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"Rabbi Small returns in this " New York Times-bestselling novel to investigate a mysterious death on the Day of Atonement The day before Yom Kippur, the synagogue sound system is on the blink, the floral arrangements are in disarray, and a member of Rabbi David Small's congregation--in the Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing--is terribly concerned with how much a Torah weighs. The rabbi is determined not to let these mundane concerns ruin his...
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"As Passover approaches, Rabbi Small contends with infighting, backstabbing, and an actual murder in this " New York Times " bestseller As Rabbi David Small's 5-year contract winds down at the synagogue in Barnard's Crossing, Massachusetts, some members of the congregation are plotting to remove him; others are whispering about starting a new temple of their own across the street. When the rabbi gets an invitation to perform Passover services at a...
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Open Road Media Romance
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[2017]
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English
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A Chicago department store is the scene of gruesome crime in this mystery by a New York Times -bestselling Edgar Award winner. Linell Wynn, copywriter for Chicago department store Cunningham's, knows how to put a clever spin on everything. But she's at a loss for words when, after closing time, she finds a corpse in a window display. There he is, as cold and lifeless as a mannequin, his skull pulverized with a golf club: valued store manager Michael...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2016]
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English
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A couple's bizarre fantasy life goes awry in this electric psychological thriller for fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley. Arnoldo Signori has always dreamed of following Alice through the looking glass. He yearns to escape New York and slip back into the glorious eighteenth century, to a time when culture reigned, art was plentiful, and people lived with effortless style. He'd do anything to escape the present day, even if it means living as a slave,...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2021]
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English
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"The renowned British crime writer's classic locked-room Golden Age mystery that introduced amateur sleuth Roger Sheringham. A party at Layton Court, the country house of Victor Stanworth, is disrupted when the host is found shot through the forehead in his own library, a suicide as far as the police are concerned. After all, the gun is found in his hand, a note has been left, and the room is locked from the inside. But one of the guests, author Roger...
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Sourcebooks
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[2021]
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English
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"When the American Dream becomes a nightmare... Running a one-man law practice in the heart of Oregon's wine country, Cal Claxton hires a young, undocumented man as an assistant, hoping to give him an opportunity to create more stability for himself and his family. Timoteo Fuentes is a bright, hardworking student by day and Cal's legal clerk by night, juggling both roles with determination and grit. When one of Timoteo's family members is brutally...
47) Cirak's Daughter
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2017]
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English
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A young woman investigates the death of her wealthy, estranged father in a small Rhode Island town in this novel by the author of the Peter Shandy Mysteries. Murder can happen anywhere, even in sleepy Meldrum, Rhode Island. And while the town's old-money families may prefer to sweep such unseemliness under their Oriental rugs, its newest resident can think of nothing else. Nineteen-year-old Jenny Cirak has moved into the house her father, a once-famous...
48) Matters of Doubt
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"Cal Claxton is determined to reinvent himself as a small town lawyer in the aftermath of his wife's suicide. Once a hard-charging L.A. prosecutor, he now lives in his "Aerie"-an old farmhouse overlooking the Oregon wine country. When a scruffy, tattooed kid shows up asking for help in solving his mother's cold case murder, Cal wants to say no. But the kid, who calls himself Picasso, has ridden a bike from Portland, and something about his determination...
49) Bad girl blues
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2015]
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A former fashion photographer encounters murder and corruption in New Orleans It's too hot to sleep. It's too hot to be up. This is New Orleans in the summer. And as dawn breaks on a sweltering July morning, André Derain awakens to a scream from his courtyard as a man is stabbed just below his window. Acting on impulse, Derain leaps out the window, in the buff, and chases the attacker down the alleyway, but the man with the knife gets away. By the...
