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40901) The Undead Mr. Tenpenny
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Work at a funeral home can be mundane. Until you accidentally start bringing the dead back to life. "...a clever, hilarious romp through a new magical universe" --Sarah Angleton, author of Gentleman of Misfortune Cassie Black works at a funeral home. She's used to all manner of dead bodies. What she's not used to is them waking up. Which they seem to be doing on a disturbingly regular basis lately. Just when Cassie believes she has the problem under...
40902) TDA: Roman policier
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Marjolaine est une jeune femme qui souffre d'un trouble de l'attention. Comme beaucoup de TDA, elle est surdouée mais aussi inadaptée à la vie en société. À vingt ans, son ami Patrick disparaît et Marjolaine fuit Lausanne. Douze années plus tard, le squelette de Patrick est retrouvé par une plongeuse au lac Léman. Marjolaine décide alors de revenir à Lausanne. Elle se fait embaucher par ceux-là mêmes qu'elle soupçonne d'avoir assassiné...
40903) Death on the Alder
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Twenty-eight year old Alysha Grant has inherited a large, rural, family property – Leven Lodge. A converted farmhouse is now home to a small, but eccentric, group of retirees. She feels overwhelmed and totally unprepared for this responsibility, but dives in. Her arrival coincides with a body found floating in the Alder River. The suspicious death brings attention to some of the home's residents and may be connected to a proposed casino. Opinion...
40904) Foxglove
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When an old friend is murdered, Claire and her husband search for the killer. Ever since she got married, Claire Breslinsky has dreamed of living in the tree-lined Queens neighborhood where she grew up. But her husband is a cop, and cops aren't allowed to live in the precincts they police. When Johnny's transfer request finally comes through, Claire sets her sights on a beautiful, shabby old Victorian mansion. She is about to tour the house when she...
40905) To Dye For
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For their eleventh mystery, Isabel and Alma Trumbo, the retired sister sleuths living in Quiet Anchorage, Virginia, undertake solving yet another murder mystery. Their hairstylist Laura Isherwood is found murdered in the beauty shop on Main Street. Isabel and Alma put on their detective hats, sharpen their wits, and commence their snooping. Of course, Sammi Jo Garner, their gritty sidekick, and Petey Samson, their irrepressible beagle, help to develop...
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Un crime perturbe une retraite religieuse...
Une retraite fermée, prêchée par un jésuite. Silence et componction. Tout le monde a l'air préoccupé du seul salut de son âme, mais en réalité, chaque retraitant est aux prises avec son histoire personnelle et parfois celle des autres. Le Bon Esprit occupe le devant de la scène, mais dans la coulisse, on devine le Mauvais qui travaille en réseau. L'atmosphère devient lourde. Soudain, c'est...
40907) Hook Island
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A ghostly encounter scares up a romance. Amanda Dark, paranormal investigator, travels to Hook Island to investigate a family mystery for Phillip Swann descendant of notorious pirate, Captain Henry "Blackblood" Swann.
Phillip asks Amanda to help him clear the family name. She soon discovers she and Phillip share an unexpected connection, and that ghosts are real, but someone plans to stop them.
This title includes a bonus story: Grind Manor
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Excerpt: "The art of story-telling has been cultivated in all ages and among all nations of which we have any record; it is the outcome of an instinct implanted universally in the human mind. By means of a story the savage philosopher accounts for his own existence and that of all the phenomena which surround him. With a story the mothers of the wildest tribes awe their little ones into silence, or rouse them into delight. And the weary hunters beguile...
40909) The Dark Road
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Excerpt: "The Nut lay on the scorching beach facing the terrible sea in which the hungry sharks, the warders of his prison, were disporting. The convict was like a weary animal at rest. In truth, he had availed himself of the "relaxation" at ten o'clock to seek out a little fresh air and seclusion between two precipitous crags which cut him off from the rest of the convict settlement. If only he could live alone! No longer to hear anything. No longer...
40910) The Sunningdale Mystery
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Previously published in the print anthology Partners in Crime. Captain Sessle is found stabbed through the heart with a hatpin, and the only clue is a bit of red wool in his hand. A pretty blonde is charged because she was wearing a bright red wool coat, but the Beresfords aren't so sure. Was there more behind the killing than a cute girl and some red yarn?
