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- Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret A Festive Mystery [electronic resource] : by Stevenson, Benjamin.aut; Welch, Barton.nrt; cloudLibrary;
Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, “deviously good fun” (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe. My name’s Ernest Cunningham. I used to be a fan of reading Golden Age murder mysteries, until I found myself with a haphazard career getting stuck in the middle of real-life ones. I’d hoped, this Christmas, that any self-respecting murderer would kick their feet up and take it easy over the holidays. I was wrong. So here I am, backstage at the show of world-famous magician Rylan Blaze, whose benefactor has just been murdered. My suspects are all professional tricksters: masters of the art of misdirection. THE MAGICIAN THE ASSISTANT THE EXECUTIVE THE HYPNOTIST THE IDENTICAL TWIN THE COUNSELLOR  THE TECH My clues are even more abstract: A suspect covered in blood, without a memory of how it got there. A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens. And an advent calendar. Because, you know, it’s Christmas. If I can see through the illusions, I know I can solve it. After all, a good murder is just like a magic trick, isn’t it?- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Holidays; Amateur Sleuth; Humorous;
- © 2024., HarperCollins,
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- Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect A Novel [electronic resource] : by Stevenson, Benjamin.aut; Welch, Barton.nrt; Smart, Megan.nrt; cloudLibrary;
From the bestselling author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, a fiendishly fun locked room (train) murder mystery that "offers a tip of the hat to the great Agatha Christie novel while at the same time being a modern reinvention of it" (Nita Prose) -- perfect for fans of Richard Osman and Anthony Horowitz When the Australian Mystery Writers’ Society invited me to their crime-writing festival aboard the Ghan, the famous train between Darwin and Adelaide, I was hoping for some inspiration for my second book. Fiction, this time: I needed a break from real people killing each other. Obviously, that didn’t pan out. The program is a who’s who of crime writing royalty: the debut writer (me!) the forensic science writer the blockbuster writer the legal thriller writer the literary writer the psychological suspense writer But when one of us is murdered, the remaining authors quickly turn into five detectives. Together, we should know how to solve a crime. Of course, we should also know how to commit one. How can you find a killer when all the suspects know how to get away with murder?- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Mystery & Detective; Crime; Crime;
- © 2024., HarperCollins,
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- The Silver Bone A Novel [electronic resource] : by Kurkov, Andrey.aut; cloudLibrary;
"A fascinating series launch ... that stands apart" –Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A winning offbeat crime novel that begs for a sequel" –Library Journal From Ukraine’s most celebrated novelist, a perplexing mystery that introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early twentieth century. Kyiv, 1919. World War I has ended in Western Europe, but to the East, six factions continue to vie for control of Ukraine. Amidst the political turmoil, young Samson Kolechko is forced to place his engineering career on hold. But in the city of Kyiv everything remains up for grabs and new opportunity lurks just around the corner . . . When two Red Army soldiers commandeer his home, Samson’s life is completely upended. But as Samson juggles his personal life –including a budding romance with the ingenious Nadezhda, a statistician helping run the city’s census– with the soldiers’ intrusion, he winds up overhearing their secret plans. Deciding to report them, Samson instead finds himself unwittingly recruited as an investigator for the city’s new police force. His first case involves two murders, a long bone made of pure silver, and a suit of decidedly unusual proportions tailored from fine English cloth. The odds stacked against him, Samson turns to Nadezhda, who proves to be more than his match. Inflected with Kurkov’s signature humor and off kilter universe, The Silver Bone takes its inspiration from the archives of Kyiv's secret police, crafting a propulsive narrative bursting to life with rich historical detail. Translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk- Subjects: Electronic books.; Literary; Magical Realism; Historical;
- © 2024., HarperCollins,
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- Shadow Ticket [electronic resource] : by Pynchon, Thomas.aut; CloudLibrary;
The new novel from Thomas Pynchon, bestselling and award-winning author of Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice. “A masterpiece.” —The Telegraph “Bonkers and brilliant fun.” —The Washington Post “Late Pynchon at his finest. Dark as a vampire’s pocket, light-fingered as a jewel thief, Shadow Ticket capers across the page with breezy, baggy-pants assurance — and then pauses on its way down the fire escape just long enough to crack your heart open.” —Los Angeles Times Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. Hicks McTaggart, a onetime strikebreaker turned private eye, thinks he’s found job security until he gets sent out on what should be a routine case, locating and bringing back the heiress of a Wisconsin cheese fortune who’s taken a mind to go wandering. Before he knows it, he’s been shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner, ending up eventually in Hungary where there’s no shoreline, a language from some other planet, and enough pastry to see any cop well into retirement—and of course no sign of the runaway heiress he’s supposed to be chasing. By the time Hicks catches up with her he will find himself also entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal, outlaw motorcyclists, and the troubles that come with each of them, none of which Hicks is qualified, forget about being paid, to deal with. Surrounded by history he has no grasp on and can’t see his way around in or out of, the only bright side for Hicks is it’s the dawn of the Big Band Era and as it happens he’s a pretty good dancer. Whether this will be enough to allow him somehow to Lindy-hop his way back again to Milwaukee and the normal world, which may no longer exist, is another question.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Private Investigators; Literary; Noir;
- © 2025., Penguin Publishing Group,
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- The Hidden Storyteller [electronic resource] : by Robotham, Mandy.aut; cloudLibrary;
General adult.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Romance; War & Military; Mystery & Detective; Contemporary Women; Historical;
- © 2024., HarperCollins Publishers,
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- Aunt Dimity : snowbound / by Atherton, Nancy;
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- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Dimity, Aunt (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Mystery fiction;
- © c2004., Viking,
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- Aunt Dimity takes a holiday / by Atherton, Nancy;
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- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Dimity, Aunt (Fictitious character); Women detectives; Mystery fiction;
- © c2003., Viking,
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- The Devil's Bible [text (large print)]. by Berry, Steve.;
When the Swedish kings' sister is kidnapped, the ransom demand is for an 800-year-old book, the Codex Gigas, the largest illuminated medieval manuscript in the word. Its up to Cotton and Cassiopeia Vitt to locate the kings sister, secure the codex, and thwart the Russians, who are the top of the list for possible kidnappers. Yet nothing is as it seems.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Crime; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Crime & Mystery; FICTION / Thrillers / Historical; FICTION / Thrillers / Political; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense;
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- The Birdwatcher. by Mitchard, Jacquelyn.;
'The Birdwatcher' is a propulsive drama that deftly explores the relationship between money, power, and sex, as a magazine journalist covers the trial of a high-end sex worker, whos suspected of murdering two of her clients. Book Club.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths; FICTION / Romance / General; FICTION / Thrillers / Crime; FICTION / Thrillers / General; FICTION / Thrillers / Legal; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense; FICTION / Women;
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- Hope Rises [text (large print)]. by Baldacci, David.;
Walter Nash began a journey down a dark path of seemingly no return, and now he finds himself questioning everything that got him there in this second entry of the 'Walter Nash' series.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); FICTION / Action & Adventure; FICTION / Crime; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural; FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense;
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