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The Saltwater Murder by L.B. Hathaway
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMURDERED WITH A BOX OF TEARS… London, 1924Posie Parker has been called to her most baffling case yet.Amyas Lyle, London’s top young lawyer, has been found with his head in a box of poisoned saltwater.It’s the perfect murder... -
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Между строк by Boris Akunin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsВторой том переносит нас в Японию, 1878 года: ниндзя, гейши, самураи... Это история любви молодого дипломата Эраста Фандорина и роковой красавицы-ниндзя О-Юми, любви, изменившей всю его жизнь и напомнившей ему о себе через многие годы... -
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The Moonflowers by Abigail Rose-Marie
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generations of women who depended on each other to survive.Tig Costello has arrived in Darren, Kentucky, commissioned to paint a portrait honoring her grandfather Benjamin. His contributions to the rural Appalachian town and his unimpeachable war service have made him a local hero... -
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It Happened in Silence by Karla M. Jay
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHonorable Mention in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award Historical Fiction Category2021 Benjamin Franklin Silver Award 2021 Finalist Wishing Shelf Book AwardRiveting Southern Fiction by the award-winning author of When We Were Brave. ~Set in a world where women of the KKK betray their neighbors, horrors of unscrupulous foundling homes come to light, and buried mysteries are not all that hidden... -
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![The Serpent's Mark by S.W. Perry]()
The Serpent's Mark by S.W. Perry
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTreason sleeps for no man...London, 1591. Nicholas Shelby, physician and reluctant spy, returns to his old haunts on London's lawless Bankside... -
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The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘My father had spelt it out to me. Choice was a luxury I couldn’t afford. This is your story, Red. You must tell it well . . .’A girl known only as Red, the daughter of a Cornish fortune-teller, travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient method: the Square of Sevens. When her father suddenly dies, Red becomes the ward of a gentleman scholar... -
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Destroying Angel by S.G. MacLean
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWINNER OF THE 2019 CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER'A gripping tale of crime and sedition' Sunday Times on The Black Friar'The best historical crime novel of the year' Sunday Express on The SeekerCaptain Damian Seeker has gone north. Charged with preparing the way for the rule of the major-generals, he is now under the command of Colonel Robert Lilburne at York... -
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The Bear Pit by S.G. MacLean
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'Could challenge CJ Sansom for dominion' Sunday TimesLondon, 1656: Captain Seeker is back in the city, on the trail of an assassin preparing to strike at the heart of Oliver Cromwell's RepublicThe Commonwealth is balanced on a knife edge. Royalists and disillusioned former Parliamentarians have united against Oliver Cromwell, now a king in all but name... -
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Cardinal Black by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCardinal Black is the latest installment in Robert McCammon's unique series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver, who has been called "the Early American James Bond." December 1703 finds Berry Grigsby living as Mary Lynn Nash in a small English village where she has fallen victim to Professor Fell's involuntary drug experiments... -
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At The Heart Of It by Penny Vincenzi
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAT THE HEART OF IT is vintage Penny Vincenzi: rich with characters, life-changing decisions, love, desire and conflict. 'There are few things better in life than ... the latest novel by Penny Vincenzi' Daily Express1950s London. Tom Knelston is charismatic, working class and driven by ambition, ideals and passion. He is a man to watch. His wife Alice shares his vision... -
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Ármány és kézfogó by Gyula Böszörményi
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA naptár 1900-ról lassanként 1901-re vált, miként a négy esztendővel korábban elrabolt Hangay Emma ügye is hátborzongató fordulatot vesz. Ambrózy báró, az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia első magándetektívje és hű segítőtársa, Mili kisasszony új nyomra lel, ám az ösvény, melyre ezáltal lépnek, sokkal tüskésebb, nyaktörőbb és veszélyesebb, mint azt bármelyikük is sejtené...Categorized as:
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![The Lurid Possibility of Murder by Beth Byers]()
The Lurid Possibility of Murder by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOctober 1925 Severine DuNoir has returned home and continued to investigate the death of her parents. She has, however, reached a roadblock. As she tries to break through, she comes across an unexpected offer of help. While she delves into the history of her father’s life, she also starts to investigate the haunting of an elderly woman... -
![Mystery in the Darkest Shadow by Beth Byers]()
