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The tenth Milt Kovak mystery from this best-selling author . . . - Strange things are happening in Prophesy County. First, Deputy Dalton Pettigrew disappears on a mysterious date in Tulsa. His sister goes to rescue him, only to disappear herself. She'd left her middle child, Eli, in the care of Jean, the sheriff's wife, but now he's missing too. Who is the mysterious Dr. Emil Hawthorne, and why is he out to get Jean? Can Milt Kovak find Eli before...
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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 16
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Politician spills his guts - all over the road! The discovery of Bradley Pine's body off a busy road signals the end of his bid to win a local election. But why would the killer risk dumping the body so publicly? And why should he not only reduce the victim's mouth to pulp, but partly disembowel him? With the election looming, and Woodend's old enemy Marlowe replacing Pine as candidate, Woodend is required to produce a result. Any result!
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Fortune telling mysteries volume 1
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Sisters Hope and Summer Bailey run Bailey's Boutique, a mystic shop in Asheville, North Carolina. While Hope's performing a palm reading a local doctor, Dylan Henshaw, bursts in, accusing them of trying to kill his patient with a tincture.
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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 17
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When Terry Pugh's headless body is found floating in the canal, DCI Woodend at first believes that Pugh had merely miscalculated the amount of rope he needed to hang himself. But why would Pugh commit suicide when he had a loving wife who was expecting their first baby, and was just about to start an exciting new job? Other disturbing questions soon follow in the first body's wake. Who was the mysterious stranger Pugh was seen with, just before he...
6) Death watch
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Chief Inspector Woodend mysteries volume 18
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Angela Jackson, a young girl abducted from Whitebridge Corporation Park, has been missing for over twenty-four hours and, in the opinion of Dr Stevenson, the psychiatrist who Woodend turns to for advice, her kidnapper will first torture and then kill her. Woodend is aware of the damaging strains operating within his own team. Inspector Bob Rutter seems unable to control his infatuation with the unscrupulous journalist, Elizabeth Driver, while Sergeant...
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Rona Parish mysteries volume 9
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While interviewing Frank Hathaway, a veteran, to learn about his experiences during the invasion of Kuwait, biographer Rona Parish investigates the car crash that has him suffering from severe flashbacks.
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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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Welcome to Fethering! Carole and Jude spring into amateur detective action when their favourite pub is targeted by a killer in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery.
Jude and Carole get more than they bargained for when a lunchtime meal in their local pub leaves everyone with food poisoning. The landlord is horrified, and when a series of disasters start to befall his business it looks like it could be the end of the road for the Crown and Anchor.
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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...
11) Dead weight
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Baffled by the suspicious deaths of a member of her weight-loss support group and the realtor selling her house, amateur sleuth E.J. Pugh struggles to find a link between the two killings, a situation that is complicated by E.J.'s growing estrangement from her husband.
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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.
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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...
14) Drinking gourd
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 14
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When Jubal Cain, the coordinator of the Underground Railroad system in Mississippi, is accused of murdering a chief member of the Railroad, Benjamin January steps in to unearth the true killer before their covers are blown.
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Carole Seddon hates Christmas. So when her best friend Jude, drags her along to go shopping at a local store called Gallimaufry, she can feel her inner-Scrooge knocking. But the sales are on and even Carole can't resist a bargain. Then a few days later, Gallimaufry is burned down and a body is discovered in the ashes. With a host of suspects, the lady detectives know they have their work cut out for them in the next installment of the Fethering series....
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Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 14
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Investigating the suspicious disappearance of Melanie Hunter, Bill Slider questions several potential suspects when the men in Melanie's life reveal unsettling deceptions, family secrets, and an enduring pain that she hid from the outside world.
18) Scot free
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Lexy Campbell fights to prove the innocence of a client she's been providing marriage guidance to after she is accused of murdering her husband.
It's the Fourth of July in California and Lexy Campbell is headed home to Scotland. But first she must deliver her final dose of marriage guidance to the elderly Bombarros. They don't turn up for the session, but the cops do. Turns out Mr. Bombarro is in the morgue and Mrs. Bombarro is in the jail, arrested...
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Scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan must discover who wants to kill the king in the second of this richly-imagined historical mystery series set in 14th Century France
Paris, 1393. A masquerade ball at the palace ends in tragedy, with four revellers burned to death. Was it an accident... or did someone deliberately hurl a flaming torch at the dancers? Convinced it was an act of murder and that the king himself was the real target, Queen Isabeau has...
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Ursula Blanchard mysteries volume 12
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When her manservant is arrested for the murder of a neighbor, Ursula is determined to prove his innocence, but after a second death occurs, her investigation draws Ursula into matters of espionage and affairs of state.
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