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Books in Thorndike Mystery series

  • A Rule Against Murder

    Louise Penny

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, July 1, 2009)
    It is the height of summer, and Armand Gamache and his wife are celebrating their wedding anniversary at an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. But they're not alone. The Finney family--rich, cultured, and respectable--has also arrived for a celebration of their own...As the heat rises and the humidity closes in, some surprising guests turn up at the Finney reunion...and a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body. Now it's up to Chief Inspector Gamache to unearth long-buried secrets and hatreds hidden behind polite smiles. The chase takes him to Three Pines--into the dark corners of his own life, and finally to a harrowing climax.
  • The Highwayman

    Craig Johnson

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, June 8, 2016)
    Longmire and Henry Standing Bear assist newly transferred officer Rosey Wayman, who has been receiving assistance calls from a legendary Arapaho patrolman who died in a fiery canyon accident more nearly half a century earlier. By the best-selling author of Dry Bones. (mystery & detective). Simultaneous. TV tie-in.
  • Aunt Dimity And The Buried Treasure

    Nancy Atherton

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press Large Print, June 8, 2016)
    Discovering a beautiful garnet bracelet belonging to Aunt Dimity, Lori learns the story of a doomed love affair from Dimity's youth and is asked to return the bracelet to a long-ago suitor, an endeavor that is complicated by the arrival of a family of metal detectors who link the bracelet to a lost national treasure. (mystery & detective). Simultaneous.
  • Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

    Donna Andrews

    Hardcover (Thorndike Press, July 2, 2003)
    Agatha and Anthony Award-winning Author Switchboard operator is not what Meg had in mind when she agreed to help her brother. The office atmosphere is so loony that the mail cart makes several passes -- practical joker lying on top pretending to be dead -- before Meg realizes he's been murdered.