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Adventure ·················································32 Fantasy Novels & Story Collections··········32 More Fiction ·············································38
Amateur Sleuths ·········································5 Female Detectives·······································4 More Mysteries & Detectives····················16
Audio Books ·············································39 Fictional Biographies ································31 Mysteries & Whodunits ······························2
British Mysteries·······································13 Gay & Lesbian Fiction ······························31 Romance··················································21
Cartoons & Comic Strips ·························35 Ghost & Horror Story Collections ·············31 Science Fiction ·········································33
Children’s Books ······································35 Graphic Novels & Comics ························33 Sherlock Holmes ······································13
Classics & Literary Fiction························16 Hardboiled Detectives & Private Eyes ·········3 Short Stories ············································38
Comedy & Farce in Fiction························26 Historical Fiction·······································27 Short Story Anthologies ···························37
Coming-Of-Age Novels·····························26 Historical Mysteries··································14 Spies & Espionage ···································12
Contemporary & Cutting Edge Fiction·······17 Horror Novels ···········································31 Thrillers ······················································8
Courtroom Dramas·····································8 Military Fiction··········································30 Westerns & Cowboy Stories·····················29
Family Saga Novels ··································26 Missing Person Mysteries ··························7 Women in Fiction······································19
–1–Mysteries & Whodunits Mysteries & Whodunits Mysteries & Whodunits Mysteries & Whodunits
A GUIDE FOR MURDERED CHILDREN By *DEAD OR ALIVE By Michael McGarrity. *SIDNEY CHAMBERS AND THE PERILS *TERMINATED By Ray Daniel. Uber-geek
Sarah Sparrow. What if the souls of murdered Living in London while his wife serves as a OF THE NIGHT By James Runcie. Full-time Tucker and his beautiful wife, Carol, developed
children were able to briefly return, inhabit adult military attache at the American Embassy, priest and part-time detective Canon Sidney controversial security software together until
bodies and wreak revenge on the monstrous retired Santa Fe Police Chief Kevin Kerney is Chambers continues his sleuthing adventures the day he was fired and she was murdered.
killers who stole their lives? Such is the called back to his New Mexico ranch. There he in 1950s Cambridge. He investigates a fall Tucker is determined to track down the truth
unthinkable mystery confronting ex-NYPD teams up with his half-Apache son, Lieutenant from a chapel roof; arson at a photographer’s behind the killing no matter what the cost. He
detective Willow Wylde, who’s now running a Clayton Istee, to hunt for an increasingly studio; and poisoning during a game of discovers a most important project is in
Cold Case squad in suburban Detroit. ruthless and unhinged killer. 288 pages. NAL. cricket; all while grappling with his own vexing danger of being corrupted–and there are
385 pages. Blue Rider. Pub. at $27.00 Paperbound. Pub. at $16.00 mystery: marriage. 356 pages. Bloomsbury. people willing to kill to get their hands on it.
Item #3784533 $4.95 Item #6984851 $11.95 Paperbound. Pub. at $17.00 324 pages. Midnight Ink. Paperbound. Pub. at $14.99
SHADOW MAN By Alan Drew. As Ben and THE NIGHT OCEAN By Paul La Farge. As Item #2893975 $12.95 Item #5927927 PRICE CUT to $3.95
forensic specialist Natasha Betencourt Marina Willet follows the trail of her missing *THE GREAT THINKING MACHINE: The *COPPER KETTLE By Frederick Ramsay.
struggle to stay one step ahead of a husband in an attempt to learn the truth of his Problem of Cell 13 & Other Stories By Jesse Sutherlin returns to Buffalo Mountain a hero
killer–and to deal with painful episodes in the disappearance, the story moves across the Jacques Futrelle. A republication of Best of WWI, but his cousin and fellow soldier who
past–Ben’s own world is rocked by violence. decades and along the length of the “Thinking Machine” Detective Stories, also has returned is less fortunate and gets killed
He must decide how far he is willing to go, continent, from a remote Ontario town, published in 1973. This volume presents while tending to a family moonshine still. Jesse
and Natasha how much she is willing to risk, t h ro u g h N e w Yo r k , t o M e xi c o C i t y. twelve adventures that concern a perfect alibi decides to investigate his cousin’s death, only to
to protect their friendship and themselves. 389 pages. Penguin. Pub. at $27.00 and a perfect accusation, an impossible theft of end up arrested for the murder. Now he has just
346 pages. Random. Pub. at $27.00 Item #295012X $4.95 a container of radium, a precise sealed room four days to find the real culprit. 225 pages.
