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The dark lake
by Sarah Bailey
When a popular former high school classmate is found murdered, a lead homicide investigator in a rural town uncovers puzzling mysteries in the victim's life, from her abrupt departure from a dream teaching job to her run-down existence in spite of wealthy family ties.
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A place in the wind
by Suzanne Chazin
Detective Jimmy Vega investigates when a teen who tutors immigrants in English disappears after class and fights to clear the name of one of his girlfriend’s clients in the fourth novel of the series following No Witness but the Moon.
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Sleep like a baby : An Aurora Teagarden Mystery
by Charlaine Harris
Stricken with flu while Robin is on a business trip, Roe accepts the help of an in-home nurse who goes missing on a stormy night at the same time a body is found outside the house.
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Murder in Disguise
by Mary Miley
Employed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, Jessie Beckett has a busy time as Script Girl for Pickford-Fairbanks studios. Yet she also has a reputation as a skilled amateur sleuth. So when a projectionist is shot dead and his grieving widow asks Jessie if she can find out who killed him, Jessie is determined to find the killer and his motive.
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An echo of murder
by Anne Perry
Investigating the gruesome murder of a Hungarian warehouse owner, Thames River Police Commander Monk is challenged to rethink his crime-solving techniques in order to avoid being caught in the crosshairs of violence stemming from ethnic prejudice.
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Murderous mistral : a Provence mystery
by Cay Rademacher
Vilified for his successful corruption investigations into his colleagues, Capitaine Roger Blanc is relocated to the south of France at the expense of his marriage and tackles a first murder case involving a reviled outsider whose demise is linked to the dark undercurrents of Provence.
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A casualty of war
by Charles Todd
Caring for an increasingly unstable soldier who believes his cousin is responsible for multiple injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
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What's your real name, writer?
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| Dishing the Dirt: An Agatha Raisin Mystery by M.C. BeatonWhen a new therapist arrives in her Cotswold village, goes out with Agatha Raisin's ex-husband, and snoops into Agatha's background, Agatha pushes back, threatening the woman. Loudly. That's a problem when the therapist turns up dead. M.C. Beaton is one of several pseudonyms that prolific Scottish author Marion Chesney uses. |
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| The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black A beautiful woman is found dead, washed up on the rocks, an apparent suicide. Her husband asks pathologist Quirke, an old school acquaintance, to skip the autopsy, but Quirke, notices a puncture mark on her arm, and he not only does the autopsy, but also begins digging into the lady's past. Booker Prize-winner John Banville, writing under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, produces a "tense, engrossing tale of passion, crimes, and chaos". |
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| The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert GalbraithAfter losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then he and new temp, Robin, who quickly proves herself useful when the brother of a famous model, who supposedly jumped from the top of her penthouse apartment hires them. Entering the realm of the mega-rich, Strike and Robin uncover the truth in this 1st mystery by Robert Galbraith, aka J.K. Rowling. |
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| Tomb of the Golden Bird by Elizabeth PetersIn 1922 Egypt, Amelia Peabody, her husband Emerson, and their son Ramses want to dig in the Valley of the Kings, but to do so, they need Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter to give up their concession. When they don't, the Peabodys head to Luxor, anyway, only to become embroiled in intrigue that may involve Emerson's charming half-brother. Elizabeth Peters was a pen name of Barbara Mertz, an Egyptologist who died in 2013. |
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