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Louise Shaffer: The Ladies of Garisson Gardens
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Cynthis Peale: The White Crow
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Linda Castillo: The Shadow Side
Roy Johansen: Deadly Visions
Brian McNaughton: Guilty Until Proven Guilty
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Scott Flander: Four to Midnight
Anna Davis: Cheet
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J. A. Jance: Paradise Lost
Amy Gutman: The Anniversary
Fred Hunter: Ransom at Sea
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G M Ford: The Blind Eye
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Scott Flanders: Sons of the City
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Joe R. Lansdale: The Bottoms
Mary Anna Evans: Artifacts
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Iris Johansen: Body of Lies
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Ed McBain: Fat Ollie's Book
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Lora Roberts: Another Fine Mess
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S. D. Tooley: Restless Spirit
Keith Miles: Bermuda Grass
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Susan Heyboer O'Keefe: My LIfe and Death by Alexandra Canarsie
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Kate Wilhelm: Skeletons
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David Eddings & Leigh Eddings: Regina's Song
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Deborah Crombie: A Finer End
Michael Pearce: The Camel of Destruction
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Alys Clare: The Tavern in the Morning
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Lee Killough: Wilding Nights
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Anne Frasier: Hush
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Rett MacPherson: Killing Cousins
Sue Henry: Cold Company
Leslie Glass: The Silent Bride
James Powlick: Meltdown
Maryliyn Meredith: Intervention
Thomas H. Cook: The Interrogation
Conrad Allen: Murder on the Minnesota
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Alex Matthews: Deaths Domain
Carl Hiaasen: Basket Case
Denise Swanson: Murder of a Sleeping Beauty
Nora Kelly: Hot Pursuit
Stephen White: The Program
Laura Wilson: My Best Friend
Deborah Donnelly: Veiled Threats
Kam Majd: High Wire
Lorena McCourtney: Whirlpool
Robin White: Ice Curtain
Sarah Andrews: An Eye For Gold
Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cat Laughing Last
Glyn Marsh Alam: Deep Water Death
Ian Rankin: The Falls
Brian Jacques: Castaways of the FLying Dutchman
Mary Logue: Glare Ice
Rhys Bowen: Murphy's Law
Janis Harrision: Lillies that Fester
Janis Harrison: Murder Sets Seed
Steve Glassman: The Near Death Experiment
Bill Crider: A Romantic Way to Die
Carole Nelson Douglas: Chapel Noir
Martha C. Lawrence: Ashes of Aries
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Nancy Bartholomew: Film Strip and Strip Poker
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Joan Lowry Nixon: Playing for Keeps
Rochelle Krich: Shadows of Sin
Mary Saums: The Valley of Jewels
Rosemary Stevens: The Tainted Snuffbox
Jim Coggins: The Immortal Game
Katherine Sutcliffe:Darkling I Listen
Les Roberts: The Dutch
Lynne Murray: At Large
Cynthia G Alwyn: Scent of Murder
Kate Wilhelm: Desperate Measures
Anne George: Murder Boogies with Elvis
Patrick Bone: A Melungeon Winter
Susan Kiernan-Lewis: Toujours Dead
Christine Spindler: The Rhythm of Revenge
Sue Henry: Dead North
Laura Belgrave: Quietly Dead
Beth Sheman: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Chris Kuzneski: The Plantation
