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99 Ways to Die
by Ed Lin
The kidnapping of a notoriously anti-immigration billionaire from Taipei triggers a media frenzy and a dangerous search for a high-tech memory chip that the kidnappers are demanding as ransom. By the award-winning author of the Robert Chow series.
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The Belting Inheritance
by Julian Symons
Lady Wainwright presides over the gothic gloom at Belting, in mourning for her two sons lost in the Second World War. Long afterwards a stranger arrives at Belting, claiming to be the missing David Wainwright - who was not killed after all, but held captive for years in a Russian prison camp. With Lady Wainwright's health fading, her inheritance is at stake, and the family is torn apart by doubts over its mysterious long-lost son. Belting is shadowed by suspicion and intrigue - and then the first body is found.
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Bones Behind the Wheel
by E. J. Copperman
When workers discover a buried 1977 Lincoln with a skeleton behind the wheel on the grounds of her guesthouse, innkeeper Alison Kirby delves into the cold case, in the latest novel of the series following The Hostess with the Ghostess.
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The Count of 9
by Erle Stanley Gardner
Hired to protect the treasures of a globe-trotting adventurer, Bertha and Donald confront an impossible crime: how could anything be smuggled out of a dinner party - least of all a 6-foot-long blowgun - when the guests were X-rayed coming and going? But that's nothing compared to the crime they face next: AN IMPOSSIBLE MURDER...
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Eighteen Below
by Stefan Ahnhem
When a police chase in Helsingborg ends in the death of a tech entrepreneur, Fabian Risk and his team make a bizarre discovery about the victim's demise before the case is further complicated by other strange murders.
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The Flimflam Affair
by Bill Pronzini
A case involving a con-artist medium and his swindling assistant is complicated by a stabbing and the realization that multiple cons are being played.
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Fractured Truth
by Susan Furlong
When a woman like herself is murdered in their insular Appalachian mountain community, ex-Marine and new deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives.
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A Lady's Guide to Etiquette and Murder
by Dianne Freeman
Enjoying unusual freedoms as a widow, the American-born Countess of Harleigh emerges from mourning to host her sister's first London season while navigating a chivalrous inspector's investigation into the scandalous circumstances of her husband's death.
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Let the Dead Keep Their Secrets
by Rosemary Simpson
Childbirth can be dangerous even for the wealthy. So when opera singer Claire Buchanan shows Prudence and Geoffrey a postmortem cabinet photograph of her deceased twin sister and newborn niece, they express sadness but not surprise. The popular black-bordered portraits are the era's way of coping with the devastating losses that plague every family. What makes this death different is that Claire is convinced Catherine and her child were murdered.
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Lost Books and Old Bones
by Paige Shelton
When a medical student who was one of several new patrons selling her antique medical tomes is found murdered in her store's alley, Edinburgh bookseller Delaney Nichols follows leads to the story of a long-dead doctor before discovering that she has been targeted by the killer herself.
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The Lost Traveller
by Sheila Connolly
Discovering a badly beaten body on the property of her thriving Irish pub, Maura Donovan is astonished when the victim's identity is released and nobody admits to knowing him, a mystery that exposes dark community secrets.
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Murder a la Mocha
by Sandra Balzo
Maggy Thorsen’s evening with her fiancé Sheriff Jake Pavlik and his parents in Chicago takes a dramatic turn when Jake’s mother falls ill, then a Chihuahua jumps in front of Maggy’s car on her drive back to Uncommon Grounds, her Wisconsin coffeehouse. Attempting to return Mocha to her owners, George and Marian Satterwite, the following day, Maggy comes face-to-face with Arial, their dog-sitter and her business partner Sarah’s niece. But something doesn’t feel right . . .
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Murder at the Queen's Old Castle
by Cora Harrison
Despite its regal name, the Queen’s Old Castle is nothing but a low-grade department store, housed within the decrepit walls of what was once a medieval castle, built at the harbour entrance to Cork city. On her first visit for fifty years, the Reverend Mother is struck by how little has changed – apart, that is, from the strange smell of gas … But when the store’s owner staggers from his office and topples over the railings to his death, Mother Aquinas is once again drawn into a baffling murder investigation where suspects are all too plentiful.
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Murder Likes it Hot
by Tracy Weber
When an employee is found dead at the local homeless shelter for youth, yoga instructor Kate Davidson sets aside her fertility and financial woes to support and defend the teenagers
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Pre-Meditated Murder
by Tracy Weber
.When yoga instructor Kate Davidson learns that her boyfriend Michael is already married, and then finds the body of his green-card-seeking wife, she steps up to investigate, since Michael has no alibi.
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Sins as Scarlet
by Nicolás Obregón
A follow-up to Blue Light Yokohama finds embittered former Tokyo Police Department officer Kosuke Iwata setting up a private investigator business in California before looking into a cold-case murder with ties to a mysterious puzzle.
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Take-out : And Other Tales of Culinary Crime
by Rob Hart
In these stories and more, some never before published, Rob Hart explores the enticing and dangerous intersection where food and hospitality cross paths with crime and noir. Some stories are funny. Some of are dark. But each one will leaving you wanting another bite.
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You're Dead
by Chris Knopf
Organizational psychologist Dr. Waters is a happily solitary guy with a few deep attachments, including to his boss Paresh Rajput, the owner of a thriving hi-tech aerospace company. Until something really bad happens to CEO Rajput, which throws Waters into a lunatic swirl of murderous stalkers, corporate intrigue, amorous female executives and crafty cops who see the inscrutable psychologist as murder suspect #1.
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