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Agatha Raisin volume 28
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Cotswolds inhabitants are used to bad weather, but the night sky is especially foggy as Rory and Molly Harris, the new vicar and his wife, drive slowly home from a dinner party in their village of Sumpton Harcourt. They struggle to see the road ahead - but then screech to a halt. Right in front of them, aglow in the headlights of their car, a body hangs from a lightning-blasted tree at the edge of town. But it's not suicide; Margaret Darby, an elderly...
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Bantam
Pub. Date
2016
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Includes a special preview of the highly anticipated new mystery from Laurie R. King, The Murder of Mary Russell! Laurie R. King takes readers way back in her bestselling series with this exclusive ebook short story, as Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes embark upon the riskiest adventure of their partnership: their wedding. Though she cannot entirely discount the effects of the head injuries they were both suffering at the time, Mary Russell is delighted...
3) Eyes of prey
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Lucas Davenport volume 3
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2019
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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling author John Sandford. It wasn't quite human, the thing that pulled itself across the kitchen floor. Not quite human, eyes gone, brain damaged, bleeding, but it was alive and it had a purpose . . . Lucas Davenport is battling with depression, barely able to get through each day. When a woman is brutally murdered in her home, it looks like the case might be exactly what he needs to pull him out...
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Very little disturbs the ordered calm of Fethering, a pleasingly self-contained retirement town on England?s southern coast. Which is precisely why Carole Seddon, who has left behind both her husband and her career at the Home Office, has chosen to reside there. So Carole is surprised to encounter a new neighbour with one name and a colourful past. 'Jude' is not really Fethering . . . but even she is not as surprising as the body Carole finds on the...
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Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all together once more. Unable to disobey, the children gather uneasily and wonder what their father's intentions are. Does he want to clear up past misunderstandings or cause fresh mischief? Before they can find out, a deafening crash is heard overhead. Rushing upstairs, they discover a shocking sight: Simeon Lee...
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Award-winning Paul Tremblay?s debut noir novels back in print after a decade, for fans of Raymond Chandler?s The Big Sleep, Raymond Carver and Dashiell Hammett. This omnibus brings Paul Tremblay?s debut novels - classic noirs, The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland - back in to print for the first time in over 10 years. Darkly comedic and carrying all the hallmarks of Tremblay?s later work, they introduce Mark Genevich, a narcoleptic detective...
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Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery volume 1
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A wealthy woman strangled 6 hours after she's arranged her own funeral. A very private detective uncovering secrets but hiding his own. A reluctant author drawn into a story he can't control. What do they have in common? Unexpected death, an unsolved mystery and a trail of bloody clues lie at the heart of Anthony Horowitz's page-turning new thriller.
8) A wanted man
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Jack Reacher volume 17
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Nebraska - and Jack Reacher, huge, hulking and with a freshly busted nose, is still trying to hitch a ride east to Virginia. He's picked up by three strangers - two men and a woman. Immediately he knows they're all lying about something.
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Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. She's her own boss answering to no one - and that's just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. But it's all going to change when an old friend calls in a favour: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out...
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Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2016
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As a special investigator for a hotshot Miami law firm, Bailey Carpenter is smart, savvy, and fearless. When she?s assigned to spy on a deadbeat dad in the middle of the night, Bailey thinks nothing of the potential dangers, only that she needs to gather evidence. Then she is blindsided - attacked and nearly killed. Now the firm grip Bailey once had on her life is shaken. Her nightmares merge into her waking hours and she?s unable to venture beyond...
11) Private Moscow
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Private volume 15
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy ? On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private,...
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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Sometimes figuring out the truth means going to the point of no return. For Mitchum, returning isn't something he concerns himself with ... HIDDEN: Rejected by the Navy SEALs, Mitchum is content to be his small town's unofficial private eye, until his beloved 14-year-old cousin is abducted. Now he'll call on every lethal skill to track her down. MALICIOUS: Mitchum's brother has been charged with murder. Nathaniel swears he didn't kill anyone, but...
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It was supposed to be the start of a big night out. But when Emily Kane arrives at her sister Carrie's house, she finds the front door unlocked and no one inside. Dinner's cooking, the TV's on, but Carrie, her husband and their two daughters are gone. When the police draw a blank, Emily asks missing persons investigator David Raker to find them. It's clear someone doesn't want the family found, but as he gets closer to the truth, Raker begins to uncover...
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
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Jonathan is a private investigator in a decaying Eastern European city, consumed by his work and his failing marriage. Approached one day by an elderly couple, he is presented with a faded photograph of their daughter, missing for nearly two decades. Troubled by the image of the little girl, who was the same age when she vanished as his own daughter is now - he is compelled to find her. But one night, soon after taking on the case, as he walks across...
15) Lost
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
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The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, then becoming a good enough cop to earn a street name, 'Anti'. As the new leader of an FBI task force called 'Operation Guardian', it's his mission to combat international crime. Moon's new investigative team discovers that the opportunistic 'Blood Brothers' - Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff - have evaded...
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Agatha Raisin volume 27
Pub. Date
2016
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Lord Bellingham, Carsely's biggest landholder, has enraged locals by saying he is going to sell off their allotments to make way for a new housing development. So when he turns up dead, poisoned by antifreeze, nobody mourns his passing. On another fine summer's day Agatha visits Carsley's allotments where everything looks peaceful and perfect: people of all ages digging in the soil and working hard to grow their own fruit and veg. She is introduced...
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2017
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Alexander McCall Smith's hugely popular novels featuring Precious Ramotswe, proprietor of Botswana's only female private detective agency, have become international best sellers. These acclaimed productions, complete with vibrant music, bring the exotic world of the books to life. In these eight episodes, Mma Ramotswe takes on her first case -and a new secretary; tries to solve a bone mystery; tackles a domestic drama and a doctor's erratic behaviour;...
18) Cherry slice
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A Cherry PI Mystery volume 1
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
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When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV?s Big Blubber - the hot new celebrity weight-loss show - is murdered on live television in front of three-million viewers, the case seems pretty watertight. After all, everyone saw Martin do it - didn?t they? Cherry Hinton knows there?s more to this than meets the eye. As an investigative reporter, she went undercover on dating show Caravan of Love ? but after getting in too deep with one of the other contestants,...
19) Blood tracks
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2015
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When her local District Attorney offers her a considerable sum of money to track down state witness Crawford Wynne, private investigator Tess Grey is in no position to refuse. Wynne is one of the few men still alive who can help the State nail vicious drug lord Albert Suarez. But Tess is not the only one trying to track Wynne down. Suarez's psychotic brother Hector has been hunting and butchering anyone who is a danger to his brother. Tess needs help...
20) Tough justice
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Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
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Burt Lowell lives as a recluse in an abandoned ghost town - until someone puts a price on his head. And Burt wants to find out who, and why. The trail leads to Ludwig Rickard, scheming owner of the Half-Box M, with his eye on the Long Rail. But there is a more sinister figure behind him: the elusive railroad boss Abbot Mossman. Somewhere down the tracks, Lowell must confront his would-be killer on his own ground...