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Trash 'n' Treasures volume 1
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2007
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Determined to make a new start in her quaint hometown on the banks of the Mississippi, Brandy Borne never dreams she'll become the prime suspect in a murder case. . . Moving back in with her eccentric, larger-than-life mother, Brandy Borne finds small-town Serenity anything but serene. It seems an unscrupulous antiques dealer has swindled Vivian out of the family's heirlooms. But when he is found run over in a country lane, Brandy becomes Murder Suspect...
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Alex Cross volume 25
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The charges: explosive Alex Cross has never been on the wrong side of the law - until now. Charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis Gary Soneji in cold blood, Cross is being turned into the poster child for trigger-happy cops who think they're above the law. Cross knows it was self-defence. But will a jury see it that way? The evidence: shocking As Cross fights for his freedom, his former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome video...
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Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
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The Sunday Times Bestseller Sammy Woodhouse was just 14 when she met Arshid Hussain. Ten years older, he promised to take care of her. Sammy thought she was in love, but in reality she was being groomed by a ringleader of Britain's most notorious child sex ring. Just A Child tells the heartbreaking story of how a young girl from Rotherham was abused by her drug-dealing 'boyfriend', eventually giving birth to his baby, right under the nose of the very...
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Pub. Date
2017
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The addictive new psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller and global phenomenon. In the last days before her death, Nel called her sister. Jules didn?t pick up the phone, ignoring her plea for help. Now Nel is dead. They say she jumped. And Jules has been dragged back to the one place she hoped she had escaped for good, to care for the teenage girl her sister left behind. But Jules...
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Harry Corbin volume 1
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A New York mystery from a talented new writer . . . - On a cold winter's morning in New York, NYPD detective Harry Corbin and his partner Adele Bentibi arrive at the scene of a murder. It looks like a cut-and-dried case but, as Corbin and Bentibi investigate, they uncover a murky world of bent cops and cover-ups that puts both of their careers and their lives in serious danger . . .
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Capucine Culinary Mystery volume 4
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2013
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Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier and her husband, a renowned restaurant critic, are frequent and privileged guests of Paris's cultured society. Unfortunately, a more refined milieu doesn't keep unsavory behavior like murder off the menu. . . When the body of acclaimed Chef Jean-Louis Brault and a shotgun are discovered in an antique Louis Vuitton portemanteau, the general consensus is suicide. Brault had been understandably distraught, if not quite...
7) Triple Cross
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Alex Cross volume 30
Pub. Date
2022
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They strike under the cover of darkness, trigger no alarms and leave no evidence behind. Detective Alex Cross is hunting a killer who targets families around Washington, DC. But Cross isn't the only one investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world?s bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull, calls the Family Man murders the perfect crime story. He believes the killer may never...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2013
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Includes the spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon?s MASTER OF THE GAMESIDNEY SHELDON?S AFTER THE DARKNESSGrace Brookstein is the beautiful, young, and naive wife of financial superstar, Leonard Brookstein. She seems to live a charmed life, but in 2009, the US stock market goes into a terrifying freefall, and the public want someone to blame. Bu Grace is oblivious and seemingly unscathed, until the death of Lenny in a tragic ?accident? forces her...
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Arcturus
Pub. Date
2021
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Whatever happened to the Nazis after World War II? While the Nuremberg trials saw key party members prosecuted, it was impossible to imprison every German who had supported the Third Reich. This is the story of what happened to the Nazis who escaped justice. These cases include: ? The Nazis who ran away to South America and the Nazi hunters who tracked them down ? 'Useful' Nazis such as Wernher von Braun who became the rocket scientists for other...
10) Broken silence
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Jack Brady volume 1
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Struggling with his marriage break-up and his tortured past, his problems intensify when friend and colleague DI James Matthews confidentially reveals that he was with the victim the night of her murder. Brady's loyal deputy, the clean-cut Detective Sergeant Harry Conrad and police psychologist Dr Amelia Jenkins are assigned with Brady to solve the victim's murder. But the investigation becomes increasingly compromised as Brady realises that Matthews...
11) No sorrow to die
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An Alice Rice Mystery volume 4
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?Red herrings, lies and cul-d-sacs interlink to create an enjoyable read and an awkward puzzle to solve? - The Dorothy L Sayers Society ?[Galbraith] offers a much needed female perspective on the city and the genre? - Scottish Field As Heather Brodie kisses her lover goodnight, her disabled husband lies dead, his throat cut from ear to ear.Who wanted Gavin Brodie dead? Many people, including Gavin himself. Devastated by an incurable illness, he had...
12) Blind eye
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Logan McRae volume 5
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?You can?t be an eyewitness if I cut out your eyes? ?Someone?s preying on Aberdeen?s growing Polish population. The pattern is always the same: men abandoned on building sites, barely alive, their eyes gouged out and the sockets burned. With the victims too scared to talk, and the only witness a paedophile who?s on the run, Grampian Police is getting nowhere fast. The attacks are brutal, they keep on happening, and soon DS Logan McRae will have to...
13) The distant echo
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Karen Pirie volume 1
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The past is behind them, but what?s still to come will tear them apart? Some things just won?t let go. The past, for instance. That night in the cemetery. The girl?s body in the snow. On a freezing Fife morning four drunken students stumble upon the body of a woman in the snow. Rosie has been raped, stabbed and left for dead in an ancient Pictish cemetery. And the only suspects are the four young men now stained with her blood. Twenty-five years later...
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Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery volume 2
Publisher
Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2019
Description
?You shouldn?t be here. It?s too late?? These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth �3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn?t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the...
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A Savannah Reid Mystery volume 16
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As the creator of the world-famous Helene doll, Helene Strauss is well known for her exquisite taste and her take-no-prisoners style. And when the feisty 80-year-old has several suspicious brushes with death, Savannah Reid is hired to find out why.
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?You shouldn?t be here. It?s too late ?? These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth �3000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn?t drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the...
17) The child
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When a paragraph in an evening newspaper reveals a decades-old tragedy, most readers barely give it a glance. But for three strangers it?s impossible to ignore. For one woman, it?s a reminder of the worst thing that ever happened to her. For another, it reveals the dangerous possibility that her darkest secret is about to be discovered. And for the third, a journalist, it?s the first clue in a hunt to uncover the truth. The Child?s story will be told....
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Vik/Stubo volume 5
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2017
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On a summer's day, Johanne Vik arrives at the home of her friends Jon and Ellen Mohr and was greeted by a scene of devastation: their young son, left unattended, has tragically fallen to his death. Meanwhile, Oslo is under attack. An explosion has torn the city apart and newly qualified police officer Henrik Holme is the only one available to attend the Mohr household. As Holme investigates, he casts doubt on the claim that the death was a tragic...
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The Max Freeman Mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller
Pub. Date
2010
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The Edgar Award-winning debut of the bestselling Max Freeman mystery series: A tormented ex-cop?s mission to solve a grisly murder and earn redemption for his dark past After a shootout during a convenience store holdup led to the accidental death of a twelve-year-old, Max Freeman left behind the Philadelphia police department for a life in exile in the Florida Everglades.�Since then, he has lived in seclusion, haunted by guilt, with the humid night...
20) Seagrass pier
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Hope Beach volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014
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In a secluded corner of Hope Beach, one woman must decipher a stranger?s memories . . . before they cost her everything. Elin Summerall was one of the lucky ones. Not only did she get a heart transplant, but the donor was a perfect fit. A miraculously perfect fit. But when Elin begins having violent flashbacks-and vivid dreams of being strangled-she realizes that she has been the recipient of more than just a new heart . . . Elin is remembering her...
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