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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A remote, old-money hunting lodge. A raging storm. A locked room. Three corpses, discovered within four days. A cast of monied, scheming, unfaithful characters. When Detective Adam McAnnis joins an old college friend for the Bicentennial weekend at the exclusive West Heart club in upstate New York, he finds himself among a set of not-entirely-friendly strangers. Then the body of one of the members is found at the lake's edge; hours later, a major...
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Pentecost and Parker volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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The year is 1947; the location is New York City. The pair has been hired to look into the disappearance of retiree Vera Bodine, who has embarked on a late-in-life mission to expose Nazis hiding in postwar America, an uncommon and dangerous avocation for an 80-year-old. Bodine is reputed to have a photographic memory, and there are some villainous characters who would like to pick her brain or silence her forever. Perhaps both. Lillian, the senior...
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Frankie Elkin volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously slitting...
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Private volume 16
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A wealthy businessman approaches Jack Morgan, head of Private - the world's largest investigation agency - with a desperate plea to track down his daughter and grandchildren, who have disappeared without a trace. What at first seems to be a simple missing persons case soon escalates into something much more deadly, when Jack discovers the daughter is being pursued by highly trained operatives. As Jack uncovers more of the woman's backstory, the trail...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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At a Halloween party, Joyce-a surly thirteen-year-old-boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an apple-bobbing tub. Famed detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. Set against a night of trickery and the occult, it's up to Poirot to uncover the real evil presence responsible for this ghastly deed.
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Thomas Austin volume 2
Publisher
Darkness and Light Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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When the matriarch of a rich Seattle family dies under suspicious circumstances, private investigator Thomas Austin is on the case. This time, the suspect list is easy. Seven people were in the lakefront mansion with the millionaire when she died: a spoiled son, a jealous brother-in-law, a beloved chef, a rebellious grandson, an arrogant memoirist, and a pair of successful daughters. All had motive. All had opportunity. But which one is the killer?...
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Mrs Pargeter mystery volume 8
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When widow Mrs Pargeter decides to have her morning coffee on the patio of her mansion in Chigwell, her intention is to admire her beautiful garden in peace and quiet. Little does she expect one of the patio's paving slabs to crack in two, depositing her on the ground - and revealing a human skull with a neat hole in the middle of its forehead! Not wanting to bother the police just yet, Mrs Pargeter decides to save them some trouble and starts investigating...
8) Moscow exile
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Joe Wilderness volume 4
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Charlotte is a British expatriate who has recently settled in the nation's capital with her second husband, a man who looks intriguingly like Clark Gable, but her enviable dinner parties and soirées aren't the only things she is planning. Meanwhile, Charlie Leigh-Hunt has been posted to Washington as a replacement for Guy Burgess, last seen disappearing around the corner and into the Soviet Union. Charlie is soon shocked to cross paths with Charlotte,...
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Kitchen witch mysteries volume 4.5
Heyley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 16.5
Cece Barton mysteries
Heyley Powell food and cocktails mystery volume 16.5
Cece Barton mysteries
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Death of a Christmas mitten knitter: The church’s annual Christmas bazaar is an unqualified success until the local jeweler cries out that a valuable diamond ring has been stolen. Food writer Hayley Powell joins the search for it but discovers something decidedly more shocking—the dead body of a local knitter with a homemade mitten stuffed in her mouth. With only days to spare before the holiday, Hayley must unravel the mystery of Bar Harbor’s...
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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes volume 18
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After their recent adventures in Transylvania, Russell and Holmes look forward to spending time with Holmes' son, the famous artist Damian Adler, and his family. But when they arrive at Damian's house, they discover that the Adlers have fled from a mysterious threat. Holmes rushes after Damian while Russell, slowed down by a recent injury, stays behind to search the empty house. In Damian's studio, she discovers four crates packed with memorabilia...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a sting in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of their clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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Star Cavanaugh cold case volume 2
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English
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Twenty-five years ago, a body was discovered in the Turney family barn--and the locals are all too ready to believe that killing blood ran through their veins. Every Turney came under suspicion, their reputations crumbled to pieces, and with no convictions, no one has ever been cleared. Daughter Jill, now a Chicago lawyer, is ready for this case to be solved and for her broken family to be repaired at last. Who better to find the answers than cold-case...
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Publisher
Emily Bestler Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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In 1999 Bloomington, Ind., 16-year-old Marshall Miller gets pulled over by a cop on the same day he gets his driver's license. While he's waiting for a ticket, he notices a frightened teenage girl in the backseat of the officer's car. Weeks later, Marshall spots the girl's face on a missing person poster: her name is Meredith Sullivan, and she disappeared on the same day that Marshall was pulled over. He reports his encounter to law enforcement and...
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Series
Thomas Austin volume 1
Publisher
Darkness and Light Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Thomas Austin was once a prominent NYPD detective, known for locking up a psychopathic serial killer dubbed "The Holiday Baby Butcher." Now retired in a small beach town in the Pacific Northwest, Austin runs a little caf,̌ trying to overcome the loss of his wife, a DA who was gunned down only one year ago. But when a mysterious bag of bones appears on a nearby beach, Austin is dragged back into a world he thought he'd left behind. The Holiday Baby...
15) Double trouble
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Series
Savannah secrets volume 3
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Meredith catches sight of a mysterious man lurking around her home--and he has an uncanny resemblance to her deceased husband! However, he disappears before she can approach him. Could he have anything to do with the 18th-century writing desk Meredith inherited earlier in the day? Or the freshly revealed, long-hidden diary written by Anna Coles, one of the first women to colonize Savannah in 1733? Before Meredith can identify this man, the Coles diary...
16) A fallen petal
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 2
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When an acclaimed author announces his next book will be a deep dive into the predecessors of Savannah's oldest citizen, 104-yea-old Harlowe Green becomes very nervous. Harlowe fears that a long-buried family secret might not just tarnish his reputation, but it might also expose his family as criminals. Years ago--almost a century now--he went on a trip north with his parents and little brother, Lawrence. Only three of them returned home, and everyone...
17) The hidden gate
Author
Series
Savannah secrets volume 1
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Meredith Bellefontaine has recently reopened her late husband's investigation agency with her best friend and retired juvenile court judge, Julia Foley. Despite the anxiety that comes with starting a new business, leaving the comfort of her job as president of the historical society in Savannah, and recovering from a near-fatal heart attack. Meredith truly believes that this is God's next step for her life. Julia accidentally uncovers their very first...
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Series
Aimée Leduc volume 21
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Aimée Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody-all but stalking her. Harassed and fed up, Aimée has stopped taking his calls. That's why she doesn't know as she's leaving a client's office late one night that Melac is waiting for her by the Bassin de la Villette-where an assailant attacks him just in time for Aimée to find...
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Series
Savannah secrets volume 5
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The ladies of Magnolia Investigations are hired to investigate their most haunting mystery yet! Ebenezer Creek is notorious because, during the Civil War, hundreds of enslaved people drowned in its waters when they were abandoned by the Union army. For several decades, many of the houses in the area have been empty and rundown, thanks to the rumors claiming that the area is haunted. Of course, Meredith and Julia don't believe in ghosts, but when they...
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Riley Thorn volume 1
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is. Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions. Just when things can't get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for a neighbor...who turns up murdered. Nick Santiago doesn't play well with others....
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