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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.
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Navajo Tribal Police officers, Sergeant Jim Chee and retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, are called to investigate when the FBI, looking into the robbery of the Ute tribe's gamblinb casino, identify a wounded deputy sheriff as a suspect.
6) 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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"When a noted anthropologist arrives at an ancient Anasazi Indian ruin to dig for clay pots, she is at first angry to discover that the pre-Navajo burial site has already been despoiled, then terrified by what looms out of the darkness. Weeks later, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, investigating a report to the Navajo Tribal Police that the anthropologist has been stealing precious artifacts, discovers she has also been reported as missing. The case turns...
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Aurora Teagarden is happily preparing for her wedding to dashing business executive Martin Bartell. As a wedding gift, Martin buys her the house of her dreams: the Julius house, infamously named after the family who vanished from the house without a trace six years ago. As Roe sets about renovating and decorating her new home, she s never felt happier. Then Martin suddenly rents the small apartment on their new property to an old army buddy and...
10) The dark wind
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The fifth novel featuring Leaphorn and Chee by New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, now reissued in the Premium Plus format. The corpse had been "scalped," its palms and soles removed after death. Sergeant Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police knows immediately he will have his hands full with this case, a certainty that is supported by the disturbing occurrences to follow. A mysterious nighttime plane crash, a vanishing shipment of cocaine,...
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New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan must put her PI skills to the ultimate test when she falls into the crosshairs of a psychopath who knows everything about her. For the past fifty years on the birth date of Edgar Allan Poe, a person wearing a cloak has placed three roses and a half bottle of cognac on the writer's gravesite. PI Tess Monaghan has never witnessed the event. But when John P. Kennedy, an eccentric antiques...
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The New York Times -bestselling series continues with the murder of an American soldier in Venice: "This is definitely an author to watch ( Kirkus Reviews ). Early one morning, Commissario Guido Brunetti of the Venice police confronts a grisly sight when the body of a young man is fished out of a fetid canal. All clues point to a violent mugging, but for Brunetti the motive of robbery seems altogether too convenient. When something discovered in the...
13) Snapshot
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Boston P.I., Carolotta Carlyle, finds herself in deadly conspiracy involving one of Boston's finest hospitals.
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Burglar and bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr has retired to the New England countryside for a weekend of supposed rest and romance, but his real agenda involves a rare, autographed first edition of Raymond Chandler's "The Big Sleep," that someone is obviously willing to kill for.
16) Cold case
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Carlotta Carlyle, a Boston private detective, finds herself involved in an unusual case when a new manuscript turns up, which may possibly be written by an author believed to be dead for the past twenty-four-years.
17) Steel guitar
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Carlotta Carlyle, a private detective, must confront her suspicions and investigate the death of a bass player for blues singer Dee Willis.
18) The snake tattoo
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A dual search for a runaway girl from a wealthy suburb, and a fifty-buck hooker named Janine take Carlotta Carlyle, a private investigator, to the sleazier side of Boston.
20) Hardware
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Boston detective Carlotta Carlyle decides to take her business on-line when she is hired to investigate a series of vicious attacks on cabbies at the Green & White Cab Company, where she moonlights.
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