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Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark on the arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when Star reporter Rich Azadian digs deeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protégée of evangelical megapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrand right-wing...
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Cracow, 1893. Zofia Turbotyńska--professor's wife and socialite--is bored at home, with little to do but plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crimes. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own murder investigation, unbeknownst to anyone but her loyal...
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A killer is on the lose and no one knows the who, why or even how. Duncan's a thief, the best there's ever been, but now he's behind bars, awaiting his execution. James has been hired by the city to find and stop the mysterious killer. A killer who leaves messages on the walls and his victims drained of blood. James knows he can't do it alone, the city with all their resources can't find this killer so how can he? No he needs help and he needs the...
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Molly is heading to Pluto. Send in the clones...Molly's Bistro is opening a new branch of the famous Martian restaurant on Pluto. But the opening is delayed when their chef is murdered. With the Pluto Police taking a relaxed approach to crime, Molly heads to Pluto to help crack the case and get the restaurant back on track. But she will have to face clone confusion, kidnapping chocolatiers, and the space mafia in order to solve this mystery.This sequel...
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Et si ce n'était pas la première fois que les grottes volaient leurs visiteurs ?
La petite ville de Pomerol, au cœur des Appalaches, a toujours mené une existence paisible, rythmée par les touristes venus admirer les fameuses grottes Au Clair de Lune. Une quiétude qu'avait adoptée John Sanders avec son épouse, Ketty, jusqu'au jour o cette dernière disparaît mystérieusement lors d'une randonnée. Pas de traces, pas d'explications, et si...
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First in a new vet books mystery series, perfect for fans of cozy mysteries by Miranda James and Leann Sweeney!
Veterinarian and amateur sleuth Kate Turner has her hands full trying to juggle two boyfriends, a thriving practice, and a criminal investigation
It's the Christmas season and veterinarian Kate Turner is not feeling very jolly. She's overworked, unappreciated, and dealing with two dissatisfied clients. Throw in a very complicated personal...
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The ship was storm-tossed, no one at the helm, its sails tattered and ragged.Unless the couple got to the ship's wheel soon, they and the ship would be destroyed.It seemed years before the couple could struggle against the rocking waves and gusting wind to reach the quarterdeck - to at last get control over that ship's wheel.The two of them were able to finally wrestle the ship's rudder to start pointing the ship's travel with the waves instead of...
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A smart debut sends Jackson Oliver, head of online gambling casino VegasVegas, headquartered in San Jose, Costa Rica, to a New England village where he suspects someone has gotten away with murder-and used VegasVegas as part of the clever con. Jackson not only feels like a chump for accepting a bet that will cost VegasVegas a hundred grand, he's exposed the casino to blacklisting by the Offshore Gaming Association, which could ruin it.
How did this...
9) Gilded Gauge
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A mysterious message from a midnight duelist sends fashion reporter Maddie Hatter to New York's finest parasol dueling academy, where she foils a daring daylight kidnapping.
The grateful rescuee, only daughter of an American Steamlord, offers Maddie a job as her bodyguard. Soon both young ladies are up to their lace gloves in industrial intrigue and irrepressible street urchins.
Maddie's clockwork bird faces danger too: hungry owls, curious inventors,...
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Blackmail Sparks Murder On a Planet of Psychics
A Science Fiction Cozy Mystery
When Clemintine LaSalle steals her mother's Indenture Contract from a blackmailer's safe, she accidentally gets his blackmail list too, and someone wants that list badly enough to frame her for murder…
Shangri-la was designed to be the next utopia. But it's flawed and someone is attempting to destroy it. A war is building between the Reformers who want to correct their...
11) Roman Count Down
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"Ike Schwartz outing combines high-tech detection with routine sleuthing" -Booklist
Ruth Harris, Sherriff Ike Schwartz's fiancée, is involved in a near fatal automobile accident. But Ike is convinced the crash was rigged. Even though he is embroiled in a close election, has no jurisdiction over the investigation, and can find no support in the usual law enforcement community, he places himself on leave and goes rogue to investigate and seek the...
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Love long and prosper?
When Sylvia Stryker boards her space cruise as a lowly uniform lieutenant, it's with an eye toward the future. After space pirates destroyed the life she knew, she's counting on the trek to Venus to give her a fresh start. Even her side gig working for security stud Neptune feels full of possibilities. But when she finds a body outside her ward after the departure point, her fresh start is as sullied as a worn uniform. The...
13) The Matildas
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Brilliant. Ambitious. A great detective. Matilda Garrigan is none of these in The Matildas, a quirky, hilarious mystery with duplicates, duplicity, and an amateur sleuth in way over her head.
Tiny book publisher Mitotic Press takes novels from one Earth and publishes them on a parallel Earth, thanks to a portal in a basement conference room. They're a team of book thieves with a pretty sweet (and very secret) business--until someone anonymously threatens...
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Oliver Swithin mysteries volume 1
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"Greenwood fans will welcome her thoughtful second reinterpretation of a well-known Greek myth. Among Greenwood's other talents, she displays a gift for writing songs of the period." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
In this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood's Delphic Women series, Greenwood takes us into Troy as it struggles to rise from the ashes of the Trojan War. But while others have told the story as a struggle of men, Greenwood...
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After moving to a beautiful gated community, a grieving woman grows suspicious of her friendly neighbors and discovers their charming suburban paradise hides disturbing secrets and sinister intentions.
Can Abby expose the truth and shut down the sinister experiments before it's too late? Or will she find herself strapped to a table in the lab as the next unwilling test subject?
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A fashion model in a skimpy outfit going to meet an arch criminal with advanced weaponry. What could go wrong? Well, about everything. But maybe not.
Because I had only "borrowed" this body and her wardrobe to solve a mystery - and some crimes. I'd been chasing this person through his various crimes for decades now. Not knowing his organization, just his trail of "collateral damage" where people died. Where thefts of exotic equipment and materials...
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Where I was and who I was were the one question needing their answers. I'd been transported, yet not in my own body. Both actions I was more than used to. Usually didn't happen together. Usually. And here I was, somewhere. It wasn't even uncomfortable to be someone else.The one idea I knew for certain was that I was here to solve a mystery. Probably a crime. Something disastrous.People were counting on me to solve these mysteries. Their lives and...
18) DNA Detour
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She had almost let him commit the perfect murder. He repaid her by haunting her dreams with his gloating face. The DNA sample she had collected at the crime scene had allowed him to walk free. Now she needed another sample if she was to show him that justice was a dish best served cold.
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How do you solve an impossible murder?
Meet Dashiell Kincaid, a cocky security consultant known for his knowledge of SCAPE's virtual reality systems and his problem-solving ability. The Terminal Code takes place in 2050, as Kincaid is called to the scene of a murder in New York City, but is quick to find that this one is much more than it seems, as it somehow crossed the bounds of SCAPE and into everyday life.
In this modern take of a "locked-room...
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When she finds the body of a retired shopkeeper on the beach, a series of mysterious events draws Lady Jayla into a web of passion, terror, and murder;
If she wants to stay alive, she must figure out who the killer is before she becomes the next target.
She needs to find a way to stop the interplanetary jewel thieves who keep breaking into her shop looking for their missing loot. While dealing with this crisis, she faces a slew of other problems:...
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