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Paul Madriani novels volume 9
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English
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The Supreme Court is one of our most sacred-and secretive-public institutions. But sometimes secrets can lead to cover-ups with very deadly consequences.
Terry Scarborough is a legal scholar and provocateur who craves headline-making celebrity, but with his latest book he may have gone too far. In it he resurrects forgotten language in the U.S. Constitution-and hints at a missing letter of Thomas Jefferson's-that threatens to divide the nation.
Then,...
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Chris rents an isolated house that will allow him the space to grieve and the peace to compose his piano sonata. But when he finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950s, and the convicted murderer was one of the last women hanged in England, he finds himself increasingly distracted by the events of sixty years before.
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Serge Storms novels volume 12
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English
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That's right: Serge and Coleman do spring break!
It's been a long time coming, but they're at the party now-and you'll never look at a Frisbee the same way again.
One spring break location obviously isn't enough for Serge, so he must hit them all, traveling through various historic locales, spewing nuggets of history at anyone who won't run away and dispensing his own signature brand of Sunshine State justice.
Along the way he and his sidekick,...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 12
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English
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The bestselling author of "Tomb of the Golden Bird" brings back Amelia Peabody and crew in an exciting tale full of atmosphere, intrigue, and thrills. Print run 150,000.
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"When elderly multimillionaire art dealer, Andrew Jakes, is found brutally murdered in his ransacked Hollywood home, his young wife raped and beaten, and his art and jewels stolen, the motive seems pretty clear. But when the investigation doesn't turn up a single, solid lead, the case is closed and his stunning young widow vanishes. A decade passes before Andrew Jakes' estranged son, Matt Daley, does a little digging of his own, only to find that...
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Death on Demand mysteries volume 20
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The landmark 20th novel in Carolyn Hart's much loved and critically acclaimed mystery series. Broward's Rock has had its share of intrigue and foul play. No one knows that better than bookstore owner and part-time sleuth Annie Darling and her husband, Max. This time around the island's peace is shattered when a trio of deaths are linked to the island youth recreation center. Print run 40,000.
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When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St. Peter's Police Treatment Centre, and compromising photographs are discovered in his room, DCI Banks is called in to investigate. It emerges that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Tallinn, Estonia, six years earlier. The deeper Banks looks into the old case, the more he begins to feel that he has to solve...
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 4
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English
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Available in hardcover for the first time, a classic Tess Monaghan mystery from Laura Lippman. Thanks to her skills as a reporter and private investigator, Tess Monaghan has not only survived on the streets of Baltimore, but she's thrived. A woman who looks to the future, she's fine with turning a blind eye to her past. But the case she's taken on will force her to confront her own life and a man she loved and lost. Print run 15,000.
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Bailey Ruth Raeburn has always been great at solving mysteries. Why should a little thing like her death change anything? In fact, being dead gives her more of an opportunity to snoop. Bailey Ruth likes to think of it as using her unique position as a ghost to lend a helping hand. There's a dead man on her porch, and once the body is discovered, the pastor is sure to become a suspect. But the spectral sleuth is not about to let that happen. Print...
12) Dying for mercy
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Sunrise Suspense Society volume 3
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HarperLuxe
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English
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English
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"[A] tight, twisty thriller….Hums along like a sizzling fastball thrown straight and sure."
-Providence Journal-Bulletin
Bestselling author James Grippando is back with a gripping stand-alone thriller. Intent to Kill electrifies from the first inning on-as a fallen baseball star-turned-sports radio "shock jock" tries to expose a conspiracy and outwit a killer. Crackling with Grippando's trademark suspense, ingenious plotting, and unforgettable...
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Tess Monaghan mysteries volume 11
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English
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Bedridden while in the last two months of her pregnancy, Tess Monaghan watches a young woman in a green raincoat walk her dog in the park across the street, until one day she sees the dog running loose, and becomes convinced that harm has befallen the dog's owner.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 20
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English
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Distracted from her impending nuptials by two mysteries--the disappearance of her new assistant and a saboteur at her sister's job--Faith Fairchild soon discovers that someone will stop at nothing to keep her from walking down the aisle.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 18
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English
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"Katherine Hall Page is my favorite writer of the traditional mystery. Not only is The Body in the Sleigh a gripping whodunit, but it's a classic tale of hope."-Harlan Coben. Caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild is back to solve her eighteenth deadly mystery in The Body in the Sleigh-the latest perfect puzzler in author Katherine Hall Page's multiple Agatha Award-winning series. Set on Sanpere Island in Maine's Penobscot Bay, this atmospheric...
18) Born to run
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
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English
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Intrepid Miami attorney Jack Swyteck is entreated by his former governor father for help representing him and investigating the suspicious hunting death of the vice president.
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Joe Grey mysteries volume 17
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English
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When a suspicious fire leaves a twelve-year-old boy homeless and the body of his alcoholic elderly guardian is discovered in the smoldering ruins, Joe Grey and his P.I. posse follow a trail that leads to a scam involving a group of shady real estate agents.
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Faith Fairchild mysteries volume 19
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English
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Minister's wife, caterer, and amateur sleuth Faith Fairchild must solve a deadly mystery more than seventy years in the making in The Body in the Gazebo, the nineteenth ingenious whodunit in the delectable, Agatha Award-winning series by Katherine Hall Page. Faith has a lot on her plate as she attempts to solve a Depression Era murder while trying to clear her husband's name after he is accused of a heartless theft. Poignant, suspenseful, puzzling,...
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