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Book releases for March 2011
Beagle Mania - A Pet Rescue Mystery |
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: Lilnda O Johnston
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Lauren Vancouver is the head of Hot Rescues, a no-kill animal shelter north of Los Angeles, but it's often human nature that puts her in the path of danger. Just like when she helps rescue four adorable beagle puppies that were dumped down a drainpipe at a nasty puppy mill. One of the mill's employees has a history of dog abuse and a bone to pick with Lauren. When he's found dead at Hot Rescues after threatening her, Lauren will have to sniff out the real killer to keep herself out of a cage. |
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: Ellery Adams Description :
While walking her poodle, Olivia Limoges discovers a dead body buried in the sand. Could it be connected to the bizarre burglaries plaguing Oyster Bay, North Carolina? At every crime scene, the thieves set up odd tableaus - a stick of butter with a knife through it, dolls with silver spoons in their mouths, a deck of cards with a missing queen. Olivia realizes each setup represents a cliché and who better to decode the cliché clues than her Bayside Book Writers group? |
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Murder of a Bookstore Babe - A Scumble River Mystery |
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: Denise Swanson
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Who could be driven to kill by books and sweets? While school psychologist Skye Denison eagerly anticipates the grand opening of a new bookstore called Tales & Treats, many of Scumble River's most outspoken citizens want to shut down the owners before they even open, and one is angry enough to commit murder. Dropping off some books at Tales & Treats, Skye trips over a toppled bookcase, which has crushed a woman beneath its weight. While police search for motives, Skye sees the messy aftermath of a half-baked plot to murder somebody else. Skye is juggling her own busy life, but when all the clues lead to dead ends, she turns up the heat on her own investigation and stumbles upon the deadly secret that got this bookstore babe done in and if Skye isn't careful, the killer just might make her the sequel. |
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag- A Flavia de Luce Mystery |
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: Alan Bradley Description :
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop's Lacey are over until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. Who'd do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she's letting on? What about Porson's charming but erratic assistant? All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve, without Flavia's help. In getting so close to who's secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head? |
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So Close the Hand of Death |
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: J.T. Ellison
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It's a hideous echo of a violent past, murders are being committed with all the twisted hallmarks of the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer and Son of Sam. The media frenzy explodes and Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson knows instantly that The Pretender is back, and he's got helpers. As The Pretender's disciples perpetrate their sick homages, stretching police and the FBI dangerously thin, Taylor tries desperately to prepare for their inevitable showdown and she must do it alone. To be close to her is to be in mortal danger, and she won't risk losing anyone she loves. The isolation, the self-doubt and the rising body count are taking their toll, she's beside herself and ready to snap. The brilliant psychopath who both adores and despises her is drawing close, close enough to touch. |
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Author : C. S. Challinor
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When Rex Graves holds a housewarming party in the Scottish Highlands, he doesn't anticipate the arrival of an old flame, much less a dead body or serial killer. Rex's houseguest and colleague Alistair, who recently made an unsuccessful attempt to convict a man for the notorious Moor Murders, now finds himself under the same roof as the killer. Rex must use his skills of intellect, observation, and logic to save Alistair's career and bring the murderer to justice. |
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Curiosity Thrilled the Cat - A Magical Cats Mystery
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: Sofie Kelly
