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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 5
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Isabel’s incandescent curiosity is piqued when she is asked to help a professor of medicine who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If not, what explains the tragic accident that resulted in the death of a patient?
An investigation is in order, especially since a man’s reputation is in jeopardy, and a great...
An investigation is in order, especially since a man’s reputation is in jeopardy, and a great...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 8
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The eighth delightful installment in the ongoing saga of the life and loves of Isabel Dalhousie. For Isabel there is the ever-present question of marriage, and the perennially difficult issue of her relationship with Cat, whose choice of men is as dubious as ever.
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 6
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New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith crafts the sixth entertaining novel starring the ever ethical Isabel Dalhousie. The sensational sixth installment in the best-selling chronicles of the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie finds our inquisitive heroine and new mother racing two very troublesome people from her past. Isabel's son, Charlie, is only eighteen months, but his social life is already kicking into high gear, and...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 4
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English
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Isabel Dalhousie attends an art auction and finds a painting attributed to a now-deceased artist that features a person whom the artist could only have encountered after his supposed death, meaning that either the artwork is a forgery or the artist could still be alive.
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 9
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Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the painting's wealthy owner.
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 11
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English
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Rosemary is something of a matchmaker and has brought together a cosmetic surgeon and a successful banker at her most recent dinner party. But new information comes to light about the cosmetic surgeon that causes Rosemary to doubt the auspiciousness of the match. Amateur sleuth and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie agrees to find out more, but her inquiries take an unexpected turn, and she starts to wonder which of the two she should be investigating after...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 10
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English
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"The ever-delightful, insatiably curious Edinburgh philosopher and amateur sleuth returns to take on a case unlike any she's had before--this one with paranormal implications--in the tenth installment of this beloved author's consistently best-selling series. From a small town outside Edinburgh comes the news that a young boy has been recounting vivid recollections of a past life: a perfect description of an island off the coast of Scotland which...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 3
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English
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When friends from Dallas introduce her to Tom Bruce, a Texas tycoon, Isabel Dalhousie turns sleuth to investigate Tom's young fiancée, who may be more interested in Tom's money than in Tom.
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 13
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English
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"One of the author's most beloved characters is back--and once again she will have to call upon her powers of deduction and her unflappable moral code to unravel a new philosophical mystery. In Edinburgh, rumors and gossip abound. But Isabel well knows that such things can't be taken at face value. Still, the latest whispers hint at mysterious goings-on, and who but Isabel can be trusted to get to the bottom of them? At the same time, she must deal...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 12
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English
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"As the mother of two small children, Isabel finds herself at the nursery school gate enlarging her circle of friends to include other parents. There she meets Patricia, a musician living in Edinburgh, the mother of a small classmate called Basil Phelps. Patricia takes to Isabel and tries to bring Isabel into her social circle. Isabel is vaguely disquieted by this--there is something about Patricia that she does not quite like, but, with her usual...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 14
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"In a new novel from a beloved and bestselling author, our favorite moral philosopher is caught up in a delicate dispute between members of a prominent family as her husband, Jamie, is dragged into his own internecine rivalry. Isabel Dalhousie accepts an invitation to serve on the advisory committee of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, but soon finds herself swept up in an all-too-familiar dilemma. David is the grandson of a Scottish clan chief...
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