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Overboard
by Sara Paretsky
Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious
conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this
thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky.
Told against the backdrop of a city emerging from its pandemic lockdown, Overboard lays bare the dark secrets and corruption
buried in Chicago’s neighborhoods in masterly fashion.
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The vanishing type / : A Charming
Bookish Cozy Mystery
by Ellery Adams
Book store owner Nora Pennington helps Deputy Andrews plan a wedding proposal for his intended bride, Hester, and suddenly
notices that all her shop's copies of The Scarlet Letter have been vandalized, in the fifth novel of the series.
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The chase
by Candice Fox
Escaping prison along with 650 of the world’s most violent
criminals, John Kradle uses this opportunity to prove his innocence
in the murder of his wife and daughter, going up against a death
row supervisor turned fugitive hunter who has personal reasons for hating him.
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Death by chocolate chip cupcake
by Sarah Graves
Bakery owners Jake and Ellie cater a glamorous housewarming
party and investigate after witnessing one of the guests being
shoved off a nearby cliff, in the fifth novel of the tasty mystery
series following Death by Chocolate Snickerdoodle.
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The sacred bridge
by Anne Hillerman
Sergeant Jim Chee, after visiting the sacred Rainbow bridge,
investigates the death of a Navajo artist, putting his own life at
risk, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito searches for the killer of
a hitchhiker connected to a Navajo Nation cannabis enterprise.
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Three debts paid
by Anne Perry
While defending his former university professor charged with
assault, young barrister Daniel Pitt works with pathologist Miriam
Croft investigating a serial killer who only seems to kill on rainy days,
a case that makes him question everything.
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The investigator
by John Sandford
Working with Homeland Security in Texas to investigate the thefts
of crude oil, Letty Davenport, the brilliant and tenacious daughter of Lucas Davenport, is pitted against a militia group as the case quickly turns deadly.
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Fierce poison
by Will Thomas
Following the death of a client in his own office, Private Enquiry
agent Cyrus Barker investigates a poisoner on the loose in 1893
London in the latest addition to the series following
Dance with Death.
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Murder at the Porte de Versailles
by Cara Black
When her friend Michou’s partner is accused of bombing the
police laboratory, Parisian PI Aimée Leduc, in an effort to prove
his innocence, is drawn into a dangerous world of political intrigue
and terrorist threats linked to a cold case of her father’s.
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A harmless lie: a novel
by Sara Blædel
Sara Blaedel's runaway #1 Danish bestselling crime novel featuring police investigator Louise Rick is a perfect new entry point to the series that first launched in the US with the bestselling and award-winning novel The Forgotten Girls.
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Wild Irish rose
by Rhys Bowen
In 1907, after helping distribute clothing to those in need on
Ellis Island, Molly discovers, through her policeman husband, that a murder occurred on the island that day and the suspect is the
spitting image of her and feels strongly that fate wants her to clear
this woman’s name.
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Shadows reel
by C. J. Box
Game warden Joe Pickett, while dealing with the brutal murder
of a fishing guide, must help his wife solve a mystery involving
a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi officer, placing
them in the crosshairs of a killer.
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The heron's cry
by Ann Cleeves
While looking into the murder of Dr. Nigel Yeo, who was
investigating the suicide of a young man who was a member
of chilling online group, Detective Matthew Venn, as the body
count rises, must wade through the lies at the heart of his
community.
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Murder in the Park
by Jeanne M. Dams
In 1925, widow Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life with her parents
in genteel Oak Park village, Illinois, until she investigates the murder
of her friend, an antiques store owner, drawing unwanted attention in this town that is no longer the safe haven it once was.
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Death at high tide
by Hannah Dennison
Death at High Tide is the delightful first installment in the Island
Sisters series by Hannah Dennison, featuring two sisters who inherit
an old hotel in the remote Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall and find it full of intrigue, danger, and romance.
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A Relative Murder
by Jude Deveraux
The Medlar Three unexpectedly reenter sleuthing when Kate
discovers a dead body with a connection to a charming, new real
estate client with a mysterious past in the fourth novel of the series following A Forgotten Murder.
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Knitty gritty murder
by Peggy Ehrhart
When Jenny, a farm-to-table enthusiast, is found strangled by a
circular knitting needle, cutting her blossoming career short, Pamela
and her neighbor Bettina must unravel the clues to catch a crafty
killer among a crop of suspects that keep popping up like weeds.
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The recovery agent
by Janet Evanovich
A #1 New York Times best-selling author returns with the launch
of a new series that blends wild adventure, appealing characters,
and humor.
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Give unto others
by Donna Leon
As a favor Brunetti investigates the accountant son-in-law of his
mother’s friend after he alarmed the family by suggesting they
might be in danger because of his line of work in the latest novel
of the series following Transient Desires.
