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Pie Shop mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
No one can die from a pie ... or can they? Hanna Denton has returned home to Crystal Cove, California, to take over the pie shop her Grannie Louise owned for thirty years. Grannie has moved to the ritzy retirement community and Hanna is working her hardest to live up to Grannie's reputation for baking the best pies in the state. Until she's faced with a bigger challenge: convincing the police that Grannie couldn't possibly have committed murder.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Sent to a mysterious unnamed city in Soviet Russia, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov must serve out his prison sentence studying the effect of radiation on local animals and struggles to find answers about what is being hidden from the thousands who live in the town.
8623) An artless demise
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Lady Darby returns to London with her new husband, Sebastian Gage, but newlywed bliss won't last for long when her past comes back to haunt her in the latest installment in this mystery series. November 1831. After fleeing London in infamy more than two years prior, Lady Kiera Darby's return to the city is anything but mundane, though not for the reasons she expected. A gang of body snatchers is arrested on suspicion of imitating the notorious misdeeds...
8624) Dance with death
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"London, 1893: Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn are called in to protect Tsesarevich Nicholas from nefarious forces as he travels to England for a royal wedding-in Dance with Death, the next mystery in Will Thomas's beloved series. In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina mistress, Mathilde Kchessinska. Rumored to be the target...
8625) Three-inch teeth
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Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 24
Language
English
Description
"A rogue grizzly bear has gone on a rampage--killing, among others, the potential fiancée of Joe's daughter. At the same time, Dallas Cates, who Joe helped lock up years ago, is released from prison with a special list tattooed on his skin. He wants revenge on the people who sent him away: the six people he blames for the deaths of his entire family and the loss of his reputation and property. Using the grizzly attacks as cover, Cates sets out to...
8626) Dead as a doornail
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Series
Language
English
Description
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse turns sleuth to investigate a mysterious sniper who has set his sights on the local changeling population, especially when her brother Jason becomes the prime suspect in the deadly attacks.
8627) Protecting her heart
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English
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"London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told. She turns...
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Greenglass House volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Ghosts, a kidnapping, a crew of young detectives, and family secrets mix in this new standalone mystery set in the world of the bestselling Greenglass House, from a National Book Award nominee and Edgar Award-winning author."--Provided by publisher.
8629) Farewell, my lovely
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Series
Language
English
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Moose Malloy, a six-foot-five giant just out of prison, gets detective Philip Marlowe involved in his seemingly hopeless search for Velma, his missing girlfriend.
8630) Marina
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"When boarding-school student Oscar Drai meets Marina, she promises him a mystery and takes him to a secret graveyard deep in Barcelona, where they witness a woman dressed in black lay a single rose atop a gravestone etched with a black butterfly. Their curiosity leads them down a dangerous path, and they discover a decades-old conspiracy that puts their lives in the hands of forces more sinister and mystical than they could have believed possible"--...
8631) Doggie day care murder
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Series
Melanie Travis mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Series
Bryant and May mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
8633) Killing floor
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A discharged soldier is framed for a murder by the chief of police in a small town in Georgia where he has just arrived. When the soldier learns that the murdered man was his brother he breaks out of jail and carries out his own investigation.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry-- "Nemetseva is dead!" Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment...
8635) Lord of the silent
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 15
Language
English
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The intrepid archeologist Amelia Peabody and her fearless family, the Emersons, are back in Egypt, and something very nasty is afoot in Lord of the Silent—New York Times bestselling Grandmaster Elizabeth Peters’s sparkling adventure with more riddles than the Sphinx and more close calls and stunning escapes than an Indiana Jones movie. --from Amazon.
8636) Blue Madonna
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English
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"Billy Boyle, US Army detective and ex-Boston cop, faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy. It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black market dealings. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months' hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: he can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue...
8637) Why shoot a butler?
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English
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It is a complete mystery why anyone would choose to murder the trusted old butler of Norton Manor. Barrister turned amateur detective, Frank Amberley, has reason to suspect that the shooting involves the nervy young lady discovered at the scene of the crime, a snooping gentleman in the halls of Greythorne and then a second dead body. This is a dramatic tale of upstairs, downstairs and family secrets.
On a dark night, along a lonely country road,...
8638) Ruthless
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Series
Pretty little liars volume 10
Language
English
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Hanna, Spencer, Emily and Aria are trying to move on and forget about their old friend Alison DiLaurentis and all the torture she put them through, but someone is trying to keep her spirit alive.
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Series
Mr. Penguin volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Aspiring Professional Adventurer Mr. Penguin, his colleague, Colin the spider, and friends Edith and Gordon crash-land on a snowy mountain where they face an evil hypnotist and seek missing pets.--
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Series
Agatha Christie novels volume 2
Publisher
Washington Square Press/Atria
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
Description
"Agatha Christie--the Queen of Crime--travels to the breathtaking Canary Islands to investigate the mysterious death of a British agent in this riveting sequel to the "twisty thriller" (Publishers Weekly) A Talent for Murder. Two months after the events of A Talent for Murder, during which Agatha Christie "disappeared," the famed mystery writer's remarkable talent for detection has captured the attention of British Special Agent Davison. Now, at his...
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