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  • Third Victim Third Victim
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    Third Victim

    Crime-scene contractor Dr Kristina Melina is called to the homicide of a prostitute. The victim is her best friend from high school - the investigation becomes personal. She tries to track down the murder...before the murderer finds her. In a deadly game...
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  • Second Cut Second Cut
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    Second Cut

    In this follow-up to 'First Kill' (Tom Howard Honourable Mention for Best Mystery), Dr Kristina Melina is assigned to a case where a young girl has been killed and her body dumped by the side of well-know city lake. Back with her partner, Frank Moore,...
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  • First Kill First Kill
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    First Kill

    Dr Kristina Melina is a forensic consultant for the VFSC. On a hot night she finds herself at a crime scene where a man has been decapitated and his wife almost beaten to death. Clues indicate that the assault is the work of Walter Dunn, a close friend...
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  • Better Dead Than Never Better Dead Than Never
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    Better Dead Than Never

    Patricia Lunn takes on a hopeless case after an old friend from her days in uniform asks her to dig into a supposedly wrong conviction of a serial rapist turned killer. But as she knocks at the doors of the city's most influential people, someone wants...
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  • Instrument Instrument
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    Instrument

    The Brethren of Perpetual Silence were a monastic order who sought to build a sanctuary within the Sprawl. A place where people could escape from the noise and chaos that was life in the city. Until death came to their sanctuary and killed them. All but...
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  • A Gamble Either Way A Gamble Either Way
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    A Gamble Either Way

    A lavish riverboat casino should be the perfect place to unwind after nearly being buried alive, but ex-police officer Rileigh Bishop knows better. This casino is run by a real estate tycoon who's gathered all the movers and shakers so he can convince...
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  • Moonstone Magic Moonstone Magic
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    Moonstone Magic

    Moonstone Magic is a detective novel that takes readers along on a time travel journey from a moonstone to ghosts, and ultimately, to love.When a writer finds a link allowing her to travel in time, she discovers many things, including how to win the...
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  • Burlesque Blues Burlesque Blues
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    Burlesque Blues

    Memphis, Tennessee is a city with a dark past -- a dwelling place for ghosts and a center for the cotton industry and slavery. Known for police corruption and racism, Memphis is where Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered, where Elvis overdosed, and where...
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  • CLONK! CLONK!
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    CLONK!

    Baltimore City Police Detective Kev Dixit's life has become a series of good deeds, well punished. He's pushing his way through line of duty killings, idiot tests and shifts with humorless partners. But he's also the glue holding together the lives of...
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  • Murder in the Mist Murder in the Mist
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    Murder in the Mist

    Murders just didn't happen in the little village of Cole Harbor, Maine. New York investigative reporter Laura Friday returns to Cole Harbor to recuperate from a near-fatal gunshot wound. When she and her aunt go picnicking on a nearby island, the ground...
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  • Antiques to Die for Antiques to Die for
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    Antiques to Die for

    "Sixteen dealers, sixteen keys. What a nightmare!" exclaimed the detective.A body has been discovered in a blanket chest at Cider Run Antiques. Could there be a murderer among the dealers at the popular and picturesque shop? Marv, retired history...
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  • The Walker on the Cape The Walker on the Cape
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    The Walker on the Cape

    A man's body is found in a small fishing community on the East Coast. First, everyone thinks it's a heart attack or stroke but then it's discovered that he was poisoned. Who would do this and why? Finding that out falls to Winston Windflower and his...
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  • Farewell to Jack Farewell to Jack
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    Farewell to Jack

    Trial attorney Skip Maynard, once the rising star of the Cooperstown Courthouse, has been hired to defend Harley Morehead, chairman of the Populist Party. The charge is murder, and the case against Morehead is rock solid.Ever since the hit-and-run driver...
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  • The Spider #77 The Spider #77
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    The Spider #77

    It was a weird, new weapon in the annals of crime. It sucked screaming people, automobiles, huge buildings-everything-into its hungry vortex of destruction, while its owner, a monster called the Brand, safely conducted his awful reign of terror! Such was...
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  • The Spider #50 The Spider #50
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    The Spider #50

    Over Manhattan's dizzy towers fell that insidious, invisible menace-an unseen cloud of death that first transformed the entire metropolis into a laughing, drunken riot and then blasted it to bits! Who was the evil Master of these Flame Men, who had found...
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  • Operator 5 #28 Operator 5 #28
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    Operator 5 #28

    Thundering across a ravished America comes a loot laden train bearing twenty million dollars in gold, hurtling toward the despoiled metropolis of New York, where the dread foreign conqueror, Emperor Rudolph I, has established headquarters. Suddenly the...
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  • Operator 5 #14 Operator 5 #14
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    Operator 5 #14

