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Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea:  Atherton, Nancy.

Sent with her twin five-year-old sons to a Scottish island after her high-profile attorney husband receives death threats, Lori Shepherd begins to suspect local foul play upon her discovery of a skull on the beach and the unlikely fortunes of several locals, a situation that prompts her to piece together clues with the assistance of Aunt Dimity.

ORDER # MJR-1   $16-40   ISBN 0143038303 

 

All in One Piece:  Tishy, Cecelia.

Accepting the help of an attractive neighbor when she is clipped by a speeding car, psychic detective Reggie Cutter is shocked when the neighbor is killed and she is counted among the suspects, in a case that forces her to apply her abilities to solve the crime and prove her innocence.

ORDER # MJR-2   $16-40   ISBN 0446613568 

 

Capitol Murder:  Bernhardt, William.

When the senior senator from his native Oklahoma is accused of the murder of a female intern, the apparent victim of a ritual killing whose body is found in the tunnels leading from the Senate, crusading attorney Ben Kincaid heads for Washington, D.C., to take the case, but an incriminating videotape forces him to re-evaluate his loyalty to an old friend.

ORDER # MJR-3   $16-40   ISBN 0345451503 

 

Best Served Cold:  Evans, Jimmie Ruth.

Wanda Neil is worried when her estranged brother, Rusty, arrives in town, looking to stir up trouble and settle the score with the inhabitants of Tullahoma, especially when a man is found murdered and Rusty, the prime suspect in the crime, mysteriously vanishes.

ORDER # MJR-4   $16-40   ISBN 0425213498 

 

Cherry Cheesecake Murder:  Fluke, Joanne.

When Main Street in Lake Eden becomes a movie set, a clever killer rewrites the script, and bakery owner Hannah Swenson, while trying to decide which marriage proposal to accept, must sift through a cast of suspects before the film wraps with an even deadlier ending.

ORDER # MJR-5   $16-40   ISBN 0758202954 

 

Catnap:  Douglas, Carole Nelson.

When a dead body turns up at the American Booksellers Association convention and the Baker & Taylor mascots are catnapped, public relations expert Temple Barr and her cat, Midnight Louie, decide to investigate.

ORDER # MJR-6   $16-40   ISBN 0812516826 

 

Death du Jour:  Temple, Lou Jane.

In the midst of the revolutionary fervor sweeping 1790 Paris, Fanny Delarue, a young cook for a wealthy family in the Place Royale, and her head chef, Henri, embark on a high-stakes investigation into the murder of Etienne de la Porte, chef to a neighboring household and Henri's mentor, after he turns up dead under suspicious circumstances.

ORDER # MJR-7   $16-40   ISBN 0425213501 

 

Dead Past: A Diane Fallon Forensic Investigation:  Connor, Beverly.

When she sees a television show featuring the unsolved murders of her entire family, Juliet Price, who can't remember anything about the event, is plagued by terrifying nightmares that hold the key to identifying the killer and turns to Diane Fallon for help.

ORDER # MJR-8   $16-40   ISBN 0451412346 

 

Denial: A Lew Fonesca Novel:  Kaminsky, Stuart M.

Investigator Lew Fonesca tackles a pair of strangely linked cases involving an elderly woman who swears against all evidence that she has witnessed a murder in her retirement home and a hit-and-run accident that has cost a fourteen-year-old boy his life.

ORDER # MJR-9   $16-40   ISBN 076535022X 

 

Death on the Flop:  Chance, Jackie.

Heading for Las Vegas with her twin brother, Ben, for an amateur Texas Hold'em tournament, Belinda Cooley is forced to take her brother's place at the table after Ben mysteriously vanishes from his hotel room.

ORDER # MJR-10   $16-40   ISBN 042521348X 

 

Dreaming of the Bones:  Crombie, Deborah.

When a talented poet is found dead, a suspected suicide, her biographer asks her ex-husband, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, and Sergeant Gemma Jones to prove a case of murder, but Kincaid and Jones soon discover startling news of scandal, secrets, and lost innocence.

ORDER # MJR-11   $16-40   ISBN 0061150401 

 

Faux Finished:  Marberg, Peg.

Mother-and-daughter interior design team Jean and Jean Jr. find their unveiling of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club's new dining room marred by the death of the manager during his toast.

