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A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading 'with murderous attention,' must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a...
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"Jodi McCarty is seventeen when she's sentenced to life in prison for manslaughter. She's released eighteen years later and finds herself reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she will meet and fall in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her...
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Nick Mason novels volume 1
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Reprieved from a long prison term in exchange for committing increasingly dangerous crimes on behalf of a criminal kingpin, Nick Mason is relentlessly haunted by the detective who initially placed him behind bars.
4) Ransom
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A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.
Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer,...
Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes of the young daughters he left behind. Simultaneously, Carl Waters, a convicted murderer,...
5) Sandcastles
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Luanne Rice is that rarest of all novelists who indelibly captures the defining moments in our lives. In this acclaimed bestseller, she takes readers on an unforgettable exploration of the most elusive miracle of all: how a broken family might be made whole again.
Painter Honor Sullivan had the perfect love and the perfect life with her husband, a renowned photographer and sculptor—until the day John’s passions led him to...
Painter Honor Sullivan had the perfect love and the perfect life with her husband, a renowned photographer and sculptor—until the day John’s passions led him to...
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Bell Sound novels volume 2
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Welcome to Bell Cove, North Carolina.
Independence Day may have just passed in this small Outer Banks town known for its famous bells, but one ex-Navy SEAL has a declaration of his own to make . . .
Merrill Good knows there are many different kinds of exciting. There's the adrenaline rush he experienced during his years in the military. There's the thrill of starting up his own treasure hunting company. But topping them all is the surge of exhilaration...
7) Back
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When Jojo is released from prison after serving time for beating a man into a coma, Ardell, the victim's brother, makes plans to get revenge.
9) The big exit
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Hank Madden novels volume 2
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Completing a prison term and supporting himself by doing impersonations of Frank Sinatra, San Francisco lounge performer Richie Forman is wrongfully implicated in the murder of an ex-best friend who stole his fiancée while Forman was in prison.
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In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.
For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives...
11) Stealing Taffy
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Upon leaving rehab, Tanyalee, when her flight is rerouted due to bad weather, has a one-night stand with her airplane seatmate, DEA agent Dante, that turns into something more when one of his cases leads him back into her life.
12) Razorblade tears
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"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
13) The circle
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The day that Cedar Sage Stranger has been both dreading and longing for has finally come: her sister Phoenix is getting out of prison. The effect of Phoenix's release cascades through the community. Amid accusations and plots for revenge, past grievances become a poor guide in a moment of danger, and the clumsy armature of law enforcement is no match for the community. Cedar and her mother continue down different paths of healing, while everyone in...
14) She's out
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Widows (Lynda La Plante) volume 3
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Zaffre
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"After serving a lengthy sentence for the murder of her husband, Dolly Rawlins is free from prison. And she's only got one thing on her mind: the diamonds she stashed before the police caught her. But on the outside there is a group of women Dolly met in prison wating for her. The know all about the diamonds, and they all want a cut. Also waiting for Dolly is a detective sargeant in the Metropolitan Police. He holds her personally responsible for...
16) Animal instinct
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Linford
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Four men calmly walked out of the Ozark Branch of the First National Bank with close to $50,000. It was the perfect hold-up - until it all went wrong. Shot as he rode away, Frank Jerome had a harsh choice. Should he try to make it back to Mississippi, or let the other three escape without being slowed by a wounded man? Selflessly, he stayed to face a prison sentence. But now, years later, he's been released. And his companions have all disappeared...
17) The good son
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When her son is released from prison after serving time for the negligent homicide of his girlfriend, Thea is committed to helping him make amends until attempts on their lives are made, leading her to believe that those who are threatening them have something to hide.
18) Wrong for me
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Motor City Royals volume 2
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After eight years in prison, Levi Rush is finally out and back on the gritty streets of Detroit to claim the future he was owed. A future that includes the one woman he's wanted for years-his former best friend Rachel. She's the reason he went inside and if getting her to do what he wants means buying the building that houses her tattoo studio and using it as leverage, then that's what he'll do. Because if there's one thing he's learned inside it's...
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Kanopy Streaming
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Directed by Enzo G. Castellari (The inglorious bastards), Cold eyes of fear is a stylish giallo in the form of a home invasion thriller, laced with hallucinatory imagery and backed with an edgy score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone. An ex-con abducts the nephew of the judge who put him behind bars, and holds the nephew and his beautiful companion (Giovanna Ralli) hostage in their home. But the criminal's carefully-planned revenge runs off the...
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Butch Bliss novels volume 1
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Rota books, an imprint of Resurrection House
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Once upon a time, Robert "Butch" Bliss was a rising star in the adult film entertainment industry. He had talent. Everyone said he was on his way up. But he went down instead. Down for a load of cocaine that wasn't his, in a car that wasn't his either. Bliss is sentenced to five years at the state correctional facility in Tehachapi, where he gets five more years following an unfortunate incident in the prison shower. Ten years is a long time. Ten...
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