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  Dancer at the Gai-Moulin The...

  Georges Simenon

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  In Liège, the city of Georges Simenon’s youth, a foreigner is found dead, and two young boys are accused of his murder, in this installment in the Inspector Maigret series.Somewhere in Liège, Jean Chabot and René Delfrosse hide out in the cellar of a seedy bar. Their plan to rob the establishment goes awry when, by the light of a match, they see the dead body of a man whom they had seen only hours before. They flee in horror.When the two boys are accused of the murder, their friendship is put to the test, and seemingly irrelevant social differences threaten their friendship and their freedom.A mysterious Frenchman arrives in town. What is he up to? And where is Maigret?A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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  The Fixed Period

  Anthony Trollope

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  In this classic dystopian novel, an  island nation eliminates its residents at sixty-seven years old, and in 1980, one man has reached his limit. Welcome to Britannula. This country gained its independence from Great Britain in the mid-twentieth century. A group of similar-minded men then gathered to establish the nation and its laws. Among them was Gabriel Crasweller.  An immigrant from New Zealand, Crasweller is currently Britannula’s oldest resident. The trouble is, decades ago, he voted to create the “Fixed Period.” It is a law in his country for citizens to be euthanized when they reach sixty-eight years of age, and Crasweller is the first to run out of time . . .  First published in installments in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1881, The Fixed Period was released as a book in 1882. It is told from the perspective of Britannula’s president, Crasweller’s friend, as he tries to honor the laws of the land while handling the aged resident.

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  The Noose's Shadow

  Graham Brack

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  A man who nobody liked has been murdered . . . but who had a motive to kill? 
   
   
   
  1680, Leiden, The Netherlands 
   
   
   
  After a successful trip to England to secure the Princess Mary's hand in marriage to William of Orange, Master Mercurius is back at the University of Leiden. 
   
   
   
  And once more, he finds himself embroiled in a local mystery. A farmer named Wolf was stabbed to death outside his home, and his neighbor Jaco has been arrested for the murder. 
   
   
   
  But Jaco's wife Sara is convinced her husband is innocent, and Mercurius believes her. 
   
   
   
  As Mercurius gathers the facts, it soon becomes clear that Wolf was a deeply unpopular man. But is that enough of a motive for murder? 
   
   
   
  With the shadow of the noose looming over Jaco, Mercurius is running out of time to catch the killer and stop an innocent man from hanging in his stead.

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  Dark Flight - A Cold War Thriller

  James Blatch

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  In the dark recesses of a hangar, hidden deep in the Mojave desert, an experimental hypersonic aircraft awaits a highly classified task. 
  A secret to all but a handful of men, the XS-81 has a very specific purpose, ready to protect the United States' military secrets from a new wave of Soviet satellites. 
  To crew a politically sensitive first mission, a young test pilot will sit alongside an Edwards AFB veteran. For Captain Red Brunson, this is a chance to make amends after a difficult start in his test flying career. 
  But at the heart of this top-secret project is a traitor. 
  With the United States on the brink of a humiliating disaster, exposed by a deep cover spy, Brunson finds himself at the centre of an incident that could make the Bay of Pigs look like a picnic. 
  From James Blatch, a gripping Cold War thriller. 
  "Excitement and fine writing – James Blatch's Red Brunson is back." (Sir John Major KG CH)

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  Murder of Convenience

  Pat Herbert

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  It is London in the early 1960s and Teddy Bean is making a name for himself as a private detective. 
  However, his personal problems are taking over, with his brother, John, only slowly recovering from a heart attack and his wife, Pearl, dying in a car accident. Added to this, he takes on a difficult case involving a woman presumably drowned at sea by her husband. 
  Teddy needs help while his brother is incapacitated and finds it in his friend, ex-Detective Inspector Tony Halliday. With the added support of their secretary Muriel, the Bean Detective Agency is open for business once more!

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  Atacama

  Burt Clinchandhill

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  A billion-year-old mystery resurfaces.WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2022 – Best Historical Adventure 
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  Walker Monroe, Yale professor, librarian, and expert in ancient languages, gets an unexpected visit from two U.S. Geological Service members. They show him a piece of unknown metal engraved with a mysterious, coded text, and seek his help in translating it. 
  He calls in the help of his friends and colleagues, Matthew Bishop and Jennifer Porter, but unable to crack the code, they start the search for the origin of the strange piece of metal. 
  They take a perilous journey across four continents, unraveling a dangerous puzzle, all while followed closely by other interested parties. Piece by piece, they get nearer to a truth that will shake the foundation of everything they thought to be true about our world’s history. 
  EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTS the third book in the “Matthew Bishop” series of historical conspiracy mysteries.

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