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Post Mortem
by Guy CullingfordWho killed Gilbert Worth? The official verdict was suicide, but those that knew him best thought he was not the type to take his own life. Furthermore, before his death, a missing gun, a half-written letter and two 'accidents' had convinced Worth that someone was trying to kill him.Worth's family and mistress all had motives and opportunity, and those close to him have their own ideas as to how he was murdered. And one occupant of the house in particular has a good reason for wanting to identify the killer . . .
Post Mortem (Murder Room #441)
by Guy CullingfordWho killed Gilbert Worth? The official verdict was suicide, but those that knew him best thought he was not the type to take his own life. Furthermore, before his death, a missing gun, a half-written letter and two 'accidents' had convinced Worth that someone was trying to kill him.Worth's family and mistress all had motives and opportunity, and those close to him have their own ideas as to how he was murdered. And one occupant of the house in particular has a good reason for wanting to identify the killer . . .
Post-mortem Examiner Esoterica: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Zhao BanXianMy house is made up of 32 generations of green hats, left behind a secret craftsmanship, opened the list of evildoers, led to Yinyang Road's free books, the city opened its mouth, there is no taboo, the dead rose up, see rich.Why did the dead girl have gold hidden in her belly? Wearing red clothes, how could her corpse speak human language when it had stiffened in the middle of the night? Three large seals and a piece of yellow paper; the body could not be broken.One by one, the undead truths hidden beneath the corpses would be unraveled from my hands.Wealth is in the sky, life and death cannot be decided by fate. What one sees is the skin, and what one cannot see is the soul.
Post: El Soldado (Byron Tibor #1)
by Sean Black Paola GrochiExhausto por años de combate, y perseguido por los fantasmas de su pasado, nada podrá impedir que Byron Tibor regrese a casa junto a la mujer que ama. Pero ¿es Byron quien aparenta ser y por qué el gobierno de los Estados Unidos está determinado a detenerlo? Desde las colinas sangrientas del Hindu Kush a las brillantes luces de Manhattan, pasando por el bajo mundo de Las Vegas, POST es la historia de la lucha de un hombre por mantener su humanidad, antes de que sea demasiado tarde. "Black es una estrella en franco ascenso" - Evening Telegraph "El ritmo de Lee Child y el corazón de Harlan Coben" - Joseph Finder, autor de 'Secretos Enterrados', bestseller del New York Times
Postcard for a Dead Ringer
by C. J. ForrestCraig Morton had finally graduated as a detective and now is a member of the criminal investigation branch in Brisbane, Australia. He has finally been chosen to conduct an investigation into a man accused of murder in the far country of South Western Queensland in Charleville. Full of intrigue and local identities in a small country town where everyone knows something, he finds himself caught up in the defense of the man he was sent out to bring in for justice.
Postcard from Hell
by Michael KilianA back-alley murder carries André Derain from the streets of New Orleans to the sun-drenched hell of the Cayman Islands It's quiet in the Garden District, and André Derain can't sleep. After a lifetime as a fashion photographer in New York and the French Quarter, he needs noise, excitement, action--and he's about to get more than he can handle. A call comes in from the New Orleans homicide department, tipping Derain off to a grisly shooting on Tchoupitoulas Street. He grabs his camera and charges out the door. The night has just begun. The victim was the pretty-boy son of a local gangster who flies into a rage when Derain tries to sell the crime-scene photos to the local tabloids. With the entire criminal underworld of New Orleans at his throat, Derain is desperate for a vacation. He'll have to settle for a very deadly trip to the Caribbean. Postcard from Hell is the 2nd book in the Andy Derain Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Postcards from the Dead (A Scrapbooking Mystery #10)
by Laura ChildsNew Orleans is in the throes of another fantastic Mardi Gras celebration when the party gets crashed by a murderer... <P><P> Kimber Breeze of KBEZ-TV is broadcasting live from a hotel balcony in the French Quarter, interviewing locals and capturing the spectacle in the streets. But as Carmela Bertrand, owner of Memory Mine scrapbooking shop, waits to be interviewed next, someone sneaks onto the balcony and strangles Kimber with a cord, leaving her body dangling above the parade. <P> Soon after the murder, Carmela begins receiving strange postcards at her shop--signed by the late reporter. Now she and her friend Ava must risk their own necks to find out who's posing as a ghost and expose a killer... Scrapbooking Tips and Recipes Included!
