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1) Simply lies
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English
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Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats. When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene's unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye's clients and...
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English
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22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance has...
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Women's murder club volume 23
Language
English
Description
"An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women's Murder Club's past--with devastating new twists. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail. Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the bestseller list. An obsessed maniac has turned Burke's true-crime story into a playbook. And is embellishing it with gruesome touches all his own. Now Lindsay's tracking an elusive suspect, and the...
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Miss Silver mystery volume 7
Publisher
Aeonian
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
James Paradine is murdered on New Year's Eve after confronting a relative about missing plans and demanding a confession, and the redoubtable Miss Maud Silver is charged with identifying a killer among several suspects.
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English
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It's been an enjoyable and murder-free time for Judith, Suzie and Becks--AKA the Marlow Murder Club--since the events of last year. The most exciting thing on the horizon is the upcoming wedding of Marlow grandee, Sir Peter Bailey, to his nurse, Jenny Page. Sir Peter is having a party at his grand mansion on the river Thames the day before the wedding, and Judith and Co. are looking forward to a bit of free champagne. But during the soiree, there's...
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Dotty detective volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dot and Beans can't wait for their school trip to Adventure Camp where they will do lots of exciting activities like zip-wiring, grass tobogganing and roasting marshmallows round a campfire! But once they arrive, strange things start happening. Could mean girl Laura could be up to her old tricks in a bid to win the Adventure Camp Prize ...? It's up to the Join the Dots Detectives to find out! Meanwhile, TOP DOG McClusky is entered into a local dog...
7) Cross down
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Alex Cross volume 31
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC's, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO: Detective Alex Cross makes his own rules. Detective John Sampson enforces them. When military-style attacks erupt, brutally sidelining Cross, Sampson is sent reeling. The patterns are too random--Sampson's friend, his partner, his brother--have told him. Don't trust anyone. As a shadow force advances on the nation's...
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Alex Cross volume 32
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Detective Cross and his partner John Sampson are hot on the trail of the Dead Hours Killer, who is targeting commercial pilots, in the latest addition to the long-running series following Deadly Cross.
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Death by chocolate mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Summer in Eastport means lobsters and blueberries, though tourists and locals alike always leave a little room for baked goods from The Chocolate Moose. This year's arts festival, featuring food, games, and rollicking local musicians, means even more sweet-toothed customers. But it's also bringing competition from a new rival, Choco's, that's trying to slice into the action. Choco's owner, Brad Fairway, is pulling sneaky stunts to divert Moose patrons...
10) It found us
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English
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Twelve-year-old Hazel Woods has always had an unusual knack for sleuthing. So, when she not-so-accidentally overhears her brother Den planning to sneak into the cemetery at night for an epic game of hide-and-seek, she decides to secretly tag along. This seems like the perfect opportunity to investigate the claims that the cemetery is haunted. But the moment the game ends, Hazel realizes something is very, very wrong. From her hiding spot in the bushes,...
11) Face of greed
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Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Greed, corruption, and betrayal--no murder is as simple as it seems. When a prominent Sacramento businessman is killed and his wife injured in a brutal home invasion, Detective Emily Hunter and her partner, Javier Medina, are called to investigate. At first glance, it seems like a crime of opportunity gone horribly wrong, but Emily soon finds there might be more to both the crime and the dead man. The high-stakes investigation also comes at a time...
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Ginger Barnes cozy mystery volume 3
Publisher
Donna Huston Murray
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A home invasion turns to murder when Ginger Barnes's neighborhood friend comes home at the worst possible time. Thefts and threats and wild accusations swiftly follow, and Gin's protective husband cautions her to leave the investigation alone. Then elderly eccentric Letty McNair gets mugged on her doorstep, and the message is clear--anyone could be next. A few tactful inquires couldn't hurt and just might help. But is that all Ginger Barnes has in...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 17
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c1976.
Language
English
Description
From the moment she boards an ocean liner leaving for New York, Nancy becomes involved in a new mystery.
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Dotty detective volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dot and her best friend Beans are off on holiday. There are so many fun things to do on the beach and at the campsite, bu eating doughnuts at the Nook cafe is their favourite! So when things start mysteriously disappearing from the Nook, the Join the Dots Detectives are determined to solve the case!
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Minerva Keen volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Minerva Keen's life isn't exactly normal. But living in the luxurious Arcanum - with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbours behind every apartment door - is more fun than normal. Until her neighbours start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself. To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective...
16) S.O.S
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Fresh off recovering a billion-dollar ruby and losing the criminal who stole it, John Boarhog and Inspector Toadius McGee are soaring high on a new adventure. Hoping to intercept the Mauve Moth before they execute their next great heist, Toadius and John book passage on Her Majesty's Royal Air Armada--a luxury cruise liner airship. But alas, there will be no clear skies ahead. A committee from the Society of Sleuths (S.O.S) is also aboard, ready to...
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Corie Geller volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Corie Geller asked her parents to move from their apartment into the suburban McMansion she shares with her husband and teenage daughter, she assumed they'd fit right in with the placid life she'd opted for when she left the Joint Terrorism Task Force of the FBI. But then her dad gets a call from genial and slightly nerdy film professor, April Brown--one of the victims of the case he was never able to solve. When April was five years old, she'd...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Meg is relaxing in the hammock, taste-testing Michael's latest batch of Arnold Palmers and watching the hummingbirds at their feeders when her hopes for a relaxing early summer morning are dashed. First her father recruits her to help him install a new batch of bees in the hive in her backyard. Then Mayor Shiffley recruits her to placate the NIMBYs (Not in my backyard), as she calls them - a group of newcomers to Caerphilly who have built McMansions...
19) A stolen child
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Maggie D'arcy mystery volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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After months of training, former Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy is now officially a Garda. She's finally settling into life in Ireland and so is her teenage daughter, Lilly. Maggie may not be a detective yet, but she's happy with her community policing assignment in Dublin's Portobello neighborhood. When she and her partner find former model and reality tv star Jade Elliot murdered--days after responding to a possible domestic violence...
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