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Hired by the daughters of local writer Melody Chambers to investigate her death, believing she was murdered, Natalka and Edwin go undercover at a creative writing weekend at isolated Battle House where another murder occurs, and by the time Edwin infiltrates a sinister book group, he finds himself in danger.
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When women are being kidnapped and murdered, including a bright young college student he bought coffee from every morning, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, Anchorage homicide detective DeHavilland Beans and his team are determined to stop a serial killer's spree before it's too late.
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Forced into selling her dollhouses, by her penniless circumstance, Maple Bishop is shocked to discover her first customer dead. She does not accept the given cause of suicide and sets out to solve what she believes to be murder with her expertise in re-creating in miniature and the help of a rookie police officer named Kenny.
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Marlow Murder Club volume 3
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Geoffrey Lushington, Mayor of Marlow, dies suddenly during a town council meeting, with traces of aconite found in his coffee cup. The police enlist Judith, Suzie, and Becks as civilian advisors to investigate the murder, giving them free rein to follow the evidence. With the Marlow Murder Club stumped by the affable mayor's murder and the method of poisoning, they face their toughest case yet.
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American in Paris mystery volume 2
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The graceful domes of Sacré Coeur, the imposing cathedral of Notre Dame, the breathtaking Tour Eiffel . . . Paris is overflowing with stunning architecture. Yet for Tabitha Knight, the humble building that houses the Cordon Bleu cooking school, where her friend Julia studies, is just as notable. Tabitha is always happy to sample Julia's latest creation and try to recreate dishes for her Grand-père and Oncle Rafe. The legendary school also holds...
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Thorndike Press large print softcover cozy mystery
Vintage kitchen mystery volume Book 11
Vintage kitchen mystery volume 11
Vintage kitchen mystery volume Book 11
Vintage kitchen mystery volume 11
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"In the new Vintage Kitchen Mystery from the author of A Calculated Whisk, Jaymie's not sure who to believe when every suspect's alibi has as many holes as a sieve . . .Vintage cookware collector Jaymie Müller is stunned when an irate woman accuses her pharmacist friend Val of tampering with her prescription. When more unfounded accusations follow, it seems clear the woman has a personal grudge against Val. But before they can figure out why, Jaymie...
7) Swiped
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2024.
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What if you matched with a murderer? Reeling from a disastrous break-up with her long-term boyfriend, Gwen Turner is on a mission to move on, as fast as possible. The only problem? Each man she meets on new dating app Connector is even more toxic than the last. Luckily for Gwen, she can simply swipe left to find new romantic potential and never have to think about them again. But when she matches with a serial killer who is intent on murdering all...
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Saffron Everleigh mystery volume 3
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London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton's brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government has been poisoned, and expired in Adrian's train compartment. Alexander asks Saffron to put in a good word for Adrian with Inspector Green. Despite her unresolved feelings for Alexander, Saffron begins to unravel mysteries...
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Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town's industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast, secrets...
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The town's new chief of police, Ethan Brand, receiving threats on his first day on the job, is faced with the first homicide case Blaine, Washington, has seen in years and with no one to trust, must find the killers and bring them to justice before anyone else winds up dead.
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In 1894 London, Albertine, reinventing herself as the married Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women in society, is the prime suspect two murders--that of her client and that of her fictitious husband--and must clear her name before she meets a similar fate.
12) Tidal creatures
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Alchemical journeys volume 3
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Tor Publishing Group
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2024.
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All across the world, people look up at the moon and dream of gods. Gods of knowledge and wisdom, gods of tides and longevity. Over time, some of these moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts. Their job is to cross the sky above the Impossible City - the heart of all creation - to keep it connected to reality. And someone is killing them. There are so many of them that it's easy for a few disappearances...
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While inventorying the personal collection of a deceased magician in NYC, librarian-turned-sleuth Greer Hogan, determined to solve her husband's murder, finds her investigation has struck a nerve when she's attacked. She turns to a magician named Grim to shine a spotlight on a killer before she's next.
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Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, to whom she gets close until World War II's end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.
15) Westport
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Nora Carleton volume 2
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It's been two years since Nora Carleton left the job she loved at the US Attorney's Office to become lead counsel at Saugatuck Associates, the world's largest hedge fund. Nora's new life falls apart when a coworker is murdered and she becomes the lead suspect. Nora calls in her old colleagues from the US Attorney's Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and attorney Carmen Garcia. To clear Nora's name, Benny and Carmen hunt for the true killer's motive,...
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As a child, Ashley Whitelam could often see odd things nobody else could: quiet, watchful figures she called the Heedful Ones kept a strange vigil wherever she went. As an adult, she keeps these visions to herself, but she's turned her taste of the beyond into a career as a psychic, parting people from their money with a combination of psychology and internet research. When the Lake District is gripped by a series of grisly child murders, Ashley offers...
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"Cleo is hired by the housekeeper at a Mayfair residence after the police rule the sudden death of the butler was the result of natural causes. Not convinced by the verdict, she wants Cleo to prove foul play was involved. Considering he was acting mysteriously around some of the guests, and they were equally mysterious when they saw him, murder is a possibility. When the investigation leads Cleo to another decades-old murder and the sudden disappearance...
18) Bad men
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"Saffy has a secret. A secret that she is deeply ashamed of. It's not the fact that she's a serial killer in her free time. In fact, she's quite proud of that. After all she's only killing the bad men. She is making the world a better place. No, her secret is far worse than that. Saffy has a messy, inexplicable, uncontrollable crush. So while she's busy plotting her next murder, she also has the much harder task of figuring out how to get a boyfriend....
19) Rhythm and clues
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2024.
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"It's been five whole months since the last murder in Cedar River, Texas, and Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie have been humming along when disaster strikes again. Their struggling vinyl records shop/coffee nook, Sip & Spin Records, is under pressure from predatory investors, though the Jessup sisters aren't ready to face the music and admit defeat. But the night after their meeting, the sketchy financier is killed outside their shop...
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"As a teenager, Amy Therese Brewer argued with her friends and stormed out of a party-moments before the five other teens were brutally murdered. Now, on the anniversary of those deaths, ten people with connections to the crime have been invited to a remote cliffside house by a journalist looking to do a story about the so-called Memorial Day Massacre. But the group quickly learns the event is not what it seems. As a storm closes in and guests begin...
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