ORDER # MJR-12   $16-40   ISBN 0425214281 

 

The Finishing School:  Martinez, Michele.

When two beautiful teenagers from a posh East Side girls' school suddenly turn up dead under suspicious circumstances, it falls to Melanie Vargas, a savvy federal prosecutor, to do anything possible to find answers and get to the truth.

ORDER # MJR-13   $16-40   ISBN 0060724013 

 

Glossed and Found:  Ink, India.

When Venus Envy's new makeup artist, Lisa Tremont, vanishes on the night of the Thanksgiving Gala, and her car is found near Lookout Pier, the police believe that the woman drowned, but Persia Vanderbilt believes that the woman's disappearance could be tied to some missing inheritance money.

ORDER # MJR-14   $16-40   ISBN 0425212947 

 

Guess Who's Coming to Die?:  Sprinkle, Patricia.

When Georgia magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough is invited to join the Magnolia Ladies' Investment Club - a group of snobby dowagers and heiresses, she discovers that murder is on the agenda when, during her first meeting, she stumbles upon the club president's dead body.

ORDER # MJR-15   $16-40   ISBN 0451220617 

 

Ground to a Halt:  Bishop, Claudia.

When the International Association of Pet Food Providers convention guests begin fighting like cats and dogs over switching to vegan pet food, which results in murder, inn owner Sarah Quilliam and her sister, Meg, guided by a pet psychic, investigate.

ORDER # MJR-16   $16-40   ISBN 042521429X 

 

Hardscrabble Road:  Haddam, Jane.

Retired FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is called in by a local legal project to probe the circumstances surrounding the death of a former client, following a complex maze of clues that could be tied to the arrest of a local Philadelphia right-wing radio talk-show host for illegal drugs, a nearby Benedictine monastery, a Nobel laureate leftist academic, and a homeless advocacy group.

ORDER # MJR-17   $16-40   ISBN 0312989121 

 

A Hole in Juan:  Roberts, Gillian.

Philadelphia English teacher Amanda Pepper joins forces with her private eye husband, C.K. Mackenzie, to investigate when a yearly tradition in which children play harmless pranks throughout the city on the night before Halloween turns deadly, leaving a new teacher near death.

ORDER # MJR-18   $16-40   ISBN 0345480201 

 

Hot Laps:  Eubanks, Steve.

A former legend on the stockcar racing circuit, Robert "Redball" Redding, now one of North Carolina's leading prosecutors, is drawn reluctantly back into the world of racing when the stepbrother of one of pro racing's hottest racers, Junior Senior Jr., is caught trying to hijack a truck, in a case that leads him into a dark web of porn, organized crime, betrayal, and murder.

ORDER # MJR-19   $16-40   ISBN 0060792574 

 

How to Murder a Millionaire:  Martin, Nancy.

Society columnist and former debutante Nora Blackbird gets back in high society's good graces when she discovers the murdered body of a wealthy Philadelphia art collector.

ORDER # MJR-20   $16-40   ISBN 0451207246 

 

Irish Crystal:  Greeley, Andrew M.

In the aftermath of a prophetic dream about an impending threat to homeland security, Irish-born Nuala and her husband, Dermot, find themselves enmeshed in a treacherous conspiracy that leads them to a forgotten manuscript containing information about a tragic moment in history.

ORDER # MJR-21   $16-40   ISBN 0765342375 

 

Lucky at Cards:  Block, Lawrence.

When the wife of his latest mark concocts a clever scheme to get rid of her husband, professional cardsharp Bill Maynard, craving some action, is only too happy to help, but all bets are off when his luck runs out and the tables turn.

ORDER # MJR-22   $16-40   ISBN 0843957689 

 

Meow Is for Murder:  Johnston, Linda O.

The claws come out when Kendra Ballantyne, pet-sitter and occasional sleuth, agrees to help prove the innocence of her boyfriend's manipulative ex-wife when she is accused of murdering the man who has been stalking her.

ORDER # MJR-23   $16-40   ISBN 0425214303 

 

Murder Can Depress Your Dachshund:  Eichler, Selma.

When Jordy Mills, who is scheduled to donate a kidney to his brother, Cornell, is murdered the day before the transplant, resulting in Cornell's apparent suicide, PI Desiree Shapiro investigates and discovers that one brother was good, one bad - both of whom someone wanted dead.

