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Such a perfect wife : a novel
by Kate White
Investigating the disappearance of a family woman that appears to be a straightforward abandonment case, Bailey realizes that she might be uncovering the work of a serial killer at her own peril. By the author of Hush.
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The unquiet heart
by Kaite Welsh
Sarah Gilchrist tres to prove her fiancé's innocence when he is arrected for a murder she is sure he did not commit.
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Flowers over the inferno
by Ilaria Tuti
In a quiet village surrounded by ancient woods and the imposing Italian Alps, a man is found naked with his eyes gouged out. It is the first in a string of gruesome murders. Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a detective with a background in criminal profiling, is called to investigate. Battaglia is in her mid-sixties, her rank and expertise hard-won from decades of battling for respect in the male-dominated Italian police force. As Teresa inches closer to the truth, she must also confront the possibility that her body and mind, worn down by age and illness, may fail her before the chase is over.
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The thin edge
by Peggy Townsend
A high-profile murder becomes a life-and-death story for this reporter. Disgraced crime reporter Aloa Snow is scrambling to get her life back on track by doing what she does best: investigating hard-to-solve cases. But the latest one is personal. It's only when Aloa's investigation turns threatening that she realizes she's closing in on the killer faster than she imagined. Now that she's being pushed toward the edge, Aloa fears that there's nowhere to go but down.
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The road to Grantchester
by James Runcie
A prequel to the Grantchester series follows the life, loves and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London, where as a traumatized veteran he navigates devastating survivor guilt and a haphazard religious calling. TV tie-in.
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The island : a thriller
by Ragnar Jónasson
An award-winning follow-up to The Darkness finds Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir searching for answers when a weekend trip among friends at an old hunting lodge in the Westfjords is upended by a killing linked to a decade-old case.
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Go, lovely Rose / The evil wish
by Jean Potts
Go, Lovely Rose : They find Mrs. Henshaw at the bottom of the cellar stairs with her neck broken. Everyone assumes she has fallen. But when Rose's sister appears on the scene, she immediately begins to cry murder. And she's right! The Evil Wish: Marcia and Lucy's widowed father intends to marry his secretary and give her all his money, and let her kick his daughters out of their house. In their anger and outrage, Marcia and Lucy hatch a plot to murder him. When their father and his secretary are involved in a fatal car crash, their plans prove unnecessary. But what are they to do with their murder scheme and the residual guilt--particularly when the aborted plot develops a life of its own?
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Robert B. Parker's buckskin
by Robert Knott
A campaign for sheriff in Appaloosa is thrown into turmoil by a nearby gold strike and a dangerous snowstorm, pitting marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch against rival mining factions and a vicious serial killer.
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Read on arrival
by Nora Page
In a sequel to Better off Read, a delinquent patron's untimely death in the wake of community accidents and an offer to return a decades-overdue book traps septuagenarian librarian Cleo Watkins between the suspicious police and a determined killer.
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The body in the wake : A Faith Fairchild Mystery
by Katherine Hall Page
Supporting her friends through a less-than-relaxing summer at Penobscot Bay, amateur detective and caterer Faith Fairchild helps prepare for an upcoming wedding before stumbling on a body with a mysterious tattoo and connections far from Sanpere Island.
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The Satapur moonstone
by Sujata Massey
India's only female lawyer in 1922 helps the royal ladies of Satapur by getting involved in the power plays and ancient vendettas of the palace in the second novel of the series following The Widows of Malabar Hill.
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The scent of murder
by Kylie Logan
In a series debut by the best-selling author of the Ethnic Eats mysteries, passionate volunteer Jazz Ramsey works with a cadaver dog trainee, and her detective ex, at an abandoned building before stumbling across the body of a Goth teen.
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The stone circle
by Elly Griffiths
The past returns in ominous ways when both Ruth Galloway and DCI Nelson begin receiving threatening letters from the man responsible for their partnership, Ruth's believed-dead former mentor. By the award-winning author of the Magic Men series.
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Dead heat
by Dick Francis
With his rising culinary career threatened by an episode of food poisoning that affects most of the guests at a private affair that he had catered, Max Moreton finds himself in more trouble when he caters an exclusive luncheon at the Two Thousand Guineas horse race, a party devasted by a bomb blast that kills some of his staff as well as many of the guests.
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The big kahuna
by Janet Evanovich
Nick Fox and Kate O’Hare have their work cut out for them in a wild adventure that features a stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch and a missing unicorn. Co-written by a #1 New York Times best-selling author.
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The never game
by Jeffery Deaver
Searching for a missing woman in Silicon Valley, an expert tracker is pitted against dark elements in the billion-dollar gaming industry and a serial killer who stages scenes from his favorite game. By the award-winning author of The Bone Collector.
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The mad hatter mystery
by John Dickson Carr
At the hand of an outrageous prankster, top hats are going missing all over London, snatched from the heads of some of the city's most powerful people. When the most recently vanished hat is found atop a corpse in the foggy depths of the Tower of London, the seemingly harmless pranks become much more serious -- and when the dead man is identified as the nephew of the book collector, Fell's search for the missing story becomes a search for a murderer as well. Reissued for the first time in thirty years, The Mad Hatter Mystery is the second novel in the Dr. Gideon Fell series.
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The missing corpse : a Brittany mystery
by Jean-Luc Bannalec
Along the picturesque Belon River, home of the world famous oyster beds, between steep cliffs, ominous forests and the Atlantic Ocean, a stubborn elderly film actress discovers a corpse. By the time Commissaire Dupin arrives at the scene, the body has disappeared. A little while later, he receives a phone call from the mystical hills of Monts d'Arree, where legends of fairies and the devil abound: another unidentified body has turned up. Dupin quickly realizes this may be his most diffcult and confounding case yet, with links to celtic myths, a sand theft operation, and mysterious ancient druid cults.
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