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Farewell, My Lovely
This is one of Chandler’s most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
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An Incomplete Revenge
An Incomplete Revenge
With the country in the grip of economic malaise, and worried about her business, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment from an old friend to investigate certain matters concerning a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence that something…
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Strega
Strega
Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph--and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power…
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
In the dark days, in a sad and lonely place, ex-cop Matt Scudder is drinking his life away -- and doing "favors" for pay for his ginmill cronies. But when three such assignments flow together in dangerous and disturbing ways, he'll need to change his priorities from boozing to surviving.
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No Mercy for the Innocent
No Mercy for the Innocent
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Murder on a Midnight Clear
Murder on a Midnight Clear
A snowbound country mansion, a missing butler, and a Christmas case . . .
Olive and Jasper have never been closer—except in one area. Jasper is still reticent about his frequent disappearances from polite society. With the holidays approaching and no paying client on the books, Olive decides to shadow Jasper when he’s unexpectedly called away. Her search brings her to Holly Hill Lodge where an…
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The Drowned
The Drowned
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Oxford Brass
Oxford Brass
Truth can be stranger than fiction, as Rose Miles and Theo Stone discover when the success of Theo's first published novel leads the Milestone Investigative Agency into a case involving a packing crate with unusual contents, a runaway girl terrified into silence and a businessman with a guilty secret.'Oxford Brass' is the second book in the Milestone Agency Victorian series.
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A Tangle of Serpents: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery
A Tangle of Serpents: A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery
With the epic victory at Waterloo behind them, Arianna and Saybrook are looking forward to a quiet summer of scholarship, far from the turmoil of war and politics.  But little do they know that an even more dangerous battle is about to test their mettle.
The shocking news that Lord Grentham, the steely minister of state security, has been accused of treason and is on the run from arrest…
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The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
“Read this in about two sittings—absolutely loved it. Dazzlingly clever and beautifully twisty. Don’t miss it!!”—Emilia Hart, author of WeywardThe gripping follow up to the “smart, stylish, and savage” (People) New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick The Club—a twisty mystery involving a cursed wealthy family and a Surrealist painting which holds the key to three suspicious deaths…
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The Bookseller of Inverness
The Bookseller of Inverness
A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN.'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMESAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the…
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The Dove of Death
The Dove of Death
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Reckoning
Reckoning
Ty Dawson is a small-town sheriff with big-city problems, in this riveting crime thriller from the award-winning author of Fistful of Rain.Silver Falchion Award WinnerAs lawman, rancher, and Korean War veteran, Ty Dawson has his share of problems in the southern Oregon county he calls home. Despite how rural it is, Meriwether can't keep modernity at bay. The 1970s have changed the United…
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Deadly Manor
Deadly Manor
Surrounded by war, stalked by murder, can she stay alive?October 1940. Livvy Redmond is thrilled to receive an invitation to a country house party away from the Blitz. There she hopes to help her husband overcome his injuries from fighting in France. But excitement turns to horror when she stumbles across two members of the house party – murdered.Indebted to her hostess, Livvy attempts to catch…
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When the Wolves Are Silent
When the Wolves Are Silent
A brutal string of ritualistic killings terrorizes a city already shaken by economic and political turmoil in this chilling new historical mystery from C. S. Harris, USA Today bestselling author of Who Will Remember.London, 1816: When a notorious young aristocrat is burned alive on a windswept hill popular with neo-Druids, former cavalry officer Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, finds himself…
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The Ladies Grand Tour of Treachery and Treason
The Ladies Grand Tour of Treachery and Treason
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The Body at Carnival Bridge
The Body at Carnival Bridge
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A Moment's Shadow
A Moment's Shadow
Violence, reprisal, and intrigue abound in post-World War I Ireland as the bloody conflict between the Irish Republican Army and the British authorities continues to escalate.  But former British Intelligence agent Verity Kent must deal with a more immediate concern—the possession of poisonous gas by a ruthless adversary . . .August 1920, Dublin, Ireland: A fraught task keeps Verity and her…
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