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He's a thief who only takes half.Paul Morrison is nearly killed when a high-society heiress shoots at him. When the smoke clears, he finds himself promising to help Laurie Jameson recover her trust fund from the crooked S&L VP who bilked her of three million dollars. Laurie transforms Paul with new clothes and a new position, making him the legitimate troubleshooter for Jameson Enterprises.Paul's hired detectives discover the S&L launders money for...
2) Bad Girls
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Only eighteen years old, Marnie Becker has an unknown and absent father, an alcoholic mother, and drinking problems of her own. Her uncle, Cal Becker, a former Chicago police officer, has been the only responsible adult in her life, but now that she's legally an adult, he worries that he won't be able to keep her on the straight and narrow. So he's pleasantly surprised when she accepts his offer to pay her way through Raven University and move to...
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Returning to her quaint Midwestern hometown of Harmony Falls, Minnesota-a place she couldn't wait to leave-numbers expert Kate Abbott discovers murder does pay, if you live long enough.
After leaving over a decade ago, Kate returns to Harmony Falls to bury her father, who hadn't spoken a word to her since she left for Los Angeles to study forensic accounting. In a hurry to settle his estate and get back to her job in LA, the last thing she expects...
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A cold winter's night in Croydon and pensioner Nelly Raven lies dead and naked on the floor of her living room. The scene bears all the hallmarks of a burglary gone wrong. It's just the beginning. Ron Butcher rose to the top of London's gangland by "fixing things". But are his extensive crooked connections of use when death knocks at his own family's door?Baker Kit Morris will do anything to keep his family business alive. Desperate for cash, he hatches...
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Burned Out and Bled Dry is a murder mystery that follows Tyler, a stressed out, workaholic young associate at a large law firm whose career goals come into jeopardy when she discovers her boss Kevin's corpse in the trunk of her car and becomes involved in the subsequent murder investigation.
After discovering Kevin's body, Tyler worries that reporting her discovery and fielding police questions would take too much time away from her work, not to...
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Winner of the Agatha Award and the SMP/Malice Domestic Competition for Best First Traditional Mystery Novel
Available for house calls-- and homicide...
When cardiologist Dr. Andrew Fenimore isn't mending weak hearts, he's solving crimes in Philadelphia's wealthy Society Hill. But murder is the last thing the good doctor expects when he befriends a teenage boy trying to bury his dead cat. As the two dig a grave for the cat's final resting place in...
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Beautiful actress, Rosalie Morgann, returns home to Wynter Island seventeen years after she fled because of her romantic liaisons with numerous island husbands.
Not many islanders are pleased to see her return, and even fewer are interested in hearing what she has to say for herself.
Rosalie manages to convince Kate Zöe Thomas - manager of the local community television station - to allow her on their inaugural broadcast from the...
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Alexandre Grimbert, détective privé spécialiste des crimes impossibles, est de retour dans cette enquête hivernale !Le plus célèbre des détectives Creusois enquête sur l'assassinat de Pierre Dufresne. Mais comment le suspect le plus crédible, un bonhomme de neige trnant au beau milieu du jardin, a-t-il pu tuer l'agriculteur, en cette matinée enneigée, à quelques jours de Noël ?Un nouveau mystère en apparence insoluble, pour tous les...
10) Treno Locale
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Treno locale: un avvincente giallo britannico che terrà il lettore con il fiato sospeso fino all'ultima pagina…Nella sera di sabato 15 gennaio 1977, un treno locale per pendolari è costretto a fermarsi nella stazione di un piccolo villaggio, a causa di un'insolita bufera di neve. La giovane infermiera Jennifer Evans, ansiosa di tornare dalla famiglia, decide di percorrere a piedi gli ultimi chilometri fino alla propria casa, in un paese vicino....
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Ein Fernsehteam kommt nach Baltrum, um einen Bericht über die Gruppe »Baltrumer Zukunft« zu drehen, welche die Insel touristisch voranbringen will. Markus Knube, der Tonassistent, trifft währenddessen unerwartet einige alte Bekannte - eine berühmte Schauspielerin, deren Mann ein Interview mit ihr vehement ablehnt, und Jann Kannings, bei dem Knube böse Erinnerungen weckt. Auch Inselbewohner Fiete Peters freut sich nicht gerade über seine Anwesenheit....
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No one expected a murder.A hotel in Cornwall. A few days of peace and quiet by the sea.Dan Corrigan was looking forward to the change of scene. But he can't help burrowing beneath the surface of every situation, and among his fellow guests there's a rich seam of secrecy and deceit.Then the cryptic typewritten notes start to appear. And when the fabric of truth begins to unravel, it's up to Dan to piece together the facts, one thread at a time. Some...
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Also known by its US title The Problem of the Green Capsule, this classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr's masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.
A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross's high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of 'peach-fancier' Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the...
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Die Rügener Rechtsmedizinerin Leona Pirell wird zu einem Einsatz nach Stralsund gerufen. Ein Mann wurde mit einem Kristallaschenbecher erschlagen. Sie obduziert die Leiche, doch bevor sie den Umständen seines Todes auf den Grund gehen kann, erhält Leona einen schrecklichen Anruf. Eine Bekannte, der sie bei einem Fall geholfen hat, ist ermordet worden und Leona könnte das nächste Opfer sein. Sie beschließt unterzutauchen und kommt dabei unverhofft...
15) Anomia
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In Euphoria, a small, fictional southern Ontario town that feels displaced in time and space, an affluent but isolated couple have vanished from their suburban home. Their estranged friend, Fir, a local video store employee, is the only person who notices their disappearance. When the police refuse to help, Fir recruits Fain, who moonlights as a security guard, and they set off on a seemingly hopeless search for the lost lovers. Their chance at an...
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A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. Building on the success of her last two mysteries in the same series, Tessa Arlen returns us to the same universe full of secrets, intrigue, and, this time, roses.
The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society. Promising...
17) The Botanist
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In the heat of the desert, Detective Cody Oliver inadvertently stumbles upon a strange garden adorned with exotic flowers. Upon closer inspection, he finds the garden is but a cover for the scores of bodies buried below. Soon, the small town of Mt. Dessicate plunges into chaos as journalists, reporters, and cameramen from across the nation descend upon the tiny, desert town to get a piece of the action.Along with the media, a mysterious woman appears....
18) Entrapment
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Detective inspector Jack Drummond has returned to work in Inverness after a Not Proven verdict saved him from being convicted of murdering his missing girlfriend, Saffron Dunbar. Her wealthy family, and many of Drummond's police colleagues, still believe he is guilty. He has to find his ex-girlfriend if he is to prove his innocence once and for all.On his first day back on duty a woman's body is found at a place of spiritual healing. Drummond's senior...
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An evening in the pub shouldn't end like this.But a murder has been committed, and for Dan, the crime is too close for comfort. When the police are fooled by a false trail, the wrong man stands accused. But Dan won't stand by while a friend is blamed. He's determined to solve the mystery, even if it means putting his own safety on the line.The real murderer must not go unpunished. Justice must be done. But first, Dan will have to untangle a web of...
20) Slade
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Slade Heston has been around horses his whole life. But growing up as a "rich" boy in Kentucky Bluegrass country is nothing like spending the summer as a hired hand at a Montana dude ranch with his mother, Darby, and the grandfather he never knew. A Western saddle, complete with saddlebags, doesn't make him a genuine cowboy. Unlike his twin sister, with her perfectly planned life, Slade's still trying to figure it all out. What he never expected was...
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