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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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"As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The rugged Cat Mesa country north of the village of Posadas is hosting the first annual Posadas 100, a cycle-cross bicycle race that promises to attract more than 140 competitors. Despite enough injuries during the pre-race practice to promise a spectacular and dangerous race, Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has even more pressing concerns on her mind. Someone has been using Jerry Turner's big Cessna 206 and then returning it to its hangar at the...
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A river gives up its dead, but not its secrets...
Sam Blackman and Nakayla Robertson, private investigators in Asheville, North Carolina, are hired when a local environmentalist dies while monitoring water quality in the nearby Pigeon River. With no soil or water samples found near the body, his widow doesn't believe his death was an accident.
In fact, witnesses reported a public altercation between the environmentalist and local mill heir Luke...
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Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"[A] marvelous mystery you won't want to put down." -Publishers Weekly
Barry Clayton has a job he doesn't want. When his father became stricken with Alzheimer's, Barry left the Charlotte police force for the small mountain community of Gainesboro, North Carolina, where his family runs the local funeral home. "Buryin' Barry" reluctantly assumed the mantle of town undertaker, trying to fit his life into this somber profession.
Almost at once it turns...
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English
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Mortician "Zig" Zigarowski, while working on the body of a successful military man, discovers something he was never meant to see, and, to get the answers he needs, sets out to find military artist Nola Brown--a search that reveals one of the U.S. government's most intensely guarded secrets.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"With an ear for intelligent, breezy dialogue and clever plotting, Kahn spins an engrossing yarn." -Publishers Weekly
When Graham Anderson Marshall III of the prestigious corporate law firm Abbott & Windsor dies, even stranger than his bizarre death is the codicil to his will, which provides a large trust fund for the maintenance of a grave at a pet cemetery. The issue? No one in his family has ever owned a pet-much less one named Canaan. And since...
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Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Elegant prose, a veritable Chinese box of puzzles, and authentic, well-rounded characters make this a standout." -Publishers Weekly STARRED review
Where memories, realities, and identities blur…
David Hazard wanted nothing more than to forget his renegade family and the foggy New England village "on the wrong side" of Narragansett Bay where he grew up. When sudden tragedy brings him back to Little Compton to care for his grandmother during her...
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the recently dead and give voice to their final wishes and revelations. Inherited from her father, this gift has enabled the family undertakers to flourish in their small Irish town. Yet she has always been uneasy about censoring some of the dead's last messages to the living. Unsure, too, about the choice she made when she left school seventeen years ago: to stay, or leave for a new life in London with her...
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