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Newest Stephanie Plum

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her motley companions--including Grandma Mazur, Vice Captain Joe Morelli, and Bob the Dog--are at it again as they become entangled in an adventure involving the Burg's premier funeral home and a family pot roast.

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Suspense

Whenever people asked him ”What do you do?” Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter . . . But now he’s thirty-five years old and he’s still living on the Lower East Side, the oldest employee at Café Berkmann. He’s still stuck serving the people he wanted to be. So what does Eric do? He manages. Not like Ike Marcus, Café Berkmann’s bartender. Ike was young, good-looking and he really was going places—at least he was until two street kids stepped up to him and Eric one night and pulled a gun. That’s Eric’s version of what happened anyway.

-	more by novelist and screenwriter Richard Price
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Spooky Southern Series

Fever Devilin, born and raised amongst the hill country folk of the Georgia Appalachians, left home a long time ago and pursued an education, then a career, in the wider outside world. A folklorist by inclination and profession, he left the strange world of academia behind to return to his family home in the if-anything-stranger mountain town he grew up in. But oddness follows Fever wherever he goes and Blue Mountain, Georgia is no different. If you like atmospheric mysteries with a spooky edge, you'll love the Fever Devilin series.

History Mystery

Sent to medieval Cambridge in order to exonerate Jewish prisoners who have been accused of murdering four children, University of Salerno medical expert Dr. Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar discovers that the killer may be a prominent member of the community - possibly even a former crusader. This thoughtful mystery blends historical facts with gruesome fiction in such a way that the reader is well motivated to discover the outcome.

-	Sequel: The Serpent's Tale

Masterful Suspense

Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, performing the same task for the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque—or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. Death begets death, and revenge leads only to revenge, and before the chain reaction of events is done—from Kosovo to London to Beirut to Ireland to Moscow—there will be plenty of both. With intrigue in the halls of power and blood in the streets master of suspense Jack Higgins returns with a novel of dark passion and darker deeds.

Newest Elvis Cole

Elvis was a hero when he cleared an innocent man of a murder charge. But when that innocent man is found dead three years later holding photos of the victim, Elvis is the one on trial. Featuring an extended appearance by former bomb squad technician and semi-pro smart aleck Carol Starkey (Demolition Angel, 2000) and a true "didn't see that coming" ending this latest Robert Crais mystery proves to be an exciting and highly satisfying thriller.

Mysteries With Bite

Dead Until Dark is the first in the best-selling Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. Small-town Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is known for being “different.” She can read minds. It makes dating impossible. (Think about it.) When legal vampire Bill Compton walks into her life everything changes. She can’t “read” him at all. Will Sookie be able to have a boyfriend at last? Unfortunately, even though vampires are no longer considered evil (they were all just victims of a terrible virus), where they go violence tends to follow as do other supernatural events. Sookie finds herself in the midst of it all. Combining southern charm, paranormal elements and plenty of humor these appealing mysteries have attracted a loyal fan base that keeps growing. Watch for the upcoming Sookie-inspired HBO series True Blood due out in Fall 2008. Search for the series

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Books in Series


	What's Next? Sometimes it's hard to tell the order of books in a series. Make your life a little easier by using this great series database from the Kent District Library in Michigan.

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	Stop, you're killing me If you can't get enough mysteries, this site lets you subscribe to updates. The read-alikes by author and by category are very useful.

Hot new mysteries

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