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1903Twenty-year-old Max Eyer is still reeling from his father's recent death when a mysterious stranger's offer to buy the family farm outside of Hamburg, Germany presents to him and his mother an unexpected opportunity to make a fresh start in America. Welcomed by his uncle's bustling family in St. Louis Max finds employment on the grounds of the upcoming 1904 World's Fair, where he is hired as a zookeeper at Hagenbeck's Animal Paradise on the Pike....
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of crimes . . . The ghastly double murder of a society doctor's beautiful wife and her maid reunites celebrated novelist Charles Dickens, his protegé Wilkie Collins, and the formidable Inspector Field of the Metropolitan Protectives in another brilliant quest for justice. They manage to defend old friend and ex-burglar Tally Ho Thompson, who's arrested at the scene-but then the case takes the men from the...
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In a college dorm in the late Seventies, seven hallmates hold a funeral for a pet hamster, only to stumble upon a body ... Startled but not exactly sorrowful at finding their unpopular dorm preceptor slumped atop a garbage can in the trash room, Keith and his friends can't resist investigating, and set to questioning a quirky set of potential witnesses and suspects. Could the killer be a fellow student? A member of the faculty or staff? The provost?...
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Mira Hawkings and Rose Wallace are able to ghost from their bodies to solve crimes. An NSA Black Ops team has taken Mira Hawkings' fiancée hostage and Mira and Robin will need all their Astral Projection powers, as well as help from a band of mysterious mercenaries to find and rescue him. An evil serial killer, and Agent John Taggart are using Borden to set a trap for the women, hoping to use them as Ghost Spies for the government. Will the ghostly-duo...
5) Midnight
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A pleasant walk along the coast on Folly Beach, South Carolina, thrusts retiree Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler into investigating a death that police are convinced was an unfortunate accident. Their resolve to continue sticking their noses where according to the police they have no business being was strengthened when a second person dies-the second death of a member of the small crew building a beachfront home. With no connection between...
6) Bones
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Artist Andretta Salinger awakens one day in an old stone country house she's bought from a family ownership of six generations to find she's been living for two years with the bones of someone murdered and buried in the floor of her cellar. When Andretta finds herself drawn willy-nilly into the small-town police investigation of a homicide committed in 1868, it's into the scandal-ridden lives of the great railroad barons of the day and to identifying...
7) Sugar Sands
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Michigan's sunset coast turns deadly when a group of vacationers encounter a dying author who sees the ghosts of children. When Arnie refuses surgery for his bum knee, Laurel takes the family on a relaxing trip to the beautiful sunset coast on Lake Michigan to recuperate. Accompanying them are Arnie's sixteen-year-old son, Sawyer, and things are made even better when their close friends Claire and Charles join them for a visit. The area is known for...
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Pru Pendergast, proprietor of Driftwood Creatives, returns to her shop after a walk around Ominpodge Village Center to find her obnoxious landlord, Bart Cunard, dead-garroted with driftwood handles and brown Vicuna yarn. Detective James Moriarty arrives, questions Pru, and accuses her of murder-though every one of Pru's fellow shopkeepers could attest to having a motive. Pru must escape attacks on her own life and the threat of being arrested while...
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Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 7
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From Agatha Christie's favorite American author-creepy correspondence from a Manhattan mansion puts an amateur sleuth on the trail of a killer.
Take one grand house, stuff it with staff, and make it home to several generations. If they send their sons to Oxford and occasionally knock each other off, you've got a country-house murder mystery, the delight of classic English crime fiction. But if the boys are at Yale, odds are that you're reading its...
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A new business venture. A missing customer. Weird magic in the air. Kat is settling into her new landscape supply store, and business is looking up… until one of her best customers goes missing and she was the last person to see him alive. When a weird magical current turns up in the small town, Kat can't help but think there's something really off about the whole situation.Thinking she knew a thing or two about the guy, Kat launches her own investigation,...
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Fans of atmospheric mysteries and amateur sleuths will be swept away by Judi Culbertson's newest Delhi Laine novel.
For the first time in nearly twenty years, Delhi Laine's family is whole.
