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  • The Cough of Birds The Cough of Birds
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    The Cough of Birds

    When Minneapolis private investigator Lyle Dahms visits a friend who makes armor at a rural Renaissance festival instead of a day of medieval merrymaking he witnesses a grisly murder, watching helplessly as one of the friend's colleagues is pinned to a...
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  • Do You Take This Man? Do You Take This Man?
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    Do You Take This Man?

    Two years ago, Jack Madison and Mary Bradley found each other. Both had suffered through difficult marriages and as Mary broke free from her abusive husband, Jack was recovering from the death of his wife. Now these two are embarking on the final chapter...
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  • Monster in the Dark Monster in the Dark
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    Monster in the Dark

    As townspeople celebrate their annual Halloween Shocktoberfest barn dance, a panicked black stallion bursts through the open barn doors. Everyone cheers at seeing the rider dressed like Brom Bones of the Sleepy Hollow legend. However, when Doctor Tullah...
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  • Murder at the Blue Oyster Grill Murder at the Blue Oyster Grill
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    Murder at the Blue Oyster Grill

    Reporter Honey Mayhew lost dream job, boyfriend, savings, and self-respect. She returns to her Florida Panhandle hometown to work for her family's print newspaper. It's embarrassing-not that she'd admit that. When a popular chef is murdered, the story...
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  • The Crossbow Murders, an Asheville Mystery
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    The Crossbow Murders, an Asheville Mystery

    Someone kills a master artist in his studio. Lt. Segal and his partner, Walter, race to the River Arts District to investigate. Weapon of choice? Crossbow. Quirky, even for Asheville. A new cop, Dinah, arrives to assist. Smart, athletic and absolutely...
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  • The Mortician's Wife The Mortician's Wife
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    The Mortician's Wife

    In 1912, as the new wife of the local mortician, Beatrice is settling in at the funeral parlor, but soon after, the death of a young boy sweeps a cold chill into the warmth of her new home as well as her marriage. In 2022, fledgling author Maddy Barton...
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  • Blood Bath Blood Bath
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    Blood Bath

    A child's body has been found, drained of blood, after the eve of a Blood Moon. Assigned to find the killer, police detectives Bartholomew Jones and Helen Martin first uncover a secret which destroys Jones' marriage. Then they discover a secret cult of...
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  • The Robbery Across the Hall The Robbery Across the Hall
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    The Robbery Across the Hall

    Elementary schoolteacher Maddie Conor spends her summer vacation walking dogs, avoiding a toxic ex-boyfriend, and listening to her favorite podcast Murder For Your Thoughts. It's shaping up to be another long, hot Chicago summer-until a few of her...
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  • A Sour Note A Sour Note
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    A Sour Note

    On the heels of a public, broken engagement, Maeve Cleary returns to her childhood home in Hampton Beach, NH. When a dead body turns up behind her mother's music school, three old friends land on the suspect list. Licking her wounds soon takes a back...
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  • Evil Alice and the Borzoi Evil Alice and the Borzoi
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    Evil Alice and the Borzoi

    Paradise is shaken when the body of a young woman is dragged onto a university research vessel during a class outing in Hilo Bay. Cleo Cooper is shaken when she finds her favorite student is on the hook for the murder. Danger lurks on land and sea as...
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  • All that Glisters All that Glisters
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    All that Glisters

    When the facts don't add up in his surf buddy's bizarre death, forensic consultant (and daddy-to-be) Thaddeus Hanlon investigates, volunteering to go undercover to pick up where best friend Rafi Silva left off in a secret probe of the U.S. gold...
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  • A Woman Scorned A Woman Scorned
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    A Woman Scorned

    Life changes dramatically for Libby McKenna when a body is found at Fairway to Heaven, the iconic golf course she runs. Murdered Chairman of the Board Mickey Warren had enemies. These included a 'starter' ex-wife, the angry current wife, a deceived...
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  • The Fog Ladies The Fog Ladies
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    The Fog Ladies

    Till death do us part, with kitchen shears. What drives a family man to kill his wife? This question haunts Sarah James, a medical resident who meets the unhappy family at a resort near Big Sur. She witnesses how ugly a marriage can be. But murder? Sarah...
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  • El Filántropo El Filántropo
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    El Filántropo

    Si por tu vecindario, bajo la luz de la luna una noche te encuentras a un hombre desconocido pero amistoso quien a su vez anda caminando con su perro, un hermoso maltes blanco, seguramente le darías las buenas noches y pensarías que no es más que un buen...
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  • The Charcoal House The Charcoal House
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    The Charcoal House

    In a house filled with darkness, a woman battles to find her way out . . .After a seemingly perfect start to their relationship, Emma marries Simon. But as soon as they return from the honeymoon, Simon changes. He forbids Emma from seeing...
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  • Rain Down Rain Down
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    Rain Down

