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A&A Detective Agency volume 1
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Union Square Kids
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English
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"When Dr. Alistair Fairfleet, the Institute's eccentric chairman, disappears on the first day of Alex and Asha's summer vacation, they receive a letter written by the missing millionaire inviting them to a mystery involving complicated clues and puzzles. It is just the sort of case they've been waiting to tackle. But nothing in the Fairfleet case has a simple solution. As the kids track down clues, they uncover art forgeries, archaeological crimes,...
82) The sixth man
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After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer--an old friend of Sean King--to look into the case. But en route to their first meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.
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Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss ...
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Discover James Patterson's stunning debut, an Edgar Award-winning novel of prejudice and murder in the American South.
You are about to begin a classic award-winning novel of suspense. When an up-and-coming politician is murdered in a small Southern town, reporter Ochs Jones suspects that racism and prejudice had something to do with it-and when he learns about two other murders, tracking down the killer becomes more important than ever.
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You are about to begin a classic award-winning novel of suspense. When an up-and-coming politician is murdered in a small Southern town, reporter Ochs Jones suspects that racism and prejudice had something to do with it-and when he learns about two other murders, tracking down the killer becomes more important than ever.
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
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English
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London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
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2016
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English
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Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are London’s craftiest and bravest detectives—and there’s no better pair to solve the city’s most confounding crimes. In this riveting eBook collection of mystery short stories, available together for the first time, Christopher Fowler takes Bryant and May on a series of twisting adventures and brings readers behind the scenes of his beloved novels.
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88) LaBrava
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English
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Joe LaBrava, a photographer and former Secret Service agent, observes a murder and becomes involved in an unusual confidence scheme in South Miami Beach.
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day... and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
90) Broken ground
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Karen Pirie novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Scottish Highlands, Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie finds herself in the right place at the right time. Unearthed with someone's long-buried inheritance, the victim seems to belong to the distant past, until new evidence suggests otherwise and Karen is called in to unravel a case where nothing is as it seems. It's not long before an overheard conversation draws Karen into the heart of a different...
91) Scorched eggs
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When their longtime friend at County services, Hannah Venable, dies in a fire, Suzanne, Petra, and Toni, vowing to find the arsonist, investigate a possible connection with the nearby Prairie Star Casino.
92) The searcher
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"Cal Hooper thought a fixer-upper in a bucolic Irish village would be the perfect escape. After twenty-five years in the Chicago police force and a bruising divorce, he just wants to build a new life in a pretty spot with a good pub where nothing much happens. But when a local kid whose brother has gone missing arm-twists him into investigating, Cal uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat, and starts to realize that even small...
93) W is for wasted
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 23
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English
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Kinsey Millhone is drawn into the investigations of two murders: the first, of a fellow PI with a shady reputation; the second, of a homeless man who has her name and phone number in his pocket. Her inquiries lead to a maze of troubles involving a bank, a will, a large amount of money, and a new connection with her long-lost relatives.
95) Still life
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English
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In a small town in Quebec a woman supposedly loved by her community is found in the woods, murdered. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache looks for the small clues which will point him to the killer.
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Dresden files volume 7
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English
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The only professional wizard in Chicago, Harry Dresden finds himself cast in the role of savior when black magic and necromancy threaten the city.
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"Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one ... as one by one ... they begin to die. Who among them is the killer and will any of them survive?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 3
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English
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A terrified young girl and the peculiar guardian she fears get Nancy involved in a strange and daring mystery case.
99) X
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 24
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English
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Wealthy Hallie Bettancourt hires the Santa Teresa, Calif., PI for a simple assignment?find Christian Satterfield, a bank robber recently released from prison who was the baby 15-year-old Hallie gave up for adoption years earlier. Meanwhile, Kinsey agrees to help her friend Ruthie Wolinsky settle some papers belonging to Ruthie?s late husband, Pete, a private detective who was shot the year before in a robbery gone wrong.
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Nate the Great volume 6
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English
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Nate the Great and his dog Sludge look for Annie's housekey which has mysteriously disappeared.
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