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  The Canary Murder Case

  S. S. Van Dine

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  "A model of everything a detective story should be – a monument, a cathedral amongst detective stories."  -Arnold Palmer in the London Sphere. 
  "It is difficult now to grasp the extent of Van Dine's success in America, and to a much lesser extent in Britain. ... Van Dine's second book was on the American best-seller lists for months ... It was said that he had lifted the detective story on to the plane of a fine art, and by his own account he was the favourite crime writer of two Presidents." - Julian Symons 
  When the celebrity of New York: Margaret "The Canary" Odell is found strangled in her apartment, District Attorney John FX Markham initially thinks it a commonplace robbery and murder. But his learned friend and amateur sleuth Philo Vance disagrees, and soon persuades him that this isn't a robbery at all... but murder... 
  The lines of inquiry lead to four men, but which one of them did it? Which one of them had the nerve and daring for such an audacious crime as... The Canary Murder? 
  Narrated by Michael Ward

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  Her Perfect Alibi - Every Detail...

  Ibnul Jaif Farabi

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  Maggie Finch has the perfect life. A successful architect, a loving husband, and a beautiful home overlooking the Pacific. She also has a secret. When a man from her past is found dead, Maggie’s meticulously constructed world begins to fracture. The police have questions, but her alibi is airtight, a flawless narrative of a quiet evening at home.
   
  
   
  Yet someone knows it’s a lie. Anonymous notes arrive, detailing moments Maggie is certain no one saw. Security footage she deleted reappears, subtly altered. The investigation tightens around her, not for the murder, but for a perjury she never committed. Her husband’s unwavering support starts to feel like surveillance, and her closest friend seems to be hiding a secret of her own.
   
  
   
  As the net closes, Maggie realizes the trap was not set by the police. Her alibi was a gift from a phantom, a perfect story designed to bury her. To survive, she must dismantle the life she built and uncover who orchestrated her flawless defense. The truth is a reflection in a broken mirror, and every piece she picks up cuts deeper.
   
  
   
  The final detail awaits, a single flaw in an otherwise perfect frame. To see it, Maggie must question every memory, every loyalty, and every reflection in the glass of her pristine home. Someone has been watching, learning, and waiting. Now, they are ready to finish what they started.

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  The Many Ghosts of Donahue...

  Laura McLoughlin

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  Not all guests know when to check out . . . A young waitress at a country hotel finds herself with a decades' old mystery to solve - one she hopes will help rid the hotel of its most troublesome guests. Its ghosts. ***When Ballinadrum Hotel's elderly owner Donahue Byrnes dies, twenty-two-year-old Mia Anne Moran discovers the spectral rumours that have long plagued the place are all too true. Meanwhile, Donahue's son, Cormac, wants to sell up as soon as possible but finds his plans thwarted by the ghostly goings on. Propelled by the belief that Donahue Byrnes intended to entrust her with the task, Mia strikes a deal with Cormac. She will act as concierge to the dead - keeping the hotel's ghosts in line, as Donahue did previously - and in return, Cormac will sell the business in its entirety, ensuring the future of both the building and its employees.But what drew Mia's errant charges to Ballinadrum Hotel in the first place? If she can work out that, she might be able to send them on their way at last. Life is rarely straightforward though - especially when it involves the dead - and as Mia tries to solve the hotel's ghostly conundrum, she begins to find hers changed in ways she couldn't have anticipated . . .

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  The Weatherman - A fast paced...

  Royston Reeves

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  'I'm going to tell you about the worst thing that ever happened to me.'
  Will's a nice guy. So when he takes a shortcut to the tube station after a few beers with his mates from work, he steps out of the way of the fellow who's staggering towards him. But he – deliberately – moves back into his path. They knock each other as they pass.
  Moments later one man is dead and another's life is changed forever. Or is it? There are no CCTV cameras. There was no one else in the out-of-the-way alley. Maybe the world doesn't have to end for Will after all.
  But there's always someone watching . . . and Will's life is about to implode.

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  Lion Tamer

  K.A. Bachus

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  I wondered what crime a professional killer could commit that his closest friends would find unforgivable. 
  It is the mid-1980s and Barbara Kemp shatters another glass ceiling as she becomes the US babysitter for Charlemagne, the premier freelance specialist team used by Western governments for black operations conducted without fingerprints. She arrives in-country for her first assignment in support of an allied government. 
  An American officer is being used as bait to lure a deep-cover IRA explosives expert into the light where Charlemagne will eliminate him — if they do not annihilate each other first. Barbara must deal with mystifying lunacy in the dangerous men around her while she struggles to find a way to save the American bait, the operation, and the team itself. 
  Will this promotion be the end of Barbara’s career? Or the end of her life? 
  Lion Tamer is the fourth novel in K.A. Bachus’s fast-paced Charlemagne Files series chronicling the lives of a team of deadly Cold War intelligence operatives over three decades.

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  The Treatment

  Sarah Moorhead

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  An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. 
  The future of law enforcement has arrived, courtesy of private health contractor Janus Justice. Their ground-breaking ‘Offender Treatment Programme’ has been hailed as the most effective way of tackling crime yet. 
  As offenders move through the four-tiered system, their needs are dealt with, each tier more drastic in its methods: 
  Tier One: Low-risk crimes. Physical therapy encouraged. 
  Tier Two: Trauma and addiction. Emotional and psychological reasons for offending are examined. 
  Tier Three: Aversion therapy & moral punishment. 
  Tier Four: Siberia, where all hope is lost. 
  But Grace Gunnarsson, one of Janus’ most highly regarded rehabilitation psychiatrists, has uncovered a terrible flaw in the system, one that is allowing people to get away with murder... 
  ‘A wonderful novel. Big ideas wrapped in a plot that moves like a freight train’ - Stuart Turton 
  'Compelling and complex, but still emotionally charged and devastating' - Helen Fields 
  'A Clockwork Orange for the modern cohort. A terrifying near future imagined perfectly' - Imran Mahmood

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