40911) What's Done Is Done
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Wise-cracking, Shakespeare quoting L. A. private investigator Ben Malone is back in this ninth installment of the Malone Private Investigator series.
When L.A. private investigator Malone's attorney friend, Liz Harper, with the gorgeous legs he finds irresistible, asks him to take a case as a personal favor to her from a former law school acquaintance who practices criminal law in New York City, he has reservations. But Malone agrees, even though...
40912) The Forest
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The family's engaging. The dogs are welcoming. Nature is thriving. But there's a thread of evil in the woods, and Saskia, computer geek and mountain bike enthusiast, is there to find its source. She uncovers more than she signed up for, and the stakes are higher than she imagined. The fate of a logging community hangs in the balance unless she can unravel the mystery in the forest.Saskia and her colleagues at the International Financial Services accept...
40913) Scandals in Savannah
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Savannah, Georgia, 1922Becky Mackenzie's mother won't stop setting her up with every Southern bachelor in town. But Becky's too busy for love, even when she has two fine gentlemen chasing after her, to the chagrin of her spiteful cousin Fanny.When a secretive neighbour dies in a house fire, Becky snoops to find out whether it was really an accident-or a planned arson and murder. And why are sinister people-if they are even human-digging up the cemetery...
40914) Clipped Wings
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Even a holiday can be darkest before dawn.She just wants to survive.The sixteen-year-old Robin Hood bandit responsible for starting an anarchy movement in Hawaii is now the target of an escape plot at a juvenile detention center, sparking FBI agent Lei Texeira to get involved with a manhunt.She just wants to find the burglar.Someone is stealing food from Aunty Rosario's restaurant kitchen, but the holiday takes an unexpected turn when she catches...
40915) Reins and Robbers
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A stolen horse, an unwanted saviour, and a stable on the brink of bankruptcy.Hayley Argent just wants to give something back, but the Hawley-Jones Riding Stables appear to be beyond her help. She's promised to do her best to solve the mystery of what happened to Romani's stolen horse, Starling's Summer, but with no clues left behind, she's forced to admit he may be gone for good. When wealthy bachelor, Russell Orpington-Mills, rolls up at the stables...
40916) Photo Finished
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The first in Christin Brecher's new cozy mystery promises photo taking fun-and satisfying sleuthing-set in New York City, featuring Liv Spyer, a millennial sleuth sure to charm readers who are young and young at heart.
Liv Spyers' greatest joy is taking photographs of people and the world around them...until a shocking murder forces Liv to develop investigative skills using her keen eye...
While some people escape into books or music, Liv Spyers...
40917) The Second Rider
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August Emmerich novels volume 1
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An internationally acclaimed crime novel set in post-WWI Vienna.
Vienna, 1919. In the desperate years after World War I, the Habsburg Empire is a fading memory and most of Vienna's remaining population survives by its wits, living hand to mouth in a city rife with crime, prostitution, and grotesquely wounded beggars. There are shakedowns on every street corner, the black market is the only market, and shortages of vital goods create countless opportunities...
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Un forain, menacé de mort, est obligé de fuir à Poitiers, o son destin le rattrape bien vite...
« Hier après-midi on a essayé de me tuer, de me tuer!!! Je ne devrais plus être là.
Un malade est passé à l'action; il a cherché à me dézinguer en haut du Gaudy! Un des mes refuges préférés, un des seuls endroits o je suis bien, dans la nature, loin de cette société pourrie qui n'est pas faite pour moi. Elle ne veut pas de moi non plus,...
40919) Hornet
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A citizen reporter must stop hummingbird-sized hornets from destroying a resort town before the government unleashes its own devious scheme to eliminate them. When a swarm of murder hornets invades a Lake Michigan resort town, citizen reporter Pacie Rose and her sidekick cousin struggle to find what is causing mutant stinging wasps, now grown to the size of hummingbirds, from attacking the residents of Black Water, while also working against an aggressive,...
40920) Caesar's Fall
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With a new building to restore and his relationship with Steve growing more serious, the last thing Elliott wants are someone else's problems. Still, when lottery millionaire Bruno Caesar moves into his building, Elliott can't just ignore the man's need for help. Bruno's life comes to an abrupt end when he falls from his balcony. It might be nothing more than a tragic accident, except for one thing-Bruno was terrified of heights, and never went onto...
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