Craig Spector: To Bury the Dead
Aimeé and David Thurlo: Red Mesa
Rett MacPherson: A Misty Mourning
Vampire Duet:Nigel Bennett & Pat Elrod: His Father's Son and Charlaine Harris: Dead Until Dark
M. R. Sellars: Never Burn A Witch
Penny Warner: Blind Side
Jerrilyn Farmer: Dim Sum Dead
Earlene Fowler: Arkansass Traveller
Anne George: Murder on a Bad Hair Day
Denise Swanson: Murder of a Sweet Old Ladyc
John R. Maxim: Whistler's Angel
Lynn Erickson: On Thin Ice
Eleanor Taylor Bland: Scream In Silence
Vicki Hendricks: Iguana Love
Stephen White: Cold Case
Kazuro Ishigiuro:When We Were Orphans
Alan Gordon: Thirteenth Night & Jester Leaps In
Marlis Day: Why Johnny Died
Hugh Merrill: The Red Hot Typewriter -- The Life and Times of John D. MacDonald
Marilyn Meredith: Deadly Omen
Jane Isenberg: Mood Swings To Murder
Jill Churchill: Mulch Ado About Nothing
Conrad Allen: Murder on the Mauretania
M. M. Kaye: Death in Kashmir
James D. Doss: Grandmother Spider
Susan Wittig Albert: Mistletoe Man
Carlene Thompson: Don't Close Your Eyes
Lauren Haney: A Curse of Silence
Lorie Ham: Murder in Four Part Harmony
Anne Underwood Grant: Voices in the Sand
Beth Anderson: Murder Online
Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest (Novelization by Charles Osborne)
Jayne Ann Krentz: Soft Focus
Karen Young: Kiss and Kill
Maureen Tan: AKA Jane
Sidney Sheldon: The Sky Is Falling
Sara Hoskinson Frommer: Murder in C Major
Beverly Connor: Airtight Case
Leslie Glass: Tracking Time
Joanne Pence: To Catch a Cook
Kathleen Taylor: Cold Front
Marlys Milhiser: Killer Commute
Shirley Rousseau Murphy: Cat to the Dogs
P. N. Elrod: Lady Crymsyn
Fred Hunter: Ransom at the Opera
Steven Saylor: Last Seen in Massillia
Ian Rankin: Dead Souls
Greg Iles: The Quiet Game
Frankie Y. Bailey: Death's Favorite Child
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera: Havana Heat
Kris Neri: Dem Bones' Revenge
Annette Mahon: A Phantom Death
Earlene Fowler: Seven Sisters
Kris Nelscott: A Dangerous Road
Mary Saums: Midnight Hour
Kate Wilhelm: The Deepest Water
Terence Faherty: Raise the Devil
Steven F. Havill: Dead Weight
Elaine Viets: Doc in the Box
Sarah Andrews: An Eye for Gold
Sue Henry: Beneath the Ashes
Laura Lippman: Sugar House
Elliot Pattison: The Skull Mantra
Val McDermid: A Place of Execution
Marianne Macdonald: Road Kill
Lynne Murray: Large Target
Jamie Katz: A Summer for Dying
Chassie West: Killing Kin
Les Roberts: Indian Sign
Lev Raphael: Little Miss Evil
Pat White reviews: Stella Cameron: Glass Houses
Derrick Niederman: A Killing on Wall Street
Maria Lima reviews: Stella Cameron: Glass Houses
Susan Rogers Cooper: Don't Drink the Water
Glynn Marsh Alam: Dive Deep and Deadly (A Luanne Fogarty Mystery)
Anne George: Murder Shoots the Bull
Marcia Talley: Unbreathed Memories
Michael Prescott: The Shadow Hunter
Sue Henry: Murder on the Yukon Quest
Janet Evanovich: Hot Six
Beth Sherman: Death's a Beach
Katy Munger: Bad to the Bone
Bill Crider: A Ghost of a Chance
Mardi Oakley Medawar: The Ft. Larned Incident
Denise Swanson: Murder of a Small-Town Honey
Jaqueline Girdner: Murder on the Astral Plane
Janet Bettle: Unnatural Causes
Ed Gorman: Voodoo Moon
Elizabeth Peters: He Shall Thunder In The Sky
Mary Higgins Clark: Before I Say Goodbye
Christine Andreae: Smoke Eaters
Ralph McInerny: Heirs and Parents
Pauline Baird Jones: Do Wah Diddy… Die
Patricia Ryan: The Sun and the Moon
Jeff Strand: Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary)
Wendy Jensen: The 8th House
Rosemary Stevens: Death on a Silver Tray
Alys Clare: Fortune Like the Moon
Evan Marshall: Hanging Hannah
Patricia Hall: The Italian Girl
Robert J. Randisi: Blood on the Arch
