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Thursday Murder Club mystery volume 2
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"Richard Osman is back with everyone's favorite mystery-solving quartet, and the second installment of The Thursday Murder Club series is just as clever and warm as the first-an unputdownable, laugh-out-loud pleasure of a read"--
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Publisher:
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
Description:
To steal a Caribbean inheritance, an American impersonates a prodigal son Though his name is Duncan Ward, he lands in Barbados with a passport reading "Jim MacQuade." The MacQuade family meets him at the airport with open arms, welcoming home the son who left the Caribbean over a decade earlier. Duncan knows Jim from college, and over the years has accumulated enough details of the MacQuade plantation to carry off the fraud. Old John MacQuade is near...
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Language:
English
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First in the Edgar Award–winning series from “a novelist whose champagne-fizzy mysteries tickle the brain, heart, and funny bone in equal measure” (AJ Finn, #1 New York Times–bestselling author).
Stewart Hoag’s first novel made him the toast of New York. Everyone in Manhattan wanted to be his friend, and he traveled the cocktail circuit supported by Merilee, his wife, and Lulu, his basset
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This volume includes an acclaimed novella of a woman's escape from a loveless marriage, and in the author's final story, a provocative depiction of Jesus. In St. Mawr, a woman's encounter with a noble stallion inspires her to seek a new life full of vitality. Abandoning both her brittle homeland and her sterile marriage, she sets out on a journey of self-discovery that takes her all the way to the mountains of the American West. Lawrence's final work,...
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Publisher:
Orenda Books
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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A successful entrepreneur in the mushroom industry, Jaakko Kaunismaa is a man in his prime. At just 37 years of age, he is shocked when his doctor tells him that he's dying. What is more, the cause is discovered to be prolonged exposure to toxins; in other words, someone has slowly but surely been poisoning him. Determined to find out who wants him dead, Jaakko embarks on a suspenseful rollercoaster journey full of unusual characters, bizarre situations...
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Language:
English
Description:
Another adventure of the Indian detective Vish Puri, "a man as fussy as Poirot and every bit as clever" (AudioFile).
Murder is no laughing matter. Yet a prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest.
The only one laughing now is the main suspect, a powerful guru named Maharaj Swami, who seems to have done away with his most vocal critic.
Vish Puri,
...11. The man who died
Publisher:
Createspace[
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
In his last novel, published less than a year before his death, D.H. Lawrence takes up the theme of Christ's resurrection and his final days on earth. Lawrence recounts Christ's agonizing journey from death back to life with alarming realism: his initial painful awakening, the utter disillusionment of living beyond his brutal death, his bewildering encounters with strangers and friends, and finally, his redemptive sexual relationship with the priestess...
12. The Man Who Died
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Publisher:
Andrews UK
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Description:
D. H. Lawrence's classic two-part story, originally published as 'The Escaped Cock', is a re-imagining of the Biblical story of the Resurrection. The author himself described the story in a letter to his friend Earl Brewster thusly: 'I wrote a story of the Resurrection, where Jesus gets up and feels very sick bout everything, and can't stand the old crowd any more - so cuts out - and as he heals up, he begins to find what an astonishing place the...
Author:
Series:
Vish Puri mystery volume 2
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
English
16. The narrows
Author:
Series:
Harry Bosch volume 10
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
In the depths of the Nevada desert, FBI agent Rachel Walling and former LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must confront The Poet, a terrifying serial killer who leads them down a dark and twisted path.
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes — and apparently he has not forgotten...
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes — and apparently he has not forgotten...
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Lexile measure:
1420L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Set in mid-17th century Boston, this tale of passion, puritanism and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature. Its heroine, Hester Prynne, is compelled by her own moral autonomy to wear the scarlet letter but she emerges as a woman with her integrity intact.
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Series:
Temperance Brennan volume 13
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
John Lowery was declared dead in 1968-the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets off...
20. The red queen
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Determined to see her son Henry on the throne of England, pious Margaret Beaufort arranges politically advantageous marriages, sends her son out of the country for his safety, and lays secret plans for a battle between the houses of York and Lancaster.