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"Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again"--Provided by publisher....

Philosophy graduate school student Joseph Geist, broke, homeless, and alone, answers an advertisement for a conversationalist and soon finds himself hired by a brilliant and generous elderly woman who makes him so comfortable in her home he never wants to leave.

"Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he...

Ali Reynolds thinks her most difficult challenge will be surviving a six-week-long course as the lone forty-something female at the Arizona Police Academy. When Brenda Riley, an old broadcasting colleague, shows up in town with an alcohol problem and an unlikely story about a missing finance, Ali reluctantly agrees to help. The man posing as Brenda's finance is revealed to be a cyber-sociopath who has left a trail of broken hearts in his virtual...

When she notices some bones missing from a dinosaur skeleton exhibited in the museum, a young girl with a photographic memory tries to discover who has been taking them and why.

Old friends are reunited after many years by the death of Gordon, the youngest and wildest of five, and, though they have grown apart, they share a common bond through the terrible lie they all share, but begin to wonder whether there is more danger in keeping their secret or hiding the truth from the ones they love.

"An evening's work deciding on the class schedule for her scrapbooking shop has put Carmela in the mood to kick up her heels. But after some strange noises draw her into Oddities , the neighboring antiques shop, Carmela's night is abruptly put on hold when a bloody body falls out of a curio cabinet --and into her arms. While shop owner Marcus Joubert was known for being an eccentric with a penchant for eclectic merchandise, Carmela never thought he...

When a twenty-two-year-old killer walks into the courtroom, his eyes confirm what Mia Quinn already guesses: he blames her for his conviction. In seconds, he knocks her to the ground and holds a razor blade to her throat. She manages to escape, but it's just one more reminder that Mias job prosecuting Seattles most dangerous criminals is risky. Now Detective Charlie Carlson is suggesting the very thing Mia doesnt want to believe--that her accountant...

"There's a sudden spike in murders in Philadelphia, but no one seems to mind much, because the victims are street thugs and lowlifes. But as Homicide sergeant Matt Payne starts looking under the right rocks, he gets a feeling there's more going on than just bad guys burning one another. In fact, he starts seeing signs that these guys are maybe getting whacked by professionals, from out of state, maybe even from out of the country. Then comes the unexpected:...

"Felix Francis is back with another edge-of-your-seat thriller, in the classic Dick Francis tradition. Undercover investigator Jeff Hinkley is assigned by the British Horseracing Authority to look into the activities of a suspicious racehorse trainer, but as he's tailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, the last thing he expects to witness is a gruesome murder. Could it have something to do with the reason the trainer was banned...