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While digging in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, English archeologist Amelia Peabody discovers the mummified body of a recently dead woman. The victim was the fourth wife of a famous archeologist and she disappeared five years earlier, supposedly eloping with a lover. Amelia turns sleuth.
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When a new knitter comes to town with fabulous artwork, Izzy Chambers and the others at the Seaside Knitting Studio are ready to welcome her with open arms--until they discover that she may be linked to the death of a wealthy but secretive art patron.
3) Trunk music
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 5
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Harry Bosch is back at the LAPD in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls-Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - the execution style of the Mafia where the victim is shot in his own vehicle - but the victim is LA movie producer Tony Aliso, and the mob weren't the only ones after...
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Nobody likes The Complaints--they're the cops who investigate other cops. It's a department known within the force as "The Dark Side," and it's where Malcolm Fox works. His new case: investigate a cop named Jamie Breck. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks--dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.
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Ruby McGavin novels volume 1
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Ruby McGavin has inherited part of a cattle ranch from her late husband, only to discover that his family is very much alive, in contrast to what he told her. Even as she is drawn to handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin, she learns more about her late husband's family-and wonders if she ever really knew him. Piecing together the truth, Ruby uncovers a legacy of pain and denial that has pursued the McGavin family for too long.
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Former CIA agent Jack Morgan runs Private, a renowned investigation company with branches around the globe. He's already deep into the investigation of a multi-million dollar NFL gambling scandal and the unsolved slayings of 18 schoolgirls when he learns of a horrific murder close to home: his best friend's wife, Jack's former lover, has been killed.
9) Back story
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Spenser novels volume 30
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Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
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Private Detective Agency novels volume 4
Private novels volume 2
Private novels volume 04
Private novels volume 02
Private novels volume 2
Private novels volume 04
Private novels volume 02
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Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect....
11) Bad blood
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Alexandra Cooper has a tough case to prosecute. Brendan Quillian, a wealthy businessman from the Upper East Side, has been charged with hiring an assassin to kill his wife, but the evidence is flimsy and the defendant has one of the most successful defense lawyers on his side. Then an explosion in one of the tunnels being built to secure Manhattan's water supply kills Quillian's brother, one of the construction workers. The blast isn't terrorism,...
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Raylan Givens volume 2.5
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In his more than three dozen books, Elmore Leonard has captured the imagination of millions of readers as few writers can. A literary icon praised by The New York Times Book Review as "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever," he has influenced many contemporary writers and is known for both the quality and the accessibility of his writing. In this collection of new and recently published short fiction, Leonard demonstrates the superb...
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It’s snow accident when a young woman’s icy demise sends Claire’s vacation to hell in a handbasket
Skiing with her family in Breckenridge, Colorado, gift basket designer Claire Hanover hears a terrified scream cut the frigid mountain air. She is horror-stricken to find Stephanie Contino, the sister of her daughter’s boyfriend, dead on the slopes. While everyone else assumes the death was an accident, Claire is suspicious
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Capital crimes series volume 5
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The British Ambassador is poisoned, his valet-chauffeur disappears and high American and British officials put the brakes on a Washington captain of detectives who is getting too close. A major cover-up is in the making, so the captain and his girlfriend decide to investigate on their own.
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It is a rainy day in London's Camden Passage when Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury meets a pretty and strangely troubled widow named Jane Holdsworth. He is drawn into a passionate affair with her-and becomes a suspect in a murder investigation. Unable to leave London, Jury sends Melrose Plant, eighth Earl of Caverness, to the Lake District to pry open the Holdsworth family's locked box of secrets. Posing as an eccentric librarian-hardly...
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Secrets of the Blue Hill Library volume 11
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Anne and Wendy are preparing for a new adult literacy class when Ben races inside the library to tell his mother that their dog has found a package on the porch. Anne is finally able to retrieve it and discovers an envelope with several thousand dollars of cash inside. Wendy is convinced the money is an answer to prayer. But where did all the money come from and who does it belong to?
18) Like lions
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Bull Mountain volume 2
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"Clayton Burroughs is a small-town Georgia sheriff, a new father, and, improbably, the heir apparent of Bull Mountain's most notorious criminal family. As he tries to juggle fatherhood, his job and his recovery from being shot in the confrontation that killed his two criminally-inclined brothers last year, he's doing all he can just to survive. Yet after years of carefully toeing the line between his life in law enforcement and his family, he finally...
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Detective Inspector John Rebus, suspected in the death of an ex-con who had been stalking his partner, is relieved to be called out of his jurisdiction to investigate the murder of two students at a private school near Edinburgh by army veteran and loner Lee Herdman in what is looking less and less like a random act of violence.
20) Remember me
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A tale of the occult. In her mansion on Cape Cod, Menley Nichols is grieving the death of Bobby, her two-year-old-son killed at a railroad crossing. For company she has her infant daughter, Hannah. Suddenly Menley hears Bobby calling to her.
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