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In this classic 1920s mystery, a wealthy dilettante turned amateur sleuth must determine who wants to kill off one of Manhattan's greatest families.
Chester Greene has come to the office of New York District Attorney John Markham in need of help. Someone broke into his family's East Side mansion, shot one of his sisters dead, and left another sister wounded. The police believe it to be the work of a panicked burglar, but Chester doesn't buy it....
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A cross between Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and a Cheers bartender, Sally Witherspoon, a fifty-something accountant turned biker-bar owner, loves solving puzzles. Up to now, she has focused on helping neighbors and friends find lost jewelry, lost pets, and lost loves.
But when she finds her best friend and business partner, Bill Arnold, dead in a dumpster behind her bar on a Saturday night, she needs all her wits and grit to find out who did...
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Brun Campbell, a 15-year-old piano fool, gets to play Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" one 1898 afternoon in Oklahoma City. It's destiny calling. Though he tries for ragtime lessons, he's told no- "Ragtime is colored music." So Brun runs away from the family home in El Reno, Oklahoma, to Sedalia, Missouri, to persuade Joplin to take him on as a pupil. What Brun doesn't expect is to trip over the body of a young woman-he thinks at first she's a log...
84) Time Voyager
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Connor McBride works as a deckhand on the Manly ferries in Sydney, NSW. But he is also a Time Voyager, and he must take a journey to the past to solve his recurring nightmares.
Connor discovers that he was a Royal Australian Navy sailor on a fatal voyage-he was on board when the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne sliced the destroyer HMAS Voyager in half, killing more than 80 sailors.
Connor must solve a mystery from the past by traveling back in time...
85) Four For A Boy
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Barnes & Noble pick for "20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018"
"Casey expertly nails the extended Tucker family-some 20 people-and combines these convincing characters, a superb sense of time and place, and a solid plot in this marvelously atmospheric historical." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Some people who have experienced a shocking, dangerous, or terrifying event develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is recognized today as a debilitating...
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In a mystery inspired by a historical murder, best friends become amateur sleuths when a senator's memoir reveals secrets someone would kill to keep quiet.
Why was a US senator suddenly writing a book about an unsolved murder that happened fifty years ago? Dynamic duo Harrie McKinsey and Ginger Vaughn know the story is bound to stir up trouble, especially since the ruthless killing on Easter Sunday in 1950 led to the end of illegal casinos...
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« Je voudrais que tu sois le dernier de la liste,Juste celui pour qui l'on trace le mot fin, »Il tue. Méthodiquement. En silence. En consignant consciencieusement chacun de ses meurtres. L'un après l'autre. Avant de les publier. Personne ne sait quand s'arrêtera le massacre. Sauf lui ?Car comme l'exprime Jean-Michel Bessette, « Le meurtre est l'ultime échec de la parole. »
88) Unleavened Dead
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A full-time rabbi becomes a part-time sleuth when three suspicious deaths arise in this cozy mystery by the author of Chanukah Guilt.
Rabbi Aviva Cohen has her hands full with Passover preparations, she certainly has no time to deal with anything else. Yet tragedy soon changes her plans when two members of the congregation are found dead. Their cause of death is believed to be accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, but Aviva is not so sure. Soon...
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Susan's book club reads mystery books all the time, but this time they aren't just reading about it, they are living it when Laura dies the same way the main character in the book did. Carbon Monoxide poisoning might be common, but Susan does not like the coincidence and refuses to believe it is accidental the way the police think it is. Butting heads with Detective Mason, Susan is determined to find out the truth and together with her beloved dog...
90) Murder Secret
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The search is still on for Richard Hampton who seemed to have vanished without a trace. Amateur detective, Knox Lambert and his pal, Nick Farley are still trying to put the pieces of the puzzle together to solve the mysterious murder case. Knox is also a wealthy bachelor and he is a man that likes adventure and likes to experience life. He has enough wealth, money from an inheritance, to dabble in any profession he likes and he enjoys playing the...
