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It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding anniversary at Manoir Bellechasse, an isolated, luxurious inn not far from the village of Three Pines. The Finney family - rich, cultured and respectable - has arrived for a celebration of their own. The beautiful inn is surrounded by nature, yet there is something unnatural looming. When a terrible summer storm leaves behind a dead body, and it is up to Chief...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, must exonerate her father of murder. Armed with more than enough knowledge to tie two distant deaths together and examine new suspects, she begins a search that will lead her all the way to the King of England himself.
64) Sworn to silence
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In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and ?English? residents have lived side by side for two centuries. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization...
65) Bury your dead
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An obsessive historian's quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it? Although he is supposed to be on leave, Chief Inspector Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from...
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"Ever since Young Blackbeard became the biggest movie of the decade, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. TenHuis Chocolade is raking in the booty and selling out of chocolate treasure chests, pirate hats and ships faster than you can say "Shiver me timbers." Caught up in the spirit of the seven seas, Lee McKinney Woodyard and her husband, Joe, take their boat out on Lake Michigan and are stunned when a mischievous...
68) Coming back
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After being shot in the head and suffering locked-in syndrome, San Francisco private eye Sharon McCone is struggling to regain control over her body. But her relationships are suffering. Her husband is impatient with her refusal to accept help; some of her colleagues doubt her abilities. But when Sharon's friend from physical therapy goes missing, she must call upon those closest to her to find the truth behind the disappearance.
70) Greater love
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The Tides of Truth series follows one lawyer's passionate pursuit of truth--in matters of life and the law. As the storm clouds gather, Tami does her best to weather the growing turbulence in every area of her life. She's just accepted a job with a law firm but now wonders if she made the right decision. She has two strong men vying for her heart--and is about to lose them both if she can't determine which one is right for her. And Tami's new case...
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Blight County Sheriff Bo Tully is following up on one of his famous hunches: he suspects the murder of a local retiree by his ranch caretaker, a sociopath with a criminal record. But Tully has no evidence or body to prove that a crime has been committed. Then a far more alarming case emerges. Three unidentified young men have been shot, execution-style, in a huckleberry patch on Scotchman Mountain. With the help of beautiful FBI agent Angela Phelps,...
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Missing body parts and dead developers are only the beginning when Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire finds himself in the throes of a modern-day range war. It's a volatile new economy in Durant when the owners of a multi-million-dollar development of ranchettes want to get rid of the adjacent Stewart junkyard. The notorious Stewart clan is an adventure unto itself and, when conflicts erupt, Walt and his team find themselves in a small town pressure cooker....
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When the late Chester T. Markowitz, a man she never met, leaves $10,000 to his beloved wife, Cora Felton, the Puzzle Lady can't help cashing the check. Then Cora's least favorite ex-husband, Melvin, shows up with an attorney, demanding that her alimony be terminated on the grounds that she remarried. When a key witness in the alimony hearing is murdered, a KenKen puzzle is left at the scene. Is someone trying to tell Cora something?
74) Pray for silence
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When the police arrive at the Amish farmstead in Painters Mill they can't imagine the horror that awaits them. An entire family slaughtered: the men shot, the young women tortured and killed. The Amish are peace-loving, gentle folk and the town is shocked by what appears to be a particularly brutal - and random killing. But is it random?
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Meg is eight-and-a-half months pregnant with twins when she and Michael host a Spanish playwright for the production of his play by one of Michael's graduate students. Then enters the dean of the English department and a man from the college president's office, who say Michael's student is not allowed to do his dissertation and that the play must be canceled. While discussing this, the dean is found murdered. Meg's house becomes a crime scene, and...
76) Third degree
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College professor Alison Bergeron stops by a coffee shop to steel her resolve. She's about to meet the family of her boyfriend, NYPD Detective Bobby Crawford, right on the heels of his proposal that she has yet to answer. Suddenly, a brawl breaks out that ends in the death of Carter Willmott, a merciless and loathed local blogger, and Alison witnessed the whole thing. But then Willmott's car explodes, and the crime becomes something else entirely....
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Sheila Dunham is a gossip columnist's dream - she is famous, loud, and, to almost everyone who has met or seen her, deeply, spectacularly offensive. Fired from every TV job she's ever had, she's now producing and hosting her own reality show, where thousands of women compete for a spot in the house where it will be filmed. On the first day of shooting, though, someone fires a gun at - and misses...
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As the air turns crisp and the trees blaze red and gold in the tiny town of Tinker's Cove, Maine, a newcomer arrives who seems to suit the Halloween season. Diana Ravenscroft has just opened Solstice, a charming shop featuring candles, crystals, jewelry, and psychic readings. But after an unnervingly accurate reading by Diana, Lucy gets a little spooked. Then there's the dead body Lucy finds way up an old logging road behind her house ...
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"When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. Informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer-a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts. Further investigation takes Monk and his wife,...
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"In Atherton's sixteenth mystery, Lori Shepherd returns from Down Under to her normal life in the village of Finch. But Lori's normal quickly becomes anything but. Her debonair father-in-law has moved to town and is renovating Fairworth House, a grand estate nearby. William Sr. expects a quiet, small-town life, but among the spinsters vying for his attention, shifty servants, and the discovery of a mysterious painting of a family tree in Fairworth's...
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