ORDER # MJR-24   $16-40   ISBN 0451220609 

 

Night of the Living Deb:  McBride, Susan.

Rebellious rich girl Andy Kendricks comes to the aid of her straight-arrow, defense attorney boyfriend, Brian Malone, when her beau, who has not been seen since a bachelor party at a sleazy local "gentleman's club," becomes the prime suspect in the killing of an exotic beauty whose body turns up in the trunk of his car.

ORDER # MJR-25   $16-40   ISBN 0060845554 

 

The Next:  Vining, Dan.

A private detective and a member of the "Sailors" - people who drift between the worlds of the living and the dead - Jimmy Miles follows the trail of a mysterious woman to San Francisco, where he confronts his troubling past and tragic obsessions.

ORDER # MJR-26   $16-40   ISBN 0425214273 

 

The Princeton Imposter:  Waldron, Ann.

Professor McLeod Dulaney is stunned when one of her star students, quiet, unassuming Greg Pierre, is revealed to be an imposter who had been convicted of drug possession, broke parole, and had forged documents to get into Princeton, but when the man is arrested for the murder of the grad student who had outed him, McLeod sets out to clear his name.

ORDER # MJR-27   $16-40   ISBN 0425213625 

 

The Orkney Scroll:  Hamilton, Lyn.

When one of her clients falls victim to a scam and becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation, Toronto antiques dealer and amateur sleuth Lara McClintoch follows a trail leading to Scotland's remote Orkney Islands and into the middle of a centuries-old Viking mystery.

ORDER # MJR-28   $16-40   ISBN 0425214311 

 

Steamed:  Conant-Park, Jessica & Conant, Susan.

Known in local chatrooms as GourmetGirl, Chloe Carter, a food connoisseur and expert in failed romances, continues her quest to find the perfect man, but a blind date with a fellow food lover goes horribly wrong when he is stabbed to death.

ORDER # MJR-29   $16-40   ISBN 0425210383 

 

The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter:  Albert, Susan Wittig.

When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy the pristine shoreline of Lake Windermere by constructing a number of villas.

ORDER # MJR-30   $16-40   ISBN 0425215067 

 

Ten Second Staircase:  Fowler, Christopher. 

Just after his agoraphobic granddaughter joins the Peculiar Crimes Unit, Detective John May and his partner, Arthur Bryant, find themselves tackling a bizarre serial killer nicknamed "The Highwayman," whose crimes are not only terrorizing the city of London, but also bear a striking similarity to other series of murders spanning London's history.

ORDER # MJR-31   $16-40   ISBN 0553588311 

 

To Love and to Perish:  Durham, Laura.

An ambitious, relative newcomer to the cutthroat world of wedding planning in Washington, D.C., Annabelle Archer heads into action when an unknown killer begins striking out at her competition, joining forces with her best friend and caterer, Richard, before she leaps to the top of the suspect list or she becomes the latest target of the murderer.

ORDER # MJR-32   $16-40   ISBN 0060739088 

 

True Faith:  Gold, Alan.

When the wife of a philandering rabbi is found dead, Rabbi Robert Geller is tried for her murder, but when the trial ends in a mistrial, despite the claims of two men who claim to be hired assassins, and Geller is released, Lou Tedesco launches a personal investigation to uncover the truth and to expose long-hidden dark secrets.

ORDER # MJR-33   $16-40   ISBN 0425208567 

 

Two for the Dough:  Evanovich, Janet.

Chasing Kenny Mancuso, who fled after inadvertently shooting his best friend, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes involved in an all-out manhunt for gunrunners and illegal weapons and is pursued by vice cop Joe Morelli.

ORDER # MJR-34   $16-40   ISBN 0671001795 

 

Unscrewed:  Greiman, Lois.

Cocktail-waitress-turned-psychologist Christina McMullen comes to the aid of L.A. homicide detective Jack Rivera when he is accused of killing his beautiful former girlfriend, who had left him for his wealthy father, launching her own investigation that uncovers dark secrets from the dead woman's past, a wealthy and influential senator, and other baffling clues.

ORDER # MJR-35   $16-40   ISBN 0440243610 

 

 
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