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For fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley, a riveting locked-room mystery about five college friends eager to reunite after years apart--only to be ripped apart again when their host's disappearance unearths dark secrets and old grudges. Their reunion just became a crime scene . . . June Moody, a thirty-something English professor, just wants to get away from her recent breakup and reunite with girlfriends over summer break. Her old friend and longtime...
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"Raised by stepparents after the loss of their birth parents, Liz and Meredith McCallister are the only constants in each other's lives--until Meredith is murdered in her lake home. Devastated by the loss, Liz becomes desperate to know why Meredith was killed. But the more she digs into her sister's past, the uglier the story gets. As a teenager, Meredith gave up a child for adoption. When Liz meets her niece for the first time, she finds an angry,...
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Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years, he's worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn't sure where to lay the blame-- on Maxie, the man he once considered his brother, or on the early-onset Alzheimer's that made Maxie lose faith in him in the first place. To keep his head above water, he begins to operate...
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"When actress and model Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband, Christopher, in the middle of the night, it's all her Oak Hill neighbors can talk about. The gossip comes to an abrupt halt when five-year-old Billy Barnes goes missing on his walk home from kindergarten. Billy's mother, Rachel, blames herself for being at work and letting her only child walk alone. Cassidy, Billy's teenage babysitter, was also late to arrive on the afternoon...
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"Serving a ten-year sentence in a Nevada prison for armed robbery, Ethan Lockhart hopes that he can one day become a productive, law-abiding member of society ... When he's given a forty-eight-hour furlough to attend his sister Abby's funeral, he learns that her body was never found ... and he begins to suspect that there's more to her death than was reported ... But to get to the bottom of the mystery, he'll have to return to his unsavory past"--Publisher...
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National Parks mysteries volume 1
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"Brought in as chief investigator when a party of campers go missing, 32-year-old Felicity Harland must place her trust in a Navy SEAL turned park ranger when the investigation takes them from the wilderness to the streets of Los Angeles where the grisly truth comes to light"--Publisher.
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Inspired by the atmospheric poetry of Langston Hughes and set in the heart of Denver's black community, this gripping crime novel pits three characters in a race against time to thwart a gross miscarriage of justice--and a crooked detective who wreaks havoc...with deadly consequences. What happens to a dream deferred--especially when an innocent man's life hangs in the balance? Langston Brown is running out of time and options for clearing his name...
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A chilling anthology of crime fiction by 20 acclaimed authors of color. From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest young voices. Edited by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Abby Vandiver, this anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat.
10) Forgotten trail
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Agent Felicity Harland investigates a stabbing murder at a new hotel at Pinnacles National Park and searches for a missing hiker to see if the cases are connected.
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Kendall Beck novels volume 1
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"The only survivor of Denver's notorious 'Reaper' serial murders, FBI Special Agent Kendall Beck grapples with the ghosts of her past by seeking justice for victims of abuse. She's neck deep in a particularly ugly case...but her investigation is derailed when her best friend and roommate, Gwen Tavich, turns up dead floating in a nearby lake...And when Gwen's dark secrets begin spilling out one by one, she begins to understand the devastating magnitude...
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In a remote corner of Alaska, Investigative Services Bureau agent Felicity Harland squares off against a mysterious cult leader with potentially deadly motives when she joins with her partner, Hux, to investigate the deaths of a young couple in Gates of the Arctic National Park.
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