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"Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again"--Provided by publisher....

As a flash from the past, the daughter of his first partner Milton Gurkey (Pickles) shows up, and Beaumont relives his rookie days. While in the midst of suffering a heart attack, Pickles stumbled into a crime in progress. In the end, a woman is dead, Pickles is unconscious, holding the murder weapon, and rookie Beaumont and his cop friends must find out the truth.

"Ann Cleeves returns to her critically acclaimed Shetland Island series with this stunning mystery featuring Inspector Jimmy Perez, who readers will remember from Raven Black, White Nights, Red Bones, and Blue Lightning. When the body of a journalist is found, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted from outside to head up the investigation. Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed in this case, and he...

Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever.

After a patient dies accidentally, an impeccably credentialed doctor is accused of fraudulent involvement with a new drug. Isabel Dalhousie launches an investigation, concerned that a good man's reputation will be ruined. Could the doctor be taking the fall for someone else's mistake? Or did a nefarious pharmaceutical company put its lofty ambitions ahead of safety?

Cate Madigan finds her hands full with her cross-dressing roommate, a 120-pound dog that is eating her out of house and home, a burglar who is stalking her, and a handsome cop who has caught her eye.

Attorney Robert Sloane agrees to help Beverly Ford sue the United States government and military for the wrongful death of her husband, a national guardsman killed in Iraq, but there is little evidence, the men who served with Ford are not talking, and a killer has begun to target Sloane's family.

The controversial arrival of Willow Adams, who was found by police sleeping in the display window of Izzy Chambers' Seaside Knitting Studio, becomes more suspicious when Aidan Peabody, a local artist and gallery owner, is found dead on the eve of the town's monthly art festival, and Peabody's will reveals there is only one heir to his large estate.

Father Terry Dunn escapes from the horror he has witnessed in his small village in Rwanda and travels to Detroit, where he finds himself on the run from dangerous criminals and government officials who don't believe he is a priest.

"When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn't know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle Tucker Gatrell would discover the Fountain of Youth, that The National Enquirer would write about it, and that the law would beat down his door in search of three missing men. But Doc Ford is about to find these things out--the hard way. Because in the shadowy world of Southwest Florida,...