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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
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3.82 avg rating — 182,213 ratings
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One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 586,397 ratings
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, #1)
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4.04 avg rating — 89,575 ratings
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
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3.93 avg rating — 126,568 ratings
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A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)
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4.09 avg rating — 149,542 ratings
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Murder with Peacocks (Meg Langslow, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 14,456 ratings
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The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)
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4.15 avg rating — 122,439 ratings
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Her Royal Spyness (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 42,572 ratings
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| 9 |
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Bootlegger's Daughter (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 7,727 ratings
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| 10 |
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Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 22,823 ratings
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| 11 |
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A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 53,191 ratings
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| 12 |
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Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 24,180 ratings
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| 13 |
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A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)
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4.21 avg rating — 113,479 ratings
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| 14 |
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The Brutal Telling (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #5)
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4.23 avg rating — 100,438 ratings
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Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
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4.35 avg rating — 101,594 ratings
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| 16 |
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The Last Camel Died at Noon (Amelia Peabody, #6)
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4.20 avg rating — 18,588 ratings
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| 17 |
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Murphy's Law (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 19,891 ratings
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| 18 |
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The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog (Amelia Peabody, #7)
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4.22 avg rating — 15,166 ratings
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| 19 |
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Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon (Meg Langslow, #4)
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4.07 avg rating — 5,860 ratings
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Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs, #3)
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4.10 avg rating — 43,711 ratings
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| 21 |
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A Royal Pain (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 22,784 ratings
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| 22 |
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The Killings at Badger's Drift (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #1)
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3.96 avg rating — 14,019 ratings
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| 23 |
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Thyme of Death (China Bayles, #1)
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3.83 avg rating — 9,291 ratings
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| 24 |
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We'll Always Have Parrots (Meg Langslow, #5)
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4.05 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
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Six Geese A-Slaying (Meg Langslow, #10)
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4.04 avg rating — 5,123 ratings
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| 26 |
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Fool's Puzzle (Benni Harper, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 5,529 ratings
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| 27 |
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Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 53,615 ratings
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| 28 |
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Bookplate Special (Booktown Mystery #3)
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3.81 avg rating — 6,921 ratings
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| 29 |
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The Potter's Field (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #17)
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4.13 avg rating — 6,690 ratings
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I Shall Not Want (Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries, #6)
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4.19 avg rating — 6,986 ratings
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| 31 |
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If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him... (Elizabeth MacPherson #8)
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3.83 avg rating — 2,495 ratings
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A Beautiful Blue Death (Charles Lenox Mysteries, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 18,460 ratings
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| 33 |
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In the Bleak Midwinter (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 18,097 ratings
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| 33 |
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The Salaryman's Wife (Rei Shimura, #1)
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3.61 avg rating — 3,899 ratings
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| 35 |
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Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia Grey, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 28,208 ratings
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| 36 |
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The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 35,074 ratings
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| 37 |
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Seeing a Large Cat (Amelia Peabody, #9)
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4.23 avg rating — 12,570 ratings
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| 38 |
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Buckingham Palace Gardens (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #25)
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3.94 avg rating — 4,145 ratings
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The Virgin of Small Plains
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3.87 avg rating — 7,269 ratings
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Kansas Troubles (Benni Harper, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
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| 41 |
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Goose in the Pond (Benni Harper, #4)
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4.01 avg rating — 2,214 ratings
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| 42 |
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Owls Well That Ends Well (Meg Langslow, #6)
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4.03 avg rating — 5,672 ratings
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The Cold Light of Mourning (A Penny Brannigan Mystery, #1)
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3.67 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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| 44 |
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She Walks These Hills (Ballad, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 4,476 ratings
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| 45 |
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He Shall Thunder in the Sky (Amelia Peabody, #12)
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4.36 avg rating — 12,070 ratings
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| 46 |
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A Share in Death (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 21,790 ratings
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| 47 |
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In the Shadow of Gotham (Simon Ziele, #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 4,115 ratings
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| 48 |
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The Ape Who Guards the Balance (Amelia Peabody, #10)
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4.20 avg rating — 12,255 ratings
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| 49 |
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The Long Quiche Goodbye (A Cheese Shop Mystery, #1)
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3.64 avg rating — 3,634 ratings
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Royal Flush (Her Royal Spyness Mysteries, #3)
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3.99 avg rating — 18,905 ratings
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| 51 |
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Slow Dollar (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #9)
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4.05 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
