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Stages of Grey: A feline-filled academic mystery
Stages of Grey: A feline-filled academic mystery

Clea Simon · Severn House Publishers; First World Publication edition
Format: Hardcover

Graduate student Dulcie Schwartz finds herself in the front row of a murder in the latest instalment of the Dulcie Schwartz feline mystery seriesDulcie never considered herself a player. But when her friends drag her to a new local theatre company that is updating Ovid with a disco version...
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The Black Hour
The Black Hour

Lori Rader-Day · Seventh Street Books
Format: Paperback

For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question...
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Deception Island
Deception Island

Brynn Kelly · Harlequin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

A stolen boy A haunted soldier A cornered con woman ... Rafe Angelito thought he was done with the demons from his past - until his son is kidnapped. Blackmailed into abducting an American heiress, the legionnaire soon finds himself trapped in paradise with a fiery, daring beauty who's...
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The Girl Next Door: A Novel
The Girl Next Door: A Novel

Ruth Rendell · Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The dazzling new novel from Ruth Rendell. When the bones of two severed hands are discovered in a box, an investigation into a long buried crime of passion begins. And a group of friends, who played together as children, begin to question their past. 'For Woody, anger was cold....
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Doing It at the Dixie Dew: A Mystery
Doing It at the Dixie Dew: A Mystery

Ruth Moose · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

Who says you can't go home again?When Beth McKenzie returns to her hometown and attempts to turn an old Southern mansion into a bed and breakfast called The Dixie Dew, her first guest is murdered. Three days later a young priest who looks better in tennis whites than cleric black is found...
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Sight Unseen
Sight Unseen

Iris Johansen · St. Martin's Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

She was safe in a world of darkness.Now danger threatens in the cold light of day ... Before the experimental surgery that gave her sight, Kendra Michaels developed her other senses to an amazing capacity. Now she can identify a Nissan by the sound of its engine, a Norelco electric razor...
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Midnight bell
Midnight bell

Jack Higgins · G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages: 310
Format: Print book

"The bell rings at midnight, as death requires it." - Irish proverb From "the dean of intrigue novelists" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) comes a knife-edge story of terrorism and revenge. In Ulster, Northern Ireland, a petty criminal kills a woman in a drunken...
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The Secrets of Wishtide
The Secrets of Wishtide

Kate Saunders · Bloomsbury
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged fifty-two, is the widow of an archdeacon. Living in Hampstead with her confidante and landlady, Mrs. Bentley, who once let rooms to John Keats, Laetitia makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister...
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Be Careful What You Wish For

Jeffrey Archer · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 387
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?When Ross Buchanan...
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The Kill Switch: A Tucker Wayne Novel
The Kill Switch: A Tucker Wayne Novel

James Rollins · HarperCollins Publishers
Pages: 388
Format: Print book

Who does the U.S. government call upon when a mission requires perfect stealth, execution, and discretion? Meet the newest recruits to the expanding Sigma Force universe--former Army Ranger Tucker Wayne and his stalwart companion, Kane, a military working dog of exceptional abilities -- in:THE...
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A Grave Prediction: A Psychic Eye Mystery
A Grave Prediction: A Psychic Eye Mystery

Victoria Laurie · Penguin Books
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In Victoria Laurie's new Psychic Eye mystery, Abby Cooper learns that following the money often leads to murder . . . Professional psychics learn to deal with skeptics, but Abby has to prepare herself for one steep uphill battle when she's sent to San Diego to help train FBI officers...
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Murder at the Brightwell: A Mystery
Murder at the Brightwell: A Mystery

Ashley Weaver · Minotaur Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Amory Ames is a wealthy young woman who questions her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy husband, Milo. Looking for a change, she accepts a request for help from her former fiancé, Gil Trent, not knowing that she'll soon become embroiled in a murder investigation that will...
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Killing Kate
Killing Kate

Alex Lake · Harper
Pages: 416
Format: Print book

From the author of ebook No. 1 bestseller and Sunday Times top ten bestseller AFTER ANNA.A serial killer is stalking your home town.He has a type: all his victims look the same.And they all look like you.Kate returns from a post break-up holiday with her girlfriends to news of a serial...
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Dangerous ladies affair
Dangerous ladies affair

Marcia Muller · Forge
Pages: 252
Format: Print book

For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot...
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These Honored Dead: A Lincoln and Speed Mystery
These Honored Dead: A Lincoln and Speed Mystery

Jonathan Putnam · Crooked Lane Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

Joshua Speed, the enterprising second son of a wealthy plantation owner, has struck off on his own. But before long, he makes a surprising and crucial new acquaintance--a freshly minted lawyer by the name of Abraham Lincoln.When an orphaned girl from a neighboring town is found murdered...
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