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Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.
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Last Bus to Woodstock
Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.
Mother-Daughter Murder Night
Lana Rubicon, a high-powered Los Angeles estate agent recovering from cancer, has to stay with her daughter Beth in a rural cottage on Elkhorn Slough, and when her granddaughter Jack finds a body while kayaking, Lana decides to help solve it.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.
The Unwedding
Ellery Wainwright, whose husband has left her for another woman, takes the Big Sur trip they booked for their twentieth anniversary alone, and the morning after a lavish wedding at the resort she finds the groom dead in the pool, just as a storm cuts everyone off.
The Cuckoo's Calling
Cormoran Strike, a war veteran running a failing detective agency in London, is hired by the brother of a supermodel who fell to her death from her balcony, ruled a suicide, to prove she was murdered.
The Chill
Lew Archer is hired by Alex Kincaid, a young man whose bride, Dolly, walked out the day after their wedding, and finds that Dolly was a witness in a murder case years before.
The Murder at the Vicarage
When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.
The Galton Case
Lew Archer is hired by the lawyer of Maria Galton, a rich and dying old woman, to find her son Anthony, who ran off with a girl more than twenty years ago and was never heard from again.
Death Without Company
Sheriff Walt Longmire investigates the poisoning of an elderly Basque woman at the Durant assisted-living home, and the case leads into the region's buried past and that of his old predecessor, Lucian Connally.
The Thin Man
A retired detective and his wealthy wife drink their way through a Prohibition-era Christmas in New York while he is pulled into the disappearance of an eccentric inventor suspected of murder.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
For her final-year school project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi reopens the case of Andie Bell, who vanished from their English town five years ago and was believed to have been killed by her boyfriend Sal, and Pip is sure the police got it wrong.
The Laughing Policeman
On a rainy November night in Stockholm, a gunman kills eight people on a city bus, among them a young detective from Martin Beck's squad.