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Summoned to Scotland for a Christmas-themed masquerade party, former members of an exclusive mystery-solving group at university soon discover that in this game, murder is all too real, and to survive until Christmas morning, they must face the truth of what really happened one fateful night 12 years earlier.
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This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century's legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery...
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"Behind the Mask: Amanda Knox" delves into the gripping and controversial case of Amanda Knox, a young woman who found herself at the center of an international murder trial. This captivating book explores the evidence, investigations, and legal twists and turns that surrounded Knox's case. Through extensive research and analysis, it unveils the complexities of the criminal justice system and raises questions about truth, justice, and the impact of...
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"Unsolved Mysteries: Delving into the Shadows of Infamous Murders and Enigmatic Killers" invites readers into the dark and perplexing world of unresolved crimes. From baffling murder cases to elusive serial killers, this captivating book examines some of history's most notorious unsolved mysteries. Through meticulous research, true crime analysis, and compelling storytelling, it peels back the layers of these enigmatic cases, exploring the shadows...
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Introducing outspoken female sleuth Alex Quick in the first of a brand-new mystery series. When her business partner, acclaimed art historian and university professor Dr Helena Drummond, disappears, Alexandra Quick is consumed by guilt. Shortly before she vanished, Helena had complained of being menaced by a stalker, and Alex had dismissed her fears as groundless. Now Alex, a former police detective, is determined to use her finely-honed investigative...
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On an unseasonably warm April evening in 2001, the headless body of a tiny girl was found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods on the southeast side of Kansas City, Missouri. One long night turned into four long years for Sgt. David Bernard and the Kansas City Police Department's 1020 Squad. They followed 1,500 leads, had a replica of the child's head sculpted from her skull, and ultimately conducted the single most extensive area canvass...
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2024
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"As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside.When German bombs set London ablaze, BBC radio correspondent Hugh Collingwood reports on the Blitz, eager to boost morale...
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 3
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2024
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"Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request--to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time. She has called herself 'death,' but people called her the devil. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. Despite the media’s chronicling...
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Western trilogy volume 2
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The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, set off to remote Fort Benton on the edge of the Montana frontier. The brothers hire the...
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Eyewitness: Atlantic Canadians Experience History In Their Own Words details how some Atlantic Canadians reacted and what they remembered when faced with a memorable experience, such as the disastrous Halifax Explosion in December 1917. Howe also takes you to Moscow where you'll meet a local reporter assigned to cover hockey's historic 1972 Summit Series, and you will read about a chance encounter with Hollywood actor Ronald Reagan.
A sunny but...
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It was a shattering death bed confession by a heartbroken mother. But would it solve the oldest cold case murder case in American jurisprudence?
In January 1994, Eileen Tessier told Jack McCullough's half-sister Janet Tessier that he, her son, kidnapped 7-year-old Maria Ridulph from their neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois, and killed her in December 1957. It was a case that tore the child's family apart, as well as dividing and terrifying the town...
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"In January, New York City inaugurates its first female mayor. In April, her son disappears. Called in by the mayor's chief aide--a former girlfriend of private investigator Bill Smith's--to find the missing fifteen-year-old, Bill and his partner Lydia Chin are told the boy has run away. Neither the press nor the NYPD know that he's missing, and the mayor wants him back before a headstrong child turns into a political catastrophe. But as Bill and...
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The true story of a bizarre case in Myrtle Beach, and the trials that followed a young woman's disappearance, by the bestselling author of The Black Widower.
On a cold Southern night in 2013, under a full moon, twenty-year-old Heather Elvis parked her car at a boat ramp along the Intracoastal Waterway and was never seen again.
The disappearance of the beautiful, vivacious hostess at a popular Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, restaurant made international...
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A deep dive that in the fascinating cold case of a millionaire widow, the Chicago horse mafia, and murder.
Thirty-five years ago, Helen Brach walked out of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and vanished without a trace. By all accounts, the sixty-five-year-old heiress to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy fortune was in good health. But shortly after her leaving the clinic the details of Helen Brach's life-and presumed death-moved from fact to speculation,...
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The true story of an executive snatched from his suburban driveway-and the hunt for the husband and wife who took him hostage.
On a spring morning in Morristown, New Jersey, in 1992, authorities discovered a car idling in a driveway with the door open and the driver missing. After they learned the driver was Sidney Reso, the president of Exxon International, the FBI joined the investigation.
Over the next two months, law enforcement received cryptic...
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The gripping true crime story of a child abducted by his father from his mother, and the international race to rescue him against dangerous odds.
Two close encounters with death convince Darren Franklin that his career in global private security is not the healthiest. Meanwhile Scottish nurse Diane is on a life-changing journey of her own after a Shirley Valentine-style romance on a Greek holiday island. As she moves to Australia to marry her Greek...
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