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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in an abandoned house in California's high desert. Buried in a purse along with her is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels...
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Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation-and into the path of a killer.
Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper....
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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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Jo and her family are in Hawaii for a dream vacation. Things deteriorate when a family friend dies and Jo later witnesses what appears to be a murder. She keeps the details of the crime to herself and doesn't notify the police before leaving the islands.Realizing she could be subpoenaed back to Hawaii for a trial, she does all she can to solve the murder from her home in Ohio. Unfortunately, her efforts are hindered by Addison Chambers. Aunt Addie...
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When a man is murdered in the woods and the main suspect appears to be a big-footed legend, amateur sleuth Hannah Ives steps in to solve the mystery. Hannah is delighted to reconnect with her former roommate, Susan Lockley, owner of Scarborough Fairs, at a college reunion, and agrees to step in when Susan's assistant drops out of managing the Sasquatch Sesquicentennial in Granite Falls, Oregon. But when Martin Radcliffe, a professional debunker, is...
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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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2014 BEST MYSTERY BIGAL'S BOOKS AND PALS READERS' CHOICE AWARDSHalf her family have been murdered in their beds. Her father is the prime suspect. And things are about to get a whole lot worse…Graphic designer Dervla Johns wakes one morning to the news that her father, Warren, is missing and her stepmother and step-siblings were found dead in their beds. While the police hunt for Warren, Dervla searches for answers. Could her father really be a killer?...
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Ivy Russell is a private detective in "the big city in the cornfield". Most of her work comes from chasing cheating spouses and looking for missing persons. But while working in a neighborhood popular with cheaters, she finds that infidelity isn't the only thing lurking in the night. And despite all protests to the contrary, warnings from her friend Baz (aka Detective Barnabas Johnson), and the frantic antics of friend and impending bride Michelle...
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"Irascible, fearless and unapologetic, Maddy is a heroine cozy fans will embrace."-Publishers Weekly
Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the newspaper "morgue" and do her job. Then one Saturday she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage sale. She figures that those women must hire the cabby every week to drive them from garage sale to garage...
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It's two weeks before Christmas. Susan Hunter and her best friend, Darby, travel to Chicago to compete in a national cooking competition. They aren't in Chicago an hour when they stumble upon a murder crime scene. The lead detective on the case is egged on by an eager insurance investigator, and Susan and Darby quickly become suspects. To make the weekend even more complicated, one of Darby's cooking ingredients is sabotaged during the contest, and...
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Rachel Alexander and Dash mysteries volume 2
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The path to enlightenment is fraught with danger when Greenwich Village PI Rachel Alexander and her pit bull, Dash, investigate the death of a tai chi practitioner Did she jump or was she pushed? Devastated by the loss of their only child, David and Marsha Jacobs hire Rachel to find out why Lisa leaped to her death from the fifth-floor window of her martial arts studio. The tai chi instructor, who was studying to be a Zen Buddhist priest, seemed...
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For years after her divorce, Karen Maxwell handled administrative paperwork for her brother's private investigation agency while he ran around town doing the "fun" part-the investigation. When his partner retires, he finally offers her a chance to take a case of her own. She soon finds out why.The assignment involves the theft of the local historical society's most treasured artifact, and her brother figures everyone involved is a little crazy. While...
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Glynnis Muldaur has been murdered on the streets of Glen Ridge, an upscale neighborhood, one snowy evening. A determined woman wends her way through the mystery, with help (or hindrance) from her psychiatrist husband, from a gorgeous next-door neigbor (who may or may not be having an affair with her husband), and from the murdered woman's spouse, who seems more interested in dating her than in solving the crime.
14) Sticks and Bones
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Detective Marcia Grant never thought much about high school, until the body of missing Leah Jackson is discovered on an abandoned farmstead. The discovery launches Marcia into a world she had left behind years ago; the world where the social ladder must be climbed, or clung to, at all costs; or risk social suicide.Officer Jonathon Drake worked hard ensuring his next step on the professional ladder would be to Detective. He never thought his career...
15) Goodbye Forever
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Kit Doyle novels volume 2
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Talk radio host Kit Doyle goes undercover as a teenaged runaway in this mystery series. Seventeen-year-old Jessica is missing. There are no clues as to why she disappeared-apart from the note she left behind: "I love you. Goodbye forever." It turns out that Jessica is not the first teenager to have gone missing, nor the first to have left exactly the same note. With a family connection to the missing girl, crime blogger and radio host Kit Doyle is...
16) Sinful Waters
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Embark on a thrilling maritime journey with Sailor and her companions as they set sail on a seemingly idyllic cruise, only to discover treacherous undercurrents beneath the serene waters. In "Sinful Waters," written by the coastal enthusiast Sera D'Latta, Sailor and her friends win a dream cruise, but their blissful voyage takes an ominous turn when they encounter malevolent individuals determined to wreak havoc. Unbeknownst to them, Sailor holds...
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When Chief Librarian Leona Fordyce dies in the middle of the Friends of the Library Tea, all of the library staff may be suspected of her murder. Police officer Tony Battaglia and Children's Librarian Rachel Martin must follow the clues to unearth the killer. This cozy mystery will appeal to anyone who loves books and libraries.
18) Money Side Up
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Money Side Up is the seventh in the award-winning Carina Quintana Mysteries series. Money Side Up opens as Carina and a cadre of Florida law enforcement officers find themselves in a deadly firefight with an outlaw biker gang trying to complete a major drug deal. In the aftermath, Carina is faced with the striking but even more deadly Regina Roy, twin sister of the gang's local leader, who was killed in the melee. Regina is now out of the shadow of...
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"Welcome to Butterfly Island! Enjoy our sandy beaches, sapphire blue waters, and achingly beautiful sunsets. We can't wait to welcome you to the safest and most relaxing destination in the Caribbean…" Kenzi Hicks believes every person has a calling. She's worked as a line cook, a biohazard disposal specialist, and a dozen jobs in between. So what if her family thinks she's flighty? Her dad might call her a late bloomer, but Kenzi doesn't see it...
20) All In
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The third noir mystery featuring P.I. Lennox Cooper, a smart detective, a smart poker player, and one of today's boldest heroines in the sorority of lonesome gumshoes.
Flinty ex-cop, poker-playing, private detective, Lennox Cooper stands alone in championing Tomek Jagoda, darling son of a Portland crime family, accused of murdering his high-living girlfriend.
The cops have proof that will send Tomek to prison for life, and prosecuting the case...
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