Mystery Books
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The Funhouse
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate--and gave birth to a
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The Body Farm (A Scarpetta Novel)
When an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered, Kay Scarpetta, Chief Medical Examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia, gets a
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Nemesis (Marcus Didius Falco Mysteries)
In the high summer of AD 77, laid-back detective Marcus Didius Falco is called upon to investigate the mysterious disappearance of
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Blue Light
The human race has just begun. In the Bay Area in the mid-1960s, several people are struck by a cosmic blue light that "quickens"
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Lady Killer
Mary DiNunzio has become a big-time business-getter at Rosato & Associates. But the last person she expects to walk into her of
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A Complete Grammar of Esperanto: With Graded Exercises for Reading and Translation together with Full Vocabularies (Forgotten Books)
Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. The name derives from Doktoro Esperanto, the pse
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Split Second (King & Maxwell)
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Mystery Movies
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Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is abducted and
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Shutter Island
Academy Award® winning director Martin Scorses once again teams up with Leonardo DiCaprio in this spine-chilling thriller that cr
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A Beautiful Mind
Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced b
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Adaptation (Superbit Collection)
The Superbit titles utilize a special high bit rate digital encoding process which optimizes video quality while offering a choice
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Mystery Authors
Book reviews - The Alpine Recluse
The Alpine RecluseAuthor: Mary Daheim For many mystery readers, Alpine, Washington–Mary Daheim’s fictional small town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains–has become a beloved second home, a delicious retreat from the stresses of life. Yet the editor of The Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord, knows all too well that the picturesque old logging town is loaded with scandal: family feuds, illicit romance, chicanery, and sometimes deadly violence.
THE ALPINE RECLUSE In the middle of a hot midsummer night, Emma is awakened by fire trucks rushing to a blaze at the nearby home of newlyweds Tim and Tiffany Rafferty. At daybreak, Tiffany and her unborn child are safe, but Tim, never blessed with good luck in all his thirty-plus years, has perished in the fierce conflagration. Sheriff Milo Dodge suspects murder and arson, and rumors fly from the Burger Barn and Mugs Ahoy to the Grocery Basket and the Venison Inn. Some swear the Rafferty marriage was crumbling. Others hint at stock fraud. A few mention momentary sightings of a possibly mad recluse known as Old Nick. Sacrificing the heady enticements of a budding romance to nail down a great story, Emma shifts into high investigative gear while her fearless House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, rushes in where angels fear to tread: straight into the private lives of some of Alpine’s most respectable–and now terminally edgy–citizens. But neither Emma nor Vida suspects the unbelievable truth. From the Hardcover edition. Tags:
Arson - Investigation
Arson investigation
Fiction
Arson
Lord, Emma (Fictitious character)
Mystery fiction
Newspaper publishing
Washington (State)
Women editors
General
Mystery & Detective
Women Sleuths
US publication:
2006
Detective:
Emma Lord
Genre:
novels
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