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The Tycoon Murderer

The Tycoon Murderer

THE TYCOON MURDERER is the first book in a new time-travel romance/cozy mystery series set in the Pacific Northwest. When Josie Matthews buys a Victorian mansion with a notorious past, she hopes to turn it into a successful inn. While she expects all the headaches of...

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Take a Number

Take a Number

“Well-written and entertaining … you’ll find yourself turning the pages because the victim is so deliciously despicable.” – West Coast Review of Books A LYING, CHEATING ABUSER WINDS UP DEAD… “Dawson keeps suspense and interest at high pitch.” – Publishers Weekly...

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The Tower Bridge Murder

The Tower Bridge Murder

A baffling murder and a missing detective. When a young woman is murdered on Tower Bridge, former spy Augusta Peel expects Scotland Yard to call on her for help.But no call comes.Meanwhile, Augusta is preoccupied with the success of her Bloomsbury bookshop. It’s doing...

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Optical Delusions in Deadwood

Optical Delusions in Deadwood

From the Award-winning Author of Nearly Departed in Deadwood! “What a voice! Hilarious, original, and genuinely wonderful. This fresh and feisty mystery will instantly win your heart. Loved it!” ~HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN, Anthony, Agatha and Macavity winning author “A...

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Secrets of the Watch House

Secrets of the Watch House

The truth is waiting to be told …'Stunning' SANTA MONTEFIORE'Spine-tinglingly good' AMANDA GEARD'Incredible' LORNA COOK***Cornwall, 1934.Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father’s ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her...

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The Scent of Lies

The Scent of Lies

She wants answers. He wishes he didn’t want her. Watch out, people, sparks are gonna fly! Novice private eye Emily Parker is determined to prove herself and nail her first big case. Failing to uncover the real killer means her client's life is basically over…and so is...

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Songbird

Songbird

It’s all fun and games until someone gets killed. Meet Jax Diamond, a sharp, sophisticated, skilled, no-nonsense private detective. Or is he? Glued to his side is his canine partner, Ace, a fierce and unrelenting German Shepherd whose mere presence terrorizes...

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Murdered by Adultery

Murdered by Adultery

In the tranquil town of Cottonwood Springs, nothing is as simple as it appears. When a young woman's life is brutally cut short, her husband becomes the prime suspect. But was it truly a crime of passion, or is there more to the story than meets the eye? Delving into...

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A Vow of Silence

A Vow of Silence

DISCOVER A DRAMATIC NEW MYSTERY SERIES SET IN A CORNISH CONVENT. “Outstanding.” Publishers Weekly 1988. Order of the Daughters of Compassion, Bodmin, Cornwall. The sisters at a lonely Cornish convent share a chilling secret they cannot confess . . . Sister Sophia is...

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The Killer Jack Mystery

The Killer Jack Mystery

A trip to state prison puts Jenny on the trail for a stolen necklace and right into the path of a killer…The lights are just about to go out for good in my father's PI office when I get an unexpected call from the state penitentiary. My mother's only brother was sent...

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Appleby Talks

Appleby Talks

From a British crime author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” twenty-three short mysteries featuring the brilliant Inspector Appleby (The Times Literary Supplement).It appears Inspector Appleby is ready to tell all in this must-read collection of...

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One Night in Drake Mansion

One Night in Drake Mansion

A haunted mansion turned reality TV set. Which of the contestants will scream first? Amateur sleuth Harlan Holt only believes in cold hard facts. So when he’s cast for a supernatural reality show, he’s determined to disprove an 80-year-old spooky mystery and demystify...

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Leave the Grave Green

Leave the Grave Green

“Lucid prose, well-focused plot, and all the trappings of a cosy British mystery” from the New York Times –bestselling author of All Shall Be Well ( Library Journal ). When Connor Swann, the dissolute son-in-law of renowned and influential Sir Gerald and Dame Caroline...

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The Ferry Port Mystery

The Ferry Port Mystery

A young detective ruffles a few feathers in a south coast Irish town When Detective Inspector Vikki Kirkby took the fall for a senior colleague’s mistake, she didn’t anticipate being sent from Dublin to the rural backwater of Wexford for punishment.And she feels like...

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The Moon Rock

The Moon Rock

A classic locked room mystery from the genre’s Golden Age by the renowned Australian author of the Chief Inspector Luckraft series.   On the day of his wife’s funeral, Robert Turold reveals that he has completed his lifelong quest to prove his family’s noble blood and...

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Something Blue

Something Blue

Sparks fly in Something Blue , a clever, character-driven mystery where romance and suspense seamlessly intertwine. The third book in the Lord & Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series delivers crisp dialogue, irresistible romance, and characters you'll fall in love with.Lord...

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Ill Wind

Ill Wind

POE MEETS PUZO – THE WORLD’SFIRST LOCKED-ROOM MOB MYSTERY! Hard-hitting veteran reporter Deuce Mora is awakened in the pre-dawn hours and called to the scene of a gruesome hanging to identify the body of a dear friend, an FBI agent on the verge of taking down one of...

