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  Getting Away With Murder

  Pat Herbert

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  In 1913 suffragette Emily St John-Carstairs and her husband disappear from their South London home under mysterious circumstances. The scene shifts to 1958, where Teddy Bean, a former juggler turned private detective, is hired by Emily's sister to find her. 
  As the story unfolds between the two decades, we follow the fortunes of an unprincipled parlour maid, an unemployed alcoholic cook and a mysterious gentleman known only as ‘Bob’, all of whom are in some way linked to Emily’s fate. Added into the mix, is the ex-juggler's schizophrenic, knife-wielding wife but what part does she play in Emily’s story?

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  Ladies won't wait

  Peter Cheyney

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  The lady of the night – was dead before morning. 
  Michael Kells is a British secret agent waiting for his next assignment in France and when he comes across a beautiful woman – almost too beautiful to be true – who seems extraordinarily interested in him. This launch Kells on an intoxicating trail of intrigue, murder, and deadly romance through the bistros and boudoirs of the world’s worst underground! 
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  During the short period of fifteen years Peter Cheyney managed to write more than thirty books. Resulting in sales which run into millions of copies.  
  Cheyney's stories are about the grim, the slick, the seductive and the amusing – just true to life as Cheyney knew it. You will find plenty of strong meat, well spiced with humour in good measure. Detectives, gamesters, thieves, and hard-living beauties makes a glorious story of excitement, humour, suspense, crossing and double-crossing.

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  Death With Reservations - A...

  Kate Kingsbury

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  The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly murderer, however, it is up to Cecily Sinclair to restore order before Scotland Yard steps in and shuts down her infamous seaside hotel.Michel's cooking is renowned far and wide, and many guests patronize the Pennyfoot Hotel simply to enjoy his excellent cuisine. Therefore, when Lord Sittingdon appears to have died from ingesting Michel's famed lobster salad, the reputation of the hotel is at stake. Cecily is faced with a dilemma that could very well signal the end of her illustrious career—until circumstances suggest that the aristocrat was murdered, giving her a chance to save the hotel and bring a killer to justice.

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  The Conspiracy Cabal - A Blake...

  Davie Mac

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  When Blake Moran starts his new story with, “My wife is HUGE!”, you have to wonder if everything is just going to be downhill after that. But nope, it’s not. Blake finds himself enmeshed in two wild situations—an expanding family and a dead United States Senator. It turns out that Senator Todd Ashford was one of the rare “good ones”, and his death has the strange stench of a political hitjob. But why was he murdered? Working for his favorite billionaire, Mr. Triplehorn, again, Blake heads to Washington, D.C. to try and discover what no one else can. His discovery of a worldwide conspiracy cabal that is attempting to overwhelm and overthrow the Representative Republic of the United States of America will put his life, and the lives of others in danger—but Blake won’t stop. After all, he is the investigator who “finds stuff”. But will the Cabal get him before he gets them?

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  Canyonlands Carnage - A National...

  Scott Graham

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  "A confluence of thrills, history, and mystery as twisty as the Colorado River." —Micki Browning, author of Shadow Ridge 
   
   
   
  When suspicious deaths befall a whitewater rafting expedition through Cataract Canyon in Canyonlands National Park, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family recognize evil intent lies behind the tragedies. They must risk their lives and act before the murderer makes an already deadly journey on the Colorado River through Utah's red rock wilderness even deadlier—or turns on them instead.

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  The Templar Detective

  J. Robert Kennedy

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  From USA Today & multi-million copy bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy 
   
   
   
  In an age before detectives, one Templar Knight is called upon to deliver justice 
   
   
   
  When wounded Templar Knight Sir Marcus de Rancourt receives word that his sister is dying, he returns to a home he hasn't seen in twenty years, only to find his sister dead, and her children orphaned. Sir Marcus decides to take on the greatest challenge of his life and remain behind to raise the children, his loyal sergeant and squires insisting on joining him to work the land by his side. 
   
   
   
  But before they can settle into their new lives as farmers rather than soldiers, they are thrust into the middle of a conspiracy that could rock the very foundations of the Templars and the Roman Catholic Church. 
   
   
   
  And it all starts with a simple murder, witnessed by a little boy, who swears Templars killed his parents. 
   
   
   
  Now it is up to Sir Marcus and his men to determine who committed the gruesome murders, and clear the good name of the Templars, before the very balance of power in the region shifts in favor of someone who should never possess it.

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