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  Maltese Falcon

  Dashiell Hammett

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  In fog-bound San Francisco, private detective Sam Spade is hired by a mysterious woman who claims to be searching for her missing sister. The case curdles almost at once into murder, extortion, and double-dealing, drawing Spade into a tightening web of lies spun by elegant predators and desperate amateurs alike. At the center of their hunger is a legendary object—the Maltese Falcon—whose promise of immeasurable value turns every conversation into a negotiation and every gesture into a threat. Hard-boiled, swift, and morally serrated, Dashiell Hammett’s novel defines noir’s cold arithmetic: desire as motive, betrayal as method, and truth as whatever survives the next turn.

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  Sherlock Holmes and the Sultan's...

  William K. Stewart, F. E....

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  Sherlock Holmes is called to the London Zoo to investigate the treacherous murder of an unusual victim. While Scotland Yard ascribes little significance to the case, Holmes believes he has uncovered a politically motivated assassination.

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  A Shimmer of Red

  Valerie Wilson Wesley

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  With pandemic-fearing city dwellers fleeing to the New Jersey suburbs, Risko Realty—and Odessa Jones—are having their best year ever. Finally on solid financial footing, Odessa is debt-free and looking forward to the future. But she doesn't need second sight to sense her new young co-worker, Anna Lee, is on edge—and straight-up terrified—in spite of her hot sales record and sunny, outgoing attitude. And when Anna is killed in a hit-and-run, Odessa sees immediately that it was no accident . . .  
   
   
    
  It's soon clear that Anna was being stalked. But even with the help of family, friends—and Odessa's feisty cat, Juniper—Odessa is coming up with more questions than clues. Why was Anna avoiding influential real-estate mogul Emily Delbarton? Why is Delbarton's decidedly creepy brother so fixated on Anna? Did Anna make enemies through her previous job at the town's exclusive gentlemen's club? And can Odessa rule out her own ex-fiancé—who's back in her life with an astounding connection to Anna—and wanting a second chance? Finding the answers will come at an increasingly deadly cost—one Odessa's talents must somehow trap a killer to repay . . .

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  Gunmetal Greys

  T.J. Lockwood

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  BY SEEKING TO PRESERVE THE PAST, NO ONE SAW WHAT HAD ARRIVED TO GREET THE WORLD IN THE PRESENT… 
  The day the twelve skyward cities rose was heralded by some as the darkest time in human history. While it showed how far humanity had come it also sent a clear message of the world many wanted to leave behind. For Ezra Kane, there is only black or white as far as history is concerned. As the Chronicler of Hereford, his purpose is to preserve as much of the past as his resources will allow. But when the city begins shifting into the familiar unrest that plagued the surface below, the path to peace becomes buried in a void of grey. Sometimes the answers we seek lie between the lines, and no matter what we do history is destined to repeat itself.

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  Mother's Day - A completely...

  T.J. Emerson

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  You won't be able to stop reading this pulse-pounding psychological thriller ⚠️ Must-read for fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell! 
  Only your daughter knows what you did... 🩸 
  Grace has returned to London after twenty years abroad to manage her dying mother’s affairs. When she receives a blank Mother’s Day card in the post, she is confused and unsettled. Who could have sent it to her and why? She isn’t a mother. 
  Another Mother’s Day card arrives. Then come the silent phone calls. Haunted by disturbing flashbacks, Grace starts to unravel. Someone is out to get her. Someone who knows what she has done. Someone who will make her face the past she has run from for so long. 
  Can not having a child change your life as much as having one? 
  ‘This fast-paced story kept me guessing until the end and raised many thought-provoking questions about family, motherhood, rejection and mental health' - Cate Ray, author of Good Husbands 
  'A cleverly constructed, elegant page turner that will hook you from the very first line. A very enjoyable read' - Louise Dean, award-winning author of Becoming Strangers 
  'Fast-paced, dark and unsettling, this is an intelligently written, edge-of-your-seat thriller. A compelling pageturner with a satisfying ending and a late twist that I didn’t see coming' - 'Susan Elliot Wright, bestselling author of The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood' 
  ‘If you enjoy tension, suspense and surprise, Mother’s Day is your next favourite read. Emerson ratchets up the suspense from the first page and never lets it go. Dignified by deft and ingenious plotting, forensically insightful characterisation and impeccable prose, this psychological thriller delivers on all levels.’ - Lesley Glaister, award-winning author of A Particular Man 
  'Moving, compelling and beautifully written. It deserves to fly off the shelves.’ - Mel McGrath, author of Give Me the Child 
  'A great read. I loved the two female protagonists, particularly the brilliantly chilling anti-heroine' - Sarah J. Naughton, author of The Mothers 
  Praise for T. J. Emerson: 
  'Wow! Beautifully written with a great sense of place that contrasts so well with what is going on behind doors' Valerie Keogh, bestselling author of The Wives 
  '...cold, dark and beautifully written tale of manipulation, retribution and the blurred edges of justice.' Shari Low, bestselling author of One Midnight With You 
  'Tense, daring and totally addictive' Emma Christie 
  'An immersive, multi-layered story that provokes and excites' T.L. Huchu 
  'An unputdownable journey into the human condition asking the reader at every turn - how good are we really? How good are you?' Louise Dean 
  'A gripping, atmospheric and addictive read' Lesley Glaister 
  'Original, surprising and absolutely brimming with menace' Amanda Block 
  'This taut, elegant thriller thrums with dark menace and dread. I couldn’t look away' Kate Riordan, bestselling author of The Heatwave 
  Please note: This book was previously published as She Chose Me.

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  Murder at the Blarney Bash

  Darci Hannah

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  Follow the aroma of shamrock sugar cookies to the Beacon Bakeshop, a lighthouse on the shores of Lake Michigan where amateur sleuth Lindsey Bakewell is busy preparing for Beacon Harbor's St. Patrick's Day festivities—with a little help from her adorable Newfoundland, Wellington, of course! 
   
   
   
  Lindsey is baking up a storm—shamrock sugar cookies, Guinness chocolate cupcakes, Irish soda bread—for the well-timed grand opening of the Irish import gift shop, the Blarney Stone, owned by her boyfriend's uncle, Finnigan O'Connor, recently relocated from the Emerald Isle. 
   
   
   
  But it's Uncle Finn himself who seems full of blarney when he gleefully reveals a pot of real gold he claims he stole from an actual leprechaun. And Finn's fortune takes a turn for the worse when he's arrested for the bludgeoning of a small unidentified man dressed as a leprechaun—the murder weapon alleged to be his now-missing shillelagh. 
   
   
   
  Eccentric Uncle Finn may enjoy believing he's outwitted a leprechaun, but he would never be so deluded as to clobber one with his walking stick. Now Lindsey will need more than the luck of the Irish to seize a golden opportunity to catch the real killer . . .

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