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10901) Dead bolt
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Turner Construction's latest restoration project is a historic Queen Anne Victorian in San Francisco. This time general contractor Mel Turner has to work around the owners who insist on sticking around- along with some ghosts that insist in their own way that the work stops...The ghosts aren't the only ones standing in the way of the renovations. A crotchety neighbor, Emile Blunt, secretly wants this house, and could be behind some of the disturbances....
10903) Desolation road
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Series
Torpedo ink volume 4
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Torpedo Ink is Aleksei 'Absinthe' Solokov's whole life. They're his brothers, his family - his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That's why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and proper librarian who makes his blood rush. For the past six weeks, Scarlet Foley has been fantasizing about the handsome, tattooed...
10904) Hurricane (#5): Cutter Cay
Author
Series
Cutter Cay volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Rydell Case's ship is home, his heart, and his reason for being. After his ex-wife left him, taking his brand new megayacht, Tesoro Mio, with her, she sailed off with a royal billionaire and out of his life forever. Now Ry spends his days searching for treasure, until his ship is hijacked. With the prospect of his salvage business tanking, he needs both the ship and his ex back, if only she didn't' despise him more than any man on earth. When Addison...
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Virgil Flowers mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
Description
While competing in a fishing tournament in a remote area of northern Minnesota, Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport to investigate a murder at a nearby resort, where a woman has been shot while kayaking. The more he digs, the more he discovers the arrows of suspicion that point in many directions--then he finds that this is not the first murder, that there was a second, seemingly unrelated...
10906) Arsenic with Austen
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Series
Crime with the classics volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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Description
"When Emily Cavanaugh inherits a fortune from her great aunt, she expects her life to change. She doesn't expect to embark on a murder investigation, confront the man who broke her heart 35 years before, and nearly lose her own life. Emily travels to the sleepy coastal village of Stony Beach, Oregon, to claim her inheritance, centered in a beautiful Victorian estate called Windy Corner but also including a substantial portion of the real estate of...
10908) The Wagon Wheel affair
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
"Unknown by most, forgotten by many; a fifty year old secret buried beneath the Wagon Wheel Lodge in bucolic Cuchara, Colorado, threatens to erupt in a cloud of terror with unspeakable consequences for the Unite States. Ray Vernon, a WWII medal of honor recipient literally holds the key to the secret. When Ray is murdered, his grandson Stan comes face to face with ISIS in an international race for the secret of the Wagon Wheel Lodge. Retired U.S....
10909) Burned
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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Patty and David Monroe have flown to Moscow to repair a business deal that has gone bad when it suddenly turns nightmarish. Their Russian business partners shoot David and kidnap Patty at gunpoint, driving her to a ramshackle dacha twenty miles east of Moscow. There, her captors--along with brutal islamic terrorists--will attempt to ransom her. Patty will face the most frightening ordeal imaginable.--From publisher's description.
10910) Nightime is my time
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Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose life...
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City.
A man and a woman meet by chance in a bar. Suddenly they are fleeing the long arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government agency — the woman hunted for the information she possesses, the man mistaken as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement.
The architect of the chase is a man of uncommon madness and cruelty — ruthless, possibly psychotic,...
A man and a woman meet by chance in a bar. Suddenly they are fleeing the long arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government agency — the woman hunted for the information she possesses, the man mistaken as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement.
The architect of the chase is a man of uncommon madness and cruelty — ruthless, possibly psychotic,...
10912) Reservations
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Series
Lola Wicks mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Journalist Lola Wicks would much rather pursue a story than spend time with people she barely knows. So when an eco-terrorist bombing escalates the controversy surrounding a new coal mine on Arizona's Navajo Reservation, she's almost relieved to have the distraction from meeting her in-laws. But as the violence gets worse and Lola digs deeper, she can't escape the feeling that her husband's family is somehow involved; a suspicion that jeopardizes...
10913) The Darlings
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-law's hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business.
10914) Holy Fools
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Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
With her internationally bestselling novels Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, Five Quarters of the Orange, and Coastliners, Joanne Harris has woven intoxicating spells that celebrate the sensuous while exposing the passion, secrets, and folly beneath the surface of rustic village life. In Holy Fools, her most ambitious and accomplished novel to date, she transports us back to a time of intrigue and turmoil, of deception and masquerade. In the year 1605,...
10915) Salt water: a novel
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Pub. Date
c1998
Description
In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned....
So begins this sweet, ominous novel by Charles Simmons. Set against an idyllic landscape of water, sand, and sky, it recounts in exquisite detail the momentous events of a boy's 16th summer that reveal to him the dark facts of adult passion. On Bone Point, an island off the New England coast, the boy's long, lazy days of boating and swimming are sharpened by a growing awareness of his...
10916) Mistaken identity
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Trinity Miller's attacked by a man who mistakenly believes she's Mason Gains's girlfriend, the reclusive prosthetic maker is forced from seclusion to rescue her. And he soon learns someone's determined to get information on one of his clients-information they're willing to kill for. Now the former army pilot has to find a way to take down the men on their trail...and make sure Trinity survives. When Trinity arrived at Mason's isolated home to...
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A Tyler Zahn Novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A kidnapper hiding in plain sight. A rural town with tons of suspects. From debut author Cam Torrens comes a gut-wrenching suspense novel based on an actual missing person case. A 911 call sends Search & Rescue on a search for a missing girl in the Collegiate Peaks. They find a child . . . but not the one they seek. Air Force pilot Tyler Zahn’s life disintegrated when he lost his son. He discarded his family, his career, and his dignity, finding...
10918) The confession
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Inspector Ian Rutledge mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Troubled Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge wrestles with a startling and dangerous case that reaches far into the past when a false confession from a man who is not who he claims to be leads to a brutal murder.
10919) The Trudeau vector: a novel
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Pub. Date
2005
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Three members of the Trudeau Research Center scientific team are found dead at the onset of an arctic winter and the cause of death is unknown. American epidemiologist, Dr. Jessica Hanley, is called in to locate the microbe that caused the grisly deaths before it spreads. At the same time in Moscow, Admiral Rudenko searches for a submarine that has inexplicably vanished in the Norwegian fjords. Their missions converge explosively in the black of the...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"From the time she was a young girl, Luisa Voekler has loved solving puzzles and cracking codes. Brilliant and logical, she’s expected to quickly climb the career ladder at the CIA. But while her coworkers have moved on to thrilling Cold War assignments—especially in the exhilarating era of the late 1980s—Luisa’s work remains stuck in the past decoding messages from World War II. Journalist Haris Voekler grew up a proud East Berliner. But...