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Leah Nash uncovers a tangled web of deception, delusion and obsession-with a dead police captain caught right in the center.
The murder of police captain Rob Porter sends shockwaves through the small town of Himmel. And when a member of Rob's own department is arrested for the crime, everyone is stunned.
But journalist Leah Nash isn't buying it.
To her, the motive isn't plausible, the evidence is thin, and the investigation smacks of an overconfident...
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Forced out of his firm, a hard-living attorney takes on one final, highly charged case-defending a notorious gang of bikers against murder charges A few years ago, Will Alexander was the top criminal lawyer in Santa Fe, with a thriving practice, a famously flamboyant courtroom style, and a marriage that landed him on the front page of the society section. Now, though, his wife has left him, and his constant boozing and womanizing have put his career...
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When a former student turns up in David Mapstone's office, she seems to have the perfect case for this history-professor-turned-deputy: a letter left by her deceased father, confessing to a forty-year-old murder and providing directions to the body. But things are never what they seem in Phoenix, a fast-buck city of newcomers seeking fresh starts from sometimes dark pasts.
Just ask David's wife, Deputy Lindsey Faith Mapstone. One morning the start...
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"Matthew Brooks and Vanessa Lyons are a perfect love match, both attorneys at a powerful New York City law firm. But there's a hitch: Matt just made partner, and Vanessa is coming up for partner next year. And Vanessa's husband, the profligate Bradley Lyons, has his suspicions. Vanessa is assigned to the biggest case at the firm, the one that will determine her future. Unfortunately, Matt has been working the case for years, leaving him no choice...
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A young woman's secret may tear her rural Minnesota community apart, in this "emotional tale of star-crossed love, vengeance and regret" (Publishers Weekly). In the tumultuous days after World War I, Herman Richter returns from the front to find his only sister, Liesel, allied with Lester Sutter, the "slow" son of a rival clan who spends his days expertly trapping lake turtles. Liesel has sought Lester's friendship in the wake of her parents' deaths...
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"The book revolves around Crissy, the star of a beloved Princess Diana tribute show in Las Vegas, and her estranged sister Betsy, a therapist who works with children and adolescents in Vermont. Betsy's boyfriend Frankie works in a mysterious branch of cryptocurrency and, seemingly out of nowhere, proposes that they move to Las Vegas together. Betsy and Crissy must navigate how to go about their newfound physical proximity to one another and their...
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Inspector Konrad Sejer must look for a killer among the "good people" of the small Norwegian town of Elvestad, after the Indian bride of tractor salesman Gunder Jomann, who had shocked the community with the news of his marriage, is murdered before she can even reach her new home.
10) A northern light
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In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
12) Sharp teeth
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Dogcatcher, Anthony, has no idea that his girlfriend is a werewolf who has abandoned her pack, but her efforts to keep her secret lead to murderous results.
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"In Amy Suiter Clarke's brilliant sophomore thriller, a young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown for the funeral of her ex boyfriend-her first love-who died suspiciously, only to confront the ways a radical pastor's warped evangelical beliefs have poisoned the whole town"--
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In 1939 Hollywood, Josephine Tey, when a shocking act of violence on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca reawakens the shadows of the past, teams up with DCI Archie Penrose and together, they follow a trail of clues that echoes Rebecca's timeless themes of obsession, jealousy and murder.
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Georgia Thackery is feeling good about her summer job teaching at prestigious Overfeld College and the relaxing cabin she's renting for her daughter and Sid the skeleton. When a teenager named Jen shows up looking for Sid, they set off to find a missing online gaming partner.
16) Pangu's shadow
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When Ver and Aryl, rival apprentices at the biology lab in the Pangu Star System, become the prime suspects in their teacher's murder, they reluctantly team up to find the real culprit, running up against system-wide inequalities and conspiracies along the way.
18) Midnight Creed
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Ryder Creed novels volume 8
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Ryder Creed's top priority is to keep his scent dogs safe. That's why he's avoided nighttime searches. When a boy goes missing, Creed must put aside his fears and navigate the risks his dogs will face after dark.
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A priest in Massachusetts is accused of sodomy by former altar boys. Although claiming innocence, he accepts a bargain plea and while in jail is indicted for the murder of a boy. At that, even the loyalty of his housekeeper wavers, the narrator of this story. By the author of A Brother's Blood.
20) A vow of poverty
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Sister Joan is assigned to clean out several old attic storerooms in the hopes that she will discover valuable antiques that will stretch the financial resources of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion, but what she finds instead is a set of recent footprints that set her on the path to a dangerous mystery.
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