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Smarty bones (Sarah Booth Delaney mystery. #13.)
By Carolyn Haines. 2013
When a contentious professor makes claims about the identity of a woman found in a mysterious Mississippi grave and implicates…
wealthy Zinnia families of having ties to a related scandal, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by a group of society ladies to clear their names, only to discover another body in the professor's hotel room. Sequel to "Bonefire of the vanities", followed by "Booty bones". 2013.Stealing with style
By Emyl Jenkins. 2005
Virginia antiques appraiser Sterling Glass becomes suspicious when a nineteenth-century silver urn and diamond brooch surface among the effects of…
an elderly woman who recently died under questionable circumstances. On a business trip to New York, Sterling discovers an insurance claim that exposes schemes of crooked antiques dealers. 2005.Still midnight
By Denise Mina. 2009
DI Alex Morrow is an up-and-coming Glasgow cop, just about to be presented with the case that could make her…
career. On a peaceful Sunday evening a suburban neighbourhood is brutally shattered by a vicious attack. 2009.Stone coffin: a mystery (Ann Lindell mysteries. #7.)
By Ebba Segerberg, Kjell Eriksson. 2016
On a sunny morning in June, a young woman and her six-year old daughter are run over by a car…
on the road to Uppsala. Both are killed immediately. Is it an accident, or did someone kill them on purpose? The same morning the husband of the deceased young woman disappears. During the police investigation, it turns out that the husband had recently bought a property in the Dominican Republic, something that nobody knew about. A few days later a macabre discovery is made in a forest nearby. 2016. Uniform title: Stenkistan.Stone angel (Kathleen Mallory mystery. #4.)
By Carol O'Connell. 1997
Renegade police detective Kathleen Mallory left New York in search of answers about her past. Months later she turned up…
in a small Louisiana town with shocking evidence and a plan to seek revenge on the people who stoned her mother to death and the town which stood by and let it happen. Violence. Sequel to “Killing critics”, followed by “Shell game”. 1997.Sticks & stones: a Randy Craig mystery (Randy Craig mystery. #2.)
By Janice E MacDonald. 2001
The men's residence at the University of Alberta wants to party, and sends invitations to the women's residence, each with…
specific and terrifying consequences if the female students don't attend. When Gwen, one of the students, has her letter published in the newspaper, she later turns up brutally murdered. Part-time sessional lecturer Miranda Craig must delve into Gwen's life and preserve her own to find the killer. Some strong language. Sequel to “The next Margaret”, followed by “The monitor”. 2001.Sticks & scones (Culinary mystery. #10.)
By Diane Mott Davidson. 2001
Caterer Goldy temporarily moves to a Colorado castle to prepare an Elizabethan feast. Her husband, deputy Tom Schulz, is out…
of town tracking down stamp thieves. The castle turns out to be haunted and Tom's investigation leads him there as well. Some violence and some strong language. Sequel to “Tough cookie”, followed by “Chopping spree”. 2001. (Culinary mystery)Someone bad and something blue (Griot audio)
By Miranda Parker. 2012
Sassy bail recovery agent turned sleuth Angel Crawford is back, and though this brainy part-time sleuth's been ordered to take…
a vacation, she's not slowing down. Determined to catch the killer who murdered her fiancé six years ago, Angel tracks the cold case into the depths of Atlanta's hidden speakeasy society. And the case isn't the only thing heating up - sparks are also flying between Angel and a suave U.S. Marshal. 2012.Sneaky pie for president: a novel (Mrs. Murphy mystery. #21.)
By Rita Mae Brown. 2012
Sneaky Pie takes a break from her mystery-writing to run for President of the United States. Sneaky Pie has an…
animal-friendly agenda that will unify all Americans - two-legged, four-legged, and even those who fly. 2012.Spider web (Benni Harper mysteries.)
