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"First someone steals several valuable toy soldiers from the collection of a small liberal arts school located in the quiet town of Pecan City, Texas. The dean asks Carl Burns, Chair of the English Department, to look into things, which he does, reluctantly. When a college board member is shot and killed, it becomes clear there is a link between the stolen toys and the shooting."--Book jacket.

Learning that three instructors who were researching fractals have died under mysterious circumstances, fractal geometry professor Jane Smythe turns for help to former marine and private investigator Pepper Keane.

"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple...

When her friend Georgia Hallerbee asks Phyllis to have her house featured in the annual Christmas Jingle Bell Tour of Homes, Phyllis is equally flattered and flustered. She already has a bridal shower on Christmas Eve and a wedding on New Year's Eve to prepare for, and she's been baking gingerbread cookies as if they're going out of style. But like her tasty treats, she rises to the occasion. Before the tour can even get under way, Phyllis hears a...

When a man they discover suffering an apparent heart attack is later revealed to be a murder victim and a supporter of the University of Notre Dame, detectives Phil Knight and Jimmie Stewart learn that the man's rivals are on campus for the weekend.

"Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now she's the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior she's long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....

"Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the...

Sophisticated Sofia Desalvo, transformed into plain, ordinary English professor Elizabeth Stevens by the Witness Security Program, must testify against Frank Sullivan, the respected Lexington doctor accused of racketeering in a multi-state illegal gambling ring and murdering a Kentucky Derby-winning jockey. Until Frank Sullivan is convicted, she lives with a contract on her life. When two women close to Elizabeth are murdered, Sheriff Wilson Drake...

October, 1900. University College, London. When the spreadeagled body of one of her students is discovered in her rented room shortly after attending one of her lectures, Dr Margaret Murray is disinclined to accept the official verdict of suicide and determines to find out how and why the girl really died. As an archaeologist, Dr Murray is used to examining ancient remains, but she's never before had to investigate the circumstances surrounding a...