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"It's time for a savory soirée--but something sinister is stewing--in Raquel V. Reyes's second delightful Caribbean Kitchen mystery, perfectly delicious for fans of Mia P. Manansala. Fall festivities are underway in Coral Shores, Miami. Cuban-American cooking show star Miriam Quiñones-Smith wakes up to find a corpse in her front yard. The body by the fake tombstone is the woman that was kicked out of the school's Fall Festival the day before. Miriam's...
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The secret Father Manny Gonzalez, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, kept for over twenty years had clearly caught up with him when he is found shot dead in the church rectory. His childhood friend, Lieutenant Ryan Condon, commander of the NYPD Bronx Homicide Squad, seems determined to have the priest's killer apprehended. Except, the stakes are raised when unyielding Detective Toni Santiago suspects Lieutenant Condon's involvement in the priest's...
3) Cactus Blood
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Cactus Blood is Lucha Corpi's second mystery novel featuring Chicana detective Gloria Damasco. During the seventies, a young Mexican woman is raped, then exposed to pesticide contamination. Five men and two women save her and help her put her life back together. Sixteen years later, one of the men who helped her is dead, and two others have disappeared. The investigation of their disappearance leads from the 1973 United Farmworkers Strike and Grape...
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Was it a specter from the past, some Aztec revenant that had inspired the "Black Widow" to kill her husband? Or did these chilling murders have more to do with the rights of property and inheritance, and mere greed? In Lucha Corpi's third and final installment to the Gloria Damasco Detective Series, Black Widow's Wardrobe, the intrigue is high, the questions are many and the answers lie in the sleuthing skills of one woman.
Who better than Gloria...
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"Well-paced and skillfully told, with an outstanding sense of place, an enjoyable main character, and entertaining supporting cast.... Ainsley Walker swept me off my feet." -- Venus de Hilo, 5-star review"A delightful series – it will enchant you with exotic places and interesting characters." -- Linda Osborn, 5-star review For fans of Nora Roberts and Janet Evanovich…. It's hurricane season. An airplane en route to the States has just been forced...
6) Last Words
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Murder Victims Are Telling Secrets in the Mortuary in Last Words, a Murder Mystery by Ines Saint
Dayton, Ohio. Present Day
When fortune-teller, Abuela Luci, informs her granddaughter, Angie, that "Many changes are coming your way," no one is more skeptical than Angie herself. Addicted to telenovelas and proud of her Puerto Rican roots, Angie Gomez Gomez lives alone with her dog, Tito Bendito. While she ekes out a living sculpting busts of prominent...
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Murder and Lies Bring Angie Closer to Truth in Words with Friends, a Murder Mystery by Ines Saint
Secrets can be deadly, even among friends.
When two old friends of Angie's are found dead, Angie knows the murders are related to her parents' case and that her friends knew more than they were letting on. If she solves their murders, she'll finally learn who killed her parents.
But first, she needs to figure out whether Lieutenant Mahoney is her friend...
8) Word Games
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A New Murder Mystery and New Clues to Her Parents' Deaths, Angie Gomez Discovers Truth is Stranger than Soap Operas in Word Games, a Murder Mystery by Ines Saint
--Dayton, Ohio – Present Day--
When soccer-star Ronnie Martinez is found dead, it's ruled a suicide. Ronnie's mother isn't convinced, she thinks he was murdered. But only Angie and her cohorts at Riverside Funeral Home are willing to investigate.
Angie can hear a dead person's last words,...
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Elena Palomares's summer archaeological project in Copan, Honduras turns into a nightmare when she discovers someone has been stealing stones from the Hieroglyphic Staircase, she finds a stranger dead at her work site, and she's a suspect. She meets Dominic Harte, an ex-priest haunted by his own past, who offers to help clear her good name. In the course of their investigation, they discover that a local homeless boy is key to solving the mystery....
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Était-ce la main du démon qui avait disséminé tant de disgrâce comme pour entacher un tel excès de beauté?
Rio de Janeiro, 1967. S'y ctoient de jeunes enragés de la Nouvelle Vague. Ce cinéma aurait-il influencé les idées révolutionnaires de certains en pleine montée d'une dictature qui, insidieusement, se révélera criminelle?
Morro Dona Marta. On laisse dépérir un nouveau-né dans la favela. Son oncle, un vaurien, hausse les épaules....
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"A surprise trip to Miriam's parents in Punta Cana, which should be filled with arroz con pollo and breezy days under the tamarind tree, quickly becomes a hunt for a possible property saboteur. But before Miriam can begin to uncover the person damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage, she's called away to Puerto Rico to film a Three Kings Day special. She's welcomed to the blue ballast-stone streets of Old San Juan by crime scene tape, and...
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