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  Adventure of the Morning Glory...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Craig...

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  THE ADVENTURE OF THE MORNING GLORY MURDERS. Sherlock Holmes confronts the horrible racial and religious prejudice that was rampant in the Victorian era and helps the heroic victims of those evils discover a new life.
  
  A family from Argentina has disappeared and it is feared that they were abducted. Their lives are in danger. The father, a colonel in the Argentine army has enemies from years ago that may be seeking revenge. The gigantic 'mulatto' who was the cook in the story about Wisteria Lodge (remember him?) is falsely accused. With his help, Sherlock Holmes must find the family before it is too late.
  
  If reading about the prejudices of the Victorian era -- many of which appeared in the original Sherlock Holmes stories -- upsets you, this is not for you. However, if you want to read about how brave people faced those evils and overcame them, this is a story you will enjoy.

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  Murder Never Retires - DI...

  Faith Martin

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  Hillary Greene returns to Thames Valley Police HQ, acting as a consultant for the Crime Review Team, looking into murders which the police have never been able to solve. 
   
  She wasn’t sure she wanted to go back. But solving crimes is irresistible for Hillary Greene. And it doesn’t hurt that her new boss is devastatingly handsome. 
   
  Twenty years ago, mother-of-three Anna McRae was found beaten to death in her kitchen with a rolling pin. She’d been having an affair with her brother-in-law, so the prime suspect was Anna’s sister Debbie. But the evidence never added up. 
   
  However as Hillary digs deeper, more secrets and betrayals emerge. Who wanted Anna dead and can Hillary finally bring her justice? 
   
  Meanwhile, Hillary is distracted by an unknown admirer, who quickly seems to be going from suitor to stalker. 
   
  Can Hillary solve a fiendishly complex case from the past while fending off unwanted attention?

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  Killing Me Softly

  Julie Mulhern

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  Ellison Russell Jones's best friend Libba has a questionable track record when it comes to men. But finally—finally—she's selected a good one. 
   
   
   
  Charlie Ardmore hales from a fine family, plays a mean game of golf, and is a cardiologist. 
   
   
   
  Even Mother approves. 
   
   
   
  But when Charlie's patients start dying, the whispers begin. Is Charlie a killer? 
   
   
   
  Could Harrington Walford, Ellison's beloved father and one of Charlie's patients, be the next to die? 
   
   
   
  Can Ellison stop a killer in time?

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  The Adventure of the Red Circle...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  "The Adventure of the Red Circle" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is included in the anthology His Last Bow.
  Mrs. Warren, a landlady, comes to 221B Baker Street with some questions about her lodger. A youngish, heavily bearded man, who spoke good but accented English who came to her and offered double her usual rent on the condition that he get the room on his own terms. He went out the first night that he was there, and came back after midnight when the rest of the household had gone to bed. Since then, neither Mrs. Warren, her husband, nor their servant girl has seen him. The lodger insisted on having the Daily Gazette every morning, and sometimes requested other things. All requests were printed on a slip of paper left on a chair outside the room where meals were also left.

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  My Twisted Cousin

  Shane Spyre

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  Accidents always seem to happen when she is around . . . 
   
   
   
  Audrey is the black sheep of the family. Always in trouble. Always causing problems. She's there in her mother's luxury house in the hills above a small rural town. There with her secrets and her issues. Now she's a teenager, things can hardly improve. 
   
   
   
  She sticks the knife in . . . and twists . . . 
   
   
   
  Harper is Audrey's cousin. She's a typical seventeen-year-old. She likes to hang out, although she doesn't do drugs or drink or anything like that. But she will get in a huff, especially when she's asked to help out and be a friend to Audrey. 
   
   
   
  There are tensions in all families . . . it is normal for them to fall out . . . 
   
   
   
  A friendly tennis match between the cousins. A recollection about a lost sister. A late-night ruckus. 
   
   
   
  Audrey's really got herself in trouble this time. Something, or someone, is going to snap.

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  The Warlock

  Marc Olden

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  When a voodoo priest bewitches Sand's beloved, the samurai goes on the warpath 
   
   
   
  Black magic orgies. Human sacrifices. Necrophilia. These are just a few of Augustus Janicot's special skills. This charismatic sadist has built a formidable following, convincing politicians across Europe that his voodoo ritual can win them office. When they consent to his bloody rites, he films them, and uses the footage for blackmail. On the verge of obtaining unlimited power, the Warlock is about to make a fatal mistake. 
   
   
   
  Janicot's next target is in Vietnam, and for Robert Sand, this is too close to home. An American trained in the ways of the samurai, Sand fears for the safety of Toki Jakata, the granddaughter of his late samurai master and the only woman he has ever loved. Sand has never been able to win Toki's heart, but he will do anything to keep Janicot from pulling it out of her chest.

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