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As the residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, prepare for their annual Fourth of July celebration, Hannah Swensen, owner of the local bake shop, spends her time perfecting her pie recipes and setting up house with her boyfriend, but when Hannah discovers a dead body at her new home, all the residents begin pointing fingers and hunting down the killer.
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Joe Gunther, a Vermont cop for most of his adult life and now the head of the VBI (Vermont Bureau of Investigation) gets the call that every law enforcement person hates and every friend and family member of a policeman fears--a cop has been shot and killed. A deputy sheriff was shot to death during a routine traffic stop on a dark country road. From what can been seen on the cruiser's tape recorder of the killers, it is believed that they were a...
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For Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, returning to the Sussex coast after seven months abroad was especially sweet. There was even a mystery to solve: the disappearance of an entire colony of bees from Holmes' hives. But the sweetness of their homecoming is quickly tempered by the return of a galling memory from the past.
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Magdalena is banking when three armed Amish men burst into the bank and start shooting. She collapses, leaving her unprepared husband Gabe to manage the chaos at her popular PennDutch Inn. When questions arise over whether the bandits were really Amish men, Magdalena springs back into action. Because they may be armed, but they may not be Amish...
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Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes' young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didn't know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice.
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At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of English silent-film megalomaniac Randolph Fflytte's latest cinematic extravaganza, Pirate King, based on Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance. The company starts rehearsals in Lisbon, but when the crew embarks for Morocco and the actual filming, Russell senses ominous currents of trouble. As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves...
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The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of
Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom he's learned, to his horror, has gone missing.
As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a
temporary memory loss, searches for her"self," each tries
to crack deadly parallel puzzles before it's too late for
them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe.
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Sneaky Pie heads to the Oval Office with an animal-friendly agenda to unify all Americans—regardless of whether they walk on two or four feet or even if they fly. With help from her friends, Sneaky crisscrosses her home state of Virginia hoping to go where no cat since Socks Clinton has gone: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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"Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. Here name is Philippa Crosby, and she's a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the expatriate community of artists and writers, he crosses paths with...
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Halloween's approach brings with it bona fide terror and a beloved local tradition that threatens to become fatal. Rooting out the guilty in the treacherous center of a lucrative conspiracy requires Harry's farmer's wisdom-along with the quick wits and extraordinary senses of Sneaky Pie, Pewter, and Tucker. A vicious murderer may know the lay of the land far better than Harry does, but that's about to change.
12) Ordinary grace
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New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes...
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"It is a normal afternoon in Sussex when Russell and Holmes return home to find a peculiar addition to their garden: a beautiful stone that once occupied the Imperial gardens in Kyoto. The stone immediately recalls the spring of 1924, when, on their way back from India (The Game), Russell and Holmes agreed to perform a small but exceedingly dangerous job for the emperor of Japan. At the time, Russell encountered a young Japanese woman on board their...
14) X
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""Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, ""Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters."" With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic...
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Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 14
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Mary Russell novel volume 10
Mary Russell novel volume 14
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Mary Russell novel volume 10
Mary Russell novel volume 14
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Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. But what of the other person to whom she has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered when a man arrives on the doorstep claiming to be Mrs. Hudson's son. And though what he tells Russell cannot possibly be true, she believes him--as surely as she believes the threat...
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"Master of mystery and historical intrigue Anne Perry once again transports readers to the banks of the Thames in Victorian London for her thrilling new William Monk novel. In Revenge in a Cold River, Monk faces his darkest hour ever as he spars with a quarry hell-bent on vengeance. When Commander Monk of the Thames River Police is called to investigate the drowning of an escaped prisoner, he's forced to contend with customs officer McNab, who clearly...
17) After the fire
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"Henning Mankell's last novel about an aging man whose quiet, solitary life on an isolated island off the coast of Sweden is turned upside down when his house catches fire. Fredrik Welin is a former surgeon who retired in disgrace decades earlier to a tiny island on which he is the only resident. He has a daughter he rarely sees and his mailman Jansson is the closest thing he has to a friend, and to an adversary. He is perfectly content to live out...
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After a mysterious fatal car accident kills his predecessor, Congressman Charlie Marder struggles to navigate the dangerous waters of 1950s Washington, D.C., where he finds an underworld of backroom deals, secret societies, and a conspiracy at the highest levels of the government.