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Anne Perry has written a series of Christmas mysteries. In A Christmas Visitor, Judah Dreghorn died in a fall. Was it an accident, or murder? Judah's wife Antonia enlists the help of her godfather, Henry Rathbone, a character who also appears in Perry's William Monk series. Rathbone must determine if an old land dispute led to Judah's death. 199 pp. 7 1/2" X 5 3/8". Jacket illustration by Danilo Ducak.
A Christmas Visitor
Perry, Anne
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
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Black pianist Benjamin January plays piano in the Salle d'Orleans in the 1830s. A widowed friend from long ago comes to the Salle to confront her husband's mistress. Benjamin offers to meet the mistress instead. When the mistress is found dead, Benjamin searches for her killer, but becomes a suspect himself. New Orleans is not a safe place for a free man of color. 312 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by Jason Seder.
A Free Man of Color
Hambly, Barbara
New York: Bantam Books, 1997.
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Owen Archer is sent to Wales by the Duke of Lancaster to recruit archers for the Duke's expected invasion of France. Another, secret, task is to find out if the Duke's steward is involved in a plot to support a French invasion of Wales. They no sooner arrive than the steward's son is found dead, and his wife disappears. Owen must investigate. 303 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". Jacket illustration by David Senior.
A Gift of Sanctuary
Robb, Candace
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
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First Ballantine Trade Paperback Edition. Set in London in 1722, A Spectacle of Corruption is the sequel to the Edgar Award-winning "A Conspiracy of Paper," in which Benjamin Weaver was thrown into prison for a murder he did not commit. In Spectacle, Weaver escapes from prison and sets out to clear his name. His efforts find him mixing with London citizenry high and low, as the Tories and the Whigs battle for control of parliament. Skills gained during his former profession of pugilist come in handy. 399 pp. 8" X 5".
A Spectacle of Corruption
Liss, David
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.
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Set in Iowa during the Civil War, young bride Alice Bullock is left to run the family farm with only her mother-in-law to help. Then Alice is accused of a local murder. Inscribed by author on front flyleaf: "To Joan, All the Best. Sandra Dallas, Breckinridge, Colo. Sept. 28, 2002." 246 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2".
Alice's Tulips
Dallas, Sandra
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2000.
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In the ninth adventure of Sir John Fielding, the "blind beak" of London, Benjamin Franklin is a suspect in the theft of letters from the home of a British cabinet minister. The letters, which turn up in Massachusetts, may be pertinent to the colonial rebellion in America. Sir John's young assistant, Jeremy Proctor, acts as the magistrate's eyes and ears, gathering information which helps Sir John solve the case. 274 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso.
An Experiment in Treason
Alexander, Bruce
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002.
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The sixth novel in the Fremont Jones series. When Fremont Jones learns that her father is gravely ill, she hurries to his side. His doctor feels he has recovered enough to leave the hospital, but he dies shortly after returning home. Then Fremont's step-mother is murdered. Fremont must find the answers to the deaths of two family members. The first book in the Fremont Jones series, The Strange Files of Fremont Jones," won the Macavity Award for Best First Novel. 277 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". Jacket illustration by Joseph Daniel Fieldler.
Beacon Street Mourning: A Fremont Jones Mystery
Day, Dianne
New York: Doubleday, 2000.
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Peter Lovesey has been awarded the British Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for Lifetime Achievement. The Bertie in the title is Prince Albert, and the Tinman the prince's favorite jockey, Fred Archer. Bertie doesn't think the Tinman's death was suicide and personally investigates. 212 pp. 8 3/8" X 5 5/8". Jacket illustration by Eliot Banfield.
Bertie and the Tinman
Lovesey, Peter
New York: Mysterious Press, 1987.
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Translated from the French by Hoyt Rogers. Winner of the French Prix Renaudot. The tale of a French town and its policeman. As if the horrors of World War I aren't enough, three deaths occur in the town--a teacher commits suicide after hearing of her lover's death in the war. A young girl is murdered and her body left by the side of the canal. And while the policeman is investigating the girls' murder, his own wife dies in childbirth. Twenty years later, the policeman is still trying to make sense of it all. 199 pp. 8 3/4" X 6". Jacket design by Abby Weintraub.
By a Slow River
Claudel, Philippe
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
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Cairo, Egypt, in 1942 was a hotbed of intrigue. It was filled with people from all over Europe and northern Africa, and was also full of spies. Captain Bert Cutler, former Glaswegian policeman, was sent to Cairo to find the leak in British intelligence that is fueling Rommel's advances. But even Bert Cutler isn't who he seems. Maps on endpapers. 376 pp. 9 3/8" x 6 1/4". Jacket design and Peter Thorpe.
