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1) The fury
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English
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to her private Greek island. You may think you know this story. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity, a private island, and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. What followed was a game of cat and...
2) Promise boys
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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J.B., Ramón, and Trey, students of the Urban Promise Prep School, must follow the school's strict rules, but when their principal is murdered, the three boys must band together to track down the real killer before they are arersted.
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"Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff's deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn't add up, and a sheriff's department...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
Description
"Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning...
5) Double take
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Series
Lake City heroes volume 1
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English
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"Lainie Jackson survived her fiancé's murder plot and her attacker is dead--isn't he? Now, with the help of former Army Ranger James Holton, it's time to find out if the past has come back to haunt her--or if the recent attempts on her life come from a new threat"--
6) In Nightfall
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Soon after arriving in the tiny tourist town of Nightfall, Oregon, siblings Theo and Marco break their grandmother's rule not to leave the house after dark and befriend a mysterious group of beguiling girls who are far from what they seem.
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Wifey volume 9
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Aware that danger is lurking around the corner, Kira surrounds herself with help, namely her fiancé Dylan, but when he comes up against her father about a life-threatening issue, Kira must determine where her loyalty lies"--
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English
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"After fleeing the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, Aleida's search for her missing child sets her on a collision course with Hugh, a charismatic BBC radio correspondent. During the London Blitz, they will risk their lives to discover the truth--and find a connection closer than they could have ever imagined"--
9) Midnight
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
"While on a dream cruise aboard a luxury liner to Antarctica, actuary Olivia Campbell is plunged into a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to stop the ship from reaching its final destination, soon discovering she may have booked a one-way ticket to her own death"--
10) Simply the best
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Series
Chicago Stars volume 10
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Brett, the hottest sports agent in the business, and Rory, the sister of his superstar client, meet and have a disastrous one-night stand, resulting in murder, they find things getting messy, dangerous, heartbreaking and sexy as they struggle with themselves, each other and love.
11) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ex-police officer Mick Stranahan rescues a woman from the ocean. Joey Perrone's husband tried to kill her by pushing her overboard from a cruise liner because he suspected that she had figured out his scam of doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can illegally dump fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. Mick helps Joey haunt and taunt her homicidal husband.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
Description
Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward's shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder of a secret agent in her hotel room. And when she discovers that a romantic...
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Jack Taylor series volume 17
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
Irish detective Jack Taylor awakens from a coma to discover that his sleuthing services are needed after two local nuns are found bludgeoned by a hammer.
In this new installment of Ken Bruen's beloved Jack Taylor series, the whiskey-swigging Irish detective investigates a series of violent attacks on the local convent's nuns.
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"Charlie Hudson, an autistic 17-year-old, is determined to leave Sawyer, PA as soon as she graduates high school -- in the meantime, she works as many hours as she can at a sandwich shop called The Triple S to save money for college. But when shop owner Clay Cooper -- a man who is both respected and feared by many in this economically depressed community -- is found dead, each member of his staff becomes a suspect in the perplexing case. Charlie must...
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Series
Crescent city novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Augustine lives the perfect life in the Haven city of New Orleans. He rarely works a real job, spends most of his nights with a different human woman, and resides in a spectacular Garden District mansion paid for by retired movie star Olivia Goodwin, who has come to think of him as an adopted son, providing him room and board and whatever else he needs. But when Augustine returns home to find Olivia's been attacked by vampires, he knows his idyllic...
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2022.
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English
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"When three seventh graders are stranded on Raven Island for the night because of a class field trip, they must figure out who is responsible for a murder and uncover the secrets of the island's dark past. Raven Island is inspired by Alcatraz"--
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Jack Swyteck novels volume 18
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
Description
"Jack Swyteck's latest client is Grammy-winning popstar Imani Nichols, who urges fans to pirate her music because her royalties go mostly to ex-husband Shaky Nichols. The result is blazing litigation and the indictment of both for the long-ago murder of Imani's extramarital lover."--
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English
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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
19) Witches
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two women's lives twist around each other in a danse macabre....
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Indian Lake trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
It's been four years in prison since Jade Daniels last saw her hometown of Proofrock, Idaho, the day she took the fall, protecting her friend Letha and her family from incrimination. Since then, her reputation, and the town, have changed dramatically. There's a lot of unfinished business in Proofrock, from serial killer cultists to the rich trying to buy Western authenticity. But there's one aspect of Proofrock no one wants to confront... until Jade...
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