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"Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Our Queen of Twists, bestselling author of Daisy Darker and Rock Paper Scissors Alice Feeney, returns with another thrilling mystery filled with drama and her trademark surprises. Twenty years after a baby is stolen from a stroller, a woman is murdered in a care home. The two crimes are somehow linked, and a good bad girl may be the key to discovering the truth. Edith...
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"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable...
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UBC Press
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Explores the role and implications of commissions such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, particularly their limits and possibilities in an era of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Since before Confederation, colonial governments have used this legal mechanism to address deep societal challenges. Whether it is a public inquiry, truth commission, or royal...
4) Showstopper
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Peter Diamond mysteries volume 21
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"Since the start of the hit TV show Swift in 2013, its cast and crew have been plagued by misfortune. First, a star actress pulls out of the show before it begins-and by 2019, there have been multiple injuries by fall, fire, or drowning; two deaths; and two missing persons cases. The popular media around Bath, England, quickly decides it's a curse, but is it as simple as that? Is someone behind these fishy incidents? Peter Diamond, Chief Superintendent...
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Imagine if you could hire a new investigator and hand her a manual with step-by-step instructions for your most basic assignments! How much time could be saved in training without answering endless questions in person, by email, text or phone? With the INVESTIGATOR PROCEDURES MANUAL, you can provide your new hire with instructions for conducting client interviews, locating a witness, developing a time line, or preparing a report. These are just some...
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La escritura de un anteproyecto de investigación demanda pensar y repensar las ideas, formularlas en el papel y pulirlas hasta dejarlas a punto; en otras palabras, volver concreta, comprensible y factible la investigación que antes estaba solo en la cabeza. Por eso, un anteproyecto elaborado con juicio es de gran utilidad: les da estructura a las ideas, demarca el camino a seguir, asegura el feliz término del trabajo y, como si fuera poco, garantiza...
7) Interpretación y Presentación del Patrimonio Arqueológico al aire libre. El caso de Corpus Christi (
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El territorio guaraní misionero posee, aún hoy, un rico acervo histórico arqueológico materializado en su paisaje, testimonio de una experiencia singular, que se desarrolló entre los guaraníes y los padres jesuitas de la Compañía de Jesús.
Un patrimonio común compartido entre los países de Argentina, Paraguay, Brasil y Uruguay. Cuyos diferentes pueblos, ahora herederos de este legado histórico, se han visto en la necesidad de fortalecer...
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Last in a centuries-old lineage of healing women, Dora Idesova was raised by her aunt Surmena in the White Carpathians. Resistant to superstition, Dora grew up hearing stories of the "goddesses" who were said to conjure love and curses and, through divine connection, cure the spirit and the body. Now an academic, Dora is researching the tales that for generations spellbound the hillside where she grew up. As the mysteries become truths, they reveal...
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Good girl's guide to murder volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES • More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled sequel when Pip finds herself in another deadly case.
Pip is not a detective anymore.
With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.
But...
Pip is not a detective anymore.
With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her.
But...
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"Owen's wife was murdered. His best friend, Luna, found the body. Everything and everyone is thrown into question in this riveting suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger. Owen is rich, charming, and chronically dissatisfied. His life is forever entangled with Luna Grey, his no-nonsense best friend who is struggling to hide her dark past. From the fateful day they meet in college, the two become inextricably linked....
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Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 21
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Ballantine Books
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"Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt's grandmother, accepts her longtime friend Winnie's gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Winnie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins investigating Winnie's disappearance. Mariah's uncanny...
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En mayo de 2018 una noticia marcó los titulares de los medios: dos jóvenes chilenos que hacían un viaje de aventura turística arriesgaban una condena a morir en la horca por el asesinato de una ciudadana trans en Kuala Lumpur, capital de Malasia. Confinados en una cárcel digna del Expreso de medianoche, vivieron un calvario, mientras desde Chile se movilizaban sus familiares, amigos y autoridades. Parlamentarios y la cancillería intervinieron...
14) Whale done
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FunJungle volume 8
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IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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While visiting his girlfriend Summer in Malibu, Teddy stumbles upon two mysteries involving a blown up whale explosion and a string of beach sand thefts, but his investigation is sidetracked by a rumor that his girlfriend is dating a celebrity, leading him to question their relationship.
16) Girls like us
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"FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's...
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Capital crimes series volume 26
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Forge
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Defending a patient who has been implicated in the murder of a Washington psychiatrist, Mackenzie Smith uncovers a link between the victim and a rogue government mind control project that has prompted the assassination of a presidential forerunner.
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Join ex-Air Force reserve officer turned private detective Richard Martinez as he investigates real-life criminal and moral cases in this captivating (and sometimes comedic) book. With a background as personal security staff for Boris Johnson, Martinez brings a unique perspective to his work as a private detective. From catching cheats and fraudsters to using hi-tech surveillance gadgets and forensics, he uses his expertise and a variety of evidence...
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