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"In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive--and a terrifying weapon. Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves. When he pried it apart, highly toxic airborne fumes entered his body--and killed him. After Eve Dallas calls the hazmat team--and...
2) Killer chef
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Chef and police officer Caleb Rooney searches for a murderer who kills by poison at top New Orleans restaurants.
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"While Emma Sharpe and her husband, Colin Donovan, are in Maine, Colin tags along with a marine patrol officer checking on suspected food poisoning victims on a yacht. Colin recognizes one of the victims as an undercover British intelligence officer, which puts a sinister twist on the situation. A valuable painting by Irish artist Aoife O'Byrne -- a friend of Emma and Colin's -- is also missing from the yacht. Emma and Colin soon discover they are...
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When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a Rat Tea, she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better...
7) Take out
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"Sigrid is still reeling from the untimely death of her lover, acclaimed painter Oscar Nauman, when she is called to investigate the deaths of two homeless men in the West Village. The police at first assume an overdose, until they realize that one of the men shows no signs of drug use. Then when containers of poisoned takeout food are found nearby, Sigrid's case is suddenly much more complicated..."--Dust jacket.
8) The taster
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"Magda Ritter is pressed into service for her country and, now, every meal could be her last. She is one of a handful of young women given the dubious honor of tasting Adolf Hitler's food, protecting the paranoid dictator from death by poisoning. Pampered compared to most in wartime Germany, the girls live on a knife's edge of fear and suspicion."-- Library Journal
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While making pies and cakes for Winter Garden, Virginia's Independence Day celebration, Amy Flowers goes up against Chamber of Commerce director George Lincoln, who wants to buy her café and tear it down, but when he is poisoned to death, she must find a way to prove that it wasn't her food that killed him.
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The vicar of a nearby village persuades Agatha Raisin to help publicize a church fete. Agatha brings out the crowds for the fete, but there's more going on than innocent village fun. Several of the offerings in the jam-tasting booth turn out to be poisoned, and the festive family event becomes the scene of two murders. Along with her young and (much to her dismay) pretty sidekick, Toni, Agatha must uncover the truth behind the jam tampering, keep...
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A tale set in America and China follows the experiences of three people who in their youths were involved in a mysterious accident that resulted in a friend's fatal poisoning and years later are haunted by the possibility that one of them actually committed a murder.
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Beautiful, young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty; Hercule Poirot is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows ...
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Maggie Summer's life is full. She has three loves in her life: her antique print business, her career as a community college professor, and the new man in her life. She loves using the antique prints to illustrate her lectures on American cultural history.
When a special dormitory is built for single parents and their children, Maggie is thrilled to become the faculty advisor to the young parents—until one of the young mothers is poisoned.
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"In the 1960s 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a large party at the Aosawas, owners of a prominent clinic in an ancient castle city on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only survivor is their teenage daughter Hisako, blind, beautiful, admired by all, but soon suspected of masterminding the crime." --