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Mistletoe and murder

On a Christmas holiday to Cambridge, Daisy and Hazel get caught up in another murder investigation, and a competition with rival detectives.
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Copycat

Addie is obsessed with a series of mystery novels, even writing fan fiction based on them, but when a similar murder happens in her own town, she is not prepared.
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The border

2018
On a summer night in northern Mexico, four teens Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys have just snuck away from a quinceanera celebration when a gang of narcos attacks. Their families are murdered and they narrowly escape, but the four are left with an awful truth. They've lost even more than their loved ones they've lost everything.
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Slide

While his father is overseas, Rennie goes on a ski trip with his grandmother where he finds himself caught up in a murder plot.

Safe houses

a novel
2018
"In this gripping new work of suspense from the author of The Double Game, a young woman discovers a nefarious truth at the heart of the CIA's operations in postwar Berlin and goes on the run for her life; years later she's gruesomely murdered along with her husband, and her daughter begins to chase down these startling secrets from her past. West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War. Helen's world is upended when, during her routine inspection of an agency property, she overhears a meeting between two people unfamiliar to her speaking a coded language that hints at shadowy realities far beyond her comprehension. Before the day is out, she witnesses a second unauthorized encounter, one that will place her in the sight lines of the most ruthless and powerful man at the agency. Her attempts to expose the dark truths about what she has witnessed will bring about repercussions that reach across decades and continents into the present day, when, in a farm town in Maryland, a young man is arrested for the double murder of his parents, and his sister takes it upon herself to find out why he did it"--.
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Nancy Drew

[a novelization of the hit movie!]
2007
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The house on Foster Hill

2017
When Kaine Prescott's husband died two years ago, her pleas for further invegestigation fall on deaf ears, but when the house's dark history comes back to haunt her, Kaine realizes there's nowhere left to hide.
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Cards on the table

2011
Hercule Poirot must find out who murdered a man who was in attendance at one of Mr. Shaitana's parties, and finds all four of the suspect were involved in a game of bridge and had a motive for committing the crime.
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The sacred lies of Minnow Bly

After wasting twelve years in the Kevinian Cult, seventeen-year-old Minnow rebels. They take her hands in punishment. Soon the cult's camp has been burned and their prophet murdered, and the police are sure Minnow knows something she is not telling them. Minnow struggles to free her mind from the cult's lies as an FBI investigator makes her an offer, one that may let her start her life over--if she can bring herself to tell the truth.
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Under my skin

"It's been a year since Poppy's husband, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run through Manhattan's Riverside Park. In the immediate aftermath, Poppy spiraled into an oblivion of grief, disappearing for several days only to turn up ragged and confused wearing a tight red dress she didn't recognize. What happened to Poppy during those lost days? And more importantly, what happened to Jack? The case was never solved, and Poppy has finally begun to move on. But those lost days have never stopped haunting her. Poppy starts having nightmares and blackouts--there are periods of time she can't remember, and she's unable to tell the difference between what is real and what she's imagining. When she begins to sense that someone is following her, Poppy is plunged into a game of cat and mouse, determined to unravel the mystery around her husband's death"--.
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