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  The Mean Street

  Colin Conway

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  Should a wicked man get the same justice as the righteous? 
  When a violent pimp is murdered, Major Crimes Detective Dallas Nash is assigned the case. With no witnesses and weak evidence, he must make a choice—vigorously investigate the killing or go through the motions before casually sweeping it into an unsolved file. 
  Plenty of people want Nash to stop—the prostitutes abused by the deceased, a do-gooder with a shadowy past, and a cop with his thumb on the scales of equity. Yet no one is pushing for him to continue the investigation. 
  Will Nash walk through the city’s underbelly to find justice for a man who preyed on others? 
  The Mean Street is the sixth book in the 509 Crime Stories, a series of novels set in Eastern Washington with revolving lead characters. If you like hard-hitting police procedurals with compelling personalities, grab this book today.

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  The Professor's Mummy - Egyptian...

  Fergus Hume

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  Ferguson Wright Hume was born in Powick, Worcestershire on the 8th July 1859. 
   
  When he was three the family emigrated to Dunedin in New Zealand.  Here he started his education at the Otago Boys' High School before studying law at the University of Otago.  Hume was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885.  
   
  He moved to become a barrister’s clerk to Melbourne and once there also began writing plays.  The local theatres were not interested in his works, and it was only after one was stolen and presented as being by someone else that his stock rose at all.  Hume now moved in a different direction and wrote a novel based on those that were proving popular in Melbourne at that time.  The result ‘The Mystery of a Hansom Cab’ with its vivid descriptions of poor urban life was initially self-published and became a great success, albeit that was only after he had sold the copyright for a mere £50.  This Victorian age detective novel pre-dated Sherlock Holmes but is said to have inspired Conan Doyle.   
   
  Shortly thereafter Hume returned to England and began a writing career that would eventually exceed over 130 novels as well as short story collections, plays, song lyrics and even book reviews for the plethora of literary journals of the day.  Most of his output was detective stories, thrillers and mysteries. 
   
  Hume was known to be deeply religious as well as intensely private and avoided almost all publicity, except in later life, when he lectured at debating societies and young people’s clubs.  He travelled regularly to Europe and primarily to Italy, France and Switzerland.   
   
  Fergus Hume died on the 12th July 1932 at Thundersley in Essex.  He was 73 and was buried in an unmarked grave.

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  Eclipse of Evidence An

  Kristen King

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  The moon holds many things in its shadows, but can its mysteries be revealed through the bonds of a tight-knit coven? 
  A lunar eclipse moves over Hollow's Glenn and brings the strange disappearance of a close MacKinnon family friend and the discovery of a dead neighbor on her property. With a lack of evidence but continued paranormal happenings around town, Autumn and her coven must unravel the web of deception that hides under the surface. 
  As the coven pieces together clues before the lunar new year festivities, Autumn must tap into aspects of herself she has only begun to understand. Will the Hollow's Glenn coven rise to the shadowy challenge of revealing the dangerous motives hidden by the moon or will their efforts be in vain? 
  If you love cozy mountain towns, paranormal happenings, a coven of witches, moon magic, and workings of the fae, then you'll love An Eclipse of Evidence. 
  This is the third book in the Hollow’s Glenn Coven Mystery Series and can be read as a stand-alone mystery. Envelope yourself in this spellbinding tale of elemental earth and water magic, hidden agendas, and powerful moon energy.

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  Needs Must - A gripping crime...

  Kerry Barnes

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  She will kill again if needs must . . . 
   
  An unassuming Dottie Ellis falls for bad boy Jimmy Carson, who sweeps her off her feet. 
   
  But after discovering she is pregnant and learning that Jimmy has gone back to his ex-girlfriend Carrie Verne, her happiness falls apart. 
   
  Heartbroken, Dottie runs home, only to unearth a disturbing family secret that rocks her to the core. She is now faced with an agonising decision to protect her unborn child. What she does shocks the town. 
   
  In a moment of solidarity, Carrie makes a promise to Dottie, cementing an unlikely bond between them. 
   
  The aftermath of a serious fight at Jimmy and Carrie’s wedding leaves the two families at war. Carrie must choose between her family and the Carsons. 
   
  She chooses the Carsons . . . but only to protect her sisters. 
   
  Is Carrie strong enough to bring the Carson family down alone?

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  The Siberia Job

  Josh Haven

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  After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly-established Russian government privatized its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, allowing them the chance to be shareholders in the country's burgeoning businesses. The slips are distributed among the population and auctions are arranged where they can be exchanged for actual shares. For the country's rural populations living in abject poverty, the vouchers appear to be little more than pieces of paper, totally separated from the far-off concept of potential future fortunes. 
   
    
   
  But for Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, the seemingly-valueless chits suggest a lucrative potential, worth much more than what the current owners are willing to sell them for. They travel to the furthest, coldest reaches of the country to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, roving from town to town with suitcases full of cash. But  they quickly learn that the plan has complications—for example, the fact that the auctions at which these vouchers are traded for actual shares have been planned at the most remote, inaccessible locations possible to deter outsiders from buying in. And when the Russian mafia and the oligarchs in charge of Gazneft catch wind of their successes, the stakes become suddenly more deadly.

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  Blind Eye

  Aline Templeton

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  DCI Kelso Strang is led to believe that something very odd is going on around the prosperous fishing port of Tarleton on Scotland’s south-east coast. Firstly, a young Detective Inspector is traumatised after witnessing a doctor throwing herself off a cliff, and accusations of extortion have riven the local community. 
   
  And when the ugly death of a young farmer sets off a murder investigation, Strang finds himself caught in a spider’s web of criminality. He is entirely unprepared when he is struck by the worst tragedy of his career, even though it has also brought him into contact with a young advocate’s assistant called Catriona, daughter of DI Marjory Fleming.

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