The murder of a young Polish girl in 1944 London puts former police investigator John Madden on the trail of a ruthless hired killer.
Novel, 409 pages, Hardcover, 1st US Edition
Viking - 2009 - ISBN: 0670020931 / 9780670020935
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Akunin, Boris
Sister Pelagia #3: Sister Pelagia and the Red Cockerel
Murder aboard a steamer sends Sister Pelagia on a search through Jerusalem, looking for the killer, and for the leader of a mystical Jewish sect who claims to be the Messiah.
When Mr. Wickstead meets his death near Sawrey, only his dog Pickles knows what happened. Includes recipes.
Novel, 302 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230279 / 9780425230275
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Albert, Susan Wittig
Cottage Tales #6: The Tale of Applebeck Orchard
Tabitha Twitchet and the Cat Council want answers about the burning of Mr. Harmsworth's haystacks, which witnesses say was the handiwork of a lantern-wielding specter. Includes recipes.
Novel, 306 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425229777 / 9780425229774
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Alexander, Tasha
Emily Ashton #4: Tears of Pearl
Honeymooning with Colin Hargreaves in Turkey, Lady Emily is drawn into investigating a series of murders in the harem at the Sultan's Topkapi Palace.
Novel, 306 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312383703 / 9780312383701
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Arnold, Tedd
Rat Life
Ages 12 and up. Upstate New York, 1972: Hanging out with Vietnam vet Rat, his boss at the drive-in theater, leads to perplexing questions for 14-year-old Todd, who begins to wonder if Rat is connected to the dead body found in the river.
Awards: ♦ Winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery
Novel, 199 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2007 HC
Heading home to British East Africa to help collect wild animals for American zoos, Jade's task is complicated by the discovery of a merchant's murdered body at a local coffee plantation.
Novel, 370 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2009 HC
Jade del Cameron #5: Treasure of the Golden Cheetah
On a film shoot plagued by murder, suicide, dastardly hoaxes, and a fatal native curse, Jade is tested by mysterious forces, and by a murderer who may prove too much for her.
Traveling to Shanghai to claim her husband's body, a Spanish painter is drawn into a centuries-old quest to find the lost treasure of China's first emperor.
Novel, 387 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
Harper - 2009 - ISBN: 0061458406 / 9780061458408
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Atherton, Nancy
Aunt Dimity #01 / #02: Introducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective: Aunt Dimity's Death / Aunt Dimity and the Duke
Aunt Dimity's Death: Lori Shepherd inherits her Aunt Dimity's English cottage, where she discovers a WWII mystery in Dimity's letters - and Dimity's friendly ghost.
Aunt Dimity and the Duke: The benevolent spirit helps Emma Porter - forty, fat, and frumpy - tame a Duke's overgrown garden and discover romance along the way.
Recommended by Elizabeth: Enjoyable and whimsical, with a refreshing lack of corpses.
Omnibus, 450 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1992 / 1994)
Penguin - 2009 - ISBN: 0143116061 / 9780143116066
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Atkinson, Michael
Ernest Hemingway #1: Hemingway Deadlights
Key West, 1956: when a part-time smuggler is impaled on a harpoon, Ernest Hemingway investigates his friend's death.
Novel, 244 pages, Hardcover, 1st Edition
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312379714 / 9780312379711
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Atwell, Sarah (aka Connolly, Sheila)
Glassblowing #3: Snake in the Glass
A dead body found in the desert turns out to be a close friend of the nervous stranger who begged to use Emmeline's kiln for an experimental gem treatment.
Novel, 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Berkley Prime Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 0425230317 / 9780425230312
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Atwood, Russell
Payton Sherwood #2: Losers Live Longer
Down-and-out East Village detective Payton Sherwood investigates the death of a legendary PI, and uncovers connections to a Ukrainian sex ring and a runaway hedge fund manager.
Novel, 249 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Hard Case Crime - 2009 - ISBN: 084396121X / 9780843961218
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Axler, James
Deathlands #88: Alpha Wave
Cawdor and his companions face trouble when they cross the Dakotas on a train loaded with sec men, whitecoats, and a baron's horrifying experiment.
Novel, 316 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
A jittery bride-to-be who wants to be sure her groom is being faithful hires Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle, who ends up looking for a murderer when her client turns up dead.
Novel, 318 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312356455 / 9780312356453
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Barton, Beverly
Silent Killer
A young widow and a deputy sheriff face a serial killer obsessed with fire.
Novel, 420 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Zebra - 2009 - ISBN: 1420100505 / 9781420100501
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Beaton, M.C.
Agatha Raisin #04: The Walkers of Dembley
Agatha investigates the death of a woman hiker who infuriated wealthy landowners by insisting on her hiking club's right to trek across their properties.
Novel, 170 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint (originally published in 1995)
St. Martin's Minotaur - 2009 - ISBN: 0312539134 / 9780312539139
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Beaton, M.C.
Agatha Raisin #19: A Spoonful of Poison
Agatha investigates when poisoned jam kills two people at a nearby village's church fete.
Novel, 276 pages, Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC
St. Martin's - 2009 - ISBN: 0312943504 / 9780312943509
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Bell, Ted
Nick of Time
Ages 10 and up. England, 1939: the Nazis become the least of Nick's problems when he discovers a time machine hidden in a cove; unfortunately, evil pirate Captain Billy Blood will stop at nothing to possess the machine.
Novel, 434 pages, Trade Paperback, Reprint of 2008 HC (self-published in 2000 in somewhat different form)
Square Fish - 2009 - ISBN: 0312581432 / 9780312581435
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Benson, Michael
The Burn Farm
Sheila LaBarre took troubled young men as lovers, then killed them and burned their bodies on her New Hampshire farm.
Nonfiction, 372 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
When rival drug lords battle to take over Cook County, Sergeant Frank Leal and his former partner Olivia Hart have to stop two criminal armies before they meet in an all-out war.
Novel, 353 pages, Mass Market Paperback, 1st Edition
Leisure - 2009 - ISBN: 0843962720 / 9780843962727
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Borger, Judith Yates
Where's Billie?
Newspaper reporter Skeeter Hughes' search for the story behind a teenage girl's disappearance leads her to a prostitution ring and drug manufacturing in unlikely places.
When a dead body tumbles out of the shiny Ferrari in her exotic car showroom, the crime brings Jolene face to face with her almost-ex-husband, Deputy Ray Parker, whose suspicions are raised when wads of cash and a knife sheaf turn up in her home.
