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261) Killer cocktail
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Molly Forrester mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Molly Forrester joins her two best friends, Tricia and Cassady, on a trip to the Hamptons to attend Tricia's brother's engagement party, but the festivities are interrupted when the bride-to-be turns up dead, drowned in the pool after the party.
263) A cold trail
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Tracy Crosswhite novels volume 7
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The last time homicide detective Tracy Crosswhite was in Cedar Grove, it was to see her sister's killer put behind bars. Now she's returned for a respite and the chance to put her life back in order for herself, her attorney husband, Dan, and their new daughter. But tragic memories soon prove impossible to escape. Dan is drawn into representing a local merchant whose business is jeopardized by the town's revitalization. And Tracy is urged by the local...
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Claire Watkins mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins has extra incentive to get to the bottom of the case of a woman burned to death during a Wisconsin autumnal equinox tradition when she discovers that one of the suspects is dating her daughter.
267) What Harms You
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Locard Institute volume 2
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"The Locard Institute is a state-of-the-art forensic research center where experts from around the world come together to confront and solve the world's most challenging and perplexing crimes. When Dr. Ellie Carr arrives for her first day as an instructor at the prestigious facility, the buildings glimmer amid the brilliant fall foliage on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. But within hours a colleague, Dr. Barbara Wright, is found dead on the floor...
268) Blood sisters
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island as an...
269) Chinese whispers
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Series
China novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A man calling himself the Beijing Ripper leaves a trail of dead prostitutes in his wake, and criminal investigator Li Yan calls in help from his lover, American pathologist Margaret Campbell, whose autopsy reports yield shocking results.
270) The shining girls
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A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace--until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women burning with potential. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with an ex-homicide...
271) Blood standard
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Isaiah Coleridge novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The first in a crime noir series, Isaiah Coleridge is a former mob enforcer banished from his Alaska home after an incident. Sent to a horse farm in the Hudson Valley in NY to recover, he winds up investigating the disappearance of the 18-year-old granddaughter of his hosts."--
272) Dark highway
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Private investigator Jessica Shaw and her partner Matt Connor discover a link between a series of kidnapped women, all taken from along the same highway, and a group of former college friends. But no sooner do they follow this up than one of the kidnapped women's parents gets spooked and drops the case. Jessica is blindsided, but she's determined not to give up: three women are missing, and many more may be at risk. Jessica can't turn her back on...
274) Never ask me
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"When the simple community of Lakehaven is shaken by a violent crime, doubts begin to arise among the locals about whom they can trust ... In a quiet neighborhood in the wealthy Austin suburb of Lakehaven, the body of Danielle Roberts is discovered on a park bench. Danielle was a beloved member of the community, an adoption consultant who delivered the joy of parenthood to a number of local families. Her murder shocks Lakehaven. Perhaps no other family...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
When medical examiner, Dr. Maura Isles studies an X-ray scan of Madame X, which everyone assumes is a newly discovered Egyptian mummy, at Boston's Crispin Museum, she realizes the mummy isn't a priceless artifact but a recent murder victim, gruesomely preserved.
276) Dark eye: a novel
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Susan Pulaski series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Psychologist Susan Pulaski, who has a near-empathic gift for understanding the thought processes of criminals, is a consultant for the Las Vegas police force. When the city is galvanized by a brutal murder case stemming from the death of a young woman who has been buried alive, Police Chief Robert O'Bannon calls on Susan's services. Susan, in turn, relies on the help of O'Bannon's 26-year-old son, Darcy, a high-functioning autistic savant with a prodigious...
277) The lost witness
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Lena Gamble thrillers volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Punished by her superiors following the explosive end to her previous case, Detective Lena Gamble realizes that she has been set up for another fall when she is assigned the case of an unidentified victim whose body has been dismembered and tossed into adumpster.
278) Left for dead
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DI Amy Winter volume 3
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine's Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace -- until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin's mouth. This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online, and Amy finds herself...
279) Iced chiffon
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Reagan Summerside makes the most of the only two things she has left after a messy divorce: a run-down Victorian house and a closet full of designer clothes, and she opens a consignment shop on the first floor of her home. Her husband, meanwhile, got the Lexus and a young blonde girlfriend. When the girlfriend is found dead in the Lexus, Regan is determined to find the killer.
280) The dirty South
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It is 1997, and someone is slaughtering young women in Burdon County, Arkansas. But no one in the Dirty South wants to admit it.
In an Arkansas jail cell sits a former NYPD detective, stricken by grief. He is mourning the death of his wife and child, and searching in vain for their killer. Obsessed with avenging his lost family, his life is about to take a shocking turn. Witness the dawning of a conscience. Witness the birth of a hunter. Witness the...