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International Mysteries Series
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Wife of the gods : a novel
by Kwei Quartey
Investigating the murder of an AIDS worker in an African community from which his mother went missing years earlier, Detective Inspector Darko Dawson collects details about the killing and realizes that he is close to solving the truth about his mother's disappearance.
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A beautiful place to die : a novel
by Malla Nunn
In 1952 South Africa, as apartheid laws are going into effect, English Detective Emmanuel Cooper's investigation into an Afrikaans police officer's murder is hampered by the Afrikaner Secret Police's campaign to capture black communist radicals.
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A Carrion Death
by Michael Stanley
In the aftermath of the murder of an anonymous victim, assistant superintendent David Bengu begins his career in Botswana, where his convivial passions and determined methods earn him a local nickname that likens him to a hippopotamus.
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Sworn to silence
by Linda Castillo
Kate Burkholder, a former Amish resident of Painters Mill, is returning as police chief sixteen years after a series of murders took place there, but when a new victim is found she struggles with a secret that could hurt her family
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The blessing way
by Tony Hillerman
Witchcraft seems to be involved in the death of a Navajo whose body has been found in Many Ruins Canyon, and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is charged with the task of solving the crime. Reissue.
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Still life
by Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Quebec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village
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Blood of the wicked
by Leighton Gage
Mario Silva, the Chief Inspector for Criminal Matters of the Federal Police of Brazil, along with his nephew Hector Costa, a fellow officer, investigates the assassination of a bishop in the remote town of Cascatas do Pontal
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Aunty Lee's delights
by Ovidia Yu
Occasional sleuth and proprietor of Singapore's best-loved home cooking restaurant, feisty widow Rosie "Aunty" Lee helps rookie Police Commissioner Raja investigate the murder of one of her wealthy patrons by using her connections and uncanny ability to track down clues.
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The coroner's lunch
by Colin Cotterill
Seventy-two-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, a coroner in Laos, confronts shamans, dreams, conversations with the dead, and an international cover-up, in his attempts to solve a series of murders of Vietnamese soldiers and the wife of a party leader
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The widows of Malabar Hill
by Sujata Massey
A debut entry in a new series by the Agatha Award-winning author of The Sleeping Dictionary introduces Bombay's first female lawyer, Oxford graduate Perveen Mistry, as she investigates a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in strict purdah seclusion who become subject to a murderous guardian's schemes for their inheritances.
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Bruno, chief of police
by Martin Walker
Meet Benoit Courréges, affectionately named Bruno, chief of police in a small village in the South of France where the rituals of the café still rule. A former soldier, Bruno has embraced the slow rhythms of country life. But the murder of an elderly North African who fought in the French army galvanizes his attention: the man had a swastika carved into his chest. When a visiting scholar helps untangle the dead man's past, Bruno's suspicions turn toward a motive more complex than hate, back to a tortured period of French history.
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Her Nightly Embrace
by Adi Tantimedh
A failed religious scholar working as a private detective at a London agency full of brilliant but quirky staff finds himself hallucinating visions of Hindu gods as he becomes involved in increasingly complex and crazy cases.
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In the woods
by Tana French
Twenty years after witnessing the violent disappearances of two companions from their small Dublin suburb, detective Rob Ryan investigates a chillingly similar murder that takes place in the same wooded area, a case that forces him to piece together his traumatic memories.
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Death at LA Fenice
by Donna Leon
Investigating the poisoning death of a world-renowned conductor, vice-commissario Guido Brunetti of Venice sifts through the dead man's many enemies, uncovering a life of depravity and revenge that makes Brunetti question his own morals.
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Endgame
by Altan Ahmet
A nameless novelist impulsively abandons city life for a small coastal Turkish town and falls immediately for the beautiful, evasive Zuhal, whose former lover is the all-powerful mayor. The village looks placid enough, but there's menace beneath the surface; the townsfolk avoid him, mafia-style killings are prevalent, and a buried treasure on the hill beckons.
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The kill artist : a novel
by Daniel Silva
A former Israeli intelligence operative, Gabriel Allon has devoted himself to art restoration since the murders of his wife and daughter, until Ari Shamron, the head of Israeli intelligence, calls on him to thwart a Palestinian plot to destroy the Middle East peace negotiations, a conspiracy linked to Tariq, a Palestinian zealot with lethal ties to Gabriel's own past.
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The bat
by Jo Nesbø
A first case starring the intrepid Oslo-based inspector from such internationally best-selling crime novels as The Redbreast and Nemesis follows Harry Hole's efforts to solve the murder of a television celebrity whose demise is linked to a string of serial killings.
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The ice princess : a novel
by Camilla Läckberg
After she returns to her small Swedish hometown to learn that her friend Alex was found in an ice-cold bath with her wrists slashed, Erica Falck researches her friend's past in hopes of writing a book and soon joins forces with Detective Patrik Hedstrom, who has his own suspicions about the case.
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Child 44
by Tom Rob Smith
Rising Soviet state security force officer Leo Demidov encounters the test of his career when a serial killer challenges his beliefs about the paradise of the working world, resulting in his demotion and threats against the lives of his family members. A first novel. Reprint. A best-selling novel.
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Red sparrow : a novel
by Jason Matthews
Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova is assigned to operate against first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash, with whom she engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers and the security of America's most valuable mole in Moscow.
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