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Magpie murders volume 1
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When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she's convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life...
2) The cellar
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It seems like a respectable British home, occupied by the Songolis, an upstanding family of African immigrants. But hidden within the cellar is Muna-a teenage girl who cooks for them, cleans for them, endures brutal abuse from them... and is powerless to escape.
Then one day, the Songolis' ten-year-old son fails to come home from school, and Scotland Yard arrives at the house to investigate. While they look into the boy's disappearance, Muna must...
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"Meet Helen Thorpe. She's smart, preternaturally calm, deeply insightful and a freshly trained butler. On the day she is supposed to start her career as an unusually equanimous domestic professional serving one of the wealthiest families in the world, she is called back to a spiritual retreat where she used to work, the Yatra Institute, on one of British Columbia's gulf islands. The owner of the lodge, Helen's former employer Edna, has died while...
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A weaving of three lives that captivates money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees a note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, Vincent...
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Alex Morrow novels volume 4
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Preparing to testify against a violent arms dealer, police detective Alex Morrow finds her efforts challenged by a privileged Scottish lawyer's money laundering scheme and a vengeful woman prisoner.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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A woman crosses a London street and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as police detective Daniel Hawthorne can be, novelist Anthony Horowitz suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery. But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes he's at the centre of a...
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Miranda Abbott mystery volume 1
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"A once-beloved television sleuth finds herself far from Hollywood and witness to a murder during a small-town theatre production--and is convinced it's up to her to solve the case. Introducing a new comedic crime series from the bestselling Ferguson brothers, for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street series and Schitt's Creek. Miranda Abbott, once known for the crime-solving, karate-chopping...
9) Poppet
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Everything goes according to procedure when a patient, Isaac, is released from a high-security mental health ward. But when the staff realize that he was connected to a series of unexplained episodes of tragic self-harm amongst the ward's patients and that he was released in error, they call on Detective Jack Caffery to investigate and to track Isaac down before he can kill again.
10) Skin
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When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near some railway tracks just outside Bristol one hot May morning, all indications are that she committed suicide. That's how the police want it too -- all neatly squared away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory, someone who hides in the shadows and can slip into houses unseen. And for the first time in a very long time, he feels scared. Police diver Flea Marley...
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When police diver Sergeant Phoebe "Flea" Marley discovers a freshly severed human hand in Bristol's harbour and its mate buried under a restaurant's doorstep, DI Jack Caffery is there to lead the investigation. But rather than find answers, or a body to match the hands, Caffery and Flea discover a terrifying underworld of drug addiction, ritual mutilation and Muti, African medicine magic. The first book in The Walking Man series. Print run 10,000....
12) The last hours
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For most, the Black Death is the end. For a brave few, it heralds a new beginning. Widowed by her husband's death from the pestilence, Lady Anne assumes control of his people's future. With a sudden overturning of the accepted social order, where serfs exist only to serve their lords, conflict arises when they're given a voice. Ignorant of what is happening in the world outside, they wrestle with themselves, with God and the terrible uncertainty of...
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Alex Morrow novels volume 3
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"It's the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the...
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All of London is abuzz with the scandalous case of Frannie Langton, accused of the brutal double murder of her employers, renowned scientist George Benham and his eccentric French wife, Marguerite. Crowds pack the courtroom, eagerly following every twist, while the newspapers print lurid theories about the killings and the mysterious woman being held in the Old Bailey. The testimonies against Frannie are damning. She is a seductress, a witch, a master...
15) Ripper: a novel
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"A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"-- Publisher.
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
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The sequel to the brilliantly inventive "The Word Is Murder" delves deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer and the death, only a day earlier, of his one-time friend.
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Peter Manuel has been found guilty of a string of murders and is waiting to die by hanging. But every good crime story has a beginning and Manuel's starts with the murder of William Watt's family. As Watt seeks justice with the cagey Manuel's help, everyone the pair meets has blood on their hands as they sell their version of the truth. This is an explosive, standalone novel about guilt and innocence, and the power of a good story to hide the difference....
20) Lila
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Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.
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