By Earlene Fowler. 2011
Benni Harper and the ladies of her Coffin Star Quilt Guild are enjoying San Celina, California's first-ever Memory Festival -…
when a sniper guns down a local cop. Fearing for the safety of her community - and for her family - Benni determines to root out the sniper before the once peaceful streets become a killer's free-fire zone. 2011.Spanish dagger (China Bayles mystery. #15.)
By Susan Wittig Albert. 2009
Between the herb shop, the catering business, and a weekend paper-making class, China Bayles has her work cut out for…
her. And now China's half-brother is opening up old wounds, trying to investigate their father's supposedly accidental death, and her husband is taking on the case-meaning she's just bound to get involved. Sequel to "Bleeding Hearts". Followed by "Nightshade". 2009.State fair (Benni Harper mysteries.)
By Earlene Fowler. 2010
Attending the San Celina Mid-State Fair, Benni Harper's enjoyment of the fair's activities are put on hold after the theft…
of a quilt intended for a special exhibition and the discovery of a corpse in the Piebald Family Farm Exhibit. 2010.Sour puss (Mrs. Murphy mystery. #14.)
By Rita Mae Brown. 2006
Visiting the local vineyards of Crozet, Virginia, world-renowned grape and fungus expert Professor Vincent Forland loses his head - literally.…
Forland had recently delivered a lecture on how distilled fungus plays a critical role in chemical warfare. Figuring the murder is political, the Crozet residents are hardly bothered and return to their routines - until another headless body shows up. Now it's up to Mary Minor Haristeen and her sleuthing animals to sniff out a killer before someone else dies. 2006.Slow dollar (Deborah Knott mystery. #9.)
By Margaret Maron. 2002
At the annual Harvest Festival in Colleton County, while everyone else is playing games and having fun, a body is…
found stomped to death and choked with a mouthful of quarters. Deborah begins an investigation and discovers another side to the carnival -- a seedy and desperate side -- hidden just below its flashy, good-time facade. Now she must struggle to win a carny's confidence while a dark web of dangerous family secrets begins to unravel around them. Sequel to "Uncommon clay", followed by "High country fall". 2002.Spirit seeker
By Joan Lowery Nixon. 1999
Southern discomfort (Deborah Knott mystery. #2.)
By Margaret Maron. 1994
The governor of North Carolina has appointed Deborah to a judicial seat in the District Court Division. On her weekends,…
the fledgling judge has been helping an all-woman building crew complete a home for a needy single mother. Her attempts to gain positive P.R. go awry when her niece is found battered and half-naked in the partially completed home, with Deborah's own bloody hammer lying nearby. Sequel to “Bootlegger’s daughter”, followed by “Shooting at loons”. 1994.Southern cross (Andy Brazil Ser. #No. 2)
By Patricia Daniels Cornwell. 1999
Robbery, murder, incompetence and not enough parking spaces - just another day in the life of a big city's police…
department. Judy Hammer investigates as a virus crashes the police computer, freezing screens with a design of blue fish - the same one a gang called the Pikes claim is their symbol. Strong language. 1999.Smokin' seventeen (Stephanie Plum novel. #17.)
By Janet Evanovich. 2012
With pressure mounting from her family to settle on a permanent boyfriend, Stephanie Plum must also worry about a killer…
determined to put her in a shallow grave no matter what it takes. 2012.Something rotten (Thursday Next. #4)
By Jasper Fforde. 2005
Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a…
pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine, while her former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares. With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? Includes strong language. 2005.Sleeping murder (The agatha Christie Collection #Vol. 77)
By Agatha Christie. 1976
Newlywed New Zealander Gwenda Reed has just come to England where she will select a house while awaiting the arrival…
of her husband, Giles. She finds and buys the perfect house but experiences odd moments of déjà vu. Shaken, Gwenda decides to visit Giles's cousins in London. Their elderly, puzzle-loving aunt, Miss Marple, is on hand when a line in a play triggers a frightening memory for Gwenda -- seeing a dead woman lying in the newly purchased house. 1992, c1976.