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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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Jill investigates the death of a chef who was mysteriously poisoned by his own soup Until the helicopter crash, Jill Smith never knew fear. A homicide detective in the leftist enclave of Berkeley, California, she has faced down her share of thugs, thieves, and killers, but since surviving the downed helicopter, her nerves have been shot. Unwilling to submit to her anxiety, she goes back to work. The chef and owner of Paradise, an upscale restaurant...
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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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Phryne Fisher meets Underbelly in an arch, out-of-the-box debut historical crime caper.
A centuries-old curse, a house of secrets and a young woman determined to find out the truth.
Sydney, 1930: In a well-heeled corner of Paddington, just a short distance from the razor gangs of Darlinghurst and Kings Cross, sits La Maison des Fleurs, an upscale brothel run by the indomitable Madame. The star of La Maison is Violet Kelly – beautiful, clever and...
6) 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...
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The sixth installment in the wildly popular Ava Lee series from Arthur Ellis Award winner, Ian Hamilton. Ava has been in Hong Kong looking after Uncle. She has also set up an investment company with May Ling Wong and her sister-in-law, Amanda Yee. One of their first investments - a furniture company owned by two sisters in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo - runs into immediate problems with a Dutch customer. Ava goes to the Netherlands to investigate, but her...
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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...
9) April Fools
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Mystery writer Susan Foret's decision to clear her twin brother of murder creates marital discord with her New Orleans homicide detective husband and leads to threatening phone calls, another murder, and an attack that lands her in the hospital. Can she solve this real life mystery? Or will she end up divorced …or dead?
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Get the very first book in the wildly popular Ava Lee series, which includes the prequel The Dragon Head of Hong Kong. In the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar. Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong based Uncle, who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 115 lbs., she hardly...
11) The Ridge Way
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FBI special agent Jessie Ridge and her skilled team work together to solve several new murder cases in Venton, Iowa. Things become dangerous when a corrupted senator is discovered operating a scam. All this happens as she tries to overcome her past before joining the bureau.
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After a suicide, two oddball female sleuths investigate a coin collection that is anything but small change Maggie Hill's life has become temporary. Her marriage was temporary, her jobs are temporary, and if work doesn't pick up, her time in California might be temporary, too. Her latest employer is Ellis Kenilworth, an aging coin expert with a first-rate collection and a tenth-rate family. One morning, he has Maggie type up a codicil to his will,...
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The unearthing of a family's secrets, including a story about a stolen Burmese ruby, place Susan Foret and others in danger.
Susan Foret becomes involved in a cold case murder investigation after she comes across an article about the wealthy Haydel family, whose history revolves around suspicious deaths during
their longtime residency in Allemand Parish.
The unearthing of Haydel family secrets, including the story about a stolen Burmese ruby, places...
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From a New York Times–bestselling author, a doctor travels to a colony planet with her animal assistants and stumbles upon a criminal conspiracy.
Dr. Shona Taylor takes on a new assignment on a new space colony, and discovers a chilling reality behind a picture perfect planet . . . What price for paradise?
Jardindor is, by most estimates, a new Eden: from the number of trees to the exact spacing of every lamppost and garden, the alien...
15) A Taste of Death
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Food, flowers, and murder! Small town PI, Cecce DeLuca, is drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she decides to attend a cooking demonstration. The chef, Loulou Watson, falls to her death in front of Cecce's eyes. But was it really an accident? Or a well planned plot to murder the would-be-celebrity chef?
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When a cast member goes missing from the hit reality show Sex Island, producers ask the mysterious detective Luella van Horn to go undercover as a contestant and solve the case. What the producers don't know is that Luella van Horn is actually a woman named Marie Jones, a divorced ex-social worker attempting to lead a double life as a glamorous private eye. Unable to resist the opportunity to be a part of her favorite trashy reality show, Marie-as-Luella...
17) Scarlet Night
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In Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis's second Julie Hayes mystery, the Manhattan fortune-teller is plunged into a mystery that hinges on a stolen Da Vinci masterwork It starts innocently enough. Julie Hayes and her husband have just returned to Manhattan from a month in Paris. Julie looks forward to spending quality time with Jeff, whose career as a journalist takes him away from home for months on end. Now if they could just find...
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Diane Phipps, P.I., solves her first case for an insurance company which seeks its missing wealthy policy holder and meeting its obligation to pay beneficiaries. Diane Phipps, P.I., returns to Briarbush Manor on the lavish Fitz estate near St. Louis for her first client, Stone Insurance. They still want proof whether their wealthy policyholder, missing adventurer Thurman Cole, is dead or alive. Diane encounters eccentricities and strained relationships,...
19) A Grievous Sin
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Exactly one year after her husband's murder, mystery writer Susan Foret and her neighbor Rachel Marchand discover the body of Celina Baum. The encounter only adds to Susan's struggles as she learns to be a single mother to her eight-year-old twins, her loneliness after Jim's death and her insatiable curiosity about who killed Celina. Can she solve the mystery without losing her own life?
20) The Last Embrace
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Los Angeles 1949. A city of big dreams and dark shadows...
Lily Kessler, a former stenographer and spy for the OSS, comes to Los Angeles to find her late fiancé's sister Kitty, an actress who is missing from her Hollywood boardinghouse. The next day, Kitty's body is found in a ravine below the Hollywood sign. Unimpressed by the local police, Lily investigates on her own. As she delves into Kitty's life, she encounters fiercely competitive starlets,...
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