When an old customer of her antiquarian book business is found murdered, Dido Hoare is compelled to investigate the matter and find the killer, but during her probe, she learns details about the customer's dark past that make her fear for her own safety. Reprint.

Ghost Walk: An Antiquarian Book Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

MacDonald, Marianne

Mystery

HarperTorch

Smoke Screen

Dido Hoare, bookseller and part-time sleuth, buys the book collection of an old woman who then turns up dead, with Dido as the only suspect, a situation forcing her to avoid the law and the real killer. Reprint.

AVON.

Murder's Bold Inscription "Whoever had broken into the shop might just have gone upstairs afterwards, might just be there still...My first reaction was anger: I wanted to roar up the stairs, only I could hear Barnabas saying, the way he used to when I was little: "Temper, Dido! Count to twenty-nine..." 
Selling rare books has its moments, but few are anything close to thrilling--except when Dido Hoare's scoundrel of an ex-husband suddenly reappears and puts a pulse of excitement in the air.But events go from interesting to intense when someone ends up murdered and the culprit seems to think Dido has something worth killing for, too. 
With the help of her father, Barnabas, a retired academic with a penchant for mysteries, Dido may be able to divert the killer long enough to figure out who wants her dead and why. Recovering from a heart attack, the irrepressible Barnabas is taking chances that are likely to give Dido a coronary of her own, and give the police a bad case of indigestion. But as Dido and Barnabas are about to learn, every crime has its victims and its payoffs--it's just a matter of being on the right side of the bookshelf before everything comes tumbling down.

Death's Autograph

After two close calls, antiquarian bookseller Dido Hoare admits to herself that someone is trying to kill her, and when her shady ex-husband suddenly reappears in her life, things get even more complicated.

Death's Autograph (Dido Hoare Mysteries)

St Martins Pr

When an old customer of her antiquarian book business is found murdered, Dido is compelled to investigate the matter and find the killer, but during her probe, she learns details about the customer's dark past that make her fear for her own safety.

Ghost Walk

Thomas Dunne Books

When Dido Hoare, antiquarian bookseller and single mother, receives a frantic call for help in the middle of the night, she rushes to her friend (and nanny's) side. Dido has no idea that she is about to enter a world where no one is what they appear to be and there is danger all around. Dido arrives at Phyllis's apartment building to find that the lights in the hallway have all been shattered and that the apartment has clearly been burglarized. There is no sign of Phyllis anywhere and when Dido calls out her name she finds that Phyllis had been locked in the closet. Dido frees her and the trouble really begins. Why did the burglars give Phyllis a phone to use? Why didn't they steal anything valuable-like the television or some jewelry? The only response that Phyllis gives to these questions is that Frank, her husband, told her to call him if anything should happen there while he was gone. What was Frank, an account and jailbird, expecting to happen? And where is he anyway---is it his body the police just found in a local park? Unaware that any harm has come to Frank, the women go about cleaning up the apartment. Two men posing as police officers show up and start asking questions. Phyllis recognizes one of the men from the night before and realizes that they are back looking for whatever they were after. Clearly the case is more than Dido can handle, but she can't tear herself away-not even when her father, Barnabas, and an inspector, Paul Grant, warn her how much danger she is in. As Dido continues her search for answers she is led to Lal Fisher, Frank's sister, and to other dangerous situations throughout London. Will Dido find all the answers before Ben, her son, has to grow up without a mother?

Road Kill: A Dido Hoare Mystery (Dido Hoare Mysteries)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Minotaur Books

Dido Hoare, bookseller and part-time sleuth, buys the book collection of an old woman who then turns up dead, with Dido as the only suspect, a situation forcing her to avoid the law and the real killer.

Smoke Screen: A Dido Hoare Mystery

To escape from bad memories and nightmares in London, antiquarian book dealer Dido Hoare takes time off to visit a childhood friend, Lizzy Waring. Lizzy lives in the picturesque village of Somerset with her husband and his family. The Warings own Monksdanes, an idyllic Georgian mansion; it appears the perfect place for an over-active London native to rest and recuperate. At first Dido is enchanted by the surroundings. But it's not long before she realizes, to her dismay, that the postcard beauty is just a façade - there's a much darker reality below the surface. And her best friend is unwillingly at the center of it all; something has gone terribly wrong with Lizzy's life. But what? Lizzie won't say, and her in-laws are a secretive lot. The Waring family code is quite obviously "blood is thicker than water." The rest of the world are outsiders. Nothing is what it seems. Dido is determined to help her old friend. Fighting through a maze of lies and misdemeanors, and ultimately what she suspects is murder, she persists in probing the deep secrets the Warings are guarding. Making some allies and some enemies along the way, Dido uncovers the sinister underbelly to life in the picturesque village. Although aware that she is putting herself in jeopardy, she doggedly brings to light the horrifying truth that is at the center of it all.

Blood Lies: A Dido Hoare Mystery (Dido Hoare Mysteries)

Running an antiquarian bookshop in London might seem like a nice, quiet job, but bookseller Dido Hoare has had more than her share of adventures. Die Once is the next entry in Marianne MacDonald’s wonderful mystery series featuring Dido Hoare.. When Timothy Curwen’s check bounces, Dido Hoare is amazed. Curwen had been a good customer, spending freely at her antiquarian bookshop. The morning paper says that Curwen committed suicide, but the police soon suspect murder. When Dido sets out either to retrieve the book or to obtain payment of it, her quest leads her down a twisted trail of cover-up and betrayal surrounding Tim’s death.

Die Once: A Dido Hoare Mystery

Death's Autograph (A Dido Hoare Mystery)

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

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