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All Time Faves: Historical Mysteries: America
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Oh Danny Boy "Absorbing, well-plotted . . . This complex tale comes to a bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion."--"Publishers Weekly" on "In Like Flynn" |
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The Old Buzzard Had It Coming: An Alafair Tucker Mystery One winter evening in 1912, in the woods outside of Boynton, Oklahoma, abusive and drunken Harley Day surprises his son John Lee and the neighbor girl Phoebe Tucker in a lovers' tryst. An hour later, when John Lee walks his beloved home, Phoebe's mother, Alafair Tucker, suspects that something is amiss. How could she know her daughter has been involved in a violent confrontation that will make Phoebe and her beau murder suspects? ...More |
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The Anatomy of Deception A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, this novel follows a young doctor as he grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer. ...More |
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Letter from Home In this "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year, set in the summer of 1944, journalist Gretchen Gilman gets a letter from her small Oklahoma hometown, which brings back memories of the people she had once known. But this summer, life there will change forever. ...More |
 
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The Up and Up With suckers aplenty looking for land in the Sunshine State during the Roaring Twenties, Frank Hearn and his partner, the well-connected son of a former mayor, plan to make a killing in the real estate biz. However, when his partner is brutally murdered, Frank is accused of the crime. ...More |
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Lipstick and Lies Undercover agent Pucci Lewis plans to unmask Grace Buchanan-Dineen as the countess-counteragent suspected of triple dealing and possibly treason. As the story unfolds, Lewis and fellow agent Dante not only expose the espionage ring but also confront an even greater threat to homeland security. ...More |
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Dancing to "Almendra" Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquin Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mobster's when a secretive zookeeper whispers to him that he "knows too much." In exchange for a promise to introduce the keeper to his idol, the film star George Raft, now the host of the Capri Casino, Joaquin gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love. The love story is, of course, another mystery. Told by Yolanda, a beautiful ex-circus performer now working for the famed cabaret San Souci, it interleaves through ...More |
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The Shanghai Tunnel After the murder of her missionary parents in China, Emily marries a shrewd entrepreneur from Portland, Oregon. She learns too late that Horace Stratton is cruel. After Horace dies, Emily and their son arrive in Portland and discover a strange and potentially deadly land. First in a new series. ...More |
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Death Was the Other Woman Kitty Pangborn needed a job. She got more than she bargained for. ...More |
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The Blackest Bird: A Novel of Murder in Nineteenth-Century New York In 1841 New York, High Constable Jacob Hays is charged with solving the city's murders. At the end of a long and distinguished career, Hays' investigations will involve gang wars, grave robbers, and clues hidden in poems by the minstrel of the night: Edgar Allan Poe. ...More |
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The Cliff House Strangler The serenely self-assured 19th-century lawyer Sarah Woolson is still trying to get her life together when she is suddenly involved in a complicated murder plot involving ghosts, gypsies, and City Hall--all while facing off with a fellow lawyer. ...More |