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Death Drops the Pilot

Death Drops the Pilot

Things get murky when a ferry captain is found dead in the water in this mystery starring Inspector Littlejohn, “the model of a calm, rational policeman” (Publishers Weekly).   After a ferry to Falbright carrying forty people runs aground, the skipper is nowhere to be...

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An Invitation to Murder

An Invitation to Murder

????? “ What a twisty plot! Kind of like if Agatha Christie was alive and writing mysteries in the present.” Karen????? “Blackmail, crime, murder, revenge, obsession, deception, lies and secrets . . . this book has it all! ” Linda S.????? “One to read slowly, and...

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The Bughouse Affair

The Bughouse Affair

First in a series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco featuring a former Pinkerton operative and an ex-Secret Service agent. Private detectives Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated...

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Vintage Murder

Vintage Murder

A police inspector finds trouble during a trip to New Zealand: “It’s time to start comparing Christie to Marsh instead of the other way around.” —New York MagazineInspector Roderick Alleyn has taken a break from England and journeyed to New Zealand, and traveling...

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The Murder at Sissingham Hall

The Murder at Sissingham Hall

"It's absolutely delightful, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a fan of Sarah Caudwell, or Agatha Christie, or anyone who loves really clever British murder mysteries set in the '20s." - Gillian Flynn, international bestselling author of Gone Girl . On his...

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The Bughouse Affair

The Bughouse Affair

First in a series of lighthearted historical mysteries set in 1890s San Francisco featuring a former Pinkerton operative and an ex-Secret Service agent.Private detectives Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated...

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Street of the Five Moons

Street of the Five Moons

Vicky Bliss, a brain with a body like a centerfold, often has a tough time getting people to take her seriously. But when it comes to medieval history, this blonde beauty knows her stuff -- and she's a master at solving mysteries that would turn the art world upside...

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Buried Secrets

Buried Secrets

????? "I couldn’t put it down!” - Reader Review___ A tortured woman, a drowning man, a frightened child. When Detective Grace McKenna looks into a criminal’s eyes she can see haunting images of victims who have been wronged. In Buried Secrets, when Grace responds to a...

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Murder in Spades

Murder in Spades

The Ashgrove Bridge Club did not expect their newly elected president, Leonard Delaney, to be murdered on the day of his successful election, or did they? Could it have been a conspiracy to get rid of Leonard? After all, he was a man of insufferable superiority, his...

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Dial M for Merde

Dial M for Merde

This international bestseller from the author of A Year in the Merde “combines the gaffes of Bridget Jones with the boldness of James Bond” ( Publishers Weekly ).  When the glorious oceanographer Gloria Monday convinces Paul West to travel to the swank beaches of...

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Loose Ends

Loose Ends

Dying is what changed Mary O’Reilly’s life. Well, actually, coming back from the dead and having the ability to communicate with ghosts is really what did it. Now, a private investigator in rural Freeport, Illinois, Mary’s trying to learn how to incorporate her...

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Seeking Justice

Seeking Justice

When a prominent naturalist is found dead in the owl sanctuary, the suspect list includes some of the town’s most influential citizens. Each one is up to something shady, but did one commit murder to hide what they were up to?When the case takes a sudden turn...

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Long Isle Iced Tea

Long Isle Iced Tea

Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight… A childhood chant turns near deadly for Lily Locke when she’s swept into The Faction’s latest triumph—the overthrowing of the hidden, magical city of Wishery. When Ainsley and her team at MAGIC, Inc. beg Lily for...

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The Writer

The Writer

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” —Oscar Wilde College journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from...

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Pulse

Pulse

The body of a young man is found in a graveyard the night after a wild, drug-fuelled party. At first glance, there doesn’t appear to be anything sinister about his death, despite the shock of Detective Inspector Mark Olbeck realising that he once knew him.Detective...

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Appleby’s End

Appleby’s End

A Scotland Yard detective is snowed in with a strange family and a killer with a lethal passion for literature in this classic British mystery. Something’s afoot in the village of Snarl. Incidents include animals turned to stone and ominous tombstones inscribed with...

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Murder on the Marshes

Murder on the Marshes

The sun rises on a lush stone courtyard, where birds sing and ferns shade an ancient, burbling fountain. But in the fountain’s murky depths, a young woman’s body grows cold… Samantha Seabrook – an ambitious young woman with a chequered past – is found drowned in the...

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The Lost Ship

The Lost Ship

BRIDGERTON meets GHOST meets AGATHA CHRISTIE! From New York Times Bestselling Author, HP Mallory (co-author of the bestselling Haven Hollow series), comes a brand new paranormal women’s fiction mystery series! London, 1880 PHILIPPA:When a mysterious ship believed to...

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Runway Dreams a Pricey Affair

Runway Dreams a Pricey Affair

How far would you go to achieve the perfect life? Meet the beautiful young and naïve model , Bernadette Price, a party girl heiress with everything , except a smoking-hot romantic partner to share her exotic lifestyle with. To find the man of her dreams, she turns to...

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