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Desert Heat: A Joanna Brady Mystery by J. A. Jance

Desert Heat: A Joanna Brady Mystery by J. A. Jance

By J. A. Jance

A Joanne Brady mysteryAndy Brady was once an excellent husband and candidate for Sheriff - until eventually a bullet destroyed his destiny. Now the police are claiming he used to be a maverick whose involvement in drug-running drove him to suicide. yet Andy's spouse, Joanna, is aware a cover-up whenshe sees one, and her obsessive hunt for a killer threatens to put either her and her daughter in jeopardy.

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Manna from Hades: A Cornish Mystery by Carola Dunn

Manna from Hades: A Cornish Mystery by Carola Dunn

By Carola Dunn

Eleanor Trewynn is a widow of a few years dwelling in Port Mabyn, a small fishing village in Cornwall, England. In her more youthful days, she traveled the unique components of the realm together with her husband. nowadays, she’s retired and based the neighborhood charity store. Her niece, Megan Pencarrow, transferred within reach, and used to be lately promoted to the rank of Detective Sargent. maybe the single draw back is that she is now operating for a DI who doesn’t approve of girls at the police strength and who rather doesn’t a lot approve of Megan’s aunt Eleanor, as she is anything of a thorn in his quite large aspect. All of those elements collide whilst, the day after gathering donations, Eleanor and the vicar’s spouse locate the lifeless physique of a longhaired, scruffy-looking early life hidden within the stockroom of the charity store. Then they detect that a few donated jewellery regarded as pretend is absolutely very actual, very dear, and the haul from a violent theft in London. Making issues extra complicated, the corpse present in the storeroom is seemingly none of the robbers. Manna from Hades is a confounding case of bold robbery, doublecross, and a wily older girl faced via a case of homicide so much foul.

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The Hades Project (The Cotten Stone Mysteries) by Lynn Sholes

The Hades Project (The Cotten Stone Mysteries) by Lynn Sholes

By Lynn Sholes

Cast through the 7th iteration grandson of Adam, used to pierce the facet of Christ on the Crucifixion, and possessed by means of a few of history's strongest men-Constantine, Attila the Hun, Adolf Hitler, Harry Truman - the Holy Lance is set for use back. The Forces of Evil intend to exploit the traditional relic to release the Hades undertaking and convey humankind to its knees. From the Kremlin to the Vatican to an Ethiopian church housing the Ark of the Covenant, Cotten Stone races to discover the Holy Lance. Time is operating out as Cotten confronts the fellow who holds in his hand the future of the realm, a guy who died greater than eighty five years prior. 'An extraordinary novel, a depressing labyrinth of suspense, foreign intrigue, and apocalyptic horror' - Douglas Preston, co-author of "Book of the Dead". 'Fans of religious-themed thrillers like "The Da Vinci Code" will take pleasure in' - "Library Journal".

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Prime Cut by Diane Mott Davidson

Prime Cut by Diane Mott Davidson

By Diane Mott Davidson

A caterer's nightmare...Caterer Goldy Schulz is confident issues could not worsen. An unscrupulous rival is using her into bankruptcy. An incompetent contractor has left her worthwhile kitchen in shambles. and she or he has simply agreed to cater a manner shoot at a nineteenth-century mountain cabin along with her mentor and outdated good friend, French chef Andr? Hibbard.A sprint of cold-blooded murder...Together Goldy and Andr? fight in a hopelessly outmoded kitchen to cater to a vacuous crowd of lovely humans whose own dramas climax while a digital camera is pitched via a window...into the buffet. Then Goldy's contractor is located striking in the home of 1 of her most sensible pals. A moment homicide follows and Goldy needs to by some means clear up a secret and get ready for a society soir?e that can make--or break--her career.A recipe for disaster...It's a secret that consists of the useless contractor's unwholesome earlier, a nutrients saboteur, the robbery of 4 historic cookbooks, and an overzealous D.A. who has suspended Goldy's detective husband, Tom, from the strength. What Goldy discovers is the best recipe for homicide. and she or he might be dessert!

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A Date You Can't Refuse by Harley Jane Kozak

A Date You Can't Refuse by Harley Jane Kozak

By Harley Jane Kozak

Serial dater and greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is going undercover in a media-training corporation suspected of video piracy, but if a useless physique seems to be at the company’s estate, she’s stuck up in a conspiracy that is going means past a few stolen DVDs.

Wollie Shelley isn’t satisfied approximately taking the activity as a “social trainer” at MediaRex, however the FBI makes her a suggestion she can’t refuse. If she consents to infiltrate the corporate, they’ll make sure that her schizophrenic brother can have a house on the federally backed midway residence he’s come to like. So Wollie launches into instructing 3 international celebrities the way to do something about the customs of Beverly Hills, enhance their English, and turn into Oprah-ready. And whilst a coyote-chewed corpse looks within the MediaRex compound, Wollie realizes that her colleagues are concealing a few critical secrets and techniques in their own.

