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1) The stranger
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A string of suspicious deaths points to a potential serial killer who has turned his eye toward Fjällbacka and her dark forests, where two children vanished decades before. A local woman is killed in a tragic car crash, but it isn't a clear-cut drunk driving case. The victim's blood contains high alcohol levels, yet she rarely drank a drop. Meanwhile, a new television series begins shooting in Fjällbacka, and as cameras shadow the stars' every move,...
2) The big exit
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Frank Sinatra impersonator and ex-con Richie Forman finds himself with no one to trust when he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his ex-best friend who stole his fiancée while he was in prison.
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Award-winning author Val McDermid offers up a suspense-filled stand-alone novel with A Darker Domain. Karen Pirie is the newly appointed Deputy Inspector of the Cold Case Unit, and her first investigation takes her 25 years into the past to the national miners' strike. At the time, a kidnapping gone wrong left a small boy missing, but new evidence suggests he might still be alive. As Pirie delves deeper, she realizes the boy's disappearance may be...
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A stunning new cold case novel from internationally bestselling crime writer Val McDermid about a car crash that opens up an unsolved murder from decades before Internationally bestselling author Val McDermid is one of our finest crime writers, whose gripping, impeccably plotted novels have garnered millions of readers worldwide. In her latest, Out of Bounds, she delivers a riveting cold case novel featuring detective Karen Pirie. When a teenage joyrider...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Twenty years after her sister, Lila, is murdered, Ellie Enderlin has a chance encounter with the man accused of the crime, who gives Ellie her sister's notebook, filled with mathematical equations and clues that will lead Ellie on a journey into the past that offers startling revelations about her sister's life.
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Hopedale, Florida, deputy sheriff Sara Cross, dealing with her son's leukemia, puts her life in danger to undergo a covert investigation into the shooting death of a motorist by her former partner, Billy Flynn, which results in her crossing paths with dangerous criminals from New Jersey who think Billy might know the whereabouts of some of their missing money.
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Riley Spartz, a television reporter in Minneapolis, Minnesota, becomes a murder suspect after a gossip columnist who had been raising questions about Riley is found shot to death, and as she tries to clear her name, a rival journalist tries to outperform her by covering outrageous stories.
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Alice struggles for months after being laid off from her job and welcomes the opportunity to work at a new art gallery in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking district, but her luck quickly dissipates when, upon arrival, Alice discovers the gallery has been stripped bare and the body of Drew Campbell, the corporate representative for the gallery's anonymous owner, is lying on the floor.
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Thomas Danforth, the privileged son of a wealthy importer, takes over the family business while the world suffers the beginnings of World War II, but his untroubled life changes when he agrees to allow access to his Connecticut mansion so that a mysterious woman can be trained in firearms and explosives and, when things go wrong and she disappears, Thomas sets out to find her.
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Issues of religion and politics take center stage in the household of Venice's Commissario Guido Brunetti when he and his wife go undercover to investigate the possibility that a charlatan posing as a preacher has begun developing an American-style Christian sect in the city, and Brunetti's attempts to investigate the death of a gypsy child found floating in a canal are hindered by sensitivities to multicultural issues.
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Cork O'Connor, hired as a security consultant by the Department of Energy which is under fire for proposing an iron mine in Tamarack Country, Minnesota, as a site for nuclear waste, comes upon six murder victims in the mine--five connected to a series of unsolved disappearances nearly fifty years earlier, and one dead less than a week--and he must dig into his past for answers when he learns two of the victims, including the most recent, were killed...
15) Rule 34
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Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crime Investigation Unit, responsible for monitoring the Internet in 2023, is drawn into an international investigation after three ex-cons, united only by criminal records for spamming and a taste for unorthodox erotica, are murdered in Italy, Germany, and Scotland.
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Father John O'Malley, attorney Vicky Holden, and Adam Lone Eagle agree to help a man uncover facts about the death of his grandson who left their reservation and traveled to California in search of information about his great-grandfather who went to Hollywood to appear in the first motion picture to feature Native Americans and never returned.
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The Bishop of London's body is found dead in an ancient crypt, along with another unidentified corpse from the eighteenth century, and Sebastian St. Cyr's investigation to determine who killer leads him Miss Hero Jarvis, a woman St. Cyr had a brief romantic encounter with and who happens to be the last person to see the Bishop alive.
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A military investigator is targeted by the killer who murdered her Amish family in this romantic suspense novel of faith in the face of danger.
Eight years ago, a drifter destroyed Becca Miller's ties to her Amish community-and murdered her family. Now she's a special agent with Fort Rickman's criminal investigation department, helping other victims seek justice. Becca thought for a time that she had left her traumatic past behind her. But now...
19) Blue Madonna
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"It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black market dealings. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months' hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: he can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue a high-value Allied soldier. A secret chamber and tunnels, once used by escaping Huguenots in the 17th century, has since been taken over by the Allies....
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Ruth Galloway mystery volume 12
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"Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway changed her life-until a convicted killer tells her that four of his victims were never found, drawing her back to the place she left behind"--
Convicted murderer Amyas March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women than he was charged with, and March offers to show Nelson where the other bodies are buried-- but only if Ruth Galloway will do the digging. When she warily...
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