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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...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Have yourself a mysterious little Christmas with fifteen whodunits from New York Times -bestselling authors Sharyn McCrumb, Mary Higgins Clark, and more! Peace on Earth isn't everyone's cup of tea in Charlotte MacLeod's "A Cozy for Christmas." Peter Lovesey's "The Haunted Crescent" delivers a holiday ghost story with a twist. A training session for department-store Santas turns up Saint Nicks who are anything but angels in Isaac Asimov's "Ho, Ho,...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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From New York Times Bestselling Author Lenora and USA TODAY Bestselling Author Maggie K. Black Danger awaits in the icy winter shadows in two Alaska K-9 Unit Christmas novellas Forensic scientist Tala Ekho and K-9 state trooper Ian McCaffrey investigate a thief whose deadly agenda begins with jewels…and ends with Tala's murder in Maggie K. Black's Holiday Heist . And in Lenora Worth's Alaskan Christmas Chase , criminal psychologist Mallory Haru,...
45) Shattered
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Emerald Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Dani and Lexie thought their love was unbreakable.
Detective Lexie Fleming and her lover Dani survived a serial killer in Unbreakable. Now they are ready to take their love to the next level, but before that can happen, Dani must deal with her past trauma. She spent seventy-two hours trapped in the mountains being tortured and beaten by the Last Call Killer. As Dani fights to get past the nightmares and get back to work, Lexie embarks on another deadly...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. SHERIFF IN THE SADDLE The Law in Lubbock County by Delores Fossen The town wants her to arrest her former boyfriend, bad boy Cullen Brodie, for a murder on his ranch--but Sheriff Leigh Mercer has no evidence and refuses. The search for the killer draws them passionately close again…and...
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Three novels starring the dedicated investigators at the Connection Investigation Agency: "I always anticipate getting my hands on the latest Anita Waller thriller." -- Avonna Loves Genres The Connection Investigation Agency team takes on crimes old and new in this collection of thrillers by the bestselling author, including: Blood Red The Connection Investigation Agency has seen big changes, and new partners Tessa, Luke, and Beth have taken over....
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. MAVERICK JUSTICE The Law in Lubbock County by Delores Fossen Fleeing the hospital--and a deadly threat--Delaney Archer runs to Cash Mercer, the one man she trusts. Except the Clay Ridge sheriff and rancher hasn’t seen the public defender in a year, not since Delaney ended their...
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Harlequin
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2022.
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English
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Harlequin Intrigue brings you three new titles at a great value, available now! Enjoy these suspenseful reads packed with edge-of-your-seat intrigue and fearless romance. SCENT DETECTION K-9s on Patrol by Leslie Marshman Veterinarian Marie Beaumont’s spent five years in witness protection hiding from a ruthless foe--until she and her K-9 save a handsome stranger with amnesia, who begins to remember her as the woman she once was. But is Jack a caring,...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The diminutive detective and his bulldog of a boss head to Las Vegas to find a runaway bride in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason. Donald Lam and Bertha Cool make for a couple of unlikely detectives. Donald is a charming ex-lawyer in his thirties who may lack brawn but makes up for it in brains. Bertha, meanwhile, is a fifty-something-year-old widow who won't take lip from anyone. She certainly won't let a bout of illness keep...
51) Hunted Down
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A rare detective story by one of the greatest writers in the English language A mysterious man named Julius Slinkton enters the life of Mr. Sampson, the manager of a life assurance office. Remarkably well-spoken and with insinuating manners, Slinkton initially seems to be the consummate gentleman. But as Sampson soon learns, appearances can be deceiving. Written in the uncanny style of his close friend Wilkie Collins, this detective story is an unusual...
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Dover Publications
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[2016]
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English
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The popularity of the detective story began with the Victorian-era debut of Sherlock Holmes, whose adventures inspired legions of imitators. Subsequent tales of malfeasance and its deduction gradually took a decided turn away from melodrama and toward plausibility, leading to a Golden Age of crime fiction during the 1920s and 30s. The 15 short stories in this anthology, which date from 1905 to 1921, trace the development of an increasingly sophisticated...
53) The dilemma
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Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A daughter visits the island of Guernsey to unearth horrifying family truths and solve a decades-old mystery surrounding her mother, in this historical page-turner.
1958. Esme, a novelist, finds a potential new literary project. A housemaid named Clara was convicted of murder, perhaps unjustly, amid the ending of World War II and the liberation of Guernsey from Nazi occupation. Esme's trip to Guernsey is an opportunity not only to research the...
54) Dirt
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Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A compulsive, searing political thriller set on a kibbutz in Northern Israel, where the discovery of the body of an Israeli-Arab worker sets off a devastating chain of events...
Belonging could cost everything...
1996. Northern Israel. Lola leaves an unhappy home life in England for the fabled utopian life of a kibbutz, but this heavily guarded farming community on the Arab-Israeli border isn' t the idyll it...
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Sparkling Books Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Three authors, three mysteries. Lynnwood, by Thomas Brown, was a finalist in the People's Book Prize The unthinkable is happening in Lynnwood "' a village with centuries of guilt on its conscience. Who wouldn't want to live in an idyllic village in the English countryside like Lynnwood? With its charming pub, old dairy, friendly vicar, gurgling brooks, and old paths with memories of simpler times. A Taste for Blood, by David Stuart Davies Two plots...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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In the era before he created moody private investigator Matthew Scudder, burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr, sleepless spy Evan Tanner, and the amiable hit man Keller -- and years before his first Edgar Award -- a young writer named Lawrence Block submitted a story titled "You Can't Lose" to Manhunt magazine. It was published, and the rest is history. One Night Stands and Lost Weekends is a sterling collection of short crime fiction and suspense novelettes...
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Bea Rivers mystery volume 2
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Artemesia Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A gardener digs up an old skeleton on the grounds of Shandley Gardens. Volunteer coordinator Bea Rivers discovers that the victim, a man who disappeared in 1969, may be connected to a small town in New Mexico, where he'd made quite a few enemies among amateur archaeologists. There may be some connection with illegal artifacts... and with Shandley Gardens' founders. As Bea is drawn into the investigation, she meets an ever-increasing cast of quirky...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A gambling resort off the coast of New Orleans is in for stormy weather and deadly games in this 1930s crime novel by the authors of The Invisible Host . Twelve miles from the mainland, Paradise Island offers rich bon vivants the finest playground in the Gulf of Mexico. It is well known for sports, gaming tables, and the legendary Peacock Club. But federal agents Andrew Dillingham and Maj. Jack Raymond suspect something more sinister is happening...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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2022.
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"Do not doubt me, my friends; you shall all be dead before morning."
New Orleans, 1930. Eight guests are invited to a party at a luxurious penthouse apartment, yet on arrival it turns out that no one knows who their mysterious host actually is. The latter does not openly appear, but instead communicates with the guests by radio broadcast. What he has to tell his guests is chilling: that every hour, one of them will die. Despite putting the guests...
60) 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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