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2018.
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"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit...
7182) Murder of a real bad boy
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Pub. Date
2006
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When a hunky contractor, who has a reputation for conning the ladies, turns up dead, Skye Denison, deciding that even bad boys deserve justice, sets out to find the killer while dealing with an overly amorous police chief, a dodgy brother, and a haunted house. Original.
7183) Over the edge
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Troubleshooters volume 3
Pub. Date
2001.
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The elite SEAL Team 16 Troubleshooters squad is called upon once again to take down a group of terrorists who have hijacked a commercial airplane in this densely plotted romantic thriller. Amid the exhaustive drills and daily dramas of the mission, the author weaves three romantic threads: a wistful WWII romance recalled by a Holocaust survivor; a turbulent relationship between SEAL Sam Starrett and FBI sharpshooter Alyssa Locke; and a burgeoning...
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 21
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[2015]
Description
Blue Hill is in an uproar! A representative from Beau-Mart is in the area, looking for a place to build its new big-box discount store. Competition is fierce among landownders wanting to make a huge proft, but things turn dangerous when someone starts sabotaging the land surveys. Can Anne uncover the saboteur before someone gets hurt?
7186) Hot, shot, and bothered
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Lilly Hawkins mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
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A follow-up to "A Bad Day's Work" finds news photographer Lilly Hawkins covering what she believes will be the biggest story of her career before learning about the suspicious death of a girl she met years earlier whose recent reputation is inconsistent with the person Lilly knew.
7189) Three grams of elsewhere
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Fifty years after polarization fractured the United States, a reclusive empath confronts the consequences of his role in that war-and of the part he played in weaponizing empathy."--
7190) The eighth-grade killer
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Harborside secrets volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"It's been more than a decade since a serial killer slaughtered Carlee's eighth-grade class—including her twin brother—only to vanish into thin air, leaving Harborside, Carlee's once-beautiful lakeshore hometown, haunted by the memories of dead children who will never find true rest. Now in her late twenties, Carlee is a successful—if eccentric—private investigator in downtown Chicago. But when the body of a popular high school volleyball...
7191) Anatomy of murder
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2012.
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Amateur detectives in Georgian England, Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther investigate the drowning of a man in the Thames and discover that he may have been part of a plot to betray England's secrets to France.
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Hoodwinked volume Volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Red is training with a mysterious covert group called the Sisters of the Hood. But she is forced to cut her training short when she gets an urgent call from Nicky Flippers, the head of the super secret Happily Ever After Agency. A wicked witch has abducted two innocent children, Hansel and Gretel, and Nicky needs the whole Hoodwinked gang, Red, Granny, the ever-clueless Wolf, and his over-caffeinated little partner, Twitchy, for the search and rescue...
7193) No saints in Kansas
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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In Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959 the Clutter family is murdered and Carly Fleming, recently arrived from New York, inserts herself into the investigation, along with New Yorker writer Truman Capote.
7194) Ghost blows a kiss
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Pub. Date
2021.
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The late--as in Dearly Departed--Bailey Ruth Raeburn is delighted when she's assigned a new mission by Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, even if she is no good at following the rules for Earthly Visitations. This time she's determined to be the perfect unseen emissary, no matter what it takes. Arriving late in the evening in her old hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma, to find a woman drowning in a pond, Bailey Ruth carries out a daring rescue with...
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2015.
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"Shhh...in the newest hardcover in the national bestselling Dead-End Job Mystery series, Helen Hawthorne quietly goes undercover at a local library to search for a missing masterpiece. Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Cateman Kingsley has hired Helen to find a missing John Singer Sargent painting, owned by her late father. After his death, many of Davis Cateman's books were donated to the Flora Park library, and his daughter suspects the small watercolor-worth...
7196) Gilt trip
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"Louisiana businessman Jerry Earl Leland served only a fraction of his five-year sentence for white-collar crime, thanks to some political connections and a few greased palms. But he won't have long to enjoy his freedom...After Jerry Earl's early release, his wife, Margo-a much-married Garden District doyenne-throws an extravagant Get Out of Jail Free Party, complete with a Zydeco band, champagne ice luge, and waiters in ties and tails. The guest...
7197) The Mentalist: Season 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Red John is dead. Or is he? The season is following on last season's explosive finale. California Bureau of Investigation consultant and former faux-psychic is obsessed with finding Red John, the serial killer who murdered his family. Jane learns the true price of revenge and must deal with the fallout from his actions of the previous season.
7198) The killing floor
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Glasgow P Division procedurals volume 9
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
In Glasgow, police discover in bushes a corpse minus head and hands. It is of a woman who has been dead for six months and she is identified as Pam McArthur, a social worker. She was also a busybody, which led her to uncover a scandal involving a local notable. He hired some men to take care of her and now Sergeant Ray Sussock sets out to take care of him. By the author of London Day Monday.
7199) The hidden people
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2016.
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Refusing to believe the rumors surrounding his beautiful and talented cousin's murder, nineteenth-century Englishman Albie Mirralls goes to his late cousin's village and confronts profound superstitions about the "fair folk" and their belief that his cousin was a changeling.
7200) A murder for Max
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2016.
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Escaping the pressures of big-city policing and memories of a bad marriage, Maxine Benson is happy to be appointed police chief in the resort town of Port Ainslie. The town's police force consists of Max, police constable and card-trick master Henry Wojack and 65-year-old Margie Burns, who handles office and jail duties. Max's biggest challenge is to overcome skepticism at her ability to deal with major crimes, like the murder of Billy Ray Edwards....