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When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen's fondness for Barry Manilow. Beyond all the fur and purrs, there's something more to these felines. When murder interrupts Mayville's Music Festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. More stunning is her realization that Owen and Hercules are magical, and she's relying on their skills to solve a purr-fect murder. |
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: Christy Evans Description :
When plumber's apprentice Georgiana Neverall crawls under her mother's house to check the pipes, she's horrified to find her mother's flashy fiancé real estate mogul Gregory Whitlock, dead in the dirt. Instead of a wedding ring, Georgiana's mother is soon wearing handcuffs, accused of killing the man she loved. To clear her mother's name, Georgiana's going to have to crawl into a few more dark spaces and uncover secrets Whitlock was hiding. |
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Antiques Bizarre |
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: Barbara Allan
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Spring has sprung a major leak in far-from-serene Serenity, as the Mississippi River drops in for an extended stay. With homes and businesses flooded, how better to help the town recover than by staging a church bazaar? Brandy Borne knows her mother Vivian’s plan, however, is more likely to lean toward bizarre, especially when she hears Mother wheedle a reclusive Russian heiress into donating the last Faberge egg ever created! When the winning bidder turns up mortally scrambled, Brandy and Mother cook up a plan to crack the case of this killer, who is one seriously bad egg! |
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Shot Through Velvet - A Crime of Fashion Mystery |
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: Ellen Byerrum
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Fashion reporter Lacey Smithsonian is touring a failing velvet factory in Virginia on its final day of operations and finds one of the factory owners dead, lashed to a spool of velvet and soaked in blue dye. The workers are delighted, since they blamed the Blue Devil for killing their jobs. When another nickname, the Velvet Avenger, makes the rounds, and ribbons of blue velvet start popping up, it could be more than Lacey's job at stake, it could be her life. |
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Ghost Ship - A Port Chatham Mystery |
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: P. J. Alderman
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A recent transplant to Washington State’s charming seaside town of Port Chatham, Jordan is still getting used to sharing her slightly run-down but historic lodging with ghosts. As if living with the long-deceased isn’t enough of a challenge, she’s just found a corpse, the town’s notorious womanizer Holt Stillwell is lying on the beach with a bullet in his head. Before Jordan can reel in a suspect, another victim surfaces and this one isn’t taking murder lying down. Holt’s ancestor Michael Seavey, the Pacific Northwest’s most infamous shanghaier, has materialized in Jordan’s house, seeking to solve his own death in a suspicious shipwreck in 1893. With two murders to solve and a killer on the loose, Jordan faces yet another equally terrifying prospect: her growing attraction to the very alive and criminally attractive pub owner Jase Cunningham. |
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Author : Anna Dean
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1805. An engagement party is taking place for Mr Richard Montague, son of wealthy landowner Sir Edgar Montague, and his fiancée Catherine. During a dance with his beloved, a strange thing happens, a man appears at Richard's shoulder and appears to communicate something to him without saying a word. Instantly breaking off the engagement, he rushes off to speak to his father, never to be seen again. Distraught with worry, Catherine sends for her spinster aunt, Miss Dido Kent, who has a penchant for solving mysteries. Catherine pleads with her to find her fiancé and to discover the truth behind his disappearance. It's going to take a lot of logical thinking to untangle the complex threads of this multi-layered mystery, and Miss Dido Kent is just the woman to do it. |
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: Cynthia Eden
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She wants to hide the past. FBI Special Agent Samantha Kennedy is haunted by memories of the serial killer who abducted her. To keep the darkness at bay, she pretends to be a different, more confident woman. This Samantha doesn't fear every unknown face. So she throws caution to the wind and shares a night of unbridled passion with a handsome stranger. He needs to uncover the truth.
