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• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

  Bradley, Alan, 1938-

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  Featuring the precocious and unconventional detective Flavia de Luce, this mystery series takes readers to a small English village in the 1950s. Flavia, an eleven-year-old chemistry prodigy with a fascination for poisons, uses her unique…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spellman Files

  Lutz, Lisa,

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  This comedic mystery series revolves around the Spellman family, a clan of private investigators with a penchant for spying on each other. Izzy Spellman, the protagonist, is a witty and eccentric detective who navigates both family and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grave Reservations

  a Novel

  Priest, Cherie,

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  Meet Leda devoted friend, struggling travel agent, and inconsistent psychic. When Leda, teams up with a Seattle PD detective Grady Merritt, her life changes in ways she couldn’t have predicted.

• Claire Dewitt and the City of the Dead

  Gran, Sara,

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  The story is set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and follows the unconventional private detective Claire DeWitt. Claire is a self-proclaimed detective and disciple of a legendary French detective named Jacques Silette. She has a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Eyre Affair

  a Novel

  Fforde, Jasper

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  Set in an alternate reality where literature is taken to extreme levels of importance, this novel follows Thursday Next, a literary detective working for a government agency called SpecOps. Thursday embarks on a quest to solve the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Big Over Easy

  Fforde, Jasper,

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  Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, a no-nonsense investigator in the Nursery Crime Division. Spratt and his quirky team must solve the murder of Humpty Dumpty, navigating a world where nursery rhyme characters come to life, and nothing is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

  Sutanto, Jesse Q.,

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  Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong when Vera wakes up one morning to find a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, she knows she’ll do a better job than the police…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memory Man

  Baldacci, David,

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  Amos Decker, a former professional football player turned detective possesses a unique ability after suffering a traumatic brain injury during his football career, which has left him with hyperthymesia (perfect recall) and synesthesia…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fortune Favors the Dead

  Spotswood, Stephen,

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  A circus runaway and a unorthodox, private investigator team up to solve crime.

• The Doorbell Rang

  Stout, Rex, 1886-1975,

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  Wolfe's deductive methods are meticulous, and he often employs unconventional tactics to solve cases. He is known for his love of gourmet food, particularly orchids and beer. He is assisted by his loyal and capable assistant, Archie…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Three Bags Full

  a Sheep Detective Story

  Swann, Leonie, 1975-

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  A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd.

• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

  Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001,

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  Dirk Gently, is a self-proclaimed holistic detective. Dirk believes in the interconnectedness of all things and approaches his cases with an unconventional methodology that often involves strange coincidences, time travel, and a healthy…Read moreRead more of this annotation