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The year is 1808. Davey Ten, a promising Gunwharf Rat, has finished a year of medical school at the renowned University of Edinburgh. It's been a tough year for Davey. Students and faculty alike have been informed of Davey's early workhouse years, his questionable parentage, and his lowly status. These bigots have condemned him by silence, which is killing his spirit. All Davey wants is to return to St. Brendan's. Master Able Six finds a solution. Why not send along another Gunwharf Rat to keep him company? Able's grandmama, a Scot of wealth and influence, arranges for the two Rats to stay at her Edinburgh house, maintained by Esther Teague, a spinster. Fellow Rat Avon March returns to Edinburgh with Davey. Adept at skulking, Avon will provide needed conversation, but also try to learn about the mysterious disappearance of a Royal Marine sergeant and Royal Navy warranted officer, from the hospital's famed Royal Infirmary.
When Victor and Vincent learn that their beloved older brother Mario murdered his girlfriend, Grace Conner then committed suicide, the twins set out to prove the Oakland police department is wrong. Mario must be vindicated, and family honor must be preserved. Victor again takes on the principal detective duty. Vincent agrees to working the Brovelli Brothers' used car business with the understanding that he is ready at any time to help his twin. With all the evidence pointing to Mario's guilt, Victor must trust his instincts. He is helped by his girlfriend Dila Agbo, a one-time member of the Black Panthers. Together, they are led in many desperate directions. On his quest for the truth, Victor is haunted by the ghosts of his brother Mario and his girlfriend whose unspoken message of grief frightens and motivates him. Will Victor learn the truth of Mario's death even as Dila's life is threatened?
Maya Mallick, Seattle P.I., receives a call from her mother Uma, who lives in Jaipur, India. It appears that Uma's partner Neel Saha, a gemologist, has been arrested by the police on charges of stealing a rare ruby. The heirloom, an object of much superstition, belonged to Neel's client, Rana Adani, a young, charismatic Jaipur business tycoon. Insisting that Neel is innocent, Uma begs Maya to fly to Jaipur and clear Neel of the charges. Further complicating matters, Uma's domestic help and chauffeur Sam, a kite-flying champion, well loved by the family, has gone missing. Maya arrives in Jaipur, hoping to reconnect with Uma and help her. But Uma inexplicably distances herself, whereas Neel, now freed from jail, turns abusive toward Maya. When Rana's estranged wife Bea is killed by the glass-coated string of a falling kite, suspicion falls on Sam, who has quietly reappeared on the scene. Who has misappropriated the ruby and why? Could it have been the late Bea? Anita, Rana's difficult aunt? Sam, who's disappeared again? Or Uma, who seems to be hiding from Maya? How many more lives will be lost? Maya must recover the precious object soon to prevent further bloodshed.
Laura Fisher is married to a minister who abuses her regularly and undermines her self-esteem. When their oldest son dies under suspicious circumstances, Laura's husband insists they must forgive and forget. But Laura needs to know the truth so that justice can be served. In a twist of fate, Laura finds herself single, finally able to pursue her dreams of a happier life. With the help of a longtime friend, she begins her first job at Serendipities, a home design store, and embarks courageously on a new path. She moves to Dublin, Ohio and starts her own store called Serendipities II. In Dublin, she finds supportive friendships through an Irish Book Club and begins the process of healing from the pain of her past. Laura longs for happiness in love, but is understandably timid. She makes one mistake after another. One man, however, has a tether on her heart. Over the course of the next year, as they work together toward common goals, a friendship is forged. Could he be her soul mate? Laura believes in serendipity, an occurrence that happens by chance in a beneficial way. Serendipity has worked before. Can it help her find true love?
The doctor who chairs the Timbergate Medical Center Ethics Committee dies from a fall down a stairwell shortly after calling for an emergency meeting to discuss organ donation. Suspecting foul play, and worried that TMC's patients are at risk, Aimee Machado, Forensic Librarian and Director of Ethical Affairs, begins to investigate and learns the doctor also worked at a medical clinic in a private prison in the isolated Sawyer County town of Potterville. where most patients are undocumented immigrants.
Genealogists can uncover more than family trees. Johanna Hudson, with her archeologist business partner and astute office assistant take on a client who claims to witness a high-profile murder and wants the reward, but it becomes a race to stay alive to collect.
Sheriff Ulysses Walker of Taos County investigates a killer with a delusional vendetta stalking meditators at Sleeping Tiger Zen Center. As he pursues the murderer through the backcountry, Ulysses quickly finds himself and those he is supposed to protect in mortal danger.
Sophie Parker's hung up her waitress uniform and is now the library's children's program coordinator. She and her great-aunt Rose have settled into a peaceful co-existence, that is until Rose's nemesis Carl Jackson drops dead.
"An aristocratic spy and a highborn lady cross paths over a dead body."--Provided by publisher.
Daughter of parents obsessively in love with one another, Grace Owen has seen how love destroyed her widowed father and resolves to avoid it at all costs; besides she has her music and her dreams of becoming an opera singer to inspire her. It is only when she meets Maximilian Hawkesbury that she learns that hurting someone you care for is far more painful than love itself.