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Death by Tart Attack
by Tamar Myers
While most of the Hernia community is reeling at the prospect of
a giant, bible-themed amusement park being built nearby, someone
is opposed enough to poison the developer in the latest novel of the series following Mean and Shellfish.
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Citizen K-9 : A K Team Novel
by David Rosenfelt
Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, German Shepherd Simon
Garfunkel, investigate the cold case of a person who vanished
from a 10th high school reunion in the third a novel of the series following Animal Instinct.
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Nine lives : a novel
by Peter Swanson
When nine people, including FBI agent Jessica Winslow, receive a
cryptic list with their names on it, they dismiss it as a joke, until
bad things start happening, prompting Jessica to find the link that
binds them all together to expose a murderous madman.
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A Sunlit Weapon
by Jacqueline Winspear
Masie Dobbs, a psychologist and investigator in 1942 London, investigates the death of a female ferry pilot and two kidnapped American servicemen in the latest novel of the best-selling series following The Consequences of Fear.
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Death of a green-eyed monster
by M. C Beaton
Sergeant Hamish Macbeth’s wedding plans with Constable Dorothy McIver are suddenly at risk when a murder is uncovered in the
Scottish town of Lochdubh in the latest novel of the series
following Death of an Honest Man.
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Magic in the weave
by Alys Clare
October, 1604. Plague has hit London, and the theatres are closed. But the capital's loss is Plymouth's gain, when a London theatre troupe, the Company, arrive on their 'Plague Tour'. Country physician Gabriel Taverner is both bewitched and unnerved by the Company's sexually charged staging of Othello. But then one of the actors collapses, and Gabriel finds himself caught in a waking nightmare, where nothing is as it appears. Death is stalking the Company - but how can Gabriel hope to catch a cold-blooded killer, if he can't even trust the evidence of his own eyes?
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Finlay Donovan knocks 'em dead
by Elle Cosimano
Struggling novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan uncovers a
world of Russian mobsters and assassins disguised as soccer moms
in an effort to keep her ex-husband safe, in the follow-up to Finlay Donovan is Killing It.
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Caramel pecan roll murder
by Joanne Fluke
Baker Hannah Swensen agrees to help bake pastries at a local inn
during a flashy fishing competition but investigates when the event’s celebrity spokesperson is found dead in the latest addition to the
series following Chocolate Cream Pie Murder.
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Nothing to lose
by Judith A. Jance
Twenty years after he lost his partner Susan to her husband’s
murderous rage, Beau, when Susan’s son needs his help, is drawn
into a missing persons case, becoming tangled in a web of family
secrets where a killer with nothing left to lose waits to take another
life.
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City of the dead
by Jonathan Kellerman
Court-consulting child psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide
detective Milo Sturgis unravel a baffling mystery after a naked
corpse in the street leads to the discovery of another murder,
in the latest novel of the long-running series following Serpentine.
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Homicide and halo-halo
by Mia P. Manansala
Upon opening her new café, Lila Macapagal stumbles into unpleasantness when the head judge of a local beauty pageant
is murdered and her cousin becomes the main suspect, in the
second novel of the series following Arsenic and Adobo.
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Abandoned in death
by J. D. Robb
Homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates after a woman’s body is
found on a city playground bench holding a sign reading
“bad mommy” in the newest novel of the long-running series
following Forgotten in Death.
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The Other Family
by Wendy Corsi Staub
Moving into a brownstone that was the site of triple homicide that remains unsolved, the Howell family are plagued by strange events linked to a dark secret one of them is hiding that will blindside the
others when exposed.
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A game of fear : an Inspector Ian
Rutledge mystery
by Charles Todd
Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates when the lady at a grand
manor claims she witnessed a violent murder, but no blood or
body can be found in the latest installment of the best-selling series following A Fatal Lie.
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Show Me the Bunny
by Laurien Berenson
When Beatrice Gallagher, the well-respected benefactor of a
new women’s shelter, is murdered, Melanie Travis discovers that
Beatrice wasn’t the warm and generous philanthropist she appeared
to be and must expose her true nature to identify a vengeful killer.
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Find me
by Alafair Burke
A Manhattan defense lawyer searches for her missing best friend,
a person who never recovered from amnesia after an accident, with
the help of a homicide detective who thinks the disappearance might
be related to a cold case.
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A Deadly Affair : Unexpected Love Stories from the Queen of Mystery
by Agatha Christie
Love can propel us to our greatest heights...and darkest depths. In
this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark
side of love - crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all on the ready to solve a tantalizing mystery.
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Something to hide : a Lynley novel
by Elizabeth George
When a police detective is murdered, Detective Inspector Thomas
Lynley becomes embroiled in a case that has far-reaching cultural associations that have nothing to do with life as he knows it as he pursues a killer determined to remain hidden.
