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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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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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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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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.
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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...
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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.
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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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Deborah, la mujer del mejor amigo del inspector Thomas Lynley, descubre el cadáver desnudo y con señales de tortura de un joven estudiante. Todas las sospechas conducen a Bredgar Chambers, un viejo y sombrío internado.
Allí, Lynley descubrirá una enrarecida atmósfera de frustración, desarraigo y soterrada perversidad entre estudiantes. Pero, esencialmente, descubrirá que todo ello puede resolverse de un plumazo con el asesinato o el suicidio…...
11) Cold Hard News
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Bernadette "Bernie" O'Dea, editor of the Peaks Weekly Watcher, can finally get back on track as a journalist after a melting snowbank in Redimere, Maine, reveals a body. But as spring turns into a long, hot, explosive and tragic summer, the town is ripped in half. What started out as a sad story about a mysterious death becomes something way too big for Bernie to handle. As the town's secrets emerge, Bernie realizes she's on a path that could cost...
12) Resort to Murder
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Baltimore high school math teacher, Maggie Olenski, feels burned out, and a resort in the mountains of western Maryland seems like the perfect get-away spot - until she stumbles on the body of a former student near the tennis courts. There's been more than one suspicious death at the Highview. Can Maggie find out who's behind it all before she becomes the next victim?
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The scandalous side of the health insurance industry becomes a motive for murder. Two car bombs are detonated, then a third. Two people are killed, two maimed. Memphis Police Department Lieutenant Julia Todd discovers that many health insurance companies have been using death panels, lining their coffers by denying life-saving medical treatment while their policyholder dies. Using one Iraq War demolitions specialist to catch another, more bombs are...
14) Crimson Bayou
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Crimson rays from the sun's morning light shine on an isolated bayou and expose the body of a young woman.Mignon Thibeaux, a renowned artist and recently returned local, is adapting to the slow-paced life of the Cane River and its enigmatic people. It is she who finds the young woman floating in the bayou, strangled and left in the timorous dark waters. It is also Mignon who will become embroiled in the hunt for the person who is responsible for the...
15) Murder, Honey
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When the head chef collapses into baker Carol Sabala's cookie dough, she is thrust into her first murder investigation. Suspects abound at Archibald's, the swanky Santa Cruz restaurant where Carol works. The head chef cut a swath of people who wanted him dead from ex-lovers to bitter rivals to greedy relatives. Even Carol plotted his demise!
16) String of Lies
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Parker Holt has started gobbling up properties housing small businesses in town, and Jo worries that her Craft Corner shop will be next. But when she arrives at Holt's home to learn his intentions, she finds him dead – the victim of an insidious electrical trap.The police draw a bead on the construction crew working on the house, led by Jo's good friend, Dan. Anxious to clear him and his workers, Jo and her beading crafters set to work. Motives...
17) Fatal Liaison
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The lives of two strangers become inextricably entangled when they each sign up for a dinner dating agency. Greg's reason for joining has nothing to do with looking for love. His recently divorced sister has disappeared and he's convinced that the agency, or at least one of its clients, may be responsible.Neither is Megan looking for love. Although single, she only joined at her best friend's insistence-then her friend disappears without a trace....
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In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her apothecary father, never imagined the rear palace would have anything to do with her-until she was kidnapped and sold into service there. Though she looks ordinary, Maomao has a quick wit, a sharp mind, and an extensive knowledge of medicine. That's...
19) The Bali Mystery
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Amelia Moore, the founder of the Moore Detective Agency, specializes in missing persons. Her cases have taken her to some very interesting places and put her in some dangerous situations, but she always solves the case. With the help of Rick Bonito, her sometime partner, her business is flourishing.When Mrs. Brody hires Amelia and Rick to find her missing brother, they find themselves in Bali, Indonesia. They are mystified why her brother quit his...
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Death will not part them, nor will it silence them. It is 1880 and women are meant to be seen and not heard. When a damaged daughter is born of a vicious marital assault, Pauline Kite and her child are condemned to a life of sequestration and silence in rural Oxfordshire until Elinor Budden, a young nurse herself in need of healing, urges resilience and an audacious plan to bring about justice. When an unforeseen catastrophe strikes and they are caught...
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