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Faithful Unto Death

Caroline Graham · 311 pages

"When Simone Hollingsworth fails to turn up at bell ringing practice, her fellow Fawcett Green villagers are neither surprised nor concerned. Unfailingly pleasant, extremely beautiful, and really rather dull, Simone has made her mark only as someone who has volunteered for too many activities in the community and stuck with none."--BOOK JACKET. "It is only the Hollingsworths' neighbors, the vig

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A Fatal Grace

Louise Penny · 320 pages

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The Moving Finger

Agatha Christie · 224 pages

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 servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quar

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Cover Her Face

P.D. James · 254 pages

When a sly and sensuous young woman who had used her body and her brains to climb the social ladder is murdered by someone who had clearly decided that the wages of sin should be death, it falls to Inspector Adam Dalgliesh to find out who the killer is.

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Death of a Gentle Lady

M.C. Beaton · 256 pages

Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle - everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps it's time for him to get married, they say.But who has time for marriage when there's a murder to be solved? When Mrs. Gentle di

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The Ghost Riders of Ordebec

Fred Vargas · 361 pages

"As the chief of police in Paris's seventh arrondissement, Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec. Yet, he cannot ignore a widow's plea. Her daughter Lina has seen a vision of the Ghost Riders with four nefarious men. According to the thousand-year-old legend, the vision means that the men will soon die a grisly death. When one of them disappears, Adamsberg races to Ordebec, where he

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No Strangers Here

Carlene O'Connor · 320 pages

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Broadchurch

Erin Kelly, Chris Chibnall

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Murder at Holly House

Denzil Meyrick · 410 pages

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The Last Party

Clare Mackintosh · 432 pages

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No Man's Nightingale

Ruth Rendell · 352 pages

"A female vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A

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The Old Silent

Martha Grimes · 425 pages

Dans une auberge du Yorkshire, Nell abat froidement son mari sous les yeux du commissaire Jury et remet aussitôt son pistolet au policier. Puisque la meurtrière est arrêtée, l'affaire semble close. Mais quel était donc le mobile du crime?

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K is for Killer

Sue Grafton · 415 pages

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The Hangman's Daughter

Oliver Potzsch · 435 pages

Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman Jakob Kuisl is called upon to investigate whether witchcraft is at play in his small Bavarian town. Whispers and dark memories of witch trials and the women burned at stake just seventy years earlier still haunt the streets of Schongau. When more children disappear and an orphan boy is fo

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Deception on His Mind

Elizabeth George · 716 pages

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrib

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Snow White Must Die

Nele Neuhaus · 491 pages

On a rainy November day police detectives Pia Kirchhoff and Oliver von Bodenstein are summoned to a mysterious traffic accident: a woman has fallen from a pedestrian bridge onto a car driving underneath. According to a witness, the woman may have been pushed. The investigation leads Pia and Oliver to a small village, and the home of the victim, Rita Cramer. On a September evening eleven years earl

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Evans Above

Rhys Bowen · 224 pages

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Untouchable

Robert Innes · 200 pages

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Dry Bones in the Valley

Tom Bouman · 288 pages

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Death in Brittany

Jean-Luc Bannalec · 318 pages

"Commissaire Georges Dupin, a Parisian-born caffeine junkie recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque) Breton coast, is not happy when he is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven--a sleepy community by the sea where everyone knows one other and nothing much seems to happen--is in shock. The le

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Dead Deceiver

Victoria Houston · 243 pages

A string of crimes in Loon Lake, including a shooting on a ski trail and the stalking of a former nun, occurs during an international ice fishing festival, and Police Chief Lewellyn Ferris must investigate.

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Henrietta Who?

Catherine Aird · 188 pages

It seemed like a straightforward case of hit-and-run when a middle-aged woman is struck down and killed at a blind corner outside her village. After the police pathologist makes a few discoveries, it's murder -- one with old and well-hidden roots. Soon there's another killing, and the dead woman's daughter may very well be next.

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Fun House: A John Ceepak Mystery Book 7

Chris Grabenstein · 336 pages

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Murder Before Evensong

Richard Coles · 352 pages

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