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One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 579,272 ratings
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Diners, Dives & Dead Ends (Rose Strickland Mystery, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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Eat, Pray, Die (An Eat, Pray, Die Humorous Mystery, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 5,669 ratings
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Murder With Peacocks (Meg Langslow, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 13,986 ratings
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Front Page Fatality (Nichelle Clarke Crime Thriller, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 4,521 ratings
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Portrait of a Dead Guy (A Cherry Tucker Mystery, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 1,514 ratings
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Lowcountry Boil (A Liz Talbot Mystery, #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 8,171 ratings
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ZÄNKER: Murder is Academic
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3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings
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This Pen for Hire (A Jaine Austen Mystery, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 5,952 ratings
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Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
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4.10 avg rating — 179,345 ratings
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Nature Girl
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3.68 avg rating — 27,028 ratings
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Murder With Puffins (Meg Langslow, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 7,614 ratings
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Last Diner Standing (Rose Strickland Mystery, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 994 ratings
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Designer Dirty Laundry (Style & Error Mystery #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 1,480 ratings
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Louisiana Longshot (Miss Fortune Mystery, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 39,037 ratings
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Bubbles Unbound (Bubbles Yablonsky, #1)
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3.64 avg rating — 5,994 ratings
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The Luck Runs Out (Peter Shandy, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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Dark Tort (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #13)
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3.83 avg rating — 8,648 ratings
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Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos (Meg Langslow, #3)
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4.01 avg rating — 6,754 ratings
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Tea Time for the Traditionally Built (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #10)
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4.13 avg rating — 24,188 ratings
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Blue Shoes and Happiness (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #7)
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4.06 avg rating — 29,962 ratings
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Sweet Delicious Madness and the Many Mysterious Deaths of Silvio Berlusconi (Kissed in Italy Mystery, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 137,373 ratings
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Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 3,665 ratings
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The Secret Diary of Alice in Wonderland, Age 42 and Three-Quarters
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3.14 avg rating — 367 ratings
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Double Whammy (Davis Way Crime Caper, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 3,780 ratings
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Dumb Witness (Hercule Poirot, #17)
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3.92 avg rating — 48,485 ratings
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The Miracle at Speedy Motors (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #9)
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4.11 avg rating — 25,794 ratings
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The Double Comfort Safari Club (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #11)
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4.07 avg rating — 20,992 ratings
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Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum, #15)
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4.03 avg rating — 96,242 ratings
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London Broil (Wendy Darlin Tomb Raider #2)
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3.36 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The Trouble with St. John (Samantha Stone, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Wendy and the Lost Boys (Wendy Darlin Tomb Raider #1)
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3.20 avg rating — 302 ratings
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You’ve Got Murder (Turing Hopper, #1)
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3.68 avg rating — 2,141 ratings
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The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #12)
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4.10 avg rating — 18,412 ratings
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No Nest for the Wicket (Meg Langslow, #7)
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4.02 avg rating — 4,998 ratings
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We'll Always Have Parrots (Meg Langslow, #5)
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4.05 avg rating — 5,380 ratings
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Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (Meg Langslow, #4)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,674 ratings
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Owls Well That Ends Well (Meg Langslow, #6)
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4.03 avg rating — 5,504 ratings
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Dying for a Dance (Laurel McKay Mysteries, #2)
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4.13 avg rating — 729 ratings
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Sweet Delicious Madness and the Hordes of Lidias (Kissed in Italy Mystery #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings
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What Happened in Vegas (Samantha Stone Mystery Book 2)
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4.62 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Buried Leads (Nichelle Clarke Crime Thriller, #2)
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4.25 avg rating — 2,153 ratings
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The Hunger Pains (An Eat, Pray, Die Humorous Mystery, #2)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Board Stiff (Elliott Lisbon Mystery #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 1,552 ratings
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Italian Folly: Novella (Kissed in Italy, #0.5)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 178,943 ratings
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The Coroner's Lunch (Dr. Siri Paiboun, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 15,270 ratings
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Picture Miss Seeton (Miss Seeton, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 3,101 ratings
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Murder Your Darlings (Algonquin Round Table #1)
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3.38 avg rating — 627 ratings
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Maggody in Manhattan (Arly Hanks, #6)
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3.83 avg rating — 936 ratings