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Swan for the Money (Meg Langslow, #11)
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4.06 avg rating — 4,103 ratings
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Southern Discomfort (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 3,637 ratings
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Dreaming of the Bones (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #5)
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4.09 avg rating — 11,368 ratings
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Death of Riley (Molly Murphy Mysteries, #2)
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3.97 avg rating — 11,304 ratings
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High Country Fall (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #10)
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4.07 avg rating — 2,644 ratings
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| 57 |
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Elegy for Eddie (Maisie Dobbs, #9)
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4.04 avg rating — 26,065 ratings
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The Penguin Who Knew Too Much (Meg Langslow, #8)
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4.01 avg rating — 5,122 ratings
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Witch Way to Murder (Ophelia & Abby, #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 4,519 ratings
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Mardi Gras Murder (Cajun Country Mystery, #4)
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4.05 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
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Murder Knocks Twice (Speakeasy Mystery #1)
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3.73 avg rating — 756 ratings
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All Mortal Flesh (The Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 7,477 ratings
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Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs, #4)
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4.02 avg rating — 34,956 ratings
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S'Mores Can Be Deadly (Dangerous Pastimes Book 2)
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4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Posed for Murder
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3.44 avg rating — 110 ratings
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| 66 |
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Blanche on the Lam (Blanche White, #1)
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3.76 avg rating — 5,336 ratings
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Guidance to Death (Frank Adams Detective series Book 1)
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4.69 avg rating — 265 ratings
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| 68 |
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The Scent of Rain and Lightning
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3.82 avg rating — 19,824 ratings
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| 69 |
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The Golden One (Amelia Peabody, #14)
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4.20 avg rating — 9,518 ratings
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| 70 |
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The Semester of Our Discontent (Lila Maclean Academic Mystery #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 621 ratings
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| 71 |
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Beyond the Truth (Detective Byron, #3)
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4.40 avg rating — 671 ratings
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| 72 |
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Dandy Gilver and The Reek of Red Herrings (Dandy Gilver, #9)
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3.67 avg rating — 501 ratings
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| 73 |
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Cry Wolf (Zoe Chambers Mysteries #7)
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4.43 avg rating — 435 ratings
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| 74 |
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Murder in G Major (Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 3,270 ratings
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Death Al Dente (A Food Lovers' Village Mystery, #1)
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3.56 avg rating — 1,976 ratings
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Death Comes As Epiphany (Catherine LeVendeur, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 2,073 ratings
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Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
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4.32 avg rating — 76,887 ratings
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Trust Me
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3.38 avg rating — 4,346 ratings
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| 79 |
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Fatal Cajun Festival (Cajun Country Mystery, #5)
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4.10 avg rating — 1,377 ratings
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The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline (Enola Holmes, #5)
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4.11 avg rating — 14,222 ratings
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| 81 |
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Up Jumps the Devil (Deborah Knott Mystery, #4)
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4.02 avg rating — 2,933 ratings
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| 81 |
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Murder at the Mena House (A Jane Wunderly Mystery #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 6,852 ratings
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| 83 |
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Home Fires (Deborah Knott Mysteries, #6)
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4.04 avg rating — 2,612 ratings
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| 83 |
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Behind the Curtain (Echo Falls, #2)
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3.90 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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| 85 |
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Murder on Union Square (Gaslight Mystery, #21)
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3.85 avg rating — 3,760 ratings
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| 86 |
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Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding (Her Royal Spyness, #12)
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4.18 avg rating — 11,948 ratings
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| 87 |
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Death Dances to a Reggae Beat (Kelly Ryan #1)
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3.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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| 88 |
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Arkansas Traveler (Benni Harper, #8)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,893 ratings
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| 89 |
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The Diva Runs Out of Thyme (A Domestic Diva Mystery, #1)
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3.90 avg rating — 9,023 ratings
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| 90 |
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Zero at the Bone
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3.84 avg rating — 362 ratings
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| 90 |
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Sympathy for the Devil (Madeline Bean, #1)
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3.69 avg rating — 586 ratings
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| 92 |
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A Murder of Quality (George Smiley, #2)
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3.67 avg rating — 26,945 ratings
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| 93 |
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For Better, for Murder (Broken Vows, #1)
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3.63 avg rating — 283 ratings
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Air Time (Charlotte McNally, #3)
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3.86 avg rating — 390 ratings
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| 95 |
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From Beer to Eternity (Chloe Jackson, Sea Glass Saloon Mystery #1)
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3.99 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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| 96 |
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Talking About Detective Fiction
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3.77 avg rating — 2,309 ratings
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| 97 |
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The Gold Pawn (Art Deco Mystery, #2)
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3.82 avg rating — 211 ratings
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| 98 |
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Learning to Swim (Troy Chance, #1)
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3.75 avg rating — 8,304 ratings
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| 99 |
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Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)
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4.33 avg rating — 84,956 ratings
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| 100 |
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The Long Way Home (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #10)
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4.07 avg rating — 83,916 ratings
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Is this for Best First Novel, or for all the Agathas?
For all the agathas. Good point though. I thought I could add more books, but was limited to 100. Maybe I should edit it to be first book?
Or you could just rely on others to complete the list by and by ...? :)
