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21) Make them pay
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Detective Chief Inspector Brock's sleep is disturbed early one morning when he is called to a burnt-out camper van in Richmond, Surrey. The van contained two badly burned and very dead bodies, and first conclusions are that the occupants have been victims of an unfortunate fire. But is is not long before Brock and his assistant, Detective Sergeant Dave Poole, discover the truth: that a double murder has been committed.
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Detective Varg novels volume 2
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"In the second installment in the best-selling Detective Varg Novels, Ulf and his team investigate a notorious lothario--a wolf of a man whose bad reputation may, much to his chagrin, be all bark and no bite. The Department of Sensitive Crimes, renowned for taking on the most obscure and irrelevant cases, led by Ulf Varg, their best detective, is always prepared to take on an investigation, no matter how complex. So when Ulf is approached by the girlfriend...
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"Detective Merry Folger won the hearts of readers in Francine Mathews's first mystery, Death in the Off-Season. Now, fresh from her first murder case in that book, Merry Folger is unwillingly sucked into her second. The daughter of the Nantucket police chief, Merry spent her first case proving to her father and herself that she had what it takes to solve a murder. Now she's more savvy and experienced, but this time one of her friends is involved....
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Detectives Sloan and Crosby find themselves assigned two rather puzzling cases. First, there's the young woman's body which has been discovered in the River Alm. And then there's the mysterious break-in at the Berebury Nursing Home. To be precise, it's Josephine Short's room at the nursing home that's been entered, although nothing seems to be missing. What could the intruder have been after? It becomes apparent to Sloan and Crosby that the two cases...
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Detective Constable Hazel Best's latest assignment takes an unexpected turn in the compelling new Gabriel Ash mystery. Returning to work after an extended leave of absence, DC Hazel Best's first task is to shadow TV historian Oliver Ford, who has arrived in Norbold to open a new museum. What should have been a routine assignment takes a decidedly dramatic turn however when Hazel saves Ford from a murderous attack that would appear to be an act of...
27) A late phoenix
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Decades ago, Germans bombed the village at Lamb Lane. But now redevelopment is under way. During the excavation, a workman finds the skeleton of a pregnant girl with a bullet lodged in her spine. The trail is definitely stone cold when C.D. Sloan takes on the case.
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Jack Haines reports a break-in at his greenhouse, but other than the destruction of some expensive orchids, there's no damage and nothing is missing. Yet Detectives Sloan and Crosby sense something sinister, and their suspicions are confirmed when similar reports multiply. The pair is drawn into an equally perplexing case when the mysterious Miss Enid Maude Osgathorp goes missing. Soon it becomes clear that the two cases are linked -- but how?
31) The second woman
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Denton is drawn into a complex web of murder and revenge when a mysterious Polish woman is found dead in the house adjoining his - the one occupied by his lover, Janet Stryker.
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Detective Inspector Tom Harper finds answers hard to come by in his latest, most challenging, investigation to date. Leeds, England. March, 1895. The day after his release from prison, petty criminal Henry White is found stabbed to death at his terraced home on Copper Street. Pursuing enquiries in a neighbourhood where people are suspicious of strangers and hostile to the police, DI Tom Harper and his team find the investigation hard going. If anyone...
33) Motive in shadow
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Hired to contest the will of his client's dead mother, lawyer Jesse Falkenstein embarks on a dangerous trail that leads him to a 50-year-old mystery.
34) Shroud of evil
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"Detective Inspector Horton of Portsmouth CID is assigned the case of a missing person: Jasper Kenton, a private investigator. Eunice Swallows, Kentons partner, seems reluctant to help them, and Horton concludes that she is probably relieved to be rid of him. He instructs Sergeant Cantelli and DC Walters to put out the usual alerts, believing Kenton has probably run off with another woman. But when Kenton's car turns up, and a shocking discovery is...
35) Exit stage left
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Detective Chief Inspector Brock investigates the murder of a well-known actor When the body of Lancelot Foley, a well-known actor, is discovered in an excavation in a fashionable Chelsea street one snowy February morning, Detective Chief Inspector Harry Brock is assigned the case. Is the dead man's wife, fellow actress Vanessa Drummond, as innocent as she would like the police to believe? As Brock - aided by Detective Sergeant Dave Poole and Kate...
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