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The Coroner's Lunch

Colin Cotterill · 272 pages

The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill"A wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery."—The New York Times Book ReviewDr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent 72-year-old has an outstanding qualification for it: curiosity. And he doesn't mind incurring the wrath of the Par

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The Midwife's Tale

Sam Thomas · 317 pages

It is 1644, and Parliament's armies have risen against the king and laid siege to the city of York. Even as the city suffers at the rebel's hands, midwife Bridget Hodgson becomes embroiled in a different sort of rebellion.

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Cruel & Unusual

Patricia Cornwell · 407 pages

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Murder on Waverly Place

Victoria Thompson

Victoria Thompson once again “vividly recreates the gaslit world of New York.”(Publishers Weekly)Sarah Brandt is not completely surprised when her very proper mother asks her to attend a seance. She knows that Mrs. Decker still carries great guilt over the death of her older daughter, Maggie. So Sarah accompanies her and the spiritualist does seem to contact Maggie—convincing Mrs. Decker to attend

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A Question of Honor

Charles Todd · 309 pages

While tending to the wounded on the battlefields of France during World War I, Bess Crawford discovers that the officer who killed five people in India and England is still alive, and, setting out to clear her father's name, instead makes a horrific discovery that changes everything.

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The Apothecary Diaries, Vol. 1

Nekokurage · 176 pages

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A Sudden, Fearful Death

Anne Perry · 451 pages

In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, a

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The Devlin Diary

Christi Phillips · 352 pages

In 1672, London, although women enjoy greater freedom, they are not allowed to practice medicine, a restriction that Hannah Devlin evades by treating patients that most other doctors shun: the city's poor. But Hannah has a special knowledge, and she's drawn into a murder investigation that may conceal a conspiracy as far-reaching as the king himself. She leaves a diary that Claire Donovan, a histo

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The Unquiet Bones

Melvin R. Starr · 254 pages

Hugh of Singleton, fourth son of a minor knight, has been educated as a clerk, usually a prelude to taking holy orders. However, he feels no real calling—despite his lively faith—and he turns to the profession of surgeon, training in Paris, and then hanging his sign in Oxford. Soon after, a local lord asks Hugh de Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

Alan Bradley · 375 pages

In his wickedly brilliant first novel, Debut Dagger Award winner Alan Bradley introduces one of the most singular and engaging heroines in recent fiction: eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison. It is the summer of 1950--and a series of inexplicable events has struck Buckshaw, the decaying English mansion that Flavia's family calls home. A dead bird is found

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Stalking Jack the Ripper

Kerri Maniscalco · 352 pages

A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.

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The Pilgrim of Hate

Ellis Peters · 271 pages

The abbey's celebration of Saint Winifred becomes the locus for duplicitous characters, including Cadfael, associated with the Anarchy, an assassination, and general mischief.

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The Girl and the Gravedigger

Oliver Pötzsch · 448 pages

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Doctor Death

Lene Kaaberbol · 296 pages

"Centered around Madeline Karno, an ambitious young woman eager to shatter the confines of 1890s France, this novel is a gripping mystery that takes the reader on a captivating journey to find the cause behind a series of suspicious deaths" --

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Brain Storm

Elaine Viets · 305 pages

The ultrawealthy families of Chouteau Forest may look down on a woman like death investigator Angela Richman, but they also rely on her. When a horrific car crash kills a Forest teenage, Angela is among the first on the scene. Her investigation is hardly underway, however, when she suffers a series of crippling strokes.

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A Dissection of Murder

Felicity Young

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Terra Incognita

Ruth Downie · 400 pages

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World Without End

Ken Follett · 1,056 pages

En 1327, quatre enfants sont les témoins d'une poursuite meurtrière dans les bois : un chevalier tue deux soldats au service de la reine, avant d'enfouir dans le sol une lettre mystérieuse, dont le secret pourrait bien mettre en danger la couronne d'Angleterre. Depuis ce jour, le destin des enfants se trouve lié à jamais.

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Anatomy of Murder

Imogen Robertson · 432 pages

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The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez

Ann Swinfen · 292 pages

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The Black Country

Alex Grecian · 384 pages

When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith, aided by newly arrived forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley, investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines.

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An Order for Death

Susanna Gregory · 352 pages

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