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  • Murder Wore A Mask
    Matthew Costello / Neil Richards / TBD
    SUSSEX, ENGLAND, 1929.Mydworth is a sleepy English market town just 50 miles from London. But even in this idyllic spot, crime is never far away… Luckily the young and adventurous Sir Harry Mortimer has returned to Mydworth from his diplomatic posting in Cairo, with his unconventional American wife, Kat. And between them they are a match for anything - even murder.MURDER WORE A...
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    7,33 €

  • The Dead on Leave
    Chris Nickson
    Leeds, Autumn 1936.During a British Union of Fascists rally, a body is found.War veteran Detective Sergeant Urban Raven is tasked with finding the killer.But with virtually no clues, no witnesses and no obvious motive, he has few leads to start the investigation.Leeds has become a shadow of its former self. Once a bright, vibrant and progressive metropolis, it has all but groun...
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    12,00 €

  • Murder Must Wait
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    In the little town of Mitford, New South Wales, four babies have been stolen - all boys, all under three months old, and all apparently neglected by their mothers. The local police have given up and the trail is cold. Then a fifth child vanishes, and the mother is found dead next to the empty cot. Inspector Bonaparte is called in, first to find the missing children, and only th...
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    22,33 €

  • The New Shoe
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    The nude body of a man is discovered entombed in the walls of Split Point Lighthouse on the south-east coast of Australia. Inspector Bonaparte wonders why a coffin is moved at night, who was the girl struggling with Dick Lake on the cliff tops, and what caused the Bully Buccaneers to deal in death. An ordinary policeman could afford to fail, but Bony, never...The story takes pl...
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    22,38 €

  • Venom House
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are co...
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    24,64 €

  • Dangerous Destiny
    Chris Longmuir
    Dundee, Scotland, 1908.Suffragettes are dying. The police aren’t interested, taking the attitude ‘good riddance to bad rubbish’.Three suffragettes band together to find the truth.Kirsty, a naïve, young girl unable to escape her controlling family and the secret of her past, lives a sheltered life with her parents in their Broughty Ferry mansion. When she becomes interested in t...
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    17,23 €

  • Stardust Trail
    J.R. Sanders
    Against his better judgment, Hollywood-hating private investigator Nate Ross takes on a Tinseltown case in the spring of 1938. It sounds like a milk run: find an alcoholic screenwriter whose absence is stalling production on Republic Pictures’ latest Western.But when the missing rummy turns up dead, and Nate learns that somebody’s going to lethal lengths to keep Stardust Trail ...
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    13,53 €

  • Murder at High Tide
    Lee Strauss
    Murder's all wet!It's 1956 and WPC (Woman Police Constable) Rosa Reed has left her groom at the altar in London. Time spent with her American cousins in Santa Bonita, California is exactly what she needs to get back on her feet, though the last thing she expected was to get entangled in another murder case!  ...
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    11,77 €

  • Blood Fugue
    Amber Anthony
    Fugue: [ fyoog ]nounPsychiatry. A period during which a person suffers from loss of memory and often begins a new life.------------You think your memory stinks?Meet Harry VanAlt. An apex predator with fading memories of mortal life. Along with his memories, his exalted vampiric powers have faded to vampire-lite. Great taste, less exciting.Along comes Dr. Lizbet Mitchell, a poli...
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    14,93 €

  • Moriarty Lifts the Veil
    Anna Castle
    It began as a harmless wager. Who could solve their case first?Professor and Mrs. Moriarty have a few weeks to kill before their theater opens. Happily, two small cases drop in their respective laps. Moriarty has what looks like a scheme to swindle Army veterans out of their discharge pay. Angelina must find a missing servant by winkling her way into a circle of officers’ wives...
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    14,90 €

  • Betrayal at Ravenswick
    Kelly Oliver
    What’s the best way to purge an unfaithful husband? Become a spy for British Intelligence, of course.Desperate to get out of London, and determined to help the war effort and stop thinking about her philandering husband, Fiona Figg volunteers to go undercover.At Ravenswick Abbey a charming South African war correspondent has tongues wagging. His friends say he’s a crack huntsma...
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    13,40 €

