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The Academy Awardsʼ is Hollywood's biggest night, and there's no star better than tart-tongued Max Taylor to hold court on the Red Carpet, sharing the dish with her daughter, Drew. Tonight Max has landed a real coup: an exclusive interview with paparazzi-trailed Oscar nominee Halsey Hamilton. But not even Max, who's seen her share of celebrity train wrecks, is prepared for Halsey, straight out of rehab, to drop dead at the hem of Max's stunning gown....
82) The candidate
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"In covering the presidential election campaign, star newsmaker Erica Sparks notices that favored candidate Senator Mike Ortiz seems dependent on his wife to an unnatural degree. Celeste Ortiz is a brilliant and glamorous billionaire who---along with her best friend and confidant Lily Lau---has engineered her husband's meteoric rise. The White House is within their reach. But the more Erica investigates the Ortizes' strange relationship, the more...
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The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriet's disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed...
85) Dirt
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Feared and loathed for her poison pen and ice queen persona, Amanda Dart has made her share of enemies. Then the tables are turned. An anonymous gossipmonger is faxing Amanda's personal and private peccadilloes to anyone who can read. Desperate to save her reputation, she enlists the help of New York lawyer and private investigator Stone Barrington to learn the identity of the faxer. And everyone in the world of tabloid journalism becomes a suspect....
86) Masquerade
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Journalist Danni St. John returns to her hometown of Red Oak, Alabama only to find herself trapped in a terrifying maelstrom of bizarre and deadly events.
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When a bulldozer in the Everglades unearths the skull of an infamous kidnapper, the Cold Case Squad is brought in to investigate. Britt was the last person to see him alive, and the detectives have questions only she can answer. On a remote desert island where she has sought solace, Montero finds a camera on an isolated beach. The film inside yields photos of a happy young couple on their honeymoon. Soon after, Britt is shocked to learn the newlyweds...
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"When Auntie Mabel, the advice columnist for The Ravensford Chronicle, dies by choking on a shrimp at the Big Bun all-you-can-eat shrimp and lobster night, Laura Magee takes over her job. A letter from a resident concerned that a house being built in his neighborhood will interfere with a local historical site requires Laura to put on her investigative reporter hat. When the investigation leads to someone throwing rocks at her, and then that someone...
90) Unholy dying
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Muckraker Cosmo Horrocks exploits the gossip about Father Pardoe and a young female parishoner. Nothing goes over better than a sex-and-the-church scandal--except perhaps murder.
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Aspen Wicklow, a University of North Texas journalism grad down to her last $75, lucks out and lands a plum job on WBFD-TV's Public Defender in Fort Worth, Tex. Tig Welder, a hotshot gunning for an anchor spot, reminds "Investigative Reporter Barbie" never to try scooping him, while station manager J. Gordon Pfeiffer warns her never to become part of the story. Following either tip isn't easy after Aspen meets ruggedly handsome Spike Granger, a Johnson...
92) Smokescreen
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In this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan journeys to Africa to help families torn apart by a violent attack deep in the jungle -- but she may be putting herself in more danger than she knows. A journalist shows up on Eve Duncan's doorstep with a plea for help. Jill Cassidy has just come from a small African village with a heart wrenching story: half the villagers -- many...
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After missing her debut broadcast and ending up in jail, WBFD-TV's newest anchor, Aspen Wicklow, is assigned to determine whether midnight screams coming from local landmark Kirk House are an urban legend or something more sinister. Visiting the burned-out shell where two wealthy brothers had been murdered, Aspen encounters a young Goth who turns out to be an undercover cop. Connecting the dots with her case leads Aspen into a life-and-death situation....
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Set in Havana during the Black Spring of 2003, a charming but poison-laced culinary mystery reveals the darker side of the modern Revolution, complete with authentic Cuban recipes Havana, Cuba, 2003: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first met through her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport, and when he hitches a ride to her apartment, he finds...
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