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/A small-town's mild-mannered real estate agent isn't done with your house after he's sold it to you - in Phil Hogan's new novel, he keeps a spare key, and he snoops around while you're away
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A small-town's mild-mannered real estate agent isn't done with your house after he's sold it to you - in Phil Hogan's new novel, he keeps a spare key, and he snoops around while you're away
Read MoreA bored cop in a beautiful French Mediterranean town is suddenly confronted with a genuine murder mystery in the middle of a typical tourist summer
Read MoreA formidable York midwife must use all her skill and human insight to save the life of a friend accused of murder
Read MoreThe redoubtable WWII code-breaking sleuth Maggie Hope returns, this time to safeguard the young girl who will one day come to the throne as Queen Elizabeth II
Read MoreA Dickens-obsessed little Oregon town plays unwilling host to - what else? - a Dickens-themed murder in this captivating mystery debut
Read MoreIn the latest Maisie Dobbs novel, the clouds of war are gathering
Read MoreThe latest Kate Shugak murder mystery features small town Alaska, bush pilot sabotage, and one heck of a sexy state trooper!
Read MoreA series of fortunate events unearths a long-lost manuscript by the late great Donald Westlake! Too good to be true, or too true to be good?
Read MoreIn Carrie Bebris' latest Jane Austen homage, the detective duo of Mr. & Mrs. Darcy take a vacation at Lyme, a location the proves scenic, fascinating - and deadly!
Read MoreA noir mystery anthology takes us down the mean streets of ... West Brewster?
Read MoreIn his latest adventure, (mostly) reformed thief Charlie Howard finds trouble in the much-storied Queen of the Adriatic.
Read MoreThe murder of an American tourist in Cape Town propels this well-made thriller, the latest paperback from an internationally popular writer.
Read MoreWhat constitutes particularly Southern fiction? In reckoning Ron Rash’s Serena, Karen Vanuska goes below the Mason-Dixon line in search of something that sets Southern fiction apart – aside from all the dead bodies stacked like cordwood.
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