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41) No mercy
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Series
Ellery Hathaway novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Police officer Ellery Hathaway and FBI profiler Reed Markham take on two difficult new cases in this stunning follow-up to The Vanishing Season. "A gripping and powerful read. It is what we call an edge-of-your-seat, rollercoaster of a thriller. You will not be able to put it down before you finish it."--The Washington Book Review on The Vanishing Season No Mercy is award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen's heart-pounding second novel. P Police officer...
42) The mummy case
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 3
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English
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Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses"--And at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second...
43) The balloon man
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English
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A huge wedding for art detective Max Bittersohn's nephew, at the family's Boston North Shore mansion, precipitates a range of events that no one anticipates -- not the hot air balloon landing on the wedding tent, or the squashed corpse beneath it; the mysterious reappearance among the wedding gifts of the long-lost Kelling rubies; the disappearance of Max; or the danger that descends upon Max and Sarah's three-year-old son.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Pierre the Maze Detective is on the case again! Arriving in Canal City to see the unveiling of the famous Maze Egg, Pierre and Carmen quickly realize that all is not as it should be. A shadowy organization plans to steal the egg and turn everything into a chaos of mazes! Can you help our detectives find their way to the Castle in the Sky before time runs out? Follow Pierre through a succession of mazes, finding hidden objects along the way and solving...
46) Treasure state
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Series
Cassie Dewell novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Private Investigator Cassie Dewell's business is thriving, and her latest case puts her on the hunt for a slippery con man who's disappeared somewhere in the "treasure state." A wealthy Florida widow has accused him of absconding with her fortune, and wants Cassie to find him and get it back. The trail takes Cassie to Anaconda, Montana, a quirky former copper mining town that's the perfect place to reinvent yourself. As the case develops, Cassie...
47) The rising tide
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Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
While Hannah speeds through a lengthy holiday checklist, drama in town grows like Santa's waistline on Christmas Eve. Her sister Andrea wants to stave off the blues by helping out at The Cookie Jar, Michele's love life is becoming complicated, Lisa needs Hannah's advice, and Delores has a Christmas secret she's not willing to share. But nothing dampens the holiday mood more than the chilling mystery surrounding the man found near death in an abandoned...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
When Casey first arrived at the off-the-grid town, an isolated community built as a haven for people running from their pasts, she had no idea what to expect, with no cell phones, no internet, no mail, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. She certainly didn't expect to be the homicide detective on two separate cases or to begin a romantic relationship with her boss.
50) Zero to hero
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Timmy Failure volume Prequel
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English
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Timmy Failure is not just any detective-he is the greatest detective in his town, perhaps the nation. He is so famous that there have been seven books written about his life. Plus a movie. And so he has agreed to provide the world with his extraordinary origin story, as dictated to his biographer and best friend, Charles "Rollo" Tookus. New York Times best-selling author Stephan Pastis is back with the hilariously heartwarming tale of how it all started...
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In Death series volume 40
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English
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"Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She--and her billionaire husband--are getting accustomed to being objects of attention, of gossip, of speculation. But now Eve has become the object of one person's obsession. Someone who finds her extraordinary, and thinks about her every hour of every day. Who believes the two of them have a special relationship. Who would kill for her again and again"--Dust...
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Series
Vera Stanhope novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From Ann Cleeves-New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows-comes the stunning new Vera Stanhope novel, The Darkest Evening. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."-Louise Penny "As a huge fan of both the Shetland and Vera series of books, I had high expectations for Cleeves' latest. . . . A stunning debut for Cleeves' latest crimefighter."-David Baldacci on The...
53) Dead to me
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Series
Scott and Bailey novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Manchester Murder Investigation Team (MIT) is baffled by the stabbing death of Lisa Finn, a troubled teen who spent most of her youth in group homes. Young and ambitious DC Rachel Bailey is partnered with Janet Scott, a more seasoned detective (much to their consternation), and their leader is gorgeous and brilliant DCI Gill Murray ... Combining their expertise with their intuition, Bailey and Scott chase down suspects (boyfriend, social worker,...
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"When experienced homicide detective Casey Duncan first moved to the secret town of Rockton, she expected a safe haven for people like her, people running from their past misdeeds and past lives. She knew living in Rockton meant living off-the-grid completely: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. What she didn't expect is that Rockton comes with its own...
55) Below the line
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Series
Charlie Waldo novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo was living in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than one hundred possessions, until his PI ex-girlfriend Lorena dragged him back to civilization to solve a high-profile Hollywood murder. Now Waldo and Lorena have their hands full with a new client, a wild and privileged L.A. teenager named Stevie Rose who tells lies as easily as she breathes
56) Her final words
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
"It seems like an open-and-shut case for FBI special agent Lucy Thorne when Eliza Cook walks into the field office. The teenage girl confesses to murdering a young boy. Disturbingly composed, she reveals chilling details only the killer could know. Beyond that Eliza doesn't say another word, leaving a vital question met with dead silence: Why did she do it? To find the answer, Lucy goes to the scene of the crime in the small Idaho town of Knox Hollow....
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Case in point: Piper Prescott's former mother-in-law Melly. Beneath her twin sets and pearls beats the heart of a geek--a geek whose programming changes for the point-of-sale software in Piper's shop have the owners of the program ready to make her an offer she can't refuse. "Trusty" Rusty Tulley and Chip Balboa swing by Brandywine Creek--just in time for the town's annual Oktoberfest, which has cinnamon,...
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