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The Alan Bernhardt Novels volume 2
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
2013
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To unlock the secrets of a homicide, Bernhardt must connect with a terrified child Dennis tells the police he was sleeping when his wife was killed. Connie stumbled upon a prowler, he says, and paid for the mistake with her life. The police believe his story, but this cold man?s crocodile tears cannot convince Connie?s sister, Janice. She suspects her brother-in-law of a heinous crime, and it will take an unusual investigator to prove her right. Alan...
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Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick?s sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of...
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Private volume 10
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When Jack Morgan stops by Private's Paris office, he envisions a quick hello during an otherwise relaxing trip filled with fine food and sightseeing. But Jack is quickly pressed into duty after a call from his client Sherman Wilkerson, asking Jack to track down his young granddaughter who is on the run from a brutal drug dealer. Before Jack can loc
4) The Games
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Two years ago, Jack Morgan was in Rio consulting on security for the World Cup. The tournament went without a hitch. Until a man died in one of the executive hospitality suites during the final, and the autopsy showed the cause to be a rare and deadly virus. The story was kept from the media to avoid causing panic, but Jack feared that the death was no freak occurrence. Now the eyes of the world are once again turned towards Rio for the Olympic Games,...
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Agatha Raisin volume 23
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This time it's the local gardener, George Marston, she has her eye on. But competition for his attention abounds. With her shameless determination Agatha will do anything to get her man - including footing the bill for a charity ball in town just for the chance to dance with him. But when George is a no-show Agatha goes looking for him - and finds he has been murdered, having been bitten by a poisonous snake and buried in a compost heap. Agatha and...
6) Star struck
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PI Kate Brannigan volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Bodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan?s wish list. But somebody?s got to pay the bills at Brannigan & Co, and if the only earner on offer is playing nursemaid to a paranoid soap star, the fast-talking computer-loving white collar crime expert has to swallow her pride and slip into something more glam than her Thai boxing kit. Then offstage dramas threaten to overshadow the fictional storylines till the unscripted murder of...
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Private Justice volume 2
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
2013
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When librarian Laura Griffith's sixteen-year-old sister disappears on a frigid February day, leaving only a brief note behind, Laura resolves to do whatever it takes to track down the runaway teen. That includes recruiting ATF agent turned PI James "Dev" Devlin to help. But the deeper he digs, the more he begins to suspect that something sinister is at work in the girl's disappearance. And the closer he gets to uncovering the truth, the clearer it...
8) Hollow crown
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Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2014
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Lord Edward Corinth is invited by his friend Joe Weaver, the press lord and close friend of the British royal family, to recover certain letters stolen from the king's intimate friend Wallis Simpson. There is no mystery about who has taken these letters -- a woman called Mrs Raymond Harkness, a former mistress of the king and a close friend of Edward's. When Edward goes down to Haling, the country house of conservative MP Leo Scannon where Mrs Harkness...
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Grosvenor House Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
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A young girl disappears. Taken on to investigate, private detective Frank Sterling is plunged into a desperate and unconventional flight across eastern England and a race against time. Who are his pursuers, and what secret from the distant past are they trying to suppress? From the gentle landscape of Suffolk to the banks of the Thames and back to his native Kent, Sterling has to face challenges and danger that crop up again and again as he protects...
10) Dark tide
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The Justice Agency volume 5
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Mills & Boon Love Inspired Suspense
Pub. Date
2014
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Mission: Protect Baby. Gina Evans knows her brother was murdered-even if the police won?t believe her. After catching a quick glimpse of the evidence her brother had gathered, the same criminals are after her and her baby niece. And Gina?s only hope is the man she left behind. Despite the painful memories, private investigator Derrick Justice won?t fail Gina and her baby. Yet now, the woman he never stopped loving and the baby he?s come to adore are...
11) Murder to music
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Libby Sarjeant volume 8
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Libby Sarjeant and her friend Fran are invited by Fran's creative writing tutor to investigate a house that is reputedly haunted. For once, Libby can be as nosy as she likes without ploughing straight into a murder investigation. But perhaps someone doesn't want Libby to continue.
12) Taken
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2015
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An investigator who knows tragic loss firsthand, and his new client, missing far too long... Abducted at the age of sixteen and coerced into assisting the Jacoby crime family, Shannon Bliss has finally found a way out. She desperately wants to resume some semblance of normal life, but she also knows she has some unfinished business to attend to. She might have enough evidence to put her captors behind bars for a very long time. When Shannon contacts...
13) The angel
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A Grand and Batchelor Victorian volume 3
Pub. Date
2016
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Nineteenth century private investigators American Matthew Grand and Englishman James Batchelor investigate the murder of Charles Dickens. June, 1870. The world-famous author Charles Dickens has been found dead in his summerhouse where he had been hard at work on his final, unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Did he die of natural causes - or is there something more sinister behind his sudden demise? George Sala, Dickens? biographer, is convinced...
14) Private Moscow
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Private volume 15
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy ? On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the victim's wife hires Jack to find the killer. As the head of Private,...
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 21
Pub. Date
2020
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As the temperature rises in Gaborone, Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies? Detective Agency, wonders whether the heat could be the reason that business is particularly slow. But then a distant cousin of Mma Ramotswe?s comes to the agency with a plea for help and the ladies decide to pursue the issue together. Armed with Mma Ramotswe?s circumspection and Mma Makutsi?s sharp eye, they proceed with confidence and open hearts. What, after all,...
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Ishmael Jones Mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
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Ishmael Jones is someone who can't afford to be noticed, someone who lives under the radar, who drives on the dark side of the road. He's employed to search out secrets, investigate mysteries and shine a light in dark places. Sometimes he kills people. Invited by his employer, the enigmatic Colonel, to join him and his family for Christmas, Ishmael
17) Lost
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, then becoming a good enough cop to earn a street name, 'Anti'. As the new leader of an FBI task force called 'Operation Guardian', it's his mission to combat international crime. Moon's new investigative team discovers that the opportunistic 'Blood Brothers' - Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff - have evaded...
18) Dead beat
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PI Kate Brannigan volume 1
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HarperCollins
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As a favour, Kate agrees to track down a missing songwriter, Moira Pollock, a search that takes her into some of the seediest parts of Leeds and Bradford. But little does she realize that finding Moira is a prelude to murder?.
19) Cold blood
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Lorraine Page volume 2
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Can she play the game, and win? Suspicion and fear surround the mysterious disappearance of a movie star's daughter. The race to claim the reward for finding Anna Louise Caley - dead or alive - spirals into a deadly voodoo trail in the French quarter of New Orleans. In her desperation to succeed in her first case as a private detective, ex-Lieutenant Lorraine Page is caught in a web of deceit and violence that threatens to drag her back into the murky...
20) Killing Jericho
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Killing Jericho volume 1
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2023
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WHEN THE FAIR COMES TO TOWN, A KILLER'S GAME BEGINS... 'A detective who breaks every mould . . . A must-read series' - JANICE HALLETT 'A distinctive detective, a striking setting, and macabre murders - what more could a reader ask for?' - JOHN CONNOLLY 'A thrilling helter-skelter of a gripping mystery' - SARAH PINBOROUGH 'A beautifully wrought and fantastically gothic thriller' - SJ WATSON 'An absolute cracker' - T.M. LOGAN 'A first-class thriller'...
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