One night isn't enough for successful entrepreneur Max Ridgeway. He wants more of the sexy, smart, mysterious woman who slipped away before dawn. When they meet again, their attraction is undeniable, until his stepbrother goes missing, and Max realizes that Samantha isn't who she seems. But they must trust each other to trap a ring of bloodthirsty kidnappers before the nightmares that terrorize Sam become irrevocably real as a merciless criminal spins a web of deadly lies. |
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Author : Suzanne Brockman
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As team leader of the popular personal security company Troubleshooters Inc., Alyssa Locke is no stranger to dealing with danger. Her next assignment, though, is supposed to be a breeze, teach self-defence techniques to an assemblywoman and her chief of staff after a political controversy generates a blizzard of hate mail including death threats. Then, while in New York City, Alyssa and her squad of moonlighting Navy SEALs discover a dead body and then another one. While investigating a suspect, Alyssa is ambushed and finds herself imprisoned by the deranged serial killer she's been after for years - The Dentist. Cut off from everyone, Alyssa must call upon all of her strength and skill to survive this confrontation with the sadistic monster, meanwhile trusting that her Troubleshooter teammates, led by her husband, operative Sam Starrett, will reach her before it's too late. |
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: Julianne MacLean
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Lady Amelia Templeton would rather die than surrender to a man like Duncan MacLean. He is the fiercest warrior of his clan, her people’s sworn enemy, and tonight he is standing over her bed. Eyes blazing, muscles taut, and battle axe gleaming, MacLean has come to kill Amelia’s fiancé but once he sees the lovely, innocent Amelia, he decides to take her instead. Stealing the young bride-to-be is the perfect revenge against the man who murdered Duncan’s one true love. Lady Amelia turns out to be more than a pawn of vengeance and war. This brave, beautiful woman touches something deep in Duncan’s soul that is even more powerful than a warrior’s fury. When Amelia begins to fall in love with her captor, and surrenders in his arms, the real battle begins |
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Author : Marjorie M. Liu
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Dean Campbell can see and sense things that others cannot, an extraordinary ability that drew the ex-cop to the Dirk & Steele Detective Agency, a global association of more-than-human men and women. Dean and his peers, shape shifters, psychics, and other paranormals, are dedicated to protecting life but there are those who live for destruction. Now Dean's investigation into a series of unthinkable killings is calling him to Taipei, where a pattern is emerging that is more deadly than anything he could have foreseen. At the centre is a power that could change the world and the woman who can truly complete him, Mirabelle Lee, the girl Dean loved in his youth, the childhood sweetheart he once believed dead. Now that his heart has been reawakened, he will not lose her again, even as the forces of an immortal evil gather to destroy them and everything they love. |
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Author : Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Live fast, fight hard and if you have to die, take as many of your enemies with you as you can. That is the Amazon credo and it was one Samia lived and died by but today, in contemporary New Orleans, the immortal Amazon warrior is about to learn that there's a worse evil coming to slaughter mankind than she ever could have imagined.
Meet Dev Peltier, a shape shifter who has stood guard at the front of Sanctuary for almost two hundred years, he's seen it all, or so he thought. His enemies have just discovered a new source of power, one that makes a mockery of anything faced to date. Now the war is on and it's up to Dev and Samia to guard ground zero but in order to win, they will have to break the most cardinal of all rules, and pray it doesn't unravel the universe as we know it.
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Author : Lynsay Sands
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Suzette is not like other heiresses; she wants a poor husband, a gentleman who will be so grateful for her dowry that he will allow her access to it so that she can pay off her father's gambling debts. When this alluring beauty encounters Daniel Woodrow, handsome, titled, single and even more impoverished than she could have hoped for it seems Suzette's wildest dreams have come true. Daniel, however, has not been truthful. Tired of being accosted by an endless stream of vapid coquettes and their fortune-hunting mothers, Daniel has decided to plead poverty to stop them in their tracks. Yet here is a most refreshing and delectable lady, who claims to be thrilled by his penury. Now all Daniel has to do to find true happiness is to keep a little white lie alive while avoiding a villain who's determined to prevent this union by any means necessary. |
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: Heather Webber
