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| The Pie & Mash Detective Agency by J.D. BrinkworthOut-of-work Jane Pye wrangles her boyfriend Simon Mash into taking a private detective class, and they're assigned a mysterious case: every ten years, a young woman named Nellie Thorne is reported missing around Kent, England, but officially the woman never seems to exist. While some think it's a joke, to Dev Hooper, whose girlfriend Nellie has just disappeared, it's reality. |
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The Cyclist: A DS George Cross Mystery
by Tim Sullivan
DS George Cross has unique and unmatchable talents. He uses a combination of logic, determination and exacting precision to get answers where others have failed. When a ravaged body is found in a local demolition site, it's up to Cross to piece together the truth from whatever fragments he can find. Cross meticulously unravels the young man's life, delving into the world of amateur cycling, an illicit supply of performance enhancing drugs, jealousy, ambition and a family tearing itself apart. Book 2 in the George Cross series.
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The Patient: A DS George Cross Mystery
by Tim Sullivan
No fingerprints. No weapon. No witnesses. Can DS Cross prove it was murder? When a young woman is found dead the Bristol Crime Unit is ready to close the case as suicide, especially after the coroner cites the victim's long history of drug abuse. But her mother is convinced it was murder, saying that her daughter had been clean and sober for over two years.
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Opposite Sully's Gym: A Patrick Bird Mystery
by Alexis Stefanovich-Thomson
A missing tenant, an irate mother-in-law, and a killer hiding in a Toronto rooming house -- out-of-work PI Patrick Bird is back in business. Patrick Bird thought he was helping his mother-in-law collect back rent not starting a new investigation. But when he discovers Jack Turner's third-floor darkroom is demolished and the photographer is missing, the other tenants come under scrutiny. As Bird investigates, he uncovers information about a former tenant, James Earl Ray, who had assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. just weeks earlier and had been hiding out in a room on the second floor. The case takes Bird and the police down a path of intrigue reaching right into the centre of one of the most infamous assassinations of the twentieth century.
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| The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn ClarkeSix struggling authors are invited to the private Scottish island of bestselling novelist Arthur Fletch, a recluse known for his fiendish plot twists. Upon arrival, they are told Fletch has died and left an unfinished manuscript. It's up to one of them to write the best ending in 72 hours, and whoever wins gets money and publicity. But then a real murder occurs. |
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Death Times Seven: A Daniel Pitt Novel
by Anne Perry
Two violent crimes challenge the investigative skills of young Daniel Pitt and his wife, Miriam, in the final novel of iconic mystery writer Anne Perry's beloved Daniel Pitt series.
1913: Junior attorney Daniel Pitt must step in for his friend whose parents have been brutally attacked. Toby's mother is dead and his father, a village vicar, is barely alive.
Death Times Seven, the seventh and final novel in Anne Perry's Daniel Pitt series, was completed by Victoria Zackheim, an author and editor as well as Perry's close friend. Rich in intrigue and courtroom drama, this engrossing novel marks a fitting finale to the career of an author widely praised as the queen of historical crime fiction.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Woof: A Chet & Bernie Mystery
by Spencer Quinn
Join Chet the dog, the most lovable narrator in all of fiction (Boston Globe), and his human partner Bernie as they scramble to solve a case exposing the dark side of internet fame.
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| Stakeouts and Strollers by Rob PhillipsAfter being laid off from his crime reporting job, new dad Charlie Shaw becomes a rookie PI. While on a stakeout trying to catch a cheating spouse, he meets 16-year-old Friday, who's hoping to avoid foster care by finding her estranged father. Charlie agrees to look for her dad and he and his wife give her a place to stay, but Friday's situation is more dangerous than Charlie ever imagined. |
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The Split Pea Tango
by Josh Hellyer
Highclere Inn & Carriage House is open for business, but don't expect peace and quiet-because another baffling mystery is about to unfold. This time, it's a cocktail of reincarnation theories, long-buried secrets, and just enough absurdity to keep you guessing and laughing all the way through.
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| Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin StevensonWriter and amateur sleuth Ernest Cunningham has gone to the bank hoping to get a loan to bankroll a new PI business. When Ernest and everyone else inside is taken hostage, he manages to nose around, learning that more than one person planned to rob the bank that day. Then a murder occurs. This is the 4th in a delightful series by Australian author Benjamin Stevenson. For fans of: Richard Osman.
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Death at a Firefly Tea
by Laura Childs
As fireflies dazzle like tiny glowing lanterns, tea maven Theodosia hosts an elegant evening tea on the patio of the Tangled Rose B and B. But in this gentle darkness an intruder has made their way in and slipped deadly drugs into the baked Alaska of Mrs. Van Courtland, one of Charleston's local grande dames.
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The Antique Hunter's Murder at the Castle
by C. L. Miller
The third novel in the delightful, page-turning Antique Hunter Series finds Freya, Aunt Carole, and friends searching for a missing colleague in picturesque Scotland. Hot on the heels of an art forger, a member of the Lockwood Antique Hunter's Agency disappears while investigating an isolated castle deep in Scottish countryside. Freya and Aunt Carole race to her last known location and arrive in the wintry, snow-covered Scottish Borders. At the castle, they discover that a murdered laird in the vegetable garden and his priceless collection of silverware has been stolen.
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