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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In Leaving Everything Most Loved by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation....
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Lauren Laurano mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
Private investigator Lauren Laurano makes her funny and suspenseful debut as a sleuth who must take on a rapist, a killer, a tangle of family relationships, her own fears, and New York City itself in order to solve several murders.
2623) Slightly irregular
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Finley Anderson Tanner mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"The fourth novel in the F.A.T. series finds Finley Tanner facing two impossible tasks: track down a missing lawyer from her firm, and find a date for her sister's wedding. Finley may have bitten off more than she can chew when she discovers that the lawyer is not who she claims to be--and may be implicated in the unsolved murder of a pageant queen. On top of that, Finley's taking her boss, Tony, to her sister's wedding...even though she still has...
2624) Knot ready for murder: 7
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Before quilter Martha Rose can tie the knot to Crusher, she has to track down his missing first wife ... One loose thread threatens to unravel Martha's wedding plans: the groom-to-be married a pregnant teen to save her from scandal thirty years ago--and the marriage was never annulled. Now Crusher's wife Hadas is coming to LA, along with his sister Fanya. But soon after she arrives, their houseguest goes missing, with her room ransacked and a chloroform-soaked...
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Lauren Laurano mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Fresh from her sensational debut in Everything You Have Is Mine, private eye Lauren Laurano is back. Petite, attractive, hip, cholesterol-conscious, and gay, Lauren isn't your typical private detective. She shares a brownstone apartment with her psychologist lover, Kip, in New York's fashionable Greenwich Village, where they are surrounded by a circle of warm friends who keep them well insulated from the craziness of city life. But when Lauren's closest...
2626) My sweet untraceable you
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Lauren Laurano mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Lauren Laurano, a lesbian PI from New York City, is hired by an ex-con to investigate his mother's death four decades earlier. Officially she died in an accident, but the con thinks she was murdered by his father. By the author of I'll Be Leaving You Always.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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On the eve of the presidential election of 1892, Miss Hattie Davish arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a scenic resort town where those without the scent of whiskey on their breath have the plight of temperance on their tongues. Summoned for her services as a private secretary, Hattie is looking forward to exploring the hills, indulging her penchant for botany--and getting to know the town's doctor. But it's hard to get her job done with her employer...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion - the engagement party of her lifelong friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, and Amity Wells, an American heiress. But the merrymaking is cut short with the shocking death of one of the party in an apparent suicide. Not convinced by the coroner's verdict, Emily must employ all of her investigative skills to discover the truth and avert another tragedy"--
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher--recent mother of twins--resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London--the Bloody Tower--for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies) since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat. Having been given...
2631) The Beige Man
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Pub. Date
p2015
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A speeding BMW leaves a dead pedestrian in its wake and leads police to the corpse of a young girl in a cellar. Detective Inspector Irene Huss's ensuing investigation draws her into the chilling world of sex trafficking Göteborg, Sweden: The high-speed chase of a stolen BMW takes a chilling turn when the two police officers involved witness a gruesome hit-and-run. When they finally recover the abandoned vehicle, search dogs are unable to trace the...
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Kendra Michaels volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp sensesh́oned during her years in the darkánd keen deductive abilities. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar:...
2634) Mean and shellfish
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The annual Billy Goat Gruff Festival is the undisputed highlight of Hernia's social calendar. But when Magdalena Yoder, village mayor and owner of the PennDutch Inn, had the brainwave four years ago, little did she realize that it would soon attract visitors from far and wide-even Australia, as the unexpected arrival of Gabe's long-lost cousin, Miriam, at the inn confirms. Unfortunately, the shock of Miriam's one-legged appearance is soon usurped...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Psychologist Julie West and Pastor James Burton always seem to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time-- together. They first meet at a dinner party on Palm Island, off the Georgia coast, at the home of a wealthy philanthropist. Both West and Burton thought everybody loved Roger Harden until they discover he's been murdered.
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Tracy Crosswhite volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When a womanś body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle.
2638) The counterfeit lady
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Victorian Bookshop mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"A cousin of Georgia's dear friend Lady Phyllida Monthalf is brutally murdered in her home during the theft of blueprints of a new battleship designed by her husband--who now stands accused of her murder...and treason. The Duke of Blackford, in service to Whitehall, enlists Georgia and the Archivist Society to assist in the investigation. Playing the part of the duke's new paramour, Georgia gains entry into the upper echelons of London's elite, where...
2639) Green and pleasant land
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"Newly-retired, ex-Chief Superintendent Fran Harman and her partner Mark have volunteered to assist West Mercia police in reinvestigating an unsolved crime. Twenty years ago, a car was found abandoned on an isolated road running through the Wyre Forest, its hazard lights still flashing, the passenger door open. In the back, were two child seats. One was empty; in the other lay a desperately ill baby. Neither the baby's mother nor the elder child were...
2640) Immaculate midnight
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Jane Lawless mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
When her defense attorney father's client kills himself in his cell, the man's own father blames the lawyer for his son's death and plans to seek revenge by targeting the client's father's children, including lesbian sleuth Jane Lawless.