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Intuition Intuition Allegra Goodman When the experiments in a cancer research lab by Cliff Bannaker begin to produce encouraging results, suggesting the very real possibility of a major breakthrough, the entire lab is excited. But jeal… OL111411W
The Night Climbers The Night Climbers Ivo Stourton When James Walker first arrives at Tudor College, Cambridge, he is anxious to find his place among new friends. By accident, he encounters one of the Tudor Night Climbers, a secretive and eccentric c… OL17405016W
Young Junius Young Junius Seth Harwood Trying to find his brother's killer, fourteen-year-old Junius Posey refuses to go on the run after he commits a murder to protect his friend and tries to survive amidst drug dealers and a crew gunnin… OL17421044W
Port mortuary Port mortuary Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering the art of 'virtual autopsy' - a groundbreaking procedure that could soon revolutionise forensic science. And it is not too long … OL17736081W
Rustication Rustication Charles Palliser "It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down--'rusticated'--from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temp… OL17825088W
Breakfast with Scot Breakfast with Scot Michael Downing When Scot's mother dies, Sam and Ed, although childless and enjoying it, decide to take him in, only to get more than they bargained for when Scot reveals his love of feather boas and expresses his d… OL18169243W
While I was gone While I was gone Sue Miller Having moved on with her life after a friend was brutally murdered, Jo Becker is now married with a grown family, but when an old housemate moves into the neighborhood, Jo rekindles a relationship th… OL18183241W
Harvard Square Harvard Square André Aciman An Egyptian-Jewish Harvard graduate student trying to assimilate into American culture in 1977 befriends an impetuous, loud Arab cab driver and must choose between his dream or his friend. This is a… OL19671108W
Ruffly speaking : a dog lover's mystery Ruffly speaking : a dog lover's mystery Susan Conant Holly Winter, a columnist for "Dog's Life" and a canine-loving detective, becomes acquainted with a hearing dog that uncovers a past murder OL19818766W
Dust Dust Patricia Cornwell After working on one of the worst mass killings in US history, Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta returns home to recover, but an unsettling call drives her straight back to work. The body of a you… OL20833685W
Port mortuary Port mortuary Patricia Cornwell Kay Scarpetta has been training at the Dover Port Mortuary, mastering a groundbreaking forensic procedure. And it is not long before these new skills need to be put into practice. A young man drops d… OL20848347W
Paws before dying Paws before dying Susan Conant When Rose Engleman is found dead after a thunderstorm, lightning is blamed. But soon Holly Winter starts to think it wasn't an act of God that killed the elderly woman. Was it an act of vengeance? Je… OL21202780W
The End of an Error The End of an Error Mameve Medwed Lee Emery is an empty nester, contentedly married to a man she has known forever and hunkering down in the house where she grew up. She believes she is happy occupying such a familiar emotional and p… OL23124W
A bite of death A bite of death Susan Conant Holly Winter had her hands full with one dog. Still, when therapist Elaine Walsh is found dead, Holly eagerly adopts the orphaned Kimi-and vows to teach her some manners. But when questions arise abo… OL25071714W
Evil breeding Evil breeding Susan Conant Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter has just landed a plum contract to write a book on Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's legendary pre-World War II dog shows. Holly arranges to interview one of the last li… OL41440W
The transcendental murder The transcendental murder Jane Langton The peaceful town of Concord, Massachusetts, is best known as the birthplace of the American Revolution and the home of the Transcendentalists—Thoreau, Emerson, and the Alcotts. Then some letters sur… OL84969W
Murder at the Gardner Murder at the Gardner Jane Langton What does Homer Kelly (an ex-detective, now a professor) know about art? Nothing at all. And therefore, when Titus Moon, the new young director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, invites Homer t… OL84970W
The advocate's devil The advocate's devil Alan M. Dershowitz From the legal tactician who has represented such famous clients as Mike Tyson, O.J. Simpson, and Michael Milken, comes a novel that goes far beyond the limits of the courtroom thriller to probe our … OL86398W
The Night Climbers The Night Climbers Ivo Stourton Reminiscent of Donna Tartt, a circle of friends at Cambridge form a private club that scales the university colleges by night, until one day they take their daredevil activities one step too far . . … OL8755884W