City of Gold
Deighton, Len
New York: Harper Collins, 1992.
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Winner of the 2007 Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel. First Harper paperback edition. Berlin nightclub owner, "Prince Nick," exploits Anna Anderson's claim to be Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Russian Czar Nicholas. A mysterious stranger, however, is determined to eliminate Anna and everyone around her. In a second plot line, Berlin's Inspector Schmidt is pursuing a mass murderer. His efforts are thwarted, however, because the killer is apparently part of Hitler's brownshirts. 422 p. 8" X 5/14". Cover Photograph by Ken Regan.
City of Shadows
Franklin, Ariana
New York: Harper Collins, 2006.
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Winner of the 2005 Crime Writers Association's Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. Second book in the Matthew Shardlake series. Sixteenth Century attorney Shardlake agrees to assist Thomas Cromwell in exchange for a 2-week reprieve for a woman sentenced to execution for a murder she didn't commit. Shardlake had defended her, and lost. His task: to find a missing store of Greek fire, an incendiary whose formula was secret. Shardlake and Jack Barak, employed by Cromwell, search throughout London, but murder and secrecy precede their every step. Illustrated endpapers. 503 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4".
Dark Fire
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Viking Press, 2004.
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Husband and wife sleuths Kate and Charles Sheridan have been invited to stay at Blenheim Palace while Kate researches a book on the affair of King Henry II and the fair Rosamund. When a Palace maid is kidnapped, then the Duke of Marlborough and his mistress disappear, Kate's writing is put aside and she must bring her investigative skills come into play. 312 pp. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". Jacket design by Teresa Fasolino.
Death at Blenheim Palace
Paige, Robin
New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 2005.
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Eighteenth century blind magistrate John Fielding and his young protogé Jeremy Proctor are called upon to investigate a man claiming to be Lawrence Paltrow. Paltrow has been missing for years, and has now rather mysteriously reappeared from America just as his older brother is executed, and the estate to which his brother was heir is now available to an authentic claimant. Paltrow convinces his old friends and even his mother that he is who he says he is, but Fielding is not so sure. 275 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso.
Death of a Colonial
Alexander, Bruce
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1999.
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Death to Spies brings James Bond author Ian Fleming to life in a story of Cold War spies. Fleming, supposedly retired from espionage, is living in Jamaica and working as a journalist. He is approached by British intelligence to find out who is selling nuclear secrets to the Russians. 397 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4".
Death to Spies
Fawcett, Quinn
New York: Tom Doherty Associates Books, 2002.
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The author's first novel, which introduces Matthew Shardlake, investigator for the crown. It's 1537. An agent of the King is found murdered, and the King's vicar-general sends lawyer Matthew Shardlake to investigate. Other deaths follow, and Shardlake himself becomes a target before he uncovers the murderer. 389 pp. 7 3/4" X 5".
Dissolution
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
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The author's first novel, which introduces Matthew Shardlake, investigator for the crown. It's 1537. An agent of the King is found murdered, and the King's vicar-general sends lawyer Matthew Shardlake to investigate. Other deaths follow, and Shardlake himself becomes a target before he uncovers the murderer. 390 pp. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Paul Buckely.
Dissolution
Sansom, C. J.
New York: Viking Press, 2003.
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Winner of the 2005 Quill Book Award for the best Mystery/Suspense/Thriller. This is the eleventh book in the series featuring Trenton, New Jersey, Stephanie Plum, who works for her cousin Vinnie as a fugitive apprehension agent (a.k.a., bounty hunter). Or a former bounty hunter. Plum has decided it's time for a "normal" job. But normal doesn't necessarily mean safe. Cars are still getting blown up, and now someone's stalking her. Perhaps bounty hunting wasn't so bad after all. 310 pp. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". Jacket design by Jerry Todd.
Eleven on Top
Evanovich, Janet
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
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Mystery writer and part-time sleuth Marjorie McClelland thinks the death of a man on a Ferris Wheel was something other than a heart attack--she thinks it was murder. Her fiance, a local police detective in this Depression-era Connecticut town, wishes Marjorie would just keep her nose out of his business. But there's not much chance of that! 304 pp. 8" X 5 1/8".
Ghost of a Chance
Meade, Patricia Amy
Woodbury, MN: Midnight Ink, 2007.
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Lady Rose Summer has eschewed her high-class life, and is working as a typist. However, when Freddy Pomfret, an old friend, is murdered, Rose resumes her former life in order to more easily mingle with possible suspects in high society. 225 pp. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". Jacket illustration by Fred Van Deelan.
Hasty Death
Chesney, Marion
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2004.
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