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  • Illusion of Death (a Belinda Lawrence Mystery) Illusion of Death (a Belinda Lawrence Mystery)
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    Illusion of Death (a Belinda Lawrence Mystery)

    Power. Envy. Greed. Lies. All surround amateur sleuths Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby in this maze of personalities. An invitation to a private screening at a film group involves them in more than the cinematic arts.Murder and the search for a...
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  • No. 1 Suspect No. 1 Suspect
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    No. 1 Suspect

    Murder witnessed on a webcam at the Seabird Centre near Edinburgh alerts DJ Smith, undercover agent for government tax inspectors, that a ruthless drug baron has returned to Scotland. Never one to stick to orders, she swaps the undercover role she has...
    $21.00

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  • Wolf Sisters Wolf Sisters
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    Wolf Sisters

    Russia 1948.Stalin is purging everyone he sees as a threat.Gulags and shallow graves are full of writers, scientists, artists, journalists, politicians, academics and poets.Ludmila Sirotovska, a young militia officer, comes to a remote outpost in Central...
    $33.00

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  • A Deadly Mistake A Deadly Mistake
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    A Deadly Mistake

    The third and final book in the Lipton St Faith Mysteries.The village of Lipton St Faith in Norfolk is a tranquil spot.The most excitement it sees come from the antics of the local children sent from Liverpool to escape the air raids. Then one day a car...
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  • Some One's There Some One's There
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    Some One's There

    Brand new psychological crime from the author of Find Her Alive. Perfect for the fans of Cara Hunter.Who's watching who?When a beautiful, red haired nurse's body is found mutilated in her house in Lawley the morning after a date with Detective...
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  • Murder at Enderley Hall Murder at Enderley Hall
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    Murder at Enderley Hall

    An escape to the country… ends in death.Summer 1933. Fresh from the discovery that she has family living nearby, Kitty Underhay has packed her carpet bag, commandeered a chambermaid and set off on a visit to stately Enderley Hall. She’s...
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  • Murder in the Fens Murder in the Fens
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    Murder in the Fens

    When the body of twenty-year-old Julie Cooper is found – her pockets stuffed full of wilting flowers – in an iron-age hill fort on the edge of the fens, Detective Tara Thorpe and her team are called in to investigate. The evidence points...
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  • The Indelible Stain The Indelible Stain
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    The Indelible Stain

    DEADLY SECRETS FROM A TAINTED PAST...Esme Quentin's arrival in north Devon is marred by the gruesome discovery of a fatally injured woman at the foot of Warren Cliff. Esme is troubled by the woman's final words and curious about the old photograph...
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  • The Playgroup The Playgroup
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    The Playgroup

    Breath catches in my throat and terror grips me as my daughter's favourite jumper slides into focus. Time slows. Helpless, I watch my precious little girl run into the road. Screeching tyres slice through the quiet afternoon. Days from now, my friends...
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  • Pretty Broken Dolls Pretty Broken Dolls
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    Pretty Broken Dolls

    In the thin light of the moon, the woman's limp body hangs from the iron fence amongst the redwoods. Looped over the railings is the little gold locket her mother gave her when she turned sixteen. The picture of the girl inside smiles out at a future...
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  • Blood-Tied Blood-Tied
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    Blood-Tied

    A PITIFUL CRIME, KEPT SECRET FOR A GENERATION... BUT TIME HAS A WAY OF EXPOSING THE TRUTHEsme Quentin is devastated when her sister Elizabeth is assaulted and left unconscious, miles from her home. Two days later Esme discovers that Elizabeth has a...
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  • Count Their Graves Count Their Graves
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    Count Their Graves

    A wind chime sways a sweet melody above several pairs of shoes neatly laid out on the welcome the mat: two large pairs, and three small. On the door frame, a perfect crimson handprint, the color of blood... Out on her morning run, Detective Katie Scott...
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  • Miss Polly Had a Dolly Miss Polly Had a Dolly
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    Miss Polly Had a Dolly

    A six-year-old girl goes missing on an isolated island. But she isn't the first...When Josephine, a little girl with rosy cheeks and long blond hair, is taken from the shoreline of Fanoe Island, the tight-knit community is panic-stricken. Reporter Emma...
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  • A Seaside Murder A Seaside Murder
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    A Seaside Murder

    The English coast is like nowhere else on earth. The fresh sea breeze, gentle waves lapping the shore... and a body on the promenade?Newly retired Sarah Vane is completely settled in Merstairs, enjoying the quirky, quaint feel of her new home. With some...
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  • Her Last Goodbye Her Last Goodbye
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    Her Last Goodbye