  • Kinser Hill
    Julie Kinser Huffman
     Life on Kinser Hill had been lighthearted and carefree until the 1st of May, 1922, which was when everything was to change for the family that resided there. On that fateful day, a knock on the door brought Vesta Kinser to her knees. Her husband Wesley had been senselessly murdered. The years to come consisted of multiple court trials, with the desparate family seeking justice...
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    19,09 €

  • DEATH IN DAMASCUS
    Karen Baugh Menuhin
    There's a damsel in distress and accusations of attempted murder flying around, but it's not in the comfortable confines of the English countryside, it's in the very distant city of Damascus. Lennox must go and investigate, although he's not too keen on exotic locations, and his old retainer, Greggs is distinctly averse to the very idea. Nevertheless, ex-Chief I...
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    12,06 €

  • Tom Wasp and the Seven Deadly Sins
    Amy Myers
    ’So evocative of Victorian London that you’ll be brushing Tom Wasp’s soot from your shoulders’ - Debbie Young, bestselling author of the Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries.’Tom Wasp is one of the most engaging characters I’ve encountered in years’ - Ellen Keith, Historical Novels Review.Tom Wasp scrapes a living as a chimney sweep, aided by his young assistant, Ned. While the gap ...
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    12,92 €

  • Thanksgiving Angels
    Alice Duncan
    Grandmother of Monty Mountjoy Cruelly Murdered in Thanksgiving Angels, a Cozy Historical Mystery from Alice Duncan--1926, Los Angeles, CA--Former Boston Brahmin Mercy Allcutt moved from Boston to Los Angeles specifically to get away from her overbearing mother and father. Therefore, she’s upset when her boss, P.I. Ernie Templeton, gives her the entire Thanksgiving week, 1926, o...
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    19,67 €

  • Lyon’s Claw
    Betty Vaughn
    Quint and Lila Cord are honeymooning in the South of France when ex-pat, Lyon Owens, has Lila kidnapped.  Owens plans to use Lila’s internet expertise to hack into and drain the financial accounts of his enemy...a Russian born senator from California...to prevent the man’s continuous attempts against his life.  Before Lila can fully implement Owens’ scheme, a team of the senato...
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    17,60 €

  • Foul Play
    PJ Quinn
    This intriguing detective story introduces DI Ambrose in the first of a series of tales of murder most foul. Foul Play happens in a fog bound theatre with a cast of eccentric actors to keep the reader engaged until the very last page. We also meet popular team members DS Waters and WPC Meadows for the first time This novel is the first cooperation by mother daughter duo Pauline...
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    12,90 €

  • Hanging Murder
    A JWright / A. J. Wright
    We can all stand on principles until evil pays us a visit…The year is 1894 when Mr Simeon Crosby, a retired executioner, comes to Wigan with his wife and brother to give a talk on his life’s work.Whilst he has an eager following, there are also many people who strongly object to Crosby’s profession and do not wish his melancholy shadow to be cast over their town. Protests have ...
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    13,71 €

  • A Summer of Smoke and Sin
    T J Nichols
    To stop a serial killer a detective will need to explore his own vices…Nathanial Bayard wants nothing more than to find the nobleman creating snuff pornography. If he fails, his career in the recently formed nobility taskforce will be over and as the youngest son he’ll be forced to obey his father and join the church. But a life of celibacy doesn’t appeal. Nathanial has never e...
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    19,57 €

  • Critter
    Michael McClendon
    At the Worsham Hotel, guests and staff hunker down, reeling from the effects of the '29 crash. In the middle of the Great Depression, they gaze uneasily into the encroaching darkness. Something cold and menacing is already in their midst. Waiting. Watching. The Gideon boys are the new owners of the massive Whistle-Stop hotel in rural Sunday Silence. Their housekeeper glides f...
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    7,78 €

  • The Year of the Snake
    M. J. Trow / Maryanne Coleman
    Sometimes, a snake is just a snake. And sometimes…First-century Rome.Senator Gaius Lucius Nerva is taken ill at a dinner party and dies a few days later. His heartbroken wife, Flavia, is told it was a natural death. Calidus, Nerva’s recently freed slave, suspects otherwise.As he embarks upon the funeral ceremonies, Calidus becomes more and more convinced that his master was mur...
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    12,07 €

