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Frieda Klein novels volume 7
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It started with Monday. But it doesn't end with Sunday.
Read Sunday Silence, and brace yourself for the breathtaking series finale in summer 2018. Lover of London, gifted psychologist, frequent police consultant - Frieda Klein is many things. And now she's a person of interest in a murder case. A body has been discovered in the most unlikely and horrifying of places: beneath the floorboards of Frieda's house.
The corpse is only months old, but...
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"Emotionally spry, smartly suspenseful, Allott's arresting debut novel vibrates with Hitchcockian atmosphere." - Booklist (starred review)
"The Silence is told in alternating sections that move back and forth in time between 1997 and thirty years earlier, building tension to the snapping point. Old misunderstandings are resolved for the reader, and then replaced by new ones... Emotionally wrenching." - Wall Street Journal
"Susan Allott conjures...
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Every woman has a secret life . . .Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she's spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father's death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a 'creative...
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 16
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English
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Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his new murder investigation team are called to investigate a deadly bombing and while putting together the puzzle, uncover an unexpected pattern, including the disappearance of a mysterious bystander.
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While traveling from London to Kingfisher Hill to discretely investigate murder allegations against a wealthy client's wife, Hercule Poirot swaps seats with a nervous train passenger before a second killing is complicated by a series of impossible confessions.
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Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James mysteries volume 17
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English
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Reagan Keating has been murdered. Gemma soon discovers that Reagan's death is the second tragedy in this exclusive London park. Meanwhile, Kincaid finds himself plagued by disturbing questions about several previous - and seemingly unrelated - cases involving members of the force. As Gemma begins to see a solution to her case, she realizes she holds a child's fate in her hands. Can she do the right thing? And can Kincaid rely on his friends, both...
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Alexa Wú's life is complicated. Alexa is manipulated by a series of alternate personas that run her life. There are three people she trusts: her psychiatrist, her stepmother, and her enigmatic best friend Ella. When Ella gets a job at a high-end gentlemen's club, Alexa's world becomes intimately entangled with Ella's, she soon finds herself the unwitting keeper of a nightmarish secret. Vulnerable and in danger, Alexa will discover whether her multiple...
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An author-preferred edition of the story of Richard Mayhew, who discovers an alternate city beneath London, reconciles inconsistencies between the U.S. and U.K. versions, reinstates previously cut scenes, and incorporates the Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
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Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 3
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English
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"Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand has been found--but even more unsettling, she recognizes the signet ring still attached to a finger. It belongs to a scion of the St. Cyr family, her old friends from nearby Ladybridge Hall. Despite the personal connection, the Queen wants to leave the investigation to the police--that...
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New Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 3
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English
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"The world's most beloved detective, Hercule Poirot--the legendary star of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and most recently The Monogram Murders and Closed Casket--returns in a stylish, diabolically clever mystery set in the London of 1930. "We Agatha Christie fans read her stories--and particularly her Poirot novels--because the mysteries are invariably equal parts charming and ingenious, dark and quirky and utterly engaging. Sophie...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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English
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Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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