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2) King Zeno
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick
A January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA Magazine
New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a traumatized cop, a conflicted Mafia matriarch, and a brilliant trumpeter converge-and the Crescent City gets the rich, dark, sweeping novel it so deserves.
From one of the most inventive writers...
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Girl Friday mysteries volume 2
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English
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Set in 1950 New York City, this gritty noir follows Viviana Valentine, former Girl Friday, now partner to the Big Apple’s top investigator, Tommy Fortuna, is drawn into a sordid new case when murder attends a wealthy scientist’s party whose top-secret lab has just been exposed.
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"Egypt, 1926.Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won?t be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie?s best efforts, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane?s plans to remain cool and indifferent become ancient history in the company of Mr. Redvers, a roguish banker she can?t quite figure out . . . While the Mena House has...
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"Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he's done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Through a kaleidoscope of women - a mother, a sister, a homicide detective - we learn the story of Ansel's life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel's...
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Norvelt books volume 2
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After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
10) River bodies
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Northampton County novels volume 1
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Thomas & Mercer
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English
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Returning home to care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a 20-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.
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Sparks & Bainbridge mysteries volume 3
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 3
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 3
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 3
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 3
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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First edition.
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English
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"Business becomes personal for the Right Sort Marriage Bureau when a new client, a brutal murder, two kidnappings, and the recently returned from Africa Lord Bainbridge threatens everything that one of the principals holds dear ..."--
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Ivy Nichols mysteries volume 1
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"If you want to spend a night amid the luxury and charm of the early 20th century, book a room at Hotel 1911. You'll find 28-year-old Ivy Nichols behind the reception desk. The hotel is Ivy's only link to the family that abandoned her when she was a small child. Now, plagued by panic attacks, she pedals her sea-green Schwinn bicycle to work every evening, hoping desperately to hold on to her job."--Amazon.com.
14) The arsonist
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Molly Mavity and Pepper Yusef are dealing with their own personal tragedies when they are tasked by an anonymous person with solving the decades-old murder of Ava Dryman, an East German teenager whose diary was published after her death.
15) Family of liars
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We were liars volume Prequel
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First edition.
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English
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Carrie Sinclair tells the ghost of her son Johnny about the summer of 1987, when "the boys" arrive on Beechwood Island, setting off events that will haunt her for years to come.
16) The blood card
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"In this nail-biting transatlantic mystery, threat of mass violence looms over Elizabeth II's coronation--can Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and the magician Max Mephisto crack the case and save the crown?"--
As Elizabeth II's coronation looms, DI Edgar Stephens is busy investigating the death of a local fortuneteller and his old pal, the magician Max Mephisto, is rehearsing for his television debut, a Coronation Day variety show. Upon hearing...
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"New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known for busting up organized crime--but the next day, Viviana...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Rose Lee Carter, a thirteen-year-old African-American girl, dreams of life beyond the Mississippi cotton fields during the summer of 1955, but when Emmett Till is murdered and his killers are unjustly acquitted, Rose is torn between seeking her destiny outside of Mississippi or staying and being a part of an important movement.
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[Acorn]
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Widescreen.
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English
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The English village mystery gets a contemporary spin in this hit British television series that has earned a worldwide following. Bucolic settings harbor macabre crimes and eccentric characters that are no match for DCI John Barnaby and his assistant, DS Jamie Winter. Delightful in a murderously charming way.
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