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| The Woman Who Spoke to Spirits by Alys ClareLondon, 1880. “I’m dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife …” When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World’s End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau’s owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are initially sceptical. How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond the grave?But after she attends a séance at the Stibbins family home, Lily comes to realize that Albertina is in terrible danger. And very soon so too is Lily herself …
Series alert: Featuring appealing characters and an intricate plot, this is the 1st World's End Bureau mystery. |
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| The Disappearance of Alastair Ainsworth by Leonard GoldbergJoanna and the Watsons receive an unexpected visitor to 221b Baker Street during a nocturnal storm. A rain-drenched Dr. Alexander Verner arrives with a most harrowing tale.
Verner has just returned from an unsettling trip to see a patient who he believes is being held against his will. Joanna quickly realizes that Verner's patient is a high-ranking Englishman who the Germans have taken captive to pry vital information about England’s military strategies for the Great War. The man is revealed to be Alistair Ainsworth, a cryptographer involved in the highest level of national security.
The police are frantic to find Ainsworth before the Germans can use him to decode all of England’s undeciphered messages. Ainsworth must be found at all costs and Joanna and the Watsons might be the only ones who can connect the clues to find him.
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| Dead Man's Mistress by David HousewrightMinneapolis PI Rushmore "Rush" McKenzie agrees to help struggling artist Louise Wykoff recover three stolen paintings given to her by a now-dead famous artist.
Though the whole world now knows about Louise and her sometimes nude appearances in the married artist's work, no one knew about the three priceless paintings he'd given her -- so who took them?
This is the 16th mystery featuring the charming, wise-cracking Rush; A Hard Ticket Home is his 1st outing. |
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| The Island by Ragnar Jónasson; translated by Victoria CribbNearing 50, dedicated Reykjavík police Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir investigates when someone's murdered during a weekend trip for four at an isolated Westfjords island -- and the crime is linked to the decade-old murder of a teenage girl.
The Hidden Iceland series occurs in reverse chronological order, so the 1st in the series, The Darkness, features Hulda facing retirement, and the forthcoming 3rd installment will have her younger than in this 2nd entry.
For fans of: Nordic noir, driven female detectives, and suspenseful mysteries with a small circle of suspects. |
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| Murder at Morrington Hall by Clara McKennaStella Kendrick is a horse-loving heiress from Kentucky whose father takes her to England in 1905 for a wedding...that turns out to be her own; Viscount Lyndy Lyndhurst, the dashing groom whose family's Hampshire, England estate needs an influx of cash.
Before Stella and Lyndy can marry, the vicar is murdered and the couple work together to solve the crime.
For fans of: charming historical cozies with romantic elements, comedies of manners, spirited leading ladies, and Downton Abbey. |
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Bark of night
by David Rosenfelt
When defense lawyer Andy Carpenter’s veterinarian asks to speak to him privately at the checkup of his golden retriever, Tara, the last thing Andy expects is Truman. Tiny, healthy, French bulldog Truman was dropped off days ago with instructions to be euthanized by a man everyone thought was his owner. But now the owner is nowhere to be found.
Andy is furious. Who would want to euthanize a perfectly healthy dog with no explanation? He is willing to whisk Truman away to the Tara Foundation, the dog-rescue organization which is Andy’s true passion. They will find a home for Truman. But that’s not all the vet tells Andy. Thanks to Truman’s chip, it’s discovered that the man wasn’t Truman’s owner at all . . . Truman's real owner has been murdered.
It’s now up to Andy – with help from his loyal sidekick Tara, Truman and the rest of the gang – to solve this case. In the latest in the popular Andy Carpenter mystery series,
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| Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha ChristieLinnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss..
First published in 1937, Death on the Nile has long been a Christie fan favorite. Now in production as a feature film by Kenneth Branagh. |
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The Woman in Cabin 10
by Ruth Ware
Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a dark and terrifying nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted for--and so, the ship sails on as ifnothing has happened, despite Lo's desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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| Set Sail for Murder: A Henrie O Mystery by Carolyn HartRetired newspaper reporter Henrie O gets a call from a former lover for whom she still has feelings -- he thinks his wealthy new wife is in danger due to several strange accidents and needs help.
Henrie O agrees to accompany the family on a Baltic cruise visiting Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, and more, while keeping an eye on the wife who tightly controls her adult stepchildren's inheritance.
Originally published in 2007, this is the 7th and last entry in the beloved Henrie O series by veteran cozy author Carolyn Hart. |
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| Every Body on Deck by G.A. McKevettFeaturing: Savannah Reid, a Georgia-born, California-based detective; Dirk Coulter, her cop husband; and Savannah's southern granny.
Savannah happily accepts a security detail job that requires her entire Magnolia Moonlight Detective Agency staff to go on a luxury Alaskan cruise to protect a famous mystery writer, who's received a threatening letter.
This is the lighthearted 22nd Savannah Reid mystery; the 24th, Bitter Brew, came out in April. |
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