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21) Silent witness
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Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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In Ohio, a school teacher accused of murdering a pregnant student appeals to lawyer Tony Lord to defend him. For Lord it will be a tricky business. As a youth he was a suspect in the murder of a local girl, a crime never solved, and the town has not forgotten.
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It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed-- and she does. But now murder is in the air ...
24) The genesis code
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
An American detective investigates the worldwide killing of children, believed to be carrying the genes of Catholic saints. The mothers all attended an Italian fertility clinic run by a doctor who collected holy relics. Detective Joe Lassiter suspects the children, some 30 of them, were eliminated by an organization tied to the Vatican.
26) Cimarron rose
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Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 1
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Texan lawyer Billy Bob Holland is forced to confront the legacies of crimes old and new when he takes up the defence of local boy Lucas Smothers, a timid teenager accused of the rape and murder of a young girl.
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Goldy Bear mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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In Colorado, Dr. Korman is arrested for the murder of his new girlfriend. Serves him right, thinks culinary queen Goldy Schulz--the doctor used to be her husband. But there is their son and that sends Goldy sleuthing.
30) Deep waters
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Pub. Date
[1997]
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English
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After Charity Truitt, CEO of a Seattle department store walks out on her engagement party, she begins a new life managing a book store in a small town. One day she meets Elias Winters, a burned-out Pacific Rim financier who has come to manage a junk store. The pair explore each other's past and libidos, a slow process until a murder speeds it up. By the author of Absolutely, Positively.
31) 10 lb. penalty
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Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in steeple-chases as an amateur jockey. His father requests he does not jeopardize his political career, but enemies within politics can infiltrate even a horse race.
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Star Wars novels. Callista trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
On a barren and remote planet, a ruthless warlord seeking to exploit its vast mineral wealth kidnaps Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker searches for his long-lost love Callista, and a long-dormant, sentient lifeform is awakening to threaten the entire galaxy.
34) Acts of love
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Pub. Date
1997.
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English
Description
Theater director Lucas Cameron discovers a box of letters written to his deceased stage actress grandmother from her protégée Jessica Fontaine who had disappeared from the stage years before and falls so deeply in love with the girl of the letters that he sets out to find Jessica, changing the course of both of their lives.
35) Hornet's nest
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Series
Andy Brazil novels volume 1
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Provides a look inside the Charlotte police department by following the experiences of three members of the force and witnessing the tension, heartbreak, and heroics of everyday police work.
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Sword of truth volume 4
Language
English
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Description
A fantasy novel featuring wizard Richard Cypher and his betrothed companion, Kahlan Amnell, as they battle an evil emperor who is using magic to spread a plague. But must they, as they are told, really renounce their love to win the fight?
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In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The threads of their connection widen and strengthen as the...
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Pub. Date
1997.
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English
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A Spanish diplomat's wife has her baby snatched in 1890s New York and the case is given to psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and his young assistant who narrates the tale. The probe leads them to a nurse turned serial killer of children, including her own.
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Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
What happens when a young woman, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time, is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation? What happens when she is placed under police protection, forced to give up her identity and move to another part of the country, at least until the killer can be positively identified and apprehended? What happens when in her new life she meets the perfedt man, only she can't risk falling in love...
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