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Alan Grant mysteries volume 4
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"Literary sherry parties were not Alan Grant's cup of tea. But when the Scotland Yard Inspector arrived to pick up actress Marta Hallard for dinner, he was struck by the handsome young American photographer, Leslie Searle. Author Lavinia Fitch was sure her guest "must have been something very wicked in ancient Greece," and the art colony at Salcott St. Mary would have agreed." -- Back cover.
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Thomas Lynley mysteries volume 4
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The investigation of a young schoolboy’s murder leads Inspector Thomas Lynley into the sinister underbelly of an elite public school—a “spectacular” (Los Angeles Times) installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling Inspector Lynley series
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Matthew Ryan novels volume 2
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After a serial murderer starts sending disturbing videos of his crimes to police headquarters, Detectives Matt Ryan and Eloise O'Neil are at a loss to connect the victims, as their investigation is threatened by the revelation of secrets from the past.
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 12
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A crime of passion, a jealous admirer, a woman who would kill before she would be spurned-it might all fit if only the primary suspect would talk in CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird's Dead Liberty Lucy Durmast waits patiently in front of the judge at her own murder trial, refusing to utter a single word. Kenneth Carline, an employee of her father's, was found poisoned to death after eating a meal that Lucy herself had prepared. Kenneth...
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 6
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In this classic parlor mystery from CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a dinner party that ended in murder Twelve friends sit down for supper at Strontfield Park-but only eleven survive the evening. After dinner, the host, William Fent, offers to drive one of his guests home, only to die behind the wheel in a violent accident. The autopsy shows that Fent ingested enough barbiturates to kill a horse....
6) The creeper
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Philip Brennan novels volume 2
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Suzanne Perry is having a vivid nightmare. Someone is in her bedroom, touching her, and she can't move a muscle. She wakes, relieved to put the nightmare behind her, but when she opens the curtains, she sees a polaroid stuck to the window. A photo of her, sleeping, taken during the night. And underneath, the words: "I'm watching over you." Her nightmare isn't over. In fact, it's just beginning. Detective Inspector Phil Brennan of the Major Incident...
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 1
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Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Calleshire C.I.D. investigates the murder of a nun at the Convent of St. Anselm in Cullingoak.
8) Far cry
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In 1995, pubescent Heather Pierce and her friend Kelly Efford disappear while on holiday in Cornwall. An eccentric Good Samaritan saves Kelly; searchers find Heather dead at the bottom of an old mining engine house, the apparent victim of a misstep in the fog. In present-day Cambridge, Heather's half-sister, Beatrice, who's about the same age as Heather was in 1995, vanishes. Is Heather's tragic history repeating itself, or is Beatrice the victim...
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 3
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"The owners of Ornum Hall have fallen on hardtimes, so every Sunday they open the doors to their stately home of some 300 rooms to the paying public. When murder strikes, Inspector Sloan of the Calleshire C.I.D. grabs his Burke's Peerage and heads out to find out who stuffed a body in a knight's armor. The third--and funniest--of the Callehsire Chronicles." -- provided by publisher.
10) The lighthouse
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
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A subtle and powerful work of contemporary fiction. Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive...
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 8
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A deadly mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird: Where there's a will, there's a way-for murder That Miss Beatrice Wansdyke had died is not particularly surprising. A chemistry mistress at the Girls' Grammar School in Berebury, she was a longtime sufferer of diabetes who managed to live her modest life to a ripe old age. But one thing is odd-Beatrice Wansdyke died a very wealthy woman. What was an old schoolteacher doing with a small...
12) His burial too
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 5
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Inspector Sloan must figure out how a murderer could have escaped the tower of a Norman church tower when both exits were blocked with rubble. First published in 1973.
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Alan Grant mysteries volume 2
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Was there anyone who didn't want lovely screen actress Christine Clay dead?
Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact of life. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful film actress is found lying dead on the beach one bright summer's morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive—just...
Beneath the sea cliffs of the south coast, suicides are a sad but common fact of life. Yet even the hardened coastguard knows something is wrong when a beautiful film actress is found lying dead on the beach one bright summer's morning. Inspector Grant has to take a more professional attitude: death by suicide, however common, has to have a motive—just...
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Inspector Hemingway mysteries volume 4
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Chief Inspector Hemingway investigates the murder of village solicitor Sampson Warrenby, a man with an abundance of enemies.
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 19
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When a body is found in the center of a Tudor-era yew maze, Detective Inspector C.D. Sloan is placed in charge of a disturbingly complex case.
16) After effects
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 16
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In this mystery by CWA Diamond Dagger winner Catherine Aird, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan investigates a case of medical malpractice that looks a bit too much like foul play Muriel Ethel Galloway passed away at home, twitching and grasping at objects only she could see. Her family mourns, sad but unsurprised that an old woman suffering from heart disease should die suddenly. But when Mrs. Galloway's son receives an anonymous call alerting him that...
17) Vacuum
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Colin Harpur and Desmond Iles mysteries volume 28
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After the dreadful business when his son and wife were shot, Mansel Shale has turned to God ? leaving DCS Colin Harpur with a potential problem. Instead of keeping a grip on his profitable drugs empire, Shale has abandoned that sphere of commerce, leaving his business in the hands of an inexperienced assistant who is reputed to occasionally hallucinate about the Spanish Civil War. Harpur can see the possibility of protracted, warring viciousness on...
18) Farthing
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Small change volume 1
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One summer weekend in 1949-but not our 1949-the well-connected "Farthing set", a group of upper-crust English families, enjoy a country retreat. Lucy is a minor daughter in one of those families; her parents were both leading figures in the group that overthrew Churchill and negotiated peace with Herr Hitler eight years before.
Despite her parents' evident disapproval, Lucy is married-happily-to a London Jew. It was therefore quite a surprise to...
19) Payment in blood
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Thomas Lynley mysteries volume 3
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Inspector Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard, who first appeared in "A Great Deliverance", investigates the murder of a playwright at a Scottish country house hotel, where the members of a West End theatre company have assembled for the first reading of a controversial new play.
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Inspector French mysteries volume 7
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"The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer's crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck... Two bodies later, with no sign of a gun, there certainly is a mystery in the channel. Inspector French soon discovers a world of high-powered banking, luxury yachts and...
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