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"A delight from start to finish. If you like Agatha Christie, you'll love this." –Alex Michaelides, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient
Fans of Veep and readers of Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz, and Nita Prose will love this intelligent, wildly funny, literary mystery from the host of the "All About Agatha" podcast as a ghostwriter is chosen to collaborate...
Fans of Veep and readers of Richard Osman, Anthony Horowitz, and Nita Prose will love this intelligent, wildly funny, literary mystery from the host of the "All About Agatha" podcast as a ghostwriter is chosen to collaborate...
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When a restaurateur dies suspiciously, Bognor is forced to eat his way to the truth Dinner service is over, the staff has left, and Escoffier Savarin Smith is about to tuck into a couple of bottles of champagne. He seals the windows with electrical tape, fiddles with a canister of gas, and begins to drink. When his staff arrives the next morning to open the restaurant, the champagne is drunk, the air has been poisoned, and the greatest chef in England...
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One man will stop at nothing to obtain a priceless jewel that has eluded men with dreams of riches and glory for centuries James Waring stares into the darkness of a cavern at a remote shrine in Annam. He's given his pursuers the slip and is about to behold a gem that few men have ever seen. It is a sacred stone-the only one of its kind in the world. The magnificent blue, green, red, and gold jewel is nearly within his grasp. But as his hand finally...
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Dr. Gideon Fell mysteries volume 4
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Brilliant detective Dr. Gideon Fell embarks on an adventure of murder and mayhem on the high seas in Golden Age mystery master John Dickson Carr's suspenseful tale A vicious killer is loose aboard the majestic liner Queen Victoria and four people are determined to track him down. But they are as wholly unprepared for the heavy weather and high seas as for crime-solving and its strange circumstances-a blood-soaked stateroom, a lethally sharp razor,...
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Der Blick auf unser Leben erscheint plötzlich in einem anderen Licht. Alles verändert sich. Drei Geschichten erzählen von zufälligen Begegnungen, von Verlieren und Finden, von Sehnsucht, Hoffnung und Entscheidungen, von Geheimnissen und der Flüchtigkeit des Glücks.
Dominik ist ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, dessen Ehe nur noch von seiner kleinen Tochter Clara zusammengehalten wird. Sein Leben gerät ins Wanken, als er seine große Liebe wiedertrifft....
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En esta emocionante continuación de la saga, el comisario Neira se sumerge en un nuevo caso relacionado con ETA: el Comando España y los guardias civiles.
Tras un devastador atentado en la plaza República Dominicana el 14 de julio de 1986, Neira se ve arrastrado a una trama de venganzas que amenaza con desestabilizarlo todo. La investigación se centra en dos sospechosos: Txomin y Troitiño. Implicando al hijo del ministro del Interior, víctima...
7) Hanami
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Ein tief in der japanischen Kultur verankerter Brauch ist das Hanami-Fest, bei dem man im Frühling in Parks oder an Flüssen zusammenkommt, um der Blüte der japanischen Kirschblüte (Sakura) beizuwohnen.
Wenn aus der Pandemie etwas Gutes entsprungen ist, dann die Gelegenheit, dem eigenen Leben ebenfalls ein Hanami-Fest zu widmen. Zurückzublicken auf das, was einem selbst zur Blüte verholfen hat und vielleicht auch, was einen bisweilen hat verwelken...
8) Keltenland
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Nach ihrem blutigen Einsatz in Osttirol, kehren die beiden Brüder, Sergio und Max, in ihre alte Heimat, ins schwäbische zurück. Der illusionslose, wortkarge noch Europol-Polizist Max, der das Recht vertritt, aber Gerechtigkeit sucht und der empathische, humorvolle Genussmensch Sergio, der junge Rentner. Hier im geschichtsträchtigen, beschaulichen Oberschwaben wollen sie mit ihrer Family die Rente genießen. Doch auch hier, auf dem historischen...
9) The Vanished
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In a tranquil town tucked away in America's forgotten corners, unsettling mysteries loom large. Disappearances that have left a community haunted and searching for answers. Enter Curtis Styles: a fearless investigative journalist with an unyielding determination. As he dives deep into a web of treachery, deceit, and hidden crimes, Curtis confronts unsettling truths and sinister secrets. From questionable law enforcers to families with shadows lurking...
