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New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were at the ready at Drug Store soda counter, and Hot Stuff comic books were a mainstay on every barbershop magazine rack. It was a time of innocence and hope for a country with a new, young president. But for thirteen-year-old Frank Drum it was a summer in which death assumed many forms. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, which includes...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 2
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Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 19
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After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton's premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it's on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without...
6) Corrupted
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Taking the case of a former classmate who has been wrongly accused of murdering a bully who sent him to juvenile detention when they were children, Bennie is forced to relive some of the darkest memories of her life in order to defend the boy she once failed.
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 18
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[1971]
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Nancy Drew sets out to prove that her father's client was unjustly accused of trying to sabotage the United States space program.
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A superbly crafted collection of thirteen tightly plotted tales that treats readers to murder, mystery, and mayhem in the world of horseracing.
With his remarkable blend of unrelenting suspense, finely tuned narrative, and lean, stylish prose, New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis proves that he
is as much a master of the short story as he is of the novel in this thrilling collection.
10) Bicycle mystery
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Boxcar children volume 15
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While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
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Goldy Bear mysteries volume 2
Goldy Schulz Culinary volume 2
A Goldy Schultz Culinary Mystery volume 2
Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery
Goldy Schulz Culinary volume 2
A Goldy Schultz Culinary Mystery volume 2
Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery
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“A classic whodunit . . . the perfect book for food lovers.”—New York Daily News
Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she’s preparing decadent...
Goldy Bear is the bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life is a recipe for disaster, with bills taking a bite out of her budget and her abusive ex-husband making tasteless threats. Determined to take control, Goldy moves her business to the ritzy Aspen Meadow Country Club. Soon she’s preparing decadent...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
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"Hercule Poirot rushes to France in response to an urgent and cryptic plea from a client. But the Belgian detective arrives just too late: the man who had summoned him is found dead on a golf course, stabbed in the back with a letter opener and wearing an ill-fitting coat with a mysterious love letter in its pocket. Strange circumstances multiply, culminating in the discovery of a second body stabbed with the same murder weapon. While the local authorities...
13) Bonecrack
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Neil Griffon, left in charge of the family stables after his father is involved in a grisly accident, is forced into a no-win situation when a crime czar demands his son be employed at Neil's stables and given a chance to ride the superstar horse, Archangel, in the Derby.
14) The golden calf
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Three men have been shot in one of Gteborg's most fashionable neighborhoods, sending Detective Inspector Irene Huss and her colleagues on a goose chase through a tony world of expensive cars and fancy homes. All three victims seem to be tied to one person, the glamorous dot-com darling Sanna Kaegler-Ceder, but no matter which strategy Irene adopts-good cop or bad cop-Sanna is not speaking, even when her own life seems to be at stake.
15) Faceless killers
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In a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer has been bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. Before the old woman dies, she utters the word foreign, which may be the only real clue the police have to go on. And they need to work fast. The press has reported the dying word, and white supremacists have threatened a nearby refugee camp, vowing to take justice into their own hands. Recently divorced, overweight, drinking...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 23
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The anonymous caller has an ominous tone and an unnerving message about something ""real dead ... buried in your marsh."" The eco-volunteer on the other end of the phone thinks it's a prank, but when a young woman's body turns up in L.A.'s Bird Marsh preserve no one's laughing. And when the bones of more victims surface, homicide detective Milo Sturgis realizes the city's under siege to an insidious killer.
17) Run away
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""You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. You don't stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home. She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark...
19) For kicks
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Horse breeder Daniel Roke goes undercover as a stable hand to find out who is behind a rash of horse druggings.
20) Hot six
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 6
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sometimes lover, Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli, team up to find the killer of the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos, but Stephanie has mixed feelings about her search when she learns that Ranger, her fellow bounty hunter and mentor, is the main suspect.
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