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  Grace Among Thieves

  Kari Bovée

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  A priceless heirloom. A killer with a score to settle. 
   
  Hollywood, 1924. Grace Michelle's career is flourishing. As a lead costume designer in the heart of Tinseltown, she finally has the success she's worked so hard for. But when a father she believed dead resurfaces—and his glamorous new wife is kidnapped—Grace is thrown into a high-stakes mystery with deadly consequences. 
   
  Drawn into a tangled plot involving a stolen Russian treasure, a murdered starlet, and a vengeful criminal from her past, Grace must navigate Hollywood's glittering façades and shadowy secrets. As pressure mounts and the past collides with the present, Grace must untangle a web of lies threaded through the very fabric of Hollywood's elite. 
   
  If she can't find the artifact—and the truth—Grace may end up a footnote in someone else's script. 
   
  Grace Among Thieves is part of the Grace Michelle Mysteries, a dazzling historical mystery series where old Hollywood glam meets heart-pounding intrigue.

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  Come Helen High Water

  Susan McBride

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  Helen Evans returns in Susan McBride's fourth River Road Mystery! 
   
   
   
  Spring has sprung, the river is rising, and when Luann Dupree, the head of River Bend's Historical Society, vanishes into the night, everyone in town is convinced she's run off with her Internet Romeo. But her lifelong friend, Sarah Biddle, is convinced Luann is the victim of foul play. No one believes her—not even her husband, the local sheriff, so she turns to Helen Evans for help. 
   
   
   
  As River Bend's resident puzzle-solver, Helen's tackled many a local mystery before. So she agrees to help Sarah, even though she's not so sure herself that Luann is really in trouble. But as the town's flood waters slowly recede, dead fish and muck aren't the only things Helen finds. She begins to uncover town secrets, false identities . . . and the very real chance that Luann might not be discovered alive . . .

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  A Bloodstained Coat

  Stephen Williams

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  A bloodstained coat. Three missing women. One dead body. 
   
   
   
  Detective Mary Hume reckons she's seen it all. But she's never seen anything like this. 
   
   
   
  It begins with the discovery of a broken body in a lift shaft in an old Victorian warehouse. 
   
   
   
  The postmortem reveals the bloodstains on the dead man's coat belong to three different people. DNA identifies one of them as Julie Cross, whose body was discovered six months earlier, covered in horrifying wounds. 
   
   
   
  Maverick ex-police officer Raine was hired to look for Julie. She didn't find Julie in time. But she's determined to find out who killed her. 
   
   
   
  So, who does the rest of the blood belong to? 
   
   
   
  Chalk-and-cheese detective duo Raine and Hume are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more young women die.

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  It's a Battlefield

  Graham Greene

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  An "adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious" novel of crime and punishment in pre–World War II London (V. S. Pritchett). 
   
   
    
  During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang—whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer—Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve, are inflaming political unrest in an increasingly divided city. But Drover's single, impulsive act is also upending the lives of the people he loves and trusts. Caught in a quicksand of desperation, sexual betrayal, and guilt, they will not only play a part in Drover's fate, but they'll become agents—both unwitting and calculated—of their own fates as well. 
   
   
    
  Turning the traditional narrative of the police procedural, domestic drama, and political thriller on its head, It's a Battlefield was described by Graham Greene himself as "a panoramic novel of London," one without heroes and villains, only "the injustice of man's justice."

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  When It Rains

  Dave Warner

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  For Broome detective Dan Clement, it seems that crime is as plentiful as wet season rain. 
   
  When his sergeant is beaten up, and a woman is brutally assaulted, it seems like the same two suspects are behind both incidents. But when a woman's hand is discovered in crocodile-infested waters, things take a macabre turn. The stakes rise sky-high as Dan races against time to solve this complex and puzzling case.

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  Knockdown

  Dick Francis

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  Dick Francis, the bestselling master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing. 
   
  For a generous commission, ex-prizewinning jockey Jonah Dereham reluctantly agrees to bid on a young steeplechaser on behalf of a wealthy American woman.  
   
  But his life is thrust into danger immediately following the auction, when he receives a blow to the head by two thugs demanding ownership of the horse. 
   
  Unfortunately that’s just the beginning. Now Jonah must figure out the high stakes game being played, before he becomes its next casualty.

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