Barbara Rosenblat
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Series
Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Indentured servant Reese Thackery, believing herself free when her master Mr. Zantow dies, is stunned when the bank manager tells her he intends to keep her papers to cover Zantrow's outstanding debts, but she accepts that God has a plan for her life, and is rewarded for her faithfulness when bank owner Conner Kingsley comes to investigate the odd circumstances and loses his heart to the young woman.
2) Death angel
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Series
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English
Description
When the body of a young woman is discovered in Central Park, the clock begins ticking for Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace to find the killer who has breached this haven in the middle of New York City. Is the body found in the lake, under the unseeing gaze of the Bethesda angel, the first victim of a deranged psychopath, or is the case connected to other missing girls and women in years past whose remains have...
3) Killer look
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 18
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New York City is one of the fashion capitals of the world, well-known for its glamour and style. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the runway, where American haute couture continually astounds with its creativity, daring, and innovation in the name of beauty. Yet high fashion means high stakes, as Alex Cooper quickly discovers when businessman and designer Wolf Savage is found dead in an apparent suicide, mere days before the biggest show of...
4) Dirty blonde
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English
Description
In her thirties, Cate Fante is strong and smart, but when she becomes a federal judge, even she wonders if she can do the job justice. But Cate keeps her doubts a secret. And, as it happens, much else. For she leads a dark double life that she hides from everyone. Then a high-profile case in her courtroom explodes into a shocking murder-suicide, and it blasts her cover wide open. Overnight the tabloids tell her secrets, her boyfriend dumps her, and...
5) Killer smile
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Language
English
Description
Lawyer Mary DiNunzio, immersed in a case everybody else calls "The History Channel," is seeking reparations for the Brandolini estate, a case that involved Italian Americans at the outbreak of World War II.
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Series
Language
English
Description
A warm-hearted, occasionally meddlesome widow from New Jersey, is hardly anyone's idea of a CIA operative - exactly why Emily Pollifax is so effective as a spy. Called upon to deliver eight expertly forged passports to the Bulgarian Underground, Mrs. Pollifax carries them in her hat, pretending to be a tourist visiting the scenic Balkans. Contact with the Underground might have been routine, but Mrs. Pollifax's habit of interfering - however benighnly...
7) I thee wed
Author
Series
Vanza volume 02
Language
English
Description
It isn't easy making a living as a lady's companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. That's why Emma Greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. Her current post at a tiresome country house party has her bored to tears—until an extraordinary encounter with the legendary Edison Stokes leads to a secret position as his assistant.
Stokes is on a peculiar mission, searching for an anonymous thief who has...
Stokes is on a peculiar mission, searching for an anonymous thief who has...
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Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. So, naturally, she became a CIA agent. This time, the assignment sounds as tasty as a taco. A quick trip to Mexico City is on her agenda. Unfortunately, something goes wrong, and our dear Mrs. Pollifax finds herself embroiled in quite a hot Cold War--and her...
9) Deadfall
Author
Series
Alexandra Cooper novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
Investigating the drive-by murder of a high-profile city employee, assistant district attorney Alexandra Cooper teams up with NYPD detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace to search for answers in secret societies, a big-game hunting operation, the illegal animal trade and covert government deals.
10) Terminal city
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Series
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English
Description
"When the body of a young woman is found in the tower suite of the Waldorf Astoria--one of the most prestigious hotels in Manhattan--Assistant DA Alex Cooper and Detectives Mike Chapman and Mercer Wallace find themselves hunting for an elusive killer whose only signature is carving a carefully drawn symbol into his victims' bodies, a symbol that bears a striking resemblance to train tracks. When a second body bearing the same bloody symbol is discovered...
11) Whiteout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A missing canister of deadly virus. A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems. And as a Christmas Eve blizzard whips out of the north, several people converge on a remote family house. Stanley Oxenford, the research company's director, has everything riding on the drug he is developing to fight the virus--but he isn't the only one. His grown children...
12) Cross Bones
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Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 8
Language
English
Description
Examining a badly decomposed corpse is de rigueur for forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. When a stranger slips Tempe a photograph of a skeleton unearthed at an archaeological site, Tempe uncovers chilling ties between the dead man and secrets long buried in the dust of Israel. Traveling with Detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe plunges into an international mystery as old as Jesus, and centered on the controversial discovery of Christ's tomb. Tempe...
13) Courting trouble
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English
Description
Anne Murphy is smart, gorgeous, and young, the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates. She leaves town for the Fourth of July weekend to prepare for a high-profile trial, but when she buys her morning newspaper, her own photo is plastered all over the front page. And the headline--- LAWYER MURDERED -- supposedly refers to her. Anne sets out to find her killer, playing dead in order to stay alive. She tries to go it alone...
14) Dark Tort
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Series
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English
Description
While searching for the killer of her friend Dusty, Goldy finds herself knee-deep in suspects; one of whom is very dangerous and liable to cook Goldy's goose.
15) Guild boss
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Illusion Town on the colony world of Harmony--like Las Vegas on Earth, but way more weird. Living in this new, alien world doesn't stop the settlers from trying to re-create what they've left behind. Case in point--weddings are still the highlight of any social calendar. But it's the after-party that turns disastrous for Lucy Bell. Kidnapped and drugged as she leaves the party, she manages to escape--only to find herself lost in the mysterious,...
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English
Description
A legal thriller on Rita Morrone, a Philadelphia lawyer defending a federal judge in a sexual harassment action instituted by his secretary. When the secretary is found dead the judge becomes the prime murder suspect. The case has family complications, the judge being the father of Morrone's boyfriend. By the author of Everywhere That Mary Went.
18) Devil's corner
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Language
English
Description
When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.
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Series
Gallaghers of Ardmore trilogy volume 2
Irish trilogy volume 02
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Irish trilogy volume 2nd
Irish trilogy volume 02
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
Irish trilogy volume 2nd
Language
English
Description
Songwriter Shawn Gallagher claims to be content with his life, but his music tells a different story. Brenna O'Toole, a fiercely independent tomboy who is secretly in love with Gallagher, provides him with the chance to fulfill his destiny as both man and musician.
20) Final jeopardy
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Series
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English
Description
Alexandra Copper, Manhattan's top sex-crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own brutal murder. But the actual victim was Isabella Lascar, the Hollywood film star who sought refuge at Alex's Martha's Vineyard retreat. Was Isabella slain by a stalker--or was Alex herself the intended target?--Adapted from back cover.