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2024.
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English
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In a Virginia courtroom in 1968, a reluctant white lawyer and a dedicated black attorney must bridge their differences to fight for a Black man’s life against racial prejudice and powerful forces seeking to undo civil rights progress.
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Hamish Macbeth mysteries volume 36
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has some major problems to deal with--crimes and criminals, even law enforcement agents, that he doesn't want anywhere near his beloved Highland village in Lochdubh. Hamish is worried about how the locals...will react to his new assistant officer..Having recently become involved in identifying a Russian spy ring to solve a murder, he is aware that Bland's mission is to track down the members of the spy network still at large"--...
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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...
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Haven's Rock volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In a well-hidden refuge for those who need to disappear, Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, when the town’s youngest resident claims a bear with human eyes is stalking a hiking party and then a dead body turns up, must find out what they’re up against.
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2024.
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English
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Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau...
9) 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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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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Ernest Cunningham volume 2
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English
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"I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. When the Australian Mystery Writers' Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. But, the Ghan is not the respite I'd been hoping for. It turns out I've trapped myself on an 1,800-mile journey with a powder...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In 1911 New York City, acclaimed novelist Edith Wharton, when fellow writer David Graham Phillips is murdered, becomes obsessed with solving the crime when his sister believes he was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which reveals the secrets of powerful people.
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Antique hunters volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, dies under mysterious circumstances, Freya Lockwood returns to her quaint English hometown to find the truth and, following the clues to an old manor hosting an antiques enthusiast's weekend, she finds herself drawn back into the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts.
14) 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.
15) Random in death
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When a 16-year-old girl is murdered during a show at a New York club, Lieutenant Eve Dallas, with the lab results showing a toxic mix of substances and infectious agents in the victim’s body, must find a madman consumed by hatred who’s just another face in the crowd.
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city's wealthiest shipbuilders is found floating in the River Clyde with his throat cut, it falls to Inspector Jimmy Dreghorn to lead the murder case-despite sharing a troubled history with the victim's widow. From the flying fists and flashing blades of Glasgow's criminal underworld, to the backstabbing upper echelons of government and big business, Dreghorn and his partner 'Bonnie' Archie McDaid must...
17) Cast a cold eye
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Jimmy Dreghorn and his partner Archie McDaid investigate after discovering a man dead from a single bullet wound in the back of his head in 1933 Glasgow.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[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....
19) Black alibi
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Villa Romana Books
Pub. Date
[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...
20) 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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