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Mas Arai mysteries volume 7
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Mas Arai returns to Japan in this Edgar and Anthony Award nominated novel.
At eighty-five years old, Mas Arai hasn't been back to his birthplace of Japan in nearly fifty years. The retired LA gardener and amateur detective has come to think of Altadena, California as his home. But now a sobering event calls him back East. Mas must bring the ashes of his best friend, Haruo Mukai-who survived the atomic bombings of 1945-to Haruo's sister on an island...
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In this mystery novel as a small-town Virginia obituary writer looks into the life-and suspicious death-of her latest subject.
Riley Ellison thought she was making a bold move when she left her job at the Tuttle Corner Library for the exciting world of print journalism. Except it hasn't been all that exciting so far. As the Tuttle Times' new obituary writer, her career prospects seem deader than ever. But all that changes when Riley's former co-worker...
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If Maggie Fiori doesn't have it all, she's got plenty: a writing job at a San Francisco's chic Small Town magazine, a handsome attorney husband, two beautiful sons, and a comfortable life in Oakland. But she's hiding a dark secret beneath her smart mouth and workaday life. That secret threatens to come out when she finds her editor dead in his gorgeous Pacific Heights Victorian. Now, with a killer still on the loose, Maggie must come to terms with...
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Mas Arai mysteries volume 5
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Hiroshima survivor Mas Arai first arrived in Watsonville, California in the 1940s. Now a semi-retired gardener living in an LA suburb, he returns for a cousin's funeral only to get entangled in the mystery of a young woman's murder. Was his cousin murdered, too? Mas has to figure out what happened, keep himself safe in the face of considerable peril, and uncover the mystery of a new strawberry varietal so important that someone just might be willing...
5) Blood Hina
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Mas Arai mysteries volume 4
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Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and the cranky detective and semi-retired gardener has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when the ancient Japanese doll display that belongs to Haruo's fiancée goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To save his friend's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heartbreaking memories, and murder stretching from the internment camps of the 1940s through the...
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Twenty years in Human Resources have pushed Chuck Restic into an existential crisis. Only when he sets out to find a missing employee from his L. A. firm does he feel alive again. Applying his HR skills and wit to his detective work, Chuck unravels a web of crooked real estate deals and three murders, staving off a fourth: his own.
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More than ten years after The Foulest Things, murder and mayhem return to Ottawa in the highly-anticipated next installment of Amy Tector's acclaimed Dominion Archives Mystery series.It's a stormy summer day when Ottawa coroner Dr. Cate Spencer is called to the scene of an alleged suicide. Inside a narrow vault in the Dominion Archives' nitrate film storage facility-kept separate from the rest of the collection due to its dangerous combustibility-officers...
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It's the middle of the pandemic and Hawaii has been virtually closed to tourists.
So when Leilani Santiago and her young sisters save a mysterious woman wearing an unusual lei from drowning in Waimea Bay in Kaua'i, questions abound. Who is she and where did she come from? Leilani suddenly finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation when the lei is traced back to her best friend, the very pregnant Courtney Kahuakai, and her family's flower...
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Leilani Santiago mysteries volume 1
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Leilani Santiago is back in her birthplace, the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, to help keep afloat the family business, a shave ice shack. When she goes to work one morning, she stumbles across a dead body, a young pro surfer who was being coached by her estranged father. As her father soon becomes the No. 1 murder suspect, Leilani must find the real killer and somehow safeguard her ill mother, little sisters, and grandmother while also preserving a long-distance...
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Get ready for a thrilling new mystery series from the author of The Honeybee Emeralds.Ottawa, January 2010. Canada's historic Dominion Archives.Junior archivist Jess Kendall is struggling to find her footing in her new role. Her colleagues undermine her, her boss hates her, and her only romantic prospect hides a whiskey bottle in his desk. Desperate to make a good impression, Jess's luck begins to change when she discovers a series of mysterious letters...
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A murder has been committed but how could it have happened? Was the room locked from the inside? Was the suspect or killer actually close to the scene or death or, impossibly, miles away? How come the body shows no sign of violence? Where is the weapon that inflicted the deadly blow? Was the right person actually killed? Crime and mystery fiction can be full of impenetrable conundrums and endless question marks when the story itself becomes a reality-defying...
12) The Ugly Truth
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There's been a shocking double murder in Tuttle Corner, Virginia, involving high-profile players from Washington D.C. This brings national attention―and big-city competition for the story―to junior reporter Riley Ellison's little corner of the world. Beloved café owner Rosalee is the prime suspect in the violent crimes, but she insists on her innocence. In exchange for protection, Rosalee gives Riley and her fellow reporter Holman exclusive information...
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Reeling after tragedy hits close to home, young journalist Riley Ellison becomes obsessed with uncovering the secret that led to her grandfather's murder years before and that just took another life in Tuttle Corner. Her desperate search for answers leads her down a dark path, both personally and professionally, as she struggles with how far she's willing to go to get answers. Just as she finally discovers the truth, she's forced to choose between...
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