Item #2938693 $4.95 ORDEAL By Jorn Lier Horst. When Sofie mystery, and other “impossible” situations. Poisoned Pen. Paperbound. Pub. at $15.95
*BODIES FROM THE LIBRARY 2 This inherits her grandfather’s house, with a 241 pages. Dover. Paperbound. Pub. at $9.95 Item #6617328 $11.95
v o l u m e in c l u d e s u n c o ll e c t e d a n d locked safe bolted to the floor in the Item #2853876 $7.95 *HOME BODY By Gerry Boyle. Jack has
unpublished stories by acclaimed queens basement, journalist Line Wisting is with her A BRILLIANT DEATH By Robin Yocum. The reformed his bad boy ways and settled into
and kings of crime fiction. Authors featured in when the safe is opened. What they discover information provided by a former detective seeming domestic tranquility. But the quiet life
this collection include Christianna Brand No leads Chief Inspector William Wisting on a proves to be dangerous for Travis and his is short lived when Jack rescues a homeless
Face; Peter Anthony before and After; Helen trail of murder. 337 pages. Minotaur. friend Mitch while investing the death of teen from a brutal gang beating. But this
Simpson Hotel Evidence; Q.Patrick Exit Pub. at $25.99 Travis’s mother who died in a boating gesture rewards him with yet another descent
Before Midnight; Margery Allingham Room Item #6927289 $6.95 accident on the Ohio River many years earlier. into violence, murder, and the dark underworld
to Let; and many more. 388 pages. Collins *S I D N E Y C H A M B E R S A N D T H E 272 pages. Seventh Street. Paperbound. of at risk kids living on the street. 433 pages.
Crime Club. Pub. at $16.99 PROBLEM OF EVIL By James Runcie. Canon Pub. at $15.95 Islandport. Paperbound. Pub. at $16.95
Item #3759091 $12.95 Sidney Chambers, full-time priest and Item #6614833 $4.95 Item #6876293 $6.95
THE RECKONING ON CANE HILL By Steve occasional detective continues solving *BLOOD ON A SAINT By Anne Emery. *HEADLINE MURDER By Peter Bartram. It’s
Mosby. Charlie Matheson died two years ago in crimes in these four sleuthing adventures When a body is found at an alleged apparition August 1962 and Colin Crampton, crime
a car accident. So how is a woman bearing a from 1960s Grantchester. Stories include The site of the Virgin Mary, a talk show host, reporter, is desperate for a front-page story.
startling resemblance to her claiming to be Problem of Evil; Female, Nude; Death by covering the apparition scene, is picked up When he learns that the seafront’s crazy-golf
back from the dead? Detective Mark Nelson is Water; and Christmas, 1963. 287 pages. for murder. Lawyer Monty Collins takes on the proprietor, Arnold Trumper is missing, and his
called in to investigate and hear her terrifying Bloomsbury. Paperbound. Pub. at $17.00 loud mouthed TV man as a client. Now Monty vanishing act is linked to an unsolved murder,
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afterlife. 344 pages. Pegasus. Pub. at $25.95 TELL THE TRUTH, SHAME THE DEVIL By where the apparition occurred, have a stake in Roundfire. Paperbound. Pub. at $16.95
Item #291719X $6.95 Melina Marchetta. When Bish Ortley, a recently uncovering the truth. 322 pages. ECW Press. Item #6664164 $6.95
suspended cop receives word that a bus Paperbound. Pub. at $14.95 *MISS BLAINE’S PREFECT AND THE
carrying his daughter has been bombed, he Item #2812428 $11.95 GOLDEN SAMOVAR By Olga Wojtas. Never
rushes to her side. As Bish delves into the *OBIT By Anne Emery. Declan Burke fled underestimate librarian Shona McMonagle. Her
deadly bus attack, the ghosts of older crimes Ireland for New York forty years ago and never skills, her deceptively mild appearance, and her
become impossible to ignore, and the secrets looked back. Then he sees his own obituary in passionate loyalty make Shona the perfect
he uncovers will reveal the destruction of a the paper. Monty Collins, lawyer, investigates recruit for a new and interesting project: Time
family. 408 pages. Little, Brown. Pub. at $26.00 the obit with it’s allusions to Burke’s IRA past. travel to Tsarist Russia, prevent a gross
Item #6801439 $4.95 But when gunfire erupts at a family wedding miscarriage of romance, and in any spare time,
and a body is found in Brooklyn, it becomes see to it that only the right people get murdered.
clear Declan has been manipulated all along. 246 pages. Felony & Mayhem. Paperbound. Pub. at $14.95
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–2–Mysteries & Whodunits Hardboiled Detectives & Private Eyes Hardboiled Detectives & Private Eyes Hardboiled Detectives & Private Eyes
DOMINUS By Tom Fox. Amid talk of miracles *BROKEN TRUST By W.E.B. Griffin & W.E. THE SEVERED STREETS By Paul Cornell. THE DETECTIVE & THE CHINESE
and even the Second Coming, journalist Butterworth IV. The Camilla Morgan that When a seemingly invisible murderer kills a HIGH-FIN By Michael Craven. Private
Alexander Trecchio and police officer Gabriella Philadelphia Homicide Sergeant Matt Payne had top cabinet minister, Detective Inspector Detective John Darvelle is back, hired to find
Fierro uncover evidence in a gruesome killing of known for years was beautiful and highly capable, James Quill and his squad of supernatural the killer of Keaton Fuller, a man gunned down
powerful earthly forces at play. Can those forces so he’s having a lot of trouble squaring that with the crimebusters know it is a case for them. The in his own driveway. Following a trail of dead
be stopped before more lives are lost, and one of woman who just jumped from the balcony of her investigation takes Quill and his team from man’s betrayals, Darvelle finds himself in the
the most revered institutions–the Catholic apartment. Something just doesn’t sit right, and the corridors of power at Whitehall, deeper exotic, high-stakes world of rare tropical fish.
Church–is destroyed? 400 pages. Quercus. Payne will have to tread carefully. Powerful forces into the occult underworld of London. The fish are certainly valuable enough to kill
Paperbound. Pub. at $16.99 are at work, and reputations and lives are on the line. 401 pages. Tor. Pub. at $26.99 for, but is there something more menacing
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Politician, His Burning Secret, and the HELL FIRE By Karin Fossum. A gruesome Manhattan heiress hires Clayton Guthrie to DARK HORSE By Rory Flynn. When a
Unyielding Young Mother Caught in the scene awaits Inspector Konrad Sejer in the protect her from a gruesome stalker, so Guthrie late-summer hurricane slams into Boston,
Middle By Jennifer Vaughn. Bo Carmichael is oppressive summer heat–a woman and her and Rachel Vasquez run a trap operation to catch Detective Eddy Harkness and his Narco-Intel
tasked with preparing the family of a presidential young son lay dead in a pool of blood near a the stalker. While searching through the grimy crew are thrown into the eye of a very different
candidate for their Christmas card photo. But dank trailer–and he begins to search for the industrial guts of Brooklyn for him they discover kind of storm. Dark Horse–an especially pure
when she uncovers a scandal involving a female tru th b ehin d t his sen seless k illing. a previous victim–but the killer remains elusive. and deadly brand of heroin–has infiltrated the
staffer, it sends her fleeing to her grandfather’s 256 page s. HMH. Paper bound . 294 pages. St. Martin’s. Pub. at $26.99 gritty Lower South End. 234 pages. HMH.
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345 pages. Waldorf Publishing. Paperbound. Pub. at $16.95 LIKE TO DIE By David Housewright. Rushmore Finally recovering most of what he lost from *PRIZED POSSESSIONS By L.R. Wright.
Item #6653332 $6.95 McKenzie, once a homicide detective, is now an the collapse of his Manhattan law firm, When her husband Charlie disappears, it
unlikely millionaire and an occasional Michael Seeley is climbing his way back becomes apparent that Emma was the only
Hardboiled Detectives & Private Eyes unlicensed private investigator, doing favors for
friends. But somewhere in the middle of his
when Cuban musician Hector Reynoso
requests his help in reclaiming the copyright
person who didn’t recognize how desperate
he had been to leave. Then there’s Eddie,
INDECENT EXPOSURE By Stuart Woods. As investigations, McKenzie begins to wonder if to his music. When Reynoso goes missing, who is dangerously obsessed with a pretty
an eligible bachelor and man about town, Stone you ever really know who your friends are. Seeley’s search pulls him into the seedy young student. When Inspector Karl Alberg is
Barrington has always been the subject of 310 pages. Minotaur. Pub. at $26.99 underbelly of Havana and into the grip of one called in to solve the missing husband case,
interest and gossip. But when he’s unwittingly Item #296418X $8.95 massive conspiracy. 308 pages. FSG. Pub. at $26.00 the two disparate incidents converge, with a
thrust into the lime-light he finds himself Item #5877555 PRICE CUT to $4.95 discovery no one saw coming. 275 pages. Felony & Mayhem.
scrambling to take cover. And when he runs *KILL FEE By Barbara Paul. The freelance hit
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struggling to protect not just his reputation, but to his profession: clients don’t know they’ve this 1930s caper, Private Investigator to the
his life. 339 pages. Putnam. Pub. at $28.00 hired the assassin until after the murder. Pluto stars, Riley Fitzhugh finds himself caught up INVISIBLE DEAD By Sam Wiebe. Dave
Item #6935850 $6.95 looks for a conflict between two people, kills in the case of a missing Hollywood Wakeland is an ex-cop turned private
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*CONTRABAND By Stuart Woods. Stone Murtaugh of the N.Y. Police Department takes Pegasus. Pub. at $25.95 taking on impossible cases that frequently
Barrington is getting some much-needed rest on the case it leads to a suspenseful battle of Item #6608027 $4.95 don’t pay. His latest case is even worse than
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to investigate. But they run into a problem: the STEALING FIRE By Win & Meredith Blevins.
THE MAN WHO LIKED SLOW TOMATOES When Navajo detective Yazzie Goldman stops Quercus. Paperbound. Pub. at $16.99
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Putnam. Pub. at $28.00 By K.C. Constantine. Pennsylvania police a hood hassling an old man, he has no idea
Item #3725537 $21.95 chief Mario Balzic finds himself caught up in that his action has triggered a long fall into *ONLY TO SLEEP By Lawrence Osborne.
both union contract negotiations and a web of trouble. The old man turns out to be Frank Baja, California, 1988. Seventy-two year old
lies and deception. The chaos starts with a Lloyd Wright, and Yazzie will take him into his Philip Marlowe is living out his retirement in
simple sale between Jimmy Romanelli and home to protect him. 333 pages. Forge. the terrace bar of La Fonda Hotel. Then, in
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multiple deaths and missing persons. Item #6610552 $7.95 written all over it. For Marlowe this is his last
1 8 8 p a g e s . G od i n e . Pa p e r b o u nd . roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission:
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–3–Hardboiled Detectives & Private Eyes Female Detectives Female Detectives Female Detectives
*BLOOD & GOLD By Leo Kanaris. It’s a crazy *WHEN YOU SEE ME By Lisa Gardner. *DEAD BOOGIE By Victoria Houston. As the THE DEAD GROUND By Claire McGowan.
week for private investigator George Zafiris. On When female remains are discovered in the team of Police Chief Lew Ferris, Doc Osborne, Though facing the hardest decision of her life,
Monday, a friend is killed in a hit-and-run. On hills of Georgia, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy and Ray, the victim’s best friend digs into the forensic psychologist Paula Maguire has to
Tuesday, the body vanishes. On Wednesday, recruits Sergeant D.D. Warren and survivor mystery of her past, they discover some put her own problems on hold when she’s
Zafiris begins to ask questions. On Thursday, the turned avenger Flora Dane to join her federal startling connections to one of the wealthiest asked to help find a baby taken from a hospital.
first death threats are made. And on Friday, two task force. But it soon becomes clear that families in Chicago and to the buried secret The disturbing case blossoms into something
mysterious vanishings make things a mite more nothing in this small town is what it seems. that could destroy them. 212 pages. Adams even worse when a ritualistic murder is tied to
complicated. 332 pages. Dedalus. Paperbound. 385 pages. Dutton. Pub. at $27.00 Media. Paperbound. Pub. at $16.99 the kidnapping. 408 pages. Headline.
