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Counterfeit
Kirstin Chen
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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"A con artist story, a pop-feminist caper, a fashionable romp . . . Counterfeit is an entertaining, luxurious read—but beneath its glitz and flash, it is also a shrewd deconstruction of the American dream and the myth of the model minority. . . . Chen is up to something... |
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Two-Way Murder
E.C.R. Lorac
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Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of MurderIt is a dark and misty night—isn't it always?—and bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball at Fordings, a beautiful concert hall in the countryside. There waits the charming Dilys Maine, and a party buzzing with rumours... |
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The Chianti Flask
Marie Belloc Lowndes
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It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper...An enigmatic young woman named Laura Dousland stands on trial for murder, accused of poisoning her elderly husband, Fordish. It seems clear that the poison was delivered in a flask of Chianti with supper, but according... |
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles / Five Little Pigs, Bundle
Agatha Christie
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TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! From the Queen of Mystery, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in which Hercule Poirot solves his first case, and Five Little Pigs, where Poirot races to solve a case from the past.THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLESWho poisoned the wealthy Emily... |
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd / The Hollow, Bundle
Agatha Christie
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TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! In THE MURDER OF ROGER ACROYD, Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken... |
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Murder's a Swine
Nap Lombard
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"I should imagine this was murder, too, because it would be very difficult to build yourself into a heap of sandbags and then die..."In the blackout conditions of a wintry London night, amateur sleuth Agnes Kinghof and a young air-raid warden have stumbled upon a corpse stowed in the walls... |
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The Dead Letter
Seeley Regester
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"Another triumph with this pioneering crime novel."—Publishers WeeklyThe sixth book in the Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic mystery series created in exclusive partnership with the Library of Congress. This classic crime fiction mystery features a love triangle... |
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D.C. Noir 2
George Pelecanos
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In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America's mighty capital.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location... |
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Last Seen Wearing
Hillary Waugh
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No one saw her leave, and no one knows where she went...It's a perfectly typical day for Lowell Mitchell at her perfectly ordinary university in Massachusetts. She goes to class, chats with friends, and retires to her dorm room. Everything is normal until suddenly it's not—in the blink... |
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Rayne Storm
Stephanie Colbert
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She's on a mission to destroy evil...
Private investigator Rayne Parker doesn't remember being a member of the top-secret unit, Hunters of Evil. She doesn't remember being sent on a special mission and that she probably won't survive. But the monsters she hunted have never forgotten her.... |
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The Long Shadow
Pat Herbert
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When Fiona and James Brett move into their fashionable London home, they discover the attic room harbours a dark and deadly secret. James locks himself away inside, ostensibly to take up oil painting, but he soon becomes moody, even violent. Local prostitutes are being attacked, and then... |
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Between Victory and Defeat
Subhankar Bhattacharyya
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Torn between the high Marxist ideals of the bygone days and the lures of an aggressively captivating market economy, Abhi, the protagonist, can keep his trust in none but himself. The novella is a political thriller that breathlessly narrates the inside story of the deteriorating student... |
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Haunted Christmas
Pat Herbert
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The year is 1948. Reverend Bernard Paltoquet and his friend Dr Robbie MacTavish go on a tour of Europe and encounter a mystery in a Bergen forest. Why are the ghosts of two children haunting a fir tree? The following Christmas, that very tree turns up in the church hall and the ghosts of the children... |
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Room 203
Francesca Xuereb
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Two best friends and roommates are terrified by the vengeful spirits dwelling in their apartment. Based on the novel published by Kobunsha and written by Kamon Nanami. |
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Her Private War
David Laws
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A woman of humble origins fights to overcome every obstacle to pilot a plane in World War I Britain, in a novel by the author of The Fuhrer's Orphans . . .
Being female means that Charlotte Dovedale's dreams are likely out of reach. Her mother is eager to support Charlotte's brother... |
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Wings Above the Diamantina
Arthur W. Upfield
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The original 1941 radio dramatisation of Inspector Bonaparte Mystery - featuring Bony, the first Aboriginal detective. The discovery of a stolen red monoplane on the dry, flat bottom of Emu Lake meant many things for different folks. For Elizabeth Nettlefold, the chance to nurse its strangely... |
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Dark to Light and Other Stories
Stephen Filbey
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Life thwarts Floyd's goals sooner or later. A rival challenges his new invention. His buried gold is confiscated by HM Treasury. He is wrongly charged with arson. He is unfairly dismissed. He campaigns to change part of English punctuation, yet inadvertently continues to use it afterwards.... |
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The Complication
Amanda DuBois
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The first in the Camille Delaney Mystery series, The Complication is a fast-paced legal and medical mystery filled with greed, murder, and intrigue. After her friend Dallas Jackson suffers a fatal complication during routine surgery, Seattle attorney Camille Delaney is determined to find... |
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Row 19
Wolfgang Cerny
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When several flight passengers suddenly suffer gruesome, unexplained deaths, a young doctor on board begins to suspect that the shadowy, terrifying force behind her own worst childhood nightmare may be responsible. |
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