    Her small hands tremble and tears run down her cheeks. Shivering in the dark, damp storeroom, the little girl clutches her favourite toy dog. She cries out for help, but nobody answers. Her mother went missing last night and, as dawn breaks, there is...
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  • Climate of Fear Climate of Fear
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    Climate of Fear

    David Evans a dominant violent, ruthless and arrogant gangster has acquired his wealth by illegal drug trafficking. A killer without remorse. The success of his expanding criminal empire is dependent on imposing fear with swift and harsh punishment for...
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    Wake the Past Wake the Past
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    Wake the Past

    Family ties... Buried lies... A life on the line. Detective Sebastian Clifford and his partner Lucinda 'Birdie' Bird are about to embark on their most challenging case yet when Lady Angelica Charing tasks them with finding the son she secretly gave...
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  • Burning Lies Burning Lies
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    Burning Lies

    The tangy smell of smoke hangs heavy in the air, mingling with the early morning mist. As it lifts, a shape emerges in the centre of the tranquil meadow. A scarecrow? No... rising from the ashes of a dying fire, stands a blackened wooden cross - and tied...
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  • A FLICKER IN THE NIGHT A FLICKER IN THE NIGHT
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    A FLICKER IN THE NIGHT

    A spate of murderous arson attacks evokes bitter memories for stalwart detective John Blizzard...It was a defining moment in DCI John Blizzard's early career when he caught a notorious arsonist on a killing spree. Yet despite the culprit, Reginald...
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  • THE SECRETS MAN THE SECRETS MAN
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    THE SECRETS MAN

    Whilst detective John Blizzard looks into a series of drug-related deaths, an old nemesis appears who threatens to cloud his judgement.Frustrated with the slow progress of his colleagues' investigation into the deaths of several youngsters on his patch,...
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  • A KILLER AMONGST US A KILLER AMONGST US
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    A KILLER AMONGST US

    A night beneath the stars, a few steps away from murder...Jo doesn't like camping but her trepidation about a guided hiking trip with her husband is offset by the promise of a rewarding pampering afterwards at a luxury spa.The walk starts well. The...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and The Hearthstone Manuscript Sherlock Holmes and The Hearthstone Manuscript
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    Sherlock Holmes and The Hearthstone Manuscript

    During his first trip to England in 1899, murder was the last thing that Hamlin Garland, the so-called "Dean of American Letters," expected to find. More predictable were his descriptions of American baseball and visits with notables like Arthur...
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  • Unquiet Minds Unquiet Minds
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    Unquiet Minds

    "The injuries to the throat were committed by metallic claws. There were no traces of DNA."Everyone knows that werewolves don't exist, not even 'up north'. But historian-cum-detective R.I. Penny isn't so sure. Whilst working with his therapist to...
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  • STILL WATERS RUN STILL WATERS RUN
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    STILL WATERS RUN

    End of season, end of innocence...In late summer, sixteen-year-old Dan and his recently divorced mother head to a Norfolk seaside town's holiday park for a vacation.Shy Dan soon strikes up a friendship with a girl of his age, quirky and pretty Charlie,...
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  • Ticking the Boxes Ticking the Boxes
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    Ticking the Boxes

    Harry Litmus' dubious past proves no impediment to him being enticed back into employment by his old MI5 boss, Jerome Whitcott. Pity, because it is the sort of work Litmus would have been happy to avoid.The mission involves a review of a stalled...
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  • The Wronged The Wronged
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    The Wronged

    A complex case of missing persons draws Scottish PI Charlie Cameron into Glasgow's deadly underworld.Private Investigator Charlie Cameron is searching for a man who disappeared after his son's suicide. When an unidentified body turns up at the morgue,...
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    The Talisker Dead

    Digging up the past... is enough to kill you...When a teenage islander goes missing on Burns Night, D.I. Duncan McAdam takes a strong interest despite the apparent lack of concern shown by the boy's father. When a woman's body is soon discovered in...
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  • A Racing Murder A Racing Murder
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    A Racing Murder

    The next thrilling Ham-Hill Murder Mystery from bestselling cosy crime author Frances Evesham.A winning horse. A fierce rivalry. A sudden death.Belinda Sandford thrills to the cheers of the crowd as her beautiful grey racehorse, 'Butterfly...
    $77.00

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  • The New Wife The New Wife
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    The New Wife

    You can never truly know what goes on behind closed doors... My darling son, Sam, is marrying his childhood sweetheart and I couldn't be prouder of the man he's grown into. Walking out on his abusive father all those years ago was the best thing I...
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  • The Frozen Girl The Frozen Girl
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    The Frozen Girl

    The young woman's mouth is slightly parted, as if waiting to speak. Her body is frozen in ice and her blue eyes stare at the sky, perhaps wanting to look at the stars one last time...When the body of a woman is found in the frozen Neponset River, just...
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  • The Cornish Midwife The Cornish Midwife
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    The Cornish Midwife

