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51541) The Beasts of Valhalla
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Mongo mysteries volume 4
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A detective takes on mad scientists when a D&D fantasy world turns deadly in this " thrilling combination" of "not-quite-science-fiction and suspense" (Playboy). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson-better known as "Mongo the Magnificent"-has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. When Mongo's sister...
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It's murder when family come to visit.Great Aunt Sophia's in town to teach Lina all of her witchy ways.No great surprise, her eccentric great aunt's teaching methods are just as unorthodox as the lady herself. Certainly not approved by the International Criminal Witch Police.Which is a problem, since Lina's neck deep in another murder investigation.Lina has to juggle her great aunt's idea of witch training as she helps the ICWP solve a rather unusual...
51543) A Grim Telling
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WHEN WORDS CAN KILL,SILENCE IS EVERYTHING. Tobias White thought he knew his family, but when his mother drags him from the only home he's ever known, he realizes he didn't know the half of it-even his own name. His family is being hunted by an Angel of Death, his brother Grimm is a wanted criminal, and his mother carries a painful secret. Tobias' only hope is to investigate his own family and leave a trail of clues behind for Atticus Riot to follow....
51544) The Dynamiter
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Excerpt: "Gentlemen,-In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our horror to acts of a more mingled strain, where crime preserves some features of nobility, and where reason and humanity can still relish the temptation. Horror, in this case, is due to Mr. Parnell: he sits before posterity...
51545) Magnolia Blossoms
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Honeymoon search for a killer. Stephanie Plum meets Alex Cross in rural Kentucky racehorse country.
FBI Agent Reggie Montgomery searches for a missing child. U. S. Marshal Shea Montgomery unearths bodies buried beside secluded magnolia trees. Their honeymoon turns into a search for a serial killer.
On their honeymoon, FBI Agent Reggie Montgomery gets pulled into a search for a missing child. While deer hunting, hubby, U. S. Marshal Shea Montgomery...
51546) Coyote Run
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The dynamic duo is back!Romance author Amanda Carmichael has a new project up her sleeve - starting her own private investigation firm. The only problem is, she neglected to tell her grumpy 'business partner' first. Much to Detective Ben Camden's dismay, she's posted business cards offering their sleuthing services all over the town of Goodwater Ranch. The good detective would rather not waste his time and connections traipsing through the monotonous...
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Christmas has come to Fern Valley, and the town's decked out with enough glitter and sparkle for a month's worth of celebrations, each more over-the-top than the previous one. The idyllic setting, filled with laughter, carols, and sweet treats, is shattered, along with some of the decorations, when the current wife and the ex-wife of a big-cat showman have a knock-down, drag-out fight in the center of town. Jules Keene, owner of the Fern Valley Glamping...
51548) The Affair at the Bungalow
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Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. A beautiful actress tells a mysterious tale, but Miss Marple has her suspicions about the story's truth.
51549) La disparue de l'Aber Wrac'h
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Il existe, à la pointe armoricaine, une terre o l'océan apaisé se glisse dans les Abers et façonne le paysage vrai du Finistère. C'est là, entre terre et mer, face aux vents du large que disparaissait, il y a vingt ans, une petite fille, Lily, avec pour seul témoin le phare de l'île Vierge. Au même moment, on découvrait dans la mystérieuse forêt de Huelgoat les corps ensanglantés d'un couple de riches entrepreneurs. Légendes celtiques,...
51550) The Hunger Month
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Holbrook College is a place for second chances. But what happens when the danger you face is worse than the danger you escaped? At first, Audrey Connolly regrets her restless urge to come to a college so far from home, but to her surprise, she finds Holbrook friendly and enriching far beyond her modest expectations. Even a local murder can't spoil her newfound optimism. But then the death count begins to mount. Audrey's friends, Denny and Laurie,...
51551) Gilt Trip
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All that glitters isn't gold in Samantha Kidd's latest mystery…
When Samantha Kidd's jewel of a husband, shoe designer Nick Taylor, is named a finalist for Designer of the Year at an industry function, Samantha sponsors a banquet table and invites close friends and family to the celebration. But by the time the night arrives, most of them aren't on speaking terms. Even romance with Nick suffers thanks to his dad's move into the couple's spare bedroom.
Before...
51552) Ripples in the Triverse
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The time for hiding is over. Twins Keeto and Elize have achieved sufficient mastery in the versal arts to intimidate those who hunt them, and so an unspoken truce brings cautious cooperation between rivals. But Elize remembers everything - the nightmares, the murder, now their faces. With her recovery complete, Keeto drifts without purpose only to lose himself in a secret relationship that threatens the preternatural bond between the siblings. Will...
51553) Bartleby and James
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Steampunk Detective FictionInventor James Wainwright's greatest desire is to be left alone in his workshop, where he can focus on invention and engineering unsullied by the messiness of London society and the meaningless concerns of its upper classes. His financial patron, gentleman Alton Bartleby, has higher aspirations. To continue to receive funding James will have to venture out into the outside world as a detective, turning his inventive genius...
51554) A Cornish Revenge
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Murderous revenge. A killer at loose on the streets of Cornwall. Who will be next to die?
An exciting, pacey police procedural with a difference. Start the series now!
A bleak Cornish clifftop scattered with the derelict remains of old tin mines. It seems to magazine editor Loveday Ross that it is an odd place for an art class, but then her artist friend Lawrence Kemp has been behaving strangely.
As they all arrive at Borlase Cliffs Loveday's camera...
51555) Death by Drowning
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Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. A young girl finds out she's pregnant and throws herself off a bridge, but Miss Marple is not so sure it was suicide.
51556) Saving Paradise
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"To tourists Hawaii is an air-conditioned tanning booth with shopping, booze, bikinis, and lots of smiling low-paid help. The real Hawaii is something else..."
When a beautiful journalist drowns mysteriously off Waikiki, former Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins, now a well-known Hawaii surfer and international surfing journalist, quickly gets embroiled in trying to solve her death. What he learns soon targets him for murder or life in prison as...
51557) The Language of Cannibals
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Mongo mysteries volume 8
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A circus-performer-turned-PI uncovers dark secrets in a Hudson River town in this novel. With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson-better known as "Mongo the Magnificent"-has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. When his friend, FBI agent Michael Burana, suspiciously drowns in the small town of Cairn,...
51558) Fine Spirits
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Meet Daisy Gumm Majesty: spiritualist to folks with more money than sense. The 1920s may be roaring among Pasadena's wealthy, but Daisy must earn a living for her family. When Daisy is approached by Mrs. Bissel about exorcizing a ghost from her basement, Daisy is tempted to back out until Mrs. B puts up one of her famous dachshund puppies as payment. Hoping the basement ghost is not a skunk, Daisy begins snooping only to discover the matter is much...
51559) Charlotte's Revenge
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This is a continuation of the story of Traci Simmons. Two years have passed. Her relationship with Officer Randall Wells unfolds and they embark on a new life together. As things get serious, someone from their past designs a scheme to ruin both of their lives. The suspense heats up as Randall becomes a target of the evil Charlotte Carter and it almost destroys his career. And, if that were not bad enough, his love and loyalty to Traci is put to the...
51560) No Big Rip
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When ex-lawman and senior citizen, Rip Ripple, is assaulted by a strung-out young man at a rest area outside Rockdale, Missouri, he assures his wife, Rapella, it's "no big rip." Aboard their travel-trailer, the "Chartreuse Caboose," the couple is destined to see their friends Lexie Starr and Stone Van Patten at their bed and breakfast, The Alexandria Inn.
Pressed by Rapella to report the crime, Rip meets with Det. Wyatt Johnson, who dutifully documents...
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