A man fantasizes about all the gruesome ways his wife might die, some of them by his own hand. He's even writing a book about it. So when his wife dies from an allergic reaction to peanuts, the police can be forgiven for thinking it might have been murder.
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A popular musician dies during a spectacular stage entrance. It's not clear whether she took her own life, died from an accidental discharge or was murdered. The case is high profile, because Tasia McFarland was once married to the president.
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The editors of this non-genre, non-themed anthology had only one prerequisite for their authors: produce stories that will leave readers asking: what happens next? For the most part, the authors delivered. Some delivered spectacularly.
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A young woman who regularly meets men online is brutally murdered at a famous mountain pass, a site that has the reputation for being haunted. The novel conveys the impact of her death on her family, friends and on the killer's family.
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A military experiment involving a virus located in a South American jungle goes amok creating an epidemic of creatures that are a cross between vampires and zombies. The population is decimated, and a little girl might save the survivors.
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An amateur private detective with a checkered past agrees to look for the daughter of a jazz musician friend. He's only on the case a few minutes when he ruffles some very unfriendly feathers.
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This literary mash-up interweaves the real history of Abraham Lincoln with his fictional avocation as a man obsessed with vampires who use slavery as a cover for their nefarious plan.
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A lot of things are broken in Grant County, Georgia, including the police department. When Dr. Sara Linton returns to her home town for Thanksgiving, she must confront ghosts from her past as she becomes embroiled in murder and corruption that threatens to tear the town apart.
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McCall Smith starts a new series with another batch of interesting characters who live in the eponymous "mansion." Reminiscent of his 44 Edinburgh Street series except set in London.
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Detective Ellie Hatcher draws the wrath of a judge when she implies that a real estate mogul might have been responsible for the murder of his body guard. Meanwhile, a stalker posts anonymous messages threaten­ing a co-ed on a web site. 
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During a spontaneous outing after a medical conference, Maura Isles gets stranded in remote Wyoming during a blizzard. No one knows where she is—except dangerous people who have a big secret to keep.
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Hazie Coogan has supported and tended to former screen star Katherine Kenton for decades. Now her position is threatened by the arrival of a fortune seeker who wants to write a tawdry exposé of his days bedding "Miss Kathie."
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Jesse Stone tries to find out who whacked two men with mob ties while his new girlfriend, Sunny Randall, is hired to establish contact with a teenager living with an apparently benign cult.
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Finding a job after he returns from a tour in Iraq proves difficult for Neal Maven, so he doesn't ask many questions when he's enlisted by Brad Royce to join a group of vigilantes targeting high dollar drug deals in Boston.
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Reporter Johnny Steadman catches a tip about the death of a police officer at Snow Hill station but no one will confirm the story. At atmospheric novel set in pre-WW II London.
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Hollywood lawyer Danny Roth's wine cellar is raided after he arranges a brag piece in the L.A. Times. Crook-turned-insurance investigator Sam Levitt is assigned to recover the collection, a task that allows him to dine well in southern France.
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Twenty years have passed since Rusty Sabich was accused of murdering his lover, and there are those who still think he was guilty of that crime. Now he again finds himself in the sights of his nemesis, Tommy Molto and needing the services of his friend Sandy Stern.
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A man is on trial, accused of murdering his father in cold blood. If Detective Inspector Trave can't put the pieces together, including a wartime atrocity committed in Normandy, an innocent man may hang.
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Michael Beard has been coasting on the prestige of his Nobel Prize for years. His fifth marriage ended like all the others. His interest in global warming and alternate energy sources takes on a new life when he falls heir to a set of notes that extend his discoveries in a way he never anticipated.
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After Mma Makutsi's fiancé is severely injured, a domineering aunt keeps Mma Makutsi from visiting him. She's not the only obstreperous woman the employees of the No. Ladies Detective Agency have to contend with.
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Someone has their eyes on vintage bottles of wine with questionable historical signifi­cance that are about to come to auction. Sheriff Walt Kelly thinks the thieves might have other plans. However a crisis involving a pair of delinquent teens divides his attention.
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Ignatius Perrish wakes up after a bender to find a pair of horns growing from his forehead. Others don't notice the horns but are compelled to reveal their darkest secrets. Does this have something to do with Ig's dead girlfriend, who everyone thinks he murdered a year ago?
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Mark Darrow returns to his alma mater as its new president and immediately starts digging into a murder that happened when he was a senior. His best friend was convicted, but Darrow thinks the real culprit is still at large.
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After the spread of a disease that causes sleeplessness threatens to destroy society, a miracle drug known as DR33M3R promises relief—if it doesn't end up on the black market. Otherwise it could cause a war.
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When a teammate of Jack Carpenter's daughter is kidnapped, the perpetrator is familiar to the former police officer—a monster of a man who kidnapped another student nearly twenty years ago.
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Avast ye hearties! There's a ship full of Spanish gold anchored at a Caribbean island with a reputation for being impregnable, but that won't stop pirate captain Charles Hunter from trying for it.
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The current and former occupants of 44 Scotland Street in Edinburgh have another series of mild misadventures involving cub scouts, pretenders to the throne, purloined tea cups and procreating dogs.
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