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A cross and a bouquet of blue and pink flowers lead eleven-year-old Tiffany Gardner to investigate a mysterious neighborhood death. Was it murder? And who is the Alcatraz occupation hero Tiffany's grandmother wants to meet? Will Tiffany's older brother Quincy and Grandma Warrior assist in time when Tiffany's investigations become perilous? The dusty streets of South Tucson hide dangerous secrets for this young detective.
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Writer Mark Hamilton and Hurricane Ridge park ranger Lisa Andrews are swept into a vortex of death and political retribution when Mark shelters a drug overdosed hiker named BJ in his motel room. He doesn't know BJ was the lover of a murdered DEA undercover agent and knows where he hid 400 pounds of crystal meth stolen from a cartel and and a priceless cache of Aztec artifacts liberated from a site guarded by the U.S. government. BJ is under heavy...
3) Frank
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Frank is a long-retired police detective with a new mystery to solve: Is someone stealing mundane things like toothpaste and dishwashing liquid from his neighbor? With his memory failing, he can't be sure there have actually been any crimes...or that he's not committing them himself!
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When summer homes on a large New Hampshire lake are being robbed during the off-season, one homeowner decides to take matters into his own hands. But the would-be burglar, armed with a sharp knife, has his own plans. So, whose plan will emerge victorious? The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases the best in modern mystery and crime stories, personally selected by one of the most acclaimed short stories authors and editors in the mystery field.
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Peter Bannerman, veterinarian and amateur detective, deserves a summer vacation. Peter and his family head to a remote fishing lodge in northern Manitoba for a canoeing trip with his champion sniffer dog, Pippin. But a series of incidents color their plans. The lodge's sled team of huskies has been poisoned and, at the same time, a floatplane crashes into the lake, killing the pilot and both passengers. While Peter works to save the huskies, it is...
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Im oberschwäbischen Ried ist es mit der Idylle vorbei, als das It-Girl der regionalen Wurstbranche, Monika Magen-Kohler, mit Messern gespickt und einer Leberwurst Royal im Rachen aufgefunden wird. Eben jener Wurstkreation, die zuvor zum regionalen Hit auf den Vesperbrettchen geworden ist. Lehrer Bönle ermittelt privat im Auftrag des Ehemanns der Toten. Als dann auch noch eine vegan lebende Schülerin Bönles kurz vor den Ferien verschwindet, wollen...
8) Two For One
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Two for One" is a return to Brad Parks's storytelling roots: New Jersey, his place of birth and also where he spent ten years as a young reporter for the state's largest newspaper, The Star-Ledger. Every character you'll meet in this story is more than likely someone he bumped into during that time. Hope you enjoy this healthy serving of Garden State goodness. The Barb Goffman Presents series showcases modern masterpieces of mystery, crime, and suspense...
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Lydia runs her own B&B and restaurant in the tourist town of Lake Hope, in Central Washington. Though she works all the time, she enjoys the challenge. Family and good friends keep her spirits up, but no special someone that rocks her world. Just guests and customers that come through regularly, including her least favorite, the retired principal of the local high school that everyone hates. When the principal turns up dead, stabbed by one of the...
10) Mambo to Murder
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The cops told Joe Moran he was through as a private eye. They'd revoked his license, taken away his gun permit, and given him orders to get out of the state. They'd had enough of his two-fisted methods and the trickery by which he'd short-circuited the law to gain his clients' brand of justice. But it was only the beginning...
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Fin de siècle Paris: the world of Verlaine and Zola, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec; a time of anarchists, scientists, and occultists, when can-can skirts were raised at the Moulin Rouge and fortunes were lost on the Panama Canal. Armand de Valois was one of these latter unfortunates, stricken by yellow fever at the site of his ruin. When his widow Odette disappears into his tomb in the Père-Lachaise cemetery and never returns, her maid Denise fears...
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Felix Faber hat genug von Deutschland. Er wandert nach Gran Canaria aus und heuert bei einer aufstrebenden Zeitung in Las Palmas an. Sein Start verläuft vielversprechend. Als kurze Zeit später auf dem Roque Nublo, einem der höchsten Berge der Insel, eine Leiche gefunden wird, stellt Faber eigene Ermittlungen an. Dabei bekommt er es nicht nur mit der taffen Ermittlerin Ana Montero zu tun, sondern lernt auch die dunklen Seiten der Touristeninsel...
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Life in a small town can be murder...Meet Carly Keene. She's a professional photographer, part-time bakery employee, and a small town girl who loves everything about her hometown, until she discovers that there's a murderer on the loose.Parker's Mill has a killer in its midst. The sleepy little Georgia town is full of quirky characters, but one of them is a stone-cold killer. When Carly discovers the body of one of her photography clients in his bathtub,...
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The fourth title in Claude Izner's bestselling Victor Legris mystery series, set in belle-epoque Paris
The clock of the Église Trinité had just struck eight o'clock in the morning when, without warning, an ear-splitting explosion ripped through the district. A building on rue de Clichy rocked on its foundations, and within seconds its staircase had collapsed from top to bottom and its windows had shattered.
His body vibrated with the shock of...
15) Death Wore Fins
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Though he did work for a small-town newspaper, Ken Svederup had been around, and to him the expense-paid trip he had won for a front-page news beat seemed pretty phony. But never look a gift horse... He was off to meet the Big Boss in California-and no doubt he'd get the real story.
Ken did meet the Big Boss, but he had not anticipated Clara Kelly, whose beauty and peppery temper made him forget the girls back home in Milquevais, Minnesota.
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Get three brilliant and captivating stories together featuring British detectives Jack Rutherford and Amanda Lacey by master storyteller Linda Coles. "Move over Agatha Christie, there's a new dame in town." Amazon reviewer. Here's what's in this collection: Hey You, Pretty Face London, Winter, 1999. An abandoned baby. Three girls stolen in the night. Two connected cases? When an abandoned newborn baby is discovered, DC Jack Rutherford becomes involved....
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What should be a wonderful winter weekend trip turns into a murder scene! When Rosie and friends travel to Siren's Lake Resort, they are expecting a wonderful weekend getaway. What they don't expect is the owner of the resort to turn up dead. The owner, Cassandra, had come to Greylock Cove multiple times to ask Rosie for help. When Cassandra winds up dead, it's ruled as an accident, but Rosie thinks there has to be something more. She's determined...
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What do you do when Thanksgiving is just around the corner and you're laid up with a broken leg? You get involved in another mystery, of course!Confined to the house, convalescing, Darcy Sweet has plenty of time to organize the family dinner she and Jon are hosting for Thanksgiving.It should be easy to stay out of trouble, right?Wrong!When the insurance rep handling Darcy's case visits her home to discuss her work place accident claim he unknowingly...
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As the owner of Mystery Cup Café in Wilton, Missouri, a town made famous by a string of long-ago murders, Blake Harper is used to the mysterious. When her barista is found strangled in a mound of coffee beans, Blake vows to find the killer, even though her sister, the town's lead police detective, tells her to stay out of it.Blake finds plenty of suspects, like the owners of a rival coffee shop and the handsome new bookstore owner. But when new threats...
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