Mystery in the Darkest Shadow by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOctober 1925 The hunt for the person who killed Severine’s parents continues, and things are intensifying. She’s finally got a direction along with the most unexpected of helpers. Will she be able to find out why they were killed? As she presses forward, she again encounters the man in the shadows... -
![The Wicked Fringe of Mystery by Beth Byers]()
The Wicked Fringe of Mystery by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNovember 1925Severine DuNoir has discovered who has been hunting her. Now she needs to discover why. As the foes circle each other, their friends and family get drawn into the conflict. Just who can Severine trust? How can she stop him? And what will happen to those she loves if she fails? She’s all too afraid the answer is one she won’t be able to live with... -
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![Murder Most Holy by Paul Doherty, P. Harding]()
Murder Most Holy by Paul Doherty, P. Harding
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the early summer of 1379 in London, Sir John Cranston, Coroner of the city, is trapped into a wager with Signior Gian Galeazzo, Lord of Cremona, who challenges him to resolve a certain murder mystery within two weeks. Men have been found dead in the scarlet chamber of one of Cremona's manors... -
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Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron Rash
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Serena and The Cove, thirty-four of his finest short stories, collected in one volumeNo one captures the complexities of Appalachia—a rugged, brutal landscape of exquisite beauty—as evocatively and indelibly as author and poet Ron Rash. Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, two O... -
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The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. MacLean
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.Six years later, with the clan chiefs routed and the Highlands subsumed into the British state, Iain lives a quiet life, working as a bookseller in Inverness...Categorized as:
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The Piccadilly Pickpocket by Karen Charlton
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is an alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00Y3KKHGA There’s no honour among thieves. When a robbery in the crowded streets of Piccadilly takes an unusual twist, Constable Woods is blamed and a royal scandal threatens to erupt. Detective Stephen Lavender must act quickly to track down the rogues, clear his friend’s name and avert the crisis... -
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Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the brothels and gin-shops of Covent Garden to the elegant townhouses of Mayfair, Laura Shepherd-Robinson's Daughters of Night follows Caroline Corsham, as she seeks justice for a murdered woman whom London society would rather forget . . .Lucia’s fingers found her own. She gazed at Caro as if from a distance. Her lips parted, her words a whisper: ‘He knows.’London, 1782... -
![The Girl in the Picture by Kerry Barrett]()
The Girl in the Picture by Kerry Barrett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsTwo women. One house. Centuries of secrets. East Sussex Coast, 1855 Violet Hargreaves is the lonely daughter of a widowed industrialist, and an aspiring Pre-Raphaelite painter. One day, the naïve eighteen-year-old meets the mysterious and handsome Edwin on the beach. He promises her a world beyond the small coastal village she’s trapped in... -
![Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 by David Ashton]()
Nor Will He Sleep: An Inspector McLevy Mystery 4 by David Ashton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBASED ON THE LONG-RUNNING BBC RADIO 4 McLEVY DRAMA SERIES ...WHILE THE STREETS OF LONDON HAD SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DARK ALLEYS OF EDINBURGH HAD INSPECTOR JAMES McLEVY ELEGANT AND CONVINCING' The Times | 'ASHTON IS THE DIRECT HEIR TO ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON' Brian Cox | 'EXCELLENT' The Sherlock Holmes Society | 'DRIPPING WITH MELODRAMA AND DERRING-DO' Herald 1887... -
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The Maiden by Kate Foster
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's The Maiden is a remarkable story with a feminist revisionist twist, giving a voice to women otherwise silenced by history."In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me."Edinburgh, October 1679...Categorized as:
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![The Mysterious Point of Deceit by Beth Byers]()
The Mysterious Point of Deceit by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSeverine DuNoir has returned home and continued to investigate the death of her parents. She has, however, reached a roadblock. As she tries to break through, she comes across an unexpected offer of help. While she delves into the history of her father’s life, she also starts to investigate the haunting of an elderly woman...Categorized as:
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Judgment of The Witch by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a decade, New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon returns with an epic novel of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time.... The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe their town is cursed by a witch... -
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![Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik]()
Murder in Canton by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA.D. 681Murder In Canton takes place in 680 A.D. Judge Dee, recently promoted to Lord Chief Justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor... -
