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It's the 1920s in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions. But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from...
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Kate Chandler, suspected of being the mastermind of the theft of rare, priceless sapphires, is on the run from FBI special agent Sam Groves, who begins to suspect her innocence when he realizes that Kate is also being pursued by others who are determined to keep her quiet.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 3
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 03
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 2
Beeler Large Print mystery
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 03
Faith Fairchild mystery volume 2
Beeler Large Print mystery
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Faith, her husband, Tom, and two-year-old son, Ben, have gone to Sanpere Island, Maine, for a vacation. When Tom is called away to a retreat in New Hampshire, Faith becomes involved in a harmless mystery, a hunt for treasure, the clues to which are cryptically embedded in a patchwork quilt. Harmless, this is, until Faith and Ben almost stumble over the body of a local resident on the beach, and Faith is forced into more serious and dangerous detection....
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"It is nearly midnight when the enormous bell in the belfry of All Faith Chapel--silent for decades--peals, startling awake the entire town of Eastport. Upon inspection of the steeple, the police uncover the body of local teenager Karen Hansen, who had climbed the belfry's dark, rickety stairs for a midnight rendezvous. But instead of an exciting new life, Karen met her death. When the news of Karen's murder spreads and much of the evidence points...
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In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home, with no sign of forced entry or indication of a struggle. One by one, others who had placed items in the time capsule are murdered. Besides...
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After a year on the job, New Jersey's first female deputy sheriff has collared criminals, demanded justice for wronged women, and gained notoriety nationwide for her exploits. But on one stormy night, everything falls apart. While transporting a woman to an insane asylum, Deputy Kopp discovers something deeply troubling about her story. Before she can investigate, another inmate bound for the asylum breaks free and tries to escape.
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Besides the annual Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving Day, Lucy expects the approaching holiday to be a relatively uneventful one until she finds beautiful Alison Franklin dead and frozen in Blueberry Pond. No one knows much about Alison, except that she was the daughter of wealthy investor Ed Franklin and struggled quietly with drug addiction.--Provided by publisher.
8) Dead level
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Renovating her husband's long-neglected woodland cabin in Maine, Jake and her friend, Ellie, are vengefully targeted by an escaped prisoner who takes advantage of flooded road conditions.
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Phryne Fisher mysteries volume 13
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Phyrne Fisher volume 13
Phryne Fisher mystery volume 13
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Phyrne Fisher volume 13
Phryne Fisher mystery volume 13
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Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth, and her faithful maid, Dot, decide that Luna Park is the place for an afternoon of fun and excitement with Phryne's two daughters, Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark Ghost Train, amidst the squeals of horror and delight, a mummified bullet-studded corpse falls to the ground in front of them. Phryne Fishers pleasure trip has definitely become business. Digging to the bottom of this longstanding mystery takes her to...
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The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery. Meg helps her brother move his computer company into new quarters. Moving turns into murder when the office practical joker turns up dead on top of the mail cart and Meg must find out who did it.
11) A perfect evil
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Maggie O'Dell novels volume 1
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The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. Then Sheriff Nick Morrelli is called to the scene of another grisly murder.
12) Dearly depotted
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Abby has her hands full at her cousin Jillian's wedding as florist, bridesmaid, and grandma-sitter-all while wearing a hideous dress. Then the groom's 90-year-old grandmother goes missing from the reception. On her search, Abby finds the corpse of guest Jack Snyder. Now she must find out who killed Jack in the pulpit.
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When Ruby Tooms, the world-weary barmaid she met at Oktoberfest, arrives at her bed-and-breakfast with some unexpected baggage, Judith McMonigle Flynn, after much coercing by her husband, agrees to help Ruby solve the 20-year-old mystery of her mother's murder.
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 4
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Amelia Peabody, the intrepid Egyptologist, returns to the Nile for the 1895-1896 season with her sexy archaeologist husband Emerson and their entourage to excavate a small pyramid, but they end up tracking down a master criminal wreaking havoc among the excavations.
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From the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher Series comes Blood and Circuses, the next historical mystery featuring an unstoppable, elegant amateur sleuth. Can Miss Fisher uncover the truth without losing her life?
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Oversized, outrageous Mary Alice and her prim sister Patricia Anne have been looking forward to the gala benefit being staged to raise money for the restoration of Vulcan, Birmingham's ever-tarnishing unnatural wonder. And what a show it is, with a grand finale that has thirty sequined Elvis impersonators high-kicking in unison! From the front row, "Mouse" and "Sister" have a perfect view of the action when one of the dancing Kings keels over dead...
17) Uncommon grounds
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Maggie Thorsen wants to know who killed one of her partners in a new coffee store with a hot-wired espresso machine. So she joins forces with Sarah Kingstown, the dead woman's best friend, and together they uncover unsavory small town politics, bribes, kickbacks, and rampant infidelity.
18) Entranced
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Private investigator Mary Ellen Sutherland, out of leads in her quest to find a missing baby, turns to the mysterious Sebastian Donovan for help, and soon finds herself fighting to save her heart as well as the lost child.
19) The Soul Catcher
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FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell and her partner Tully investigate two cases - the murder of a senator's daughter in Washington, D.C., and a deadly shootout in Massachusetts, both of which are linked to Reverend Joseph Everett, who is dating Maggie's mother.
20) Knockdown
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Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree discovers that the past she thought she'd laid to rest comes calling at her lovingly restored 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. Back in her days as a hotshot financial manager she did business with plenty of shady characters, but she's still baffled as to the identity of her nemesis--until she receives a photo of a murdered man.
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