91) Finding His Past
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Michael Polk was an ordinary college freshman until his mother revealed a shocking truth. Now on an investigation to uncover the secrets of his past, Michael must find out who he really is, where he came from, and what happened years ago to lead him where he is. Michael must use his wit and courage to figure out who he can actually trust. With danger lurking around every corner, will Michael be able to uncover the truth and survive?
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Brand-new librarian Meg Booker is just supposed to be checking out books.Instead, it's the patrons who are being checked out--permanently. April 1985. Fir Grove Library, Portland, Oregon: Big hair. Leggings. Card catalogs. Kicking kids with giant boom boxes out of the library. Meg's got it all handled-until her boss takes off on a way-too-long vacation and leaves her in charge. Right away, things start going wrong. Historical records disappear out...
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Winner of the Edgar Award: Rabbi Small investigates a murder in which he's the prime subject David Small is the new rabbi in the small Massachusetts town of Barnard's Crossing. Although he'd rather spend his days engaged in Torah study and theological debate, the daily chores of synagogue life are all-consuming-that is, until the day a nanny's body is found on the rain-soaked asphalt of the temple's parking lot. When the young woman's purse is...
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A murder on a quiet street in Albuquerque leads a psychic amateur sleuth and her FBI agent husband into an investigation of stolen government secrets.
Trouble always seems to find Harrie McKinsey. From the darkness that haunts her dreams at night, to the morning she discovers a toddler sitting in the flower bed on her front porch, covered in blood. A search for the little girl's parents leads Harrie and her husband, FBI agent DJ Scott, into...
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Amber Dearing is living her dream - she's finally the owner of her own brand new ice cream shop and she's got the chance to make it a huge success. Everything is riding on the Cow & Moon launch going as planned. With all of Amber's life savings poured into the business she has no plan B. When, on the day of the official launch, a women drops dead in the middle of store, Amber is not only in danger of losing her business - she is a prime suspect. Taking...
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Fans of atmospheric mysteries and amateur sleuths will be swept away by Judi Culbertson's newest Delhi Laine novel.
For the first time in nearly twenty years, Delhi Laine's family is whole.
But that doesn't mean everything is back to normal. With no proof to condemn her daughter's kidnappers, Delhi's family is forced to share Elisa with her "adoptive" parents. But when they suddenly perish in a mysterious house fire, Elisa is heartbroken … and...
97) Green Murder
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher
"Anyone who hasn't discovered Phryne Fisher by now should start making up for lost time." -Booklist
Phryne Fisher is doing one of her favorite things-dancing to the music of Tintagel Stone's Jazzmakers at the Green Mill, Melbourne's premier dance hall. And she's wearing a sparkling lobelia-colored georgette dress. Nothing can flap the unflappable...
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Un juego trepidante en el que realidad y ficción se confunden, y en el que la narrativa serial parece inmiscuirse, cada vez más y sorprendentemente, en la vida de los protagonistas. Asesinos de Series es el nombre del blog de tres jóvenes (Andrés, Marta y Rubén) que viven juntos en Madrid. Adictos a las series, sueñan con crear su gran éxito internacional: una serie de referencia como podría ser Lost. Andrés se gana la vida escribiendo textos...
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In the mystical mountain town of Shadows Bluff, California, Astrid Saunders is the most beloved professor at Segmimn's School of Sorcery. She manages to champion students and teachers alike while deftly keeping herself out of the spotlight. But when her childhood friend-turned-rival, Claudia, is charged with murder, Astrid can't shake the feeling she didn't do it, and no matter how badly she'd like to see Claudia eat a slice of humble pie, she just...
100) Six for Gold
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The Singularity-the looming point of no return when Artificial Intelligence surpasses human cognitive abilities, with consequences no one can foresee, and only a handful of people understand.
Rusty Mullins, ex-Secret Service, has never heard of the Singularity. He only knows that after the deadly challenges of his last job for security firm Prime Protection, he swore he'd stop risking his life on assignments. Then his good friend Ted Lewison, head...
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