Postcards from the Past: A Novel
by Marcia Willett“A heart-warming Cornish story about family, friendship, love and . . . dogs” from the bestselling author of Memories of the Storm (Fresh Fiction).In Postcards from the Past, siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. With family and friends nearby, and their living arrangements free and easy, they seem as contented as they can be.But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years?“Willett excels at writing warm multigenerational family sagas that move forward with a bit of spiritual guidance and are steeped in the history of a place . . . sure to appeal to those missing Maeve Binchy, but Nancy Thayer and Debbie Macomber fans will find much to like also.” —Library Journal
Posted to Death: A Simon Kirby-jones Mystery (Simon Kirby-Jones Mysteries #1)
by Dean JamesSimon Kirby-Jones Mysteries #1 From the New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series, a traditional British village cozy mystery series…with a twist! “Sure to revolutionize the traditional British cozy and win the hearts of fans everywhere.” —Publishers Weekly “A delightful English village whodunit filled with some of the most eccentric characters you’ll ever run across in a mystery novel.”—The Denver Post Amateur sleuth, Simon Kirby-Jones is looking forward to settling into his new home in the quaint British village of Snupperton—despite a few potential challenges. Not only is Simon an American, but he’s also a gay vampire who controls his vampiric urges and sun sensitivity with an effective medication. Delighted to be in the cozy English village of his dreams, he’s eager to make Snupperton his home, and joins the fundraising committee of the local church. But at the first meeting, an argument breaks out between the town matriarch Lady Prunella Blitherington, and the nosy village postmaster, Abigail Winterton. When Abigail is found murdered the next day, Simon determines to reveal the murderer in town-- and in the process discovers all the delightfully sordid secrets of Snupperton!
Poster Girl
by Veronica RothFor fans of Anthony Marra and Lauren Beukes, #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth tells the story of a woman's desperate search for a missing girl after the collapse of the oppressive dystopian regime—and the dark secrets about her family and community she uncovers along the wayWHAT'S RIGHT IS RIGHT.Sonya Kantor knows this slogan—she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation.Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from the Insight’s monitoring, went on with their lives.Sonya, former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes to find the child will lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the past—and her family’s dark secrets—than she ever wanted to.With razor sharp prose, Poster Girl is a haunting dystopian mystery that explores the expanding role of surveillance on society—an inescapable reality that we welcome all too easily.
Poster Girl: A Jane Benjamin Novel
by Shelley Blanton-StroudCynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR&’s Office of War Information, a propaganda unit, to find a Wendy-the-Welder poster girl to urge more women to the shipyard work essential to America&’s winning World War II—and, incidentally, to make herself into the new Hedda Hopper. But somebody doesn&’t want those women at work.During a five-day contest to beat the world speed record for building a liberty ship, Jane investigates the lives of the first women welders and learns more about her flyboy former lover&’s secret post–Pearl Harbor mission—and her cynicism begins to melt. But when inspectors find and publicize a series of flaws in the contest-week welding, the women welders are blamed. Worse, two poster girl candidates are killed. Are they being sabotaged by a belligerent male shipyard supervisor? The industrialist shipyard owner with a history of controlling women? Or someone else trying to diminish the success of the US liberty ship program? To find out, Jane must choose between her professional ambition and service to the women welders—before the murderer harms another girl and America&’s best chance of winning the war.
Postern of Fate: A Tommy and Tuppence Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition (Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries #5)
by Agatha ChristieTommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings.However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: "Mary Jordan did not die naturally." And sixty years after their first murder, Mary Jordan's enemies are still ready to kill. . . .
Postmark Murder: House Of Storm, Postmark Murder, And Call After Midnight
by Mignon G. EberhartFrom one of the most prolific authors of the Golden Age of mystery: &“A nice example of [Eberhart&’s] powers . . . Intelligently complicated&” (The New Yorker). When Conrad Stanley dies, Laura is the only heir not concerned with her slice of his estate. Orphaned at a young age, she was Stanley&’s ward, and cannot celebrate the death of the only father she ever knew. The executors of Stanley&’s will find that he had a Polish relative, Conrad Stanislowski, who is due part of the inheritance. A search for Stanislowski produces only his daughter: eight-year-old Jonny, who comes to Chicago to live with Laura. Soon a man claiming to be Stanislowski turns up at Laura&’s doorstep, demanding his daughter and his chunk of Stanley&’s wealth. When the mysterious interloper is found stabbed to death, Laura is a suspect. If she doesn&’t move fast, the only inheritance she gets from dear, departed Conrad will be a permanent stay in a federal prison.
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta #1)
by Patricia CornwellThe inspiration for the Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis! Discover the &“dazzling...fascinating&” (Los Angeles Times) novel that launched the popular Kay Scarpetta series, from the New York Times #1 bestselling crime writer Patricia Cornwell.Patricia Cornwell&’s debut novel Postmortem introduces one of crime fiction&’s most compelling characters: gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta. Cornwell&’s gift for combining cutting-edge criminology with nerve-shattering suspense makes this book a true modern classic. Under cover of night in Richmond, Virginia, a monster strikes, leaving a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed the city. Kay Scarpetta suspects the worst: a deliberate campaign by a brilliant serial killer whose signature offers precious few clues. With an unerring eye, she calls on the latest advances in forensic research to unmask the madman. But this investigation will test Kay like no other, because it&’s being sabotaged from within—and someone wants her dead.
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta)
by Patricia CornwellA serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings.So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police.But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation ...
Postmortem Appointment: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Luo SenMarch 1, 2004, clear. I finished my last job of the day, lolled in my office chair with my secretary, Xiao Liu, and poured me a cup of coffee before leaving. The banging on the door pulled my thoughts back from nine days away. It's time to get off work. "Come in." I took a long drag on my cigarette, then dropped it into the ashtray and tried to sit upright in my office chair. The door creaked open. A beautiful woman came in.
