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A family in conflict. A missing daughter. Secrets upon secrets. And time slipping away...
The Knight family is well-known in Spokane, thanks to the family patriarch, Solomon, founding a regional grocery chain. Each of Solomon's adult children seem to have gone their own way. Jocelyn is a cop. Nicky is a criminal. Susan and Harold are both striving to make it in the business, each in their own way. Marigold is an artist.
And Lily, the youngest and...
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Meticulous private investigator Stanley Melvin likes to keep his work grounded in reality, not at all like the classic detective novels he has read incessantly since childhood. But his best friend and annoying neighbor Rudy quickly points out that his routine "cheater" case is rapidly taking on all of the features that Stanley steadfastly insists are mere fictional tropes of the genre.
Stanley isn't too sure how he feels about this. But as a professional,...
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In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. "Sacred to the Memory of General Sir Arthur St. Clare, Hero and Martyr, who Always Vanquished his Enemies and Always Spared Them, and Was Treacherously Slain by Them At Last. May God in Whom he Trusted both Reward and Revenge him." is the inscription that they read on each of them. Flambeau knows nothing of him but listens...
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Know thine enemy ...
Evan Warlow is a man with enemies. As a DCI in the Dyfed Powys force, that comes with the territory. But when two of his most vicious critics are abducted and turn up dead in a macabre tableau, tough questions need to be asked.
The uncomfortable answers lead Evan and the team back to his roots and an old case that has haunted him for years. The deaths in the forest have all the hallmarks of a dangerous killer with no fear of...
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While investigating the murder of her longtime hairdresser, amateur sleuth Patricia Falcon stumbles into a crisis of epic proportions. Her city has been infiltrated and the roots go years deep. It feels like every case she's worked has been leading to this one. Because she's the only one who sees the connection and the danger.
Can Patricia and her team quickly gather enough evidence to convince the FBI to take decisive action before all of Savannah...
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Diana Bakewell is London's savviest and best connected tour guide.
As the lead guide at Chartwell and Crouch Tours, she's busy teaching her young assistant Zaf the ropes alongside dealing with company politics and her slimy boss. In her spare time she's helping Zaf find his feet in London and coming to terms with the fact that a tabby cat called Gus has stowed away on her vintage tour bus.
But when Diana and Zaf take a group of students on a tour...
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It's All Come Down to This…
Following the massive revelations about her family and the Organization that killed her husband, Special Agent Emily Slate had hoped she was finally on the right track to take them all down and finally find the answers she needed.
But due to the fallout from her actions regarding the same Organization, Emily has been relegated back to desk duty, and is given a new ultimatum: she's being transferred to a new office and...
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Amateur sleuth Violet Brewster wants to embrace the quiet village life, but a decades-old mystery threatens to disrupt the peace of her new hometown...
Ex-journalist Violet Brewster is keen to make a good first impression in her new community, having just moved to the small village of Merrywell. When Violet hears about the mystery of Helen Slingsby, who disappeared from the village forty years earlier, she decides to help uncover what happened. But...
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Will Lady Caroline add another feather to her detective cap, or will she become buzzard meat?
Switzerland, 1925
A rare bird is nesting in the lush summer meadows of the Swiss Alps, and the grizzled members of Uncle Albert's Royal Society for Natural History Appreciation travel en masse to get a closer look.
The fact that they will be encamped at an opulent villa, coupled with the promise of a midsummer party, persuades his niece, and unenthusiastic...
11) Spuren im Sand
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Marie kann es kaum erwarten: Malcolm Melone, der neue Star am deutschen Schlagerhimmel, will im Beach Residence & Spa sein aktuelles Musikvideo drehen. Doch eines Morgens ist der Schlagerstar spurlos verschwunden. Gemeinsam mit den anderen Hotelangestellten und dem Produzententeam macht sich Marie auf die Suche und findet seine Leiche am Strand. Offenbar wurde er bei einem romantischen Picknick mit einer Champagnerflasche erschlagen. War es Mord aus...
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Der Sylter Landfrauenverein steht Kopf: Ein spannender TV-Backwettbewerb lockt die Teilnehmerinnen aus den Dörfern der Insel an. Doch die fröhliche Stimmung wird durch merkwürdige Vorfälle getrübt, und als eine Teilnehmerin auf tragische Weise ums Leben kommt, ahnt Siggi, dass mehr hinter dem vermeintlichen Unfall steckt. Kann es sein, dass jemand den Wettbewerb bewusst sabotiert und dabei auch vor Mord nicht zurückschreckt? Kommissar Christiansen...
13) Breakneck Point
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CSI Ally Dymond's commitment to justice has cost her a place on the major investigations team. After exposing corruption in the ranks, she's stuck working petty crimes on the sleepy North Devon coast. Then the body of nineteen-year-old Janie Warren turns up in the seaside town of Bidecombe, and Ally's expert skills are suddenly back in demand. But when the evidence she discovers contradicts the lead detective's theory, nobody wants to listen to the...
14) Girl, Remade
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FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own father, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when a psychiatrist is found murdered, it becomes apparent a serial killer is at work in a deadly game-and that Ella's time is running out to crack the case before he claims his next victim....
"A masterpiece of thriller and mystery."
-Books and Movie Reviews, Roberto...
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“His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes” is a collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, "His Last Bow. The War Service of Sherlock Holmes" (1917). The collection's first US edition adjusts the anthology's subtitle to “Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes”. All editions contain a brief preface, by "John H. Watson, M.D.", that assures readers that...
16) Inner Sanctum
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A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
17) The Fatal Hour
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When Captain Street's (Grant Withers) best friend Dan Grady is murdered, Street enlists the help of Chinese detective James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco and unmasks the killer, though not until several more murders occur.
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Bom dia und willkommen in Colares!
Eigentlich wollte Laura nur einen entspannten Tauchausflug mit ihrer Freundin Mariella und deren Bruder Mario machen. Doch unter Wasser finden die drei eine Leiche bei einem alten Wrack! Die Tote stellt sich ausgerechnet als Marios Tauchpartnerin Tomasa heraus. Die Künstlerin hat aus den Fundstücken aus ihren Tauchgängen einzigartige Kunstwerke geschaffen und war in der ganzen Gegend bekannt. Aber warum sollte...
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Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the profound teachings of Unborn Mind Zen with "The Unborn Odyssey." Vajragoni's innovative narrative unveils ancient wisdom, making it accessible even to novice minds. Prepare to be transported to a world where self-discovery intertwines with mystery and thriller elements, reminiscent of esteemed writers like Colin Wilson and H. P. Lovecraft.
This audiobook delves into core principles of Buddhism and Zen,...
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Episode six continues the Farmerville Series where the body count keeps climbing.. A gruesome secret is discovered about the journalist, Keisha learns about the pig farm, and what is the trouble with Kelly?. Discoveries are found out touching on the insane, or even the supernatural and a human trafficking case unravels implicating Farmerville.