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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in an abandoned house in California's high desert. Buried in a purse along with her is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels...
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Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation-and into the path of a killer.
Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper....
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Hannah seems to have a perfect life. She has a perfect job, perfect boyfriend and perfect university grades. Planning her life away, Hannah is deliriously happy. That is, until two mysterious deaths plague her, throwing her life into chaos and despair and pain. Hannah's world is turned upside down; everything she thought she knew is a lie. Jay, her perfect boyfriend is a successful businessman. He treats her wonderfully and makes her happier than...
4) Dead Silence
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It's Halloween and Arnold Cinch is missing. Another snowstorm is imminent with a closely fought Montana Senate election only a week away. There is no good news. Mesa has reason to be distracted from the campaign season. But when the search for Cinch leads to a homicide investigation and the seedy underbelly of campaign politics, more is at stake than who gets elected. In Dead Silence, the fourth Mining City Mystery, the unearthing of past trauma and...
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A well-known, powerful family with a shocking secret. Two journalists, living one hundred years apart, both digging for the truth. It's 1920 on Minneapolis's Newspaper Row and aspiring journalist Bizzie Johansen is ready to do whatever it takes to make it - even if that means going undercover. She'll come face to face with characters who will both challenge and frighten her, befriend and encourage her as she digs for the truth. But, when she stumbles...
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A California talk radio host turns amateur sleuth to solve her mother's murder-and prevent her own-in this mystery series debut. When Kit Doyle's near-perfect mother tells her about the letter she's written and locked away-a letter to be read only "if anything should happen" to her-Kit thinks she's being melodramatic. But the next day Kit's mother is dead-and what she reads in that letter will change Kit's life forever. Armed with nothing but the...
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Jane is a private investigator specializing in missing persons, but considers reading her true passion. She reads at every opportunity and her choice of books is eclectic. Over the course of time she has noticed that whatever she happens to be reading parallels her life. Her husband says this is just coincidence, to which Jane responds that keeping an open mind in order to detect and use these coincidences helps her solve cases. Jane is just starting...
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Set in the seedy mid-80s New York City neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen-where drugs and prostitution run rampant-Lee Fairchild's repertory theater is the perfect place for murder. The theater was an abandoned burlesque house where the homeless lived. The third floor makes Lee uneasy with its scattering of feathers and bones. Still, having the theater is a dream come true. If her husband hadn't died six months earlier, she'd be euphoric.It doesn't matter,...
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In the early 1990's, as a serial killer is stalking young Chicago women, the beautiful and brilliant young attorney Megan Lansdorf is in the fight of her legal life, suing a major hospital for medical malpractice. As Megan spends her days in a courtroom war and her nights in spine chilling fear, she has only herself to rely on to defeat a mysterious and twisted killer who is after her life.
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The first short mystery story in the continuing saga of amateur detective Miriam Obadah, a woman from Ghana who lives in Harlem with her husband, Kofi, and co-wife, Nana. Download the anthology for other good reads. Five of the 11 stories in the anthology appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.
11) Cowabunga Dead
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Jo, Ava, and Hank Skinner don't take too kindly to someone murdering a populartelevision reality star and dumping the body into the moat of the Clankerton Medieval Museum. To top things off, because of the murder, the town mayor shuts down Hank's money making endeavor. This simply won't do. The sooner they find the murderer the sooner Hank can get back to hauling in the dough.
12) Sleight Malice
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SLEIGHT ~ use of dexterity or cunning, especially so as to deceive.MALICE ~ the intention or desire to do evil; ill will.One cold Melbourne winter's night a suburban bungalow goes up in flames. Despite their best efforts, firefighters are unable to save the home. When a badly charred body is discovered in the remains, web designer Desley James is devastated. Her best friend, Laura Noble, had been the only one in the house that night - her partner,...
13) Maceration
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When a famous winemaker is found gruesomely mutilated in a picturesque Adelaide Hills winery Inspector Maxine Lake is called to investigate. In 'Maceration' we meet Maxine Lake for the first time as she uses charm and an uncanny third sense to solve the first of 'The Adelaide Mysteries'. An Australian Midsomer!
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A murder on summer resort Nor'easter Island? Never, and especially not in the quiet season, when all the tourists have gone home and only 1000 or so year-round islanders stay through the winter. The death of Joel Berliner, an island fisherman whose body washed ashore on Laughing Gull Beach, was a surprise, but not totally unexpected. The island buzz was that Joel, who had had some mental health issues years back, committed suicide.
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15) Brittle Shadows
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When soon-to-be-wed Tanya Clark is confronted with her fiancé's naked corpse hanging from a wardrobe rail in the upmarket Melbourne apartment they share, her life is torn apart. Two months later, distraught and unable to cope, she drowns her sorrows in a lethal cocktail of alcohol and prescription drugs.On the other side of Australia, a grieving Jemma Dalton struggles to come to terms with the suicide of her only sibling. Despite there being no evidence...
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What happens when Teenage Hijinks turn into Murder? When the latest in a slew of Dumpster fires at the local campground turn up a finger and a ring, Jack Lovelace smells a corpse...and a job for his girlfriend Juli...Part-time Detective...Full-time Soup Witch at Snips and Snails Cafe...Add in the bone Juli's half-grown Lab Mix, Holly, digs up and brings home...the human bone...And now there's a new Mystery in town....and then they find the second...
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When a man is murdered in the woods and the main suspect appears to be a big-footed legend, amateur sleuth Hannah Ives steps in to solve the mystery. Hannah is delighted to reconnect with her former roommate, Susan Lockley, owner of Scarborough Fairs, at a college reunion, and agrees to step in when Susan's assistant drops out of managing the Sasquatch Sesquicentennial in Granite Falls, Oregon. But when Martin Radcliffe, a professional debunker, is...
18) Ghost Roads
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Five years after the suspicious death of her father, Harlow Grafton returns to Wallace, Idaho at the frantic request of her mother. But the discovery of a young woman's body in the mountains puts Harlow once again under police scrutiny. As each body is found buried with bones from the catastrophic fire of 1910, Harlow realizes the past lives within the present and the deaths all point back to her. If Harlow can't lay ghosts to rest, a young girl will...
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No one wants P.I. Carol Sabala to take the case. Her boss is apprehensive about an illegal investigation in Cuba. Carol's boyfriend worries about her physical safety. But the client is rolling in dough, the office has unpaid bills, and Carol chafes under the mundane tasks assigned to her.In Old Havana, Carol sets off to track down Megan, the client's missing daughter, who is battling metastasizing cancer and running from a sociopathic boyfriend. Struggling...
20) The Black Cane
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The decision to help one small boy turns eight elderly women's lives upside-down. Danger becomes a way of life. If the women are going to save the boy and stay alive, they are going to have to use skills that have been dormant way too long.
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