    A man with no name is out to find a labor activist friend who disappeared on the streets of Portland in this noir crime novella. It’s 2009, and the economy’s falling apart. Formerly homeless, our nameless hero owes what little he has to his...
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  • Terror at G-20 Terror at G-20
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    Terror at G-20

    The murder of a San Francisco sex worker puts a female detective on the trail of a geopolitical conspiracy against America in this international thriller.What begins as the simple murder of a sex worker becomes so much more as Insp. Kate Dawson follows...
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  • Merchants of Death Merchants of Death
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    Merchants of Death

    A San Francisco detective must stop a deadly conspiracy from terrorizing the city through the subway system.When a BART car arrives at its destination with twenty-four dead passengers, detective Kate Dawson must find out who is responsible. Her...
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  • Murder on Air Force One Murder on Air Force One
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    Murder on Air Force One

    When a woman dies under mysterious circumstances aboard Air Force One, a San Francisco detective uncovers presidential conspiracies and cover-ups.When Insp. Kate Dawson is called in the wee hours of the morning, she had no idea what would be waiting for...
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  • Architects of Armageddon Architects of Armageddon
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    Architects of Armageddon

    A San Francisco detective puts her life on the line to stop a doomsday cult from stoking the fires of Armageddon in this tense thriller.When Det. Kate Dawson is called to investigate a mass murder, she has no idea how grim and disturbing the situation...
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  • South California Purples South California Purples
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    South California Purples

    “The novel combines the mystery and honesty of Craig Johnson’s Longmire with the first-person narration of a fiercely independent Oregon character.” —Sheila Deeth, author of John’s Joy  Winner of the...
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  • Rain Dogs Rain Dogs
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    Rain Dogs

    “[A] gritty, wide-angled modern noir . . . The first standalone novel by Birtcher, author of the Mike Travis series, pulls no punches.” —Kirkus Reviews   In 1976, as America celebrates its bicentennial, the drug...
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  • Hard Latitudes Hard Latitudes
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    Hard Latitudes

    “[A] fast-paced mystery . . . Fans of the prolific Stuart Woods and Randy Wayne White will hope that Birtcher’s engaging series has an equally long life.” —Booklist  A Nero Award Finalist   After twenty...
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  • Fistful of Rain Fistful of Rain
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    Fistful of Rain

    The second Sheriff Dawson mystery has “lots of twists and turns that stretch back over years, then a mind-blowing ending that puts everything into place” (Killer Nashville).  Winner—2019 Best Book of the Year, Killer Nashville...
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  • Eudora Welty and Mystery Eudora Welty and Mystery
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    Eudora Welty and Mystery

    Contributions by Jacob Agner, Sarah Gilbreath Ford, Katie Berry Frye, Michael Kreyling, Andrew B. Leiter, Rebecca Mark, Suzanne Marrs, Tom Nolan, Michael Pickard, Harriet Pollack, and Victoria Richard Eudora Welty's ingenious play with readers'...
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  • Backfired Backfired
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    Backfired

    Nick was willing to go to any lengths to be with his High School crush. Some would say he had an unhealthy obsession with Jeanie, but he had dreamt about this for his whole adult life. He didn't think it was unhealthy...He only wished it had come sooner...
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  • Beware the Lone Wolf Beware the Lone Wolf
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    Beware the Lone Wolf

    Joe Fletcher was a retired county sheriff who liked to help his son, the current sheriff, with difficult cases. A mauling near Pickwick drew him into a troubling case involving a killer wolf, thought to have prehistoric traits. As the deaths mount, Joe...
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  • Avenger of Blood Avenger of Blood
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    Avenger of Blood

    Winner of the Association of Nigerian Authors Award - Prose and Fiction category 2016. Reverend Josiah Datubo Stowe, a retired SSS officer, is enjoying a charmed peaceful life in his new line of service to God. He is favoured by his boss, respected by...
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  • Death on the High Seas Death on the High Seas
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    Death on the High Seas

    When Special Agent Dick Hartmann is invited to enjoy a free vacation on a cruise hosted by an insurance company, he jumps at the chance. After inviting his friend and fellow agent, Coleen Ryan, to come along, Hartmann boards the Pacific Wonder without...
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  • Fifty Candles Fifty Candles
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    Fifty Candles

    Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie...
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  • The Greenhouse Mystery The Greenhouse Mystery
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    The Greenhouse Mystery

    Ted Wilford and his friend, Nelson Morgan encounter mysterious goings-on at a greenhouse owned by the Bowens, a successful couple the Forestdale Town Crier has sent them to interview.The principal target of the suspicious circumstances seems to be a...
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  • The S.S. Shamrock Mystery The S.S. Shamrock Mystery
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    The S.S. Shamrock Mystery

    Ted Wilford, who writes for the semi-weekly Town Crier during college vacations, and his friend Nelson Morgan, who is a part-time photographer for the same paper, find themselves aboard a Great Lakes ore carrier in this fourteenth book of the popular Ted...
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  • The Mystery of Rainbow Gulch The Mystery of Rainbow Gulch
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    The Mystery of Rainbow Gulch

    Ted and Nelson stay at Bob Fontaine's ranch. As the boys arrive, a plane crashes, and one occupant vanishes. Meanwhile, a mystery surrounds an old hermit, and footprints indicate that someone has been watching the ranch... Ted Wilford #12. An excellent...
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  • Run, Brother, Run! Run, Brother, Run!
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    Run, Brother, Run!

