Download Cinnamon Roll Murder (Hannah Swensen Mystery, Book 16) by Joanne Fluke PDF

By Joanne Fluke

With the Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band heading towards Lake Eden for the Weekend Jazz pageant, Hannah Swensen is more than pleased to bake up a beneficiant provide in their namesake confections. yet tragedy moves whilst the band's journey bus overturns on its method into city. between these injured is blood brother Neiman, the band's cherished keyboard participant. at the beginning, Buddy's accidents seem minor, until eventually his situation unexpectedly takes a flip for the worse—as in lifeless. Hannah's no health professional, yet she suspects that the surgical scissors jutting out of Buddy's chest can have whatever to do with it.

Turns out blood brother Neiman isn't the victim's genuine identify. in truth, not anyone is basically convinced who he's, or what secrets and techniques will be lurking in his previous. Hannah isn't definite simply how she'll get to the bottom of this secret, yet there's not anything sweeter than bringing a killer to justice. . .

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Download The Chocolate Book Bandit (Chocoholic Mystery, Book 13) by JoAnna Carl PDF

By JoAnna Carl

Whilst it seems a member of Warner Pier?™s library board has been residing on borrowed time, Lee is decided to find who wrote the victim?™s ultimate chapter…

Running TenHuis Chocolade retains Lee McKinney Woodyard busy sufficient, yet now she?™s been provided various positions within the city of Warner Pier?"one at the tourism committee and one other at the library board. to come to a decision among the 2, she is going to Warner Pier?™s old library to take a look at the board?™s per thirty days meeting.

As ordinary, rumors are flying during the small town?"this time, they?™re concerning the rugged new library director, Henry “Butch” Cassidy, and the alterations he allegedly plans to make. Butch is certainly attractive?"but Lee doesn?™t get an opportunity to determine approximately his proposed alterations. a couple of minutes into the assembly, the dialogue is interrupted via the terrified screams of the library clerk.

She has came across the dead physique of Abigail VanRoostock, a prim and correct retiring member of the board, crumpled in a heap on the backside of the basement stairs. all at once, all people in attendance, together with Lee, is suspected in her homicide. And as Lee unearths out, they?™ve all bought whatever to hide…

INCLUDES TASTY CHOCOLATE trivialities!

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Download El Gavilan by Craig McDonald PDF

By Craig McDonald

"The pageant for the way forward for crime fiction is fierce, appropriately, yet don't take your eyes off Craig McDonald. He's wily, proficient and rarest of the infrequent; a real unique. He writes depression poetry that really has depression poets wandering round, yet don't flip your backs on them, both. i'm regularly desirous to see what he's going to do next."
Laura Lippman

The information is filled with it; escalating tensions from unlawful immigration, headless our bodies placing off bridges, and bounties put on lawmen on each side of the border. New Austin, Ohio, is a city grappling with waves of undocumented employees who exert super strain on faculties, police, and town providers. in the middle of the turmoil, 3 very other forms of police officers scramble to take care of regulate and impose order.

But the rape and homicide of a Mexican American girl triggers a brutal chain of occasions that threatens to go away no survivors.El Gavilan is a unique of transferring alliances and whiplash switchbacks. households are divided and careers and lives threatened. Friendships and beliefs are proven and budding amorous affairs challenged. With its topical topics, shades-of- grey characters, and darkish canvas, El Gavilan is a unique for our charged times.

Craig McDonald, writer of the across the world acclaimed Hector Lassiter sequence, is an award-winning journalist, editor, and fiction author. His brief fiction has seemed in literary magazines and anthologies. His fiction and nonfiction have earned him nominations for the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Gumshoe awards. He is living in Ohio

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Download Top of the Heap by Erle Stanley Gardner PDF

By Erle Stanley Gardner

SHE performed the percentages -- AND LOST!

When the gorgeous female friend of a infamous gangster vanishes, the final guy to be visible along with her wishes an alibi -- and quickly. input Donald Lam of the Cool & Lam detective corporation. Donald tracks down the 2 girls with whom his shopper claims to have spent the evening and the buyer broadcasts the case closed.

But it's now not. whatever approximately his client's tale doesn't upload up, and Donald can't face up to the temptation to maintain digging. sooner than he understands it, he's dug up connections to a mining rip-off, an unlawful on line casino, and a double murder -- plus a chance for an enterprising inner most eye to make a small fortune, if he can simply remain alive lengthy adequate to benefit from it!

