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Ben Packard mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"When misguided teenagers Jesse Crawford and Jenny Wheeler are forced to rob Emmett Brown to escape impossible circumstances, what starts as a home invasion quickly turns into a nightmare for the teens. What Jesse and Jenny don't know is that although Emmett is now old, severely obese, and in chronic pain, Emmett was responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two young women almost twenty years ago, crimes that have never been solved. So Emmett...
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In bucolic small-town Vermont, tapestries expert Stella Thornton Buckley feels out of her element - and not just because she's fresh from Manhattan. Mere hours after moving to maple syrup country, she and her husband Nick find a dead man in a well on their property. When the police investigation forces the couple out of their vintage farmhouse and into a rough deer camp, Stella and Nick drive their Smart car all over the hamlet questioning the locals....
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Adam Dalgliesh, a charismatic police commander, investigates the case of Rhoda Gradwyn, a forty-seven-year-old journalist murdered after a visit to the plastic surgeon to remove an old scar, and discovers a tangled web of motives and strange suspects centered on life around Cheverell Manor.
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"Hannah's up to her ears with Easter orders rushing in at The Cookie Jar, plus a festive meal to prepare for a dinner party at her mother's penthouse. But everything comes crashing to a halt when Hannah receives a panicked call from her sister Andrea -- Mayor Richard Bascomb has been murdered... and Andrea is the prime suspect. Even with his reputation for being a bully, Mayor Bascomb -- or 'Ricky Ticky,' as Hannah's mother likes to call him -- had...
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Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Frank Rath thought he was done with murder when he turned in his detective's badge to become a private investigator and raise a daughter alone. Then the police in his remote rural community of Canaan find an '89 Monte Carlo abandoned by the side of the road, and the beautiful teenage girl who owned the car seems to have disappeared without a trace. Soon Rath's investigation brings him face-to-face with the darkest abominations of the human soul.
6) Victim 2117
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Department Q volume 8
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English
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"The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117--the two thousand one hundred and seventeenth refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen's cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous--and deeply personal--case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly...
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Inspector Sejer is trying to solve the case of a brutally murdered woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is a schizophrenic who recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness, a 12-year-old boy, is a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three misfits are drawn into an uneasy alliance with Inspector Sejer's evidence gathering warped...
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Detective Vincent Ruiz has no memory of how he ended up in the Thames with a bullet in his leg, or where the photo of a kidnapped seven-year- old girl came from that was found in his pocket. After a bloody boat is discovered nearby, it's clear that Ruiz was not the only casualty. Under investigation by his colleagues and accused of faking amnesia, Ruiz turns to Joe O'Loughlin, hoping the psychologist can help unlock his memory.
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