But that doesn't mean everything is back to normal. With no proof to condemn her daughter's kidnappers, Delhi's family is forced to share Elisa with her "adoptive" parents. But when they suddenly perish in a mysterious house fire, Elisa is heartbroken … and...
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Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 9
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From Agatha Christie's favorite American author-a bookish sleuth attempts to solve the murder of a spiritual eccentric at a wealthy estate.
Just about any of the guests at Johnny Redfield's party seems to have a good reason to have killed the guest of honor, Johnny's Californian aunt who, with her astral name and vague pretensions of mysticism, does not exactly blend in the elegant New York atmosphere that surrounds her. And what's more, no one has...
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Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 3
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From Agatha Christie's favorite American author-an amateur detective examines the mysterious reappearance of a woman who vanished 100 years ago.
One hundred years earlier, a beautiful guest had disappeared from the wealthy Vauregard household, along with the second volume in a set of the collected works of Byron. Improbably enough, both guest and book seem to have reappeared, with neither having aged a day. The elderly Mr. Vauregard is inclined...
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Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 11
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An amateur sleuth with an eye for fakes is on the lookout for a murderer in this mystery by Agatha Christie's favorite American author.
What begins as a courtesy call on his wife's friend, Miss Julia Paxton, turns into another case for Henry Gamadge, antiquarian book dealer, handwriting expert, and amateur detective. Miss Paxton presents Gamadge with a mystery: a framed etching that had always hung in the hallway of the Ashbury mansion has suddenly...
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Welcome to Mystic Hills, where magic swirls through the air and mysteries abound...Belinda thought all hope of a life with Reed was gone, but when a relationship rewind spell hits Mystic Hills, she gets another chance. Thanks to the magic, Reed believes they're still together, reliving the past they once shared.As Belinda navigates this unexpected reunion, she is drawn into a new mystery. The mayor entrusts her with a vital task: finding a powerful...
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Un juego trepidante en el que realidad y ficción se confunden, y en el que la narrativa serial parece inmiscuirse, cada vez más y sorprendentemente, en la vida de los protagonistas. Asesinos de Series es el nombre del blog de tres jóvenes (Andrés, Marta y Rubén) que viven juntos en Madrid. Adictos a las series, sueñan con crear su gran éxito internacional: una serie de referencia como podría ser Lost. Andrés se gana la vida escribiendo textos...
17) Night Walk
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Henry Gamadge mysteries volume 12
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From Agatha Christie's favorite American author-a 1940s amateur sleuth must save a friend accused of murder in a small New York town.
Frazer's Mills, in Westchester County, New York, is a small, isolated village, where everyone knows everyone else and things haven't changed much (and the mills have been closed for quite some time). When murder suddenly intrudes upon this sedate rural backwater, antiquarian book dealer Henry Gamadge arrives to solve...
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Flying solo at a wedding. A poisoned guest. Suddenly a suspect. Finally fitting into the small town of Myrtleglen, Kat is thrilled when she's invited to a wedding, and hopes a certain landscaper will be there. But as she makes small talk with a fellow single gal at the reception, her hopes of romance are dashed when the woman collapses after vomiting all over Kat's shoes. When it turned out the woman died in hospital, Kat becomes a suspect for the...
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Fairy garden mysteries volume 5
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Carmel-by-the-Sea garden shop owner Courtney Kelly sees things others can't-like fairies, and hidden motives for murder . . .
Courtney is delighted when her tiny friend Fiona returns from the fairy realm, appearing at the base of a Cypress tree. When her Ragdoll cat, Pixie, emerges from her own portal-aka the cat door-the three set off for a busy day. Busier than usual, since Courtney has rented a small plot of land at the Flower Farm, where she...
20) One for Sorrow
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When jaded Melbourne divorce lawyer Clementine Carter returns to her Queensland coastal hometown of Whale Bay after a twenty-five-year absence, she figures she'll fly in, arrange the sale of the beach shack she's been left in her Aunt Rose's will, and fly back out.Once back in Whale Bay, Clem soon discovers that Rose has been locking horns with some of the most influential people in town, and her death might not be as straightforward as she's been...
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