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The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the green-gray eyes, diamant garters, and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions - is rapidly tiring of the tedium of arranging flowers, making polite conversations with retired colonels, and dancing with weak-chinned men. Instead, Phryne decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 39
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"LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis sees it all the time: Reinvention’s a way of life in a city fueled by fantasy. But try as you might to erase the person you once were, there are those who will never forget the past . . . and who can still find you.
A pool boy enters a secluded Bel Air property and discovers two bodies floating in the bright blue water: Gio Aggiunta, the playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire, and a gorgeous, even wealthier...
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Bonnie Wheeler reluctantly agrees to meet with her husband's ex-wife after the woman cautions her against an unknown danger, but when Bonnie arrives, she finds Joan has been murdered and learns to her horror that she is not only the main suspect, but that the dead woman's warning was true.
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Forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter is prevailed upon to leave London and travel to a remote island in the Outer Hebrides to inspect a corpse that has beenbadly burned--except for one hand and one foot--and left in an unoccupied cottage that shows no fire damage, and the situation deteriorates as more bodies turn up and a storm moves in, trapping a now endangered Hunter with little hope of rescue.
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When a woman is found with a bloody gash on her scalp and a plastic bag over her head, there’s no question that she was murdered. But Det. Inspector Luke Thanet, a veteran homicide investigator whose cases have carried him across the sprawling Kentish countryside, is about to discover a mystery far more shocking than anything he’s encountered before.
The victim is Perdita Master, an artist with a terminally ill mother and a husband who threatened...
6) Urn burial
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2019 recipient of the Derrick Murdoch award from the Crime Writers of Canada
What would it be like to return to your hometown after twenty-five years in prison for a crime you have maintained you did not commit? And why would you return?
Walter Desmond is back in Trafalgar, British Columbia, having been officially exonerated when new evidence showed corruption at worst, incompetence at best, by the Trafalgar City Police running the investigation....
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Adopted heir Timothy Kinnit refuses to marry his beloved Julia until he learns the truth about his parentage. But when Albert Campion traces the roots of young Timothy’s family tree, he finds them buried in a century-old scandal involving a jilted nanny and a rather nasty murder. When another tragic death occurs, a sinister Victorian blood legacy suddenly threatens the lives of the two young lovers...and Campion’s to boot!
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Serial murderer Leonard Land, a seven-foot-tall, multipersonality, computer genius, is being pursued by U.S. Customs agent John Lockwood, forensic psychologist Karen Dawson, and master hacker Malavida Chacone, but when Land learns who has been cracking his programs, he turns the tables on the trio, making them his prey.
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Three years after moving to rural Norfolk to escape his life, David Hunter if thrown back into a nightmare when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, bringing everything David has been trying to escape back into his life and forcing him to confront a killer and the dreams that haunt him.
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Plodding police inspector Carus Groves teams up with retired professor Thomas McKnight and his gravedigger assistant to investigate when a series of grisly murders strikes Edinburgh in the 1880s, shortly after the return of Evelyn Todd, a young woman who had been expelled from the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls years earlier for weaving fantastic stories about a cheerful lamplighter.
11) Spindrift
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Christy Moreland returns to her family's estate to learn the truth about her father's mysterious death.
12) A season in hell
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A young widow, Sarah Talbot, is determined to uncover the suspicious circumstances surrounding her beloved stepson's murder.
13) Cold light
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Lola's on the sofa, watching Chloe's family and the TV crews grouped round the pond. It's been ten years since Chloe and her boyfriend died, and they've finally decided what the memorial will be. The Mayor has a spade decked out in pink and white ribbon, and he's started to dig. She can tell from their faces that something has gone wrong, that a celebration has turned into something else entirely. But she's the only person who can be sure it's a body....
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Ernest Cunningham volume 2
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"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
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Jack McCarthy, an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, and his young daughter Madeleine become caught in separate moral dilemmas when Jack is assigned to watch over a defector from Soviet Russia who has come to work on the U.S. space program, and who Jack soon realizes is a former Nazi, while Madeleine, one of a group of girls being molested by their teacher, keeps her secrets when a classmate is raped and murdered.
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Unpacking in her new hometown of Portland, Oregon, herbalist and reformed alchemist Zoe Faust can't help but notice she's picked up a stowaway Dorian Robert-Houdin is a living, breathing three-and-half-foot gargoyle -- not to mention a master of French cuisine -- and he needs Zoe's expertise to decipher a centuries-old text. Zoe isn't so sure she wants to reopen her alchemical past . . . until the dead man on her porch leaves her no choice.
17) The Indian bride
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Inspector Konrad Sejer must look for a killer among the "good people" of the small Norwegian town of Elvestad, after the Indian bride of tractor salesman Gunder Jomann, who had shocked the community with the news of his marriage, is murdered before she can even reach her new home.
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If Zoe Faust can't unlock the secrets of an ancient alchemy book soon, French gargoyle Dorian Robert-Houdin will remain awake but trapped in stone forever. But when she takes a rare night off for a magic show, a murder at the theater leads back to unsolved crimes in Portland's past.
19) Random in death
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"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
20) Olivetti
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"Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindle family-the family he's lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from 12-year-old Ernest, who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English Dictionaries. The least they could do was remember Olivetti once in a while, since he remembers every...
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