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Who would want to kill Tomaso Rainaldi, an elderly, unassuming violin-maker in the quiet Italian city of Cremona? For his friend and fellow violin-maker Gianni Castiglione, the murder is as mysterious as it is shocking. Rainaldi had few possessions, no enemies and little money. No one – least of all the police – can fathom a motive for murdering him. All he really had was an obsessive love of violins and an encyclopedic knowledge of them.
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Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume Book 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume Book 8
Leaphorn and Chee volume 8
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When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Navajo Tribal Policemen Lt. Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the astonishing truth behind a mystifying series of horrific murders.
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Agreeing to help drug-addicted musician Thomas "Stone" Jackson, who is worried about his folk-singer ex-wife, college professor and sometime sleuth Sally Adler is alarmed when the target of her investigation dies under suspicious circumstances, prompting Sally's discovery of a deadly plot.
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"Someone brought a knife to the party. To celebrate the end of high school, Izzy Morales joins her ride-or-die Kassidy and five friends on a 1920s-themed getaway at the glamorous Ashwood Manor. There, Izzy and her friends party in vintage dresses and expensive diamonds-until Kassidy's boyfriend turns up dead. Murdered, investigators declare when they arrive at the scene, and now every party guest is a suspect. There's the girlfriend, in love. The...
5) Bone Key
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John Deal novels volume 7
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On a trip to Key West to talk with a wealthy developer about a new building project, Deal stops to help a young black man who is being rousted by police on a lonely beach road. The young man is appreciative-which makes it all the more shocking two days later, when he turns up dead. What happened? The police won't say. The locals won't talk. An old girlfriend appears, but Deal can't tell if she's there to help or hinder him. References keep being made...
6) Blood vines
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Alexandra Clarkson is plagued with terrifying visions that she writes off as her mind playing games, but after her mother Patsy suddenly commits suicide, Detective Daniel Reed--the last person to speak to Patsy--reveals information about Patsy's past and the possibility that a skeleton discovered in a Sonoma vineyard could be Alexandra's baby brother.
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A die-hard fan of Jane Austen novels and the traditional English mystery, Tracy Kiely has combined elements of both for this truly delightful and witty debut.
Planning New Year's resolutions to rid her life of all things unhealthy, Elizabeth Parker has dumped fatty foods, processed sugar, and her two-timing boyfriend. Indeed, the invitation to join her Aunt Winnie for a How to Host a Murder Party on New Year's Eve at Winnie's new Cape Cod B & B comes...
8) Coyote waits
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Another superior mystery involving American Indian policemen Chee and Leaphorn and the murder of another policeman. Annotation. The master's newest Chee-Leaphorn mystery with the usual informative Navajo anthropology.
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Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 8
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2024.
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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Years after their parents' murder, identical twin brothers, determined to clear one name at the expense of the other, ask Laura Moran and her Under Suspicion crew to solve this brutal crime and as they get close to the truth, they find the danger from the past finding its way into the present.
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Sandro Cellini mysteries volume 1
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Meet Sandro Cellini, Florence's answer to Donna Leon's Guido Brunetti.
One wet November in Florence, the grieving widow of an eminent Jewish architect comes to visit Sandro Cellini, good husband, disgraced ex-policeman, and recently turned PI, to ask him to investigate her husband's suicide. Cellini takes her on out of sympathy, although this first case makes a downbeat start to his new career. There seems no doubt that Claudio Gentileschi, a Holocaust...
11) Hard rain
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Annie McIntyre mysteries volume 2
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"From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
12) Ah, treachery!
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Ah, Treachery!, the last novel Thomas wrote before his death, tells the story of one Captain Edd "Twodees" Partain, drummed out of the Army and hounded by rumors of his involvement in a secret operation in El Salvador. Twodees gets hired on to help a fundraiser for the "Little Rock folks" recover funds that were stolen from an illicit stash used to smooth over problems and pay off hush money. Meanwhile, Partain is involved in a storefront operation...
13) Once upon a lie
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Maeve Conlon novels volume 1
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Maeve Conlon's father insists he's still independent, but he's slowly and obviously succumbing to Alzheimer's. And now, her cousin Sean Donovan has been found dead, sitting in his car in a public park, shot through the head. There was never much love lost between Maeve and Sean and she's not devastated by his death, but suddenly the police are poking around asking the family questions--her father is a suspect in the murder. Maeve is determined to...
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"Irascible, fearless and unapologetic, Maddy is a heroine cozy fans will embrace."-Publishers Weekly
Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the newspaper "morgue" and do her job. Then one Saturday she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage sale. She figures that those women must hire the cabby every week to drive them from garage sale to garage...
16) Triple homicide
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The debut novel from longtime Brooklyn district attorney Charles "Joe" Hynes, Triple Homicide is the gritty saga of two generations of New York City police officers fighting to stay on the right side of the law.
In the early 1990s in New York, easy money stands to be made at every turn, and temptation proves a bitter struggle for the young and much-decorated NYPD Sergeant Steven Holt---and for Steven and his uncle Robert, an officer before him, an...
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On the surface, Anna Witherall has the perfect life. Married to her university boyfriend David, she has an enviable job, beautiful home, and gorgeous three-year-old twin daughters, Stella and Rose. Their competent and capable nanny, Maria, is practically part of the family. But beneath the veneer of success and happiness, Anna is hiding a dark secret, one that threatens to unravel everything she has worked so hard to create. Only one thing is certain:...
19) A case to answer
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A novel of subtle suspense and creeping tension, A Case to Answer is effortlessly crafted crime fiction, in which human weakness and vulnerability lead to secrets, lies and tragedy.
The day Jerry Hunt meets Charlotte Frost is the day he decides to abandon his rebellious, criminal ways. Despite the fact that Jerry's been to prison and has vowed never to return, he continues to run a successful scam with his friend Pete in which Jerry sweet-talks...
20) Dark waters
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Investigating the drowning death of his wife's uncle against a backdrop of a contentious election, eighteenth-century coroner Titus Cragg receives information that suggests foul play, a situation that is complicated by the demise of a politically connected farmer.
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