    By plague and fire, bribery and chicanery, terrorism and extortion, the insane dictator Ursus Young has established himself as the supreme ruler of America. Who is left with sufficient strength to thwart him? Already he has scattered far and wide the...
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  • The Murders at Hillside The Murders at Hillside
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    The Murders at Hillside

    Death strikes in the night, and a weekend house party becomes the scene of baffling crimes . . . This was Virginia Rath's (1905-1950) first published mystery novel, published in Complete Detective Novel Magazine in 1931.
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  • Quintcannon -- Line Of Play Quintcannon -- Line Of Play
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    Quintcannon -- Line Of Play

    Introduction.For the past six weeks Detective Lieutenant Kenne Quintcannon uses his day off exercising to try and get his body back into perfect physical condition after abusing it for ten years. At the age of thirty-five getting an abused body back to...
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  • Deathly Deceit Deathly Deceit
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    Deathly Deceit

    When two entirely separate cases suddenly show strange signs of being linked, Theo Stern is drawn into a web of treacherous deceit that has already taken the lives of two men and threatens Stern with the very same fate.
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  • All the Pretty Little Collies All the Pretty Little Collies
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    All the Pretty Little Collies

     Spring brings danger to the collies of Foxglove Corners when poisoned meat begins to appear in their yards. Another collie is threatened with dire consequences unless her owner withdraws her from all future shows. In the meantime, a ghost moves...
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  • The 12 Quilts of Christmas The 12 Quilts of Christmas
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    The 12 Quilts of Christmas

    In the air there's a feeling of…murder?It’s the holiday season in Foggy Point, Washington, and after a tumultuous summer and fall, quilter Harriet Truman is hoping to create happy memories for her first Christmas with husband James and...
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  • The Casebook of Monsieur Lecoq The Casebook of Monsieur Lecoq
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    The Casebook of Monsieur Lecoq

    Emile Gaboriau, who was Paul Féval's secretary, penned these two masterpieces of early detective novels in 1867:The Orcival Murder: Poachers discover the lifeless body of Countess of Tremorel in the woods near her castle. Her home has been ransacked and...
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  • Harry Dickson Harry Dickson
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    Harry Dickson

    “Let’s return to Baker Street, Harry,” he said. “The evidence is indisputable; the conclusion inescapable... We face Fantômas!” Southampton, England, 1910. Jack the Ripper is back -- or is he? A series of ghastly...
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  • The Runaway Robot The Runaway Robot
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    The Runaway Robot

    The Runaway Robot: A DJ Benson Adventure features DJ, a twelve-year-old boy who lives on a farm in the Australian countryside. DJ is curious about the world around him and all things scientific. His best friend is Becky Martin, whose father owns the...
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  • The Dogfather The Dogfather
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    The Dogfather

    “Sympathetic and delightful heroines.” —King’s River Life MagazineWho knew the world of designer purses could be such a dog-eat-dog business?When a local, designer handbags store owner is found dead, the police first believe...
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  • Edisto Stranger Edisto Stranger
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    Edisto Stranger

    A cold case heats up . . .A dead man in Big Bay Creek, spring break, and a rogue FBI agent would be enough to drive Chief Callie Jean Morgan to drink . . . if she hadn't already quietly crawled inside a bottle of gin to drown her sorrows over a life...
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  • Raiders of the Lost Bark Raiders of the Lost Bark
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    Raiders of the Lost Bark

    Mel’s enemy may be barking up the wrong tree . . .But someone is about to become a killer.Melinda Langston, amateur sleuth and Bow Wow Boutique owner, finds herself “Glamping Under the Stars” with a blackmailer, Orange...
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  • Yip/Tuck Yip/Tuck
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    Yip/Tuck

    One of Laguna Beach’s best-known plastic surgeons may need a new leash on life. Unless he’s just taking a very long nap on the bench outside Melinda Langston’s Bow Wow Boutique . . .  Dr. O’Doggle continued to give us the...
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  • Newberry Sin Newberry Sin
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    Newberry Sin

    EPIC Award Winning Series“Author C. Hope Clark brings to life . . . endearing and strong-minded characters that linger in your mind long after the last page is turned.” —New York Times bestselling author Karen WhiteBeneath an idyllic...
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  • The Girl with the Dachshund Tattoo The Girl with the Dachshund Tattoo
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    The Girl with the Dachshund Tattoo

    She has to stay low. Ears to the ground. Danger’s nipping at her heels.Mel’s tracking a killer in the world of racing dachshunds.Wiener takes all at the Laguna Beach Dachshund Dash. Melinda Langston, owner of Bow Wow Boutique, and her quirky...
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  • Barking With the Stars Barking With the Stars
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    Barking With the Stars

