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1) Cat's claw
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"Sheila Dawson has made history as the first female police chief in Pecan Springs, Texas. She's also cracked many a mystery in collaboration with local sleuth China Bayles--that's why everyone thinks she's such a smart cookie. Now, Sheila puts those smarts to work, sifting through secrets to find a killer on the prowl... Larry Kirk, Pecan Springs' computer guru, has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first Police Chief Sheila Dawson believes it to...
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2017.
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Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with...
3) Never never
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
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Never...assume you know someone. Harry Blue is the top Sex Crimes investigator in her department. She's a seasoned pro who's seen it all. But even she didn't see this coming: her own brother arrested for the grisly murders of three beautiful young women. Never...accept a reassignment to the middle of nowhere "for your own good." Harry's been sent to a makeshift town in a desolate landscape-a world full of easy money, plenty of illegal ways to spend...
4) Gilt trip
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"Louisiana businessman Jerry Earl Leland served only a fraction of his five-year sentence for white-collar crime, thanks to some political connections and a few greased palms. But he won't have long to enjoy his freedom... After Jerry Earl's early release, his wife, Margo--a much-married Garden District doyenne--throws an extravagant Get Out of Jail Free Party, complete with a Zydeco band, champagne ice luge, and waiters in ties and tails. The guest...
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes persona non grata while tracking down a beloved neighborhood candy store owner who has failed to show up for a court appearance, and whom Stephanie suspects of having become a vigilante intent on ridding the Trenton streets of drug dealers.
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[2013]
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It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin's wedding. But a cloud seems to hover over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor's car is run off the...
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[2007]
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The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servantsāll are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other...
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Life in tiny Lake Eden, Minnesota, is usually pleasantly uneventful, but Hannah Swensen can hardly find the time to think about her bakery--let alone the town's most recent murder. Hannah is nervous about the upcoming trial for her involvement in a tragic accident. She's eager to clear her name once and for all, but her troubles only double when she finds the judge bludgeoned to death with his own gavel--and Hannah is the number one suspect. Now on...
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Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 22
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[2017]
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"Nancy Atherton's twenty-second cozy mystery in the beloved, nationally bestselling Aunt Dimity series. It's early April in the small English village of Finch. Lori Shepherd's husband and sons are spending Easter break camping, and Lori is perfectly happy to be left at home with Bess, spared a week of roughing it with a curious toddler. The two attend a village events committee meeting and Lori is astonished when the elderly, soft-spoken widow Mrs....
11) Real murders
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 1
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Aurora "Roe" Teagarden and the members of the Real Murders Club meet monthly to analyze famous cases. But when a member dies in a manner resembling a case the group was discussing, suddenly everybody is both a suspect and a potential victim.
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Agatha's marriage isn't what she expected, James is critical and suspects that he has been visiting his ex-lovers, Melissa's company. When James disappears and Melissa is violently murdered Agatha enlists the help of her ex-lover Sir Charles Fraith to help search for James and find the killer.
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The murder of Colonel Protheroe -- shot through the head -- is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be 'doing the world at large a favour, ' is a suspect -- the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless...
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[2010]
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On holiday, Miss Marple senses something sinister at Bertram's Hotel. She's right: the police believe some of the guests are involved with criminals. Abduction, train robbery, and the murder of the hotel's doorman confuse the authorities, but Miss Marple deduces the truth.
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It started with the murder of Kinsey Millhone's sometime drinking buddy, an insurance claims adjuster. But before long Kinsey stumbles onto a massive insurance scam. Going undercover as a wisecracking vamp, Millhone descends into the Los Angeles nether world of machismo and gang hideouts. Her companion, terrified at having crossed the violent crook Raymond Maldonado, is Bibianna Diaz--no Girl Scout herself.
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 3
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Delighted by a recent inheritance, librarian Aurora Teagarden turns her hand to real estate, but her new profession is threatened when she stumbles upon a corpse while showing her first house.
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