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"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
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"Fiendishly clever." —Kirkus Reviews
"Judith and Co have to bring all their bonkers interview techniques and leaps of logic into play to uncover the truth." —Crime Fiction Lover
BBCOne show creator of Death in Paradise, Robert Thorogood delights in giving the Christie-mystery a busy-body twist. Judith (our favorite skinny-dipping, whiskey-sipping, crossword puzzle
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
4) Paper Cuts
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The New York Times bestselling author returns with a mystery with a touch of magical realism and a strong, female bookstore owner and bibliotherapist at its heart.
Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is famed for its healing springs. But bookstore owner Nora Pennington has a tendency to land in a different kind of hot water. Though she loves to practice bibliotherapy by finding the perfect books for her customers while listening to their secrets,...
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Années 1920. New York. La mort brutale d'un riche homme blanc à Harlem avive les tensions raciales à travers la ville. Ava doit se replonger dans sa vie passée, dans les clubs de jazz et les bars clandestins de New York, et se battre contre la montre avant que dans la ville tout entière, extrêmement tendue, n'explosent des émeutes raciales.
LA VILLE DE LA MORT (Un Roman Policier Ava Gold - Tome 5) est le cinquième d'une nouvelle série...
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De jeunes victimes en bonne santé sont découvertes mortes dans le désert du Nouveau-Mexique, leur corps mis en scène de façon théâtrale. Rachel s'engage dans une course contre la montre pour retrouver le tueur... même si cela implique de se prêter au jeu de ses fantasmes tordus.
L'agent spécial Rachel Gift compte parmi les agents les plus brillants du FBI. Sa mission : traquer les tueurs en série. Elle sait déjà qu'elle y consacrera...
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Hannah seems to have a perfect life. She has a perfect job, perfect boyfriend and perfect university grades. Planning her life away, Hannah is deliriously happy. That is, until two mysterious deaths plague her, throwing her life into chaos and despair and pain. Hannah's world is turned upside down; everything she thought she knew is a lie. Jay, her perfect boyfriend is a successful businessman. He treats her wonderfully and makes her happier than...
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Ella no recuerda nada. Mejor así. Su verdad era solo la mitad de la historia.
Megan McDonald está terminando el bachillerato, es popular, carismática, y tiene un futuro increíble por delante. En una de sus últimas noches en Emerson Bay, la secuestran.
Megan está dos semanas en cautiverio hasta que escapa, y pasa a ser conocida como "la chica que se llevaron". Pero esa noche también desapareció Nicole Cutty y de ella nadie sabe nada.
Megan...
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When the nation's political elite descends on a small Northern California town, murder follows-and only Vejay Haskell can get to the bottom of the shocking crime Each year the Bohemian Club-a clique of powerful conservatives whose ranks include Nixon, Reagan, and Kissinger-gathers for a confidential meeting in the backwoods town of Henderson, California. Though their activities are shrouded in secrecy, Henderson meter-reader Vejay Haskell is about...
10) The Black Cane
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The decision to help one small boy turns eight elderly women's lives upside-down. Danger becomes a way of life. If the women are going to save the boy and stay alive, they are going to have to use skills that have been dormant way too long.
11) Turtle Island
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When the body of a man is washed up in the river; Turtle Island, Missouri is awoken from being a peaceful haven and thrust into the attention of the national media.
The case is solved rather all too conveniently and F.B.I agent Georgina O'Neil is left with severe doubts - have they caught the right man?
A feeling that is justified after case Detective Montoya and his family are kidnapped and a web site is set up promising America its first 'live...
12) Empty Houses
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Mystery series debut: Newly arrived in Arizona, Kate finds her hideaway shattered by the murder of two tourists-and Kate fears she may be next. Dudley, Arizona, is an isolated desert town that attracts people who need to escape: Kate Waters flees there following an abusive relationship and Phoenix cop Malcolm MacGregor comes to recover from the death of his wife. No one knows why Carrie and Wes Cooper arrived. But when they are shot dead, the police...
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Diane Phipps, P.I. dusts off facts and digs for truth in Colorado and finds out who killed renowned archaeologist Dr. Ray McCormick.Who killed renowned archaeologist Dr. Ray McCormick, and why? launches Diane Phipps, P.I. into a new investigation adventure in Colorado. Unfamiliar with the mountainous terrain of Peak Village near Garden of the Gods, Diane drives an old pick-up truck, dusts off facts, and digs into Dr. Ray's life for answers. Theories...
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To escape arrest for her best friend's murder, Vejay must find the real killer-before it's too late In the small woodsy town of Henderson, California, the electric company is strict about sick days. So when meterreader Vejay Haskell decides to play hooky, her first concern is staying out of sight. She skirts around the edge of town, making her way to Frank's Place, a cozy saloon owned by her friend Frank Goulet. After two cups of hot buttered rum,...
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La víspera del Solsticio de verano, los cuerpos de dos jóvenes gitanos son encontrados en un lugar solitario cerca de una playa en Málaga. Parece que la pareja cometió suicidio, un pacto de amantes para terminar con todo, y la policía se apresura a cerrar el caso. Pero Jacaranda Dunne, una investigadora privada que solía trabajar para la Policía Metropolitana, piensa de otro modo.
Cuando el primo de la chica...
16) Silver Secret
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Sailor Masters is a receptionist who loves her cats and hanging out with her friends. Secretly, she's been solving mysteries since grade school. Her world takes a dramatic turn when she happens upon a gruesome discovery in the grocery store. She brings her friends Joe, Matt, and Sapphire together to solve the case, but as they rally to unwind the mysterious crime, they discover other secrets buried deep. Joe has secrets he wants to share with Sailor,...
17) Los huesos rotos
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Pensaban que estaban a salvo. Se equivocaron.
Para la detective Kim Stone, el homicidio de una joven prostituta y la aparición de un bebé abandonado en la misma noche de invierno señalan el comienzo de una inquietante investigación, una que la pondrá frente a frente con alguien de su horrenda infancia.
Cuando otras trabajadoras sexuales del Black Country son asesinadas en rápida sucesión y de maneras cada vez más violentas, Kim y su equipo...
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What happens when Teenage Hijinks turn into Murder? When the latest in a slew of Dumpster fires at the local campground turn up a finger and a ring, Jack Lovelace smells a corpse...and a job for his girlfriend Juli...Part-time Detective...Full-time Soup Witch at Snips and Snails Cafe...Add in the bone Juli's half-grown Lab Mix, Holly, digs up and brings home...the human bone...And now there's a new Mystery in town....and then they find the second...
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Vejay investigates the poisoning death of one of the town's most powerful citizens during its oddest annual event Though it sounds violent, Henderson's annual slugfest is less vicious than it is slimy. The regional festival honors the normally detested California banana slug with competitions to prove which slug is the biggest, fastest, or-in the event that gives the festival its notoriety-the tastiest. Rather than eat crow, the area's local politicians...
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It's a deadly winter for archaeologist Emma Fielding as she tracks a killer in an old New Hampshire hotel, in this fifth mystery from real-life archaeologist Dana Cameron.
Archaeologist Emma Fielding should be on top of the world. Her teaching job secure and home life stable, she arrives at an archaeological conference at a famous old New Hampshire hotel, having outrun the winter storm that's paralysing the East Coast. A rising star in the field,...
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