Marty MacAlister is no ordinary police officer. Black, female, widowed and recently transferred from Chicago to Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, she's got small-town attitudes to confront, children to raise - and a killer to stop.

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In his eighth outing, fiddler, tracker and amateur sleuth Gabriel Du Pre is called on to act as a historical advisor for a documentary. But trouble is brewing between the film-makers and the locals, and then the star quits, the props are set on fire - and two dead bodies are found in the river.

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A pleasant Sunday morning is ruined when a series of murders drag photographer Alex Rutledge back to work. And as if that isn't bad enough, Rutledge begins to suspect that the murders are linked through him.

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Mark Manning Mystery

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Harlan Crownover, scion of a great family of carriage makers, battles with his father to invest in a company run by Henry Ford. Desperate for funds he turns to his friends - but Harlan soon discovers how quickly friends can become mortal enemies. Set in Detroit - Motor City.

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Leo Guild wants work, riding shotgun on the last stagecoach lines is coming to an end, and he needs money. When offered the job of tracking down a missing prizefighter, how can he refuse?

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DCI Neil Paget and his motley crew of officers investigate the brutal murder of a leading real estate developer and the many players who may have benefited from his death.

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When private eye Kate Shugak disappears after the murder of her lover, her best friend, Alaska State Trooper Jim Chopin, manages to track her down to a small fishing village where she lives under an assumed name. There she has begun work on a case involving dangerous Russian smugglers in Alaska.

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A Tom and Scott Mystery

A Health Clinic Bombing May be the Beginning of an Elaborate Murder Plan; When a local health clinic is bombed, several people are killed and many others are injured, including high school teacher and clinic volunteer Tom Mason. While Tom recuperates in the hospital, his lover, baseball player Scott Carpenter, comes to suspect that Tom may have been the intended victim of the bombing. As the death toll mounts and Scott starts receiving threatening letters, he and Tom realise that they must find the killer before the killer finds them...