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Cat Kinsella volume 2
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English
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"After a brief stint in the Mayor's Office, DC Cat Kinsella is back at the London Metropolitan Police, wisecracking with her partner Luigi Parnell and trying to avoid the wrath of the boss, DI Kate Steele. But for Cat and Parnell, it's serious business when a young Australian woman turns up dead after a party thrown by her new boss. The initial investigation of Naomi Lockhart's murder points to Joseph Madden, the owner of a coffee shop around the...
63) Far cry
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In 1995, pubescent Heather Pierce and her friend Kelly Efford disappear while on holiday in Cornwall. An eccentric Good Samaritan saves Kelly; searchers find Heather dead at the bottom of an old mining engine house, the apparent victim of a misstep in the fog. In present-day Cambridge, Heather's half-sister, Beatrice, who's about the same age as Heather was in 1995, vanishes. Is Heather's tragic history repeating itself, or is Beatrice the victim...
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Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case--preferably before the eggnog is ladled out on Christmas Eve--but of course he will require assistance from the always sharp-witted housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, who has a few of her own theories on why McCourt had to die by the sword.
65) Low pastures
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"A well-dressed corpse found shot in the sand and gravel wharf sparks trouble for Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur and his unpredictable boss, Assistant Chief Constable Iles. The man is found dead in the local dockyard, shot from behind. Colin Harpur, examining the impeccably dressed corpse on his hands and knees, predicts the execution spells imminent trouble - and not just the unexpected arrival of his spiteful, brilliant boss, ACC Iles,...
66) Stiff news
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 17
Inspector C.D. Sloan mystery volume 17
Calleshire Chronicles
Inspector C.D. Sloan mystery volume 17
Calleshire Chronicles
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English
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Strange deaths occur in a British home for retired military officers and their wives. As he investigates, inspector C.D. Sloan discovers that all the victims were connected to a World War II battle. By the author of After Effects.
67) Little Knell
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 18
Inspector C.D. Sloan mystery volume 18
Calleshire Chronicles
Inspector C.D. Sloan mystery volume 18
Calleshire Chronicles
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Colonel Caversham, once prominent in the British colonial service, has died and left his large collection of artifacts to the local Calleshire museum.Included in those artifacts is a 3,000 year old Egyptain mummy and case, now the responsibility of one Mr. Fixby-Smith, Curator of the Greatorex Museum.What should be a simple moving job, however, is complicated by the fact that the local coroner, Mr. Granville Locombe-Stableford, since no body - no...
68) The silent room
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Matthew Ryan novels volume 1
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English
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"Detective Sergeant Matthew Ryan wants to clear the name of his former boss, who stands accused of official corruption. But before he can do so, his boss disappears. Did he escape from police custody, or was he kidnapped? Or did something even worse happen to him? Suspended from duty on suspicion of aiding and abetting the audacious escape of his former boss, Ryan is locked out of the manhunt. Desperate to preserve his career and prove his innocence,...
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Train enthusiast Francis Humphreys was drawing his last breath while his relatives and neighbors were over for tea. But Inspector Witherspoon wonders: If everyone was downstairs, who could have stolen into Uncle Francis' second-story study, killed him, and escaped? Mrs. Jeffries will have to lend her downstairs common sense to this upstairs murder mystery - and hope that she and the Inspector don't get derailed...
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Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 24
Victorian mysteries volume 24
Victorian mystery volume 24
Wheeler large print cozy mystery
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Victorian mysteries volume 24
Victorian mystery volume 24
Wheeler large print cozy mystery
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When Michael Provost, the successful and popular owner of a medical supply company, is found floating in the waters of the Chelsea Vestry Wharf, Inspector Gerald Witherspoon enlists the able assistance of his sleuthing housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, to find out who had wanted the man dead and quickly discover that his death may have links to an earlier crime.
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Sir Edmund Leggett is flattered to be stalked by a young lady-who makes herself scarce after he's murdered in cold blood. The police hold the young woman to blame. But Inspector Witherspoon has other ideas and consults his housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries-who always gets to the heart of the matter.
72) Sleepyhead
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It's rare for a young woman to die from a stroke and when three such deaths occur in short order it starts to look like an epidemic. Then a sharp pathologist notices traces of benzodiazepine in one of the victim's blood samples and just traceable damage to the ligaments in her neck, and their cause of death is changed from 'natural' to murder. The police aren't making much progress in their hunt for the killer until he appears to make a mistake: Alison...
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Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 18
A victorian mystery volume 18
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 18
A victorian mystery volume 18
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 18
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English
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Housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries helps Inspector Witherspoon of Scotland Yard solve the mysterious death of an unknown man found near St. Paul's church and the human skeleton stuffed in a chimney at an abandoned cottage.
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"Old sins cast long shadows. Normally dead bodies in a graveyard are buried--but not this one. When a woman is found strangled in a North London cemetery with an old newspaper clipping clutched in her hand, Inspector Witherspoon is surprised to find that he and the victim have crossed paths before. Mrs. Robinson was a respectable widow who ran a quiet Islington lodging house. None of her lodgers have any apparent motive to murder their landlady. But...
80) The young widow
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2005.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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