  • Stayin' Alive
    Julie Mulhern
    Springtime. Love is in the air. So is murder. When Ellison Russell, reluctant finder of bodies, chairs a gala in conjunction with the museum’s Chinese funerary exhibit, she expects disaster. So, she’s not remotely surprised when a body turns up. Ellison is willing to leave the investigation to the police till an attempt is made on her life. Now she’s juggling evading a kille...
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    12,38 €

  • Murder at Mount Vernon
    Robert J Muller
    Politics, murder, and mortal danger confront retired General George Washington as he considers whether to accept the presidency of the United States.The General has retired to his farm, Mount Vernon, but he cannot escape the politics of his time. The new constitution requires a president, and no one doubts it must be him. Except himself.Colonel David Humphreys, Washington’s aid...
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    24,58 €

  • Sitting Murder
    A. J. Wright / AJWright
    With a myriad of motives, the question is who?Detective Sergeant Michael Brennan of the Wigan Borough Police has no time for tales of ghosts and the afterlife, or of the dead contacting the living.So, when he finds himself investigating the case of a recently widowed young woman, Alice Goodway, who has suddenly developed ‘the Gift’ of mediumship and has received a threatening l...
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    12,78 €

  • 103 Pilgrims
    Rick Pontz
    What secrets do 400-year-old bones hold? In Plymouth, Massachusetts, Home of the Rock, someone is digging up the Pilgrims. tere’s a rumor that there’s more than 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact—but no one knows because the original Compact doesn’t exist. Or does it? If someone discovers the secret, they could become rich beyond their dreams and enjoy world-wide fame.103 Pilg...
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    13,04 €

  • Repechage
    Gary S. Brayshaw
    Five years after he left, vowing never to go back, Abe Weir returns to the family farm in the spring of 1967.  Abe’s mom, Abby, has asked him to help her get the crops off the field, his father, Isaac, being deathly ill.  Abe agrees, despite hating farming, and his father.Abe returns intent on keeping to himself his tour in Vietnam as a decorated Marine Captain.  Abby has a sec...
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    27,49 €

  • Die Tochter des Uhrmachers
    Archer C.J. / Heller Simone
    India Steele ist verzweifelt. Ihr Vater ist verstorben, ihr Verlobter hat sie um ihr Erbe erleichtert, und niemand will ihr Arbeit geben, obwohl sie jahrelang ihren Vater, den Uhrmacher, unterstützt hat. Vielmehr scheinen sich die Uhrmacher von London vor ihr zu fürchten. Auf sich gestellt, verarmt und am Ende ihrer Kräfte lässt sich India vom einzigen Menschen anstellen, der s...
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    18,45 €

  • The Knowledge of Water
    Sarah Smith
    “I will marry you,” Perdita Halley said to Alexander von Reisden at eighteen, “but not until I study music.” Now, at twenty-one, she has come to Paris, his city--but music still stands between them. She is pursuing her dream of becoming a concert pianist; he is trying for the less likely one of becoming an ordinary, unhaunted man. They are drawn into an all-consuming passion th...
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    11,79 €

  • Always Louisa
    Joanne Austen Brown
    Louisa Stapleton has been disgraced and banished from Society. She wants to return to defend herself and seize the life she desires. Her father has obtained the help of the one man she sees as her nemesis. Arriving at the house party, she has her doubts about her success in returning.Chalanor Farraday, the Viscount Lightford, had a hand in her downfall but he was not a willing ...
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    13,28 €

  • The Enemy We Don’t Know
    Liz Milliron
    November, 1942. Betty Ahern is doing her part for the war, working at Bell Aircraft while her older brother and fiancé are fighting overseas, but she really wants to be a private detective like her movie idol Sam Spade. When sabotage comes to the plant, and a suspected co-worker hires her to clear her name, Betty sees it as her big chance.As her questions take her into Buffalo’...
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    12,34 €


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