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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 9
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While digging in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, English archeologist Amelia Peabody discovers the mummified body of a recently dead woman. The victim was the fourth wife of a famous archeologist and she disappeared five years earlier, supposedly eloping with a lover. Amelia turns sleuth.
2) Trunk music
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 5
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Harry Bosch is back at the LAPD in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the trunk of a white Rolls-Royce and finds a corpse. It looks like a simple case of Trunk Music - the execution style of the Mafia where the victim is shot in his own vehicle - but the victim is LA movie producer Tony Aliso, and the mob weren't the only ones after...
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 37
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Frank and Joe Hardy tackle native voodoo, a dangerous gang of criminals, and a mysterious ghost when they set out to search for their father in the Caribbean islands.
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Annie's quilted mysteries volume 01
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Join Emma Cotton, Kelly Grace, and the members of the Nimble Thimbles quilting group in the quaint seaside town of Mystic Harbor, Massachusetts, as they piece together new clues found in an old quilt that could help solve the mystery surrounding the death of their friend, Rose, fifteen years ago.
5) False notes
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Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 3
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When Heather Simmons is a leading candidate for mayor of River Heights, Nancy discovers that Heather's daughter has been kidnapped, but no one will even admit that the case exists.
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Ruby McGavin novels volume 1
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Ruby McGavin has inherited part of a cattle ranch from her late husband, only to discover that his family is very much alive, in contrast to what he told her. Even as she is drawn to handsome saddlemaker Lucas McGavin, she learns more about her late husband's family-and wonders if she ever really knew him. Piecing together the truth, Ruby uncovers a legacy of pain and denial that has pursued the McGavin family for too long.
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Capital crimes series volume 5
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The British Ambassador is poisoned, his valet-chauffeur disappears and high American and British officials put the brakes on a Washington captain of detectives who is getting too close. A major cover-up is in the making, so the captain and his girlfriend decide to investigate on their own.
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Inspector John Rebus mysteries volume 14
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Detective Inspector John Rebus, suspected in the death of an ex-con who had been stalking his partner, is relieved to be called out of his jurisdiction to investigate the murder of two students at a private school near Edinburgh by army veteran and loner Lee Herdman in what is looking less and less like a random act of violence.
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A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite the cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school...
10) Back story
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Spenser novels volume 30
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Boston private detective Spenser finds himself at odds with mobster Sonny Karnofsky when his investigation of the decades-old murder of Emily Gordon, gunned down during a bank heist, turns up links to the killing of Karnofsky's daughter.
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Richard Jury mysteries volume 20
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Over three successive nights, Harry Johnson spins a tale for Richard Jury in the Old Wine Shades, the story of a good friend of his whose wife and son (and dog) disappeared one day when they were in Surrey. No trace, no clue, no lead as to what happened. He's a fascinating bloke, this Harry Johnson--rich, handsome and brainy on the subject of quantum mechanics and superstring theory, which as some pretty funny notions about the nature of reality....
12) School days
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Spenser novels volume 33
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Lily Ellsworth the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence.
13) Romance
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87th Precinct mysteries volume 47
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An actress is stabbed and the incident turns out to have been a publicity stunt for her play. That gives someone an idea because she is stabbed again and this time doesn't get up. Detectives Steve Carella and Bert Kling investigate the murder. By the author of And All Through the House.
14) The secret panel
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 25
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A chance meeting with a stranger on the road provides the Hardy brothers with a clue to a gang of local burglars.
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Servants and socialites sip cocktails side by side on their way to new lives in this "thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing" (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) historical suspense novel in the tradition of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and Ken Follett's Night Over Water . The ship has been like a world within itself, a vast floating city outside of normal rules. But the longer the journey continues, the more confined...
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Melanie Travis mysteries volume 3
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Melanie Travis, a teacher, single parent, and owner of a Standard Poodle pup, has been invited to join the Connecticut Kennel Club. But the group is already disagreeing on this year's trophies when money turns up missing and a member turns up dead. When the truth about forged pedigrees and illegal show practices come to light, Melanie finds herself closer to a killer than she would like.
17) Firestorm
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Silver, a psychic firefighter, enlists Kerry Murphy, an arson investigator haunted by her mother's death in a fire, to help him track down pyromaniac James Trask, a one-time Defense Department scientist who has gone on a fiery killing spree in retaliation for his project being scrapped.
18) Comeback
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Parker thrillers volume 17
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Parker agrees to take part in the nearly half-million dollar robbery of a Christian crusade, having been given inside help by a disgruntled worker in the Rev. William Archibald's camp, but things start to go wrong when one of the trio of robbers decides he wants to keep all the money for himself.
19) Wilderness
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Aaron Newman, a writer, inadvertantly witnesses a murder and, finding himself threatened and hunted by the murderer, resolves to kill him first.
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 29
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Difficult assignments are nothing new to the Hardy boys, and this one that takes them to the deep South is particularly challenging. Their mission: to vindicate a long-dead Confederate general, disgraced during the Civil War because he was accused of stealing hidden gold belonging to a bank. In a museum exhibiting relics of the Civil War, the brother sleuths find a puzzling clue that may help to clear the general's name and pinpoint the location of...
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