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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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An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape—from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.
One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day—and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks.
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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...
5) Norma
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Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.
It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.
Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity-grim, funny, and desperate-wafting...
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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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Diane Phipps, P.I. dusts off facts and digs for truth in Colorado and finds out who killed renowned archaeologist Dr. Ray McCormick.Who killed renowned archaeologist Dr. Ray McCormick, and why? launches Diane Phipps, P.I. into a new investigation adventure in Colorado. Unfamiliar with the mountainous terrain of Peak Village near Garden of the Gods, Diane drives an old pick-up truck, dusts off facts, and digs into Dr. Ray's life for answers. Theories...
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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...
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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.
But Island...
10) All In
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The third noir mystery featuring P.I. Lennox Cooper, a smart detective, a smart poker player, and one of today's boldest heroines in the sorority of lonesome gumshoes.
Flinty ex-cop, poker-playing, private detective, Lennox Cooper stands alone in championing Tomek Jagoda, darling son of a Portland crime family, accused of murdering his high-living girlfriend.
The cops have proof that will send Tomek to prison for life, and prosecuting the case...
11) Goodbye Forever
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Talk radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover as a teenaged runaway in this mystery series. Seventeen-year-old Jessica is missing. There are no clues as to why she disappeared-apart from the note she left behind: "I love you. Goodbye forever." It turns out that Jessica is not the first teenager to have gone missing, nor the first to have left exactly the same note. With a family connection to the missing girl, crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle is...
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The path to enlightenment is fraught with danger when Greenwich Village PI Rachel Alexander and her pit bull, Dash, investigate the death of a tai chi practitioner Did she jump or was she pushed? Devastated by the loss of their only child, David and Marsha Jacobs hire Rachel to find out why Lisa leaped to her death from the fifth-floor window of her martial arts studio. The tai chi instructor, who was studying to be a Zen Buddhist priest, seemed...
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"Irascible, fearless and unapologetic, Maddy is a heroine cozy fans will embrace."-Publishers Weekly
Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the newspaper "morgue" and do her job. Then one Saturday she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage sale. She figures that those women must hire the cabby every week to drive them from garage sale to garage...
14) Welter
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On New Year's Day, a young woman's body is found on a quiet beach. Her mother is devastated and denies the coroner's finding that her child died from misadventure. Despite her own personal tragedy, Lily O'Hara, with Mick Flynn, immerses herself in the case. In her search, she encounters a complex group of young people who have both loved and loathed the dead girl. Lily is seen as a saviour to some and a danger to others.
The price of knowledge and...
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Deborah, la mujer del mejor amigo del inspector Thomas Lynley, descubre el cadáver desnudo y con señales de tortura de un joven estudiante. Todas las sospechas conducen a Bredgar Chambers, un viejo y sombrío internado.
Allí, Lynley descubrirá una enrarecida atmósfera de frustración, desarraigo y soterrada perversidad entre estudiantes. Pero, esencialmente, descubrirá que todo ello puede resolverse de un plumazo con el asesinato o el suicidio…...
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In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis's third Julie Hayes mystery, the intrepid former actress and amateur sleuth returns to Broadway to catch a killer Julie Hayes has come up in the world. Her days as a starving actress behind her, she is married to a globe-trotting journalist, keeping up with her friends from her fortune-telling days, and celebrating a year of gainful employment at the New York Daily. But one of her colleagues...
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"Welcome to Butterfly Island! Enjoy our sandy beaches, sapphire blue waters, and achingly beautiful sunsets. We can't wait to welcome you to the safest and most relaxing destination in the Caribbean…" Kenzi Hicks believes every person has a calling. She's worked as a line cook, a biohazard disposal specialist, and a dozen jobs in between. So what if her family thinks she's flighty? Her dad might call her a late bloomer, but Kenzi doesn't see it...
18) Sinful Waters
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Embark on a thrilling maritime journey with Sailor and her companions as they set sail on a seemingly idyllic cruise, only to discover treacherous undercurrents beneath the serene waters. In "Sinful Waters," written by the coastal enthusiast Sera D'Latta, Sailor and her friends win a dream cruise, but their blissful voyage takes an ominous turn when they encounter malevolent individuals determined to wreak havoc. Unbeknownst to them, Sailor holds...
19) At Witt's End
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Agatha Christie meets Arsenic and Old Lace
A classic Golden Age puzzle with a character driven plot
Cerridwen Evan Jones has a very brief to do list:
Finish and publish her novel
Avoid the head of the local historical society
Make sure Great Uncle Teddy is wearing pants
But when her historic neighborhood is rocked by the discovery of a decades old murder, her list gets a little longer:
Find out who broke into her house
Solve...
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Assigned to MurderPhilippa mystery 1As Philippa Barnes, a young West Coast glacier guide, is getting over her parents' death in a climbing accident, Kirsten, a journalist friend of hers, is murdered beside a nearby lake. Philippa teams up with Kirsten's brother Jack to try and find out what Kirsten was investigating while a diarist tries to understand the emotion behind a betrayal that has poisoned at least one life. Philippa's search will take her...
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