Alex Matthews: Cat's Claw
Rochelle Krich: Dead Air
Daniel Stashower: The Dime Museum Murders
David Cole: Butterfly Lost
Steve Hamilton: Winter of the Wolf Moon
Natasha Cooper: Fault Lines
Beverly Connor:Skeleton Crew
Rochelle Krich: Blood Money
Marjorie Eccles: Killing Me Softly
Martin Cruz Smith (ed.): Death by Espionage
Nevada Barr: Firestorm
Christine Andreae: Smoke Eaters
Rhys Bowen: Evan and Elle
Jerrilyn Farmer: Killer Wedding
Jo Dereske: Miss Zukas in Death's Shadow
Martha C. Lawrence: Aquarius Descending
Peter Tremayne: Valley of the Shadow
Lynnette Baughman: A Spy Within
Sister Carol Anne O'Marie: Requiem at the Refuge
Allana Martin: Death of a Myth Maker
Kathy Lynn Emerson: Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross
Nancy Bell: Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman
Ann Granger: Beneath These Stones
Selma Eichler: Murder Can Spoil Your Appetite
Jane Haddam: Skeleton Key
Neil Gaiman: Stardust
Alan Beechey: Murdering Ministers Reviewed by Patricia White
Alan Beechey: Murdering Ministers Reviewed by Pam Flora
Peter Robinson: A Dedicated Man
Jim Hougan: Kingdom Come
C. J. Songer: Hook
Ann McMillan: Angel Trumpet
M. C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham
Alan Beechey: Murdering Ministers
Kate Wilhelm: The Casebook of Constance and Charlie, Vol. 2
Kate Wilhelm: No Defense
Charlotte Boyett-Compo: In the Teeth of the Wind
Sara Paretsky: Hard Time
Harlan Coben: The Final Detail
Kate Wilhelm:The Casebook of Constance and Charlie, Vol. 1
Susan Rogers Cooper: Not in My Backyard
Katherine Hall Page:The Body in the Bookcase
M. M. Kaye: Death in Zanzibar , Death in Kenya
Sara Hoskinson Frommer: The Vanishing Violinist
Cathie John: Carve a Witness to Shreds
Beverly Connor: Skeleton Crew
Nancy J. Cohen: Permed to Death
Jill Churchill: The Merchant of Menace
Jeffrey Deaver: The Coffin Dancer
Mark Richard Zubro: Drop Dead
Mignon F. Ballard: Angel at Troublesome Creek
M. K. Wren: The Medusa Pool
Miriam Ann Moore: I Will Survive
Ellen Hart: Hunting the Witch
Steven F. Havill: Out of Season
Dolores Johnson: Wash, Fold, and Die
James H. Cobb: West on 66
Michael Z. Lewin: Family Planning
Joanne Pence: A Cook in Time
Miriam Lee: Deadly Probe
Thomas Zigal: Pariah
Fred Hunter: Capital Queers
Diana Deverell: Night on Fire
Carolyn Hart: Yankee Doodle Dead
Barbara Jaye Wilson: Capped Off
Brian Lawrence: Nightshade
A Score to Settle - Donna Huston Murray
Julia Wallis Martin: The Bird Yard
Gary Indiana: Three Month Fever, The Andrew Cunanan Story
Judith McNaught: Night Whispers
Marcia Talley: Sing It To Her Bones
Beth Sherman: Death at High Tide
Anne Underwood Grant: Cuttings
Faye Kellerman: Moon Music
Jill Churchill: Anything Goes
Dale Furutani: Jade Palace Vendetta
Elizabeth Lowell: Pearl Cove
Janet Evanovich: Four to Score and High Five
Jack Higgins: The White House Connection
Karen Harper: The Poyson Garden
Carolyn Hart: Death on the Riverwalk
Nathan Walpow: The Cactus Club Killings
Dennis Lehane: Prayers for Rain
Diana Deverell: 12 Drummers Drumming
Susan McBride: And Then She Was Gone
John Lescroart: The Mercy Rule
Nancy Pickard: The Blue Corn Murders
Carole Nelson Douglas: Cat in an Indigo Mood
Nancy Tesler: Shooting Stars and Other Deadly Things
Aaron Elkins: Loot
Pamela Skakun: 10 Days Until Justice
Kathy Hogan Trocheck Heart Trouble
Anne Stuart: Shadow Lover and The Right Man
Pauline B. Jones: The Last Enemy
Michael Shockey: Seized
Miriam Pace: Moving Violations
R. C. Nienkemper: Fatal Games
L. C. Hayden: Who's Susan?
Dirk Wyle: Pharmacology Is Murder
Lou Jane Temple: A Stiff Risotto
Michael Largo: Lies Within

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