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241) Tomorrow's Vengeance
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Hannah learns that old wounds never die, especially in a retirement community full of vengeful murderers. When Hannah Ivy visits her friend Nadine Smith Gray at the Calvert Colony retirement community, she didn't expect to be introduced to such a wide range of characters. Nor did she expect to become a volunteer in the memory care unit. Even more surprising is her discovery of the dead body of one of the residents. As it's clearly not a victim of...
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A gripping novel of politics, academia, and murder Assistant professor Nan Weaver, an outspoken feminist, is working toward tenure at Berkeley. Nan's blue-collar family left her with a legacy of endurance and hard work, and she is dedicated to her ideals and her students. But Nan's bold campaign against on-campus sexual harassment may be putting her career prospects in jeopardy. When an infamously chauvinistic male English professor turns up dead...
243) I Wish You Missed Me
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A California crime blogger left her radio job to find missing people. Now she's searching for her best friend… Farley Black, Kit's friend and former radio co-host, is missing. He was supposed to be surfing with his girlfriend but never arrived at his Malibu Beach destination. As the last person to hear from him, Kit is determined to find out what's happened. Kit searches Farley's home and what she finds there threatens her ideas about friendship,...
244) Dead Drop
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Jack Salvo teaches philosophy one night a week at a community college, but he pays his bills by working as an L.A. private detective. A wealthy woman hires him to find her wayward daughter Lillie, who has been missing for a week. Salvo figures the girl is probably hiding out with her friends. All he has to do is interview the friends, bust their stories, and deduce the missing brat's location. Salvo soon learns that her "friends" are somewhat parasitical....
245) Flesh Wounds
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Praised for their riveting, ingenious plot twists, John Lawton's series of espionage thrillers featuring Chief Inspector Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard have an uncanny ability to place readers in the thick of history. Now in Flesh Wounds, an old flame has returned to Troy's life: Kitty Stilton, wife of an American presidential hopeful. Private eye Joey Rork has been hired to make sure Kitty's amorous liaisons with a rat pack crooner don't ruin her...
246) Anne Belinda
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A woman vanishes without a trace-and her relations are forbidden to speak her name In 1917, after he's released from the hospital, John Waveney is headed back to the trenches in France when he decides to visit the land of his ancestors dating back to the Crusades. There, he meets a young girl who, upon learning he's all alone in the world, tells him she'd be sorry if anything happened to him at the front. Nine years later, John returns to Waveney...
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What would you do if you woke up in a strange room, strapped to a bed? This is exactly the predicament Daniel Rose finds himself in. He is soon introduced to A Beautiful, intimidating woman who calls herself the Queen Bee, and refers to Danny as one of her workers. But what exactly does that mean and what does she want with him? Meanwhile, Detective Constable Nasreen Maqsood gets assigned to Danny's missing persons case, and not only does she want...
248) Blood Stone
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After a colleague dies, Lomax get roped into a deadly search for missing gems Four gunmen storm a jewelry store in downtown Denver, wounding a guard and killing a child. They leave with $2.1 million in gems and one hostage: the store manager, who turns out to be in on the job. Most of the gang winds up dead, but the manager lands in jail. Two decades later, he's up for release, the gems are still missing, and a whole lot of dangerous men will be watching...
249) Wither
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Book 2 in the Lily O'Hara series explores the power of the monster hiding in plain sight. A power is afforded him by the silence of others. Lily O'Hara faces another example of the pain of buried pasts when she is drawn into the mystery of a young fisherman who takes his life and leaves a cryptic message about the truth that is killing him. Max Fraser, best friend of her husband Phillip, receives the message and asks Lily to help him decipher it....
250) Harsh Consequences
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While driving home from work along a remote stretch of highway, four males in a stolen vehicle tried to force Mitch Dunne off the road. They wanted his new BMW.Mitch fled, reaching speeds up to one hundred and eighty kilometres per hour, until the would-be thieves had disappeared from his rear-view mirror.Distressed from the incident, Mitch took a detour on his way home and called into his parents' address, to discuss the encounter with his dad.He...
