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21) Queen of bones
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"Padrino, a former detective on the Cuban police force, has retired and found a new, happy life as a Santería priest. But he is drawn back in for a murder investigation when his goddaughter, Rosita, who works at the local cemetery, recognizes one of the bodies that crosses her embalming table. Meanwhile, an old flame of Rosita's, Juan, has returned to Cuba after fleeing by raft twenty years ago. He is with his American wife, Sharon, and has come...
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Killing friends is a good way to lose friends, even if the murder is for play. When Pat’s adult dance classmates discover she is a published author, the women suggest she write a mystery featuring the studio and its aging students. One sweet older lady laughingly volunteers to be the victim, and the others offer suggestions to jazz up the story. Then the murders begin. Tapped by the cops as the star suspect, author Pat sets out to discover the truth...
25) Slow burn
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c2020
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A heartbreaking tale of bullying, rape, abuse, and revenge. A young Jewish boy is beaten and nearly killed by a young Muslim boy. His sister, was raped and abused by the same Muslim youth and his gang. His family, devastated and shamed by the events are totally destroyed. The young Muslim boy grows up to control the most violent and feared criminal gang in Liverpool. By now he has developed into a complete and sadistic psychopath - totally untouchable...
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2023
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Charlie Cale is a down-on-her-luck cocktail waitress with an uncanny ability to sniff out the truth. After crossing a bloodthirsty mobster, Charlie hits the road in her trusty Plymouth Barracuda, encountering new friends, unsolved mysteries, and danger everywhere she turns. This 3-disc collection includes every thrilling episode and features amazing guest performances from Academy Award winner Adrien Brody, Judith Light, Chloe Sevigny, Nick Nolte,...
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Cornwall Murder Mystery volume Book 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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The pale outline of bones in the dew-laden grass catches and holds Lauren's gaze. In the distance, she can hear the faint sound of crashing waves and the eerie screech of seagulls. Whose life was so brutally cut short in this beautiful, lonely place?
Detective Lauren Pengelly has only been part of the Penzance police force for less than two years, but that’s enough time to know that the sleepy Cornish town doesn’t see many murders. So, when the...
28) Autumn's Trap
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Autumn Trent volume 9
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2022.
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Traps are meant to be deadly ... will someone die in this one? The pieces of FBI Special Agent Autumn Trent's life are finally coming together. Her relationship with SSA Aiden Parrish is on solid footing, and she's finally filed suit against her prior boss for sexual harassment and assault. The only thing missing is her sister, the little girl who has haunted Autumn for so long. The siblings were forced apart in elementary school, but Autumn has never...
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Jessamy Ward Mystery volume Bk 1
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2023.
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"Wrongdoers, it’s time to say your prayers!
Despite a serious cat allergy and her mother’s warnings of doom and disaster, Reverend Jessamy Ward is excited to return to her early childhood home on the Isle of Wesberrey. There she will take up her new role as parish priest of St. Bridget’s Abbey.
However, she should have heeded her mother’s warning for there are secrets waiting for her. Secrets that do not wish to be known. Secrets that will...
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2019
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A plush resort hotel in the small town of Misty Creek, high in the Colorado rocky Mountains. Tow gals on holiday -- Madeline Silverhawk, a blid retired homicide detective, and Katrina willow, a Native American artist. Two bizarre murders with a multitude of suspects. Tray Fox, a Durango Navajo homicide detective, sent to investigate the murders. A tale of intrigue and mischief.
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Den of Antiquity volume 5
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c1999
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Handsome Tradd Maxwell Burton needs Abby (Abigail Timberlake), antique dealer and owner of Den of Antiquity, to determine the most priceless item in the Latham Mansion and then split the proceeds with her. Trying to carry out Tradd's request, Abby finds that she could cut the household tension with a knife. But someone has beaten he to it by stabbing a maid to death with an ancient kris.
33) Over the Edge
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Nobody knows how Peter ended up at the bottom of MacAdam's Lookout. Chloe can't figure it out, or why his mother seems to think she was his friend. Peter didn't have any friends. He was a loner, more interested in astronomy than in other people. But something - or someone - pushed him over the edge.
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2022.
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"A shocking Prohibition-era murder in a dusty Saskatchewan border town inflames the public's suspicions about links between the politicians and Al Capone and the Chicago Mob. When rookie cop Jack Ross's investigation gets too close to the truth, he's pulled off the case. Then he goes rogue." -Publisher Marketing
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2009
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Brooks Martin and his eccentric Aunt Mandy are always looking for a different adventure. They shiver among giant ice sculptures, sweat through a nerve wracking movie audition, and scream on the Smoky Mountain Rampage. Their second place win at the Tennessee State Fair Sweet Treat Team Championship nets them a hundred dollars, and a spot on a local television show.But they never guess that their greatest adventure will involve murder. As rifles crackle...
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Den of Antiquity mysteries volume 2
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c1996, c1999
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Abigail purchases an 18th-century French armoire for a song a an estate auction, which arrived along with something she didn't pay for: a dead body. Suddenly her shop is a crime scene--so Abigail is determined to speed the lumbering police investigation along. But amateur sleuthiing is leading the feisty antiques expert into a murderous mess of dysfunctional family secrets. And the next cadaver found stuffed into fine old furniture could wind...
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Den of Antiquity volume 10
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c2003
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Den of Antiquity proprietress, Abigail Timberlake sits in on a sǎnce and when Madame Woo-Woo passes to the other side prematurely, Abby fears there's more than a specter haunting her friends eighteenth-century Georgian mansion.
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Den of Antiquity volume 9
Pub. Date
c2002
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Den of Antiquity proprietress, Abigail Timberlake'sinvites Mrs. Amelia shadbark to broker a pricey collection of Lalique glass sculpture. When Mrs. Shadbark meets a foul, untimely end, Abby is pegged by the local law as suspect Numero Uno.