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1) Killer chef
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English
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Eat, drink, and be murdered. Someone is poisoning diners in New Orleans' best restaurants. Now it's up to chef and homicide cop Caleb Rooney to catch a killer set on revenge.
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Saffron Everleigh mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant woman botanist studying in London in the 1920s is asked to assist in a crime where victims were sent bouquets of poisonous flowers in the second novel of the series following A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons.
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English
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"Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts...But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting...After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned--but how? Everyone had the coffee and cookies"--
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Saffron Everleigh mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is determined to blaze a new trail at the University College London, but with her colleagues’ beliefs about women’s academic inabilities and not so subtle hints that her deceased father’s reputation paved her way into the botany department, she feels stymied at every turn. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition...
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Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls...
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Crime with the classics volume 3
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English
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Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grad Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers' retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receiver her first set of guests during Christmas week. But her careful planning is thrown into disarray by the unexpected arrival of outrageous true-crime writer Cruella Crime, whose unpardonable rude behaviour is causing great offence. As a ferocious ice storm...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Booklover Charlotte is delighted to welcome an eclectic group of guests to Chapters Bed and Breakfast for a book club retreat focused on fairy tales and classic children’s literature. But when one of the guests is poisoned at a Mad Hatter tea party, Charlotte realizes she’s fallen down a rather unpleasant rabbit hole. The victim – an opinionated busybody whose jewelry store sold original designs, along with some possibly “hot” merchandise...
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Catherine Ling novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Catherine Ling is instructed by assassin and master poisoner Hu Chang before being recruited by the CIA and pitted against a rogue operative in a race to obtain a deadly poison.
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Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A tale set in America and China follows the experiences of three people who in their youths were involved in a mysterious accident that resulted in a friend's fatal poisoning and years later are haunted by the possibility that one of them actually committed a murder.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
Working for one of Boston’s most elite families, Lena discovers they are responsible for the ruin of her own family and embarks on a poison-filled quest for revenge that leads her into a hedonistic world where she must decide how much she is willing to risk for payback.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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It may have been a ghost that led Eleanor Wilde to set up shop in a quaint English village. But now that shes established herself as the town witch, Ellies contentedly casting spells on anyone desperate enoughor gullible enoughto request her mysterious potions Selling mystical elixirs and tantalizing tonics is a pretty good way for a fake medium to earn a living. Or at least its Ellies main source of incomeuntil a villager turns up dead. The cause?...
17) Sad cypress
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 18
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English
Description
A woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Poirot stands between her and the gallows.
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Rip through time volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A modern-day homicide detective is working as an undertaker's assistant in Victorian Scotland when a serial poisoner attacks the men of Edinburgh and leaves their widows under suspicion. Edinburgh, 1869: Modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson isadjusting to her new life in Victorian Scotland. Her employers know she's not housemaid Catriona Mitchell-even though Mallory is in Catriona's body-and Mallory is now officially an undertaker's assistant....
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
[2013], ♭2012.
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English
Description
When a beautiful aristocrat is murdered during a masked ball in 1784, Mrs. Harriet Westerman and her reclusive companion, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, struggle with reluctant witnesses to clear the name of a falsely accused suspect.
20) Fatal strike
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Series
McCloud brothers volume 10
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lara Kirk lives in a shadowy world where reality and fantasy are one. Her captors have poisoned her body with concoctions that enhance psychic abilities and they seem to be working. To escape, Lara has formed a deep attachment with a man whose virile, sensual presence in her mind is her only comfort. She's not even sure if he's real until the six-foot-five-inch powerhouse bursts in to rescue her. Once freed, Lara has no choice but to trust Miles...
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