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Richard Jury mysteries volume 25
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"When the body of a French woman washes up on a wild inlet off the Cornish coast, Brian Macalvie, divisional commander with the Devon-Cornwall police is called in. Who could have killed this beautiful tourist, the only visible footprints nearby belonging to the two little girls who found her? While Macalvie reexamines the scene in the Scilly Islands, inspector Richard Jury-twenty miles away on Land's End-is at The Old Success pub, sharing a drink...
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Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana...
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Jocelyn Shore novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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"Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And that's only the beginning. From the guide who always seems to be off on his cell phone having the most urgent conversations to the young woman who begs off of almost...
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Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for...
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Minnesota trilogy volume 2
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014, c2009.
Language
English
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" A Norwegian tourist has been found murdered on the shore of Lake Superior--right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than one hundred years earlier. Four months later, the official investigation is supposedly over but still not resolved, and U.S. Forest Service officer Lance Hansen, drawn into the mystery by his grisly discovery of the body, is uncovering clues disturbingly close to home. His former father-in-law, Willy Dupree, may hold...
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Passport to peril mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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Travel escort Emily Andrew wonders if Professor Dorian Smoker accidentally fell overboard, or if his disappearance had something to do with a mysterious treasure map. Finding out the truth sends her plunging through jungles in a tropical heat that could turn into a crime wave.
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Passport to peril mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Emily Andrew lands in Australia, she and her hearty group of world-touring seniors know they're not in Iowa anymore. Winter is summer, drains drain counterclockwise, and all the comforts of home are, well, back home. Even Emily's love life is upside down: her darling detective Etienne Miceli has yet to propose, while tour director Duncan Lazarus is vying to be more than just mates. But when a fellow traveler turns up dead, Emily fears something...
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