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Field Gray (Bernie Gunther, #7)

by Philip Kerr

Published 1 April 2011
Adult

This Edgar® Award-nominated novel in Philip Kerr’s New York Times bestselling Bernie Gunther series reveals the cynical, hard-boiled detective’s harrowing history as an unwilling SS officer in World War 2.  During his eleven years working homicide in Berlin's Kripo, Bernie Gunther learned a thing or two about evil. Then he set himself up as a private detective—until 1940 when Heydrich dragooned him into the SS's field gray uniform and the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front. Spanning twent...


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Final Curtain: An Edna Ferber Mystery

by Ed Ifkovic

Published 1 January 2014
Adult


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Dancing with Death (Rue Morgue Vintage English Mysteries)

by Joan Coggin

Published 1 December 2003
Adult


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SPIRITS of The Sodus Bay Shakers (The Alasa Farm Chronicles, #1)

by Pat McGrath Avery

Published 31 March 2019
Adult


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Venom House (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, #16) (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte)

by Arthur Upfield

Published 30 November 1970
Adult

The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth...until a couple of corpses turn up in the lake. Inspector Bonaparte ha...


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Twenty Days to Treasure

by Phyllis Gunderson

Published 9 July 2015
Adult


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A Summoning of Souls (Spectral City, #3)

by Leanna Renee Hieber

Published 21 July 2020
Adult

As the twentieth century dawns in NYC, the top-secret Ghost Precinct pursues justice beyond the earthly realm in this paranormal historical mystery series. The ethereal denizens of New York owe a great debt to Eve Whitby, the young medium who leads an all-female team of spiritualists in the police department's Ghost Precinct. Without her efforts on behalf of the incorporeal, many souls would have been lost or damned by means both human and inhuman. But now Eve faces an enemy determined to exor...


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Bones in London (Golden Classics, #95) (Bones, #3)

by Edgar Wallace

Published 30 June 2001
Adult

Bones is back in the second story of The Lieutenant Bones series. A mischievous businessman, Bones seems to have every financial schemer in London coming after him, but somehow he always comes out on top. Humor and romance follow Bones as well, as he makes his way through the underworld of London moneymakers.


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The Mushroom Tree Mystery

by Ovidia Yu

Published 21 June 2022
Adult

'One of Singapore's finest living authors' South China Morning Post'Simply glorious. Every nook and cranny of 1930s Singapore is brought richly to life' CATRIONA MCPHERSON'Charming' RHYS BOWEN'One of the most likeable heroines in modern literature' SCOTSMAN________________The Allies have defeated Germany in Europe, but Japan refuses to surrender the East.In Singapore, amid rumours the Japanese occupiers are preparing to wipe out the population of the island rather than surrender, a young aide is...


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Kinser Hill

by Julie Kinser Huffman

Published 10 March 2020
Adult


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A Thousand Falling Crows

by Larry D Sweazy

Published 5 January 2016
Adult

Sonny Burton was forced to retire from the Texas Rangers after taking a bullet from Bonnie Parker in a shoot-out. The bullet so damaged Sonny's right arm that he had to have it amputated. While Sonny struggles with recuperating and tries to get used to the idea of living a life with only one arm, Aldo Hernandez, the hospital's janitor, asks Sonny to help find his daughter and bring her back home. She has got herself mixed up with a couple of brothers involved in a string of robberies. Sonny agre...


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Dog it Was That Died

by H. R. F. Keating

Published July 1966
Adult

This dazzling off-beat thriller is H.R.F Keating's fourth novel, published in 1962. Why is Roger Farrar, if that indeed was his name, on the run in Dublin? Is he a traitor and deserted? The innocent target of a kidnap plot? Or a lonely persecuted paranoiac? A classic tale edged with doubt and menace.


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The Making of a Marquess (The Society of Single Ladies, #2)

by Lynne Connolly

Published 31 March 2020
Adult

The Society for Single Ladies is a crime-solving club founded by the wealthiest woman in London. Yet even Miss Angela Childers’ charming detectives are not immune to the forces of love . . . Dorothea Rowland attends a country house party to investigate a long-lost heir—not to find a husband. But when the dashing American claimant discovers her prowling for clues, she is startled—and then seduced—by his provocative kiss. It’s all Dorothea can do to remember her mission. Especially when a seri...


