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21341) Houseboat mystery
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden are spending a week on a houseboat! Throughout the journey, the children have the feeling they are being watched--and they are. Someone wants something on their boat, and he'll stop at nothing to get it. Can the Boxcar Children figure it out before it's too late?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Misted Pines volume 2
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"This body would be the last for Zachariah Lazarus? The Crystal Killer's latest casualty was discovered in a sleepy town in the Pacific Northwest, Misted Pines. His years in the FBI, and tracking the Crystal Killer, have taken their toll on Rus. He lost his marriage to the job. And the burdens he carries for the victims were crushing him. Misted Pines has recently survived a killer's rampage and a town scandal that made global news. The media was...
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Ray Ambler, the curator of the library's crime fiction collection, joins forces with NYPD homicide detective Mike Cosgrove in hopes of bringing a murderer to justice. In his search for the reasons behind the murder, Ambler uncovers hidden--and profoundly disturbing--relationships between visitors to the library.
21344) Death by latte
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Sleuth/Speak
Pub. Date
2008
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When sixteen-year-old Aphra sneaks away from the island resort where she lives with her father, and travels to Seattle to find the mother she hasn't seen for four years, she doesn't anticipate getting involved in a CIA plot that threatens not only her life, but that of her boyfriend and her mother, as well.
21345) Payment in kind
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When the body of Pete Kelsey's adulterous wife is found in a broom closet entwined with the corpse of her lover, detective J. P. Beaumont believes Kelsey's plea of innocence but has a hunch that the wronged husband is hiding something else.
21346) The May Queen murders
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When her beloved cousin goes missing after a May Day celebration, sixteen-year-old Ivy discovers that both her cousin and her hometown in the Missouri Ozarks are as full of secrets as the woods that surround them.
21347) The tea will tell
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Tearoom mysteries volume 11
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Guideposts
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"In the height of Lake Chickadee's tourist season, a spate of home invasion burglaries begins making front-page news. Jan and Elaine discover that someone has left a gun behind in the tearoom. The gun appears to be the same one the newspaper reported as used in the break-ins. But why would someone leave that weapon behind, yet not try to rob the place? Or did they? Worried that their neighborhood is being threatened by a dangerous thief, the cousins...
21348) Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist is born in the harsh confines of a workhouse, his mother expiring in childbirth, his father unknown. After enduring years of brutal treatment, Oliver runs away to London, where he falls in with a band of child pickpockets led by the villainous Fagin. His foray into a life of crime soon lands him into the arms of the law, when Oliver's fortunes finally appear to turn as the robbery victim becomes his benefactor. But Fagin isn't about to...
21349) British murder
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English tea murder: A trip to England, sponsored by Winchester College, sounds practically perfect to Lucy Stone--until the tour leader suffers a fatal asthma attack mid-flight. Lucy suspects some very unnatural causes, but luckily, she packed her sleuthing skills. Between stops for afternoon tea, visits to historic sites, and catching up with an old flame, she's ensnared in a daring scheme. But will it lead her to a criminal mastermind--or ensure...
21350) Trimmed with murder
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2015.
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Organizing a knit-themed entry in Sea Harbor's holiday tree-trimming contest, the Seaside Knitters are on the case when Izzy's younger brother, a volunteer at a local clinic, is implicated in a murder.
21351) Final word
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Winterton deception volume 1
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Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known.
21352) The detective dog
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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Detective Dog Nell uses her amazing sense of smell to solve mysteries.
21353) The Khipu and the final key
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[2017]
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In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans! Returning to Buenos Aires, the Aldens connect with the Silvertons...
21354) One deadly eye
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Doc Ford novels volume 27
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Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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"A Russian diplomat disappears while Doc is tagging great white sharks in South Africa, and members of a criminal brotherhood, Bratva, don't think it's a coincidence. They track the biologist to Dinkin's Bay Marina on the west coast of Florida, where Brotherhood mercenaries have already deployed, prepared to pillage and kill in the wake of an approaching hurricane. No one, however, is prepared for a cataclysmic event that will forever change the island...
21355) The detour of the elephants
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Boxcar children great adventures volume 3
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The Alden siblings continue their quest to return lost artifacts around the world by visiting the Great Wall of China and an elephant reserve in Thailand, among other sites, but halfway around the world trouble seems closer than ever. Is someone they know working for the rival Argents?
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Boxcar children great adventure volume 2
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Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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The Aldens arrive in Egypt but the agent they're supposed to meet has gone missing! With the help of a puzzle in a papyrus scroll, they figure out their next mission to deliver a tiny ancient pharaoh statue to an archaeologist at the Pyramids! Along the way they outwit a thief who tries to steal all the treasures.
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Bantam
Pub. Date
c2009
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Starting a new life in the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham, Jordan Marsh, while restoring the Victorian house she just bought, finds herself once again immersed in mystery and mayhem when two ghosts ask her to solve a century-old murder.
21358) The amusement park mystery
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Boxcar children graphic novels volume 10
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When the Aldens visit their cousins, they're in for a surprise-- there's an amusement park nearby! It has everything they could ask for, with plenty of rides and games. But the children see strange lights coming from the closed park at night. And then a mysterious phone call warns them to stay away! Just what is going on at the amusement park?
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her Midtown apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder grips the city. It also draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective...
21360) New river blues
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Tucson Police Detective Sarah Burke is called in to investigate a horrific double murder in a high-dollar neighborhood, and the tragic destiny of a troubled family unfolds. Meanwhile, Sarah's household bulges at the seams as her niece, boyfriend, and mother all search for room in her small spaces and crowded schedule, and her sister, as usual, does nothing to make things easier. --