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It's official! Siobhán is now Garda O'Sullivan, and her five siblings couldn't be prouder. While brother James runs Naomi's Bistro, Siobhán is doing her part to keep the village safe. Of course, Kilbane is pretty quiet compared to a place like Dublin, where Macdara Flannery has gone to be a detective sergeant. Then one night the local priest summons Siobhán to the church cemetery. There's a dead man in the graveyard-aboveground. He lies shot on...
2) Catechisms
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Detective Paige McGraw is waiting for something to go her way for once. After letting a suspect slip through her fingers, her career is now in shambles. Stuck working in the shadow of the brash new homicide inspector on the force, Clarissa Wright, she hopes to redeem herself by catching a good case or bringing her slippery fugitive to heel.
When a defrocked priest is found horribly murdered and mutilated, it may be just the right investigation...
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Ella no recuerda nada. Mejor así. Su verdad era solo la mitad de la historia.
Megan McDonald está terminando el bachillerato, es popular, carismática, y tiene un futuro increíble por delante. En una de sus últimas noches en Emerson Bay, la secuestran.
Megan está dos semanas en cautiverio hasta que escapa, y pasa a ser conocida como "la chica que se llevaron". Pero esa noche también desapareció Nicole Cutty y de ella nadie sabe nada.
Megan...
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Hannah seems to have a perfect life. She has a perfect job, perfect boyfriend and perfect university grades. Planning her life away, Hannah is deliriously happy. That is, until two mysterious deaths plague her, throwing her life into chaos and despair and pain. Hannah's world is turned upside down; everything she thought she knew is a lie. Jay, her perfect boyfriend is a successful businessman. He treats her wonderfully and makes her happier than...
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A Elena la asesinaron mientras hacía footing una neblinosa mañana de Cambridge. Dejó un vacío entre quienes la conocían –todos deseaban lo mejor para ella– y su muerte se convirtió en un engorro para las autoridades académicas, que además estaban en pésimas relaciones con la policía local. El recurso a Scotland Yard era inevitable, y con él, la presencia del inspector Lynley y la sargento Havers. Ambos, en su investigación, se topan...
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La hija ilegítima de Dennis Luxford, director de un importante periódico londinense de la oposición, es secuestrada. La madre de la niña es Eve Bowen, miembro del gobierno conservador. Dennis y Eve mantuvieron una fugaz y pasional relación años atrás, cuando ninguno de los dos imaginaba el rumbo que tomarían sus vidas. Ahora, cuando ambos han guardado en estricto secreto la existencia de la niña y se enfrentan despiadadamente en la arena...
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Portland, 1868. It is a roughhewn place, an exploding trading post that has dreams of becoming a metropolis.
Horace Stratton, one of Portland's wealthiest heirs, has decided to come home for good after amassing yet another fortune in Shanghai. With him comes his wife Emily, a shy daughter of missionaries, and their teenaged son. On the brink of that happy return, Horace suddenly falls ill and dies in San Francisco.
Emily and her son bring her...
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An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet Sunday night. Just before he can reach her, he's knocked over by a skidding car. Fighting to save his life, the rescue team finds Trish's name and address sewn into the boy's clothes. The police are convinced that he must be her son-but Trish knows he can't be. Is he connected with one of her clients? Could he be a blood relation? And who has sent him to Trish?
Recovering...
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In 1961, a Hollywood movie company came to tiny Polvo, Texas, to film a movie about Pancho Villa. However, the film was dogged with trouble: a man was found murdered on an island in the middle of the Rio Grande and the case was never solved.
Now, forty years later, trading post owner Texana Jones is hosting a video crew making a special celebrating the film's anniversary. Most of the townspeople are excited by this event, but some want nothing to...
10) The Black Cane
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The decision to help one small boy turns eight elderly women's lives upside-down. Danger becomes a way of life. If the women are going to save the boy and stay alive, they are going to have to use skills that have been dormant way too long.
