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82) The stowaway
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When two stowaways are discovered on the container ship Maersk Dubai, the captain orders them to be put overboard in a flimsy raft, dividing the crew, who cannot believe what their captain has done, and causing a near-mutiny.
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The gated Philadelphia suburb of Waldorf Pines is pretentious, but even by local standards Martha Heydreich is a stone cold pain. The stay-at-home wife of a very rich husband drives a pink sports car, is into everybody's business, and is rumored to be having an affair with a local teenager. When her husband finds the pool house ablaze with two bodies inside, and the cops' theory of a love-triangle murder falls apart, they turn to Gregor Demarkian...
84) Make me a liar
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"It's an open secret at Harvey Davis High School that Tia Dante can solve all your problems (for a fee, of course). As one of the few blessed with the genetic gift of transferable consciousness, she can slip inside your mind and do your dirty work--humiliate your cheating boyfriend, bring a bully to his knees, tell your boss where to stick it--and then return your body with no one the wiser. No task is too awkward, and unlike the competition, she...
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"Sister" Jane Arnold, master of Virginia's Jefferson Hunt Club, finds herself on the scent of a killer when she begins looking into the murder of Al Perez, the fund-raiser at the exclusive Custis Hall girls' school, whose body was found among the fake corpses hung as decorations for the Halloween dance.
86) A killing night
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Max Freeman mysteries volume 4
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Max Freeman, ready to move from his self-imposed isolation in the Everglades, agrees to help his onetime girlfriend Detective Sherry Richards investigate the murders of several young women in South Florida, but he faces a dilemma when Sherry's suspect turns out to be a former Philadelphia officer who once saved Max's life.
87) New mercies
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Nora Bondurant leaves Denver and memories of her former husband behind to travel to Nachez, Mississippi, in 1933 when she inherits a crumbling plantation from an aunt she did not know she had, and becomes caught up in the lifestyle of the deep South, and in the mystery of what really happened to her Aunt Amalia who is rumored to have been killed by a lover.
88) The runner
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China novels volume 5
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Beijing detective Li Yan opens an investigation after two high-profile athletes die--a top-ranked Chinese swimmer who committed suicide the night before an international event and an Olympic weightlifter who died in the arms of his mistress--and seeks aid from his American fiancée, pathologist Margaret Campbell.
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Amos Walker novels volume 19
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Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller believes his daughter's fiance is only after her two million dollar trust fund and asks Amos Walker to help him end their relationship, but when Darius's daughter is killed, Amos finds himself investigating a murder and trying to clear his own name.
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Abe Lieberman mysteries volume 8
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Veteran detective Abe Lieberman and his partner, Bill Hanrahan, are assigned to different cases, each of which tests their abilities and street smarts as they deal with hit men, racism, and vengeance.
91) The perfect liar
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Last Stand thrillers volume 5
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Air force captain Luke Trussell finds himself charged with rape of the woman he had spent the previous night with, and although he knows he is innocent, Karina Harter makes a convincing case to victims' rights advocate Ava Bixby, who quickly realizes that she may be defending the wrong victim.
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Tony Hill and Carol Jordan mysteries volume 4
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Criminal psychologist Tony Hill works with city detectives to solve a brutal murder that mirrors a series of killings from two years ago that put a disturbed young man behind bars, but their investigation has terrible consequeces that put everyone's life in danger.
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2006
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1st ed.
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A woman in her forties is a victim of a suicide bombing at a Jerusalem market. Her body lies nameless in a hospital morgue. She had apparently worked as a cleaning woman at a bakery, but there is no record of her employment. When a Jerusalem daily accuses the bakery of "gross negligence and inhumanity toward an employee," the bakery's owner, overwhelmed by guilt, entrusts the task of identifying and burying the victim to a human resources man. This...
94) Head wounds
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Ex-boxer and former corporate executive Sam Acquillo, living in a rundown waterfront cottage on Little Peconic Bay in Southampton, New York, while working as a part-time carpenter, enlists a group of misfit friends to help him investigate when the local police chief targets him for the murder of Robbie Milhouse, a local builder and bully who has disturbing links to Sam's girlfriend, Amanda Battiston.
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[2020]
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Spotting danger before it happens is a skill that can be developed and may even save your life. Author Gary Quesenberry breaks down the basic techniques necessary to help you develop good situational awareness and increase your levels of personal safety. He will then provide you with the tools you need to properly identify and evade danger before it ever has a chance to materialize.--Publisher.
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Lew Fonesca mysteries volume 4
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Florida process server and problem solver Lew Fonesca is called upon to help an elderly woman who claims she saw a murder in her nursing home, and to investigate a hit-and-run accident in which the teenage son of a local actress was killed--a case that spurs him to snap out of his own grief and try to find the person who killed his wife in a similar incident three years earlier.
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Widow Sarah Brandt asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to solve the four year cold murder of her husband, Doctor Tom Brandt, and with the aid of Sarah's wealthy father and some Pinkerton agents, Malloy concocts a theory that could potentially destroy any hope he has of building a future with Sarah.
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