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Detective Varg novels volume 1
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes investigates three extremely strange cases. They investigate how and why a local business owner was stabbed... behind his knee. Next, a young woman's imaginary boyfriend goes missing. And finally, they investigate whether nocturnal visitations at a local spa have a supernatural element.
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Mma Ramotswe happily reconnects with an old friend when his teaching job brings him back to Gaborone. In the course of their conversations, though, Mma Ramotswe learns that Hope, one of their mutual acquaintances, has fallen on hard times. This initially comes as a shock to her, as the woman came from wealth. But when she learns that Hope has recently separated from her husband, a local politician with a less than stellar reputation, she becomes determined...
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Amanda and her husband, David, are raising their son and daughter in the close-knit community of ex-pats on Grand Cayman Island. Their firstborn, Sally, has always listened to her heart, deciding at age four that she would rather be called Clover and then, a few years later, falling in love with her best friend, James. At the same time that Clover falls in love with James, Amanda realizes that she has fallen out of love with David, and that...
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Food writer Paul Stuart heads to the idyllic Italian hill town of Montalcino to finish his late manuscript, but he discovers his rental car is missing. With no record of any reservation and no other cars available, Paul is stuck at the airport until he is offered a bulldozer. Paul accepts the offer and this begins a series of surprising adventures in food, wine, Tuscan history and modern romance as Paul travels through the countryside on his Italian...
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Detective Varg novels volume 2
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When the girlfriend of an infamous author approaches Mr. Varg insisting her bad-boy beau is being blackmailed, he is determined to help. It's difficult to determine what skeletons hide in her boyfriend's closet, though. Ulf finds himself distracted by his ongoing attraction to his co-worker, Anna, whose own fears about her husband's fidelity are causing a strain on her marriage. When Ulf is also asked to look into a group of dealers exporting wolves...
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Detective Varg novels volume 3
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When art historian Anders Kindgren visits the Department of Sensitive Crimes to report a series of strange acts that have been committed against him, Ulf and his team take action. Fish being stuffed into the vents of Kindgren's car and a manipulated footnote in a recent art review magazine would be reason enough for an investigation, but when a painting Kindgren appraised as genuine is later declared a fake, it's apparent that someone is out to ruin...
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Val was working as a land girl when the Americans arrived at the nearby airfield in 1944. Mike, a young American airman, came into her life soon after, and so too did Peter Woodhouse, a dog badly treated on a neighbouring farm and taken in by her aunt. Little persuasion was needed for Mike to take Peter Woodhouse to the airbase and over time he became the mascot of the American squad, flying with them whenever their Mosquitoes took to the skies. When...
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In World War II Suffolk recently widowed La forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and soothe her own broken heart. She soon develops a touching friendship with the polish refugee she's recruited to play the flute. But when the war ends and the orchestra disbands she must ponder her next move.
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"The newest addition to the ever-popular, internationally beloved series finds Precious Ramotswe and her friends up to their necks in mysterious trouble. Mma Ramotswe knows she is very lucky indeed. She has a loving family, good friends, and a thriving business doing what she enjoys most: helping people. But the latest mystery she is called upon to solve is distinctly trickier than it initially appears, and, of course, there's plenty to handle in...
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Precious Ramotswe has always idolised her father, the late Obed Ramotswe. She feels that she knows all about his life, but does she? Sometimes our parents surprise us, and we discover that things were not quite what we thought them to be. And the same goes for Mma Makutsi, Mma Ramotswe's feisty assistant, who also makes certain discoveries about her own past that cause some surprise. The placid world of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is further...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 11
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Recently distracted by the arrival of her and Jamie's second son, Magnus, Isabel Dalhousie, philanthropic editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, is anxious. The next issue of the Review is far from ready, her eldest, Charlie, is jealous, and their housekeeper, Grace, has an officious approach to childcare. With some relief, Isabel returns to helping out at her niece Cat's delicatessen, where surely the most taxing duty is the preparation of sandwiches....
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In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi encounters a pair of quandaries that will require all of her and Mma Ramotswe's cleverness and generosity to resolve
Grace Makutsi's husband, Phuti, is in a bind. An international firm is attempting to undercut his prices in the office furniture market. Phuti has always been concerned with quality and comfort, but this new firm seems interested only in...
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 10
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In her attempt to foster understanding between the sexes and find the traitor on a local football team, Precious Ramotswe ventures into new territory, drinks tea in unfamiliar kitchens and learns to trust in the observational powers of small boys.
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No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency volume 9
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When Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe's husband, falls under the sway of a doctor who promises a miracle cure for his daughter's medical condition, Precious Ramotswe deals with the situation with her usual grace and good humour, and in the end discovers that the biggest miracles in life are often the small ones.
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The twelfth installment in the beloved, bestselling series is once again a beautiful blend of wit and wisdom, and a profoundly touching tale of the human heart.
Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace Makutsi dreams that her 97 percent on the Botswana Secretarial College exam was a mistake. When Mma Ramotswe discovers that her van is actually still in use (and, of course, sets out to retrieve...
Precious Ramotswe is haunted by a dream in which she is driving her dear old white van. Grace Makutsi dreams that her 97 percent on the Botswana Secretarial College exam was a mistake. When Mma Ramotswe discovers that her van is actually still in use (and, of course, sets out to retrieve...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 7
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Nothing captures the charm of Edinburgh like the bestselling Isabel Dalhousie series of novels featuring the insatiably curious philosopher and woman detective. Whether investigating a case or a problem of philosophy, the indefatigable Isabel Dalhousie, one of fiction's most richly developed amateur detectives, is always ready to pursue the answers to all of life's questions, large and small. Isabel has been asked to discreetly investigate the candidates...
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