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Project Gutenberg
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English
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That evening the down train from London deposited at the little country station of Ramsdon but a single passenger, a man of middle height, shabbily dressed, with broad shoulders and long arms and a most unusual breadth and depth of chest. Of his face one could see little, for it was covered by a thick growth of dark curly hair, beard, moustache and whiskers, all overgrown and ill-tended, and as he came with a somewhat slow and ungainly walk along...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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America's Sherlock Holmes makes his thrilling debut in this classic volume of mind-boggling mysteries. Craig Kennedy is a Columbia University chemistry professor by day and New York's premier sleuth by night. With the help of his roommate and partner in detection, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, Kennedy uses his mastery of technology to solve the most puzzling of mysteries. In "The Deadly Tube," he investigates a case of murder by X-ray, and in...
23) One false move
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English
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"A killer read.” —The Lincoln Star Journal
One fatal mistake, and there’s no turning back.
Melanie Starks and her seventeen-year-old son, Charlie, have been running one con job or another for as long as she can remember. Worried that Charlie is starting to enjoy it, Melanie is ready to start over. Then her brother, Jared, reappears in her life.
Released on a technicality,
24) Pi
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market, while being pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination and a Kaballah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts.
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 23
Publisher
Recorded Books, LLC
Pub. Date
℗2001.
Language
English
Description
After a long drought, the citizens of Pickax are worried about wildfires. Their fears are soon realized. With a case of arson, the shooting of a volunteer fire-watcher and the murder of the president of the curling club, Jim Qwilleran and Co. are called in to sniff out the rat responsible.
26) Scare me
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Publisher
Exhibit A
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When did you last Google yourself?' Wealthy businessman Will Frost, gets woken in the middle of the night by an anonymous caller, asking him exactly this. When Will goes online, he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photographs of the inside of his home, along with [photographs] of six houses he's never seen before. In the first of these strange houses, a gruesome murder has already taken place. Will is then told that his own family...
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Sweet Read Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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GMA Buzz Pick ● Unravel a mysterious murder, find out White House secrets, and discover the truth in this debut political thriller
When D.C. Public Defender Nicki Jo Lewis pulls the gruesome F Street murder no one is surprised—she's the best. But quickly it becomes clear this case is different.
The D.C. police become mired in questions about another appalling crime scene seemingly unconnected. As Police Chief Coley tries
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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In a world where stick-thin women adorn fashion magazines and silver screens, plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid is grateful for the wild success--and fabulous fashion tips--of full-figured model Cait Connor. When Cait is found dead after months of extreme dieting, everyone assumes the risky regimen did her in. But then a second full-figured model meets an untimely end, and it's time to weigh the facts...and search for suspects.
At first it seems...
29) Devious
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Series
On the run volume 5
Publisher
CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
"Free-spirited Zoe Andrews has settled into married life and feels she has found her ideal niche working for a company that discreetly recovers lost items for elite clients, but her first assignment, which takes her to Edinburgh to recover a stolen painting, turns out to be more complicated than she expected. Instead of simply getting in touch with contacts in the art world, Zoe finds herself tangled in a web of contradictions. Why would someone steal...
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Publisher
Quercus
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English
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Selected by NPR's Maureen Corrigan and The Wall Street Journal's Tom Nolan as one of the best mysteries of the year, Gazan's The Dinosaur Feather—which the Financial Times called "outrageously entertaining"—is a classic of modern Scandinavian noir.
With keenly observed and deeply flawed characters, this scintillating thriller revolves around the controversial and fascinating connections between dinosaur and
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 7
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
32) The witness
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 4
Language
English
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A robbery ends in murder, the killers claim to be terrorists, and the only co-operative witness fears for his life. Police officer Matt Payne knew the dangers of his profession - but he never thought that he himself would need protection.
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English
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A Northern lawyer in a Southern town risks his life to bring a killer to justice in this suspenseful legal thriller by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
A Yankee through and through, Adam Shaw never felt at ease among the upper crust of the Deep South. An attorney to some of the most powerful people in Alabama, he is close with only two of them. When Adam’s best friend, Henry Cantwell, disappears after...
A Yankee through and through, Adam Shaw never felt at ease among the upper crust of the Deep South. An attorney to some of the most powerful people in Alabama, he is close with only two of them. When Adam’s best friend, Henry Cantwell, disappears after...
34) What she left
Author
Series
Martina Monroe volume 1
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Martina Monroe is a single bad day away from losing it all. Stuck catching insurance fraudsters and cheating spouses due to a DUI, the despondent PI yearns to return to more fulfilling gigs. So when a prospective client asks for her by name to identify an unknown infant in a family photo, she leaps at the opportunity and travels to the one place she swore never to go: back home. As the pressure mounts and the temptation of booze calls like a siren,...
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Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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America's greatest satirist sets his sights on England's most celebrated detective in this boisterous tale of revenge, murder, and the limits of logic Tortured, humiliated, and abandoned by her fiancé, a woman gives birth to a boy with an unusual gift. Blessed with a bloodhound's sense of smell, Archy Stillman can track a man clear across the country. His mother, who has spent sixteen years dreaming of vengeance, finally has the means to achieve...
36) Lazarus curse
Author
Series
Dr. Thomas Silkstone mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Pub Corp
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In 1780s London, American anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone is plunged into a swirling cauldron of sorcery, slavery, and cold-blooded murder . . .
When the sole survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition to Jamaica goes missing upon his return to London, Dr. Thomas Silkstone--entrusted with cataloging the expedition's New World specimens--feels compelled to investigate. There are rumors of a potion that has the power to raise the dead--and the formula...
37) Legs Benedict
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
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A week of "mayhem-as-usual" at Hillside Manor kicks off with the arrival of a mysterious "Mr. Smith" and his floozie "Mrs." from New York City-and it accelerates into chaos when Mr. Smith himself kicks off, a victim of the foulest of plays. Hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn is shocked to learn that her now-defunct roomer was actually "Legs" Benedict-hit man for the notorious Ronzini Family-and that virtually every other guests at her B&B had good reason...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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In the gripping new novel from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked -- despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to leave Albany and work in a major law firm in Manhattan. Feeling a need for roots, she buys...
39) All she wanted
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Series
Martina Monroe volume 3
Publisher
Keekstar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
PI Martina Monroe has found her groove working cold cases alongside Detective Hirsch at the CoCo County Sheriff's Department. With a growing team of cold case detectives, Martina and Hirsch are on the heels of bringing justice for Julie DeSoto, a woman Martina failed to protect one year earlier. But when Martina receives a haunting request from her past, it nearly tears her in two.
Author
Series
Body movers novels volume 5
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The Charmed Killer is on the loose in Atlanta and Carlotta Wren is caught up in the terror-;especially when her body-moving side business brings her dangerously close to the action.
And then...;
She's forced to take refuge in her former fiancé's house-;much to the chagrin of other interested parties...;
Her brother Wesley begins to behave as if he has his own death wish...;
And someone close to her is implicated in the mass murders.
Meanwhile,...
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