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Miami seethes with restless energy, a city where skies are always blue and life and death are seldom simple. In Miami, It's Murder, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Edna Buchanan takes us there again. Her first Britt Montero novel, Contents Under Pressure, was acclaimed as one of the year's best mysteries by the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and won legions of fans for her unforgettable heroine. Now, in Miami, It's Murder, Britt...
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The annual steeplechase at Montpelier, the high point in the social calendar of the horse set in Virginia, is disturbed by the stabbing of two jockeys, each with a playing card attached to his body. Sleuth Mrs. Murphy and her cat investigate, wondering whether the motive was greed, drugs or sex.
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In his prime, Edward Bloom was an extraordinary man. He could outrun anybody. He never missed a day of school. He saved lives and tamed giants. He was an inspired salesman-a visionary, in fact-and a beneficent real estate magnate who once bought a whole town just to make sure it would never change. Animals loved him. People loved him. Women loved him (and he loved them back). And he knew more jokes than any man alive. Or at least that's what he's...
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When Hank Brevard, the plant manager of Crozet Hospital, is murdered in the hospital, Harry uncovers "a closed little world where ego, jealousy, and illicit love often collide. But it's Mrs. Murphy, roaming the netherworld of Crozet Hospital, who sniffs out the most telling fact: a secret room in the old section that dates back to the time of the Underground Railroad."--Jacket.
7) The pickup
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Wealthy, white South African woman Julie Summers, contemptuous of her privileged background, becomes involved with Abdu, an illegal Arab immigrant, and when he is deported, insists on marrying him and going to live in the primitive conditions of his home village.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Spring fever comes to the small town of Crozet, Virginia. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen feels her own mating instincts stir. As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intuition tells her there's more in the air than just pheromones. It begins with a case of stolen hubcaps and proceeds to the mysterious death of a dissolute young mechanic over a sobering cup of coffee. Then another death and a...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen enjoys the winter months of Crozet, Virginia, by sipping hot toddies and cheering for the University of Virginia's Women's basketball team until hot tempered contractor H.H. Donaldson suspiciously dies and she sets out to solve the mystery.
10) Blue skies
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When Hank Coulter discovers that Carly Adams is carrying his child and that the pregnancy threatens her eyesight which has recently been restored by an operation, Hank tries to convince Carly that one moment of risk can bring about a lifetime of joy.
11) Cat's eyewitness
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"The peaceful town of Crozet, Virginia, is turned upside down by a statue of the Virgin Mary that begins to cry tears of real blood, as Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her sleuthing pets search for the truth about a local unsolved mystery."--from NoveList.
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An alternative history in which Robert E. Lee, having won the victory at Gettysburg, prepares for a final assault on Washington, while President Lincoln, vowing to preserve the Union, calls Ulysses S. Grant to join the fray, and General Dan Sickles reorganizes the Army of the Potomac for another strike at Lee.
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Each of the twenty-two tales in this enchanting collection is a surprise and a delight, melding the poignant and the possible with the outrageous, the magical, and, sometimes, the eerily haunting. Wolf men, dolphin women, defiant old ladies, and middle-aged manufacturers of erotic leatherwear -- in Jigs & Reels the miraculous goes hand in hand with the mundane, the sour with the sweet, and the beautiful, the grotesque, the seductive, and the disturbing...
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Michael Stirling and his cousin John, the Earl of Kilmartin, are as close as brothers. However, Michael is secretly in love with John's wife Francesca Bridgerton. When John suddenly dies from an aneurysm, Michael is wracked with guilt and pain from his loss. The earldom is now Michael's responsibility, but he doesn't want it. And, his self-imposed exile to India does nothing to relieve him of his shame--or his longing for Francesca. Even though he...
15) Whisker of evil
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This balmy summer in Crozet, Virginia, postmistress Mary Minor “Harry” Haristeen has a lot to think about. Things have been pretty cozy between her and her ex-husband, Fair and her beloved old post office is in danger of being replaced with a modern building-and modern rules. Harry's thoughtful contemplation is shattered the day she stumbles over a dead body near Potlicker Creek. Barry Monteith, the handsome local horse breeder, has been savagely...
16) Breakwater
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From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
All she wants is a new beginning… but ghosts of the past can be hard to shake.
Security consultant Quinn Harlowe just started an independent career and is enjoying a relaxed new lifestyle in her bayside cottage. But then she finds a friend and former colleague dead outside. Local law enforcement deems it suicide, but Quinn has her doubts. It's time to start her own investigation.
As Quinn...
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The Emperor's Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties, making their way-and not-in New York City. There is beautiful, sophisticated Marina Thwaite-an “It” girl finishing her first book; the daughter of Murray Thwaite, celebrated intellectual and journalist-and her two closest friends from Brown, Danielle, a quietly appealing television producer, and Julius,...
19) Kingdom come
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"A Shakespearaean take on murder, deceit, and vengeance in the story of King Corporation, a family-owned company that instills greed and competition among friends"--Provided by publisher.
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Private investigator Philip Knight is asked to investigate a rash of threatening letters that have been sent to administrators at Notre Dame University, and Philip believes the letters are simply a student prank, until a man is found dead and Philip realizes he is on the trail of a vicious killer.
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