Murder 
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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...
2. Second sight
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4 stars
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SUGGESTED BY LISA
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"When the biggest legal case of her career brings Eliza Carmody back to Kinsale, the hometown she thought she had left forever, she witnesses an old friend commit a crime that sends her on a dangerous quest to uncover the mysteries of her childhood that the rest of the town seems willing to ignore. With her friend on the run and the police investigating the bones of an unidentified dead body at a historic homestead near town, Eliza becomes convinced...
3. The trust
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5 stars
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RECOMMENDED BY ROBERTA
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When his uncle dies, Liam Taggart reluctantly returns to his childhood home in Northern Ireland for the funeral, but strangely, it seems that his uncle anticipated hos own murder. Uncle Fergus left his entire estate to a trust, directing that no distributions be made to any person until the killer is found.
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Series:
Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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THE FIRST IN A NEWER SERIES RECOMMENDED BY LISA. THE SECOND IN THE SERIES IS 'THE SENTENCE IS DEATH' AND THE AUTHOR HAS PLANNED ABOUT NINE FOR THE SERIES.
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One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper -- the wealthy mother of a famous actor -- enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator who's as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....