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Chicago police detective Gina Simonetti is & M. Paetro. As detective Lindsay Boxer’s *MODERN CRIMES By Chris Nickson. Still
Female Detectives keeping a secret from the department: she has
multiple sclerosis. Raising her young niece on
investigation into a city-wide threat is
scrutinized and undermined by a criminal as
reeling from the effects of the Great War, life in
the city of Leeds is hard. Eager to prove
SHATTERED By Allison Brennan. Over a span of her own, Gina hides her disease; she can’t afford brilliant as any high-powered defense lawyer, herself, WPC Lottie Armstrong suddenly finds
twenty years, four boys have been kidnapped from to lose her job. Though alone in her struggle, and her motives are called into question by herself on the trail of a missing girl that leads
their bedrooms, suffocated, and buried in a shallow Gina isn’t alone in her search for a criminal, who everyone she thought had her back, not even to the underbelly of the city and to murder.
grave. For their own personal reasons, investigative she hunts with the help of her loyal partner. the truth may be enough to save her. 288 pages. History Press. Paperbound.
reporter Maxine Revere and FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid 354 pages. Minotaur. Pub. at $25.99 350 pages. Little, Brown. Pub. at $29.00 Pub. at $15.95
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GUILT BY ASSOCIATION By Marcia Clark. D.A. too. But it’s not good publicity when the best struggling to break through the silence from Hungary in search of answers connected to a
Rachel Knight is shaken when her colleague man ends up skewered like a shish kebab. the rich teenagers who knew Juliet and their well-dressed corpse and a billionaire’s
Jake is found dead at a grisly crime scene. She Worse yet, Lucy’s ex–who is the restaurant’s infuriatingly detached parents. The more she terrible past. 320 pages. Felony & Mayhem.
takes over his toughest case; the assault on a head chef–is the prime suspect. 311 pages. digs, the less Angela can comprehend the Paperbound. Pub. at $14.95
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Item #2812894 $3.95 AWOL coroner, never even gets the turkey stuffed DEATH IN ROUGH WATER By Francine Florida prosecutor Claire Talbot reopens an
before the bodies start to surface on this wintry Mathews. When Joe Duarte, a fishing boat investigation into a string of abductions that took
DIE OF SHAME By Mark Billingham. Every Thanksgiving Day. By the end of the day, credit captain is swept overboard during a spring place before she was born. Into the case–and
Monday, six people gather to talk about their pain card theft and dysfunctional families have storm, his death is pronounced accidental. Claire’s life–wanders Marc Hastings, a retired
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Item #3754294 $4.95 bank executive and the murder of a graduate witnesses say he deliberately crashed, down the kidnapper before it is too late or she
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–4–Female Detectives Female Detectives Amateur Sleuths Amateur Sleuths
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author Rachel Goldman and the real life Beaumont. Fifteen years ago, a psychotic killer don’t look good for Everly and her little iced tea accidental drowning of the du Rocher
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person might just be the man Duffy was before he inspector Sabrina Vaughn, and she does her jars lying right next to him and an autopsy that provides forensic details that lead them to
became Duffy five years ago. 326 pages. job well. But childhood acquaintance Michael reports poison in his system, Everly must keep conclude these are the remains of a Nazi
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college-aged girls, Abby pushes back seeking Buscarsela and her daughter travel to Ecuador, Farmer’s Daughter–has to juggle career missing, and Sarah Miller is told to leave it to
justice for the victims. This time, if she’s not where memories of her previous life as a commitments like pots on a six-burner stove. On the professionals–but Sarah refuses to accept
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