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Evil Unveiled by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"New York Times" bestselling author Robert McCammon continues his triumphant return with the conclusion of an epic tale of suspense that reinstates him as one of the great storytellers of our time....The Carolinas, 1699: After hearing damning testimony from the townspeople of Fount Royal, magistrate Isaac Woodward sentences the accused witch, Rachel Howarth, to death by burning... -
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Beretva és tőr by Gyula Böszörményi
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1900 verőfényes őszén Budapest székesfővárosa a mesés Perzsia uralkodóját látja vendégül. Muzaffer ed-din Qajar egész udvartartásával utazgat Európában, két marokkal szórva a pénzt és a kitüntetéseket. A magyar fővárosban négy kellemes napot szándékozik tölteni, amiről a sajtó részletesen be is számol, ám még a szemfüles firkászok sem találnak magyarázatot néhány érthetetlen történésre...Categorized as:
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Leányrablás Budapesten by Gyula Böszörményi
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBudapest, 1896.A város a millenniumi ünnepségek lázában ég. A békebeli Monarchia minden zugából tízezerszám tódulnak az emberek, hogy megcsodálják az ezeréves Magyarország egybehordott kincseit. Köztük van a Marosvásárhelyről érkezett, 16 éves Hangay Emma kisasszony is, akinek a rendezvények második napján nyoma vész...Categorized as:
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The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond by Jaime Jo Wright
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor over a century, the town of Gossamer Grove has thrived on its charm and midwestern values, but Annalise Forsythe knows painful secrets, including her own, hover just beneath the pleasant faade. When a man is found dead in his run-down trailer home, Annalise inherits the trailer, along with the pictures, vintage obituaries, and old revival posters covering its walls... -
![The Uncountable Cost of Mystery by Beth Byers]()
The Uncountable Cost of Mystery by Beth Byers
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsApril 1926 Severine DuNoir and friends have left New Orleans and started on the trail to just what happened to Jane Oliver.Things are confused and emotions are intense as they find Jane. The relief of finding their missing loved one fades as they have to face what they’ve found? Will their friendship survive? Where do they go from here?Book SIX in the Mysteries of Severine DuNoir... -
![La leyenda del ladrón by Juan Gómez-Jurado]()
La leyenda del ladrón by Juan Gómez-Jurado
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPrepárate a transportarte a la Sevilla del XVI, a un fascinante mundo de mendigos y prostitutas, nobles y comerciantes, espadachines y ladrones. El amor, la pasión y la venganza son los pilares de esta magistral novela de aventuras en torno a un niño salvado misteriosamente de la muerte, que crecerá para erigirse en la última esperanza de los desfavorecidos... -
![My Brother's Keeper by Marcia Davenport]()
My Brother's Keeper by Marcia Davenport
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on the true story of the Collyer brothers.Inspired by the 1947 New York Times articles detailing items taken from the Collyer's brownstone after their deaths, Davenport constructs a tale of the Holt brothers, one a failing concert pianist and the other a naval architect, and the events that prompted them to become recluses in later life... -
![The Slave Players by Megan Allen]()
The Slave Players by Megan Allen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt’s modern day in the Deep South. Racial unrest is rampant, and outbreaks of violence reach epidemic proportions. When a church bus makes a wrong turn in the Alabama countryside, a dozen teenage girls become victims of a heinous crime. The resulting outcry is explosive, as a new civil war erupts, but this time it will be whites who are cast into bondage... -
![The House at Helygen by Victoria Hawthorne]()
The House at Helygen by Victoria Hawthorne
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings'DARK, DISTURBING AND UTTERLY COMPELLING' LIZ FENWICKAn atmospheric historical suspense novel rich with familial secrets. The House at Helygen is a twisted tale of dark pasts, murderous presents and uncertain futures.2019 When Henry Fox is found dead in his ancestral home in Cornwall, the police rule it a suicide, but his pregnant wife, Josie, believes it was murder... -
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![Chains of Folly by Roberta Gellis]()
Chains of Folly by Roberta Gellis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThat Nelda Roundheels had been murdered would have been of little interest to anyone - except that her body turned up in the bishop of Winchester's bedchamber with a letter to the bishop, from the king's most important enemy, rolled up in her breastband... -
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Peeler by Kevin McCarthy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWest Cork. November 1920. The Irish War of Independence rages. The body of a young woman is found brutally murdered on a windswept hillside. A scrap board sign covering her mutilated body reads 'TRATOR'. Traitor...Categorized as:
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The Resurrectionist by Paul T. Scheuring
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's 1820, and the physicians of London are on fire to unlock the secrets of human anatomy, some consorting with criminals to get their scalpels into a fresh body. Job Mowatt has become such a criminal—a body snatcher, a resurrectionist. The wages are just enough to keep his brilliant daughter, Ivy, clean and safe in London's worst slum... -
