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Brilliant botanist Saffron Everleigh is ready for her next thrilling adventure in the newest installment of Kate Khavari's mesmerizing historical mystery series. This is perfect for fans of Rhys Bowen and Sujata Massey.
London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton's brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government...
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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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Murder, dark family secrets, and the unwavering bond of sisterhood- regardless of the cost
Beth Ralston, a paralegal in Portland, Oregon, would rather be racking up billable hours than mingling at an office party- especially when her sister Lindsay, aka her plus one, is a no-show.
After making her obligatory rounds, Beth returns to her office to find that her boss, who she' d talked with moments before, has been...
4) 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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For years after her divorce, Karen Maxwell handled administrative paperwork for her brother's private investigation agency while he ran around town doing the "fun" part-the investigation. When his partner retires, he finally offers her a chance to take a case of her own. She soon finds out why.The assignment involves the theft of the local historical society's most treasured artifact, and her brother figures everyone involved is a little crazy. While...
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Ivy Russell is a private detective in "the big city in the cornfield". Most of her work comes from chasing cheating spouses and looking for missing persons. But while working in a neighborhood popular with cheaters, she finds that infidelity isn't the only thing lurking in the night. And despite all protests to the contrary, warnings from her friend Baz (aka Detective Barnabas Johnson), and the frantic antics of friend and impending bride Michelle...
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Glynnis Muldaur has been murdered on the streets of Glen Ridge, an upscale neighborhood, one snowy evening. A determined woman wends her way through the mystery, with help (or hindrance) from her psychiatrist husband, from a gorgeous next-door neigbor (who may or may not be having an affair with her husband), and from the murdered woman's spouse, who seems more interested in dating her than in solving the crime.
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Working in a weight-loss center by day and a racquetball club by night, Susan Hunter enjoys her life, the sport, and her friends. … But now she has life-changing decisions to make. Should she accept the new position with Slimmers Weight Loss? Should she give in and move the relationship with Mick to the next level? ... When Darby has business in New York City, Susan jumps at the chance to tag along intending to indulge in a weekend of shopping....
9) Rotten Dates
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Newly divorced and vulnerable, baker/sleuth Carol Sabala resists her friend's pressure to use a personal ad to enter the dating scene. Two weeks later a woman's body is found strangled on a riverbank in Santa Cruz. Did the killer use the ads to lure his victim?Hired to investigate by the deceased's cousin, Carol sees the amateur photographer who discovered the body as a likely suspect. He's handsome, charming, and definitely on the prowl. Is it for...
10) Murder, Honey
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When the head chef collapses into baker Carol Sabala's cookie dough, she is thrust into her first murder investigation. Suspects abound at Archibald's, the swanky Santa Cruz restaurant where Carol works. The head chef cut a swath of people who wanted him dead from ex-lovers to bitter rivals to greedy relatives. Even Carol plotted his demise!
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The scandalous side of the health insurance industry becomes a motive for murder. Two car bombs are detonated, then a third. Two people are killed, two maimed. Memphis Police Department Lieutenant Julia Todd discovers that many health insurance companies have been using death panels, lining their coffers by denying life-saving medical treatment while their policyholder dies. Using one Iraq War demolitions specialist to catch another, more bombs are...
12) Cold Hard News
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Bernadette "Bernie" O'Dea, editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, can finally get back on track as a journalist after a melting snowbank in Redimere, Maine, reveals a body. But as spring turns into a long, hot, explosive and tragic summer, the town is ripped in half. What started out as a sad story about a mysterious death becomes something way too big for Bernie to handle. As the town's secrets emerge, Bernie realizes she's on a path that could cost...
13) Crimson Bayou
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Crimson rays from the sun's morning light shine on an isolated bayou and expose the body of a young woman.Mignon Thibeaux, a renowned artist and recently returned local, is adapting to the slow-paced life of the Cane River and its enigmatic people. It is she who finds the young woman floating in the bayou, strangled and left in the timorous dark waters. It is also Mignon who will become embroiled in the hunt for the person who is responsible for the...
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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...
16) Havana Homicide
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Havana Homicide is the latest in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series by Kirkus Award winning author David M Benson. Something as prosaic as a police chiefs convention brings Carina to Havana but she's got way stronger Cuban connections than that. Her grandparents emigrated from Cuba just before Castro's revolution, bringing Carina's Cuban-born father to the the United States. And her family history, particularly that of her tough guy grandfather,...
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In Vinnie Hansen's sixth mystery, Art, Wine & Bullets, an innocent visit to a premiere gallery turns into a nightmare case for Private Investigator Carol Sabala. The strangled body of the gallery owner offers an opportunity to cement her reputation as a private eye and to save her employer from insolvency. Carol juggles the investigation with her commitment to help boyfriend David Shapiro with his participation in Open Studios, an art event sponsored...
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It's summertime in the nation's capital, and everyone seems to have fled the capital and its suburbs to escape the heat. Washington News reporter Sutton McPhee is struggling to find a decent story on her Fairfax County police beat. Even Sutton isn't prepared, however, when the young police officer who took her on a less-than-exciting ride-along is found shot to death in his apartment. The subsequent discovery of a body in a public park, where they...
19) Money Side Up
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Money Side Up is the seventh in the award-winning Carina Quintana Mysteries series. Money Side Up opens as Carina and a cadre of Florida law enforcement officers find themselves in a deadly firefight with an outlaw biker gang trying to complete a major drug deal. In the aftermath, Carina is faced with the striking but even more deadly Regina Roy, twin sister of the gang's local leader, who was killed in the melee. Regina is now out of the shadow of...
20) String of Lies
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Parker Holt has started gobbling up properties housing small businesses in town, and Jo worries that her Craft Corner shop will be next. But when she arrives at Holt's home to learn his intentions, she finds him dead – the victim of an insidious electrical trap.The police draw a bead on the construction crew working on the house, led by Jo's good friend, Dan. Anxious to clear him and his workers, Jo and her beading crafters set to work. Motives...
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