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Death of a liar [sound recording] / by Beaton, M. C.; Malcolm, Graeme.;
Read by Graeme Malcolm."Sergeant Hamish Macbeth is alarmed to receive a report from a woman in the small village of Cronish in the Scottish Highlands. She has been brutally attacked and the criminal is on the loose. But upon further investigation, Hamish discovers that she was lying about the crime. So when the same woman calls him back about an intruder, he simply marvels at her compulsion to lie. This time, though, she is telling the truth. Her body is found in her home and Hamish must sort through all of her lies to solve the crime"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Macbeth, Hamish (Fictitious character); Murder; Police;
© p2015., Hachette Audio,
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Death by Irish whiskey / by Murphy, C. E.(Catie E.),author.;
The competition for best whiskey in Ireland will be a publicity bonanza for the winner, and that means there are celebrities involved--like boxer Angus McConal and Megan's friend Niamh, an up-and-coming actress who's teamed up with Megan's uncle, the retired Sligo harbormaster. But rivalries and revelries turn out to be a bad blend when McConal dies at a whiskey tasting. Megan promised her girlfriend she'd quit her amateur sleuthing, but with Niamh and her uncle as suspects, she's over a barrel ... With her relationship on the rocks, Megan gets in even deeper when a second entrant in the competition is killed--and her investigation starts zeroing in on a suspect. Now she just needs proof.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Novels.; Chauffeurs; Contests; Limousine services; Murder; Whiskey industry;
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A brush with death / by Jardine, Quintin,author.;
When millionaire Leo Speight is found poisoned at his Ayrshire mansion, Police Scotland has a tough case on its hands. Speight was a champion boxer with national hero status, and a long list of lovers and friends stand to benefit from his estate. Did one of them decide to speed things up? Or was jealousy or rivalry the motive? The Security Service wants to stay close to the investigation and they have just the man to send in: ex-Chief Constable Bob Skinner. Skinner might have retired from the police, but solving crimes is in his blood. Combining forces with DI Lottie Mann and DS Dan Provan of Serious Crimes, he's determined to see Speight's murderer put away for a long time. But there's a twist even Bob Skinner couldn't see coming.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Skinner, Bob (Fictitious character); Ex-police officers; Murder;
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Death by peppermint cappuccino / by Erickson, Alex,author.;
"Christmas has come to Pine Hills, and Krissy's blooming relationship with Officer Paul Dalton has her in an especially festive mood. The cafae's new seasonal signature drink is a hit too. But not everyone shares the same holiday spirit. There are some loud complaints about businesses profiting off the season and losing focus on what Christmas is really about. And as if on cue, a shop owner who'd been price-gouging his customers is found dead after receiving a mysterious gift ... Krissy doesn't want to letthe troubling events put a damper on the holiday, especially with her father and his girlfriend in town. But when other shop owners are targeted she has no choice. She needs to wrap up this case quickly before one of her friends--or even Krissy herself--ends up on a Grinchy killer's deadly gift list ... "--
Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Cozy mysteries.; Novels.; Christmas stories.; Bookstores; Coffeehouses; Holidays; Man-woman relationships; Murder;
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Death of a smuggler / by Beaton, M. C.,author.; Green, R. W.(Novelist),author.;
All Hamish Macbeth wants is a quiet life in his peaceful home in the Highland village of Lochdubh. But when his newly-assigned constable arrives, he presents Hamish with a surprise and a secret. Getting to the bottom of the secret becomes the least of Hamish's problems when he meets a family who have a score to settle with a sinister man who has mysteriously gone missing. Discovering a murdered woman's body puts further pressure on Hamish, especially when it becomes clear that the murdered woman and the missing man are linked. To Hamish's horror, he then finds himself working on the murder case with the despicable Detective Chief Inspector Blair-his sworn enemy-who has been drafted in under curious circumstances. With a growing list of suspects, ever more bewildering circumstances and Blair hindering him at every turn, Hamish must find the murderer before anyone else falls victim.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Macbeth, Hamish (Fictitious character); Missing persons; Murder; Police; Secrecy;
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On spine of death / by Berry, Tamara,author.;
"Don't miss the second installment of this gripping and funny bookish cozy mystery series by Tamara Berry! This case isn't just cold, it's practically frozen shut ... In the aftermath of solving their first murder, bestselling author Tess Harrow and her teenage daughter Gertrude have decided to stay in Winthrop permanently. Now that they've made some updates to their cabin in the woods, they're turning to the family hardware store that Tess inherited and converting it into the town's first independent bookstore. But when renovations unearth bones from a cold case and send them toppling-literally-onto Tess's head, the work comes to a grinding halt. With the whole town convinced that her grandfather was a serial killer, Tess has to call in a fellow horror author for reinforcements. Together, they'll come up with a perfect story to make all the clues fit ... and solve a mystery more than thirty years in the making"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Buildings; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Mothers and daughters; Murder; Detective and mystery stories; Single mothers; Women novelists;
