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1) The virgin of Small Plains: a novel

Author

Pickard, Nancy

Series

Thorndike Press large print basic

Language

English

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Seventeen years after the discovery of a female murder victim near Small Plains, Kansas, the girl's grave has become the source of strange miracles and legends, until the return of prodigal son Mitch Newquist threatens to bring old secrets to light.

2) Live wire

Author

Coben, Harlan

Series

Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 10
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Thorndike Press large print core

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, CD, eBook, Kindle

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When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.

3) "W" is for Wasted

Author

Grafton, Sue

Series

Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
A Kinsey Millhone mystery volume 23

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD, eBook, Kindle

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" Of the #1 New York Times-bestselling Kinsey Millhone series, NPR said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." Two dead bodies changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd...

4) Encyclopedia Brown keeps the peace

Author

Sobol, Donald J

Series

Encyclopedia Brown volume 6

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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The solutions to ten mysteries solved by Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown are given in a separate section challenging the reader to match wits with the ten-year-old mastermind of Idaville's war on crime.

5) The all-girl filling station's last reunion: a novel

Author

Flagg, Fannie

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

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Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this novel is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother,...

6) I still dream about you: a novel

Author

Flagg, Fannie

Language

English

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Real estate agent Maggie Fortenberry works at Red Mountain Reality, that has been going downhill since the death of its founder, comes up with a plan to save the business. The rival of their company Babs is unscrupulous real estate agent who hates Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.

7) Dust

Author

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Series

Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
Thorndike Press large print basic
Scarpetta novel

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, CD

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"The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too...

8) Red Mist

Author

Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Series

Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 19
Thorndike Press large print basic
Scarpetta novel

Language

English

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On her quest to find out exactly what happened to her former deputy chief, Jack Fielding, murdered six months before, Scarpetta drives to the Georgia Prison for Women to meet a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against the advice of her FBI criminal intelligence agent husband, Benton Wesley, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out. Scarpetta has both personal and professional reasons to learn...

9) The secret in the old attic

Author

Keene, Carolyn

Series

Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 21

Language

English

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Nancy Drew races against time to unravel the clues in a dead man's letters. If she succeeds, Philip March and his little granddaughter can be saved from financial ruin. Following the obscure clues, Nancy undertakes a search for some unpublished musical nauscripts which she believes are hidden in the dark, cluttered attic of the rundown March mansion. But someone else wants them enough to put many frightening obstacles in Nancy's way.

10) 100 malicious little mysteries

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Books

Pub. Date

1992, �1981

Language

English

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Author's includeLew Gillis, Isaac Asimov, Carroll Mayers, Francis Nevins, and many, many more.

11) Key lime pie murder: a Hannah Swensen mystery with recipes / Joanne Fluke

Author

Fluke, Joanne

Series

Hannah Swensen mysteries volume 9

Publisher

Kensington Books

Pub. Date

2008, c2007

Language

English

Description

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It promises to be a busy week for Hanna Swensen. Not only is she whipping up treats for the chamber of commerce at the fair; she is also judging the banking contest, acting as a magician's assistant for her business partner's husband; trying to coach Moishe, her previously rapacious feline, to en his hunger strike, and performing her own private carnival act by juggling the demands of her mother and sisters.