Postmortem Appointment: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Luo SenMarch 1, 2004, clear. I finished my last job of the day, lolled in my office chair with my secretary, Xiao Liu, and poured me a cup of coffee before leaving. The banging on the door pulled my thoughts back from nine days away. It's time to get off work. "Come in." I took a long drag on my cigarette, then dropped it into the ashtray and tried to sit upright in my office chair. The door creaked open. A beautiful woman came in.
Postmortem Appointment: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Luo SenMarch 1, 2004, clear. I finished my last job of the day, lolled in my office chair with my secretary, Xiao Liu, and poured me a cup of coffee before leaving. The banging on the door pulled my thoughts back from nine days away. It's time to get off work. "Come in." I took a long drag on my cigarette, then dropped it into the ashtray and tried to sit upright in my office chair. The door creaked open. A beautiful woman came in.
Postmortem Appointment: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Luo SenMarch 1, 2004, clear. I finished my last job of the day, lolled in my office chair with my secretary, Xiao Liu, and poured me a cup of coffee before leaving. The banging on the door pulled my thoughts back from nine days away. It's time to get off work. "Come in." I took a long drag on my cigarette, then dropped it into the ashtray and tried to sit upright in my office chair. The door creaked open. A beautiful woman came in.
Postmortem: Ein Kay-scarpetta-roman (Kay Scarpetta #1)
by Patricia CornwellThe first book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell.'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The TimesA serial killer is on the loose in Richmond, Virginia. Three women have died, brutalised and strangled in their own bedroom. There is no pattern: the killer appears to strike at random - but always early on Saturday mornings. So when Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical officer, is awakened at 2.33 am, she knows the news is bad: there is a fourth victim. And she fears now for those that will follow unless she can dig up new forensic evidence to aid the police.But not everyone is pleased to see a woman in this powerful job. Someone may even want to ruin her career and reputation . . .Praise for the groundbreaking series:'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express
Postmortem: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Yun QingchengNo matter if it was bones or rotten meat, as long as Fang Mo was here, no one could escape.A pair of delicate hands, a Exquisite Heart.The world was vast and the world was vast, and there was nothing to be missed.Who was the one who stained the bones with blood and abandoned the corpse to leave the wilderness?The corpse could speak, Fang Mo was confident.
Postscript to a Dead Letter
by Donald MacKenzieRoss Macintyre is a tough Canadian journalist in Paris on a routine mission when he finds himself deeply involved in the consequences of the wrongful imprisonment of Radnor Brown; Radnor is charged with rape, for which the scenario and the evidence have been carefully set up by people who want him out of the way.
Postscript to a Dead Letter (Murder Room #442)
by Donald MacKenzieRoss Macintyre is a tough Canadian journalist in Paris on a routine mission when he finds himself deeply involved in the consequences of the wrongful imprisonment of Radnor Brown; Radnor is charged with rape, for which the scenario and the evidence have been carefully set up by people who want him out of the way.
Pot Luck (The Elliott Lisbon Mysteries #4)
by Kendel LynnA cook-off becomes a crime scene in this Southern mystery starring “an unusually lovable protagonist” (Mystery Scene). It’s time for the Irish Spring at the Ballantyne Foundation, and charity director/PI-in-training Elliott Lisbon kicks off the annual Pot of Gold Cook-Off in shamrock style. Twenty chefs compete for the corned beef and cabbage crown, but only one can win the title. The odds improve when one chef goes missing . . . until Elli finds the Ballantyne’s own Chef Carmichael standing over the body with a knife. With pug puppies Colonel Mustard and Mrs. White by her side, Elli searches her corner of coastal South Carolina, from million dollar condos to a run-down trailer park. The evidence pits her against sexy Nick Ransom, and the case gets hotter than a handful of peppercorns. Something about the case smells funny—and it has nothing to do with the cook-off. The luck of the Irish is nowhere in sight, but if Elli can’t crack this one open, Chef’s goose will get cooked for good. “Elli Lisbon is the Stephanie Plum of the South!” —Krista Davis, New York Times–bestselling author of the Domestic Diva Mysteries “The irrepressible heroine is delightful and her ongoing banter is nonstop fun.” —Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Pot Shot: A Jack Mcmorrow Mystery (A\jack Mcmorrow Mystery Ser. #4)
by Gerry BoylePotshot, the fourth McMorrow mystery, delves deep into backwoods pot-growing and drug-dealing and the damage that comes when big, urban traffickers enter the picture. Jack alternates between the back-to-landers living communally on the outskirts of Florence, Maine, and confrontations with urban gangsters moving in on the product—and the people who Jack comes to know. Cronies at a county fair, an assassination attempt, and hostages are only a few of the challenges McMorrow has to face in this fast-paced addition to the McMorrow legacy. Library Journal says, “Along with snappy dialog that propels the story, Boyle presents an ensemble of likable characters. A sure thing for anyone who has enjoyed Robert Parker’s Spenser.”