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A Bend of Light

by Joy Jordan-Lake

Published 6 September 2022
Adult

A quiet coastal village in post–World War II America is shaken when the secrets of the past and present collide in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of Under a Gilded Moon. Five years after the war, Amie Stilwell, a photo interpreter for an Allied unit in England, returns to her hometown in Maine. Jobless and discouraged but stubbornly resourceful, she’s starting over in the same coastal village where her life once went so wrong. Waiting for her is Shibby Travis, the surrogate mother w...


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The True Confessions of a London Spy

by Katherine Cowley

Published 1 March 2022
Adult


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Lake Charles

by Ed Lynskey

Published 26 July 2011
Adult

Ed Lynskey, one of the most acclaimed modern crime noir authors, returns to the Smoky Mountains with a new hardboiled tale of murder, passion, and intense action.


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Prey of Wolves

by Sean Frain

Published 28 May 2018
Adult


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The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

Published 28 August 2014
Adult

'There came the splash of water and the rub of heels as Mrs Barber stepped into the tub. After that there was a silence, broken only by the occasional echoey plink of drips from the tap...'Frances had been picturing her lodgers in purely mercenary terms - as something like two great waddling shillings. But this, she thought, was what it really meant to have paying guests: this odd, unintimate proximity, this rather peeled-back moment, where the only thing between herself and a naked Mrs Barber w...


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A Cruel Necessity (John Grey, #1) (A John Grey Historical Mystery, #1)

by L.C. Tyler

Published 6 November 2014
Adult

Two-time Edgar nominee LC Tyler is best known for his series featuring Ethelred and Elsie - a third-rate novelist and his gloriously vulgar agent, respectively. And so he should be: He's twice won Britain's Last Laugh" award for the Best Humorous Mystery of the Year. But with A Cruel Necessity, the first in the John Grey series, Tyler takes a sharp turn into the shadows. There are still some chuckles to be had, but not many: This is England in the year 1657, Oliver Cromwell is in power, and joy...


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Three Dark Decks

by Fred Tarpley and Eusibia Lutz

Published 19 January 2011
Adult


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Alchemy (Alchemy, #1)

by Chris James

Published 16 February 2015
Adult


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The Bowman Touch

by Hartley Howard

Published 28 September 2011
Adult

The girl in the black velvet gown looked to be very drunk - she also looked to be in plenty of trouble... Bowman liked neither her type of escort not the way she was being manhandled into the sedan parked outside Morry's Bar. He like even less the smack on the jaw he got when he intervened. This is the start of a new, high-pressure adventure with a tremendous climax. The Bowman Touch has all the streamlined pace and suspense to be expected from that master of the modern thriller - Hartley Ho...


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The Necklace: The Kate Brady Series (Book Three)

by Babette Hughes

Published 30 June 2015
Adult

The Necklace tells the stories of three women, each with a dangerous secret. There is 80-year-old mafia widow Kate Brady, determined that her secret will die with her--beautiful, blond and famous Andrea Pryor is being blackmailed for her secret--and 18-year-old Marianne Woodsman whose secret is hidden in her family's Park Avenue penthouse. Marianne runs for her life from her dangerously dysfunctional family, through a homeless shelter and a brothel until her story intertwines with Kate's and And...


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Jane and the Genius of the Place (Jane Austen Mystery) (Being a Jane Austen Mystery, #4)

by Stephanie Barron

Published 5 January 1999
Adult

For everyone who loves Jane Austen...The fourth engaging mystery in the series that recasts the well-loved author as a sleuth! In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable gamble away their fortunes. It is an atmosphere ripe for scandal—but even Jane is unprepared for the shocking drama that unfolds. A flamboyant French beauty, known for her brazen behavior, is found gruesomely strangled in a shabby chaise. While many urge the arres...


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