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A murder on summer resort Nor'easter Island? Never, and especially not in the quiet season, when all the tourists have gone home and only 1000 or so year-round islanders stay through the winter. The death of Joel Berliner, an island fisherman whose body washed ashore on Laughing Gull Beach, was a surprise, but not totally unexpected. The island buzz was that Joel, who had had some mental health issues years back, committed suicide.
But Island...
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"Irascible, fearless and unapologetic, Maddy is a heroine cozy fans will embrace."-Publishers Weekly
Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the newspaper "morgue" and do her job. Then one Saturday she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage sale. She figures that those women must hire the cabby every week to drive them from garage sale to garage...
4) Wedding Woes
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Wedding Woes - Long Version
After the death of her mother, Professor Maggie McManus accepts a hospitality instructor position at Panhandle State University, River Town, Florida. Growing up in a small sidewalk community in Massachusetts, doors were left unlocked, and children were free to walk to school and the library unsupervised. She quickly learns small communities are not created equal. Experiencing bullying firsthand, she discovers there are...
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"This fun romp covers it all-car chases, shootings, eccentric-uncles-turned-amateur-playwrights and end-of-the-world computer viruses."-Publishers Weekly
Charley Fairfax-heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed-is intent on living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. The only mysteries before her are which play to choose for next season and how to decorate her dining room.
But when Jack is hired to investigate mysterious...
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While the almost castle crumbles around them, Alicia desperately searches for the answers she wants and needs. Every creepy room demands a thorough search. Someone is trying to kill her, and she doesn't even know why, let alone, who. Each room she searches is a challenge and each is either fascinating or horrifying. The huge cat now follows her everywhere, even into closed rooms. If she can discover his secret before one of the murder attempts...
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Hollywood columnist Meredith Ogden's home and life with L.A. Special Cases Detective T.K. Raymond and their three-year-old is uprooted when he investigates a decades-old murder of a young starlet whose desiccated body is discovered in California's high desert. In her purse is a crumbling note bearing Raymond's and another man's name. Investigating the murder, and how his name is connected, Raymond travels take him from the wind-swept desert to vintage...
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Sometimes the demons of stories take on human faces. When Poe Baxter and her friend Beattie travel to Lima, Peru, to hunt down a rare collection of Peruvian folktales, the two women find themselves mixed up in a game of deceit that echoes the legend of the chullachaqui. Soon, they're having trouble telling truth from lie, even when their lives are at stake. Can Poe and Beattie discern what is real from what is myth before it's too late?
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A doctor, a lawyer, a couple of schoolteachers and writer were all part of the 109 assorted passengers off flight 1375. The passengers include those entering the first stages of their lives as well as those celebrating their later years and people in between. All races and gender preferences seemed to be represented in the collection of human cargo.One thing these passengers and the crew would have in common by the end of this flight is that none...
11) Stone Cold
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Detective Rebecca Watson is tracking a vicious serial killer in Eugene Falls, Florida. As a distraction, she's dragged back into court for the retrial of a man convicted of murdering his girlfriend five years earlier. His defense attorney will use any means to get his client freed, including uncovering old wounds from Watson's past.As the case takes a few hard turns, nothing can prepare her for the world she's about to encounter, the past that haunts...
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Cuando Myrtle Clover y su amigo Miles asisten a una obra de teatro en su pequeña ciudad, la noche del estreno está llena.
Myrtle tiene claro que una de las actrices es una guarra del escenario a la que le encanta robar protagonismo. Nandina Marshall se lleva todas las miradas cuando su asesinato obliga a un inesperado intermedio.
¿Podrán Myrtle y Miles descubrir quién está detrás de su última actuación... antes de que el asesinato vuelva...
13) Vesper
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Willow Darby hasn't stepped inside a church since her childhood. A recent pair of gruesome murders has shocked one religious community reopening its scandalous wounds. The high-profile crimes have caused the Vatican to send a mysterious emissary to assist Willow with her investigation. But now this has forced her into walking a diplomatic tight rope between church and state to catch a killer.
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In the acclaimed Once Upon a Lie, Maggie Barbieri introduced Maeve Conlon, a single mother and bakery owner hiding dark secrets behind her cookie-cutter suburban life.
Now, Maeve's moving on with everyday life when the unthinkable happens: her father dies of a massive heart attack. Maeve's mother died when Maeve was very young, and growing up, it was always just her and her father. But on the day of his funeral, Maeve learns a shocking secret. She...
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Rebecca Stone drops by a party at the Rascals trailer in the trailer park where they all live in Ocean Beach Ca. She runs into Tall Paul a officer in the club who introduces her to Nicole his girlfriend. Nicole knows of Rebecca's reputation as a girl that finds things. Over beers Rebecca learns that Nicole is being stalked. She has concerns about her wellbeing and doesn't want Tall Paul involved in solving whoever it is making Nicoles life so creepy....
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TALES OF FRAME-UPS AND SNORTS: A Revelation and Redemption-Focused Novelette
The depths of snatched moments conceal a truth that has the power to upend everything. The mystery still ne still needs to be solved in this turbulent time, where shadowy forces have molded terrible conflicts in the past. Will you fight against the clock to see the startling secrets there?
A thrilling rebirth beckons amid unrelenting suffering. Will you emerge from the...
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A dynasty is at stake. It seemed like a straightforward request–and Helena is used to her sister Blanche making demands on her time and fortune. But the most ambitious of her sisters reveals a dilemma that may wipe out the title she holds. When tragedy strikes, Helena must reprise her role as the Investigating Lady to save a nephew she doesn't even like. And what about her own future? The return of a hero from the past awakens old emotions and suggests...
18) Mute Witness
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It's February in the Hudson Valley and Oak Falls veterinarian Dr. Kate is once again up to her galoshes in corpses
Hudson Valley winters can be brutal…and deadly! Dr. Kate is once again on the case (not to mention thin ice) after discovering a young engaged couple frozen to death in the lake. To make matters worse, her temporary receptionist appears to have overdosed from a recreational sedative used at the animal hospital. Kate barely has time...
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Hijos de la Stasi
Cuando la detective Karin Müller es llamada para investigar la muerte de una adolescente al pie del Muro, al ver el cuerpo comprende que no se trata de una muerte más: la chica huía, sí, pero de la parte occidental.
Müller pertenece a la Policía del Pueblo, cuyos poderes están de facto limitados por la todopoderosa Stasi. Por un lado le piden que descubra la identidad de la chica, pero le aseguran que el caso está cerrado...
20) Nación Stasi
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UNA NUEVA Y APASIONANTE NOVELA DE SUSPENSE DEL AUTOR BEST SELLER DE HIJOS DE LA STASI Y LOBOS DE LA STASI
Septiembre de 1976.
El cuerpo de un adolescente aparece ahogado en un lago artificial, en pleno cinturón industrial de Lusacia, cerca de la frontera polaca. Karin Müller, recién nombrada comandante de la Policía del Pueblo, de nuevo es desplazada lejos de Berlín Oriental para investigarlo, aunque su poder es limitado, ya que todos sus movimientos...
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