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Seventeen-year-old amateur detective Annie Tillery is at it again. After she wins a series of art lessons at a prestigious art gallery, Annie shows up for her first lesson to find her instructor, Francesca Gabrielli, in a volatile argument with John DiCristiani, the art gallerys director. He is demanding that she illegally copy art masterpieces. Unwittingly, Annie is about to be drawn into the illicit, treacherous, and unpredictable world of art forgery....
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Seventeen-year-old Annie Tillery and her Aunt Jill set off for Long Islands Fire Island for a vacation of surf, sun, and sailing. Annie is happy to leave behind the stress of her relationship with her parents. Aunt Jill, who is an NYPD detective, is mixing her vacation with a case she must keep secret from Annie, who is suspicious nevertheless. Annie finds romance and intrigue when she meets Ty Egan, the nephew of their host on the island. They find...
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It is the middle of the night when pathologist Toni Day receives a call from the coroner informing her that the notoriously sleazy local attorney, Jay Braithwaite Burke, has just been found dead in his Mercedes in the middle of a snowy interstate. Unfortunately, everyone at Perrine Memorial Hospital where Toni works knows Burke. Over the years, he managed to talk nearly the entire medical staff into investing into his hedge fund. After it was revealed...
4) Full Circle
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It looks like someone left the door to the nether region open again, and reporter Molly Martindale has got another batch of otherworldly supplicants who need her help. Not long ago, Molly quite literally went to hell to help secure peace for her friend Dennis, who was born Buddy Parker in the 1920s in her beloved, adopted hometown of Oxbow, Florida. Oxbow has always felt charmed to Molly that is, if she doesn't count the ghostly visitors who turn...
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In Devils Verse, paleographer Dr. Natasha Azshatan sets out to prove her friend, a Russian Orthodox priest, was murdered and did not commit suicide as investigators presume. Above Father Elijahs hanging corpse apparently written in blood by his own handi's the Latin palindrome known as The Devils Verse, words that Natasha translates to read, We wander in darkness and are consumed by fire. After the local sheriff is murdered in the same manner, Natasha's...
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The men who came to strangle me were shrinking my world like the most delicately tinted of bubbles, shrinking in ever narrowing circles from the upward gush of my own infancy. You've got to be crazy to see a psychiatrist. Don't call me if you're gnawing on a bad day, and all you want to do is have a discussion. We all marry our mirrors, someone who reflects how we feel about ourselves at the moment. Every wife is a mirror of her own husband's failures,...
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Quiet and peaceful, Clipton St Marks looks the epitome of a charming English village, with thatched cottages and splendid mansions surrounded by cultivated gardens. Nestled within rolling hillsides wooded by oak and beech, it appears untouched by the challenges of the world beyond or at least it seems that way to an outsider. But looks can be deceiving. Wealthy London widow Stella Campbell is out for a drive with her chauffeur on a breezy Sunday afternoon...
8) Tiger Heart
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West Colleges incoming Board of Trustees member, Buck Brady, wants nothing more than to help his wifes alma mater. The school has been in upheaval recently over a murder investigation and the subsequent resignation of its president and is struggling to recover its image. Brady charters a schooner to help his fellow trustees welcome the new president of the college, but no one could predict the aftermath. After one trustee is lost overboard in a storm,...
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Tracy Chapman owns and manages an antique shop, but her true passion is locating missing families of the deceased. Mystery and murder surrounds her latest assignment from the coroner's office: the death of a ninety-six year-old Jewish gentleman, Samuel Levine. But his death poses more difficulties than just locating his family. What secrets did Samuel keep that led to murder and kidnapping? What did Samuel own that was so valuable someone was willing...
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An invitation to a funeral that turns deadly. A series of curious kidnappings in New York. Cryptic messages from beyond the grave. A hidden stash of diamonds in a secret safe. A serial killer as cold as ice. What do these elements all have in common? Your favorite psychotherapist, Dr. Crystal Knight-Davenport, is back as the seductive siren that no man can resist. Fueled by a passion to avenge her sisters death, Crystal finds herself dodging a sex-crazed...
11) A Mind to Kill
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As the orangutans whoop and the champagne is sipped, no one knows that murder is in the air at the Zoo-To-Do, the swank affair of the New Orleans spring social season. Then shots are fired and events quickly escalate. Ryley Worthington, an amateur sleuth, rushes into the fray to investigate. The victim is the wife of Brad Byrnes, her best friend and long-time secret flame. The tragedy that affects Brad stirs hidden and unfulfilled emotions as Ryley...
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Crimson Blood or Murder at the Law School is a mystery set at Harvard Law School. Harvard law professor Alex Hershkowitz gets hit. In front of witnesses. First-year law student Julie Amoroso, a former New York cop with enough troubles already, pursues the hitman or is it a hitwoman? And the chase is on.
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Vera Moonachie is writing a mystery with criminal lawyer Fulton Yee. He won't tell her the murderer, so she won't drop hints. Abruptly, Fulton disappears. Now caught in a murder investigation, Vera goes to the storied Sacramento Delta to unravel the tangled skein of a bloody murder planned to resolve an old Sacramento Delta land dispute. Vera is drawn into the bizarre lives of an aging actor, a chef, and the hornet's nest of Fulton's feuding trio...
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Kate Williams has worked just about every Saturday during her sixteen years as an attorney. As a result, she's there on the Saturday morning that a small human skeleton and a plastic baby doll are discovered in the crawl space of her bungalow-turned-office. As the case develops, she becomes involved in an investigation that unearths some not-so-nice secrets from her past. Detective Webber and his crew are assigned to the case. Without any missing...
15) Rendered
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Two serial killers have been taking victims for over twenty years without arousing police attention. All that changes when they choose the wrong victim. Victoria Bentley's car is found abandoned at a rest area. Her husband, a prominent Chicago attorney, will not let Victoria's disappearance be filed as an unhappy wife leaving a bad marriage. He will not rest until he finds out what happened to his beloved wife. Special Agent Maggie May believes there...
16) Killer in Town
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An unknown sniper is systematically killing the prominent men of Franklin, Illinois. No one knows who will be next. Sheriff Marcus Dixon and Detective Mary Ellen Selvedge must catch the killer, and they must do it with little help from the local police or from anyone outside. Its 1936 in the heart of the Great Depression. Th ere are plenty of potential suspects- -men who have lost their jobs, had their homes foreclosed, are broke, or who are just...
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Aggie suspects she was invited to the Vermont retreat because of her friendship with the President. Before leaving home, though, she catches her husband and cousin in bed! She is so enraged, if she had a gun shed shoot them both! Thus overwrought, and convinced she knows what it feels like to contemplate murder, Aggie pursues one red herring after another in her half-hearted attempt to finger a serial killer running amok at the retreat before anybody...
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