The Janitor Solves a Murder


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A young Milrose State college student goes out early one morning to prepare for his first bicycle race and is abruptly sidetracked when he discovers the body of a young woman, sadistically murdered and nailed to the wall of a pavilion. There had never been a murder in this small Minnesota town and now the first one for the records is a crucifixion. Recently appointed to detective status, Sally Fairfield receives a phone call from Detective Bob Carpenter of the Milrose Police Department and reports to the scene of her first homicide investigation with a hangover. Assigned to investigate the case, the two detectives quickly realize theyre in over their heads. Carpenter, a law enforcement officer for over twenty years, has never worked a murder case. With more than one suspect in the small town, they opt to call their friend, Josh Trimble, from the Minnesota Department of Criminal Apprehension. An arrest is made, but is this person the murderer? The three detectives have some doubts, but the inexperienced county attorney insists on an indictment. While the detectives review the clues, a trial takes place, and with lives at stake, revelations after the trial break the case wide open in The Janitor Solves a Murder.




The Lonely Detective Solves Murder at Snow White and Ten Additional Exciting Hilarious Mysteries


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A collection of eleven outrageously nasty, politically incorrect, uniquely humorous mysteries. This new collection runs the gambit from murder among material lawyers, a mailman who burglars, a cop parody, little league greedy lawyers, to reality TV exposed. These mysteries will puzzle and amuse the reader.




Killing Monarchs


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Two dead bodies and too many coincidences to ignore—in this outdoors mystery, special agent Sam Rivers must stop a murderous conspiracy. As a special agent for the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Sam Rivers has researched and studied a variety of animals. He’s visiting sixth graders at Hopkins Elementary to share photographs of the Monarch butterfly—and he’s brought along his drug-sniffing wolfdog, Gray, to give students a demonstration of his partner’s remarkable skills. Gray finds a sample drug packet, hidden by Sam, but that’s not all. The wolfdog keeps following his nose, leading Sam to a utility room where they discover the school’s janitor, dead. Local police write it off as a drug overdose, but Sam is no stranger to crime scenes. He suspects foul play. When Sam and Gray come upon a second victim, the coincidences are too great to ignore. Sam starts turning over rocks—and what slithers out is more insidious than anyone could have foretold. Sam’s instincts tell him there’ll be more deaths, but those instincts put him at odds with conventional law enforcement. Armed with his knowledge of the natural world and his wolfdog companion, Sam must uncover answers to questions that few others believe exist. The Denver Post calls Sam Rivers the “predator’s predator.” In Killing Monarchs, natural history writer Cary J. Griffith brings back Sam for his third mystery—a thrilling novel filled with action and suspense.




A Killing of the Don's wife


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A Killing of the Don’s wife Part II of VIII in the series about PI Simon Fintch. Simon Fintch moves to New York, where he works as a private investigator with Bee Thomson. They get a murder case that the police haven't had time or opportunity to solve. There are no clues other than that Mariella's husband Victor had committed a bank robbery a year before she was murdered. Victor and his accomplices all went to prison shortly after the bank robbery. They then became one by one murdered in prison. It's a big Mystery where the loot went and who the anonymous informer is that had informed the police that Victor was in charge of the robbery. The police are convinced that when they find Mariella's killer they will also find the loot from the bank robbery. It's an exciting time for Simon, who has never been in New York before. He makes a lot of new friends and he has quickly come to love New York. It doesn't take a long time before the rest of his family also comes over for a visit and after a while, they will all move to New York.




Harlequin Romantic Suspense February 2014 Bundle


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Harlequin Romantic Suspense brings you four new titles for one great price, available now! Looking for heart-racing romance and high-stakes suspense? This Harlequin Romantic Suspense bundle includes Risk Taker by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lindsay McKenna, Cavanaugh Hero by USA TODAY bestselling author Marie Ferrarella, Armed and Famous by Jennifer Morey and Moving Target by Kimberly Van Meter. Look for 4 new compelling stories every month from Harlequin Romantic Suspense!




