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  Just Murdered

  Katherine Kovacic

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  Phryne Fisher has gone missing in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. Only her pearl-handled gun and a note arrive back home. She's left instruction that say that should she not turn up in six months' time, a letter must be sent to next of kin. Peregrine, summons in hand, arrives in Melbourne to Greenwood mansion where she will inherit her aunt's wealth. Phryne's seat in the Adventuresses' Club, on the other hand, must be earned. When two dead bodies turn up at the Astor bridal show, Peregrine gets her chance. In pure Fisher fashion, she'll defy social expectation with outlandish style and discover a penchant for investigating, all while running circles around the police.

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  Booking the Crook

  Laurie Cass

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  It's all paws on deck as a librarian and her rescue cat track down a killer in the newest book in the nationally bestselling Bookmobile Cat Mystery series. 
  Minnie Hamilton and her rescue cat, Eddie, cruise around lovely Chilson, Michigan, delivering happiness and good reads in their bookmobile. But the feisty librarian is worried that the bookmobile's future could be uncertain when a new library board chair arrives and doesn't seem too friendly to her pet project. 
  Still, she has to put her personal worries aside when she and Eddie are out on their regular route and one of their favorite customers doesn't turn up to collect her books. Minnie, at Eddie's prodding, checks on the woman and finds her lying dead in her snow-covered driveway. Now it's up to Minnie and her friends—feline and otherwise—to find the perpetrator and give them their due.

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  The Last Weynfeldt

  Martin Suter

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  “A sophisticated and urbane novel with a swanky, dapper European setting that is as much Poe and Chandler as Hitchcock and Truffaut . . . A page-turner” (André Aciman, New York Times–bestselling author of Call Me by Your Name).   Adrian Weynfeldt is an art expert in an international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he’s given up on love until one night—entirely out of character for him—Weynfeldt decides to take home a ravishing but unaccountable young woman. The next morning, he finds her outside on his balcony threatening to jump. Weynfeldt talks her down and soon finds himself falling for this damaged but alluring beauty and his buttoned-up existence comes unraveled. As their two lives become entangled, Weynfeldt gets embroiled in an art forgery scheme that threatens to destroy everything he and his prominent family have stood for. This refined page-turner moves behind elegant bourgeois façades into darker recesses of the heart.   “Suter . . . leavens the sensationalism of crime fiction with psychological insight and melancholy . . . Comfort food for readers who crave memorable characters, romance, and touching, drawn-from-life scenes.” —Publishers Weekly   “Swift, edgy . . . What distinguishes this work is the air of slightly faded existential elegance, which sets off the modern setting splendidly . . . Great for sophisticated suspense fans.” —Library Journal (starred review)   “Set in the midst of that vibrant and bizarre organism known as the art world. A captivating read about a memorable protagonist.” —Noah Charney, author of The Museum of Lost Art

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  Mr and Mrs North - Bet On Death

  Original Radio Broadcasts

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  Join radio's most popular crime solving couple, Mr. & Mrs. North, in twelve episodes of mayhem and murder - with a light touch. The Norths aren't your standard detectives: husband Jerry is a book publisher by day, and wife Pam is his stay-at-home better half and most often the catalyst for their exploits when death falls in their laps! 
   
  Starring as Mr. & Mrs. North in these shows are Alice Frost and Joseph Curtin, who originated the roles on radio, and Barbara Britton and Richard Denning, who later took the roles to the television series of the same name. 
   
  This collection contains digitally remastered and restored episodes from the surviving Armed Forces Radio Services broadcast transcriptions which aired in the early to middle 1950's. 
  Episodes Include: Starring Alice Frost & Joseph Curtin: Dead Giveaway 02-19-52, The Death Trap 02-26-52, Death in the Dark 03-25-52, The Last Escape 04-01-52; Starring Barbara Britton & Richard Denning: Coat of Arms 06-30-53, The Comic 07-07-53, Bet on Murder 07-14-53, The Saint of George Street 07-21-53, The Man with the Rifle 12-08-53, Death Comes in Cans 11-10-53, Dance of Death 11-17-53, Checkmate

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  The Skeleton Makes a Friend

  Leigh Perry

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  “Whodunits don’t come much funnier… Fans of offbeat comic mysteries will be richly rewarded.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   Georgia Thackery is feeling pretty good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College, and she’s renting a rustic cabin right by a lake for herself, her daughter, Madison, and her best friend, Sid the Skeleton. Together again, the trio are enjoying the quiet when a teenager named Jen shows up looking for her friend. Georgia doesn’t recognize the name, but she learns that the person Jen was looking for is actually Sid.   Sid reveals that he and Jen are part of a regular online gaming group that formed locally, and one of their members has gone missing. Sid admits that he might have bragged about his investigative prowess, enough so that Jen wants him to find their missing player. Given that Sid doesn’t have many friends offline—none, really, unless you count the Thackery family—Georgia agrees to help. They manage to discreetly enlist Jen, who lives in town, and follow the clues to... a dead buddy.   Now they've got a killer on their hands. Probing the life of Sid's friend, they realize a lot is wrong both on campus and in the seemingly quaint town, and someone doesn't want them looking deeper…   “You'll love the adventures of this unexpected mystery-solving duo.”—Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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  Moment of Truth Low Price

  Lisa Scottoline

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  Attorney Jack Newlin comes home one evening to find his wife, Honor, dead on the floor of their elegant dining room.Convinced that he knows who killed her - and determined to hid the truth - Jack decides to make it look as though he did it.  Staging the crime scene so that the evidence incriminates him, he then calls the police.   And to hammer the final nail in his coffin, he hires the most inexperienced lawyer he can find, a reluctant rookie by the name of Mary Di Nunzio, employed at the hot Philadelphia firm of Rosato and Associates. 
  Unfortunately for Jack, hiring Mary may turn out to be his only mistake. 
  Though inexperienced, Mary doubts Jack's confession and begins to investigate the crime.  Her ethics and instincts tell her she can't defend a man who wants only one thing - to convict himself.  Or can she?  Smarter, gutsier, and more determined than she has any right to be, Mary decides to stock with the case.  With help from the most unexpected sources, she sets out to prove what really happened - because as any lawyer knows, a case is never as simple as it seems. 
  And nothing is ever certain until the final moment of truth.

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