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Death of a smuggler [text (large print)] / by Beaton, M. C.,author.; Green, R. W.(Novelist),author.;
All Hamish Macbeth wants is a quiet life in his peaceful home in the Highland village of Lochdubh. But when his newly-assigned constable arrives, he presents Hamish with a surprise and a secret. Getting to the bottom of the secret becomes the least of Hamish's problems when he meets a family who have a score to settle with a sinister man who has mysteriously gone missing. Discovering a murdered woman's body puts further pressure on Hamish, especially when it becomes clear that the murdered woman and the missing man are linked. To Hamish's horror, he then finds himself working on the murder case with the despicable Detective Chief Inspector Blair-his sworn enemy-who has been drafted in under curious circumstances. With a growing list of suspects, ever more bewildering circumstances and Blair hindering him at every turn, Hamish must find the murderer before anyone else falls victim.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; Macbeth, Hamish (Fictitious character); Missing persons; Murder; Police; Secrecy;
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Death dive to Saturn [videorecording] / by Del Genio, Anthony,commentator.; Dougherty, M.,commentator.; Ehrmann, Jedd,editor of moving image work.; Porco, Carolyn C.,commentator.; Randall, Terri,screenwriter,television director,television producer.; Scharf, Caleb A.,1968-commentator.; Sechler, Craig,narrator.; Spilker, Linda J.,commentator.; Waite, J. H.(John H.),commentator.; PBS Distribution (Firm),film distributor.; Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.),publisher.; Terri Randall Film and Video Productions,production company.; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.),production company.;
Editor, Jedd Ehrmann.Narrator, Craig Sechler ; commentators, Anthony Del Genio, Caleb Scharf, Carolyn Porco, Michele Dougherty, J. Hunter Waite, Linda Spilker.Originally aired on television on September 13, 2017.For over a decade, NASA's Cassini space probe has been transmitting images of Saturn's rings and moons. This program presents Cassini's observations of Saturn's surface and chronicles the probe's final hours as it enters the planet's atmosphere.E.DVD; Region 1, NTSC; widescreen presentation; stereo.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Nonfiction television programs.; Science television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Cassini (Spacecraft); Saturn probes.; Space flight to Saturn.;
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Manner of death : a novel / by Cook, Robin,1940-author.;
"Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When she insists an underperforming pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, Laurie unknowingly provokes an emotional storm in the trainee. So, when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an apparent death by suicide, Laurie's guilt compels her to try to understand why. Jack's autopsy on the resident opens the disturbing possibility that the manner of death wasn't suicide but instead a staged homicide. But staged by whom? Laurie ignores her own professional rules and responsibilities to investigate personally who might want Ryan dead ... and for what reason. Thus begins a dangerous inquiry into a fraudulent but highly lucrative cancer diagnostics company, which might just cost Laurie her life"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Medical fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Pathologists; Serial murderers; Suicide;
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Death at Greenway : a novel / by Rader-Day, Lori,1973-author.;
"Bridey Kelly has come to Greenway House-the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie-in disgrace. A terrible mistake at St. Prisca's Hospital in London has led to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, and her only chance for redemption is a position in the countryside caring for children evacuated to safety from the Blitz. Greenway is a beautiful home full of riddles: wondrous curios not to be touched, restrictions on rooms not to be entered, and a generous library, filled with books about murder. The biggestmystery might be the other nurse, Gigi, who is like no one Bridey has ever met. Chasing ten young children through the winding paths of the estate grounds might have soothed Bridey's anxieties and grief-if Greenway were not situated so near the English Channel and the rising aggressions of the war. When a body washes ashore near the estate, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing. As the local villagers look among themselves, Bridey and Gigi discover they eachharbor dangerous secrets about what has led them to Greenway. With a mystery writer's home as their unsettling backdrop, the young women must unravel the truth before their safe haven becomes a place of death ... "--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Murder; Nurses; World War, 1939-1945;
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