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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 4
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On Halloween, college students get rowdy and the faculty gets killed. Since Father Tibor Kasparian escaped the Soviet Union, he has done his best to keep his philosophy to himself - not out of fear, but because he knows that few people could stomach an honest account of life under Stalinism. When he gets an invitation to spend a semester teaching philosophy at Independence College, Kasparian hesitates, but his friend Gregor Demarkian, a former FBI...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 3
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At a Fourth of July charity fundraiser, politics turns deadly. Stephen Fox may be a moron, but he may also be America's next president. The dimwitted legislator is just smart enough to know when to smile for the camera. But two women stand in the way of his campaign: his mistress and his wife, who has never recovered from the death of their daughter, a pain she manages by devoting herself to fundraising for children with Down syndrome. During a weekend-long...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 6
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After a financial mogul's murder, Demarkian takes a colonial cruise Once one of Wall Street's most powerful forces, Donald McAdam's life changed when he found himself in a tight spot with the SEC. Either give up everything, they told him, or inform on your friends. Never one for loyalty, McAdam chose the wire, and sent half the stockbrokers in New York to prison. Now he's filthy rich, isolated, and so paranoid that he buys his cocaine laced with strychnine,...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 11
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Demarkian attempts a good deed on Valentine's Day: saving a neighbor from jail. Psychiatrist Paul Hazzard was renowned for his insights into the human mind, until his wife was savagely murdered. She was stabbed to death with an ornamental dagger, a grisly crime for which Paul was tried but never convicted. Four years later, to escape his greedy family and his former mistress, Paul takes an unlikely lover: the homely, middle-aged Hannah Krekorian....
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 13
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At an aging starlet's birthday, a Hollywood murder mystery debuts. Actress Tasheba Kent was famous before movies could talk, and stayed that way well after the silent era died. When her sister took a mysterious plunge off a cliff, the silver-screen beauty turned tragedy into scandal by running off with her bereaved brother-in-law. To escape the outraged press, they retreated to a rocky island off the coast of Maine. Decades later, Tash remains a symbol...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 10
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When a killer threatens a talk show host, Demarkian must take to the air. Sex, sex, and more sex - this is the formula for a hit talk show. No one knows this better than Lotte Goldman, host of television's most outrageous chat show, but even she is getting bored of her sensational interviews. To break the routine, she and her producer - the towering, dynamic DeAnna Kroll - take the show to Philadelphia to film a conversation between ex-FBI agent Gregor...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 8
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At a nun's convention, Demarkian investigates an unusual poisoning. A superfluity of nuns has descended on Philadelphia, and the city is doing all it can to keep them entertained. The spiritual sisters' convention lined up several speakers, including media mogul Henry Hare, shock-jock extraordinaire Norm Kevic, and the brilliant sleuth Gregor Demarkian, whose lecture "Investigating the Catholic Murder" is sure to cause a sensation. As a former FBI...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 15
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A desperate housewife kills her husband and disappears, drawing Demarkian to suburbia. Fox Run Hill is the kind of place that men move to with their second wives, but Patsy MacLaren Willis has been married to Stephen, her first husband, for twenty-two years. Though outwardly happy, Patsy feels disconnected, hating their empty life. To wrench herself free, she shoots Stephen three times and leaves him dead in their bed. Calmly, she drives away and...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 14
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An infant's death draws Demarkian to a strange Southern town. As a hurricane bears down on Bellerton, North Carolina, Zhondra Meyer opens her gates to the townsfolk. Her farm occupies the area's highest ground, but the locals are wary of accepting her invitation. Zhondra says her camp is nothing more than a retreat for battered women, but the town's evangelicals believe that her residents are lesbians, occultists, or, worst of all, satanists - a fear...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 5
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Winter is thawing, but in a small-town convent there lurks an ice-cold killer Her childhood friends wanted careers, but Brigit Ann Reilly spent her youth looking forward to her wedding-her wedding to God. When she finally gets to don the habit, her new order sends her to Maryville, where a former sister is poised to become Rome's first Irish-American saint. Brigit has no time to worry about Vatican politics. She's about to become a martyr herself....
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 9
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A media kingpin is dead and the chief suspect is a modern-day saint. Michael Pride could have been a world-class surgeon, but his good intentions got the best of him. He opened a clinic in one of New York's roughest neighborhoods, and stuck around when gangs, drugs, and guns turned it into a war zone. Supporting his mission is Charles van Straadt, a media titan with a knack for incendiary headlines and a soft spot for good works. When a sex scandal...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 12
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When a New Haven exercise guru is murdered, Demarkian flexes his gray matter. After twenty years in California, Frannie Jay - formerly Frances Jakumbowski - returns to her home turf: New Haven, Connecticut, a university town that has become rife with crime. The depressed aerobics instructor hopes to find new life at the Fountain of Youth - a workout studio whose weight trainer, Tim Bradbury, is the best in the business. But Frannie's fresh start turns...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 7
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In a small New England town, a Christmas controversy is grounds to kill. Bethlehem, Vermont, is a sleepy little town, distinguished from the neighboring hamlets by its Christmas pageant. The holiday spectacular dates back generations; as the village's only tourist attraction, it brings in much of the money that keeps Bethlehem afloat. The festivities are held on publicly owned land, which might be a slight violation of the separation of church and...
14) Flowering Judas
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 26
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Twelve years ago, Chester Morton disappeared from his hometown in New York, leaving no trace and never to be heard from again. For the past twelve years, his mother has kept the search for her son alive by hounding every law enforcement agency she can get to listen. Now, Chester's body is finally found - hanging from the very billboard that has been advertising his disappearance. Chester's corpse, however, is recent.
15) One of Our Own
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A mysterious black van is spotted by several people at various times in the area around Cavanaugh Street, Philadelphia's Armenian-American enclave. Presumed by some to be related to the increasing ICE raids around the area, the mystery deepens one night when a body falls out of the back of the van when speeding through the neighborhood.
Marta Warkowski, a reclusive older woman, is found bound up in a garbage bag after it falls out of the van. In...
16) Hearts of Sand
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 28
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Alwych is the stereotypical old money Connecticut beach town...and Chapin Waring is the worst thing that ever happened to it. She was from one of the richest families in Alwych until thirty years ago when the young debutante was revealed to a bank robber and a murderer. She disappeared, but Alwych has never forgotten her, or let her friends and family forget. So when, after being spotted around town, Chapin turns up dead - stabbed to death in her...
17) Fighting Chance
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 29
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Gregor Demarkian grew up in the Armenian-American enclave in Philadelphia known as Cavanaugh Street. Even though he left to go to college, and then went on to a storied career, he eventually returned to Cavanaugh Street after an early retirement. There he still retains some of the friends. Among them is Father Tibor Kasparian, probably the most genuinely gentle soul that Demarkian has ever met. When Father Tibor is then arrested on murder charges,...
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Gregor Demarkian mysteries volume 27
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In Waldorf Pines, ostentation and pretension are the order of the day. But even by local standards, Martha Heydrich is a stone cold pain. She's the stay-at-home wife of a very rich husband, into everybody's business and rumored to be having an affair with a local teenager. One morning she seemingly vanishes, and that night her husband returns home to find the pool house ablaze. Once the fire is extinguished, police discover two bodies - one is presumed...