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  • PRECIOUS BLOOD
    JANE HADDAM
    A Holy Week murder puts former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian on the trail of an unholy killer—"Haddam plays the mystery game like a master" ( Chicago Tribune).   In high school, Cheryl was an outcast, tolerated only because the boys considered her easy. But one night at Black Rock Park, the popular kids were strangely kind, and for the first time in her life, Cheryl's future seeme...

    $119.00

  • FEAST OF MURDER
    JANE HADDAM
    A former FBI agent gets entangled in a financial mogul's murder in this "superior" whodunit series ( Publishers Weekly).   Once one of Wall Street's most powerful forces, Donald McAdam's life changed when he found himself in a tight spot with the SEC. Either give up everything, they told him, or inform on your friends. Never one for loyalty, McAdam chose the wire, and sent half...

    $119.00

  • ACT OF DARKNESS
    JANE HADDAM
    A Fourth of July fundraiser leads to fireworks of another kind in this "entertaining, satisfying mystery" ( Publishers Weekly).   Stephen Fox may be a moron, but he may also be America's next president. The dimwitted legislator is just smart enough to know when to smile for the camera. But two women stand in the way of his campaign: his mistress and his wife, who has never reco...

    $119.00

  • AND ONE TO DIE ON
    JANE HADDAM
    A silent screen star dies at her 100th birthday party—and it's not from natural causes—in this mystery from a multiple Edgar Award finalist.   Actress Tasheba Kent was famous before movies could talk, and stayed that way well after the silent era died. When her sister took a mysterious plunge off a cliff, the silver-screen beauty turned tragedy into scandal by running off with ...

    $119.00

  • BAPTISM IN BLOOD
    JANE HADDAM
    An infant's death draws a former FBI agent to a strange Southern town in this mystery by an Edgar Award–nominated author.   As a hurricane bears down on Bellerton, North Carolina, Zhondra Meyer opens her gates to the townsfolk. Her farm occupies the area's highest ground, but the locals are wary of accepting her invitation. Zhondra says her camp is nothing more than a retreat f...

    $119.00

  • BLEEDING HEARTS
    JANE HADDAM
    Murder is in the cards this Valentine's Day. "Never quite cozy and never quite tough, this tale combines the best of both styles to stunning effect" ( Publishers Weekly).   Psychiatrist Paul Hazzard was renowned for his insights into the human mind, until his wife was savagely murdered. She was stabbed to death with an ornamental dagger, a grisly crime for which Paul was tried ...

    $119.00

  • CHARISMA
    JANE HADDAM / ORANIA PAPAZOGLOU
    Away from the convent, a former nun stumbles onto the path of a killer Susan Murphy is still getting accustomed to blue jeans. For seventeen years, she has worn a nun's habit, and she was used to the coziness of her cape, the anonymity of her uniform. Eventually, she decides it is time to leave the convent, go back to the world, and return to her family. It doesn't take long fo...

    $119.00

  • DEADLY BELOVED
    JANE HADDAM
    A gated Philadelphia suburb is home to a shocking murder in this mystery featuring Armenian-American ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian.   Fox Run Hill is the kind of place that men move to with their second wives, but Patsy MacLaren Willis has been married to Stephen, her first husband, for twenty-two years. Though outwardly happy, Patsy feels disconnected, hating their empty life....

    $119.00

  • DEAR OLD DEAD
    JANE HADDAM
    A retired FBI agent defends a do-gooder doctor suspected of murdering a media mogul: "Haddam plays the mystery game like a master" ( Chicago Tribune).   Michael Pride could have been a world-class surgeon, but his good intentions got the best of him. He opened a clinic in one of New York's roughest neighborhoods, and stuck around when gangs, drugs, and guns turned it into a war...

    $119.00

  • DEATH'S SAVAGE PASSION
    JANE HADDAM / ORANIA PAPAZOGLOU
    McKenna investigates the first casualty in a New York literary war The romance boom has ended, and the women who made fortunes writing bodice-rippers are now scribbling mysteries instead. When the genre's "true" authors fight back, a battle breaks out in every high-class gin joint in Manhattan. It is take-no-prisoners fighting, and Patience McKenna is caught in the middle.   Th...

    $119.00

  • FESTIVAL OF DEATHS
    JANE HADDAM
    When a killer stalks a provocative talk show host, ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is the next guest in this mystery from the author of Quoth the Raven.   Sex, sex, and more sex—this is the formula for a hit talk show. No one knows this better than Lotte Goldman, host of television's most outrageous chat show, but even she is getting bored of her sensational interviews. To break ...

