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1) Faux pas
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When one of her clients winds up dead and her friend's husband is the prime suspect, doggie-yoga instructor Elle, accompanied by sexy PI Devon, is pulled into the investigation.
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Florence Norris mysteries volume 2
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Suspecting foul play when a mild-mannered villager is found dead, housekeeper Florence Norris investigates a surprise will that reveals dark secrets in the victim's family history.
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First, Maggy Thorsen is shocked to find her ex-husband Ted in a fight with William Swope, an oral surgeon at Ted's dental practice, outside Uncommon Grounds, the Wisconsin gourmet coffeehouse she co-owns. But she's even more horrified to discover Swope's dead body outside Thorsen Dental's office block the next morning. Did he jump from the tenth-floor office window, or was he pushed?
It's not long before Maggy is uncovering disturbing family secrets,...
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"To celebrate their engagement, DCI Arthur St. Just and Portia De'Ath visit the quiet village of Maidsfell in Cornwall. Upon arriving they find the villagers in an uproar over plans to redevelop the local seafront. The fishermen want to build a new slipway to aid their business, but many residents worry it will spoil the view for the tourists who help drive the economy. After a heated village meeting on the issue, St. Just overhears an argument involving...
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Introducing New Orleans homicide detective Quentin Archer in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When a prominent New Orleans judge is brutally murdered, former Detroit cop Quentin Archer is handed the case. His enquiries will lead him into a world of darkness and mysticism which underpins the carefree atmosphere of the Big Easy. Interrogating crooked police officers, a pickpocket, a bartender with underground contacts and a swamp dweller, Archer...
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Sister Fidelma mysteries volume 33
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"Ireland. AD 672. The abbey of Muman at Imleach Iubhair is being renovated when its guests' hostel burns to the ground. There is one fatality: Bishop Brodulf of Luxovium, a distinguished visitor and cousin to the King of Franks. Sister Fidelma is asked by Abbot Cuan to investigate the unfortunate incident and soon finds that the bishop had been stabbed to death before the fire had even started. Thrown into a world of treachery and jealousy, where...
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Introducing unconventional rector's wife and amateur sleuth Jodie Welsh in the first of a brand-new mystery series…
Highflying city career woman Jodie Welsh was prepared for a dramatic change in lifestyle when she met and married the Reverend Theo Welsh, settling down to an entirely new kind of life as the wife of a country vicar in the picturesque village of Lesser Hogben. But if she thought life as a city deal-maker was tough, nothing could have...
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Charles Paris mysteries volume 18
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Enduring his part in a touring production of Hamlet that features reality television contest winners in the lead roles, actor and amateur detective Charles Paris investigates an accident that has killed a company member.
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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 19
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A charred body is discovered in an abandoned cotton mill, and the crime scene presents DCI Woodend and his team with many questions, but very few answers. Who would want to murder a harmless old tramp, a man with no friends - or enemies - in the world? And why, of all the methods he could have chosen, did the killer decide to cruelly burn his victim to death? As Woodend attempts to solve a murder with no clues, he must also battle against a police...
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 13
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After wealthy doctor David Rogers turns up dead in the hallway of his home, Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into a deeper mystery and discover that nothing is as it seems when they start their investigation into the doctor's death.
16) Graveyard shift
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Pepper Martin mysteries volume 10
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In this paranormal murder mystery, psychic medium Pepper Martin is contacted by the ghosts of Eliot Ness and Al Capone. Pepper Martin, now Community Relations Director of Garden View Cemetery, is contacted by the ghost of Eliot Ness, one of Cleveland's most famous dearly departed. According to Ness, the ashes scattered at the ceremony twenty years earlier weren't his. His were stolen prior to the ceremony by a Ness groupie, and he cannot rest until...
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Landing a minor role in a theater production, Charles Paris is assigned to help the show's famous American star navigate cultural differences in England, an effort that tangles him up in the actor's complicated relationships and a wrongful murder charge.
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 17
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Severn House
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Investigating the high-profile murder of an antiques expert and popular television personality, Bill Slider is mystified by clues surrounding stolen artifacts, the victim's partner, and unsettling discoveries about the victim's true character.
19) Death in print
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"University of Oxford tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoodt has it all: acclaim, women, money . . . and an enemy or two. When he's found dead at the bottom of the stairs during a celebratory reception at St Rumwold's College, many wonder if seething jealousy of his literary success has turned someone's mind to murder. Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just becomes inescapably drawn into an investigation that takes him down the historic streets...
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Lucinda Pierce mysteries volume 3
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Severn House
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When homicide investigator Lucinda Pierce has to break the news to a thirteen-year-old boy that his parents have been murdered, he claims that his father is not only still alive but also immortal, leading Lucinda to believe that this is a family with something major to hide.
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