![The Mad Monk of Gidleigh by Michael Jecks]()
The Mad Monk of Gidleigh by Michael Jecks
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlone in his isolated, windswept chapel on the edge of Dartmoor, his only companions moor men and poverty–stricken serfs, who could blame the young priest, Mark for seeking affection from Jane, the local miller’s daughter? But when Jane’s body is found brutally stabbed, Mark is the obvious suspect—and the discovery that Jane was pregnant seems to confirm his guilt... -
![The Errant Flock by Jana Petken, Elisa Pardini]()
The Errant Flock by Jana Petken, Elisa Pardini
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsValencia, Spain, 1491 The ambitions of four men merge and collide in a deadly game of intrigue. David Sanz, a young militiaman, is forced to carry out a heinous crime, and he becomes an unwitting pawn in a tense battle for power. Luis Peráto, the duke of Sagrat, sacrifices his own people to cover up dark secrets that could see him burnt at the stake for treason... -
![Sons of the Pope by Daniel O'Connor, Peter Randazzo]()
Sons of the Pope by Daniel O'Connor, Peter Randazzo
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"This is a very visual novel and the attention to detail is so rich that I could smell the dirty water dogs from the NYC street vendors. Bravo!" ~Romeo Tirone, Director of True Blood, Dexter, and Red Widow “Daniel O'Connor's Sons of the Pope reveals an interesting new talent with a snappy style. This is someone's career to watch.” ~Andrew Neiderman, Author of The Devil's Advocate and several V.C... -
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Neon Mirage by Max Allan Collins, Dan John Miller
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn 1946 Chicago, Nathan Heller—president of the flourishing A-1 Detective Agency—is hired to protect racing-wire gambling chief James Ragen, who is nonetheless shot down on the streets of Chicago. Not one to take such an affront sitting down, Nate goes after the killer, but he’s in for the biggest surprise of his career... -
![The Long Masquerade by Madeleine Brent]()
The Long Masquerade by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEmma Delaney knows nothing of life's shams. She is without pretext and assumes that a bright future awaits her as the bride of the wealthy Oliver Foy. Too soon she discovers that her life is a masquerade and pretense her only salvation. No one is whom he or she appears to be.Brushing against the concealed identities and hidden motives of others, Emma quickly acquires secrets of her own... -
![The Willow Pattern by Robert van Gulik]()
The Willow Pattern by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJudge Dee has been appointed emergency governor of the plague- and drought-ridden Imperial City. As his guards help the city fend off a popular uprising, an aristocrat from one of the oldest families in China suffers an "accident" in a deserted mansion... -
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The Phantom of the Temple by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJudge Dee presided over his imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits were celebrated in Chinese folklore, and later immortalized by Robert van Gulik in his electrifying mysteries... -
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![Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story by Robert van Gulik]()
Necklace and Calabash: A Chinese Detective Story by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJudge Dee is a magistrate in the fictional Poo-yang district, its a wealthy area through which the Grand Canal of China runs (part of modern-day Jiangsu province). The Emperor's daughter lives in the district at the Water Palace but it falls under a special administration run by the military commander... -
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The Leper's Return by Michael Jecks
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a local goldsmith, Godfrey of Harwood, is found brutally murdered in his home, Furnshill and Puttock are called on to investigate. But when rumors begin spreading that patients from a local leper hospital might have been involved in Godfrey's murder, a series of vicious attacks on the unfortunate victims ensues, culminating in a disastrous fire at the hospital... -
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Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"An impressive novel . . . the most brutal and authentic account of a road gang that we have had." —New York TimesOut of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, the larger-than-life war hero—Good Guy Number One—turned drunkard, vandal, and convict. A blasphemer and "pretty evil feller" who "could work the hardest, eat the mostest, and tell the biggest lies... -
![The Chinese Nail Murders by Robert van Gulik]()
The Chinese Nail Murders by Robert van Gulik
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA.D. 676In the fifth installment of Robert Van Gulik's ancient Chinese mystery series based on historical court records, detective Judge Dee is appointed to the magistrate of Pei-chow - a distant frontier district in the barren north of the ancient Chinese Empire... -
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![The River of Souls by Robert McCammon]()
The River of Souls by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe year is 1703. The place: the Carolina settlement of Charles Town. . Matthew Corbett, professional “problem solver,” has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball.What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation...
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