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While Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree has moved on from fixing up houses, she still can't resist the urge to snoop into the occasional murder. Something sinister is brewing in the kitchen of The Chocolate Moose - retired health inspector Alan Blake is found murdered. Jake's best friend Ellie never made a secret of her distaste for Alan. Now, with no alibi for the night of the murder, she's in a sticky situation with the police - and it's up to Jake to catch...
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"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she hadbeen forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
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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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In this captivating collection of twelve intriguing tales Dorothy Sayers reveals a more grisly and beguiling side to the elegant Lord Peter Wimsey. From a man with copper fingers to the enigma of a stolen stomach, Lord Peter faces baffling conundrums that demand not just his intellect but his wit, humor, and a discerning palate for fine wines. Cyanide, jewels, a roast chicken, and even a classic crossword puzzle serve as clues in these extraordinary...
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The Last Alchemist
What if an aging Nazi scientist hid away on an American farm, pretending that he was dead because he knew too much? This thriller, grounded in historical research, reveals the frightening prospect of "Hitler's children."
Jake Kincaid's chance encounter with an elderly scientist, who calls himself an alchemist, introduces him to a diabolical plot. A past associate of the alchemist has reanimated a mad dream of a eugenics...
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Nicola Henderson, victims services advocate, has a stalker. When a sinister delivery arrives at her home, she and her family flee to a remote location, deep in the rockies, called Mountain Shadows Lodge. Although Nicola has fled her stalker, what she encounters at Mountain Shadows Lodge is so much worse. There are only a few other guests, and the first night begins with fun. There's a campfire, a ghost story, a prank that goes wrong, and too much...
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A bizarre and ritualistic murder on Martha's Vineyard, the first since the English slaughtered the Indians, sends the remote and idyllic island into a panic during the crush of summer tourist season. Ray Cillo, ex-Boston PD demoted to rent-a-cop and living with his widowed mother in Tisbury, sees a heroic opportunity to swoop in, rescue the floundering local police, and wrap up the case before Labor Day.
But things go sideways. The publicity gets...
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In the first Marc LeBlanc mystery, a sudden death pulls Marc out of his comfortable life in Grand Pre and into a quest involving unexpected allies, unwelcome visitors, mysterious references in documents and on tombstones, and a hunt from one end of Nova Scotia to the other.
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"There is missing, then there is being made to disappear." Mick Hart Private Investigation Agency finds deadbeat parents whose child supports payments are in arrears. On occasion, P.I. Hart will take on a case to find a missing person. In The Shakers, Sapphire Jenkins (Mary's Little Lamb) asks Hart to find her younger brother Gerald who is away at college and has been missing for two weeks from his classes. Hart travels to Atlanta, Georgia, searching...
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Secrets are revealed. Lies are exposed. And in order to have a future, William and Eva will have to delve into the past.
William Templeton, widower and police chief of Eden, North Carolina is working the scene of a local woman's drowning when the body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket – identical to a coin that was discovered on Catherine's body, his estranged wife, over a year ago. Catherine's case, originally deemed a tragic accident,...
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Lucy Gladstone struck out again at the dating game. She was a virgin and, according to her mother, would destroy her chances of a good life that ended with going to heaven if she gave in to her natural desires.Tom Whitecloud was living a few doors down a floor below. He was, unlike so many, beautiful!Several girlfriends at work warned her that making an Indian her first would ruin her for other men. They would all seem so dull and inept.She had several...
13) Mystery Shorts
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Mystery Shorts is a hilarious collection of stories that combind farce with mystery. Meet a group of offbeat characters that find themselves is absurd situations. Who said murder isn't funny?
14) The Blue Rose
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Wyatt Antone's life as a gig-to-gig jazz musician folds back upon itself when he meets a mysterious young woman we eventually come to know as 'Jazmine'. After a series of 'coincidental' encounters, Wyatt begins to suspect there is a cunning design behind the meetings. With the help of his jazz mate and would be lover, Elise Marchant, Wyatt attempts to unravel the puzzle of the woman's true identity and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation...
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Nancy Douillard, a widowed, retired lawyer, and former judge has just returned to her 55+ community after a frustrating meeting at a local law firm. Nancy felt invalidated and angry at being patronized as if her "use-by date" had expired when offering her services. She had hoped to reignite her passion for her profession and give a purposeful meaning to her life. She looks forward to a drink and venting her disgust with the previous interview, with...
16) What Remains
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Lily O'Hara lives on Lake Road and has ignored the past for as long as possible. Her parents and brother were gone before she was a year old and she was raised by her father's siblings, Billie and Darcy. Her father's suicide and the disappearance of her mother and brother were never spoken about. But when the bones of a woman and child were found in the dried lake outside her home Lily could no longer avoid searching for the truth. She must bring...
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College students Morgan and his girlfriend Emma plan to make love in her SUV. They're parked behind the bookstore when men in ski masks interrupt them. They drag Morgan out of the vehicle and beat him, showing no signs of stopping until Frankie drives up. The men leave quickly in the SUV taking Emma away from Morgan. Frankie, who used to be a paramedic, takes the injured boyfriend home with him, because Morgan recognized the tattoo on a man's wrist...
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For two years Evie Cranford has a perfect marriage. And then she discovers her husband, Morgan, can read her mind. Having a husband who loves her is heaven. Having one who knows her every thought is hell. She makes Morgan move out and insists on a divorce. But before she can do that a dear friend of Evie and Morgan is murdered. She sets aside her own plans and agrees to help Morgan uncover the killer.
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During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer's patient tells amateur sleuth BIodina d'Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess...
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