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The Cat Who Could Read Backwards (Cat Who series) by Lilian Jackson Braun
The first installment of the author’s popular series features the unusual detective team of award-winning reporter Jim Qwilleran and Koko, his brilliant Siamese cat, who penetrate the world of modern art to solve a mystery. |
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Open Season (Joe Pickett series) by C. J. Box
As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves. |
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Wish You Were Here (Mrs. Murphy series) by Rita Mae Brown
Mary Minor Haristeen, postmistress of Crozet, Virginia, joins forces with her willful cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her Welsh corgi, Tucker, to investigate a series of bizarre postcards sent to the town’s inhabitants that forecast impending death. |
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Scratch the Surface (Cat Lover's Mystery series) by Susan Conant
The author of a popular series of cat mysteries, Felicity Pride turns sleuth when she finds a cat and a corpse on her doorstep, investigating suspects that range from an avid pet-hater and a highbrow professor to her primary rival in the field. |
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A New Leash on Death (Dog Lover's Mystery series) by Susan Conant
Holly Winter, a writer and amateur sleuth, and her adopted Alaskan malamute, Rowdy, team up to track down a killer lurking at a dog show. |
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Catnap (Midnight Louie series) by Carole Nelson Douglas
When a dead body turns up at the American Booksellers Association convention and the Baker & Taylor corporate mascots are catnapped, public relations expert Temple Barr and her cat, Midnight Louie, decide to investigate. |
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Break In by Dick Francis
Successful steeplechase jockey Christmas “Kit” Fielding finds himself attacked, chased, kidnapped, and knifed when he comes to the aid of his twin sister Holly and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, two star-crossed lovers caught in the middle of a long-time feud between equestrian families. |
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Death in Bloodhound Red (Jo Beth Sidden series) by Virginia Lanier
Jo Beth Sidden, who raises and trains bloodhounds for search-and-rescue missions in the Okefenokee Swamp, is faced with a web of deceit and betrayal when she is indicted for attempted murder. |
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A Pedigree To Die For (Melanie Travis series) by Laurien Berenson
Thinking her life could not be worse after a disastrous summer peaks with her uncle’s death, Melanie Travis realizes that she is in for more trouble when the disappearance of her uncle’s prize-winning poodle suggests that murder has taken place. |