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Cordelia Gray mysteries volume 1
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English
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Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his upper lip. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins — and the strong scent of murder.
22) Egg shooters
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Cackleberry Club mysteries volume 9
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"A murder in the local hospital is raising everyone's temperature in the latest book in the New York Times bestselling Cackleberry Club series. Suzanne Dietz co-owner of the Cackleberry Club Cafae is visiting her fiance, Dr. Sam Hazelet when a masked gunman bursts into the emergency room. He shoots two people and would probably have done more damage had Suzanne not brained him with a thermos full of chili. Still, the gunman manages to escape. Now...
23) No fixed line
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 22
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It is New Year's Eve, nearly six weeks into an off-and-on blizzard that has locked Alaska down, effectively cutting it off from the outside world. But now there are reports of a plane down in the Quilak mountains. With the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board-responsible for investigating aviation incidents) unable to reach the crash site, ex-trooper Jim Chopin is pulled out of retirement to try to identify the aircraft, collect the corpses,...
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Walsh family volume 5
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Marian Keyes is back with a stunning new novel and the return of the legendary Walsh sisters
Money is tight for Private Investigator Helen Walsh and work has dried up. So when her charming but dodgy ex-boyfriend Jay Parker shows up awash with cash and with a missing person's case, she cannot refuse.
Soon Helen is drawn into a dark and glamorous world, where increasingly the only person she feels connected to is the missing person himself... a man...
25) Coming back
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 27
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In Marcia Muller's gripping 28th novel, her stalwart heroine Sharon McCone battles to recover from locked-in syndrome. Now, as Sharon struggles to regain control over her body, she wants everything to go back to normal, but realizes that it may not be possible to return to her old life. When Sharon's friend from physical therapy goes missing, she must call upon those closest to her to find out the truth behind the disappearance.
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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This remarkably fresh and charming best-seller took the world by storm upon its publication. It has since earned two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the "International Books of the Year and the Millennium" by the Times Literary Supplement. Mma "Precious" Ramotswe sets up a detective agency in Botswana on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, making her the only female detective in the country. At first, cases are hard to come...
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Aimee Leduc investigations volume 12
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English
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Struggling to be happy for René and his new girlfriend in spite of considerable misgivings, Aimée fears her suspicions are correct when the girlfriend disappears at the same time a man with her photograph is found murdered.
28) W is for wasted
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
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English
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Two seemingly unrelated deaths, one a murder, the other apparently of natural causes. But as Kinsey digs deeper into the mystery of the John Doe, some very strange linkages begin to emerge. In this multilayered tale, the surfaces seem clean, but the underpinnings are full of betrayals, misunderstandings, and outright murderous fraud. And Kinsey, through no fault of her own, is thoroughly compromised. Print run 1,000,000.
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Naomi Cottle novels volume 1
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A haunting, richly atmospheric, and deeply suspenseful novel from the acclaimed author of The Enchanted about an investigator who must use her unique insights to find a missing little girl.
"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under snow? Or-is it possible-you are still alive?"
Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's...
30) The art of theft
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"As 'Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective,' Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted canvas. But Mrs. Watson is desperate to help her old friend recover those secrets and Charlotte finds herself involved in a fever-paced scheme to infiltrate a glamorous Yuletide ball where the painting is one handshake away from...
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Hodder
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In 90 A.D., following the Saturninus revolt in Germany, the Emperor Domitian has become more paranoid about traitors and dissenters around him. This leads to several senators and even provincial governors facing charges and being executed for supposed crimes of conspiracy and insulting the emperor. Wanting to root out all the supports of Saturninus from the Senate, one of Domitian's men offers to hire Flavia Alba to do some intelligence work. Flavia...
33) Cajun crazy
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Cajun contemporary romances volume 7
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English
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Welcome back to New York Times bestseller Sandra Hill's Cajun country, where love heats up the Louisiana bayou . . .Former Chicago cop Simone LeDeux is back home in the bayou, sharing a double wide in the Pearly Gates trailer park to help her mama recover from surgery. Her one rule: no Cajun men. Loved and left by too many double-crossing Cajuns, Simone puts bad experience to good use by opening Legal Belles: an agency that uncovers cheating spouses.
Suddenly...
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Fogg Lake novels volume 3
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"The final installment in the chilling Fogg Lake trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Olivia LeClair's experiment with speed dating is not going well. First there was the nasty encounter with the date from hell who tried to murder her and now the mysterious Harlan Rancourt-long believed dead-sits down at her table and tells her she's the only one who can help him locate the legendary Vortex lab. This is not what Olivia had...
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Hannah Swensen mysteries volume 15
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English
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When the keyboard player for the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band is murdered after a tour bus accident on the way to Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swensen investigates and comes up with several local suspects.
36) Grave ransom
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Grave witch Alex Craft is no stranger to the dead talking. She raises shades, works with ghosts, and is dating Death himself. But the dead walking? That's not supposed to happen. And yet reanimated corpses are committing crimes across Nekros City. Alex's investigation leads her deep into a web of sinister magic. When Briar Darque of the Magical Crimes Investigation Bureau gets involved, Alex finds herself with an unexpected ally of sorts. But as...
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Moonlighter volume 1
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English
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Three sisters--a blogger, a cab driver, and a stay-at home mom--investigate to try and clear their brother's name after he is accused of murder.
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Charley Davidson novels volume 2
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When Charley is rudely awakened int he middle of the night by her best friend, who tells her to get dressed quickly and tosses clothes out of the closet at her, she can't help but wonder what Cookie's up to. Cookie explains that a friend of hers named Mimi disappeared five days earlier. Mimi left a clue, a woman's name. Meanwhile, Reyes Alexander Farrow, the Son of Satan, has left his corporeal body and is haunting Charley.
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Lucy Stone mysteries volume 20
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English
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When Jake Marlowe, a co-owner of Downeast Mortgage in Tinker's Cove, Maine, is murdered, and his partner, Ben Scriber, begins receiving death threats after claiming to be visited by Marlowe's ghost, Ludy Stone is on the case.
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