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Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 1
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English
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The debut of Philly Prep English teacher and accidental sleuth, Amanda Pepper, (and of C.K. Mackenzie, homicide detective) won the World Mystery Convention's "Anthony" for best first mystery.
When the body of a colleague is found dead in Amanda's living room, she has to clear herself of suspicion—and make sure she isn't the next victim as well. And all she's got as a clue to the real killer's identity
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Capital crimes series volume 19
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English
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Investigative team Rick Klayman and Moses Johnson find themselves with a wealth of suspects when they set out to catch the murderer of Nadia, an attractive young woman who worked for the philandering Senator Bruce Lerner.
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Miss Dimple Kilpatrick mysteries volume 2
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English
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Life in America during World War II springs vividly to life as Miss Dimple and her fellow townspeople battle valiantly against worry, rationing, and crime at home as well as abroad. It's September 1943, and the town of Elderberry, Georgia, has exciting plans for the Bond Rally to support the troops fighting the war abroad. Miss Dimple's friend, Virginia Balliew, has agreed to chair the big event, with the help of Buddy Oglesby. But when children discover...
8) Final exam
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St. Thomas, the small college north of New York City where Professor Alison Bergeron teaches, has had its share of scandals involving both its students and its staff, not to mention Alison herself, so when a resident director goes missing the administration wants to keep a lid on it. With only five weeks left in the semester and no time to interview replacements, Alison is tapped for the job. An alumna of the college, Alison knows all about living...
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Tres Navarre mysteries volume 4
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English
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Private investigator Tres Navarre accepts a teaching position in Austin and moves in with his computer programmer-entrepreneur brother Garrett, only to flex his detective muscles once again when Garrett's business partner is murdered.
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English
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NYPD Lt. Eve Dallas is puzzled by the mysterious murder of a grammar school history teacher. When it turns out that Craig Foster was poisoned, all eyes are on the packed lunch he brought to school with him that day, a lunch prepared for him by his wife. Dallas is baffled by the motivation for such a murder, until she begins to unearth some astonishing secrets. Meanwhile, she is worried for her own marriage, when her husband seems blinded by the coy...
11) They never learn
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2020.
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English
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"Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she's even better at getting away with murder. Every year, she searches for the worst man at Gorman University and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she's avoided drawing attention to herself - but as she's preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus. Determined to keep her enemies close, Scarlett insinuates...
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" When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Sûreté du Québec to places even he is afraid to go. But...
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Capital crimes series volume 14
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English
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In Washington, a congressman is accused of sexual harassment by a staffer. When the staffer is killed, police turn their attention to the congressman, only to see him killed and his daughter kidnaped. Sleuthing law professor Mac Smith uncovers an influence-peddling Russian connection.
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Professor Michael Branden is intrigued when Enos Erb, an Amish man, claims that his brother, Benny - a dwarf like himself - has been murdered. But Branden's attention is divided when a young student apparently leaps to her death from the college bell tower. The investigation into the girl's death uncovers links to a controversial genetics study on the effects of inbreeding within the Amish community - a study in which both Enos and Benny participated....
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"It's the summer of 1944 and the world seems mired in a War that will never end. On the home front, the people of Elderberry, Georgia, are doing everything they can to support the troops. Even with a war on, the peaches are ripe for picking. As veteran teacher Miss Dimple Kilpatrick and her colleagues work in the orchard, they hear frantic calls for help: An eighteen-year-old girl, Prentice, has been missing--and is later found murdered. Miss Dimple...
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2016.
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English
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Arriving home to find his wife murdered and their toddler left alone, art history professor George Clare is targeted with suspicion by a relentless police officer as dark community secrets are revealed over a span of decades.
Upstate New York. George Clare comes home from his position as an art teacher at a private college to find his wife killed and their three-year-old daughter alone. George is the immediate suspect, and a persistent cop is stymied...
18) Magic for liars
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"When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister--without losing herself" --
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Meg is eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins when she and Michael host a Spanish playwright for the production of his play by one of Michael's graduate students. Then enters the dean of the English department and a man from the college president's office, who say Michael's student is not allowed to do his dissertation and that the play must be canceled. While discussing this, the dean is found murdered. Meg's house becomes a crime scene, and...
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