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Cat Nap [MultiFormat]
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
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 Mr. Triwell found the cat, Missy, on the beach, obviously abandoned by her former owners. But when the owners returned to the beachfront town nearly a year later, they want their cat back. Missy doesn't want to leave--and she has some secrets of her own. (Published: 2003)
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The Human Condition [MultiFormat]
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When two strangers find themselves on the same park bench at turning points in both of their lives. What consequence is a conversation? (Published: 2003) Pushcart Prize Nominee
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The Narrows [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Michael Connelly
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 FBI agent Rachel Walling finally she gets the call she's been dreading for years. The Poet has returned. Years earlier, she worked on the famous case tracking the serial killer who wove lines of poetry into his hideous crimes. Rachel has never forgotten the Poet--and apparently he has not forgotten her. Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too, from an old friend whose husband recently died. The death appeared natural, but this man's ties to the hunt for the Poet make Harry dig deep. W...
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The Manor House Case [From the New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes] [MP3 Audio]
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Anthony Boucher
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On a Sunday morning in June, 1890, Dr. Watson stopped by Baker Street to visit with his old friend only to find that Holmes is just leaving on a secret mission. As soon as Holmes is out the door, a police inspector shows up looking for Holmes aid in investigating the bombing of German diplomat Graf Otto von Heldenstein's home. Watson agrees to help the police in Holmes absence and the game is afoot. (Published: 1945)
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The Seventh Sinner [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Elizabeth Peters
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At first, Jean Suttman thought she had died and gone to Heaven when she was granted the opportunity to study in Rome. But the body that's lying in the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra--the murdered corpse of a repulsive and disliked fellow student--isn't her idea of heavenly. Now she is truly frightened, not just because small "accidents" seem to be occurring around her with disturbing regularity. It's the ever-increasing certainty that someone, for some unknown reason, is ruthlessly deter...
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Twice Dead [A Taylor Madison Mystery] [MultiFormat]
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Elizabeth Dearl
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More than thirty years ago, a minister named Ralph Posey absconded with the church funds, abandoning his wife and daughter. At least, that's what everyone in Perdue thought, until a startling discovery makes it obvious that he never left town at all--he was murdered, and all evidence implicates his wife as the killer. Bonita Posey admittedly detested her husband, but she denies taking his life. Can Taylor uncover the truth in time to keep her octogenarian friend out of prison? (Published: 2005) EPPIE Award Winner
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Triple Threat [A Taylor Madison Mystery] [MultiFormat]
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Elizabeth Dearl
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Triplets, a tornado, and twisted lies add up to trouble for Taylor Madison as Perdue's townfolk gather for Hank Barton's funeral. Why do the three identical sisters dislike each other so much? Why did Hank put such an odd codicil in his will? Throw in swaggering new deputy, a citizen's police academy, and an amateur tornado hunter, and Taylor find herself longing for the comparative peace of big city life! (Published: 2005) EPPIE Award Winner
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Sister Gypsy Moon [MultiFormat]
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Karen Leabo
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The crumbling purple house, wedged into an obscure Dallas neighborhood, seems the perfect place for Gypsy Larabee to hide from her abusive ex-boyfriend. But the house harbors dangerous secrets, and her investigation into the missing homeowner's whereabouts proves hazardous to Gypsy's health. Gypsy's troubles begin when she is mistaken for Ruby, the absentee homeowner, who was a fortuneteller. A few of Gypsy's chance comments prove eerily prescient, and soon she has a hoard of paying customers at...
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Words: 87218 - Reading Time: 249-348 min.
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Diamondback [A Taylor Madison Mystery] [MultiFormat]
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Elizabeth Dearl
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When novelist Taylor Madison discovers a mysterious letter among her late mother's effects, she heads for West Texas in search of her father's identity. But small, sleepy towns don't appreciate rude awakenings and Taylor soon finds herself up to her neck in rattlesnakes and long-kept secrets--a deadly combination. (Published: 2005) Scribes World Reviewer's Choice Award Winner, EPPIE Award Finalist
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Dead Until Dark [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Charlaine Harris
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Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana, but she keeps to herself and doesn't date much because of her "disability" to read minds. When she meets Bill, Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's the type of guy she's waited for all of her life, but he has a disability, too--he's a vampire with a bad reputation. When one of Sookie's coworkers is killed, she fears she's next.
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The Case of the Virtuous Vampire [A Gooden and Knight Paranormal Mystery] [MultiFormat]
by Monette Michaels
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A Gooden & Knight Mystery. Abigail Merriweather Gooden isn't your typical Austin, Texas lawyer. Sure she has the so very chic law offices on West 6th Street and the prominent social status that comes from old Texas money, but she also has magic with a "k." Abbie, after all, is a witch. So it isn't surprising that the preternatural community sends all its legal matters to her. Such is the case with Jurnik Golub, owner of Exotica, a popular Austin gentlemen's club. Jurnik is a vampire--and someone...
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Club Dead [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Charlaine Harris
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Sookie's boyfriend has been very distant--in another state, distant. Now she's off to Mississippi to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead-a little haunt where the vampire elite go to chill out. But when she finally finds Bill--caught in an act of betrayal--she's not sure whether to save him ... or sharpen some stakes.
