Detective and mystery fiction
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Audrey Rose Wadsworth often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.
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In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City when six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery and a teenage girl vanished from the state fair. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through the survivors' lives.
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When a body is discovered near a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, Lieutenant Reiko Himekawa and her squad take the case. Reiko makes a discovery that leads the police to uncover eleven other bodies. But while Reiko is hunting the killer, the killer is hunting her.
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Bob Reynolds doesn't recognize the body in the creek, but he does recognize the danger of it. He's a newcomer to town but not entirely welcome. He would rather pretend he never saw the body, but when it disappears he begins to doubt what little he knew about this secretive town.
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Vincent Moretti is one of the NYPD's top homicide detectives who has spent years working alongside his longtime partner, Jill--who drives him crazy with desire. When Vin sees Jill with someone else he feels jealous and desperate to find a way to convince her to be his partner for life.
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When feline PI Joe Grey and his companion Dulcie have kittens, a little calico is born with ancient markings. But the celebrations will have to wait. A murderer is on the loose in Molena Point--and neither young nor old is safe until the culprit is found.
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On a night flight to Boston, Ted Severson meets the stunning and mysterious Lily Kintner. After one too many martinis, Ted begins to talk about his wife, Miranda, who he's sure is cheating on him. Things turn darker when Ted jokes that he could kill Miranda--and Lily says she'll help.
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When Scotland is hit by the recession, Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices that the Highland people are forced to come up with inventive ways to lure tourists to their sleepy towns. The quaint village of Braikie doesn't have much to offer, other than a place of rare beauty called Buchan's Wood, which was bequeathed to the town. The savvy local tourist director renames the woods "The Fairy Glen," and has brochures printed with a beautiful photograph of a kingfisher rising from a pond on the cover. It isn't long before coach tours begin to arrive.
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Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered. Alex vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that she was mixed up in one of Washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this killer's only victim.
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Amazing news has spread across the Scottish countryside. The most famous of highland bachelors, police sergeant Hamish Macbeth, will be married at last. Everyone in the village of Lochdubh adores Josie McSween, Macbeth's newest constable and blushing bride-to-be.