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Caroline is a beautiful, intelligent professor of French literature, but when a single bullet is found lodged at the base of her skull, everything she's known is proved to be a lie. The truth lies in the murder of her parents thirty-four years ago. The race is on for Caroline to unravel the mystery.

An ancient secret resurfaces when a murdered corpse shows up on Aloysius Pendergast's doorstep. The death has the hallmark of a perfect murder-save for a gem lodged in the victim's stomach, which leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine. He is soon caught in a wicked plot that may well end in his death.

Edie Kiglatuk is working as a summer school teacher in the Canadian Arctic. When one of her students is found dead in a nearby lake, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit family that they will uncover the truth.

August 30, 1975. Fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears. Thirty years later, a young American writer becomes determined to clear his mentor's name, and find the inspiration for his next bestseller.

Half Inuit, half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. When a man is murdered under her watch, she sets out to investigate but is shocked by the suicide of someone close to her. The events seem unrelated, but Edie's instinct says otherwise.

PI Agatha Raisin learns that her one-time lover is to be married. But the morning after the wedding, the bride is murdered. Agatha takes on the case and quickly becomes entrenched in the equestrian world.

Jonathan Stride's best friend makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Now Stride's partner, Maggie Bei, is forced to ask: Did Stride kill him?

Tom Carruso left home soon after Lizzie Burdett disappeared under a darkening cloud of suspicion, and now he's back for the inquest into Lizzie's disappearance, intent on telling his side of the story.

"A cliff-hanger murder mystery around archaeological digs in Quebec."--

In 1909, Florence Kinrade is, by all appearances, the dutiful daughter of a wealthy Hamilton, Ontario land-owner, engaged to the parson’s son. Intriguingly, she also leads a double life as a vaudeville showgirl in Richmond, Virginia. Holding many parallels with Lizzie Borden, another famous mystery involving a family murder and an inscrutable young woman, Florence becomes the central figure in a gruesome crime—the murder of her sister, Ethel.