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21) Stalking shadows
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"Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day...She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well...But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. Marie laces the perfume delicately--not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she's trained her sister to respond to. Marie marks her victim, and Ama attacks. But she doesn't attack...
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From the author of the internationally bestselling, award-winning The Devotion of Suspect X comes the latest novel featuring "Detective Galileo." In 2011, The Devotion of Suspect X was a hit with critics and fans alike. The first major English language publication from the most popular bestselling writer in Japan, it was acclaimed as "stunning," "brilliant," and "ingenious." Now physics professor Manabu Yukawa-Detective Galileo-returns in a new case...
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"Who poisoned the wealthy Emily Inglethorp and how did the murderer penetrate and escape from her locked bedroom? Suspects abound in the quaint village of Styles St. Mary--from the heiress's fawning new husband to her two stepsons, her volatile housekeeper, and a pretty nurse who works in a hospital dispensary. With impeccable timing, and making his unforgettable debut, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is on the case." --Back cover.
26) Assassin
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Thirteen-year-old Lady Grace Cavendish, favorite maid of honor of Elizabeth I, must solve a murder mystery and clear the name of her betrothed.
29) Shadowscent
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In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and seventeen-year-old Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death; Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard; now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned Rakel and Ash smell like the chief...
34) Poison evidence
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Describes the different types of poisons, how poisons affect the body, and how investigators find poisoning signs at crime scenes.
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"It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family -- though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which happened within hours of each other -- and were both ruled accidental. Ada thinks otherwise -- and has a plan. On New Year's Eve, she'll gather...
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"In 2018, a former Russian secret agent and his daughter were poisoned with a lethal neurotoxin that left them slumped over on a British park bench in critical condition. The story of who did it, and how these horrendous contaminants were developed, captivates and terrifies in equal measure. It has inspired acclaimed author Sergei Lebedev's latest page-turning novel. At its center is a scheming chemist named Professor Kalitin, obsessed with developing...
37) Poison's cage
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"Marinda and Iyla must work together to save themselves and the ones they love from the wrath of the Snake King"--
38) The black widow
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Carson Drew takes Nancy on a cruise to Rio de Janeiro. Once on board the Emerald Queen his attention turns to the beautiful widow, Nina da Silva. The problem is, Nina happens to be Nancy's top suspect in a strange case of stolen gems. As Nancy investigates, someone tries to kill her with a poisonous spider, the cruise director is wounded by a poisoned dart meant for her, and she is stalked by a phanton hit man. But Nancy is determined not to be...