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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
"This 1931 novel, now republished as part of the British Library's Crime Classics series, is a cunningly concocted locked-room mystery, a staple of Golden Age detective fiction." -Booklist STARRED review
Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed...
82) Mother nature
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Em Hansen mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
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Javier Falcon mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón investigates a faceless, mutilated corpse, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a mosque in the basement of a devastated apartment building confirms everybody's terrorist fears. Panic sweeps the city and the region goes on red alert. As more bodies are dragged from the rubble, the media interest and political pressure intensify and Falcón suspects that all is not what it...
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Scout Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Marion Zetland lives with her domineering older brother John in a crumbling mansion on the edge of a northern seaside resort. A timid spinster in her fifties who still sleeps with teddy bears, Marion does her best to live by John's rules, even if it means turning a blind eye to the noises she hears coming from behind the cellar door and turning a blind eye to the women's laundry in the hamper that isn't hers. For years, she's buried the signs of...
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Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
It's a day like any other for Deuce Winters, a stay-at-home dad in sleepy Rose Petal, Texas, where he and his three-year-old daughter Carly are making their weekly trip to the grocery store. But the discovery of a dead body in his mini-van quickly throws his quiet life into disarray. In a town where gossip spreads faster than a brush fire in July, it doesn't help that the victim ruined Deuce's high school football career and married his ex-girlfriend....
86) Now you see him
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Series
Bayou books (Stella Cameron) volume 4
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
Down deep inside every kid is a nerd. Take it from five best friends. Being "nerdy" in middle school isn't a bad thing--I should know! Me and my friends are nerds. Some of us are geeky but funny, smart but never boring. One is a jock but not jerk. We don't quite fit. But we're funny. We're fun. We're total chaos. And we own it--until one of us is targeted by a maniac. It will take all of our nerdiest skills to Sherlock Holmes our way out of one dangerous...
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and the railways drive progress. Jim can't believe his luck to have gotten his foot in the door at South East Railway, run out of Waterloo Station. He finds, however, that his duties involve a graveyard shift, literally-a railway line that takes coffins from...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"From the wildly inventive mind of thriller master Sandrone Dazieri, whose first novel featuring investigators Colomba Caselli and Dante Torre, Kill the Father, was an international bestseller, comes the ingenious second novel in the series, Kill the Angel. In Rome, a high-speed train hurtles into the city's main station with a carriage full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. Subsequently,...
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1204 A.D., the Fools' Guild is in hiding, under attack from the forces of Pope Innocent III. Theophilos and Claudia, jesters with the Guild, are sent to enlist the help of a former guild member - the minstrel Folquet, now the abbot Folq at a Cistercian monastery - to intercede with the pope on their behalf. But while they are at the abbey pleading their case, a gruesome murder takes place - a monk is killed in the librarium and a cryptic message...
92) Exposure
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
An investigative reporter hired to expose corruption at the highest levels of the government uncovers a chilling link to World War II in this expertly crafted thriller. As investigative reporter for the Sunday Herald's high-profile "Exposure" column, Julia Hamilton exposes everything from corruption in high places to the mutilation and murder of five-year-old twin sisters in a small Welsh village. Now that Julia's proven herself, her boss, Lord William...
93) Only one lie
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Publisher
Rainer Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022].
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English
Description
"Seattle, 1942: News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of a young Max Ellis, heir to the wealthiest banking family on the west coast. When the boy's parents comply with the ransom demands, the kidnapper is found dead and their son remains missing. For newlywed Vera Chandler, the story hits close to home--her husband Hugh is just six months into his job as the Ellis's private pilot. Within days, Hugh is deployed to the Pacific as a navy pilot,...
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Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 4
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Andrew M. Greeley's bestselling Nuala Anne McGrail mystery series returns with the fourth installment, Irish Mist
Dermot Michael Coyne isn't sure what he's gotten himself into. Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful and vivacious "Celtic witch" has finally agreed to marry him. But they've barely tied the knot when Nuala's psychic "spells" begin again. Visions of a burning castle, the captain of the infamous "Black and Tan" police force, a wild woman...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
Rose Gardner has survived plenty of close scrapes in the past, but her latest bit of trouble has landed her in the Fenton County holding cell on trumped up charges. The most powerful man in southern Arkansas, J.R. Simmons, is determined to put her behind bars for good and destroy everything she holds dear, including her boyfriend, Mason, and her friend Skeeter, reigning king of the Fenton County crime world. In a stunning betrayal, it seems as if...
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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October, 1195. High-spirited young knights, drunken squires, pickpockets and horse thieves are pouring into Exeter for a one-day jousting tournament. During the tournament there's a serious altercation between Hugo Peverel, and Reginald de Charterai. When, two days later, Sir Hugo's body is found in a barn on his estate, de Charterai would seem the obvious culprit. But there's no shortage of people who wished the hated Hugo dead. All three of his...
97) Muslin mystery
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Series
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Sarah agrees to restore an old quilt for a wealthy recluse, she's surprised by a message that is formed when the blocks of quilt are put together. It's a cry for help, but Sarah doesn't know who wrote it or how long ago. Her client won't reveal any information about it, and a stranger warns her that she may be in danger. Will Sarah pursue this mystery or listen to the stranger for fear for her own life?
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Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 4
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt by the six daughters he adopted from around the globe--she...
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Jessie Cole novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ever since a car accident left reporter Ben Morrison with amnesia, hes been trying to rebuild a future as he puts together the pieces of his past. With the help of PI Jessie Cole, hes getting closer. But few who remember Bens troubled childhood want to talk. And those who do--including his father, imprisoned for a shocking crime--are stirring disturbing memories given up for dead. Then Jessie is sidetracked by a surveillance request from a suspicious...
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