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21) The dark half
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Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the twisted imagination that produced his bestselling novels, for years written under the pseudonym George Stark. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the voice on the phone uttering its obscene threats and demanding total surrender. But how
...22) Guilty
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[2008]
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Sixteen years after participating in a robbery that left a police officer dead, Kate, a Philadelphia prosecutor and single mom, is shocked when she learns that she is to prosecute one of her co-conspirators, who threatens to expose her if she does not prevent his conviction.
23) The money shot
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Teddy Fay novels volume 2
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"Ever a man of mystery and intrigue, Teddy Fay has donned a new disguise-- that of Mark Weldon, a stuntman and actor starring in Centurion Studios' newest film. When the picture's leading lady begins receiving blackmail threats, Teddy is in the perfect position to investigate, and it soon becomes clear that the villains have more in their sights than just money. Money they've got. What they need is prestige, the cache of a respected studio to lend...
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"Alice Sun has always felt invisible at her elite Beijing international boarding school...When her parents drop the news that they can no longer afford her tuition, even with the scholarship, Alice hatches a plan to monetize her strange new power--she'll discover the scandalous secrets her classmates want to know, for a price. But as the tasks escalate from petty scandals to actual crimes, Alice must decide if it's worth losing her conscience--or...
25) Crossfire
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Shell-shocked and missing a foot-lost to an IED during his tour of duty in Afghanistan-Captain Tom Forsyth has been sent "home" by the army and, at loose ends, returns to his estranged mother's house for the first time since he joined up at seventeen. But Josephine Kauri, the "first lady of British racing," has always put the horses she trains first and her family last. Tom soon finds himself strained to the breaking point with his mother and stepfather....
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"The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is for Yesterday begins in 1979, when four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate--and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader...
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Ty Hauck novels volume 4
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[2015]
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English
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A thriller "about a whitewater rafting guide who investigates a suspicious death and uncovers a multinational conspiracy"--
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Sons of sin (Kate Moore) volume 2
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2010.
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English
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When former Bow Street Runner Will Jones rescues a beautiful virgin from a London brothel, he faces not a swooning maiden but a woman of wit who resists his aid and escapes his protection. Captivated, Will searches for her in the teeming, dangerous London streets.
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Notorious bachelors volume 2
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2010.
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When blackmail turns to murder, widow Madeline May turns to Luke Daudet, the notorious Viscount Altea, whom she greatly despises, for help in dealing with men of ill repute.
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"In 1931 England, Astra Davies--after her parents die, leaving her with mountain of debt--must make her own way and embarks on a journey that tests her brains, wit and mettle as never before, making her even more determined to prove that she's no ordinary Bright Young Thing"--
31) Screenshot
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Sixteen-year-old Skye Matthews is always careful with her social media accounts, but when her friend, Asha, posts an embarrassing video of Skye at a sleepover, her perfect reputation and her dream of a summer internship with the Colorado senator is endangered. Someone took a screenshot before the video was deleted and is threatening to share the photo online, unless Skye does whatever they ask.
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Nightmare thief volume 1
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When Maren breaks the strict rules of her family's dream shop to help her comatose sister, she is caught and blackmailed by a woman with evil plans for the town of Rockpool Bay.
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Simonverse volume 1
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Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out--without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met.
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Capital mysteries volume 6
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[2006]
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English
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As they leave a Fourth of July celebration with the President of the United States, KC and Marshall see unauthorized fireworks at the FBI Building and decide to unmask the culprit and his plans for blackmail.
36) Jackpot
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Teddy Fay novels volume 5
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English
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"When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains behind the plot aren't about to let Teddy stand in their...
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How odd, Anne Beddingfeld thought, that a stranger caught her eye, recoiled in horror, and fell to his death on the rails of the Hyde Park Underground Station. Odder still was a doctor in a brown suit who pronounced him dead and vanished into the crowd. But what really aroused Anne's suspicion was when she learned of the doctor's link to the murder of a famous ballerina, a fortune in diamonds, and a drug-lord embroiled in blackmail. Most frightening...
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The threat of blackmail lures sixteen-year-old aspiring photographer Ava and nine other teens--all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost--to an abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier, and when bad weather and magic cut them off from the mainland, Ava and the others begin turning on each other, one by one.
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Truth about the duke volume 4
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[2012]
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English
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When a blackmailer threatens to take away everything that he has, Charles de Lacey, who has led a life of decadent pleasure, will stop at nothing to save his fortune and title even if it means seducing Tessa Neville who could be the woman of his dreams or an enemy in disguise.
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