251) Beauty Dies
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A former supermodel takes a fatal tumble, and only the unlikely duo Claire and Maggie can say who pushed her Women like Cybella are not destined to survive their fifties. Her looks long gone, the ex-supermodel takes a leap down a stairwellan apparent suicide that lands her on the front page one last time. Maggie Hill and her employer, the eccentrically brilliant detective Claire Conrad, are about to leave New York when a streetwalker named Jacqueline...
252) Limehouse Nights
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Thomas Burke paints an enduring portrait of London's East End At the beginning of the twentieth century, the East End of London was a filthy and violent neighborhood, a place where a man was more likely to get a knife in his stomach than a good dinner. It was worlds away from the fashionable district it has become more than a century later. In this gripping collection of stories, author Thomas Burke traverses the area and offers glimpses of life in...
253) The Graveyard Shift
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A detective takes on a vengeful ex-con in London's seedy underworld in this classic thriller by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Midnight Bell. After nine years in prison, thief Ben Garvald has been released, and he's headed back to the old neighborhood. His remarried ex-wife and sister-in-law aren't happy about it, and they've asked for police protection. Det. Sgt. Nick Miller, meanwhile, is hopeful; this may be an opportunity to finally...
254) Mystery Stories
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A Christmas slaying, an Egyptian puzzle, and a night in the home of a stranger-three chillers from the New York Times–bestselling "grandmaster" of mystery (Publishers Weekly). A thriller writer is embroiled in a real-life whodunit when a friend drops dead in front of her, with her own hatpin impaled in his back. The violation of a sealed West Bank tomb, its rock walls intact, provides a Thebes investigator with a mystifying conundrum. And two sisters...
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An ebook collection of three novels that follow the hilarious misadventures of a woman who takes no prisoners-which is never ideal for a police officer.
Mavis Upton tackles everything life can throw at her in this humorous, poignant, and moving series of an everyday girl who one day followed a law enforcement dream . . .
Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong
Single mom Mavis Upton decides to pursue her lifelong ambition to become...
256) Delhi Noir
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Brand new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmad, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Meera Nair, Siddharth Chowdhury, Mohan Sikka, Palash K. Mehrotra, Hartosh Singh Bal, Hirsh Sawhney, Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, and Manjula Padmanabhan. The eyes of the world are gazing at India-the world's largest democracy. But the books you read about this Asian giant only show part of the picture. Delhi Noir's fourteen original stories are...
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For Mavis Upton, there's a fine (blue) line between being a parent and a police officer in this sequel to Handcuffs, Truncheon and a Polyester Thong.
Our hapless heroine Constable Mavis Upton is preparing to step down the aisle with her fiancé Joe, but has to deal with her temperamental teen daughter, as well as investigate a serial flasher on a push bike. Throw a diva drag queen into the mix and readers can expect the usual hilarious Mavis...
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Twelve evocative and unforgettable tales of adventure, self-discovery, and flawed humanity by one of the twentieth century's most able storytellers The literary career of the remarkable Geoffrey Household spanned more than half a century, from the 1930s to the late 1980s, and it began with the publication of his first short story, "The Salvation of Pisco Gabar," in the Atlantic Monthly in 1936. A powerful, moving tale of a fateful bargain struck between...
259) Lesbian: Everlasting
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"I read a lot of Lesbian Romance and Lesbian Fiction. I had not heard of Olivia Hampshire before but the description looked ok. I thought I would give it a try. Many times I will search for House of Romance, for some reason that brings up stuff that I want. Searching for Lesbian Romance can be a bit overwhelming. Since my search, I have found and purchased many of Olivia Hampshire's books. She is very spicy."Kathleen HopeLincoln, NE"This book just...
260) Belfast Noir
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Launched with the summer '04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Reflecting a city still divided, Belfast Noir serves as a record of a city transitioning to normalcy, or perhaps as a warning that underneath the fragile peace darker forces still...
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