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2024.
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English
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"With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate's treasure--and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. It's...
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It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her.Her collaborator is impressed by Dorothy's...
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"In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English...
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Publisher
DGS
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"With a friend's child missing, and the police failing, disgraced ex-detective Harper enlists the aid of a former crime boss to untangle a mystery that strikes too close to home. Disgraced, ex-detective Harper Adams is perfectly content wallowing at rock bottom. She's lost her job, house, and reputation, and it only gets worse when she's forced to move back home to Jackson Creek, Arkansas, the one place she swore she'd never return. But everything...
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Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"When human remains are found, reopening a decades-old case, a group of friends, highly respected, affluent members of their communities, begins to fracture as homicide detective Jane Munro and forensic anthropologist Dr. Ella Queen get closer to the truth of what happened on an autumn night 47 years ago."--
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"When Theodosia Browning reads the tea leaves on the set of the movie, Dark Fortunes, things go from spooky to worse. Lights are dimmed, the camera rolls and red hot sparks fly as the film's director is murdered in a tricky electrical accident. Or was it an accident? Though the cast and crew are stunned beyond belief, nobody admits to seeing a thing. And when Theodosia's friend, Delaine, becomes the prime suspect, Theodosia begins her own shadow investigation....
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The author of the "magnificent...complex, vivid" (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a rousing and propulsive novel based on the astonishing true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War. Kate Warner is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy. It's August 1863, and her latest assignment could finally end the bloody war and bring the fractured...
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Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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Jessica Fletcher accepts an invitation from her friend Inspector George Sutherland to visit his reportedly haunted family castle in Scotland where she encounters a murderous mystery she believes is firmly grounded in the real world.
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Detective Cara Kennedy thought she'd lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder-and she will stop at nothing to find the truth in this riveting mystery from the author of City Under One Roof. On a frigid February day, Anchorage Detective Cara Kennedy stands by the graves of her husband and son, watching as their caskets are raised from the earth. It feels sacrilegious, but she has no choice....
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[A.J. Rivers]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A beautiful woman's body is found frozen on the ground. And many questions that no one can answer arises. When Emma Griffin joined the FBI, she had hopes that she could find out the truth about her own past. But over time she realized that it was more than just herself. She wanted to be a voice for the victims. To bring justice for those that are no longer with us. To rid this world of evil doers, hunt down those who destroyed lives, and be the voice...
13) Black wolf
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes that baffle all others. The only thing she fears is herself. Antonia is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes. But she is unwilling to move past the last case, convinced it's related to a personal tragedy, until a series of deadly events pulls her back in. In southern...
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Series
Publisher
Shovel & Pail Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"It's Christmastime on Sanibel and everyone is looking forward to the annual holiday lighting at the San Ybel Resort. But could this venerable tradition and the hotel itself be in peril? At least one person seems to think so--and takes action to prevent the beloved resort from falling into the wrong hands. Assigned to cover the story, reporter Guinivere Jones finds more than she bargained for as she hunts for the truth and a potential killer"--
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Publisher
[A.J. Rivers]
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After witnessing many tragedies throughout her life. And solving cases that appeared unsolvable. FBI Agent Emma Griffin learned the importance of following her instincts and questioning everything she sees. When Bellamy brings a case that involves a sorority sister from Bellamy's past. Emma finds herself thrown into a case involving a possible mysterious illness. An illness that took the life of a young woman. To others, the mystery seems to have...
16) Tell nobody
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Bookouture
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"One hot summer evening, eleven-year-old Mikey Driscoll is on the way home from playing with friends. Two days later, his body is discovered on a bed of wildflowers by some local teenagers. The case is assigned to Detective Lottie Parker and this time it's personal. The victim was a close friend of her son, Sean, from the run-down Munbally estate on the other side of town. Sean tells his mother Mikey was behaving normally before he died, but Lottie...
17) The body reader
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Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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For three years, Detective Jude Fontaine was kept from the outside world. Held in an underground cell, her only contact was with her sadistic captor, and reading his face was her entire existence. Learning his every line, every movement, and every flicker of thought is what kept her alive. After her experience with isolation and torture, she is left with a fierce desire for justice--and a heightened ability to interpret the body language of both the...
18) La novia gitana
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
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"Susana Macaya, a young gypsy girl raised as a paya, disappears after her bachelorette party. Her body is found two days later: the victim has been brutally tortured following an unusual and atrocious ritual. Her sister Lara suffered the same fate seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, but the murderer is serving a sentence in prison: has someone imitated his terrible methods or is an innocent person imprisoned? Inspector Elena Blanco, a veteran...
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