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Bloodhound Books
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[2022]
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English
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"A doctor's office is plagued with deaths from unnatural causes in this "fabulous start to a murder mystery series...well plotted story and great characters" (Peter Boon, author of Who Killed Miss Finch? ). Dr. Cathy Moreland has recently returned to work after battling mental health challenges, but her surgery in the British countryside is simmering, as usual, with tensions. One doctor struggles to keep up with the changes in the medical field; another,...
51) Spindrift
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Open Road Media Romance
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[2017]
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English
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New York Times bestseller: A New Year s Eve suicide in a Newport mansion could be hiding a sinister family conspiracy. Was it fear of scandal, threat of disgrace, or loss of his job that drove Rhode Island newspaper magnate Adam Keene to take his own life? His daughter, Christy, refuses to accept her father s death as a suicide. When she returns to her mother-in-law Theodora s stately Newport mansion, Christy is determined to find out who killed her...
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[2022]
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"2021 NED KELLY AWARD NOMINEE, BEST CRIME FICTION Hell hath no fury like a family disinherited... American millionaire Daniel Cartwright has been shot dead: three times in the chest, and once in the head. His body is found in Harvard Yard, dressed in evening attire. No one knows who he planned to meet there, or why the staunch Oxford man would be caught dead at Harvard -- literally. Australian Rowland Sinclair, his mate from Oxford and longtime friend,...
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An Egyptologist investigates a death at the British Museum in this "charming" historical mystery by the New York Times -bestselling author of The Painted Queen (The Denver Post). Back in London after an archaeological dig, adventurous sleuth Amelia Peabody -- "rather like Indiana Jones, Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple all rolled into one" -- discovers that a night watchman at the museum has perished in the shadow of a mummy case (The Washington Post...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2015]
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English
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A back-alley murder carries André Derain from the streets of New Orleans to the sun-drenched hell of the Cayman Islands. It's quiet in the Garden District, and André Derain can't sleep. After a lifetime as a fashion photographer in New York and the French Quarter, he needs noise, excitement, action - and he's about to get more than he can handle. A call comes in from the New Orleans homicide department, tipping Derain off to a grisly shooting on...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2018]
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This first act of a mystery series by an Edgar Award winner, Broadway producer/amateur sleuth Peter Duluth delivers " your money's worth of theatrics" ( Kirkus Reviews ). Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish...
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Birlinn Limited
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[2014]
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English
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A secret heard in confession forces a Scottish, small-town, Catholic priest to investigate a murder in this series opener by the author of Troubled Waters.
In the house of a Roman Catholic bishop, a man lies in a pool of blood. Out in the bishop's diocese, the quiet life of parish priest Father Vincent Ross is about to be thrown into turmoil by a terrifying revelation. There are ugly scandals hidden by the church he has served for so long, and...
57) Shanghai Secrets
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Sourcebooks
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[2021]
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English
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"In a city full of strangers, be careful whom you trust... Shanghai, 1935. Black sheep gentleman Rowland Sinclair arrives with his bohemian housemates from Sydney, Australia to explore a new city and take the name Sinclair international with a new class of negotiations. A novice to global commerce, Rowland is under strict instructions from his brother to keep a low profile... but that soon becomes next to impossible. A beautiful Russian taxi girl--who...
58) Mystery Stories
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A Christmas slaying, an Egyptian puzzle, and a night in the home of a stranger -- three chillers from the New York Times -bestselling "grandmaster" of mystery ( Publishers Weekly ). A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead in front of her, with her own hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. And two...
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MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
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[2018]
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English
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In this mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author, Peter Duluth deals with a case of mistaken identities and murder in World War II San Francisco.
Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2020]
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English
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A life has been taken. But whose life is it? On a stifling hot day, former journalist Dee Doran finds the crumpled body of her friend at the roadside. Katie and her little boy, Jake, have been a light in Dee's otherwise desolate life - now a woman is dead and a child is missing. Katie has been keeping secrets for a long time. Years earlier, she fell for the wrong person. But he was in love with someone else; who he couldn't have but couldn't keep...
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