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The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland. However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled hippopotamuses. Mma Makutdi still does not have a date for her wedding but Precious knows a wide river will make its way round any obstacle, things will work out for the best.
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"Former police officer Cassie Dewell is trying to start over with her own private investigation firm. Guilty about not seeing her son and exhausted by the nights on stakeout, Cassie is nonetheless managing...until an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young girl from an influential family. Against her own better judgment, Cassie agrees. But out in the Big Sky Country of Montana, twisted family...
23) X
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"Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only two letters left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. X: The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss. X: The shortest entry in Webster's Unabridged. Derived from Greek and Latin and commonly found in science, medicine, and religion. The most graphically dramatic...
25) Princess
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Jack Morgan receives an offer he cannot refuse. When the head of the world's foremost investigation agency receives at invitation to meet Princess Caroline, third in line to the British throne, he boards his Gulfstream jet and flies straight to London. The Princess needs Morgan's skills, and his discretion. Sophie Edwards, a close friend of the Princess, has gone missing. She needs to be found before the media become aware of it. Morgan knows there...
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Penguin Group
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2009
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In an unnamed city slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at an imperious detective agency. His job: writing reports on cases solved by the palindromic Detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor is murdered, Unwin is promoted to detective, a rank for which he is woefully unprepared. His only guidance comes from his sleepy new assistant and the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection. Unwin mounts his search for Sivart...
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In this new adventure set in 1920s Scotland, witty, aristocratic sleuth Dandy Gilver has set up shop with her friend Alec Osbourne, forming the detective agency Gilver and Osbourne. The pair travel to an all-girls school in the small seaside town of Portpatrick to look in on the client's youngest sister, who has been teaching in the school. When Dandy's mistaken for a schoolmistress, she goes undercover to investigate the strange goings-on. Teachers...
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Mississippi Delta mysteries volume 13
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Minotaur Books
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2013
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Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi to study the mysterious remains of a body called "The Woman in Red." Olive claims that she knows the woman's identity and can tie her infamous past to many elite Zinnia families.
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Stone Barrington novels volume 20
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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2011
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A beautiful Bel-Air widow, already one of the wealthiest women in America, needs Stone's help to become even more cash-rich. At stake is the sale of her investment in-and the resulting dissolution of Hollywood's world famous Centurion Studios. When Stone arrives to help finalize the sale, he discovers that the tranquility of the neighborhood is just a facade.
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Chet and Bernie mysteries volume 4
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1st Atria Books hardcover edition
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2011
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Chet and Bernie are hired to find a lost boy who has gone missing from a wilderness camp. Did he wander away as claimed by his trail guide or was he hounded away by bullies? The boy's mother believes he was snatched away by her ex-husband.
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 2
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Anchor Books
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2000
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Precious Ramotswe is a cunning proprietor of the only ladies' detective agency in Botswana. She tracks wayward wives, unscrupulous maids, and searches for an American man who disappeared into the plains many years ago.
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"Mma Ramotswe has her hands full both at home and in the office. To add to her current challenges, her devoted partner, Grace Makutsi, has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe. But even "Miss 97 Per Cent" can't quite meet all the demands of running a business--not to mention those that a lightning strike makes on her building. Eventually, she'll have to accept all the help she can get--even if it comes from a completely...
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 26
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Grand Central Publishing
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2009
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English
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Sharon McCone mysteries volume 27
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Grand Central Publishing
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2010
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English
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Holmes on the range mysteries volume 3
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Minotaur Books
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2008
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English
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St. Martin's Minotaur
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1987,1989, 1992 ,1999
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Charlie Meiklejohn is a former arson detective turned private investigator. His wife, Constance Leidl, is a professional psychologist. Together they're and unbeatable team, ready to take on the most convoluted cases.
39) Bad country
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Thorndike Press
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c.2014
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"The newest winner of the Tony Hillerman Prize, a debut mystery set in the Southwest starring a former rodeo cowboy turned private investigator, told in a transfixingly original style. Rodeo Grace Garnet lives alone, save for his old dog, in a remote corner of Arizona known to locals as the Hole. He doesn't get many visitors, but a body found near his home has drawn police attention to his front door. The victim is not one of the many illegal immigrants...