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1) Deadlock
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Bob Skinner mystery volume 33
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Sir Robert Skinner's stock is rising--after retiring from the police service he's been promoted to head an international media organisation. Yet a series of unexplained deaths on his home turf in Scotland threaten to bring him crashing back down to earth. As Skinner helps the elderly in his local community, several residents seem to die of natural causes. But when a gruesome discovery is made in a Glasgow flat and one of Skinner's long-time friends--an...
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It's 1864 when orphaned Lizzie Martin becomes companion to a wealthy widow. She is intrigued to discover that her predecessor ran off without warning, and when the girl's body is found close to the site where the new St. Pancras station is being built, Lizzie feels compelled to find out more. This is the first in an addictive new Victorian crime series from Ann Granger.
3) Storm rider
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In life, horse-fancier and antiques dealer Glyn Cole caused a heap of trouble. His two-year absence has been something of a relief and his disappearance has been a miracle for one individual in particular: the person who killed him.
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When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned, Scotland's toughest cop is called in to solve the high-profile case... Skinner joins his old team in a complex murder investigation in the twenty-ninth gripping mystery in Quintin Jardine's bestselling crime series. Praise for Jardine's compelling novels: 'A masterclass in how murder-mysteries ought to be written' Scots Magazine When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion,...
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Everyone in the Istanbul neighbourhood of Moda knows the Devil's House. Four siblings live in separate apartments on different floors and are rumoured never to speak to each other. Then the sister is found stabbed through the heart. Inspector İkmen attends the scene, and finds her three brothers dead as well, each in their own apartments, but killed in the identical way. There is no sign of forced entry or burglary. When İkmen begins to dig into...
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Ireland, AD 671. The hamlet of Cloichín is said to be a veritable Eden, with its prosperous farms and close-knit, friendly community. But after a local farmer, his wife and two sons are murdered, a fanatical new priest orders the villagers to lynch the man accused of the crime. The only evidence they hold against him is the fact that he is a stranger to their land. Searching for accommodation on their journey home to Cashel, Sister Fidelma and Eadulf...
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Ireland. AD 672. The Feast of Beltaine is approaching and the seven senior princes of the kingdom of Muman are gathering at Cashel to discuss King Colgu's policies. Just days before the council meets, Brother Conchobhar, the keeper of the sacred sword, is found murdered. Sister Fidelma and her brother Colgu fear that the killer had been trying to steal the sword that symbolises the King's authority to rule. And as rumours begin to spread of an attempt...
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1311. Murder and mayhem prowl the highways and coffin paths of Medieval England ... It is four years since the death of King Edward I, but his reign of terror has cast long shadows over the kingdom. At Holyrood Abbey, sheltered in the depths of the Welsh march, the old king's former bodyguards protect his secret relics and watch over a mysterious prisoner who is kept in the abbey's dungeon. But their peaceful existence is shattered when Abbot Henry...
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