November List 2017 by Jewel Nelson
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Ash and Bones
by Mike Thomas
At a squalid flat near the Cardiff docks, an early morning police raid goes catastrophically wrong when the police aren't the only unexpected guests. A plain clothes officer is shot dead at point blank range, the original suspect is left in a coma. The killer, identity unknown, slips away. Young and inexperienced, Will MacReady starts his first day in the Criminal Investigation Department. With the city in shock and the entire force reeling, he is desperate to help—but unearths truths that lead the team down an increasingly dark path.
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Gone Astray
by Michelle Davies
Lesley and her husband Mack are the sudden winners of a £15 million EuroMillions jackpot. They move with their 15-year-old daughter Rosie to an exclusive gated estate, leaving behind their ordinary lives—and friends—as they are catapulted into wealth beyond their wildest dreams. But it soon turns into their darkest nightmare when, one beautiful spring afternoon, Lesley returns to their house to find it empty: their daughter Rosie is gone. DC Maggie Neville is assigned to be Family Liaison Officer to Lesley and Mack, supporting them while quietly trying to investigate the family. And she has a crisis threatening her own life—a secret from the past that could shatter everything she's worked so hard to build. As Lesley and Maggie desperately try to find Rosie, their fates hurtle together on a collision course that threatens to end in tragedy.
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The Kill Circle
by David Freed
When retired senior CIA analyst Rico Perris plunges off a cliff in his vintage Porsche while speeding through the mountains of Colorado late one snowy night, the local sheriff rules it an accident. CIA officials, however, suspect otherwise. Their suspicions are soon heightened after two other former intelligence analysts turn up dead under questionable circumstances. All three victims were once assigned to the same top-secret project an internal review of the CIA's long-rumored involvement in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Now, with a Congressional mandate about to go into effect compelling the CIA to release long-secret files relating to the assassination, there is growing concern that a shrewd and ruthless killer is on the loose, one who will stop at nothing to prevent the public from discovering the truth of what happened that tragic day in Dallas in November, 1963.
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Peril in the Cotswolds
by Rebecca Tope
Thea Slocombe, née Osborne, is trying to settle into normal, domestic life with Drew and his two children in Broad Campden. But in the course of an attempt to make friends locally, she finds the body of a close neighbour and suddenly feels much less settled and secure. No longer a house-sitter, she has no choice but to stay in the village and deal with whatever happens next. And doing this risks damage to her marriage.
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The Nine-Tailed Fox
by Martin Limón
"Three American GIs have gone missing in different South Korean cities. Sergeants George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, agents for the Army CID, link the disappearances to a woman locally rumored to be a gumiho, a legendary nine-thousand-tailed fox disguised as a woman. George suspects that the woman is no mythical creature, but a wealthy kidnapper who's good at covering her tracks. Scrambling to stay one step ahead of a psychotic mastermind, George realizes he will have to risk his life to discover the whereabouts of his fellow countrymen"
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The Persian Always Meows Twice
by Eileen Watkins
The claws come out for professional cat groomer Cassie McGlone when her best client is found dead next his newly orphaned Persian, Harpo, and she must protect the cat from a killer who is determined to get his paws on Harpo before the feline helps unravel a felony. Original.
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When It Grows Dark
by Jørn Lier Horst
Stavern 1983: Christmas is approaching and a young ambitious policeman named William Wisting has just become the father of twins. Forgotten in a dilapidated barn stands a bullet riddled old car, and it looks as if the driver did not get out alive.
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Murder for Nothing
by Veronica Heley
Ellie Quicke believes in helping people in trouble. But it would appear that her latest good deed has returned to bite her when she takes in a weeping girl who needs somewhere to stay. Selfish, thoughtless and irresponsible, Angelica is by no means the easiest of house guests, confident that someone else will always pick up the bill. But when a dead body is found in the garden the morning after a riotous party she’s organized, Angelica plunges Ellie’s household into a situation too hot for any of them to handle.
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The Politics of Pof and Poof
by Francis Quinlan
Prepare yourself for an investigation that takes twists and turns right up to the last page. Postal Inspector Emmet Keene investigates the POOF heist, a crime in which a large haul of foreign currencies are stolen from a US Post office. The presence of foreign currencies in a US post office arouses the interest of an investigative reporter. Senator Thornbill calls for a congressional investigation. Keene finds himself conducting a politicized investigation in which mistakes, miscalculations and just pain bad luck become headlines. Having survived attempts to fire him, Keene goes on to solve the crime. He then comes to a realization: he has solved only one crime! A second crime comes into view, then a third and a fourth.
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The Dorchester Five
by Peter Manus
A playboy lawyer plunges from the roof of a Boston hotel. A Rhode Island strip club owner is found dead in pool of his own vomit. Both men were spotted, shortly before their deaths, with a mysterious woman who left behind a trail of filterless cigarettes, purple lipstick, and French perfume. And both men helped perpetrate an incident, years earlier, in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in which an angry group of five flipped the car of a criminally negligent driver, leaving the kid behind the wheel disfigured and brain damaged.
To any outside observer, the two deaths seem like isolated incidents, even accidents. But Boston homicide cop-on-the-rise Marina Papanikitas can’t shake the gnawing feeling that there’s a more sinister force at play.
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A Deadly Eclair
by Daryl Wood Gerber
During the first wedding at the bistro and inn for which Mimi Rousseau is working off a loan order to one day own it, her benefactor, Bryan, is found dead at the bistro with an éclair stuffed in his mouth, and the fingers point at Mimi, whose entire loan is forgiven in Bryan’s will.
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Nine Lessons
by Nicola Upson
In early-20th-century Cambridge, mystery writer Josephine Tey and Detective Chief Inspector Archie Penrose investigate the murder of church organist and whether or not it has any connection to a rash of attacks on women in the city. By the author of London Rain.
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Dancing With the Ice Lady
by Ken Salter
Skip trace investigator R. C. Bean works for a bumbling, alcoholic divorce attorney. He's asked to trace hidden assets to help their client, Gloria Simmons, defeat a prenuptial agreement. Gloria is the the sexy, scheming wife of a local black, playboy mortician who's hooked on gambling, drugs and a pretty Asian bookkeeper who's been installed in his funeral business by Asian drug dealers to monitor a joint venture. Things get nasty fast as a drive-by shooting in the mortuary's parking lot gets covered up and the client's mortician husband is plugged full of holes at the entrance to the funeral home while R. C. Bean is doing a a bag job inside on the home's financial records.
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A Hunt in Winter: A Joe Swallow Mystery
by Conor Brady
Joe Swallow's peaceful life in Dublin is uprooted when a series of violent attacks on women lead to an outbreak of panic and fear, and he must navigate the United Kingdom's volatile political scene to find the person responsible. By the author of The Eloquence of the Dead.
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