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|  | Albert, Susan Wittig HOLLY BLUES
March 15, 2010 - Although traffic has been slow at her shops, China and her family—her husband Mike McQuaid, private eye and part-time college professor, his son Brian, and China's niece Caitlin—are making do. When Mike's former wife, Brian's mom Sally Strahorn,
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| | Chisholm, P.F. A MURDER OF CROWS
March 15, 2010 - Sir Robert Carey's sidekick, Sergeant Dodd, seeks a lawyer to sue the evil and greedy Vice Chamberlain, Thomas Heneage, with whom Carey and Dodd have already tangled. He chooses the offbeat Mr. Enys, but the case is thwarted by higher-ups.
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| | Coonts, Deborah WANNA GET LUCKY?
March 15, 2010 - Lyda Sue tumbles from a helicopter and splatters in a lagoon meant to attract high rollers, greedy tourists and lesser fry to one of Vegas's premier casinos. Lucky O'Toole, head of customer relations (that is, troubleshooter) for the Babylon, has
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| | Gore, Steven FINAL TARGET
March 15, 2010 - Jack Burch, a white-shoe lawyer who operates at a level high enough for air-sickness and complex enough to confuse even him at times, takes a bullet in the chest that San Francisco cops attribute to road rage. Well, maybe. Burch goes jogging;
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| | Hall, Tarquin THE CASE OF THE MAN WHO DIED LAUGHING
March 15, 2010 - Once the Hindu masters taught the virtues of poverty. But in modern India, prosperity and devotion go hand in hand, at least at the Abode of Eternal Love, where well-heeled worshippers gather to revere the Maharaj Swami, who summons the Vedic sage
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| | Knight, Bernard WHERE DEATH DELIGHTS
March 15, 2010 - Richard Pryor returns from Singapore in 1955 with enough money to start a practice using the big house he has inherited from an aunt as headquarters. His new partner is Angela Bray, a former Home Office scientist who's looking for a change after a
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| | Mackenzie, Jassy RANDOM VIOLENCE
March 15, 2010 - After more than a decade in England, Jade de Jong returns to her native Johannesburg at the request of Police Superintendent David Patel, the protg and eventual successor of Jade's father. It was her father's death and her unresolved feelings for
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| | McRae, Cricket SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLEU
March 15, 2010 - Sophie Mae's bath-products business is flourishing, and she's about to marry detective Barr Ambrose. But her mother Anna Belle's call begging her to come home and read her brother's long-lost suicide note changes everything. The newly surfacing
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| | Meade, Amy Patricia BLACK MOONLIGHT
March 15, 2010 - Having escaped the wedding planned by their Ridgebury, Conn. neighbors, Marjorie and Creighton Ashcroft are honeymooning on the high seas. Marjorie's seasickness calls for a change of venue, so when the ship visits Bermuda, Creighton takes his bride
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| | Myers, Amy TOM WASP AND THE NEWGATE KNOCKER
March 15, 2010 - Bound for the gallows after poisoning her abusive husband in 1863, housekeeper Eliza Hogg presents chimney sweeper Tom Wasp with a ticket that allows him to redeem a shabby doll from a seedy pawnbroker. Inside the doll, he and his apprentice Ned
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| | Ramsay, Frederick THE EYE OF THE VIRGIN
March 15, 2010 - Louis Dakis, an artist and instructor at Virginia's Callend University, returns home from class to find his rented digs ransacked, though nothing's been taken. Across town at the Picketsville Hospital emergency room, nurse Laurie Kratz discovers
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| | Talton, Jon DEADLINE MAN
March 15, 2010 - Around the Seattle Free Press, he's more often referred to as the columnist, or Mr. Economics Columnist, than by his proper name. He likes that, delights in his importance, relishes the impact his work delivers. It's clear to him that he has the
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| | Viets, Elaine HALF-PRICE HOMICIDE
March 15, 2010 - Florida seemed like just the place for CPA Helen Hawthorn to bury herself in a series of dead-end jobs with salaries that might fly under the IRS's formidable radar. So when a Missouri judge awarded her ex-husband Rob half her future earnings, Helen
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| | Walker, Martin THE DARK VINEYARD
March 15, 2010 - Prolific British journalist Walker (Bruno, Chief of Police, 2009, etc.) blends food, wine, community, history, tradition and general love of the Perigord region into a tidy yet thrill-free story. An act of arson ignites the plot, drawing 40-year-old
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| The Arabian Nights: A New Edition
March 01, 2010 - The most famous tales in The Arabian Nights have flown far beyond the confines of the night-shrouded bedroom in which Scheherazade spins stories to the vengeful king who will kill her come morning (unless she makes sure he just has to know what happens next). "There is no such thing as a canonical text of the Nights with a fixed number of stories," writes Middle East scholar Robert Irwin in his introduction to Volume 2 of Penguin Classics' new three-volume edition. So should we care that Cambridge University scholars Malcolm and Ursula Lyons, for the first time since Sir Richard Burton in the 1880s, have based this English translation on the 1839-42 Arabic edition that contains more stories than any other, usually in fuller versions? We should
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