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The Riddle of the Third Mile is the sixth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series. The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the...

"Do you know me?" The past day is all that she can remember. Her identity, her entire life up until the moment she woke up in Veil, Vermont, has been forgotten. No one in town knows who she is (or no one's saying). Without a clue as to her real name, she's adopted a new one: Violet.

Lost in the mists of the Romney Marsh, Angela Marchmont stumbles upon the body of a woman whose face has been disfigured - presumably to prevent recognition. Who is she, and what was she doing out there in the middle of nowhere? The search for answers will take Angela from a grand stately home to London's most fashionable - and disreputable - nightclub, and into a murky world of illegal drinking, jazz music, and lost souls.

A heartbroken widow. A suspicious accident. And a cat who always trusts his instincts. Mallory Beck never thought delivering a casserole could get her tangled up in murder. But when a routine act of kindness leads her straight into the heart of the Montrose family’s secrets, Mallory finds herself in the middle of a mystery with more layers than her lasagna. Still reeling from her husband’s sudden passing, Mallory is just starting to rebuild—one home-cooked meal at a time.

None of the children in Veil, Vermont, had ever seen a dead body… The people of Veil consider the falling of the first snowflake to be the start of winter. This year, the first day of winter in Veil begins with a child's disappearance. No ransom, no trace. Deputy Jen Gogan is determined to find the child, who is friends with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Cyanne. However, when Cy goes searching on her own, she discovers an injured woman with no memory of who she is.

When a woman Clark Thomas has never seen before sits down across from him in his bookstore, she gives him an invitation to dinner . . . and murder. He takes the beautiful stranger up on her offer. Her father is the host. He is a retired Hollywood music composer and lover of puzzles. What Clark doesn’t know is that someone wants the host dead, and the host wants Clark to figure out who before it’s too late.