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For the sake of honey, Bognor investigates a cabal of treasonous monks As the friars of the abbey gather for group prayer, Brother Luke stays in the garden. His tardiness is not due to an overenthusiasm for his potatoes, but to the fact that he is lying face down in the dirt, strangled to death by his own crucifix. For Simon Bognor, this will prove inconvenient. A special investigator attached to the British Board of Trade, Bognor knows that Brother...
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Lil Starling and husband Joe receive an invitation from her best childhood friend to go back to her hometown of Warsaw, NY to receive accolades for solving a fifty-one-year-old murder. Simultaneously, her friend, Federal Judge Stone, informs Lil that several federal inmates could be released from federal prison on a technicality. The technicality spawned appeals that stemmed from the prosecuting attorney that threatened Lil and Joe. She was about...
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Former police detective Michael McLaren is looking forward to spending Christmas at his grandfather's ancient Hall. Not only because it will be his first holiday with his grandfather and uncle, but also with his lady love, Melanie.Everything seems perfect for the Scottish Highland getaway. Even Mother Nature is contributing snow, adding a festive and romantic overtone to the gathering. But McLaren's holiday plan gets snowed under when a dead man is...
13) A Poor Wise Man
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A Poor Wise Man mixes romantic fiction with political analysis. This engrossing story begins, "The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and often beauty. Sometimes the softened towers of the great steel bridges rose above the river mist like fairy towers suspended between Heaven and earth. And again...
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Sergeant Beef mysteries volume 2
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This is one of Sgt. Beef's most interesting and perplexing cases. It involves a murder, but one in which no body can be found. Young Rogers announces to Beef and others assembled in a local pub that he has committed a murder-then takes his own life. But where is the victim? How did it happen? "I always supposed," says Beef. "a murder case started with a corpse, and then you had to find out 'oo done it. This time we know 'oo's done it, but we can't...
15) Pick Any Title
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Lord Clive' bought his lordship at a 'Lord of the Manor' sale where titles fetch anything from two thousand to two hundred thousand pounds. Why not buy another cheap and sell it high? Why stop at only one customer? When some of his American buyers, each of whom imagines himself an English lord, come to England to inspect their property Clive leaves the beautiful Jane Strachey to handle them.But Clive was careless who he sold to, and among his victims...
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Sergeant Beef mysteries volume 4
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Once again Lionel Townsend, Beef's Dr. Watson, faithfully records the redoubtable Sergeant's escapades. Beef has left the Braxham police and gone into business for himself. Beef gets a client: Stewart Ferrars, who has been arrested for the Sydenham Murder. Beef is hired by Stewart's brother Peter to prove Stewart is innocent of the murder of Dr. Benson, who has been found stabbed in the throat in the library of Peter's gloomy Victorian mansion, The...
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Ein Begegnis voller Poesie entspinnt sich vor den Toren der Burg Silbleincastell. Diese birgt das Geheimnis um einen Klan, welcher sich seit alters der Hege der unnahbaren Windhunde verschrieben hat. Dessen jüngstem Abkömmling, dem gemütvollen Ugo, eignet ein besonderes Talent: Wie niemandem sonst gelingt es ihm, eine Anziehung auf die leidenschaftlichen Beutegreifer auszuüben, womit er jeden anderen Reiz in den Schatten stellt. Die Gabe ist Teil...
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A poisoned poodle drags Bognor into the high-stakes world of international dog smuggling Whately Wonderful is taking himself on his morning walk when he spies the slab of sirloin. An exceptionally well-bred poodle, he knows there is something odd about the great hunk of meat, but temptation overwhelms him. Just a few minutes after he gobbles up the suspicious steak, Whately is dead, and the world of British dog breeding will never be the same. ...
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Ten guests have gathered at an isolated summer estate amid the Thousand Islands. The occasion is a surprise party to celebrate Rosa Sill's 25th birthday, the day she inherits the family fortune. But one surprise awaits them: the party quickly turns to a case of murder. Violet Cornichon, the Society-Girl Detective, is on-hand, and it is up to her to gather all the clues and point them toward the suspects…or is that the potential victims. Because...
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Sergeant Beef mysteries volume 6
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In the cleverly plotted Case for Sergeant Beef, Mr. Wellington Chickle, a retired watchmaker, plans the perfect murder, but he chooses the wrong victim. The dead man's sister refuses to accept the idea that her brother committed suicide and calls in the unprepossessing Sgt. Beef who unravels the plot with the aid of the local police. Meanwhile, Townsend, Beef's indefatigable chronicler, comes to a completely different-and completely wrong-conclusion....
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