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1) Open season
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She's hunting for a mate... and there's no more playing it safe. Daisy Minor is bored. Worse than that, she's boring. A plain, small-town librarian, she's got a wardrobe as sexy as a dictionary and hasn't been on a date in years. She's never even had a lukewarm love affair, let alone a hot one. So when she wakes up on her thirty-fourth birthday and wonders how it is that she still lives with her widowed mom and spinster aunt while her friends have...
2) Blue heaven
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A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder--four men who know exactly who William and Annie are, and who know exactly where their desperate mother is waiting for news of her children's fate. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's...
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Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain...
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Tess's number one priority has always been her three-year-old daughter Poppy. But splitting up with Poppy's father Jason means that she cannot always be there to keep her daughter safe. When she finds a disturbing drawing, dark and menacing, among her daughter's brightly coloured paintings, Tess is convinced that Poppy has witnessed something terrible. Something that her young mind is struggling to put into words. But no one will listen. It's only...
5) Honeymoon
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Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
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When a number of rich men come to a mysterious end, and a young investment banker dies of a supposed heart attack, FBI agent John O'Hara believes it is the work of a cold-blooded killer. Turning his eye to the only witness - the young banker's beautiful and secretive widow - O'Hara thinks he's closing in, but he's not sure whether he's pursuing justice or his own fatal obsession.
6) The client
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"Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette when a chance encounter with a suicidal lawyer left Mark knowing a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of the most-sought-after dead body in America ... Prosecutors are willing to break all the rules to make Mark talk. The mob will stop at nothing to keep him quiet. And [his lawyer] will do anything to protect her client--even take a last, desperate gamble...
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If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe his side of the story? Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail...
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Deeper than the dead novels volume 2
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Young Haley Fordham witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect, and deal with, their witness, the police call in child advocate Anne Leone. But the clues that they uncover bring Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer.
9) Ten big ones
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 10
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She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her mother's convinced she'll end up dead . . . or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum, and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thinks it sounds good to put it that way. . . .). It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place...
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In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.
11) The ideal man
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Dr. Ellie Sullivan is the primary witness in the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The Landrys have been captured, and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-- or disappear before they can take the stand.
12) No good deeds
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 9
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[2006]
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Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan-first introduced in the classic Baltimore Blues-becomes involved in a complicated investigation that will force her to question her loyalties. For Tess Monaghan, the unsolved murder of a young federal prosecutor is nothing more than a theoretical problem, one of several cases to be deconstructed in her new gig as a consultant to the local newspaper. But it becomes all...
13) A cold treachery
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2005.
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Charles Todd returns to the world of Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge in a series that the New York Times Book Review called "harrowing psychological drama" and the Washington Post Book World hailed as "among the most intelligent and affecting being written these days." This time the embattled Inspector has met his match hunting a brutal killer across a frozen hell and the one witness who may have survived a crime of. A COLD TREACHERY "You'll...
14) Delusion
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[2008]
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First edition.
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The monster storm "Bernardine" did more than devastate the tiny Gulf Coast community of Belle Ville. It uncovered suppressed evidence that exonerates a man wrongly imprisoned for murder. Twenty years ago Nell Jarreau identified Alvin "Pirate" DuPree as the murderer who killed her boyfriend right in front of her-and she later went on to marry the detective, now the police chief, who made the arrest. She and Clay raised a daughter and had a happy life-but...
15) No way back
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When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness--a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed.
16) The witness
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"Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known as Abigail Lowery lives alone on the outskirts of a small town in the Ozarks. A freelance programmer,...
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Serge Storms volume 26
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"Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the "wickedly funny" (Entertainment Weekly) Tim Dorsey"--
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Arriving at a deserted lake house to investigate an aborted call to police, Deputy Brynn McKenzie walks into the middle of a heinous crime and is deprived of her weapon, car, and phone, forced to flee, along with the twenty-five-year-old daughter of the murdered couple, into the surrounding forest to escape the perpetrators who must eliminate any potential witnesses.
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 7
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Claire Turner is a nurse with a terrible secret in her past. George Bellamy is a sick old man trying to make up for past mistakes. George's grandson Ross is a man back from a war and wanting a future. When George's illness draws Claire and Ross together, will they dare to risk everything for love?
20) Picture perfect
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"Fans of romantic suspense will fall hard for this story" from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sisterhood novels (A Love So True).
Pediatrician Lorrie Ryan has been looking forward to camping with her seven-year-old nephew, Davey. It's a chance to let the fragile, sheltered boy spend time away from his nervous, overprotective parents, and have the adventure he's always wanted. But in the lush woods, Lorrie...
Pediatrician Lorrie Ryan has been looking forward to camping with her seven-year-old nephew, Davey. It's a chance to let the fragile, sheltered boy spend time away from his nervous, overprotective parents, and have the adventure he's always wanted. But in the lush woods, Lorrie...
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