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"Mrs. Cass, we were hoping your son could answer a few questions about the girl who disappeared last night . . . " Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst-murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something...
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In Baroness Emma Orczy's 1905 novel "The Scarlet Pimpernel", the year is 1792 and the French Revolution is complete. People die by the guillotine every day, often unjustly. Stepping in to right these wrongs and rescue the innocent is the elusive "Scarlet Pimpernel", a mysterious agent named for the red flower that is his signature. Meanwhile, foppish Sir Percy Blakeney and his French actress wife Marguerite are having marital difficulties when Marguerite...
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"While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female...
5) The Roommate
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From million-copy bestselling author Kiersten Modglin comes a psychological thriller with an ending you'll never predict... He thought his life couldn't get any worse. Wesley Gates is down on his luck.He's drowning in debt.His demanding career isn't letting up.And, to top it all off, after years of ignoring their failing marriage, his wife has had enough. Heartbroken and in desperate need of a place to stay while he gives his wife the space she's...
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One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tragic story of Raskolnikov-a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder. Surprised by his sense of guilt and terrified of the consequences of his actions, Raskolnikov wanders through the slums of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg trying to escape the ever-suspicious Porfiry, the official investigating...
7) Abandoned
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Katie Berry continues the interwoven saga of Lively and Minerva Deadmarsh and Chief Inspector John Harder in this second book in the Lively Deadmarsh series.
Some questions are finally answered, but others arise as Lively and Minerva find the Sinclair Resort Hotel to be much more than it seems. In a bold attempt to uncover more of what transpired forty years before, the pair formulate a plan that will either help them immensely or doom them completely.
Chief...
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She supplies the goods and services that killers need. And in that line of work, the last thing you want is a dissatisfied customer . . .
Hope Rippa may look like your average fashionista, but a dark secret bankrolls her luxury lifestyle. Although she might appear a legitimate businesswoman by day, after dark Hope serves as a personal shopper to some of Europe's wealthiest murderers. You name it, she'll find it-and charge a hefty sum for the convenience.
She...
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When a series of high-profile deaths is linked to a lethal conspiracy, Detective Morgan Reed must risk everything to uncover the truth.
Technology pioneer Dr. Gerald Price is at the height of his scientific career. After years of research in the field of memory augmentation, he's just made a world-changing breakthrough.
But his life's work is mysteriously cut short by a fatal overdose in a seedy motel.
All evidence points to a suicide, and the...
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MEET DETECTIVE JACK MACINTOSH IN THIS BRILLIANT NEW CRIME SERIES.
An absolutely gripping crime thriller with a massive twist.
The call comes in the early hours. Human remains have been discovered in a suitcase, dumped on the muddy banks of the River Thames. Detective Jack MacIntosh races to the scene.
The suitcase contains a human torso, two arms and two legs. It's the body of a young girl. But where is her head?
Then a skull is found embedded...
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New powers, a new pack, and an unfamiliar world . . .
Jasmine has been thrown head-first into the deep end. She's barely come to terms with her emerging gifts and the initiation into a new pack when she finds herself caught between two warring factions.
Weres and necromancers just don't mix.
Jasmine's grandmother believes helping the Circle of Peers will help them find out more about what Jasmine has become.
Yet all signs point to Jasmine being...
12) No Turning Back
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Remaining in the city is not an option.
Wounded and weary from their battle at the military base, Will and Isabella want to rest and gather their strength for what lies ahead. But as the military continues to battle foreign insurgents bent on gaining control of Houston, Will and the others must flee the city or risk being pulled back into the fight.
The trip out of Houston won't be easy.
Danger awaits them at every turn as they make their way across...
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November 1939
It's been a year since Stella Bled Lawrence and her husband, Nicky, escaped Italy by the skin of their teeth and a lot has changed. Nicky joined the Royal Air Force and Stella spent the year training as a spy for His Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service. She has the languages and the tradecraft down pat, but she still has a way to go when the Earl of Bickford pulls her from her training early.
The earl uses his influence to make her...
14) Murder in Venice
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Murderous secrets are lurking in the City of Canals!
1923. Lottie Sprigg is a lowly maid. But when she's hired by a wealthy heiress, she embarks on a thrilling journey across Europe and beyond. Lottie's expecting exciting exploits and spectacular sights. But she's not expecting murder . . .
In Venice, Lottie befriends a famous opera singer after reuniting him with his lost dog. Early the next morning, the singer's corpse is found floating in the...
15) Assassin's Creed
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Ancient Mongolia is the stage for the latest epic adventure in the award-winning Assassin's Creed universe, as assassin Shao Jun fights a sinister plot that spells the downfall of the Brotherhood of the Assassins
The Brotherhood of Assassins has been all but eradicated by the Chinese Emperor. Restoring the Order to its former glory is no easy feat, but it is Shao Jun's duty, and her best chance of survival. When she learns that an old foe has acquired...
16) Her Biggest Fan
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She's a plain Jane. He's uber famous. Who's stalking who?
Author Sally Speck has it all-a promising career, great friends, a loving family. So when superstar celebrity Tom Darlington takes an interest in her, she thinks, why not?
But the fun fling soon turns into a nightmare, as she's relentlessly hounded by the media and harassed by Tom's crazed fans. But more worrying is Tom's increasingly obsessive and frightening behavior.
As Sally's life crumbles...
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June 1945. Hitler has triumphed, Britain is under German occupation and America cowers under the threat of nuclear attack.
In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the course of history. The journal he discovers, by a young soldier, David Erskine, records an extraordinary story.
When the Allies drive the Germans out of France and victory seems imminent, Erskine...
18) Total War
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When they push too far, all you can do is unleash hell.
Elite assassin Reed Montgomery's private feud with a former employer has spun completely out of control, and it's cost him almost everything. After the woman he loves vanishes, one of his oldest friends is brutally murdered, and the criminal underworld is unleashed against him, Reed is left with only one option-embrace the carnage.
He'll begin with the mercenaries responsible for his friend's...
19) Do Not Disturb
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Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime.
To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she's done.
But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only...
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Worrying about a one-way ticket to the closest psych ward wasn't supposed to be a concern when Valerie Kearie changed jobs.
She traveled across the ocean, almost died on a routine assignment, and kicked ass . . . with the help of a Valkyrie spirit sent by Odin. How could her life get any crazier? Not a question she has time to ask when her company and her partner never slow down.
Viking Inc. and the Jarls need Valerie and Jacob to stay on the job....
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