    I had a dossier that made Dillinger look like a petty thief. This information was on a white card in a metal file in the prison records office. Attached to it was a newspaper clipping, describing the trial and the sentence and another describing the...
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  • Rage in Abundance Rage in Abundance
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    Rage in Abundance

    Deputy Sheriffs Robely Danner and Frank “Frack” Telusky of the small farming village of Abundance, Wisconsin, investigate the disappearance of popular young bullrider, Coby Dillon. His beautiful teenage girlfriend, Brielle Broussard, is...
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  • The Abandoned Mine Mystery The Abandoned Mine Mystery
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    The Abandoned Mine Mystery

    A suspicious explosion in a coal mine causes a crisis in the company town where the mine is located. Then a tip leads Ted Wilford to investigate... Volume 13 in the Ted Wilford series.
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  • JESSICA'S DEATH and SOMETIMES THEY DIE JESSICA'S DEATH and SOMETIMES THEY DIE
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    JESSICA'S DEATH and SOMETIMES THEY DIE

    JESSICA'S DEATHDetectives Jill Garvey and Dan Lee are no strangers to violent death, but the senseless and brutal killing of an affluent woman, her body found in a decaying urban neighborhood far from her home, shakes them to the core. Clues...
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  • In a Vanishing Room In a Vanishing Room
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    In a Vanishing Room

    Paul Norris, an out-of-work advertising executive, finds himself on a cross-country job tracking down a shipping crate. The crate holds something valuable—but exactly what, exactly, no one will say. In the process of finding the crate, Paul finds...
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  • The Two Faces of Mary The Two Faces of Mary
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    The Two Faces of Mary

    Sex, drugs and prostitution, Mary Thompson-Palmer, has been keeping some dark secrets from her family and friends, but when Mary turns up dead in a back alley way, it will have detectives scratching there heads. First it was the tell tale signs of track...
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  • Wildwood and Hickory Wildwood and Hickory
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    Wildwood and Hickory

    Two small towns, two big mysteries. Up and coming author, Allen T. Smith, knows how to tell a story. His charachters come alive in these stories as murder surprises and horrifies the good folk of Hemphill, Texas and Hickory, Arkansas.
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  • The Eye of Sayf-Udeen The Eye of Sayf-Udeen
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    The Eye of Sayf-Udeen

    A document is found in a Vatican archive and the search is on for the Eye of Sayf-Udeen, a fabled casket containing holy relics. The trail ends in Portugal, the last refuge of the Templars.The Vatican has waited seven centuries to regain the casket but...
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  • The Vampire Killer The Vampire Killer
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    The Vampire Killer

    When police found the body of Edward Baldock by the shores of the Brisbane River, he had been so savagely murdered his head was nearly severed. And there were strange marks on his neck.There seemed no reason for this horrific crime, but as they searched...
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  • He Knows I Know He Knows I Know
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    He Knows I Know

    Dawnton High has begun to rot. New students have stopped arriving, many haven't returned, and the town's houses are beginning to fall into disrepair.    Melissa is mystified when Faith Mathews arrives at school with no recollection of who...
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  • Ghost Hunters Anthology 12 Ghost Hunters Anthology 12
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    Ghost Hunters Anthology 12

    The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue - with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before:This second quarter anthology of short story fiction by S. H. Marpel and various co-authors brings you new ideas to digest -...
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  • Damaged Hope Damaged Hope
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    Damaged Hope

    Hope falters. Sanity begins to fracture... Blank, staring eyes and dismembered limbs fill Kyra's vision.After the horror of the Carmichael District, Kyra continues her search, but avoiding the Mire's psychotic killer grows ever more difficult. Now,...
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  • Mafia and Magics Mafia and Magics
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    Mafia and Magics

    Angel Zamora has always looked out for numero uno, even after getting sent to prison for robbing a convenience store at knife point. But now two crazy feds show up to tell him he has undeveloped magic. And they want him to inform on a group that has been...
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  • Election Year Election Year
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    Election Year

    It's election year 2020, never has an election been more critical for the American people. Maverick Johnson Malone, yes her parent's really did that to her, named her after the character from Top Gun and Magic Johnson, two cultural icons trending at the...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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