 | Blue Blood (Debutante Dropout Mysteries, No. 1) by Susan McBride
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st Debutant Dropout book. She's a webpage designer with a matchmaking mom who goes undercover to at a restaurant called "Jugs" (guess why) to save a friend from a murder rap. Wryly witty.
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 | Something from the Nightside (Nightside, Book 1) by Simon R. Green
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.85 1st in the Nightside series. Introduces PI John Taylor and the Nightside - London's magical and mysterious underbelly, where things strange and frightening, deadly and surreal live.
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 | In the Bleak Midwinter (A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery) by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st Clare Fergusson book. She's a newly-appointed Episcopalian priest, he's the married police chief & both get caught up in friendship and a mystery involving an abandoned baby & murder.
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 | How to Murder a Millionaire (Blackbird Sisters Mysteries, No. 1) by Nancy Martin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st Blackbird Sisters mystery. Marry a Blackbird sister & you're sure to wind up dead. Great series debut involving a debt-ridden society columnist, murder, mobsters & Philly high society.
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 | Burning Time (April Woo Suspense Novels) by Leslie Glass
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.01 1st in the April Woo series. She's a Chinese-American NYC detective who has to balance her job with the demands of her traditional parents. A really interesting character & a good mystery.
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 | Alien Taste (Ukiah Oregon, Book 1) by Wen Spencer
Buy used from: $2.31 1st in the Ukiah Oregon series. He's a PI/tracker based out of Pittsburgh, who was originally a feral child - or was he? Great characters. Read this!
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 | A Kiss of Shadows (Meredith Gentry, Book 1) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.47 1st in the Merry Gentry series. A tale of Faerie that's not a children's story. Political intrigue, magic, sex, assassination, mystery & romance are just some of the ingredients in this great debut.
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 | Killer Hair: A Crime of Fashion (Crime of Fashion Mystery) by Ellen Byerrum
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st Crime of Fashion mystery. She's a Washington DC fashion columnist who gets involved with murder investigation in order to placate her hair stylist. Nicely skewers the DC lifestyle.
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 | Mallory's Oracle (Kathleen Mallory Novels) by Carol O'Connell
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st in the Mallory series. She's an NYC police sergeant trying to solve her adopted father's murder. Her sociopathic tendencies are offset by her network of friends. Excellent series.
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 | Dhampir (Noble Dead) by Barb Hendee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st in the Dhampir series. She's half-vampire, he's half-elf, & they both think that they're just running scams on villagers, not knowing that they're involved in something much larger.
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 | Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries) by Linda Fairstein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st in the Alexandra Cooper series. She's a NYC Assistant DA & the top sex crimes prosecutor. Interesting slices of the NYC justice system as it handles crimes. Great secondary characters, good plots
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 | Sympathy for the Devil by Holly Lisle
Buy used from: $1.18 Book 1 of the Hell trilogy. Out of print but worth finding. What happens when God gives 50,000+ denizens of Hell a 2nd chance to repent, & sends them to North Carolina? Hilarious.
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 | The Fixer by John Merz
Buy used from: $18.65 1st in the Lawson Vampire series. Interesting premise that vampires are separate evolutionary strain. Lawson is the "Fixer" who enforces the Vampire Council's edicts. Interesting plots & characters
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 | Of Saints and Shadows (The Shadow Saga, Book 1) by Christopher Golden
Buy used from: $2.37 1st in the Shadow Saga. Begins the tale of the secret vampire culture and the religous organization that's sworn to eliminate them. Worth starting.
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 | Blood Is Thicker Than Water by Wynette A. Hoffman
Buy used from: $0.88 1st in the Reilly Vampire series. Vampire families and bloodlines, politics and vendettas, romance and sex, torture and death, magic and rebirth - an interesting series beginning.
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 | Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Book 1) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.39 1st in the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series. Even if you never read horror/fantasy, just try this and you'll be hooked. Excellent mix of mystery, sex, horror & romance. You MUST try it!
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 | The Unsung Hero (Troubleshooters, Book 1) by Suzanne Brockmann
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 1st in the Navy SEALs series. This is a great beginning to a romantic suspense series that is tracing the lives of members of a SEAL team. Great plots and characters. A keeper series.
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