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All This I Will Give to You
by Dolores Redondo
When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock. It won’t be the last. He’s now arrived in Galicia. It’s where Álvaro died. It’s where the case has already been quickly closed as a tragic accident. It’s also where Álvaro hid his secrets.
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Bird, Bath, and Beyond
by E. J. Copperman
The second in this hilarious cozy mystery series features a woman who is a talent agent for show biz animals and discovers that she has a talent herself: solving crimes.
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Body & Soul
by John Harvey
When his estranged daughter Katherine suddenly appears on his doorstep, Elder knows that something is badly wrong. The breakdown of her relationship with a controversial artist has sent her into a self-destructive tailspin which culminates in murder. And as Elder struggles to protect Katherine and prove her innocence, the terrors of the past threaten them both once more.
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Cape Diamond
by Ron Corbett
Cape Diamond, the second book in the Frank Yakabuski Mystery series, is atmospheric and action-packed. Set near the Northern Divide ― as was the first installment, Edgar Award nominee (Best Paperback Original), Ragged Lake ― the book opens with Yakabuski called to investigate a gruesome crime scene. A body has been left hanging from a schoolyard fence. On closer inspection, Yak finds a large diamond in the murder victim’s mouth.
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A Christmas Revelation
by Anne Perry
When Worm, a young orphan boy who works at the local clinic, sees Eloise being kidnapped by two men in the days leading up to Christmas, he immediately recruits Squeaky Robinson to help rescue her. But as they track Eloise down, they're surprised to hear that she does not, in fact, wish to be rescued. Instead, Eloise intends to bring the kidnappers, who drew her father into their shady business deals and then murdered him, to justice. The kidnappers are skilled illusionists, and after they try their tricks on Worm and Squeaky, the friends are determined to help Eloise with her plan --and they might just be able to use the kidnappers' tricks against them.
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Cobra Clutch
by A. J. Devlin
After his former tag-team partner Johnny Mamba's snake is kidnapped, Jed "Hammerhead" Ounstead returns to the world of pro-wrestling, but when he finds his friend and his pet dead, Jed will do anything to track down the killer.
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The Collector's Apprentice
by Barbara A. Shapiro
Abandoned in 1922 Paris when she is wrongly accused of theft, 19-year-old Paulien changes her identity and is swept up in the expatriate art world of Gertrude Stein and Henri Matisse while working to recover her father's stolen collection.
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The Feral Detective
by Jonathan Lethem
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She’s looking for her friend’s missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble — caught in the middle of a violent standoff that only Heist, mysteriously, can end. Phoebe’s trip to the desert was always going to be strange, but it was never supposed to be dangerous. . .
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Getting Old Can Hurt You
by Rita Lakin
The unexpected arrival of a long-lost granddaughter leads to mystery and mayhem in the thoroughly entertaining new Gladdy Gold mystery.
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The Hour of Death
by Jane Willan
Jane Willan’s The Hour of Death will be a Christmas delight for fans of G. M. Malliet, set on an island in Wales.
Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn make sleuthing a work of art. But will they paint themselves into a corner when they investigate the Village Art Society president’s death?
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In the Presence of Evil
by Tania Bayard
Introducing scribe sleuth Christine de Pizan in the first of an intriguing new historical mystery series set in 14th Century France.
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The Lacemaker's Secret
by Kathleen Ernst
Chloe discovers a body on a farm outside Green Bay while she's visiting a historic site and conferring with a friend about Belgian lacemaking.
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A Masterpiece of Corruption
by L. C Tyler
John Grey, a newly minted lawyer in Cromwell's England, is in trouble because of a mis-delivered letter that has left him with more information about a murderous plot than it's entirely safe to know. Can Grey prevent the murder? And can he keep his mouth shut long enough to save his own skin.
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Murder in Her Stocking
by G. A. McKevett
When the scandalous Prissy Carr is found dead in an alley behind a tavern just before Christmas, Stella “Granny” Reid decides to investigate and what she finds puts the lives of those she loves in danger.
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Pulse
by Michael Harvey
Investigating the murder of a Harvard football star, a pair of veteran detectives are stunned when the victim's teen-runaway brother arrives at the scene, claiming to have metaphysical knowledge of the crime before it occurred.
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Requiem
by Geir Tangen
Receiving emails from a vigilante who promptly carries out violent threats, journalist Vilijar Gudmundsson teams up with Investigator Lotte Skeisvoll, who notices a strangely familiar pattern to the killings, in a series debut by the creator of Norway's Bokbloggeir.com.
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Rip Crew
by Sebastian Rotella
Investigating the brutal murder of a group of women found in a hotel room, former U.S. Border Patrol agent Valentine Pescatore discovers that the killings are related to a brutal agenda to eliminate a witness at any cost. By the award-winning author of Triple Crossing.
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A Wrench in the Works
by Kate Carlisle
Contractor Shannon Hammer has to dig through murder suspects in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Eaves of Destruction and Once Upon a Spine.
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