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Download Moonbird Boy by Abigail Padgett PDF

By Abigail Padgett

Moonbird is a six-year-old boy whose destiny is on the center of the newest in Padgett's more and more compelling sequence that includes manic-depressive sleuth Bo Bradley. Bo meets Moonbird at Ghost Flower inn, a psychiatric rehabilitation facility run by means of the Neji Indians within the wilderness mountains of Southern California. The boy is there along with his father, Mort Wagman, a unmarried dad or mum, aspiring comedian and schizophrenic who had lately long past off his drugs. Bo (seen final in Turtle child) is there mountain climbing out of a deep melancholy that were induced by way of the dying of her 17-year-old dog.When Mort is shot to dying in a close-by canyon, Bo is devastated, yet her sympathy for the boy and her task as a social employee for the San Diego baby protecting companies supply her impetus to enquire Mort's loss of life and watch over his son, who should be moved into the kid welfare approach if no family are chanced on. Bo, whose affliction supplies her an acute, trustworthy self-awareness, has turn into extra forceful and credible with every one of her 4 appearances. Padgett areas her in a posh, well-orchestrated plot the following, regarding the grasping aspirations of a clinical administration company that hopes to franchise the Lodge's conventional Neji therapeutic process. Firmly rooted in Bo's specific interplay with the area, the narrative develops texture and intensity as Padgett weaves strands of neurophysiological examine, Indian ritual, homicide, vast company, WW II atrocities, kinfolk ties and romance (in the continued dating of Bo and pediatrician Andrew LaMarche) right into a gripping novel. secret Guild featured alternate.

(Book 4 of the Bo Bradley Mysteries sequence)

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Download The Pumpkin Thief (Chloe Boston Mystery, Book 2) by Melanie Jackson PDF

By Melanie Jackson

Chloe Boston, meter maid and unofficial sleuth of the wish Falls Police division, is at the path of the Halloween Killer and a moment challenging legal, the Pumpkin Thief, who has robbed each pumpkin patch on the town. Aided through her puppy and new boyfriend, Chloe is remaining in on wish Falls public enemies 1 and a pair of.

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Download The Devil's Company (Benjamin Weaver, Book 3) by David Liss PDF

By David Liss

BONUS: This version incorporates a The Devil's Company dialogue guide.

From the acclaimed and bestselling writer of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Papercomes a gorgeous new mystery set within the elegance and squalor of eighteenth-century London.

The 12 months is 1722. Ruffian for rent and grasp of cover Benjamin Weaver unearths himself pitted opposed to a mysterious mastermind who holds the lives of Weaver's acquaintances within the stability. to guard the folks he loves, Weaver needs to degree a bold theft from the headquarters of the ruthless British East India corporation, yet this robbery is simply the hole movement in a deadly video game of mystery plots, company competitors, and international spies. With the protection of the nation--and the lives of these he loves--in the stability, Weaver needs to navigate a labyrinth of political greed and company treachery.

Explosive motion and totally brilliant interval element are the hallmarks of an writer who maintains to set the bar ever larger for old suspense.

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Download Kill My Darling (Bill Slider Mystery, Book 14) by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles PDF

By Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

A invoice Slider mystery

When Melanie Hunter is going lacking, the boys in her lifestyles come lower than suspicion. And there's lots to suspect: lies, half-truths, deceptions. should you pull one thread, the full textile of kin lifestyles can come aside. There are secrets and techniques in Melanie's previous, and soreness she attempted to conceal from the area. Slider and his workforce have to solution questions: who enjoyed Melanie . . . and who enjoyed her an excessive amount of

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Download Octopus Alibi (Alex Rutledge, Book 4) by Tom Corcoran PDF

By Tom Corcoran

The suspected homicide of a long-missing lady, the dying of an aged mentor, and the suicide of Key West's renowned mayor are printed in one April day. Alex Rutledge, a contract photographer with part-time forensic ties to the Monroe County Sheriff's division and the most important West Police division, needs to accompany fishing consultant and good friend Sam Wheeler to spot a physique in Broward County. Hours later, after Alex is again at the island, a Key West detective coerces him into documenting Mayor Gomez's death. Alex additionally learns he needs to administrate the property of Naomi Douglas, the lady who inspired his artistic photography.

Alex quickly suspects that not anything is because it looks. The police select to not see crimes. in basic terms Rutledge senses foul play at the island, a hyperlink among the deaths, and the specter of extra peril.

Home-front problems compound the challenge. Teresa Barga, Alex's new housemate, is absorbed through the arriving on the town of Whitney Randolph, a school buddy with funds, wild tales, bent morals, and extra alibis than an octopus has suckers. Randolph, it apears, has already slithered into the unfolding suspense, linking himself to rip-off sufferers and homicide victims.

Alex needs to forget about a dating long past bitter, then specialize in wisps of clues to attach the earlier and current. buddies act out of personality, officers turn into duplicitous, and threats of violence take Alex to the main risky war of words of his existence.

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