The Black Widows


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In Chappaqua, New York, two elderly widows who look like grandmothers with nothing more exciting on their daily agendas than mopping the kitchen floor, are not who they seem. Originally from Afghanistan and Palestine, the widows are hiding a secret of monumental proportions. From a back room in a small secondhand bookstore attached to their house, Mrs. Abramowitz and Mrs. Silverman control the Black Widows, a worldwide terrorist organization created with a dual purposeto destabilize the Western world and to wage a personal vendetta of their own. As soon as Zach Dayanan NYPD detective and former Israeli policemantakes the case, he faces a series of apparently random murders with identical wounds slashed in the victims chests. Desperate for answers, he seeks help from his ex-lover and expert pathologist, Dr. Jayanti Joshi. After examining the hearts, Dr. Joshi quickly discovers the common thread of the murders. Unfortunately, the clue leads nowhere. Zachs search for the murderer leads him to the hidden caves of an impenetrable ancient desert city, where he is soon swept into the heart of an evil plot. Only time will tell if he can save the Western world from another Holocaust.




The View from Kings Point


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The View From Kings Point: The Kings Point Creative Writers Club Anthology, 2020 has arrived! Inside these covers are portfolios of 20 gifted writers in a 55+ South Florida condo community—“your senior citizens next door”—of astonishing versatility, variety, range, scope, literary acumen, and psychological depth in many different genres, such as Humor, Fiction, Memoirs, Mystery, and Poetry. Open anywhere you choose and start from there. You won’t be able to put the book down! See the “Preface” for an overview of the book and introductions to our shining stars.




COLD CASE SQUAD


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Detective Sergeant Patricia (Patti Mac) McAvoy’s career was turned upside down when an undocumented Mexican teen-aged boy was found strangled, floating in a 55 gallon drum in South Oyster Bay, Long Island. Inspection revealed he was carrying rosary beads and wearing a diaper. Simultaneously, McAvoy was transferred to Nassau County, NY, Homicide Squad South as a public relations ploy. Following a hostile reception from woman hating Detective Captain Peter J. Brennan, Patti was handed a cold case squad and exiled to an attic stacked floor to ceiling with cold cases. Brennan saddled Patti with four detectives, culled from his bad boy list, turning her assignment into a set up for failure. Outwitting Brennan by using guile and ingenuity, Patti led her team to a daring manslaughter arrest. Taking note of Patti’s leadership, a detective confided about his case of a murdered boy in a floating barrel, inexplicably removed from the active murder list and placed in the dead file as a special investigation. Patti attempted to re-open the case and ran into the infamous police “Blue Wall of Silence.” Patti browbeat Brennan into releasing the case. Breaching the “Wall,” cold case squad yielded two “persons of interest,” a prosperous attorney and a Roman Catholic Monsignor who was the Police Commissioner’s twin brother. Patti discovered the meaning of the ‘loneliness of command’ as she descended into the squalid world of sexism, racism, corruption and worst of all, pedophilia. The gruesome trail took her to the pillars of society. Patti found herself in the crosshairs of vile violent men, who would love to put a bullet between her eyes. The investigation exposed a massive political cover-up leading to the top of the food chain and ripped open a sleepy suburban county with the arrests of a powerful figure and Brennan.




Gruesome Unsolved Murders - Shocking Crimes Never Solved


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Over thirty macabre cases of bizarre and harrowing crimes which were never solved. The cases under scrutiny include: The Alphabet Murders, Jill Dando, the Hollywood murder of Christa Helm, The Frankford Slasher, The Hill Ax Murders of Ardenwald, The Lake Bodom Murders and many more famous criminal cases of murder which have never been solved by crime agencies.




Murder on the Blackboard


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Schoolteacher sleuth Miss Withers finds a dead body during detention in this mystery starring “one of the world’s shrewdest and most amusing detectives” (The New York Times). Anise Halloran is young to be teaching school, and much too pretty, but third-grade teacher Hildegarde Withers is not the sort to condemn a coworker just because she wears high heels. When she overhears nine-year-old Buster Jones spreading rumors about Miss Halloran being sweet on the principal, Miss Withers orders the schoolyard quarterback to write discipline on the chalkboard one hundred times. Anise Halloran stays late after school, too. In fact, she stays forever. Miss Withers finds Anise in the cloakroom, her head bashed in, and her high heels strewn across the floor. She sends Buster to fetch Inspector Piper, the hard-nosed detective whom she occasionally assists with murder inquiries, but by the time he arrives, the body has vanished. There is a killer inside the elementary school, and Buster Jones is not the only person whom Miss Withers will have to teach a lesson about discipline.