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2) Bad blood
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A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER ... For Readers of who enjoy detective novels with a little British humour.
A robbery gone wrong, Detective Joe Rafferty thought, when the latest murder victim, wealthy widow, Clara Mortimer was found battered to death in her home. Then Rafferty learned she wasn't a widow at all - and her estranged husband was living in the same block under a false name.
But that's not the only suspicious aspect...
5) The creeper
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Detective Inspector Phil Brennan tracks down a brutal killer who stalks his victims before subjecting them to torture, a case that proves more horrific when Phil discovers unsuspected aspects of the culprit's twisted psyche.
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Inspector C. D. Sloan mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When a young girl's murder is linked to the recent death of a woman named Josephine Short, DCI Sloan and Constable Crosby research dubious elements of Short's life in the hopes of identifying the child's killer.
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Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
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Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and...
8) Death dance
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
182 p. ; 23 cm.
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Investigating the murder of Adrienne Staveley, who was found strangled to death in her home, Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty is horrified when he discovers that the fingerprints of his his fiancée, Abra, were found in the dead woman's house.
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Harper
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
630 pages ; 21 cm.
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When an adolescent boy is found murdered under bizarre circumstances, New Scotland Yard acting superintendent Thomas Lynley and his colleagues tie the crime to a series of killings but find the case complicated by racial issues.
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William Morrow, an imprint of Harper CollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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358 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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"New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd takes readers on a trip to Ian Rutledge's past, with the story of the last case the Scotland Yard detective tackles before he goes off to fight in World War I"--
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
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265 p. ; 22 cm.
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Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit, a bloody sword next to his body. Inspector Witherspoon is determined to solve the case--preferably before the eggnog is ladled out on Christmas Eve--but of course he will require assistance from the always sharp-witted housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries, who has a few of her own theories on why McCourt had to die by the sword.
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
269 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm.
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The Chichester is making a routine journey across the English Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer s crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck Two bodies later, with no sign of a gun, there certainly is a mystery in the channel. Inspector French soon discovers a world of high-powered banking, luxury yachts and international...
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Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
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200 p. ; 23 cm.
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Life is looking up for Rina Martin, with the expected revival of her television career, but as her happy summer ends, storm clouds are on the horizon . . . Summer in Frantham has been long and lazy. In the Martin Household, change is afoot. Tim is now engaged and preparing to move out, and there is also news of the revival of Rina's television career. But nothing stays peaceful for long. Old enemies have returned, the skeletal remains of a woman are...
15) The gate keeper
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"On a deserted road, late at night, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge encounters a frightened woman standing over a body, launching an inquiry that leads him into the lair of a stealthy killer and the dangerous recesses of his own memories in this twentieth installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series. Hours after his sister's wedding, a restless Ian Rutledge drives aimlessly, haunted by the past, and narrowly misses a motorcar stopped...
16) Racing the devil
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"Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series. On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the Front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead--and make it through the war--they will meet in Paris a year...
17) Our lady of pain
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Edwardian murder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
215 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Wayward Edwardian debutante Lady Rose Summer becomes the prime suspect in the killing of Dolores Duval, the seductive new client of her fiance?, Captain Harry Cathcart, after a fit of jealousy leads her to threaten the woman.
19) The blood royal
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Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2011
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391 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Returning to England only to discover that his role at the Metropolitan Police has expanded to include the Special Irish Branch, Joe Sandilands struggles with regional terrorism while clashing with a Russian princess who is running a spy network out of Kensington.
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