It's springtime in Washington, D.C. and congressional staffer Kit Marshall has more on her plate than she can handle. With her boss campaigning for an open U.S. Senate seat, Kit is left to run the office in her absence and manage a new week long American history extravaganza filled with high-profile events, lectures, and receptions. When the Director of the Capitol Visitor's Center ends up dead, Kit springs into action to clear a longtime friend, who becomes the prime suspect in the murder. With her best pal Meg pressuring her to solve the mystery quickly, Kit must figure out how to navigate her closest relationships while keeping an eye out for the diabolical killer. The investigation takes Kit across the city to famous locations, including Georgetown University, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the White House. When the killer strikes a second time, the pressure to solve the crimes intensifies. Has our favorite Capitol Hill sleuth finally met her match? In the end, Kit learns the hard way that history tends to repeat itself, often with deadly consequences.
The Seven Year Audit of 1784 brings new visitors to the Double Cross, a downtrodden accountant and his daughter, Catalina, who captivates the household with her storytelling. When Paloma and Catalina are kidnapped Marco is frantic.
At the end of the 18th Century, during the decline of the Spanish Empire in the New World, a brand inspector saves a lovely orphan from her cruel relatives and sets out to solve the mystery of her lost inheritance.
"After Ali's cousin Nathan and his intolerable bride Isadora come to stay at the B&B, the honeymoon is cut short when Isadora is found dead at the bottom of a Lake Tahoe ski slope. With Nathan as the prime suspect, Ali is determined to prove he's innocent"--
Darcy Moreland is thrilled to be back in her old home town of Cheyenne, Wyoming and working as a reporter for the local TV station, KCWY. As a bonus, Zach Horton, an old college friend is station manager and now her boss. On her first assignment covering the carnival midway of Cheyenne Rodeo Days, a body drops from the top of the Ferris wheel inches from her videographer who was lying on the asphalt to get a special shot. Darcy knew the girl and her family which only galvanizes her determination to find the cause of Bridget's death.
Monday mornings are bad enough, but when Kami's beginswith a phone call from a police detective, she knows she'sbig trouble. Her car has just been pulled, wrecked, from a localreservoir. Before the week is out, Kami will have a missing brother, a missing classmate, a dead body, a stalker, and a detective eager topin her brother for murder. Thankfully, she'll also have a payingclient. Unfortunately, he's misread her sign and wants a paranormalresearcher, not a paralegal.
Sociology professor Felix Thayer is brilliant but hateful. A near genius in his field, but impossible to get along with. When his colleague Michael Hartness is found murdered in his office, it doesn''t surprise anyone that Thayer is arrested for the crime. Everyone who knew the two men pretty much saw that coming. But why would Thayer have committed the murder in a manner so careless as to almost ensure his being fingered as the culprit? It''s almost as if the guy wanted to be caught. That''s what Thayer''s wife needs to know. She doesn''t really care whether her husband''s guilty. She just has to know why he''d be so careless and hires Sam Quinton, full-time gym owner, part-time private eye, and former professional wrestler, to find out. But as Quinton investigates the crime, he finds there may be more to the affair than the animosity of two men. And when the local Mafia begins dogging his steps, he figures he''s on the trail of something that someone wants kept under wraps.
"In Marie Romero Cash's mystery Return to the Shadows, the careful attention to detail brings Santa Fe and its environs to life. Believable characters will have readers engaged right up to the end of this cozy mystery." --David Carlson author of the Christopher Worthy and Father Fortis mysteries"In Marie Romero Cash's mystery Return to the Shadows, the careful attention to detail brings Santa Fe and its environs to life. Believable characters will have readers engaged right up to the end of this cozy mystery." --David Carlson author of the Christopher Worthy and Father Fortis mysteries
Rookie patrol officer Rose Brighton chases a suspect down an alley. Without warning, her vision wavers, and the lone suspect appears to divide into two men--the real suspect, frozen in time, and a shadow version with a gun. Confused by what she's just seen, but with no time to second guess it's meaning, Rose shoots the real suspect in the back.Forced to lie to detectives, she risks her job and her life to discover the shocking truth of who she really is--a witch of an ancient House, the prey of one powerful enemy, and the pawn of another.House of Rose, set in the Deep South city of Birmingham, Alabama, is the first book of the Magic City Stories.
Forced to move back home to the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia after her father and brother end up in jail for running a Ponzi scheme, Sophie Parker does the best she can. While living with her curmudgeonly aunt, she works as a wench waitress at a pirate-themed restaurant and learns the ins and outs of discount shopping through a coupon group.Life goes from bad to worse when an innocent airplane ride with her former teenage crush, AJ, leads to her being picked up by the police. The plane's indebted owner has been murdered, and he's the man who helped put her father in jail.What started as a curiosity has now turned into a quest to make sure she isn't arrested. Armed with gossip from the women in her coupon group, and her cantankerous aunt, Sophie sets out to find out who killed the ruthless businessman minutes after she flew off with AJ.The first in the Sophie Parker Coupon Mystery series.
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