    Welcome to the beautiful seaside town of Port Agnes.A fresh start...Midwife Ella Mehenick left the small Cornish town of Port Agnes for London and never looked back. But when her seemingly perfect life crashes down around her, there's only one place she...
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  • The Rain Beetle The Rain Beetle
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    The Rain Beetle

    Set in a small village in the heart of Africa,this is the story of a sacred rain beetle. When a boy carelessly kills one of these precious beetles, its death will bring disaster not only to him but on his entire tribe.Generations later, a beautiful woman...
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  • Ky Teylu Baskerville Ky Teylu Baskerville
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    Ky Teylu Baskerville

    Syr Charles Baskerville, perhen tiryow in Pow Densher, yw ledhys yn sodyn der own a gemeras ev, dell hevel, a gy uthyk ha brâs dres ehen. Yma radn a bobel an pow ader dro ow cresy henwhedhel ow tùchya an keth ky-na. Warlergh an whedhel coth nyns yw an ky...
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  • The Birthday House The Birthday House
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    The Birthday House

    The year is 1955, the location picturesque Devon.In a house by the River Dart, schoolgirl Josephine Kennedy posts invitations to her twelfth birthday party – a party that never takes place.Horrific violence is committed that night in the family...
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  • The Gondolier and The Russian Countess The Gondolier and The Russian Countess
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    The Gondolier and The Russian Countess

    1902 Venice. A Holmes and Watson adventure featuring amorous women, Ukrainian bruisers, an English policeman whose wit is rather trying, Venetian churches and the odd Tintoretto or two.
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  • Sherlock Holmes and the Texas Adventure Sherlock Holmes and the Texas Adventure
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Texas Adventure

    The indomitable Baker Street duo travel to the still wild areas of South Texas to investigate the puzzling disappearance of an heir to the great estate in the part of the South West known as The Wild Horse Desert. The pair travel by steamship to the...
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  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Unabridged - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Return of Sherlock Ho The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Unabridged - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Return of Sherlock Ho
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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Unabridged - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the Return of Sherlock Ho

    The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. This edition includes the five Sherlock Holmes Collections, bringing together the 56 short stories: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes, The Return Of Sherlock Holmes, His Last...
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  • Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Irish Rebels

    It is early 1916 and the world is at war. Sherlock Holmes is well into his spy persona as Altamont following the capture of the German spy Von Bork at the opening of the Great War. Watson is called to London by Mycroft Holmes and is asked to join...
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  • Pathway to Murder Pathway to Murder
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    Pathway to Murder

    Constance York dies in a locked apartment, entirely on her own. It's murder. Months after the case is given up as unsolvable, an anonymous letter comes to Scotland Yard. As an entire family is dragged into suspicion and new crimes come to light, Chief...
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  • Whispers in Empty Rooms Whispers in Empty Rooms
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    Whispers in Empty Rooms

    Nobody believed the once popular novelist George Martin could ever find success again. George was determined to prove them wrong, but two things stood in his way. First, he became blind. Second, he became dead.His family is adamant it was suicide...
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  • X'd in the Xeriscape X'd in the Xeriscape
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    X'd in the Xeriscape

    Riches to rags. ... Some people make plans. ... Some people change them, ... and it's chaos in the end!Doreen loves gardens, all kinds of them. In the Okanagan, situated at the tip of the desert, water-frugal gardening makes sense. When...
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  • Uzi in the Urn Uzi in the Urn
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    Uzi in the Urn

    Riches to rags. ... Hidden guns, ... old but not forgotten wounds, ... and a buried treasure!Finding an Uzi in the urn at the shattered mausoleum is exciting and frustrating. Yet Doreen can't delve into the case, and Mack has been firm about that. She...
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  • Revenge in the Roses Revenge in the Roses
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    Revenge in the Roses

    Riches to rags. ... Bullets start flying. ... Rage is rising, ... especially for some!When the journey to Rosemoor for a celebratory evening turns deadly, Doreen's life is flipped on her head. She can only watch in horror as Mack is shot right in front...
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  • Bones in the Begonias Bones in the Begonias
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    Bones in the Begonias

    Riches to rags. ... Chaos continues. ... Murders abound. ... Honestly?Doreen Montgomery's new life in Kelowna was supposed to be a fresh start after a nasty split from her husband of fourteen years, plus a chance to get her bearings and her life back on...
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  • Something's Ever the Same Something's Ever the Same
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    Something's Ever the Same

    If you will,On the Christian Day of the Dead in San Juan, Atitlan, a speeding bus runs over a gray-haired mongrel dog and severs its spine. The terrified animal drags its paralyzed lower body over heaped stones in a shallow gulch. Black-feathered...
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