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An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape—from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction.
One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day—and she's never coming back to Scotland....
One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day—and she's never coming back to Scotland....
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"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
4) Dirty thirty
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Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
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There's only one thing more dangerous than family secrets.
Since her police-officer husband Eric's mysterious murder, Carly Harris has been struggling to support herself and their infant son. Her career as an antique dealer isn't sustainable, nor is her dream of becoming a novelist. So when her grandmother proposes she and her two sisters restore the family's large Beaufort home and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, she immediately
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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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Ella no recuerda nada. Mejor así. Su verdad era solo la mitad de la historia.
Megan McDonald está terminando el bachillerato, es popular, carismática, y tiene un futuro increíble por delante. En una de sus últimas noches en Emerson Bay, la secuestran.
Megan está dos semanas en cautiverio hasta que escapa, y pasa a ser conocida como "la chica que se llevaron". Pero esa noche también desapareció Nicole Cutty y de ella nadie sabe nada.
Megan...
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Brodie Farrell's life, on the surface, is unremarkable. A single mother to one daughter, five-year-old Paddy, in a small seaside town, she spends her days running a "finding agency"--helping clients locate items that have proved elusive by more conventional methods. She has a healthy relationship with Jack Deacon, a detective superintendent in the local police force, and a solid network of friends--except for one. Her most important ally, Daniel Hood,...
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Hired to assess the value of broken and missing antiques following a suspicious burglary at a Virginia manor house, intrepid appraiser and amateur sleuth Sterling Glass finds that her job is more complicated than she'd anticipated. The antiques, she realizes, are not always what they seem: some are worth tens of thousands, others are well-done replicas.
Whether the well-traveled and well-heeled couple who once owned Wynderly could have been trafficking...
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A mystery author finds her knowledge of murder put to practical use. Inside the lovely head of Susan Dare, grisly murder lurks. A mystery author who makes her living providing tidy solutions to imaginary crimes, Dare is enjoying a much-needed vacation when the mood at her host's house turns sour. Ugly secrets lurk in the Frame family's past, and jealousy stirs beneath the surface of their tranquil country estate. Dare makes plans to leave before her...
11) Drag Strip
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The Philadelphia Inquirer named Nancy Bartholomew's first Sierra Lavotini novel, The Miracle Strip, one of the year's best mysteries and Romantic Times calls Sierra "a magnificent, take-no-prisoners heroine."
Now, in Drag Strip, the exotic dancer again proves herself a pro as she strips down to her G-string and searches for a killer...
The only thing hotter than the supercharged engines at the Dead Lakes Motor Speedway is the special appearance...
12) Liars All
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A young couple is mugged and brutally attacked, leaving one of the victims in the ground and the other in a wheelchair. Wracked with guilt, the mother of the man accused of their attacks enlists Brodie's friend Daniel to help track down the jewelry her son stole from the victims. Although the chances for recovery of the jewels are slim, and Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon thinks it's a lost cause, Daniel and Brodie refuse to give up the case....
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Un anciano sacerdote viaja desde un pequeño pueblo del norte de Reino Unido hasta Londres para pedir ayuda a Scotland Yard. En una granja de su parroquia ha descubierto el cuerpo decapitado del propietario y a su hija junto a él, en estado de shock y declarándose culpable. Pero nadie en la población cree que Roberta haya sido capaz de semejante crimen.
El inspector Lynley y la sargento Havers son los encargados de resolver un complicado caso...
14) Los huesos rotos
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Pensaban que estaban a salvo. Se equivocaron.
Para la detective Kim Stone, el homicidio de una joven prostituta y la aparición de un bebé abandonado en la misma noche de invierno señalan el comienzo de una inquietante investigación, una que la pondrá frente a frente con alguien de su horrenda infancia.
Cuando otras trabajadoras sexuales del Black Country son asesinadas en rápida sucesión y de maneras cada vez más violentas, Kim y su equipo...
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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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The final novel in Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis's Julie Hayes mystery series takes the amateur sleuth from the mean streets of Manhattan to Ireland in search of the father she never knew Julie Hayes is finally making it as a reporter-with a column at the New York Daily under her own byline-when her husband, Jeff, tells her he has fallen in love with another woman and wants a divorce. Blinded by anger and hurt, she flees...
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San Francisco magician Emma Passant is puzzled by her grandfather's cryptic will. He writes that she is to "take her place at the helm and turn the wheel on the legacy that I have kept hidden from her". As Emma ponders these elusive words, a friend of hers is fatally shot-by the same gun that was used to kill her grandfather. The mystery begins to come together, however, upon the disappearance of a model boat-the replica of a boat her grandfather...
18) The Fatal Truth
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In "The Fatal Truth," the fourth gripping installment of the Kathy Hamilton Mystery series, we return to the tense town of Rosemont, where murder has once again cast its chilling shadow.
When a renowned reporter for the Rosemont Observer is discovered murdered in her own office, killed by one of her prestigious journalism awards, the town is thrown into a frenzy. Her vital files and investigative notes have vanished, leaving behind only an eerie...
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El cadáver de Kenneth Fleming, auténtica estrella del críquet en Inglaterra, aparece en la casa de campo de Miriam Whitelaw, una profesora retirada que años antes había sido mentora de Ken. Al principio, todo parece señalar que se trata de un desafortunado accidente, pero los indicios que encuentra la policía apuntan más bien hacia un homicidio premeditado.
Lo cierto es que el caso no parece fácil de solucionar porque la vida de Ken estaba...
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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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