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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...
2) Darkest Hour
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Mediator volume 4
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"The Darkest Hour is the fourth book in the thrilling, romantic Mediator series, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot. When the nineteenth-century ghost of Maria de Silva wakes her up in the middle of the night, Suze knows this is no ordinary visitation -- and not just from the knife at her throat, either. In life, Maria was the fiancě of Jesse -- the same Jesse who was murdered 150 years before. The same...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
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Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and his assistant, Captain Hastings, solve perplexing cases of murder and deceit in this short mystery collection. One of Agatha Christie's most beloved sleuths, Hercule Poirot is the immortal protagonist of such classic mystery novels as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile . In Poirot Investigates , the first short story collection to feature the famous detective, he takes on the case of a Hollywood...
4) Minotaur
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"A gripping read, I read it in a day! . . . Brilliant, fast-paced . . . keeps you gripped from the first page." -Amazon reviewer, five stars
After twelve brutal murders, a vicious killer continues to elude the police-but one desperate father may prove to be his downfall . . .
A cunning and sadistic serial killer known as Minotaur has already murdered and mutilated twelve women. When novelist David Knight comes home, he is shattered to find...
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When Lily Bard's landlord is murdered in the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, she finds her job as the owner of a cleaning and errand-running service gives her the perfect opportunity to play detective, but while her snooping uncovers some interesting secrets, it also draws the attention of the killer.
7) Breakwater
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From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
All she wants is a new beginning… but ghosts of the past can be hard to shake.
Security consultant Quinn Harlowe just started an independent career and is enjoying a relaxed new lifestyle in her bayside cottage. But then she finds a friend and former colleague dead outside. Local law enforcement deems it suicide, but Quinn has her doubts. It's time to start her own investigation.
As Quinn...
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A drunken man is shot dead on his doorstep in this classic mystery starring the "observant [and] appealing" seventy-year-old sleuth (Publishers Weekly).
Walking home wearily from an evening spent poring over the books of the Parchly Heights Methodist Ladies' Aid searching for a fifty-eight-cent error, Miss Jennifer Murdock becomes witness to a terrible scene: A man, stumbling drunk, arrives home-and just as he fumbles with his keys, gunfire...
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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...
10) Old Bones Lie
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DI Clare Mackay is about to face a test of her loyalty… When a report comes in that a van containing two prison officers and a convicted jewel thief is missing, the police in St Andrews work quickly to locate the vehicle. Their efforts prove in vain when no trace is found and they realise the wives of both officers also appear to have left the area. Is this a case of corrupt guards springing a felon, or innocent people caught in the crossfire? DI...
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For DCI Gillard, sometimes old sins cast long shadows...
Under a motorway flyover lies the body of a young man. Days earlier, he had been involved in an altercation with DCI Craig Gillard's pregnant partner Sam. Now he's dead...
Meanwhile, something is brewing in the criminal underworld. Whispers of a big job have reached the Met's Flying Squad. Something is going to be stolen, and soon. Something worth £500m.
But what? And where? And how does...
12) Strong poison
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Lord Peter Wimsey defends a young detective-story writer on trial for her lover's murder and asks her to marry him when he first takes the case.
15) Dark Sky
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From New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers
She thought she'd turned her life around... until danger comes sweeping in.
Deputy US Marshal Juliet Longstreet has made her share of enemies, and now one of them is out of prison and threatening to kill her. Her mission: find him first.
Hot on her suspect's trail is Special Forces officer Ethan Brooker, who has a way of dropping into Juliet's life without warning. Ethan is a man Juliet knows...
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When an old grave reveals two bodies, neither of which belong to the man named on the tombstone, Detective Inspector George Felse is once again called upon to investigate While on a seaside vacation in Cornwall with his son, Dominic, Detective Inspector George Felse can't help but investigate a dark mystery of smuggling, missing bodies, and murder. Jan Treverra was a legendary Cornish poet and smuggler who died two centuries ago. But when local scholar...
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THE HUNTER AND OTHER STORIES is a unique literary publication from one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, Dashiell Hammett. This volume includes both new Hammett stories gleaned from his personal archives along with screen treatments long buried in film-industry files. The best of Dashiell Hammett's unfamiliar treasures have been rescued from deep in these archives: screen stories, unpublished and rarely published fiction, and intriguing...
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"A beautiful book about family, memories, and the power of stories." -BuzzFeed
"Mystical, masterful storytelling." -Ms. Magazine
From International Latino Book Award-winning author Ann Dávila Cardinal comes a gorgeously written family saga about a Puerto Rican woman who finds herself gifted (or cursed?) with a strange ability.
There was always an old woman dying in the back room of her family's house when Isla was a child...
Isla Larsen Sanchez's...
19) The husband trap
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"Had me gasping and on the edge of my seat. Gripping from the start and took my breath away!" --Goodreads reviewer, five stars He's just proposed to his girlfriend--but another woman has him in her sights, in this terrifying thriller by the author of My Dead Husband . Liam finally popped the question, and Emily said yes. But that very same night, Liam gets abducted . . . and wakes up to a nightmare. On a large estate in the middle of nowhere, Liam...
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World War II hero Davy Fox has returned to his New England hometown of Wrightsville a changed man. When his wife Linda wakes up to find Davy's hands squeezed around her neck, it takes all of her strength to get away. But Davy is more than shellshocked from the war. He's haunted by events of twelve years before, when his mother was murdered by his father, Bayard, who is serving life in prison and had always insisted that he was not the one who killed...
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