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Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation-and into the path of a killer.
Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper....
2) Norma
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Widowhood and weirdos, online and off, NORMA is so dark it smarts.
It's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.
Norma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity-grim, funny, and desperate-wafting...
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The problems started right off. Main one was that it was Murder, not Suicide.Even though the room was locked from the inside and had no windows the assailant could escape through.The yeoman on duty hadn't seen or heard anyone.And the murder occurred in broad daylight. Even though it wasn't discovered until the next day when the cleaners came in.That's when I got the mission call.Not that they expected someone with long white-blonde hair to solve their...
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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in California's high desert. In her purse is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels take him from the wind-swept desert to vintage...
5) As a Favor
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A favor for her ex-husband leads Jill Smith to a blood-soaked crime scene Someone is stealing hubcaps from the Berkeley police department. An afternoon spent chasing the petty thief leaves beat cop Jill Smith exhausted, flustered, and in no mood to talk when her ex-husband Nat calls asking for a favor. A colleague of his at the county welfare department, Anne Spaulding, is missing. Jill doesn't care about her husband's new crush, but a note of fear...
6) Wedding Woes
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Wedding Woes - Long Version
After the death of her mother, Professor Maggie McManus accepts a hospitality instructor position at Panhandle State University, River Town, Florida. Growing up in a small sidewalk community in Massachusetts, doors were left unlocked, and children were free to walk to school and the library unsupervised. She quickly learns small communities are not created equal. Experiencing bullying firsthand, she discovers there are...
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While the almost castle crumbles around them, Alicia desperately searches for the answers she wants and needs. Every creepy room demands a thorough search. Someone is trying to kill her, and she doesn't even know why, let alone, who. Each room she searches is a challenge and each is either fascinating or horrifying. The huge cat now follows her everywhere, even into closed rooms. If she can discover his secret before one of the murder attempts...
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Agatha Christie meets Arsenic and Old Lace
A classic Golden Age puzzle with a character driven plot
Cerridwen Evan Jones has a very brief to do list:
Finish and publish her novel
Avoid the head of the local historical society
Make sure Great Uncle Teddy is wearing pants
But when her historic neighborhood is rocked by the discovery of a decades old murder, her list gets a little longer:
Find out who broke into her house
Solve...
9) All In
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The third noir mystery featuring P.I. Lennox Cooper, a smart detective, a smart poker player, and one of today's boldest heroines in the sorority of lonesome gumshoes.
Flinty ex-cop, poker-playing, private detective, Lennox Cooper stands alone in championing Tomek Jagoda, darling son of a Portland crime family, accused of murdering his high-living girlfriend.
The cops have proof that will send Tomek to prison for life, and prosecuting the case...
10) The Black Cane
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The decision to help one small boy turns eight elderly women's lives upside-down. Danger becomes a way of life. If the women are going to save the boy and stay alive, they are going to have to use skills that have been dormant way too long.
11) The Muckraker
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A well-known, powerful family with a shocking secret. Two journalists, living one hundred years apart, both digging for the truth. It's 1920 on Minneapolis's Newspaper Row and aspiring journalist Bizzie Johansen is ready to do whatever it takes to make it - even if that means going undercover. She'll come face to face with characters who will both challenge and frighten her, befriend and encourage her as she digs for the truth. But, when she stumbles...
12) Antique Forgery
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Magic, forgery, betrayal, and fabulous jewels surround Alicia as she struggles to find the reason for her friend's death.
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Fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy never expected her maid of honor duties to include clearing the groom of murder . . .
THE BODY OF A CRIME
It's late spring on picturesque Mackinac Island, Michigan. Allie is prepping her Historic McMurphy Hotel and Fudge Shop for the start of the tourist season and her best friend Jenn's wedding. But when Jenn's fiancé Shane, a crime scene investigator on the island, misses a dinner date, the two friends...
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A murder on summer resort Nor'easter Island? Never, and especially not in the quiet season, when all the tourists have gone home and only 1000 or so year-round islanders stay through the winter. The death of Joel Berliner, an island fisherman whose body washed ashore on Laughing Gull Beach, was a surprise, but not totally unexpected. The island buzz was that Joel, who had had some mental health issues years back, committed suicide.
But Island...
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What happens when Teenage Hijinks turn into Murder? When the latest in a slew of Dumpster fires at the local campground turn up a finger and a ring, Jack Lovelace smells a corpse...and a job for his girlfriend Juli...Part-time Detective...Full-time Soup Witch at Snips and Snails Cafe...Add in the bone Juli's half-grown Lab Mix, Holly, digs up and brings home...the human bone...And now there's a new Mystery in town....and then they find the second...
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A witty, feminist mystery set in the heart of nineteenth-century London, this daring adventure featuring an intrepid woman detective will thrill fans of Deanna Raybourn and Katharine Schellman. London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women...
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Oh Dear Silvia by Dawn French, the celebrated English actress, bestselling author, and comedian, is the clever, touching, and compelling story of one mysterious woman trapped in a coma after a fall from a balcony.
Now, lying unconscious in a hospital bed, Silvia is plagued by a stream of often funny and sometimes poignant visits from friends and family, each of whom knows a different piece of the puzzle that is Silvia Shute.
And, as she...
18) Bury the Lead
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A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder.
Cat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She's fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood, famous for its butter tarts, theatre, and a century-old feud.
One of Cat's first assignments is to interview...
19) Close to Home
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"Dell! You have to come back to the Inn, right now!"They're not the kind of words you want to hear when you answer your phone. Dell Powers knew that it was never a good sign when her friend and business partner, Rosie, was in such a panicked state about something.Dell's first reaction was to wonder what had blown up this time. With Rosie you just never knew. It could be the stove had caught fire again or any number of things that seem to happen spontaneously...
20) Mute Witness
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It's February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal…and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time...
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