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Death by Design (An Inspector Ikmen mystery) – Barbara Nadel

When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi, a young man with explosives strapped to his chest blows himself up in front of them. In the process, Istanbul’s Inspector Çetin Ikmen is injured. Documents found in the factory lead the authorities in both Istanbul and London to believe that a terrorist attack, in part orchestrated from the Tarlabasi factory, is about to be enacted in the British capital. Ikmen goes undercover among the North London Turkish community, although what he uncovers there is certainly not what his British colleagues were expecting.

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The Pale Horse – Agatha Christie

The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes. “Stopped….It must be stopped….You will….”

The priest spoke with reassuring authority. “I will do what is necessary. You can trust me.”

Father Gorman tucked the list of names she had given him into his shoe. It was a meaningless list; the names wer of people who had nothing in common.

On his way home, Father Gorman was murdered. But the police found the list and when Mark Easterbrook came to inquire into the circumstances of the people listed, he began to discover a connection between them, and an ominous pattern….

Every name of that list was either already dead or, he suspected, marked for murder.

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One, Two Buckle My Shoe – Agatha Christie

Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harboured a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Dr. Morley’s surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew was that only hours later Poirot would be back to examine the dentist, found dead in his own surgery.

Turning to the other patients for answers, Poirot finds other, darker questions…..

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A Murderous Procession – Ariana Franklin (A Mistress of the Art of Death Novel)

In 1178, King Henry II sends his daughter Joanna to Palermo to marry his cousin, the King of Sicily. War on the continent and outbreaks of plague make it especially dangerous, so the king chooses Adelia Aguilar to travel with her. As a medical doctor, and the king’s personal mistress of the art of death, it is Adelia’s duty to leave behind her own cherished daughter in order to safeguard the princess on the arduous year-long journey.

Someone else has also joined the royal procession – a murderer bent on the worst kind of revenge. When people in the princess’s intimate circle begin to die, Adelia suspects that the killer could be a trusted companion hiding in plain sight. But is his ultimate, intended victim the princess, or Adelia herself?