The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu
by Michael Stanley
Published 2009 by Harper

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780061252495

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Botswana's Detective Kubu is caught in a twisted tangle of money, murder, andhidden motives, in his second evocative mystery from the author of "A CarrionDeath." Two vicious murders, only hours apart Normally a peaceful wilderness retreat, the Jackalberry bush camp has suddenly become a ghastly crime scene--and the details are still emerging when Detective David "Kubu" Bengu is assigned to the case.... More...

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley
Published 2009 by Delacorte Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780385342308

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In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home.... More...

The Stolen Voice
by Pat McIntosh
Published 2009 by Soho Constable

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781569475829

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In Sir William's remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been stolen away by the fairies and returned forty years later without having visibly aged. And if the boy isn't Davie Drummond, who is he? Then he suffers a succession of near-fatal "accidents.... More...

Murder on Waverly Place
by Victoria Thompson
Published 2009 by Berkley Publishing Group

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780425227756

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Thompson once again vividly recreates the gaslit world of New York ("Publishers Weekly") in this Victorian page-turner. Victoria Thompson once again avividly recreates the gaslit world of New York.a("Publishers Weekly")

Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a sA(c)ance.... More...

Paper Butterfly
by Diane Wei Liang
Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781416549574

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The second installment in the successful Mei Wang detective series offers a riveting tale of intrigue, culture clash, and missing persons in modern China. Modern-Day Beijing. Mei Wang, 31, lives and works as a private detective in China's capital city.... More...

Below Zero
by C J Box
Published 2009 by Putnam Adult

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780399155758

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Award-winning and national-bestselling author Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. Awardawinning and nationalabestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a vengeance in this thrilling new novel featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.... More...

Finger Lickin' Fifteen
by Janet Evanovich
Published 2009 by St. Martin's Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312383282

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From #1 bestselling author Evanovich comes the next book in her Stephanie Plum series, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten. SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 EVENT: The next Stephanie Plum novel, in which complications arise, loyalties are tested, cliffhangers are resolved, and donuts are eaten.... More...

Death Wore White
by Jim Kelly
Published 2009 by Minotaur Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312570811

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Rookie detective Peter Shaw, along with his chain-smoking, hard-as-nails, veteran partner, is confronted with a baffling crime that stretches him to the breaking point. More...

Mama Rides Shotgun
by Deborah Sharp
Published 2009 by Midnight Ink

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780738713304

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Mama's fixin' to marry husband number five. But before she does, she convinces daughter Mace to saddle up for some country-gal bonding on the Florida Cracker Trail. The six-day ride is going fine until wealthy rancher Lawton Bramble keels over in his Cow Hunter Chili.... More...

Dropped Dead Stitch
by Maggie Sefton
Published 2009 by Berkley Publishing Group

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780425227749

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Jennifer is a top-notch knitter--and a bit of a party girl. But she's always stayed out of trouble, until one night when she's attacked by a stranger. As she recovers, she leans on her close-knit group of friends for support. Knitting pattern included.... More...

The Herring Seller's Apprentice
by L C Tyler
Published 2009 by Felony & Mayhem

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9781934609231

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Ethelred Tressider is a mystery writer with problems, not the least of which is his incurably nosy, chocolate-chomping agent, who couldn't give two toffees for mystery novels. She does, however, have a passion for real-life mysteries, and that passion gets stirred up when Ethelred's ex-wife goes missing and Ethelred -- none too tightly wound at the best of times -- starts behaving in an extremely peculiar fashion. More...

The King James Conspiracy
by Phillip DePoy
Published 2009 by St. Martin's Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312377137

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In 1605, in Cambridge England, a group of scholars is working to create the definitive English translation of the Bible when one of its members is savagely murdered. But the people who offer to help are not who they claim to be. "The turning of the wheel by the tilling of the wheat.... More...

Choker
by Frederick Ramsay
Published 2009 by Poisoned Pen Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781590586358

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Nick Reynolds, his pilots rating barely a month old, drops off the radar at night over the Chesapeake Bay. Investigating agencies call it another tragic pilot error accident. No trace of the plane is found in the Bays murky waters. Ike Schwartz, erstwhile sheriff of Picketsville, on vacation, is approached by Charlie Garland, an old CIA friend, to look into the disappearance.... More...

Thicker Than Water
by Anthea Fraser
Published 2009 by Severn House Publishers

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780727867520

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An intriguing mystery from this popular author - James Markham jilts his fiance for a woman about whom he appears to know very little. Callum Firbank has always been evasive about his childhood, and his wife realises she knows little about her husbands upbringing or family.... More...

Mystery Writers of America Presents the Prosecution Rests: New Stories about Courtrooms, Criminals, and the Law
by Linda Fairstein
Published 2009 by Little Brown and Company

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780316012522

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After the crime is over, the real drama begins. That's what this riveting collection proves as it carries us from the Salem witch trials to Depression-era Chicago to today's highest-stakes legal dramas. These are thrilling stories of lawyers under pressure, of criminals facing the needle, and of the heartbroken families who hope for justice and who sometimes take it into their own hands.... More...

Lonesome Point
by Ian Vasquez
Published 2009 by Minotaur Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780312378103

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Vasquez returns with another hardboiled story of two brothers and the dangerous past that only one of them can survive. Different as they are, the Varela brothers are bound by a decades-old secret surrounding the events of one long-ago night during their childhood back home in their native Belize.... More...

Murder in the Raw
by C S Challinor
Published 2009 by Midnight Ink

Paperback, English. ISBN: 9780738714394

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When beautiful French actress Sabine Durand mysteriously disappears, Rex Graves flies to the Caribbean paradise of St. Martin to investigate. But no one told the Scottish barrister that the island's white sand beaches would be filled with people walking around starkers.... More...

Informed Consent
by Peter Turnbull
Published 2009 by Severn House Publishers

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9780727867513

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The new Hennessey and Yellich mystery - A badly injured man is found lying in a street in the centre of York in the early hours of the morning. He subsequently succumbs to his injuries without regaining consciousness. Hennessey and Yellich are brought in to investigate.... More...

Jump
by Tim Maleeny
Published 2008 by Poisoned Pen Press

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781590585740

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When the most hated landlord in San Francisco takes an unexpected jump off the roof of his own building, it isnat too hard to find suspects. But the police want to call it a suicide, since both the Mayor and press are complaining about the dismal closure rate for homicide investigations.... More...

Palos Verdes Blue
by John Shannon
Published 2009 by Pegasus Books

Hardcover, English. ISBN: 9781605980379

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Jack is hired to find Blue, the missing teen-aged daughter of his ex-wife's best friend. As he investigates, Jack discovers that there is a low-intensity war going on in the L.A's posh Palos Verdes peninsula. The Bayboys, rich teen surfers, routinely vandalize cars and terrorize outsiders to enforce a locals-only policy for surfing at their own Lunada Bay.... More...