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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...
2) Craven manor
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Daniel is desperate for a fresh start at life, so when someone slides a note under his door offering him the groundskeeper's position at an old estate, it seems too good to be true. Alarm bells start ringing when he arrives at Craven Manor. The mansion's front door hangs open, and leaves and cobwebs coat the marble foyer. It's clear no one has lived there in a long time...but he has nowhere else to go. Against his better judgment, he moves into the...
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[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2009], p2000
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English
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In the dimly lit alleys of Victorian London, a dense fog cloaks the city, wrapping its secrets in an enigmatic shroud. The air is thick with anticipation as a mysterious letter arrives at 221B Baker Street, the famed residence of the unparalleled detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sender, a shadowy figure known only as "The Midnight Scribe," beckons Holmes and his ever-loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, into a web of intrigue that will test the limits...
4) Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: forty stories of crime and detection from original illustrated magazines
Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
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Captain Jim Agnihotri novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Captain Jim Agnihotri and his wife Lady Diana Framji are embarking to England in the summer of 1894. Jim is hopeful the cruise will help Diana open up to him. Something is troubling her, and Jim is concerned. On their first evening, Jim meets an intriguing Spaniard, a fellow soldier with whom he finds an instant kinship. But within twenty-four hours, Don Juan Nepomuceno is murdered, his body discovered shortly after he asks rather urgently to see...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Some residents of Jarrett Creek hate the annual Jubilee Motorcycle Rally and the crowd it attracts; but some businesses need the money it brings. Chief of Police Samuel Craddock enacts a curfew to dissuade late-night revellers, but it doesn't stop a Jarrett Creek citizen being killed at the rally. Can Craddock solve the case before the rally ends?"--Provided by publisher.
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Watermill Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
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English
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Tom Sawyer Detective is a novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and a prequel to Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. In 1909, Danish schoolmaster Valdemar Thoresen claimed,...
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Dave Brandstetter mysteries volume 8
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
[1986]
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English
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When Adam Streeter's blind, teenage daughter stumbles over his dead body in his expensive marina condominium, she's sure he shot himself. So are the police. But the company that insured his life thinks otherwise, and it sends in crack death-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter to check out the case
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Colorado wine mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It’s June in Boulder, Colorado, and wedding season is in full swing. Parker Valentine is excited to attend the wedding of her cousin, Emma, where in addition to celebrating the happy couple, she’ll also be providing wine for the reception. But when the fussy wedding planner is found dead midway through the ceremony, Parker knows that to get the weekend back on track, she’ll need to unveil a murderer. Unfortunately, there’s no shortage of...
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[Toby Neal]
Pub. Date
[2011]
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English
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"Lei has overcome a scarred past to make a life for herself as a cop in the sleepy Big Island town of Hilo. On a routine patrol she finds two murdered teenagers--one of whom she'd recently busted. With its echoes of her own past, the murdered girl's harsh life and tragic death affect Lei deeply. She becomes obsessed with the case--and determined to solve the murder--even as the killer is drawn to her intensity, feeding off her vulnerabilities and...
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst--murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence...
14) Sleepless city
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Nick Ryan novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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"When you're in trouble, you call 911. When cops are in trouble, they call Nick Ryan. Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk about him at all. He doesn't wear a uniform, but he is the most powerful cop in New York. Nick Ryan can find a criminal who's vanished. Or he can make a key witness disappear. He has cars, safe houses, money, and weapons hidden all over the city. He's the mayor's private cop,...
15) Knowing you
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Pictures of the heart volume 3
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English
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Budding artist May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and longs to know more about her mother's heritage--which her mother refuses to speak of because of the heartache she left behind in Japan. Wanting to experience more of the exhibits, May works as a Camera Girl--but her curiosity leads her into danger when a suit of samurai armor becomes the target of an elusive art forger. After ten years apart,...
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Naiad Press
Pub. Date
1987
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English
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A collection of stories from Katherine V. Forrest, a pioneer of lesbian fiction and a four-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. From erotic speculation to incisive investigation, from moral dilemma to chilling horror, and from peril to passion, Forrest takes readers across the vivid landscape of her mind.The collection features the treasured erotic novella "O Captain, My Captain." Also includes stories featuring LAPD homicide detective Kate Delafield...
17) Big Horn
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Jenn Herrington Wyoming mystery volume 1
Publisher
SkipJack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"When an investment guru turns up dead in the septic tank behind her husband's new Wyoming lodge, Jennifer must put the campaign that could make her the youngest ever female district attorney in Houston on hold to defend the well-lubricated lodge caretaker, or he'll go down for a murder she's convinced he didn't commit. Prosecutor Jennifer Herrington has it all in Texas, until her husband Aaron falls for a ramshackle lodge on the face of the ruggedly...
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Martini Club volume 1
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English
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"Former spy Maggie Bird came to the seaside village of Purity, Maine, eager to put the past behind her after a mission went tragically wrong. These days, she’s living quietly on her chicken farm, still wary of blowback from the events that forced her early retirement. But when a body turns up in Maggie’s driveway, she knows it’s a message from former foes who haven’t forgotten her. Maggie turns to her local circle of old friends—all retirees...
19) Malicious intent: a writer's guide to how murderers, robbers, rapists, and other criminals think
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Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
1995.
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English
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"'I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.' So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . while living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself...