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Family upstairs volume 2
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"Detective Inspector Samuel Owusu is called to [the banks of the Thames] after a tour guide makes a shocking discovery, one that will unearth a decades-old crime linked to the unsolved murder of three people in a grand Chelsea mansion thirty years before. In another part of the city, Rachel Rimmer receives shocking news as well. Her husband, away on business in the south of France, has been found murdered. The police demand she immediately come to...
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Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "Best Books of the Year"
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking-winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction-comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made men set against a backdrop of crime and vice in the sprawling badlands of Shanghai.
Shanghai, 1930s: It was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where...
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's beloved series. It's spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. But not everything buried should come alive again. Not everything lying dormant should reemerge. But something has. As the villagers prepare for a special celebration, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir find themselves increasingly worried. A young man and...
4) Deal breaker
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 1
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Deal Breaker is the debut of Myron Bolitar, a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent. When Myron's prize quarterback receives a call from a former girlfriend, who was believed to be dead, Myron's deal begins to so sour. Myron learns about the dark side of the business, where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
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A shattering tale of corruption and homicide featuring Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont.
A shocking photo screamed from the front pages of the tabloids—the last moments of a life captured for all the world to see. The look of sheer terror eternally frozen on the face of the doomed woman indicated that her fatal fall from an upper story of an unfinished Seattle skyscraper was no desperate suicide—and that look will
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In The Silent Sister, Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she's in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As...
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"Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But...
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Lily Bard mysteries volume 1
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A new series set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who runs a cleaning business. One night in a garbage bag she discovers the body of her landlord, which makes her a suspect. Now she must clear her name. A study in smalltown inhabitants.
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"A possible serial killer on the loose sends tea maven Theodosia Browning into a whirlwind of investigation in this latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series. It was a dark and stormy night, but that was the least of Theodosia Browning's troubles. As she approaches St. Philips Graveyard, Theodosia sees two figures locked in a strange embrace. Wiping rain from her eyes, Theodosia realizes she has just witnessed a brutal murder and...
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Obsidian
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©2011
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Small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson had no idea two stray cats could nuzzle their way into her life. But when murder interrupts Maryville Heights' music festival, Kathleen finds herself the prime suspect. She's relying on Owen and Hercules to solve a purr-fect murder.
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WINNER OF THE AGATHA • ARTHUR ELLIS • DILYS • DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion...
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion...
14) His & hers
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Anna Andrews finally has what she wants. Almost. She's worked hard to become the main TV presenter of the BBC's lunchtime news, putting work before friends, family, and her now ex-husband. So, when someone threatens to take her dream job away, she'll do almost anything to keep it. When asked to cover a murder in Blackdown--the sleepy countryside village where she grew up--Anna is reluctant to go. But when the victim turns out to be one of her childhood...
15) Dust
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 21
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Putnam Adult
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[2013]
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"The new Kay Scarpetta novel ... After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate...
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Witch Lily Ivory hides her powers and hopes for a normal life when she opens Aunt Cora's Closet, a vintage clothing store in San Francisco. Her knack for vintage fashions, with her ability to sense vibrations from the past, help make her store a big hit. But when a client is murdered and children start disappearing, Lily has to use her unique skills to investigate. She tries to keep her identity a secret while investigating, but it's not easy ...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2020]
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Amateur detective Pepper Blouse, a rising seventh-grader, cannot resist investigating when her Great Aunt Florence passes away under mysterious circumstances, but strictly following her mother's Detective Rulebook may not be the best plan.
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 20
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Gabriel Allon has slipped quietly into Venice for a much needed holiday with his wife and two young children. But when Pope Paul VII dies suddenly, Gabriel is summoned to Rome by the Holy Father's loyal private secretary, Archbishop Luigi Donati. A billion Catholic faithful have been told that the pope died of a heart attack. Donati, however, has two good reasons to suspect his master was murdered. The Swiss Guard who was standing watch outside the...
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Stone Barrington novels volume 4
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When an actor's wife is abducted in Hollywood, the husband turns for help to lawyer Stone Barrington, the wife's ex-boyfriend. For Barrington, it is a dangerous assignment as the Mafia is involved, but he knows danger, having been a New York policeman.
20) Bury the lead
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 3
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His streak of murder case acquttals made him a regular on cable talk shows. His recent $22 million inheritance bought him a dog rescue operation named after his beloved golden retriever. Now after turning down cases left and right, attorney Andy Carpenter feels like he's facing a midlife crisis. and just when he decides he needs some real work, a newspaper owner friend asks Andy to protect his star reporter. Daniel Cummings is being used as a mouthpiece...
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