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The Department of Rare Books and
Special Collections : a novel
by Eva Jurczyk
Working in the rare books department of a large university, Liesl
Weiss discovers that a priceless book has gone missing as well as
the librarian, and, investigating both disappearances, learns a
shocking truth that shakes the very foundation on which she
has built her life.
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Disappearance of a Scribe
by Dana Stabenow
After two Alexandrian fishermen discover a skeleton anchored
by a cement weight, Queen Cleopatra charges Tetisheri, her new
Eye of Isis, to uncover the identities of the victim and the killers,
in the follow-up to Death of an Eye.
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No memes of escape
by Olivia Blacke
When a girl’s day out Escape Room adventure ends in murder,
amateur sleuth Odessa Dean, while dealing with shifts at the café,
social media and apartment hunting, must clear her and her friends’ names before time runs out.
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Autopsy : a Scarpetta novel
by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
New chief medical examiner and forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta
is given a highly classified case involving two scientists who were
found dead on a private space laboratory in the latest addition to
the series following Chaos.
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The midnight lock
by Jeffery Deaver
When he is fired as a consultant for the NYPD, Lincoln Rhyme
decides to risk jail to solve a case involving “the Locksmith”—a sociopathic intruder who can break through any lock or security
system ever devised, terrorizing the entire city.
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The Midnight Hour
by Elly Griffiths
Newly minted PI Emma Holmes, while investigating the murder of
retired music-hall star Verity Malone’s husband, discovers they have
a mutual connection—a man who is married to a Hollywood star
who could blow this case wide open, but who could also be the killer.
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Family Business
by S. J. Rozan
The death of a powerful Chinatown crime boss thrusts private eye
Lydia Chin and her partner Bill Smith into a storm of double-dealing, subterfuge, murder, and New York City real estate scandal.
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As the wicked watch
by Tamron Hall
After moving from Texas to Chicago, a crime reporter becomes
frustrated with the lack of coverage of a series of murders of black women in the first novel of a new series from the Emmy
Award-winning journalist.
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The corpse flower : a novel
by Anne Mette Hancock
Danish journalist Heloise Kaldan is drawn into a nightmare when
she begins receiving letter from a woman police believe is a killer,
forcing her to revisit the darkest parts of her own past to confront someone she swore she’d never see again.
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Five Decembers
by James Kestrel
As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor
in December 1941, Honolulu police detective Joe McGrady is
assigned to a homicide case that will take him across the pacific
and change his life forever.
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Silver tears
by Camilla Läckberg
In this riveting novel of seduction, deceit and female power, three generations of women, who have survived in hiding from the men
who sought to destroy them, find that secrets always end in tears.
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The Joy and Light Bus Company
by Alexander McCall Smith
While enjoying all that life has to offer with her loving family,
good friends and a thriving business doing what she enjoys most—helping people, Mma Ramotswe finds herself up to her neck in mysterious trouble.
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The dark remains : Laidlaw's first case
by William McIlvanney
In this crime prequel, two crime writers team up for the first ever
case of D.I. Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective who is
standing in the midst of gangs, organized crime bosses, crooked politicians, corrupt police and innocent battlers caught in the crossfire.
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The shadows of men : a novel
by Abir Mukherjee
Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his
home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can the officers
of the Imperial Police Force--Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant "Surrender-Not" Banerjee--track down those responsible in time to
stop a bloodbath?
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Grave reservations : a novel
by Cherie Priest
A psychic with scattershot, inconsistent abilities, Leda Foley,
joins forces with a Seattle PD detective, Grady Merritt, whom she accidentally saved from a doomed flight, to solve a cold case and
catch a killer.
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The Secret, Book & Scone Society
by Ellery Adams
First in the mystery series from the New York Times-bestselling
author. A quirky club in small-town North Carolina holds the keys
to health, happiness, friendship—and even solving a murder—
all to be found within the pages of the right book.
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The whispered word
by Ellery Adams
Nora Pennington and her fiction-loving friends in small-town Miracle Springs, North Carolina, encounter a young woman desperately in need of a new beginning. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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God rest ye, royal gentlemen
by Rhys Bowen
Spending Christmas at Sandringham estate with an aunt who has ties
to the royals, Georgie is distraught when she learns the Queen expects her to spy for her in the newest novel of the series following The Last Mrs. Summers.
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Riccardino
by Andrea Camilleri
In the last novel in the New York Times bestselling Inspector
Montalbano series, Montalbano finds a strange murder
investigation further complicated by phone calls from “the Author.”
