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She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the case remained unsolved. That was eighteen years ago....
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2004
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Emily has never been satisfied with the pious and rigid world she is expected to fit into, and when her creative talent and independent spirit refuse to be suppressed by her father's wishes that she marry and settle down, she defies her family's better judgement and travels to the wild coast of British Columbia.
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Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton gives up the struggle to be a gracious widow after driving her car through the garage door and succumbs to crying in the produce aisle, eating buckets of ice cream, and showing up for work in her bathrobe, but she starts back on the path to life again after moving to Oregon to live with a friend and becoming involved with a troubled teen, and an alarmingly handsome actor.
4) White hot
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When she hears that her younger brother Danny has committed suicide, Sayre Lynch relents from her vow never to return to Destiny, the small Louisiana town in which she grew up. She plans to leave immediately after the funeral, but instead soon finds herself drawn into the web cast by Huff Hoyle, her controlling and tyrannical father, the man who owns the town's sole industry, an iron foundry, and in effect runs the lives of everyone who lives there....
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This collection brings together 12 short stories, many never before published. The title short, 'The Guy Not Taken', was featured in Glamour and soon after was optioned by DreamWorks SKG. Other titles include: 'Good Men', a prequel to 'Good in Bed'; and 'Just Desserts', a tale of siblings coming to terms with their father's sudden departure, as well as nine others.
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The Kellaway family, newly arrived in London in 1792 where father Thomas has been offered work by circus entrepreneur Philip Astley, discovers they are neighbors to famous printer, poet, and political radical William Blake, who is inspired by the coming-of-age adventures of young Jem Kellaway and his sister Maisie to writer one of his most famous works.
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Stone Barrington is forced to take con man Herbie Fisher as a client, with the goal of taking down the notorious Mafia boss Carmine Datilla. With the help of his ex-partner Dino, Stone investigates the boss called 'Datilla the Hun' and his crime family, encountering danger and intrigue at every turn. It's a ticklish situation that could lead to his ending up at the bottom of Sheepshead Bay if he's not careful.
10) High noon
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Savannah's chief hostage negotiator Phoebe MacNamara struggles to deal with the threats of an unknown assailant, who is intent on striking fear in her heart, her agoraphobic mother and precocious seven-year-old daughter, and a local businessman who wants to pursue a romantic relationship with her.
11) Play dirty
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Disabled millionaire Foster Speakman hires disgraced football hero Griff Burkett to impregnate his wife Laura, a plan that results in an obsessive love affair and life-threatening consequences.
12) Sliver of truth
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Freelance writer Ridley Jones, trying to rebuild her life after a year of chaos in which she learned everything about her past is a lie, instead becomes further trapped in a web of mystery and violence when she discovers she is being watched by everyone from the federal government to the underworld, all of whom are seeking Max Smiley, an uncle figure and friend of her dad who she has since learned is her biological father and an unscrupulous criminal...
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In the 1940s, former Beverly Hills police officer Rick Barron, now working as head of production at a film studio and directing a Oscar-worthy motion picture, learns that his wife, starlet Glenna Gleason, and screenwriter, Sidney Brooks, are suspected of communism by the U.S. government, setting in motion a series of scandals and murders.
14) The ghost war
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When the CIA finds evidence of a surge in Taliban activity, backed by an unknown foreign power, CIA agent John Wells returns to Afghanistan to investigate.
15) Heart and soul
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With the warmth, humor and compassion we've come to expect, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic, and agrees to take it on for a year. Before long it is an essential part of the community, and Clara must decide whether or not to leave this place...
16) Hot mahogany
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CIA boss Lance Cabot hires Stone Barrington to watch over his brother Barton, a former army intelligence officer suffering from amnesia. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and restoring antique furniture. Barton is also a man with a past that is linked to the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot...
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Mrs. Murphy mysteries volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
Mrs Murphy volume Book 16
A Mrs. Murphy volume 16
Thorndike Press large print basic
Mrs Murphy volume Book 16
A Mrs. Murphy volume 16
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Autumn has arrived in cozy Crozet, Virginia, and that means the town's inhabitants are hard at work in home and garden preparing for winter. Harry is planning to harvest her first crop of Petit Manseng grapes along with her beloved sunflowers. Meanwhile, her recent marriage to Fair and her friendship with Deputy Cynthia Cooper, who's rented nearby Blair Farm, are flourishing. But even when peace descends on the idyllic countryside, murder is lurking....
19) Rough Justice
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Dispatched by the President to report on the state of still troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque--or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the forehead. This action will have considerable consequences, not only for Miller and Johnson and their associates,...
20) Santa Fe dead
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A Hollywood producer awakens the morning before Thanksgiving in his Santa Fe home with no memory of the previous night. On the flight back to Los Angeles, the plane breaks down in a small town. During the layover he reads in the newspaper that the bodies of his wife, a business partner and a third man--assumed to be him--have been found in the guest room of the Santa Fe residence.
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