalie investigates the apparent suicide of a self-help guru who was about to go bankrupt and enlists the help of her obsessive compulsive partner, Monk, when she suspects foul play.

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A Drop of Corruption

Robert Jackson Bennett Β· 481 pages

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The Dead House

Harry Bingham Β· 272 pages

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Broken Harbour

Tana French Β· 544 pages

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Redemption

David Baldacci Β· 496 pages

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Shell Game

Carol O'Connell Β· 424 pages

A magician dies while performing a trick on television and everyone assumes it was an accident, everyone except Kathleen Mallory of the New York police. She finds the motive in a crime involving magicians half a century earlier.

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The Butterfly Clues

Kate Ellison Β· 336 pages

Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, obsessing about her brother's death.

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Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle Β· 230 pages

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Time to Depart

Lindsey Davis Β· 416 pages

From Wikipedia: " Set in Rome during AD 72, the novel stars Marcus Didius Falco, an informer and imperial agent. The title refers to the law which stated that no Roman citizen who had been sentenced to death might be arrested, even after the verdict, until he has been given time to depart, the idea being that for a Roman citizen to choose exile outside the boundaries of the Empire would have been

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Farewell, My Deuce

Renee Pawlish Β· 208 pages

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Star Struck

Val McDermid Β· 304 pages

'This is crime writing of the very highest order ... Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around' The TimesBodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan's wish list. But somebody's got to pay the bills at Brannigan & Co, and if the only earner on offer is playing nursemaid to a paranoid soap star, the fast-talking computer-loving white collar crime expert

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Fun House: A John Ceepak Mystery Book 7

Chris Grabenstein Β· 336 pages

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B is for Burglar

Sue Grafton Β· 229 pages

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I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Alan Bradley Β· 286 pages

It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a ragin

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The Strings of Murder

Oscar de Muriel Β· 416 pages

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The Monkey's Raincoat

Robert Crais Β· 245 pages

When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld.

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Fade Away

Harlan Coben Β· 368 pages

For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories--of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present

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The Pleasure of My Company

Steve Martin Β· 163 pages

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Champagne for One

Rex Stout Β· 194 pages

Archie Goodwin sits in for a friend at a charity dinner dance for unwed mothers, and one of the guests drops dead on the dance floor. The young woman was depressed and known to carry poison - but Archie is sure that this was murder.

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Foxglove Summer

Ben Aaronovitch Β· 354 pages

"When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable Peter Grant has to leave London to check that nothing supernatural is involved. It's purely routine, Nightingale thinks he'll be done in less than a day. But Peter's never been one to walk away from someone in trouble, so when nothing overtly magical turns up he volunteers his services to the local police, who need all the

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The Late-night News

Petros Markaris Β· 288 pages

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The Goldfish Boy

Lisa Thompson Β· 313 pages

Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt t

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The Spellman Files

Lisa Lutz Β· 368 pages

The first novel of a comic mystery series. Meet Isabel "Izzy" Spellman, private investigator. This twenty-eight-year-old may have a checkered past littered with romantic mistakes, excessive drinking, and creative vandalism; she may be addicted to *Get Smart* reruns and prefer entering homes through windows rather than doors -- but the upshot is she's good at her job as a licensed private invest

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The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler Β· 324 pages

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

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