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Twisted tea Christmas
by Laura Childs
While catering a Victorian Christmas party for Drucilla Heyward,
one of the wealthiest women in town who is about to make a huge announcement, tea maven Theodosia Browning finds herself steeped
in murder when she stumbles upon Drucilla’s dead body.
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Arsenic and adobo
by Mia P. Manansala
Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant,
Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously
nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a
confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
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Hitting the books
by Jenn McKinlay
When a stack of library materials is found at the scene of a hit and
run, library director Lindsey Norris finds herself dragged into the investigation as the police try to link the driver of the stolen car to
the person who borrowed the books. Before Lindsey can delve into
the library's records, the victim of the hit and run, Theresa Houston, suffers another "accident" and the investigation shifts from driver negligence to attempted homicide.
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Rizzio
by Denise Mina
In this radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in
Scottish history, the New York Times bestselling author revisits
the brutal murder of David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary,
Queen of Scots, telling the infamous story as it was never told before.
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The Jealousy Man and Other Stories
by Jo Nesbo
The New York Times bestselling master of suspense presents this
unique and unnerving collection of stories rife with insatiable greed, devious lovers and heartrending fate.
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Murder in an Irish pub
by Carlene O'Connor
A poker tournament in the small village of Kilbane in County Cork
is drawing players from across the country, but none more famous
than Eamon Foley. A tinker out of Dublin, he’s called the Octopus for playing like he has eight hands under the table. But when Foley is
found at the end of a rope, swinging from the rafters of Rory Mack’s
pub, it’s time for the garda to take matters into their own hands.
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Miss Kopp investigates
by Amy Stewart
To help support her recently widowed sister-in-law and her children,
as well as her own sisters, Fleurette Kopp takes on some disreputable legal work that is both exciting and lucrative. Inconviently, she
uncovers a much larger crime that puts her in the unlikely position
of amateur detective.
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The book of candlelight
by Ellery Adams
The owner of a local book store finds an old diary that somehow
holds a clue to several recent, suspicious deaths in her small town
in the latest addition to the series following The Whispered Word.
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The heron's cry
by Ann Cleeves
While looking into the murder of Dr. Nigel Yeo, who was
investigating the suicide of a young man who was a member
of chilling online group, Detective Matthew Venn, as the body
count rises, must wade through the lies at the heart of his
community.
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Daughter of the morning star
by Craig Johnson
After a Native high school basketball star whose sister disappeared begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long, Absaroka
County Sheriff Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear investigate
in the latest novel of the series following Next to Last Stand.
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The burning : a novel
by Jonathan Kellerman
When deputy coroner Clay Edison discovers a link between the
murder he is investigating and his brother, he is forced to reckon
with his own suspicions, resentments and loyalties.
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The night singer
by Johanna Mo
Police detective Hannah Duncker, returning to her childhood home,
finds her past colliding with the present after the death of a teenage boy, which forces her to confront the people she had abandoned.
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Ice and stone
by Marcia Muller
Hired by Crimes Against Indigenous Sisters, private investigator
Sharon McCone goes undercover in Eiwok county on the Oregon
border to determine who killed two women, in the latest addition
to the New York Times best-selling series.
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Murder in an Irish cottage
by Carlene O'Connor
In a remote--and superstitious--village in County Cork, Ireland,
Garda Siobhán O'Sullivan must solve a murder where the prime
suspects are fairies.
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The man who died twice
by Richard Osman
When an old friend, who has been accused of stealing millions
of dollars’ worth of diamonds, desperately needs her help leaving
a dead body in his wake, Elizabeth and her friends go up against a ruthless murderer who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians.
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Children of Chicago
by Cynthia Pelayo
When the Pied Piper returns, leaving his special calling card on the bodies of his brutally murdered victims, Detective Lauren Medina
is torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe and keeping a promise she made long ago to him.
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A darker reality
by Anne Perry
Elena Standish investigates the mysterious death of Lila Worth, who she discovers is a British spy, at an anniversary party for her parents in Washington, D.C., in the third novel of the series following A Question of Betrayal.
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Forgotten in death
by J. D. Robb
Homicide detective Eve Dallas uncovers a world of real estate development, family history, shady deals and shocking secrets
while investigating the murder of two women in the latest addition
to the long-running series following Faithless in Death.
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The chuckling fingers
by Mabel Seeley
Rediscover one of the great mystery authors of the twentieth century in this Depression-era tale of a wealthy family's dark secrets turning deadly on their remote lakeside estate. An urgent note from a friend spurs Ann Gay to visit her recently married cousin, Jacqueline Heaton. Upon her arrival at Fiddler's Fingers, a remote, pine-grown estate on Lake Superior, Ann immediately senses her cousin's fear. Someone has been playing increasingly malicious tricks on the Heatons, a proud family of Minnesota lumber tycoons, and all signs point to Jacqueline as the instigator.
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