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Deadly Housewives by Nevada Barr

Deadly Housewives by Nevada Barr

By Nevada Barr

Wisteria Lane has not anything at the grande dames of poser. A complain in the home for the fiction set, lethal Housewives is a secret anthology from fourteen of brand new best–loved and bestselling woman secret and suspense writers. significantly acclaimed secret author Christine Matthews has accrued the largest names in women's secret and suspense writing this day, during this interesting brief tale assortment. Nevada Barr, Sara Paretsky, S.J. Rozan, Denise Mina, Carole Nelson Douglas, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Julie Smith, Vicki Hendricks, Suzann Ledbetter, Elizabeth Massie, Christine Matthews, Barbara Collins and Eileen Dreyer have all signed on. The hundreds of thousands of audience tuning in each Monday evening to work out the newest installment of determined Housewives are compelling facts that there is a large viewers hungry for leisure according to the basis that there is extra to suburban housewives than meets the attention. With each one never–before released tale illuminating a unique darkish nook of the housewife–psyche, together with intercourse, marriage, careers–left–behind, jealousy, youngsters, and feminine friendship, this anthology is ideal for the viewers that is made determined Housewives must–see T.V. And the homicide and mysteries on Wisteria Lane will seem like a refrain bake sale in comparison to the thrills and suspense that those masters of crime writing cook dinner up!

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A Night Too Dark: A Kate Shugak Novel (Kate Shugak Novels) by Dana Stabenow

A Night Too Dark: A Kate Shugak Novel (Kate Shugak Novels) by Dana Stabenow

By Dana Stabenow

An evening Too darkish is long island instances bestselling author Dana Stabenow’s newest, the 17th in a sequence chronicling lifestyles, loss of life, love, tragedy, mischief, controversy, nature, and survival in Alaska, America’s final actual frontier.In Alaska, humans disappear each day. In Aleut detective Kate Shugak’s Park, they’ve been disappearing much in recent years. Hikers head into the desert unprepared and wander away. Miners surrender by surprise on the busy Suulutaq Mine. Suicides go away farewell notes and vanish. not just are Park rats disappearing at an alarming price, yet so is existence within the Park as Kate understands it. Alaska nation trooper Jim Chopin’s workload has elevated to the place he doesn’t make it domestic 3 nights out of 4, the debatable mine has seduced Johnny and his classmates with summer season jobs and divided the Niniltna local Association—the aunties are to a girl promoting out—and a adverse environmental activist association has embraced the Suulutaq Mine as their cause of being. It’s nearly a aid while Kate reveals a physique. This she will handle.Until the id of the physique vanishes, too.In this newest Kate Shugak novel, the shrewdpermanent, horny PI, her wolf/husky hybrid Mutt, and Chopper Jim are just simply commencing to become aware of the fallout from the invention of the world’s second-largest gold mine of their yard. “Mine swap everything,” Auntie Vi acknowledged in Whisper to the Blood (the prior publication within the sequence and the 1st to hit the hot York instances bestseller list).And it’s in basic terms simply starting.

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The Mask of Atreus by A. J. Hartley

The Mask of Atreus by A. J. Hartley

By A. J. Hartley

An imprecise museum's useless owner lies in a mystery room surrounded by means of one of many world's such a lot fantastic collections of Greek antiquities. just a helpful Mycenaean demise masks has been taken, in addition to the bones of a mythical hero inspiration to exist in simple terms in historic delusion. Looted by way of the Nazis, the treasures are nonetheless being sought through these whose goals of glory stay undefeated. The masks is an extraordinary discovery that might be a strength for devastating retribution within the mistaken arms. yet by the point museum curator Deborah Miller learns the reality, it can be too overdue not just to save lots of herself--but to bare to the area the remarkable mystery she's exposed.

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The Bay at Midnight (MIRA) by Diane Chamberlain

The Bay at Midnight (MIRA) by Diane Chamberlain

By Diane Chamberlain

Her family's cottage at the New Jersey shore used to be a spot of freedom and innocence for Julie Bauer—until her seventeen-year-old sister, Isabel, used to be murdered.

It's been greater than 40 years on the grounds that that August evening, yet Julie's stories of her sister's demise nonetheless form her global. Now an individual from her previous is elevating questions about what quite occurred that evening. approximately Julie's personal complicity. a few devastating mystery her mom saved from all of them. in regards to the one who went to legal for Izzy's murder—and the individual that didn't.

Faced with questions and armed with few solutions, Julie needs to assemble the braveness to revisit her previous and untangle the advanced feelings that ended in one unspeakable act of violence at the bay at midnight.

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Murder on St. Mark's Place (Gaslight Mystery) by Victoria Thompson

Murder on St. Mark's Place (Gaslight Mystery) by Victoria Thompson

By Victoria Thompson

In turn-of-the century manhattan urban, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see start and death--and even murder....Phenomenal compliment for homicide on Astor Place:"Victoria Thompson shines....Anne Perry and Caleb Carr lovers rejoice!" --Tamar Myers, writer of The Hand that Rocks the Ladle"Tantalizing." --Catherine Coulter"Fascinating."--Publishers Weekly

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