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Ex-cowgirl and quilter Bennie moves to California to start over after the sudden death of her husband. Working as the curator of a folk-art museum, Benni uncovers clues to a small-town murder. Now it's up to this crackerjack sleuth to solve the crime.

FBI Special Agent Patrick Bowers confronts the Navy's darkest secret--and his own painful past.

After her last harrowing case, Kate Martinelli is more than ready for routine police work and her newfound serenity with longtime lover Lee. But then she's called to the scene of a carefully executed murder, and everything changes.

Returning to London after extensive travels abroad, Mary and husband Sherlock Holmes receive an unexpected visit from Sherlock's estranged son Damian. Years ago, Damian was arrested following the muder of his drug dealer. No more people have died, and Damian is once again a suspect. Further complicating matters, Damian's wife and child are missing. While Sherlock helps Damian search for his loved ones, Mary launches her own investigation in an attempt to reveal Damian's troubled history.

Five years after working with Ali and Mahmoud Hazr in Palestine, Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell are shocked when they meet the brothers again in England. Instead of Arabs, their friends are really British aristocrats, Alistair and Marsh Hughenfort. The brothers need help finding the heir to their family estate, the stunningly beautiful Justice Hall. This is a search that will eventually take Holmes and Russell thousands of miles from home.

The Art of Detection is another spellbinding tale starring San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli. The victim is Sherlock Holmes aficionado Philip Gilbert, whose collection of priceless memorabilia is definitely worth killing for. It's up to Kate and her trusted partner Al Hawkin to follow the clues and bring a rather peculiar murderer to Justice.

Maggody's high school has a new computer lab. Folks are calling the Internet the Devil's workshop, but the adult computer class is filling up. When some unusual images flash across monitors -- and a pretty student is found dead in an abandoned shack -- the town demands that Arly find the answers.

Maggody Police Chief Arly Hanks is all shook up when she hears that her mother collapsed during a pilgrimage to Graceland and is in a Memphis hospital. Another member of the tour is pushed to her death from a hotel balcony. When a prominent Maggody citizen stands accused of the murder, Arly's suspicious mind tells her to snap into action.

In the midst of planning for her mother's wedding, Hannah Swensen accidentally hits a man with her cookie truck while driving down a country road during a storm. Though she feels guilty, she is shocked when she finds herself arrested for murder. When the autopsy reveals that the mysterious stranger may have consumed a poisonous blackberry pie, Hannah must learn his identity and track down the baker to clear her own name of the crime.

Cara Black has earned a devoted international following for her gripping mysteries set in France and starring the indomitable Aimée Leduc. Here, Aimée faces her greatest challenge when she assumes guardianship of an abandoned infant all the while being hunted by a killer in the sewers beneath the Seine. 'Aimée makes an engaging protagonist, vulnerable beneath her vintage chic clothing and sharp-witted exterior.''Publishers Weekly, starred review