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Other People's Baggage (Three Interconnected Mystery Novellas)
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3.75 avg rating — 376 ratings
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The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 782,172 ratings
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Seven Up (Stephanie Plum, #7)
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4.16 avg rating — 133,364 ratings
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Three to Get Deadly (Stephanie Plum, #3)
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4.15 avg rating — 163,058 ratings
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W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)
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3.96 avg rating — 35,354 ratings
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The Hot Rock (Dortmunder, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 7,303 ratings
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Four to Score (Stephanie Plum, #4)
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4.17 avg rating — 151,082 ratings
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High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)
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4.18 avg rating — 136,687 ratings
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Hot Six (Stephanie Plum, #6)
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4.19 avg rating — 138,707 ratings
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Nobody's Perfect (Dortmunder, #4)
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3.96 avg rating — 1,673 ratings
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V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone, #22)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33,937 ratings
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U is for Undertow (Kinsey Millhone, #21)
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4.01 avg rating — 34,360 ratings
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In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #6)
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4.10 avg rating — 31,078 ratings
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Theft By Chocolate
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3.77 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 198,790 ratings
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Dead Girls Don't Blog (Murder Blog Mysteries #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Seven Days and Six Worst-Case Scenarios (Victoria Douglas Vacation Mysteries #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 89,463 ratings
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Deadly Maybe
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4.48 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Taste of Christmas (An Eat, Pray, Die Humorous Mystery, #2.5)
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3.97 avg rating — 957 ratings
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The Adventures of a Love Investigator: 527 Naked Men and One Woman
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3.29 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Flipping Out (Lomax & Biggs, #3)
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4.18 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 22,573 ratings
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Thus Was Adonis Murdered (Hilary Tamar, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 6,201 ratings
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If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... (Elizabeth MacPherson #8)
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3.83 avg rating — 2,458 ratings
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Whiskey Sour (Jack Daniels #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 16,989 ratings
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A Nun in the Closet
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3.97 avg rating — 3,009 ratings
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Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum, #13)
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4.11 avg rating — 102,922 ratings
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The Feng Shui Detective (Feng Shui Detective #1)
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3.57 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Liar, Liar (Cat DeLuca Mysteries, #1)
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3.45 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
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Revenge of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #3)
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4.13 avg rating — 18,453 ratings
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Getting Old Is Murder (Gladdy Gold, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 1,164 ratings
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Curse of the Spellmans (The Spellmans, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 19,904 ratings
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The Spellman Files (The Spellmans, #1)
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3.87 avg rating — 37,774 ratings
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Murder Packs a Suitcase (Murder Packs a Suitcase, #1)
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3.58 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Killed at the Whim of a Hat (Jimm Juree, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 3,187 ratings
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The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
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4.35 avg rating — 351,524 ratings
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Hocus Croakus (Bed-and-Breakfast Mysteries, #19)
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3.77 avg rating — 667 ratings
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The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe, #41)
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4.22 avg rating — 5,730 ratings
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Somebody Owes Me Money
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3.78 avg rating — 1,949 ratings
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Just Kidding
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3.71 avg rating — 92 ratings
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| 92 |
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Double Whammy (Skink #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 22,121 ratings
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Buyer, Beware (Samantha Kidd Mysteries, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Cut, Paste, Kill (Lomax & Biggs, #4)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
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Last Ditch (Leo Waterman #5)
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4.08 avg rating — 657 ratings
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| 97 |
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Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (The Rabbi Small Mysteries, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 8,646 ratings
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Still Life in Brunswick Stew (A Cherry Tucker Mystery, #2)
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4.04 avg rating — 776 ratings
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The Deader The Better (Leo Waterman, #6)
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4.07 avg rating — 836 ratings
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Takedown Twenty (Stephanie Plum, #20)
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3.88 avg rating — 71,930 ratings
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(In fact, I just learned the definition from Sue Grafton's introduction to Kinsey and Me, which is currently at rest in the boudoir.) But on my own shelves, I heap them all together, and for this list, if it was any one of those three and either amusing or gut-bustingly funny, I tossed it in. If the list maker objects, please let me know and I will sort them out and pull those that don't fit the stricter definition.