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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 5
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English
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When Charles Kentworthy is found dead on his doorstep after moving his loud, boisterous family into an idyllic gated community, Detective Hawthorne investigates.
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Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her “honorary grandson” Jack. The Medlar Three, as they’ve become known, are often working to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she’s been given the listing for the town’s storied Lachlan House, it sets off alarm bells for Sara and Jack. The infamous house has a dark history,...
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Castle Knoll files volume 1
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English
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It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances’s night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn’t happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
5) Rabbit hole
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Ten years ago, Theodora "Teddy" Angstrom's older sister, Angie, disappeared. Her case remains unsolved. Now--on the anniversary of Angie's disappearance--Teddy's father, Mark, has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark's family, he had been actively investigating conspiracy theories sourced from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie, and Teddy soon finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole as she struggles to reconcile new information...
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2024.
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When a renowned expert in infectious diseases disappears without a trace, Letty Davenport, with the world on high alert, calls in her father, Lucas, to locate him, and when their worst fears are confirmed, they must race against time to stop the virus he created from becoming the perfect weapon.
8) Cold bones
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Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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It's the coldest winter in Hull for years. When McAvoy is told by a concerned stranger that an elderly woman hasn't been seen for a few days, he goes to check on her - only to find her in the bath, encased in ice: the heating off; the windows open; the whole house frozen over. It could be a macabre accident, but McAvoy senses murder. As he starts to uncover the victim's story and her connections to a lost fishing trawler, his boss Trish is half a...
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Underwater Investigation Unit volume 5
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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After the Underwater Investigation Unit's disbandment, public outcry ushers Sloan McPherson and her partner, former navy diver Scott Hughes, back into the depths of crime solving. Sloan's longtime family friend Fred Stafford has disappeared. Left behind: his abandoned truck in the vicinity of an unmarked sinkhole and new findings that have Sloan second-guessing everything she thought she knew about the man. As Sloan's investigation unfolds, a tragic...
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Poisoned Pen Press
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[2024]
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English
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Middle-aged Englishman and B&B owner Richard Ainsworth is living a quiet life in the Val de Follet--and that's the way he likes it. His quiet routine is suddenly disrupted when scandal erupts in the nearby town of Saint-Sauver by way of its famous restaurant being downgraded from three Michelin stars to two. The restaurant is shamed, the town is in shock and the leading goat's cheese supplier drowns himself in one of his own pasteurization tanks....
13) First frost
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It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear read the writing on the wall and enlist to serve in the Vietnam War. As they catch a few final waves in California before reporting for duty, a sudden storm assaults the shores and capsizes a nearby cargo boat. Walt and Henry jump to action, but it’s soon revealed by the police who greet them ashore that the sunken boat carried valuable contraband from...
14) Hi five
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IQ novels volume 4
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Cristiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend, found dead in her Newport Beach boutique. IQ - Isaiah Quintabe - is coerced into taking the case to prove her innocence. If he can't, Angus will harm the PI's new girlfriend, ending her career. The catch: Christiana has multiple personalities. Isaiah's dilemma: no one personality saw...
15) Black alibi
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Villa Romana Books
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[2022].
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English
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Kiki Walker is a second-rate American singer who becomes a sensation in South America known for her beauty and red hair. Her press agent Jerry Manning arranges for her to parade up and down the streets with a "tamed" black jaguar to boost her popularity even further. It all goes well until flash bulbs cause the animal to go wild, attacking the singer before disappearing into an alley. Kiki isn't hurt badly but four young women are mauled and slashed...
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MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In 1930s Omaha, ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his 14-year-old daughter, crooked cop Frank Tvrdik discovers his crime, and uses it as leverage to get Jim to take down a backstabbing aspiring politician. Soon, Jim and Frank are sucked into a seedy world of crime and corruption, where no one is safe and nothing is what it seems. Then Jim is violently attacked and one of his operatives turns up dead within the span of twelve...
17) The burning time
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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An unexpected invite to his estranged mother's birthday party at a fancy hotel gives DI Aector McAvoy and his wife Roisin a chance for a well-deserved holiday. Off-duty, and still recovering from injuries, McAvoy is determined to take advantage of the all-expenses-paid break, despite the tension between himself and his step-family. However, what should have been a relaxing, if awkward, getaway weekend turns out to be a full-on nightmare, when McAvoy...
18) Pay dirt
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While visiting Angela, one her proteges in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
19) Lost birds
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Retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, P.I. Joe Leaphorn is hired to find the birth parents of a woman raised by a bilagaana family, which unexpectedly turns into a complicated case, while Officer Bernadette Manuelito investigates an explosion linked to his investigation.
20) Blind justice
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The young man's corpse lies tangled in the roots of a fallen tree, two silver coins nailed through his eyes. Who would torture their victim in such a brutal way - and why? DS McAvoy makes the victim a promise: I will find answers. You will know justice. But justice comes at a cost, and this time it may be McAvoy's own family who pay the price.
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