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  Upstaged by Murder

  Grace Topping

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  When professional home stager Laura Bishop enters a competition to become the next TV home staging star, she figures it will be murder—but she doesn't expect it to include a body. As tensions rise and rivalries rage, a coded notebook flips the script and Laura's on the case. 
   
   
   
  But she's not alone. Her closest confidantes pitch in by sleuthing, eavesdropping, and even staging a sting to protect those near and dear. Yet she's still corralling a runaway teen, sparring with a handsome detective, and handling the shock of her life with a blast from her past. All while creating a cozy cabin retreat fit for first place. 
   
   
   
  Amidst constant cameras and glaring lights, Laura tries to style the stage and pull back the curtain on a killer before her career—and her life—get cut.

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  Red Joan

  Jennie Rooney

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  Inspired by the true story of a female spy, this is “an infectious page-turner, as crafty and nuanced and impassioned as any classic thriller” (The National). 
   
  Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, unmasked as the KGB’s longest-serving British spy in 1999, at age eighty-seven, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a young physicist during the Second World War. 
   
  Talented and impressionable, Cambridge undergraduate Joan Stanley befriends the worldly Sonya, whose daring history is at odds with Joan’s provincial upbringing. Joan also feels a growing attraction toward Leo, Sonya’s mysterious and charismatic cousin. Sonya and Leo, known communist sympathizers with ties to Russia and Germany, interpret wartime loyalty in ways Joan can only begin to fathom. 
   
  As nations throughout the continent fall to fascism, Joan is enlisted into an urgent project that will change the course of the war—and the world—forever. Risking both career and conscience, leaking information to the Soviets while struggling to maintain her own semblance of morality, Joan is caught at a crossroads in which all paths lead to the same endgame: the deployment of the atomic bomb. 
   
  Life during wartime, however, is often ambiguous, and when—decades later—MI5 agents appear at her doorstep, Joan must reaffirm the cost of the choices she made and face the cold truth: our deepest secrets have a way of dragging down those we love most. 
   
  The basis of the film starring Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson, this is “a brilliant spy novel, with [a] deft, involving plot . . . Tense, beautifully pitched, and very moving” (Marie Claire).

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  Dummy - A Biff Kincaid mystery

  Dawn Barton

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  In this fast-paced novella, when ventriloquist Priscilla Graham has her wisecracking stuffed sidekick Checkers stolen, she turns to her opening act for help—none other than stand-up comedian turned amateur sleuth Biff Kincaid. With just twenty-four hours to go before show time--and the hefty payday he desperately needs--Biff springs into action. It’s up to him to track down the dummy-nappers who stole Checkers by uncovering their twisted motives and dark deadly secrets. Biff races against the clock to deliver the ransom and rescue Checkers before the thieves deliver on their threat to put an end to the beloved puppet—and Biff along with it!

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  Dragnet: The Big Boys

  Jack Webb

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  A gang of four robbers, and their puppy have come to Los Angeles from San Francisco, planning to pull a job. A long stake-out with an alcoholic desk clerk provides results. Detective Sergeant Friday is assigned to robbery detail. Four young hoodlums wanted for a series of robberies are headed for your city. They’re armed, reckless and cold-blooded. It’s Friday's job to get them.

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  Silent Night

  C. J. Kyle

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  Police Chief Tucker Ambrose hopes the stolen bicycle is just a prank, but his years as a cop in Chicago tell him different. Then a body is discovered in the middle of the woods, staged with a bible, a crucifix, and a rosary . . . and Tucker knows something dark and sinister has arrived in his town. 
   
   
  Miranda Harley knows exactly what's going on. In fact, she's been tracking this serial killer, hoping to gather enough evidence to convict him. Trouble is, no one will believe her, not even the sexy police chief whose heated gazes promise nights of sin. But when Miranda falls into the cross-hairs of a psychopath, Tucker must put aside his doubts and race to stop the killer from striking again.

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  And Then There Were None

  Agatha Christie

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  A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick 
  One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie. 
  ""Ten . . ."" 
  Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ""U. N. Owen."" 
  ""Nine . . ."" 
  At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead. 
  ""Eight . . ."" 
  Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die. 
  ""Seven . . ."" 
  Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

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