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1. Finding Nouf
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Katya Hijazi novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
2.9 stars
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SUGGESTED BY ROBBIE
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Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects that all is not as it seems. And as he looks into her death, he develops an uncomfortable partnership with a female technician at the local coroner's office.
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Series:
Magpie murders volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY LISA
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When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pund investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing...
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Series:
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A BOOK WE READ IN THE GROUP A YEAR OR SO AGO, BUT THE WHOLE SERIES IS RECOMMENDED BY ROBBIE, ROBERTA, AND LISA!
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Maisie Dobbs entered domestic service in 1910 at thirteen, working for Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence is discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons. In 1929, following an apprenticeship with Blanche, Maisie hangs out her shingle: "M. Dobbs, trade and personal investigations." She soon becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding The Retreat, a reclusive community of...
4. Still life
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Series:
Inspector Armand Gamache mysteries volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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THE FIRST IN A SERIES RECOMMENDED BY DOLORES
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Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of theU.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain...