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After splurging to buy her childhood home in the Catskills, recently widowed Mikki Lincoln emerges from retirement as a freelance editor. With her ability to spot details that others fail to see, it's not long before Mikki earns clients--and realizes that the village of Lenape Hollow isn't the thriving tourist destination it was decades ago. Not with a murderer on the loose . . . When perky novice writer Tiffany Scott knocks at her door holding a...
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"Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police find blood spatter on his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and spends eight years in prison. It appears an open and shut case, but there is more than meets the eye. Alan Conway, the late...
3) The 6:20 man
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"A cryptic murder pulls a former soldier turned financial analyst deep into the corruption and menace that prowl beneath the opulent world of finance"-- Provided by publisher.
"Every day without fail, Travis Devine puts on a cheap suit, grabs his faux-leather briefcase, and boards the 6:20 commuter train to Manhattan, where he works as an entry-level analyst at the city's most prestigious investment firm. In the mornings, he gazes out the train window...
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Martin Chuzzlewit) was serialized between 1843 and 1844, and is considered to be one of Charles Dickens's last picaresque novels. Raised by his grandfather and namesake, Martin Chuzzlewit is disinherited after revealing his love for his nursemaid, Mary. With no fortune, Martin apprentices himself to the greedy architect Seth Pecksniff and befriends Tom Pinch. Although Dickens considered Martin Chuzzlewit...
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"The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin" sees Lupin cross paths with the famous Holmlock in a wonderful story of disguises, love, and of course treasure. This early work by Maurice Leblanc was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc was born on 11th November 1864 in Rouen, Normandy, France. He was a novelist and writer of short stories, known...
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"With Priceless, Alan Eysen brings another fast-moving mystery to the colorful guys of the Martini Club. It has a surprising climax that satisfies. The story delivers the goods." -George Black, Director, Author, UVA Professor of Theater Arts
A Martini Club search begins, almost casually with a marital dispute between a beautiful woman and her wandering husband. The quarrel evolves into sweeping questions about stolen art, undercover agents, religious...
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At a local teashop, a lady journalist encounters a brilliant detective who's able to decode and solve some of the city's most complicated crimes. This is a thrilling narrative, that hinges on the unique dynamic between its two protagonists.
Polly Burton is a young journalist who stumbles across an elderly man at a London teashop. She soon discovers his peculiar personality and dazzling intellect. Through a series of conversations, they discuss...
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"One of the most entertaining mysteries of the year. It's also one of the most stimulating, as it ponders such questions as: Which is of greater interest to the reader, the crime or the detective? And: Is the pencil truly mightier than the butcher knife?" — Wall Street Journal
New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders and Moriarty, Anthony Horowitz has yet again brilliantly reinvented the classic crime
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Before she went to prison, Alison Kidd was the best thief in the city. But Ali has changed. All she wants now is to clean up her act and work in her brother Dean's restaurant. She never wants to go back inside.
On the day she gets out, Dean is supposed to pick her up. But he never shows. Ali makes her way to Dean's apartment and uses her unique skill set to let herself in. Dean is missing. After some investigation, Ali discovers that he was kidnapped...
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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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During a lucid moment, an Alzheimer's patient tells amateur sleuth BIodina d'Angelo that 40 years ago he killed his lumberyard partner in the Cascades of Washington state. Biodina begins searching historical records, and a clever fraud scheme is uncovered, along with news articles about a missing lumberyard owner. Along the way, her intuitive nature and nosiness helps her uncover another murder of a well-respected record producer. Will the murderess...
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From Audie Award-winning author Ash Bishop
"Readers will be eager to see what Bishop does next." -Publishers Weekly
". . . filled with realistic scenarios and satisfying twists." -Midwest Book Review
Leo: You'll step out the door, prepared for a normal day. But you'll never reach your workplace. You will vanish, without a trace.
Who is The Horoscope Writer? It's not Bobby Frindley. He's an ex-Olympic athlete who has fast-talked his way into an...
15) Brethren Hollows
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Tucked away in a corner of the idyllic Brethren Hollow development sits an unkempt wooded field. Hardly big enough to be considered a forest, and ignored by many as just a forgettable eyesore, this patch of woods is home to secrets that few know exist.
After a friendly party for Brethren Hollow's newest residents, a tragedy long forgotten resurfaces and threatens to tear the community apart.
Bring a bottle of red for the hosts and stop...
16) Obsession
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Attorney Kyle Foster hated his job and was bored with his wife Carol and life in general. One night he fell into the temptations of the forbidden pleasures offered in the Dark Web and started poking around… until the Dark Web poked back.
17) Eyewitness News
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After the stunning ending to their adventures in Family Matters, Jason and Daniel are determined to spend the remainder of the summer relaxing and kicking back. Now that Jason and Daniel have pledged to go steady with their girl friends, Laura and Diana, they discover that they have new obligations and personal issues to deal with. Jason is eager to play interleague basketball with his friend Chauncey and his other A-List team members. But new complications...
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Michael Biehl's first two novels, mysteries featuring medical law, were highly critically acclaimed. Now he enters new territory with an intensely introspective mystery, so finely written that Seven Mile Bridge transcends the genre-but still keeps you turning pages to find out who, if anyone, did it.
Jonathan Bruckner, a middle-aged Florida Keys diveshop owner with a taste for whiskey and not much else, has returned to his Wisconsin childhood home...
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In the first Marc LeBlanc mystery, a sudden death pulls Marc out of his comfortable life in Grand Pre and into a quest involving unexpected allies, unwelcome visitors, mysterious references in documents and on tombstones, and a hunt from one end of Nova Scotia to the other.
20) Death in Delhi
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Melanie Eagleton is staring into the cold waters of Long Island Sound from the deck of her deceased best friend's cottage. She is also trying to sketch out a solution for her latest assignment-redesigning a new inner space for the palace for the last Rajah/Bollywood heartthrob as well as the creation of a museum that will depict the one opulent lives of the Rajahs royal family. Meanwhile, in a small dark apartment on Roosevelt Island, an intense young...
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