    $119.00

  • FOUNTAIN OF DEATH
    JANE HADDAM
    As New Year's approaches, a former FBI investigator—"the Armenian-American Poirot"—resolves to find the killer of a Connecticut exercise guru ( Kirkus Reviews).   After twenty years in California, Frannie Jay—formerly Frances Jakumbowski—returns to her home turf: New Haven, Connecticut, a university town that has become rife with crime. The depressed aerobics instructor hopes t...

    $119.00

  • A GREAT DAY FOR THE DEADLY
    JANE HADDAM
    As St. Patrick's Day nears, a retired FBI agent must solve a sinful crime near a small-town convent: "[An] engrossing murder case . . . enjoyable" ( Publishers Weekly).   Her childhood friends wanted careers, but Brigit Ann Reilly spent her youth looking forward to her wedding—her wedding to God. When she finally gets to don the habit, her new order sends her to Maryville, wher...

    $119.00

  • NOT A CREATURE WAS STIRRING
    JANE HADDAM
    Edgar Award Finalist: The patriarch of a wealthy, notoriously unpleasant Philadelphia family is murdered, and a former FBI agent must figure out whodunit.   The Hannaford who made the family fortune called himself a tycoon. The newspapers called him a robber baron. Since the days of Robert Hannaford I, the family has infested Philadelphia society like a disease. The current Han...

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  • ONCE AND ALWAYS MURDER
    JANE HADDAM / ORANIA PAPAZOGLOU
    Back in her hometown, McKenna quickly remembers why she left Waverly, Connecticut, has turned its back on most modern conveniences. It has no cinema, no strip malls, no supermarket. Groceries are nearly an hour's drive away, along spotty two-lane roads that get blocked the moment snow starts to fall. True-crime writer Patience McKenna, on her way to Waverly for her wedding, rem...

    $119.00

  • QUOTH THE RAVEN
    JANE HADDAM
    As college students get dressed up for Halloween, ex-FBI agent Gregor Demarkian must catch a real campus ghoul before another faculty member is murdered.   Since Father Tibor Kasparian escaped the Soviet Union, he has done his best to keep his philosophy to himself—not out of fear, but because he knows that few people could stomach an honest account of life under Stalinism. Whe...

    $119.00

  • A STILLNESS IN BETHLEHEM
    JANE HADDAM
    A Christmas controversy turns deadly for a tiny New England village in a mystery that offers "a sharp perspective on the nasty smugness of small towns" ( The New York Times).   Bethlehem, Vermont, is a sleepy little town, distinguished from the neighboring hamlets by its Christmas pageant. The holiday spectacular dates back generations; as the village's only tourist attraction,...

    $119.00

  • SWEET, SAVAGE DEATH
    JANE HADDAM / ORANIA PAPAZOGLOU
    When a literary agent is murdered, every bodice-ripping author is a suspect The nation's most famous romance authors are often so over-the-top that they could star in their own work. Catty, eccentric, and vain, they live to make each other miserable—and Patience McKenna does all she can to stay out of their line of fire. Too smart for her own genre, she writes romance novels to...

    $119.00

  • WICKED, LOVING MURDER
    JANE HADDAM / ORANIA PAPAZOGLOU
    When novelist Patience McKenna takes a job at a dubious publishing house, a corpse in her closet has her searching for the true crime culprit.   Writing Enterprises makes Patience McKenna sick. A onetime romance novelist, she has recently vaulted into the arena of true crime—a happy side effect of being too close to a high-profile murder. Writing Enterprises preys on wannabes, ...

    $119.00

  • MURDER SUPERIOR
    JANE HADDAM
    Edgar Award–Nominated Author: At a convention of nuns, an ex-FBI agent hopes to get a killer's confession . . .   A superfluity of nuns has descended on Philadelphia, and the city is doing all it can to keep them entertained. The spiritual sisters' convention lined up several speakers, including media mogul Henry Hare, shock-jock extraordinaire Norm Kevic, and the brilliant sle...

    $119.00

  • RICH, RADIANT SLAUGHTER
    JANE HADDAM / ORANIA PAPAZOGLOU
    A "tour de force" mystery in the Edgar Award–nominated series featuring a writer who not only covers murder cases, but cracks them too ( Publishers Weekly).   An exhausted Patience McKenna is attending a benefit at a Baltimore bookstore as part of a ten-city tour arranged by a do-gooder publicist and a mega-rich donor. It's for a good cause, but she's more than ready to head ba...

    $119.00

  • MURDER SUPERIOR
    JANE HADDAM
    Edgar Award–Nominated Author: At a convention of nuns, an ex-FBI agent hopes to get a killer’s confession . . .  A superfluity of nuns has descended on Philadelphia, and the city is doing all it can to keep them entertained. The spiritual sisters’ convention lined up several speakers, including media mogul Henry Hare, shock-jock extraordinaire Norm Kevic, and the brilliant sleu...

    $119.00