Detective and mystery fiction
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In the town of Woodbury, one person has been kidnapped each year for the past three years. Officer Ellery Hathaway knows that anyone could be taken next: the vanishing season has begun.
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Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily's young single-mother housekeeper. It's a stormy autumn and Emily is reading Wuthering Heights. Roman, a dark and brooding type, reminds her of Heathcliff. At a Halloween murder mystery fundraiser at Windy Corner, someone is found stabbed to death. Windy Corner's very own detective, Luke, is reluctantly forced to investigate Katie.
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Ari Thór Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavík--with a past that he's unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theater, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one and secrets and lies are a way of life.
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Will's Twitter account used to be anonymous--until someone posted a photo that got him and three other students expelled, their futures ruined forever. Who took the picture, and why target them?
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Detective Michael Bennett and FBI Abduction Specialist Emily Parker reluctantly team up to stop a killer targeting not only the children of New York's wealthiest families--but the entire city of New York.
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London, 1937. The BBC is performing a radio adaptation of Queen of Scots, and the original playwright, Josephine Tey, has been invited to sit in on rehearsals. But when a pair of murders shocks the nation, it falls to Josephine to unravel a web of betrayal, jealousy, and long-held secrets.
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When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart thirty-five years before, and nearly lose her own life in a near-fatal accident.
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Detective Pia Kirchhoff is about to set off on her honeymoon, when a string of murders terrorizes local residents. None of the victims had enemies, and no one knows why they were singled out. As fear of the Taunus Sniper grows, pressure mounts on Detective Kirchhoff to catch the killer.
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In the isolated villages in the north of Scotland, the villagers rely on the services of the chimney sweep, Pete Ray, and his old-fashioned brushes. Pete is always able to find work in the Scottish highlands--until the day that Police Constable Hamish Macbeth notices blood dripping onto the floor of a villager's fireplace and a dead body stuffed inside the chimney. The entire town of Lochdubh is certain Pete is the culprit, but Hamish doesn't believe that the affable chimney sweep is capable of committing murder.
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An ISIS-style beheading of a journalist, carried out by a New York City group pledging fealty to that rogue state, becomes more than just another case for NYPD Captain Nikki Heat when the killers announce their next target: her husband, magazine writer Jameson Rook.