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  Death by Canapé - The new...

  Faith Eckersall

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  The second book in the Piddlington Gazette cosy mystery series! Perfect for fans of Ian Moore, Richard Osman and Reverend Richard Coles. It's still kicking off in Piddlington Minster...If Piddlington Gazette editor, Harry Hedges, thought the sleepy Dorset town had earned a respite from murder after not one, but two bodies turned up on its roundabout last year, he's got another think coming.First, someone has been placing sinister effigies among the streets of the local Model Village: seemingly harmless fun until one turns out to be a dead ringer for the town mayoress, a woman best known for her big development plans and even bigger list of enemies.That same evening, following a glitzy party thrown by the district's newest celebrity, the mayor is found dead.  Did she really choke on a canape? Harry smells a front-page splash but can he persuade his rookie reporter and truculent chief sub to back his hunch? Not to mention the office's beloved Labrador dog - who has intriguing career plans of his own.Armed with nothing but his reporter's notebook and instinct, Harry sets out to solve the case before another resident turns up dead.After all, in a town this small, everyone's under the microscope. Literally...

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  The Collision’s Alibi

  Jwyan C. Johnson

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  Ride shotgun, with courtroom war king Miles Ahead, in a collision mystery that ended cable news host: The Chaos King. 
  Miles Turner switches lanes, to civil trial, as attorney Sue A. Lott is seeing red in a ‘yellow light’ making others turn green… with envy. But what are the real twists and turns in Ally Rhodes? Feel the impact of an outsmarted Smart Alec and a not-so-Silent Knight. 
  The Collision’s Alibi is a cozy whodunit mini-mystery of chain letters, a bar fight, conspiracy claims, and the invasive ways of The Chaos King himself! But will a legal handshake between both sides reveal the real ‘drive’ behind it all?

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  The Unpleasantness at the...

  Dorothy L. Sayers

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  The Bellona Club is the picture of old-world respectability—a gentleman’s retreat where war veterans and aristocrats gather for quiet conversation, brandy, and a game of chess. But on Armistice Day, the peace is shattered when the body of General Fentiman is discovered slumped in his usual chair. At first glance, it seems the elderly war hero simply passed away, but something doesn’t add up. The time of death is unclear, his stiff posture is unnatural, and an inheritance worth half a million pounds hangs in the balance. 
  Enter Lord Peter Wimsey—brilliant, eccentric, and never one to resist a puzzle. As he peels back the layers of the case, he uncovers a tangled web of greed, deception, and family secrets lurking beneath the surface of high society. With sharp wit and an unerring eye for detail, Wimsey must unravel the mystery before the true culprit vanishes into the smoke-filled corridors of the Bellona Club. 
  A masterful blend of detective fiction and social satire, The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club is one of Dorothy L. Sayers’ finest Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries, filled with razor-sharp dialogue, intriguing twists, and a touch of dark humor. Perfect for fans of classic British mysteries and golden-age detective fiction.

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  Restitution Road

  Marc Everitt

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  Ever wondered if you were meant to have done something special with your life? Daniel is the poster boy for wasted talent and finds himself at rock bottom. One despairing suicide later and he is about to discover that death is not as final as he had thought it might be and that his troubles are only just beginning. From WW1 trenches to ancient Britain and to the far future where science is opening doors it really shouldn’t, Daniel must find a way to save his species and perhaps his own soul in the process.

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  The Cask of Amontillado

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  The Cask of Amontillado, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, is performed by Michael Finney. This cornerstone piece of suspense and horror from the mid-19th century is a landmark of the genres to this day. How far would you go for revenge after perceiving a slight? 
  The Cask of Amontillado has both narration-only and audio drama productions on this release.

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  Hot Time - A Mystery

  W. H. Flint

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  New York, August 1896. A "hot wave" has settled on the city with no end in sight, leaving tempers short and the streets littered with dead horses felled by the heat. In this presidential election year, the gulf between rich and poor has political passions flaring, while anti-immigrant sentiment has turned virulent. At police headquarters, the gruff, politically ambitious commissioner Theodore Roosevelt has been struggling to reform his notoriously corrupt department. Meanwhile, the yellow press is ready to pounce on the peccadilloes of the Four Hundred, the city's social elite—the better to sell papers with lurid stories and gossip or perhaps profit from a little blackmail on the side. When the body of Town Topics publisher William d'Alton Mann is found at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, any number of his ink-spattered victims may have a motive. 
   
   
   
  Hot Time is an immensely entertaining, deeply researched, and richly textured historical novel set in a period that reflects our own, with cameos by figures ranging from financier J. P. Morgan to journalist Jacob Riis. Our guides through New York are Otto "Rafe" Raphael, one of the first Jewish officers in the heavily Irish force; Minnie Kelly, the department's first female stenographer; Theodore Roosevelt himself; and the plucky orphan Dutch, one of the city's thousands of newsboys, who may have seen too much.

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