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 2005 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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ON SALE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2005Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is the longest running mystery magazine in continuous publication. It leads the genre, worldwide, in critical acclaim, with 50 major awards and nominations over the past decade and literally hundreds of awards and honors earned since its inception in 1941. The magazine covers the gamut of crime and detection from the classical whodunit and private eye story to tales of psychological suspense. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's list of con...
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The Closers [Secure Mobipocket]
by Michael Connelly
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 In Los Angeles in 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide--but some of the evidence contradicted that scenario, and detectives came to believe this was in fact a murder. Despite a by-the-book investigation, no one was ever charged. Now Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases, and this girl's death is the first he's given. A DNA ...
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Electrifying Mysteries: Prize Winning Stories from www.ebooksonthe.net [MultiFormat]
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A collection of prize-winning mysteries from ebooksonthe.net. (Published: 2003)
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Riptide [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Lincoln Child
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For generations, treasure hunters have tried to unlock the deadly puzzle known as the Water Pit: a labyrinth of shafts and tunnels that honeycombs the heart of a small island off the coast of Maine. Reputed to be the hiding place of pirate treasure, the Water Pit possesses an inexplicable ability to kill those who venture into it, from professionals to innocent explorers. But now one man has made a startling discovery: The Water Pit is actually a carefully designed fortress, conceived for pirate...
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A Ticket to the Boneyard [A Matthew Scudder Crime Novel] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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Lawrence Block
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Twelve years ago, Matt Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers--even strangers unfortunate enough to share Scudder's name--are turning up dead. Because a vengeful maniac is determined not to rest until he's driven his nemesis back to the bottle ... and then to the boneyard. Matt Scudder--ex-cop, unlicensed private eye, sober alcoholic--is an unusual hero. C...
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Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, June 2005 [MultiFormat]
by Dell Magazine Authors
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ON SALE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2005John F. Dobbyn is known to AHMM readers for his Boston-based stories featuring jockey-turned-P.I. Billy O'Casey. His story this month, "Monday, Sweet Monday," features Michael Knight, a character from the O'Casey series. In his solo outing Knight, a young defense attorney with a passion for jazz, takes on what looks like a hopeless case. Mr. Dobbyn teaches law at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, and has written a novel featuring Knight and his senior partner Lex D...
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 2005 [MultiFormat]
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ON SALE UNTIL MAY 31, 2005Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine is the longest running mystery magazine in continuous publication. It leads the genre, worldwide, in critical acclaim, with 50 major awards and nominations over the past decade and literally hundreds of awards and honors earned since its inception in 1941. The magazine covers the gamut of crime and detection from the classical whodunit and private eye story to tales of psychological suspense. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's list of cont...
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For I Have Sinned [A Siobhan Donahue Mystery] [MultiFormat]
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Lesbian PI investigates Boston dyke slaying. In a novel as timely as today's headlines, bestselling author J. T. Langdon explores new literary territory as Manhattan based private detective Siobhan Donahue returns to Boston to attend the funeral of an old friend and ends up hip deep in both trouble and women in this new erotic thriller power politics, the church, and city's queer community. Helen Kramer was the sister Siobhan never had. Felix Kramer was the woman Siobhan always wanted. When Feli...
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The Vanished Man [A Lincoln Rhyme Mystery] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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Jeffery Deaver
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The New York Times bestselling author of The Stone Monkey is back with a brilliant thriller that pits forensic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme and his partner, Amelia Sachs, against an unstoppable killer with one final, horrific trick up his sleeve. Now Jeffery Deaver, America's "master of ticking-bomb suspense" (People) delivers his most electrifying novel yet. It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within m...
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Tea and Witchery [Casadega Mystery Series, Book 1] [MultiFormat]
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Marie Dees
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In Cassadaga, Florida, the paranormal is normal and chats with the dead are an everyday occurrence. Lynn is unaware of the town's psychic connection when she drives into town for a visit with her aunt. But strangeness turns dangerous when the president of the Psychic Society is murdered after being cursed by a coven of witches. Now Lynn has to keep her aunt from being accused of concocting a poisonous brew while discovering who the real murder is. Should she be suspicious of quiet, reserved Alex...
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All the Flowers Are Dying [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
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 In his sixteenth Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers Are Dying, New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Block takes the award-winning series to a new level of suspense and a new depth of characterization. Building on the critical and commercial success of Hope to Die, Block puts Scudder--and the reader--at the very edge of the abyss. Scudder, a complex character who has grown and aged in real time, confronts the implacable challenge of mortality. But he must also tackle a determined, relen...
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Visions in Death [Secure Microsoft Reader/Palm Reader]
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J. D. Robb
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A brand-new novel in the number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series set in 2059 New York City. As technology and humanity collide, Detective Eve Dallas searches the darkest corners of Manhattan for an elusive killer with a passion for collecting souls ... On one of the city's hottest nights, New York Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas is sent to Central Park-and into a hellish new investigation. The victim is found on the rocks, just above the still, dark water of the lake. Around her neck ...
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Groomed for Death [MultiFormat]
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Carolyn Banks
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Texas horsewoman Robin Vaughan is surprised to find herself flat on the sidewalk the first time she leaves her hotel. More surprising is the young woman who picks her up. In her black fishnet stockings, Flora looks more like a hooker than someone who gets up at five A.M. to feed the horses at an uptown riding stable. She may in fact be a hooker, for when Jeet, Robin's nervous husband, calls Claremont Riding Academy to confirm her identity, nobody there has heard of her. But is the staff at Clare...
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