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The new gripping gangland thriller from Stephanie Harte is perfect for fans of Kimberley Chambers, Martina Cole and Jacqui Rose. All they want is a brighter future but will taking a risk be worth the gamble? Finn McCaskill feels like he's hit the jackpot when he lands a security job at London City Airport handling pallet loads of cash. Old friend Paul Best sees a lucrative opportunity and can't let it pass them by... Lola Marshall hoped moving to...
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A widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secrey affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study, but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow's blackmailer. Kings Abbot is crawling with suspects and it's up to famous detective, Hercule Poirot, to solve the case.
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Amateur sleuth Astrid Swift investigates a maritime mystery in this cosy crime adventure set on the Isle of Wight. The sailors are ashore, and murder is afoot. It's summer in the Isle of Wight, and the islanders have little more to do than munch crab sandwiches, sip pints of Wight Squirrel, and complain about the hordes of tourists arriving for the world famous Cowes Week regatta. But when the local busybody drowns in the harbour, what was set to...
6) Lost in time
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The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller "Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read." –Diana Gabaldon "Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this... Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough." – Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Are we talking plot twists? More like spirals. Gripping, clever, mind-bending stuff." – Daily Mail From the worldwide bestselling author of Departure and Winter World comes a standalone novel...
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The scientific detective known as the "American Sherlock Holmes" pursues a ruthless arch villain in this high-stakes suspense novel Professor Craig Kennedy and his loyal sidekick, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, first learn of the Clutching Hand and his gang when they investigate a string of murders involving the policyholders of Taylor Dodge's insurance company. After receiving a threatening note signed by the arch criminal, Dodge himself is robbed...
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"Construction is halted on the redevelopment of an orphanage after dozens of skeletons are found buried on the grounds dating from between twenty and forty years ago. Then a different set of skeletons are discovered in a far corner, young men from as recently as ten years ago. Meanwhile, Tony is behind bars for murder, and Carol has finally run out of road as a cop. While he's finding unexpected outlets for his talents in jail, she's looking into...
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"When Dottoressa Donato calls the Questura to report that a dying patient at the hospice Fatebenefratelli wants to speak to the police, Commissario Guido Brunetti and his colleague, Claudia Griffoni, waste no time in responding. "They killed him. It was bad money. I told him no," Benedetta Toso gasps the words about her recently deceased husband, Vittorio Fadalto. Even though he is not sure she can hear him, Brunetti softly promises he and Griffoni...
10) Struck Dead
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Forensic instincts volume 10
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The fragile line between life and death…
Families that will never be the same…
When a tragic hit-and-run takes the life of a hardworking family man, multi-millionaire Christopher Hillington becomes the prime suspect, and the whole city of New York alights with speculation as to what happened.
But before the NYPD can establish Hillington's guilt, he himself is brutally murdered in his own home. As he lays dying, he scrawls the name Casey Woods...
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The Town of Brenham, Texas, Has Gone to the Dogs! Curl up with your pup and sink into a delightful small-town mystery as riddles and rescues stack up in book one of a new cozy mystery series. Marigold Evans' first attempt at rescuing an abandoned pooch lands her in a drainage pipe in Brenham Texas. . .and almost in jail, until Parker Jenson comes to her rescue. Then a bad day only gets worse as the Lone Star Vet Clinic, where they both work, is vandalized...
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In a mystery inspired by a historical murder, best friends become amateur sleuths when a senator's memoir reveals secrets someone would kill to keep quiet.
Why was a US senator suddenly writing a book about an unsolved murder that happened fifty years ago? Dynamic duo Harrie McKinsey and Ginger Vaughn know the story is bound to stir up trouble, especially since the ruthless killing on Easter Sunday in 1950 led to the end of illegal casinos...
13) Coyote waits
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An investigation of the murder of a tribal policeman leads to a historical find worth a fortune.
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A murder on a quiet street in Albuquerque leads a psychic amateur sleuth and her FBI agent husband into an investigation of stolen government secrets.
Trouble always seems to find Harrie McKinsey. From the darkness that haunts her dreams at night, to the morning she discovers a toddler sitting in the flower bed on her front porch, covered in blood. A search for the little girl's parents leads Harrie and her husband, FBI agent DJ Scott, into...
15) Final Curtain
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"A Shakespearean actor shuffles off his mortal coil in this "skillfully wrought" country-house mystery ( The New York Times ). Sir Henry Ancred, a celebrated Shakespearean actor, has arranged to have his portrait painted by Agatha Troy, wife of Inspector Roderick Alleyn. But when Ancred is killed at his own birthday party, leaving behind a family full of suspects, Troy's work ends and Inspector Alleyn's begins... "It's time to start comparing Christie...
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"Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don't believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon...
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When the police and FBI are baffled by a corpse found at a national park, they must rely on a psychic amateur sleuth to solve the mystery.
The spirits of Native American ancestors are said to inhabit the sacred rocks at Petroglyph National Monument. So when an unidentified body is found there, everyone from the local police to the FBI are up in arms. But no one can figure out who the victim is until the CIA steps in, claiming that there is...
18) The Ghostway
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New York Times Bestseller
The New York Times bestselling novel by master writer Tony Hillerman—an electrifying thriller of revenge, secrets, and murder.
“One of the best of the series.”—New York Times Book Review
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers spill blood at the Shiprock Wash-O-Mat. One dies. The other drives off
19) The fallen man
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A skeleton found on a ledge of a sacred mountain believed to be the remains of Harold Breedlove, a ranching heir who disappeared years earlier, throws retired Lt. Joe Leaphorn and acting Lt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police, back together in an attempt to solve decade-old case.
20) Death Writes
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A local author dies on stage at a literary festival. Ben O' Keeffe has to sort through his complicated estate- and find his murderer while she' s at it.
Solicitor Benedicta " Ben" O' Keeffe and her boyfriend Police Sergeant Tom Molloy race to Dublin after hearing that some strangers had moved in with Ben' s parents. When they arrive, only Ben' s parents and their strange lodger remain, but come morning...
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