Lila Hilliard went out to get replacement Christmas lights for the Christmas tree. When she returned home she found her father's house ablaze, her father and twin brother dead and her life turned upside down.

Set the Night on Fire

Libby Fischer Hellmann

Worldwide Mystery

When a woman's body is found in the trunk of a stolen car sunk in the lake, Reid Bennett, the one-man police force in a small, sleepy Canadian town, hunts for a cold-blooded killer. Reprint.

Flashback

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Ted Wood

Mystery

When Julia Henderson, a wily seductress who has compromised more than one happy marriage, is brutally murdered, Detective Chief Inspector Ian Roper and his team must deduce the identity of her killer from a long list of suspects. Reprint.

Kindness Can Kill

Jane Bolitho

Genealogist Torie O'Shea heads to Minnesota to have a look at a 150-year old manuscript filled with unrequited love... and cold-blooded murder. The story of Anna Bloomquist, a 17-year old desperately in love with a man she couldn't have, ends when the girl and her baby die in a suspicious fire. As Torie becomes immersed in Anna's sad story, odd connections to present day emerge. The shocking murder of the owner of the marina, and the arrest of Torie's stepfather for the crime, fuel her theory that the entire story of betrayal, family secrets and murder has not finished playing itself out. With her uncanny ability to piece together bits of history, Torie may be the only person who can find the true killer...before an innocent man goes to jail. Taken from back of book...

In Sheep's Clothing (Torie O'Shea Mysteries, No. 7)

Literature & Fiction

MacPherson, Rett

Contemporary

"Chilled to the Bone. After an accidental coat switch at a popular Denver resturant, dry cleaner Mandy Dyer is tasked with finding the person who walked off with her cousin Laura's coat using an old dry cleaning slip. When Laura, a photographer anxious to retrieve the undeveloped film in the coat's pocket, is run down outside Mandy's store, Mandy brushes it off as a coincidence. After a second near fatal incident, well, it doesn't take a professional cleaner to spot a nasty mess. Two other people who dined at the Rendezview resturant that night are murdered, and Mandy hopes the pictures still in Laura's camera taken at the resturant may provide a clue. But what do photos of diners, including several couples, a lone business woman and two out of focus figures, reveal about deadly intent? Only Mandy, with her unerring eye for detail, catches the subtle clue that reveals a stunning motive for murder, and a killer who's just warming up." This is from the back cover of the book.

Taking the Wrap (A Mandy Dyer Mystery) (A Mandy Dyer Mystery)

Dolores Johnson

Dead of Summer

TOO HOT TO BREATHE 
 New York television news writer/reporter Michael Carpo escapes a Manhattan heat wave for a getaway at the rustic Connecticut home of fellow writer Jack Crawford. Carpo's vacation plans sour when he arrives to discover his friend dead in a spreading pool of blood, an apparent suicide. 
 Too many unanswered questions lead Carpo to the grim conclusion that Jack was murdered, despite the open-and-shut attitude of town officials. When he uncovers information on several other suspicious deaths in the past few years, he searches for the common thread. Another "accident" occurs, the victim a woman he spoke with only hours before she was found floating in a lake. When Carpo uncovers the decades-old secret at the heart of the mystery, he comes to the chilling realization that someone in this idyllic community is getting away with murder....
 This is #3 in A Michael Carpo Mystery.

Michael Miano

Winter of Discontent (Dorothy Martin Mysteries, No. 9)

A Dorothy Martin Mystery. Publishers Weekly says, "...as comforting as a hot cup of tea and as deliciously spicy as one of Dorothy's mince pies."

Dams, Jeanne M.

From Publishers WeeklyFall is a splendid season on Martha's Vineyard, with spectacular views of land and sea in the ever-changing light. The sudden death of four people in one month, all parishioners at the same church, however, upsets the island's tranquility. In Riggs's absorbing fourth Vineyard mystery (after 2003's Cemetery Yew), Victoria Trumbull, the wise and sprightly nonagenarian island native, is caught in the middle of a jealous battle between the new minister and the retiring minister (both named Jack) at the community church. The ministers' wives are spreading gossip about the four deceased, all of whom provided handsomely for the church. If Victoria's granddaughter, a fugitive from a vengeful and abusive husband, adds to her worries, Victoria can take solace in her developing friendship with the new, city-bred police chief. A complex, well-paced plot, involving a never-mentioned grandparent, an auto accident, a dead seagull and a basket of mushrooms, comes to a neat resolution. A sensitive observer of the scene, Riggs writes with warmth and humor about all-too-human characters with whom readers can readily identify.Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Jack in the Pulpit

Cynthia Riggs

Mad Cow Nightmare

Fifth in the Ruth Willmarth series. A murder mystery involving suspicion of the killer having the human form of Mad Cow Disease which causes panic in the community.

NANCY MEANS WRIGHT

"Realtor Kate Doyle knew divorce was messy, but she didn't expect it to be bloody. Kate agrees to sell the home of old friends who're locked in bitter wrangling and manages to keep the peace long enough to get signatures on contracts. She congratulates herself on what will be an easy sale in this upscale Colorado college town. However, Kate's celebration turns to horror when she walks into the lawyer-client's study to find him brutally murdered - stabbed in the throat. "A crime of passion," says Kate's police detective brother-in-law. The prime suspect is Kate's close friend, the spurned wife, who begs Kate to help her. Kate's meddling turns up some surprising suspects. The successful lawyer deceived numerous ex-lovers as well as his wife. He'd also played off one land developer against another, dangling a choice tract of land as bait. Businesses were ruined and fortunes lost. Had the loser taken revenge on the wily lawyer? Or had an ex-lover killed in jealous rage? Kate's real estate license helps her dig into the clever lawyer's dealings as she sifts clues from cyber space to crawl space. Unfortunately, her snooping tempts the killer to exercise his own license - to kill."

Dying to Sell (Real Estate Mysteries, No. 1)

Maggie Sefton

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