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Exposed by a Boston Herald reporter, Lucy is suddenly the talk of the town. Long back-story short, even though the rest of her Valentine ancestors were blessed by Cupid with psychic abilities, Lucy’s only special power lies in her ability to find things. This skill has proven quite a blessing for those who come to her matchmaking agency in search of finding their long-lost loves. Now that Lucy’s secret is out, she has more new clients than she knows what to do with but soon a certain man of mystery steals Lucy’s spotlight. No, it’s not Sean Donahue, the sexy fireman-turned-private-eye who’s stolen Lucy’s heart. It’s a masked man in a cowboy hat, dubbed The Lone Ranger, who’s been throwing handfuls of cash across the Common. Now all of Beantown’s abuzz. Can Lucy unmask the mysterious money man, track down all her clients’ old flames, and turn up the heat on her love life - absolutely, positively? |
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Author : Sharon Sala
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When Maria Slade’s adoptive father passes away, she learns that she was taken in as a young child after witnessing the murder of her prostitute mother. Determined to learn more about her biological family, Maria leaves Montana to investigate the unsolved mystery of her mother’s death in Tulsa, Okla.; a murder so traumatizing, she cannot even remember witnessing the crime. Upon arriving, Maria befriends Detective Bodie Scott, a sexy cowboy who falls for Maria. Together, they embark on a dangerous mission to put an evil entity behind bars for good. |
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: Georgina Gentry
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Rio Kelly knows what he wants when he sees it, and he wants the ebony-haired, fair-skinned beauty with the extraordinary blue eyes, Turquoise Sanchez. In the battle for her love, this bold vaquero is competing with a Texas senator who’s used to getting his way, at any cost. Turquoise knows the sensible choice would be to marry the wealthy senator and enjoy a lifetime of comfort and status but her heart has chosen differently. If she dares to follow her passion, and defy one of Texas’s most powerful and ruthless men, she and her defiant cowboy are in for the fight of their lives. |
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Author : Janet Chapman
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Maddy Kimble has no time for a suitor, not with caring for her spunky nursing home patients, her shy nine-year-old daughter, her widowed mother, and her rebellious teenage brother. William Kilkenny's stunning lack of modern dating protocol doesn't help. The man is uncouth and outrageous, a towering, drop-dead, breathtakingly hot warrior, who refuses to give up. William is secretly a ninth-century Irish nobleman formerly trapped in a dragon's body. All Maddy knows is that lately, she can hardly resist the urge to lose herself in his powerful arms. As their uncontrollable passion grows, eerie occurrences in her small coastal Maine town begin to rouse Maddy's suspicions about her lover. He begs her to trust him, but how can she surrender, body and soul, when she fears the danger he poses to her yearning heart? |
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Notorious Pleasures, Maiden Lane |
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Author : Elizabeth Hoyt
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Their lives were perfect, Lady Hero Batten, the beautiful sister of the Duke of Wakefield, has everything a woman could want, including the perfect fiancé. True, the Marquis of Mandeville is a trifle dull and has no sense of humour, but that doesn't bother Hero. Until she meets his notorious brother, until they met each other. Griffin Remmington, Lord Reading, is far from perfect and he likes it that way. How he spends his days is a mystery, but all of London knows he engages in the worst sorts of drunken revelry at night. Hero takes an instant dislike to him, and Griffin thinks that Hero, with her charities and faultless manners, is much too impeccable for society, let alone his brother. Yet their near-constant battle of wits soon sparks desire, desire that causes their carefully constructed worlds to come tumbling down. As Hero's wedding nears, and Griffin's enemies lay plans to end their dreams forever, can two imperfect people find perfect true love?
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Author : Alexandra Hawkins
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Young, tender, and highly impressionable, Lady Regan can’t help but be intrigued by her brother’s wayward friends, the wickedly charming Lords of Vice. One man in particular, the dashing Lord Hugh Mordare (known simply as “Dare” among the ton), utterly captivates her, in spite of his reputation as a notorious womanizer. When she steals an innocent kiss from Dare, Regan is swiftly packed off to boarding school, safely away from danger and desire. Five years later, Regan returns, a proper lady and ravishing beauty. Miss Swann’s Academy for Young Ladies has taught her how to behave in polite society but all the training in the world cannot extinguish her love for Dare. Now, she hopes to beat the master of seduction at his own game by daring Dare to love her in return. This time, both of their hearts are on the line and winner takes all. |
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