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  Death and the Runaways

  Heather Redmond

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  London, June 1814: Mary and Jane are less than charmed by their brother Charles's courtship with a girl from the local cheese shop. When Miss Winnet Davies is not swooning from the heat, she's imploring Charles to buy her a pretty dress. But he hasn't a tuppence—nor have they, as their father, philosopher William Godwin, is facing the prospect of debtor's prison. 
   
   
   
  When a constable arrives at the Godwin home the following day, looking for Charles, Mary and Jane learn that the lifeless body of Miss Davies was found hanging from a tree branch and an examination revealed she was with child. 
   
   
   
  Before they can search, a terrifying Bow Street Runner named Fisher calls and announces his intention to court Mary. Even if she wasn't infatuated with married poet and radical Percy Shelley, she is horrified by the massive Bow Street Runner's plan. 
   
   
   
  Mary and Jane alternately enlist the help of the experienced and intimidating Fisher and Shelley himself, who is as enticed by the opportunity to be close to Mary as he is intrigued by the mystery. But the unfortunate shopgirl is only the first to die, and soon the sisters and Shelley face a merciless quarry who will do anything to silence them . . .

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  Plot Twist

  Donna J. Thompson

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  Julie Cromwell is a selfish, manipulative, insecure woman, and those are her best qualities. She sets up a fake kidnapping to see if her husband will pay a million dollars for her safe return. Something goes wrong and she winds up dead. This is the first plot twist, but certainly not the last. Enter lead detective Karl Larkin and his partner, Ted Cramer. They are a team who refuses to let sleeping dogs lie. They begin rattling the skeletons in the family's closets. Larkin finds himself breaking one of his number one rules. You don't get involved with the family you are investigating, and you never, never fall in love with your prime suspect.

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  Bernardino's Inheritance - The...

  Stefano Vignaroli

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  Year 2020: not even the Lock Down due to the COVID 19 pandemic will be able to stop the work of scholar Lucia Balleani and archaeologist Andrea Franciolini, once again committed to discovering mysterious arcana in the heart of the historic center of Jesi. An ancient underground pipeline and an enigmatic stone sphere will represent two puzzles that are difficult for the young couple of researchers to solve.  
  The discoveries of ancient documents and archaeological finds by Andrea and Lucia, will bring us back as usual, to follow the events of the Jesi’s characters of the sixteenth century, their ancestors. The printer Bernardino dictated his last will to a notary before his death, but this is of little interest to the heirs of the Marquis Franciolini and the Countess Baldeschi. The Marquis Alessandro Colocci, husband of Countess Laura Baldeschi, will turn out to be a grim and cowardly character in the service of Pope Paul III, but he will have to deal with the young scion of the Franciolini family, Francesco, very determined in trying to regain possession of the title of Captain of the People, assumed by the Marquis Colocci only by virtue of the fact that he married his older sister Laura.

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  Criminal Intentions: Season Two...

  Cole McCade

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  Unsettled tensions from the last case come to a head as Seong-Jae reveals his secrets—but will it be enough to repair the fractures in his relationship with Malcolm? 
   
   
   
  Especially when their only promising lead on the Golden Ratio Killer's identity falls apart, along with any hope of returning home to Baltimore and to their life together. 
   
   
   
  When their primary suspect turns up dead . . . 
   
   
   
  . . . after attempting to kill the daughter of another suspect. 
   
   
   
  The Golden Ratio killer's strange web of deception, double-backs, and doppelgangers grows ever more tangled, and as those twisted threads ensnare Malcolm and Seong-Jae, they find themselves pulled ever further apart. Not even Malcolm's patience may be able to save them, their relationship a painful casualty of their job. That doesn't mean he won't try. 
   
   
   
  But Malcolm's desperate attempts to hold them together put them in the wrong place at the wrong time. And that unfortunate coincidence? Might just end both their lives. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  My Daughter is Gone - A totally...

  M.I. Hattersley

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  Last night's fight was bad, I just wish Freya would let me know she's okay. I must try harder, it's been rough for both of us since the divorce from her father. But I know I should've been there to pick her up from school yesterday. I can't keep missing pickup . . .I'm at my desk when phone rings. It's the call that every parent dreads.'Freya never turned up for school this morning.' Oh my god. Freya's only thirteen. If she's not at school and she's not replying, something bad must have happened. I know it. It's late morning now, has she been missing for hours?And then I get a second phone call and my life changes in an instant. 'We have your daughter. And if you want to see her alive ever again, you need to listen very carefully.'I may not be the perfect mother, but I'll do anything to get my daughter back.

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  Max Carrados - The Cases of a...

  Ernest Bramah

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  Max Carrados is a gentleman detective who was blinded in an accident and is better at the work than any man with eyes — he reads newsprint with his fingertips and hears what a room is doing. Bramah was so private that publishers doubted he existed; he refused photographs and left almost no record. These 1914 stories were outselling Conan Doyle in the magazines at the time, and the blindness is never a gimmick. Sixty plates of quiet interiors and low-toned portraits by Hammershøi and Whistler run alongside these stories of a detective who works in the dark.

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