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A dead employee. A missing child. Anonymous phone calls in the dead of night. Judi Westerholme's troubles aren't over yet... Already struggling to juggle co-running the local pub with her childcare responsibilities for her orphaned niece, Judi does not need life to become any more complicated. Yet, as usual, complications arrive in spades: she starts receiving threatening, late-night phone calls before discovering one of her employees, Kate, shot...
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El cadáver de Kenneth Fleming, auténtica estrella del críquet en Inglaterra, aparece en la casa de campo de Miriam Whitelaw, una profesora retirada que años antes había sido mentora de Ken. Al principio, todo parece señalar que se trata de un desafortunado accidente, pero los indicios que encuentra la policía apuntan más bien hacia un homicidio premeditado.
Lo cierto es que el caso no parece fácil de solucionar porque la vida de Ken estaba...
13) The Fatal Truth
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In "The Fatal Truth," the fourth gripping installment of the Kathy Hamilton Mystery series, we return to the tense town of Rosemont, where murder has once again cast its chilling shadow.
When a renowned reporter for the Rosemont Observer is discovered murdered in her own office, killed by one of her prestigious journalism awards, the town is thrown into a frenzy. Her vital files and investigative notes have vanished, leaving behind only an eerie...
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San Francisco magician Emma Passant is puzzled by her grandfather's cryptic will. He writes that she is to "take her place at the helm and turn the wheel on the legacy that I have kept hidden from her". As Emma ponders these elusive words, a friend of hers is fatally shot-by the same gun that was used to kill her grandfather. The mystery begins to come together, however, upon the disappearance of a model boat-the replica of a boat her grandfather...
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Jill investigates the death of a chef who was mysteriously poisoned by his own soup Until the helicopter crash, Jill Smith never knew fear. A homicide detective in the leftist enclave of Berkeley, California, she has faced down her share of thugs, thieves, and killers, but since surviving the downed helicopter, her nerves have been shot. Unwilling to submit to her anxiety, she goes back to work. The chef and owner of Paradise, an upscale restaurant...
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When the nation's political elite descends on a small Northern California town, murder follows-and only Vejay Haskell can get to the bottom of the shocking crime Each year the Bohemian Club-a clique of powerful conservatives whose ranks include Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger-gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter-reader Vejay Haskell is about...
17) Turtle Island
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When the body of a man is washed up in the river; Turtle Island, Missouri is awoken from being a peaceful haven and thrust into the attention of the national media.
The case is solved rather all too conveniently and F.B.I agent Georgina O'Neil is left with severe doubts - have they caught the right man?
A feeling that is justified after case Detective Montoya and his family are kidnapped and a web site is set up promising America its first 'live...
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The problems started right off. Main one was that it was Murder, not Suicide.Even though the room was locked from the inside and had no windows the assailant could escape through.The yeoman on duty hadn't seen or heard anyone.And the murder occurred in broad daylight. Even though it wasn't discovered until the next day when the cleaners came in.That's when I got the mission call.Not that they expected someone with long white-blonde hair to solve their...
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Phryne Fisher meets Underbelly in an arch, out-of-the-box debut historical crime caper.
A centuries-old curse, a house of secrets and a young woman determined to find out the truth.
Sydney, 1930: In a well-heeled corner of Paddington, just a short distance from the razor gangs of Darlinghurst and Kings Cross, sits La Maison des Fleurs, an upscale brothel run by the indomitable Madame. The star of La Maison is Violet Kelly – beautiful, clever and...
20) As a Favor
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A favor for her ex-husband leads Jill Smith to a blood-soaked crime scene Someone is stealing hubcaps from the Berkeley police department. An afternoon spent chasing the petty thief leaves beat cop Jill Smith exhausted, flustered, and in no mood to talk when her ex-husband Nat calls asking for a favor. A colleague of his at the county welfare department, Anne Spaulding, is missing. Jill doesn't care about her husband's new crush, but a note of fear...
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