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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.
2) Cajun crazy
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Cajun contemporary romances volume 7
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English
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Welcome back to New York Times bestseller Sandra Hill's Cajun country, where love heats up the Louisiana bayou . . .Former Chicago cop Simone LeDeux is back home in the bayou, sharing a double wide in the Pearly Gates trailer park to help her mama recover from surgery. Her one rule: no Cajun men. Loved and left by too many double-crossing Cajuns, Simone puts bad experience to good use by opening Legal Belles: an agency that uncovers cheating spouses.
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The classic award-winning Tess Monaghan mystery available in hardcover for the first time. Just out of prison, Luther Beal, the notorious vigilante who five years ago shot a boy, wants to make reparations to the kids - now teenagers who witnessed his crime, and he needs Tess to find them. Once Tess starts snooping, the kids start dying. Before she knows it, she is embroiled in a case that encompasses the powers that be, a heartless system that destroys...
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 2
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English
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The sequel to the brilliantly inventive "The Word Is Murder" delves deep into the killing of a high-profile divorce lawyer and the death, only a day earlier, of his one-time friend.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A woman crosses a London street and she is going into a funeral parlor to plan her own service. Six hours later the woman is dead, strangled with a crimson curtain cord in her own home. As brusque, impatient, and annoying as police detective Daniel Hawthorne can be, novelist Anthony Horowitz suspects the detective may be on to something, and is irresistibly drawn into the mystery. But as the case unfolds, Horowitz realizes he's at the centre of a...
6) Dead land
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In Chicago, money changes hands in the middle of the night, and by morning, buildings and parks are replaced by billion-dollar projects. Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski gets pulled into one of these clandestine deals through her impetuous goddaughter, Bernie Fouchard. Not only does Bernie plunge her and V.I. headlong into the path of some ruthless developers, they lead to the murder of the young man Bernie is dating. Soon V.I. finds a terrifying conspiracy...
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Billie Walker Mystery #2, following WAR WIDOW. It's 1947. The world continues to grapple with the fallout of WWII, and former war reporter Billie Walker is finding her feet as an investigator. When a wealthy client hires Billie and her assistant, Sam, to track down her missing husband, the trail leads back to London and Paris, where Billie's own painful memories also lurk. Jack Rake, Billie's wartime lover and, briefly, husband, is just one of the...
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HarperCollins Publishers
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A detective ready for a new life... For years, Jake Jackson has been a high-flying detective in London. But then one day he receives a letter from his reclusive uncle - he has left Jake his property in the middle of the countryside. For Jake, it is the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. A rural idyll the stuff of dreams... At first, life in the middle of nowhere is everything Jake could wish for. His new home is beautiful, his surroundings are...
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Sydney, Australia, 1946. Though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be home, the heady post-war days are tarnished by the death of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, now that the war is over, the newspapers are sidelining her reporting talents to prioritize jobs for returning soldiers. But Billie is a survivor and she's determined to take control of her own future. She reopens her...
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Helen Thorpe mystery volume 2
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English
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"When Helen Thorpe, Buddhist butler, is loaned out to help Cartier Hightower get her life in order, Helen finds herself working for a young woman entirely unbound by the fetters of good taste or sound judgement. One of Cartier's fellow content creators has recently died in a strange accident. Soon after Helen arrives, another is killed in an equally bizarre way. Cartier begins to drag Helen around on the influencer circuit, where neither of them is...
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