    “Such a cute series!” — Polished Nails and Puppy Dog Tales blogLights! Camera! Murder!A star-studded fundraiser to help provide service dogs for wounded warriors sets tongues wagging . . . about Caro Lamont, pet therapist to the stars...
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  • Kitty Kitty Bang Bang Kitty Kitty Bang Bang
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    Kitty Kitty Bang Bang

    Caro Lamont—pet therapist—and her cousin Melinda Langston—owner of The Bow Wow Boutique—pamper the kitties and pooches of Laguna Beach’s elites. Unfortunately, their human clients keep turning up dead. “We were at...
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  • Get Fluffy Get Fluffy
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    Get Fluffy

    Disgraced Texas beauty queen, Melinda (Mel) Langston, owns Laguna Beach’s Bow Wow Boutique. Mona Michaels, Mel’s most despised client, owns a star dog, Fluffy, who's worth millions. When Mona is found whacked in the head with...
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  • Fifty Shades of Greyhound Fifty Shades of Greyhound
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    Fifty Shades of Greyhound

    “Fifty Shades of Greyhound gives ‘roll over and play dead’ a whole new meaning!”—Ethel Merman & Ella Fitzgerald, canine companions to award-winning author, Holly JacobsIt was a killer party.Caro Lamont, Laguna...
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  • Desperate Housedogs Desperate Housedogs
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    Desperate Housedogs

    In posh Laguna Beach, murder has gone to the dogs.When Caro Lamont, former psychologist turned pet therapist makes a house call to help Kevin Blackstone with his two misbehaving German Shepherd dogs, she expects frantic dogs, she expects a frantic dog...
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  • Deadly Recall Deadly Recall
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    Deadly Recall

    A terrifying memory is locked deep inside her. A killer wants to keep it that way.As a nine-year-old child, Eden Moran witnessed the murder of her beloved teacher, Sister Beatrice. Her mind blocked the horrifying memory, and now, seventeen years later,...
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  • A Case of Espionage A Case of Espionage
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    A Case of Espionage

    A Case of Espionage is a work of fiction and should be interpreted as nothing more than entertainment. The characters, places, events, and incidents are a result of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual events and things is purely...
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  • The Mystery at Wickenburg The Mystery at Wickenburg
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    The Mystery at Wickenburg

    Bruce and his wife Sylvia move to Wickenburg, Arizona to start a ranch. Silvia doesn't like the idea of living in a sandbox as she refers it too but goes along with her husband. shortly after the ranch is underway life looked good. However, someone has...
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  • A Single Drop A Single Drop
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    A Single Drop

    The perfect robbery with an airtight alibi. The heist executed flawlessly; or was it? Did Sterling leave a singledrop of blood at the crime scene? If he did, will it even be found?It was only a jewelry theft; why is Sterling now being charged with...
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  • And the Devil Will Laugh And the Devil Will Laugh
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    And the Devil Will Laugh

    Jorge Hernandez is a driven man. What he sets his mind on, he goes after relentlessly, and he doesn't care if he leaves his adversaries in body bags or covered in pools of blood.He's ruthless and determined to stake a claim on the Canadian legal...
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  • Jack Sprat Could Jack Sprat Could
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    Jack Sprat Could

    Success has always come easy to socialite MaryBeth Gilland. Following her father's death, however, she needs some cash, quick. As head of an in-house detective agency owned by her father, Gray Wheeler has had it cushy as well. Suddenly, he's got to turn...
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  • Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters
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    Murder and Other Unnatural Disasters

    Watch out Southern California! There's a new entertainment attorney in town and she's got game. Only problem is, it's not the one she should be playing. Corrie Locke belongs behind a desk, not behind a Glock. She should be taking VIP calls, not nosing...
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  • Last Seen Last Seen
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    Last Seen

    One dark night, popular singer Kent Harrison goes missing after his performance at Tutbury Castle. When his body's found in a forest, the police investigation focuses on Kent's ex-wife, a local herbalist, a covetous colleague, and even the curator of...
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  • Valiant Journey Valiant Journey
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    Valiant Journey

    Brian, a brilliant scientist, is run off the road, badly injured, and taken to a nearby hospital only to be operated on by a naturalized Iranian brain surgeon who inserts a chip into his brain to steal the secrets about the laser project he has been...
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  • The Aching The Aching
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    The Aching

    Maybe she's jilted you . . ." It was an impossible suggestion but after an hour, Owen secretly considered the possibility.The guests were understandably annoyed by the delay. Bridesmaids were no longer standing single file, instead they'd huddled up-...
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Crime & Mystery Books – Best Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Detective Novels & Mystery Books in Australia

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