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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In Leaving Everything Most Loved by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs investigates the murder of Indian immigrants in London. The year is 1933. Maisie Dobbs is contacted by an Indian gentleman who has come to England in the hopes of finding out who killed his sister two months ago. Scotland Yard failed to make any arrest in the case, and there is reason to believe they failed to conduct a thorough investigation....
2602) A well-timed murder
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Pub. Date
2018.
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Swiss-American police officer Agnes Luthi is on leave in Lausanne, Switzerland, recovering from injuries she sustained in her last case, when an old colleague invites her to the worlds premier watch and jewelry trade show at the grand Messe Basel Exhibition Hall. Little does Agnes know, another friend of hers, Julien Vallotton, is at the same trade showand hes looking for Agnes. Julien Vallotton was friends with Guy Chavanon, a master of one of Switzerlands...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Jessica enters a fly-fishing competition at a nearby lake. Joining her is the sheriff's wife, Maureen Metzger, who surprises Jess with her enthusiasm for the sport. Their guide, however, is a surprise to both--Brian Kinney is an ex-con. Jailed as an accomplice to Darryl Jepson, a convicted killer, Brian was later exonerated, but not before spending seven years behind bars. He seems like a decent enough fellow ... Yet when Jepson breaks out of prison...
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Lauren Laurano mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1991]
Description
Private investigator Lauren Laurano makes her funny and suspenseful debut as a sleuth who must take on a rapist, a killer, a tangle of family relationships, her own fears, and New York City itself in order to solve several murders.
2605) Slightly irregular
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Finley Anderson Tanner mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"The fourth novel in the F.A.T. series finds Finley Tanner facing two impossible tasks: track down a missing lawyer from her firm, and find a date for her sister's wedding. Finley may have bitten off more than she can chew when she discovers that the lawyer is not who she claims to be--and may be implicated in the unsolved murder of a pageant queen. On top of that, Finley's taking her boss, Tony, to her sister's wedding...even though she still has...
2606) Knot ready for murder: 7
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Before quilter Martha Rose can tie the knot to Crusher, she has to track down his missing first wife ... One loose thread threatens to unravel Martha's wedding plans: the groom-to-be married a pregnant teen to save her from scandal thirty years ago--and the marriage was never annulled. Now Crusher's wife Hadas is coming to LA, along with his sister Fanya. But soon after she arrives, their houseguest goes missing, with her room ransacked and a chloroform-soaked...
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Lauren Laurano mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Fresh from her sensational debut in Everything You Have Is Mine, private eye Lauren Laurano is back. Petite, attractive, hip, cholesterol-conscious, and gay, Lauren isn't your typical private detective. She shares a brownstone apartment with her psychologist lover, Kip, in New York's fashionable Greenwich Village, where they are surrounded by a circle of warm friends who keep them well insulated from the craziness of city life. But when Lauren's closest...
2608) My sweet untraceable you
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Lauren Laurano mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Lauren Laurano, a lesbian PI from New York City, is hired by an ex-con to investigate his mother's death four decades earlier. Officially she died in an accident, but the con thinks she was murdered by his father. By the author of I'll Be Leaving You Always.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Emily and husband Colin have come to the French Riviera for what should be a joyous occasion - the engagement party of her lifelong friend Jeremy, Duke of Bainbridge, and Amity Wells, an American heiress. But the merrymaking is cut short with the shocking death of one of the party in an apparent suicide. Not convinced by the coroner's verdict, Emily must employ all of her investigative skills to discover the truth and avert another tragedy"--
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Kendra Michaels volume 7
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp sensesh́oned during her years in the darkánd keen deductive abilities. Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar:...
2611) Mean and shellfish
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"The annual Billy Goat Gruff Festival is the undisputed highlight of Hernia's social calendar. But when Magdalena Yoder, village mayor and owner of the PennDutch Inn, had the brainwave four years ago, little did she realize that it would soon attract visitors from far and wide-even Australia, as the unexpected arrival of Gabe's long-lost cousin, Miriam, at the inn confirms. Unfortunately, the shock of Miriam's one-legged appearance is soon usurped...
2612) Gone with the twins
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
The League of Literary Ladies is currently enjoying Margaret Mitchell's saga of the South, Gone with the Wind. But there's one situation on South Bass Island that they wish would simply blow over. Kidnapped as teenagers, the children of a famous movie star are now media darlings after a miraculous escape. What's next for the celebrity twins? They're opening an over-the-top B and B called Tara on South Bass Island, and frankly, they don't give a damn...
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Tracy Crosswhite volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When a womanś body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle.
2615) A Merciful Secret
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Mercy Kilpatrick volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They're in her blood. They're her secrets--as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills. In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds....
2616) The counterfeit lady
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Victorian Bookshop mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"A cousin of Georgia's dear friend Lady Phyllida Monthalf is brutally murdered in her home during the theft of blueprints of a new battleship designed by her husband--who now stands accused of her murder...and treason. The Duke of Blackford, in service to Whitehall, enlists Georgia and the Archivist Society to assist in the investigation. Playing the part of the duke's new paramour, Georgia gains entry into the upper echelons of London's elite, where...
2617) Mulled murder
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Pennyfoot Hotel mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"This holiday season at the Pennyfoot, the head count is down-but the body count is up. With one of her housemaids leaving to get married, Cecily Sinclair Baxter wants nothing more for Christmas than some good help. Instead of visions of sugar plums, she's calling the plumber to deal with flooded bathrooms. Then there's the surly new janitor, who acts like he got coal in his stocking. But as Cecily scrambles to hire and train new staff in time for...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Bombay's only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey's award-winning series. India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser...
2619) Immaculate midnight
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Jane Lawless mysteries volume 11
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
When her defense attorney father's client kills himself in his cell, the man's own father blames the lawyer for his son's death and plans to seek revenge by targeting the client's father's children, including lesbian sleuth Jane Lawless.
2620) Precious and Grace
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 17
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective, is a little short on help. The co-director of the agency, Grace Makutsi, is busy with her own case, her client none other than their erstwhile assistant, Mr. Polopetsi, who has unwittingly involved himself in a pyramid scheme. The agency's other assistant, Charlie, may also need more help than he can offer, as he is newly embroiled in a romance with a glamorous woman about whom the others have...