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Release Date: May 16, 2013 Publisher: Hachette Audio Format: Audible Length: 15 hours 54 minutes Narrator: Robert Glenister Genre: Mystery Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide. After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known t...

Release Date: Nov 1, 2016 Publisher: Disney/Hyperion/Freeform Format: Kindle Pages: 320 pages Genre: YA/mystery Buy: Kindle | Hardcover Synopsis: As soon as Seneca Frazier sees the post on the Case Not Closed website about Helena Kelly, she's hooked. Helena's high-profile disappearance five years earlier is the one that originally got Seneca addicted to true crime. It's the reason she's a member of the site in the first place. So when Maddy Wright, her best friend from the CNC site, invites Seneca to spend spring break in Connecticut looking into the cold case, she immediately packs her bag. But the moment she steps off the train in trendy, glamorous Dexby, things begin to go wrong. Maddy is nothing like she expected, and Helena's sister, Aerin Kelly, seems completely hostile and totally uninterested in helping with their murder investigation. But when Brett, another super user from the site, joins Seneca and Maddy in Dexby, Aerin starts to come around...

Title:   Mayhem in Margaux (Winemaker Detective) Jean Pierre Alaux & Noel Balen Publisher: Le French Book Format: advanced e-galley received through netgalley.com from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Pages: 164 pages Genre: Mystery This book was released May 14, 2015 Synopsis:  It’s summer in Bordeaux. There’s a heat wave, the vineyards are suffering, vintners are on edge, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker’s daughter is visiting. A tragic car accident draws the Winemaker Detective and his assistant Virgile into a case where the stakes are very personal, and they uncover some dirty secrets hiding behind some of Bordeaux’s finest grand cru classé wines from Margaux. (34)Review: This book made me wish I could drink wine, unfortunately a sulfite allergy destroys that ability.  So with little to no knowledge of wine but feeling mighty thirsty at the end of the book I learned a lot (like the merits of a traditional cork over a screw top in wi...