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In the first Marc LeBlanc mystery, a sudden death pulls Marc out of his comfortable life in Grand Pre and into a quest involving unexpected allies, unwelcome visitors, mysterious references in documents and on tombstones, and a hunt from one end of Nova Scotia to the other.
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Secrets are revealed. Lies are exposed. And in order to have a future, William and Eva will have to delve into the past.
William Templeton, widower and police chief of Eden, North Carolina is working the scene of a local woman's drowning when the body is found with an old gold coin in her pocket – identical to a coin that was discovered on Catherine's body, his estranged wife, over a year ago. Catherine's case, originally deemed a tragic accident,...
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College students Morgan and his girlfriend Emma plan to make love in her SUV. They're parked behind the bookstore when men in ski masks interrupt them. They drag Morgan out of the vehicle and beat him, showing no signs of stopping until Frankie drives up. The men leave quickly in the SUV taking Emma away from Morgan. Frankie, who used to be a paramedic, takes the injured boyfriend home with him, because Morgan recognized the tattoo on a man's wrist...
4) What Remains
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Lily O'Hara lives on Lake Road and has ignored the past for as long as possible. Her parents and brother were gone before she was a year old and she was raised by her father's siblings, Billie and Darcy. Her father's suicide and the disappearance of her mother and brother were never spoken about. But when the bones of a woman and child were found in the dried lake outside her home Lily could no longer avoid searching for the truth. She must bring...
5) Options
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Lucy Gladstone struck out again at the dating game. She was a virgin and, according to her mother, would destroy her chances of a good life that ended with going to heaven if she gave in to her natural desires.Tom Whitecloud was living a few doors down a floor below. He was, unlike so many, beautiful!Several girlfriends at work warned her that making an Indian her first would ruin her for other men. They would all seem so dull and inept.She had several...
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Mira and Robin are able to astral project from their bodies to solve crimes. After secrets are revealed, Mira Hawking's love interest in Detective Jeff Borden is put on hold. Mira and and Robin Wallace decide to move out of Middleton to a small town to open a Yoga Studio in time for the town's annual Christmas Spirit celebration. Now, their contractor is accused of murder and the ghostly duo must solve another mystery. Detective Borden has taken vacation...
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1903Twenty-year-old Max Eyer is still reeling from his father's recent death when a mysterious stranger's offer to buy the family farm outside of Hamburg, Germany presents to him and his mother an unexpected opportunity to make a fresh start in America. Welcomed by his uncle's bustling family in St. Louis Max finds employment on the grounds of the upcoming 1904 World's Fair, where he is hired as a zookeeper at Hagenbeck's Animal Paradise on the Pike....
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Stop by for some comfortable visits to Stewart's Crossing, where reformed computer hacker Steve Levitan and his crime-sniffing golden retriever Rochester are nose to the ground in this collection of mystery short stories that take place between novels. In the first of these stories, Steve is learning to love the big, goofy golden he has inherited on the death of his neighbor, and Rochester shows him how to open his heart and his home to his sweetheart...
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La ejecución del plan maquiavélico ideado por los tres criminales, Mascarot, Hortebize y Catenac, avanza sin contratiempos y parece que nada más que un milagro podrá impedir la catástrofe. Con la minuciosidad y precisión de un orfebre, el lazo se estrecha sobre las víctimas que, imperceptiblemente y en la más perfecta ignorancia, parecen encaminarse al desastre. Solo el genio de Lecoq podrá hallar algo de luz entre tanta oscuridad... Émile...
11) The Missing Hand
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A stolen heirloom reveals long-buried sins among a peaceful Midwestern Jewish community in this mystery from the author of Poisoned Passover.
While running the Crestfall, Illinois, Torah study group can be rewarding, it isn't especially eventful, until a valuable heirloom is stolen from one of the group's members. Known as a yad-the Hebrew word for hand-it is used to keep one's place while reading the Torah. And this particular yad happens to...
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"Casey and Death make an oddly entertaining pair."-Publishers Weekly
In one brief moment of fire and wrenching metal, everything important in Casey Maldonado's life was gone. The car manufacturer was generous with its settlement, but it can never be enough. So she packs up, puts her house on the market, and leaves town. Her only companion: Death, who won't take her, but won't leave her alone.
She stops on a whim in Clymer, a small blue-collar town...
13) Midnight
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A pleasant walk along the coast on Folly Beach, South Carolina, thrusts retiree Chris Landrum and his friend Charles Fowler into investigating a death that police are convinced was an unfortunate accident. Their resolve to continue sticking their noses where according to the police they have no business being was strengthened when a second person dies-the second death of a member of the small crew building a beachfront home. With no connection between...
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In a college dorm in the late Seventies, seven hallmates hold a funeral for a pet hamster, only to stumble upon a body ... Startled but not exactly sorrowful at finding their unpopular dorm preceptor slumped atop a garbage can in the trash room, Keith and his friends can't resist investigating, and set to questioning a quirky set of potential witnesses and suspects. Could the killer be a fellow student? A member of the faculty or staff? The provost?...
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About The Morose Mistress Mark MacFarland had no use for politics when he was homeless on the streets of Denver. Now that he is struggling to pull himself back into regular society, he still finds politics a necessary evil he'd rather avoid. But when his friend Jerry Baker asks him to find evidence that a restaurant waitress did not kill her boss, he finds himself right in the middle of political intrigue. It turns out that the restaurateur is running...
16) Bones
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Artist Andretta Salinger awakens one day in an old stone country house she's bought from a family ownership of six generations to find she's been living for two years with the bones of someone murdered and buried in the floor of her cellar. When Andretta finds herself drawn willy-nilly into the small-town police investigation of a homicide committed in 1868, it's into the scandal-ridden lives of the great railroad barons of the day and to identifying...
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Paige pretends to have a husband and a more glamorous life to impress her coworkers with surprising results, when she takes a winter vacation in the Caribbean with "Steve" her imaginary husband, only to find the real Steve there pretending to be someone else. Furthermore, he may have tried to kill his girlfriend. Paige becomes involved in unravelling the truth with the help of an attractive marine biologist.
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Amateur sleuth, Professor Bevyn Jones receives a invitation to a mystery weekend in cottage country. He barely has time to breathe the country air when a certain "Ladybug" sends him a text message to meet at the boathouse. A minute later, he finds himself in the middle of a real whodunit.He joins forces with Detective Watson, dressed as Miss Scarlett, Chief Murphy and Detective Roy.Another dead body turns up in an abandoned room as the number of suspects...
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Mira Hawkings and Rose Wallace are able to ghost from their bodies to solve crimes. An NSA Black Ops team has taken Mira Hawkings' fiancée hostage and Mira and Robin will need all their Astral Projection powers, as well as help from a band of mysterious mercenaries to find and rescue him. An evil serial killer, and Agent John Taggart are using Borden to set a trap for the women, hoping to use them as Ghost Spies for the government. Will the ghostly-duo...
20) Sugar Sands
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Michigan's sunset coast turns deadly when a group of vacationers encounter a dying author who sees the ghosts of children. When Arnie refuses surgery for his bum knee, Laurel takes the family on a relaxing trip to the beautiful sunset coast on Lake Michigan to recuperate. Accompanying them are Arnie's sixteen-year-old son, Sawyer, and things are made even better when their close friends Claire and Charles join them for a visit. The area is known for...
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