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Some people need killing, but Derwood Flynn is retired and doesn't do that sort of thing anymore. He wants a quiet life, rebuilding the broken relationship with his teenage daughter. When a hurricane ravages the landscape and washes a murder victim from the failing dam of a local lake, Derwood teams with vivacious DA Maggie Kidd to uncover a decades-old conspiracy of death and deception. Set in small town rural North Carolina, The Body in the Dam...
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"A charming mystery." - Publishers Weekly on book one in the Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery series
It's springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an ancient Viking artifact. Soon after, people around are horrified by...
3) Pine Creek
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On a bitter winter's night in Pine Creek, central New South Wales, 14-year-old city boy Alec, tells his mother a secret before he goes to bed.It's the last time she will see him alive.In the weeks before, forbidden to go near the new neighbours, Sara is watching when Alec is threatened by a stranger, and later, when he meets secretly with someone familiar.When Alec goes missing, the incidents take on new significance, but in the menacing shadow of...
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An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape—from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.
One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day—and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks.
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Second book in a New Series for those who love traditional mysteries!
FANS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES -- AND ALL MYSTERY LOVERS -- REJOICE
FATHER OF LIES is the second in an exciting new series taken directly from newly-discovered files of John H. Watson, M.D., friend, biographer and colleague of England's legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes. When his brother Mycroft disappears, Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the most thrilling case of his career, one that...
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In the first adventure, that of Charles Agustus Milverton, Homes has to deal with the most loathsome man he has ever known and actually invite him to his flat to negotiate no matter how repulsive this is to holmes' feelings. Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer: Milverton, who causes Holmes more revulsion than any of the 50-odd murderers in his career. Milverton is "the king of blackmailers"....
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 4
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A wealthy general dies in his club, surrounded by fellow veterans, and Lord Peter must battle to solve the case. Even the Bellona Club's most devoted members would never call it lively. Its atmosphere is that of a morgue, or, at best, a funeral parlor, and on Armistice Day the gloom is only heightened. Veterans of the Great War gather at the Bellona not to hash over old victories, but to stare into their whiskies and complain about old injuries, shrinking...
10) The Big Four
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 4
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Embark on a riveting literary journey with Agatha Christie's "The Big Four," a captivating novel that takes the celebrated detective Hercule Poirot beyond the familiar terrain of conventional murder mysteries. In this enthralling tale, Poirot and his steadfast companion, Captain Hastings, are drawn into the mysterious web of a powerful and elusive criminal organization known only as "The Big Four."
The story unfolds against the backdrop of an international...
11) Eight Days
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Eight Days: a thrilling British mystery with twists up to the last page...
After nearly a year out of the game, former soldier turned private detective John "Slim" Hardy takes what he hopes will be an easy comeback case in the quiet Devonshire town of Launceston. The disappearance in mysterious circumstances of local schoolgirl Emily Martin left police clueless. After being missing for eight days, her sudden reappearance left them equally baffled....
12) The Last Lie
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A string of poisonings. A trial by gunpoint. Meeting her deadline is a matter of life and death...
Investigative journalist Andrea Kellner never lets anything get between her and her next scoop. So when, a grief-stricken man crashes a charity gala and demands answers for his daughter's death, Andrea knows it's her duty to investigate. But, she never expected him to point the blame, and his gun, at her date and his energy drink empire.
When Andrea's...
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Attempting to forget his problems with the bottle, former soldier turned private detective John "Slim" Hardy joins what ought to be a peaceful fishing package holiday in Dartmouth, South Devon. But when a violent tragedy affects one of the other tour guests, Slim finds himself on the trail of a potential killer.
Set in the beautiful surrounds of the River Dart estuary and Agatha Christie's Greenway, The Angler's Tale will take Slim Hardy into places...
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MANAGING AN HOA IS MURDER....
He championed shooting deer inside the HOA's nature sanctuary. Now his corpse is, posed curbside, cradling a trophy deer head. The theatrical murder panics residents, and Ted Welch asks Kylee Kane, retired Coast Guard investigator, to help his HOA management firm calm fears. Kylee agrees. Her own mother is getting death threats over her crusade to protect the deer.
HOA=DOA TERROR REIGNS...
When a belligerent owner...
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On a reluctant visit to her painfully respectable brother and his wife, Angela Marchmont finds herself once again caught up in murder when a local farmer is shot dead, apparently at the hands of his sworn enemy. But the case is not as simple as it seems, for other motives and suspects soon come to light. With reporters hot on the scent and her friend Inspector Jameson battling a conflict of interest, Angela must use all her ingenuity to unravel the...
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«Abril Nace en Enero» es una fascinante novela de intriga, protagonizada por dos adolescentes: Gabriela Hoffman, única heredera de un imperio financier, y su compañera de clase, Abril Santamaría, una joven pobre, que vive en un barrio obrero, perdió a su papá en un accidente y su mamá es alcohólica.
Abril asiste a ese colegio de élite gracias a una beca caritativa, que le impone como condición, no develar jamás ni su clase social, ni su...
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Real estate rule #1: A dead body creates buzz. A dead body in a house for sale is never the buzz you want.
It isn't the first time real estate agent Helen Morrisey has found someone naked in bed while showing a house. But this one is different. One glance at the bluish cast around his lips and the vacant, staring eyes, and Helen knows developer Al Capelli is never going to sign another sales agreement.
His death is big news for a small Chesapeake...
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Ulysses Walker, Sheriff of Taos County, is facing a tough re-election campaign against a well-funded opponent when a respected historian and acequiero. The murder looks like a dispute over shared irrigation water at first. But after two more murders the sheriff uncovers a web of corruption born out of New Mexico's troubled history. Sheriff Walker, with help from Ray Pando, Picuris Tribal Council Member, and LizBeth Tallichet of the FBI, must battle...
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South Regent Mansions has all the modern conveniences . . . including murder London, February, 1924. Discreet sleuth for the high society set, Olive Belgrave is delighted with her new flat at South Regent Mansions where she's made several friends, including the modern career woman, Minerva, who draws a popular cartoon about a flapper for a London newspaper.But then Minerva comes to Olive for help after catching a glimpse of a disturbing sight-a dead...
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A cold-blooded killer lurks in the luxurious winter wonderland of St. Moritz . . . Switzerland, 1924. Lady sleuth Olive Belgrave is set to enjoy a holiday of ice-skating and snowshoeing in the glamorous alpine setting of St. Moritz, but her plans are rudely interrupted when an unfortunate accident takes place. It quickly becomes clear that the tragic event was a carefully concealed murder. Olive isn't one to shy away from a challenge, and with her...
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