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1) Why she lied
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Martina Monroe volume 4
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"A missing mother and child. A secret past revealed. Will Martina and Hirsch discover the truth before they meet their end? In the thick of the current cold case investigation, PI Martina Monroe receives a hand-written letter from a desperate mother pleading for Martina and Hirsch to reopen the cold case of the woman's missing daughter and five-year-old grandson. Feeling a deep connection to the request, Martina knows that Hirsch and she have found...
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2024
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Faulkner's six dectective stories feature attorney Gavin Stevens, a recurring character from Faulkner's novels, as he investigates violent crimes. This newly restored edition presents the stories the way Faulkner intended them.
Originally published in 1949, Knight's Gambit is a collection of six stories written in the 1930s and 1940s that focus on the criminal investigations of Gavin Stevens, the county attorney of Faulkner's fictional...
Originally published in 1949, Knight's Gambit is a collection of six stories written in the 1930s and 1940s that focus on the criminal investigations of Gavin Stevens, the county attorney of Faulkner's fictional...
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Working together is a challenge...
But catching a killer is their priority.
When Detective Cheyenne Cavanaugh's longtime partner retires, she gets stuck with newly transferred Texas cop Jefferson McDougall. But when she discovers a serial connection between several cold cases, she knows she needs Jeff's skills to help her stop the killer. They're both shaken to find that working together brings them closer...
But catching a killer is their priority.
When Detective Cheyenne Cavanaugh's longtime partner retires, she gets stuck with newly transferred Texas cop Jefferson McDougall. But when she discovers a serial connection between several cold cases, she knows she needs Jeff's skills to help her stop the killer. They're both shaken to find that working together brings them closer...
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New York Times Bestselling Author
He went undercover to find the Slasher
And instead found her.
Someone is preying on club goers. That's why Fletcher Colton has gone undercover as DJ Kiki Shelton's assistant. Facing danger is just part of the job for a detective, but sneaking around in dark clubs and alleyways with Kiki poses another kind of risk. Neither of them wants a relationship-especially one that might become a deadly distraction. Can they...
6) Pay dirt
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While visiting Angela, one her protégées in Kansas, V.I. Warshawski, when Angela's roommate goes missing and V.I. finds her near death in a drug house, is pitched headlong into the country's opioid crisis and a local land-use battle with roots going back to the Civil War.
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Real McCoys volume 03
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2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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760L
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Fourth-grade detective Moxie McCoy joins the Wonder Scouts as she and her little brother, Milton, investigate how one Dublinger twin is sabotaging the other in the race to earn the most badges.
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A courageous heroine risks her life to save the man she loves Jervis Weare is in a predicament. According to Ambrose Weare's will, his grandson must marry within three months or the vast estate goes to his great-niece: Jervis's fiancée Rosamund Carew. But the deceiving society beauty has just dumped Jervis, which leaves him scrambling to find another bride. Nan Forsyth has secretly loved Jervis for ten years. He has no inkling that Nan once...
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A man survives a shipwreck-only to finds his memory wiped clean and a stranger at his bedside claiming to be his wife The Alice Arden was bound for Scotland until she hit a nasty current and was smashed to bits on the rocky cliffs off the coast of Sussex. A man believed to be a survivor of the shipwreck is found unconscious and taken to the hospital. Lost for almost thirty-six hours, the man lying in a strange bed has no memory of who he is. Yet...
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With the city's Fourth of July celebrations in full swing, Celia Davies has stolen a moment away from her nursing duties to take in the festive spectacle, but is stunned when she spots the one person she thought she'd never see again-her supposedly dead husband, Patrick. Moments later, the investigator who had confirmed Patrick's death is killed when he suspiciously falls from a high window, and Celia begins to fear that the roguish man she married...
12) Pine Lake
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The murder of security expert Jack King's girlfriend has haunted him for fifteen years. Returning to Pine Lake, Texas, where the townsfolk still consider him suspect, might not be the smartest move, but a killer seems to be holding up a mirror to his past. The same witness to this new murder was also present the night Jack's girlfriend dieds...but both times, she was sound asleep.... Sleepwalking has gotten Olive Belmont into some sticky situations....
13) Twist of fate
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"When an armed man massacres several people in central London, Claudine witnesses the whole thing. To her horror, one of the victims is her brother, Jethro. Riven by grief, Claudine retreats to the family home in the Fens, which is where the police find her. She is left reeling when they tell her Jethro orchestrated the attack. Why would a gentle, if troubled, middle-aged man cause such bloodshed - and why would he include himself in the list of victims?...
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A collection of eighteen classic Golden Age short stories from "the best of mystery writers"-with a tribute by Agatha Christie (The New Yorker).
Acclaimed by critics and her peers, Margery Allingham was one of the finest writers of her day, crafting fiction that challenged readers' crime-solving skills and kept them on the edge of their seats. Foul play, mystery, and the macabre set the stage for unforgettable characters who struggled with the...
15) The mind readers
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Two schoolboys have discovered a miraculous gadget that enables them to read others' minds. Then one of the children vanishes and Campion is called in. Soon he is snared in a web of conspiracy, violence, and assassination.
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Battered to death with a piece of abstract sculpture titled "Reconciliation", Whitehall departmental head Sir Nicholas Clark is claimed by his colleagues to have been a fine and respected public servant cut off in his prime. Bewildered by the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Whitehall, Scotland Yard's Superintendent Jim Milton recognizes a potential ally in Clark's young Private Secretary, Robert Amiss.
Milton soon learns from Amiss how Whitehall works:...
17) Family business
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Lunghi family mysteries volume 1
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No case is too small - or too strange - for the Lunghi family detective agency. For the Lunghis of Bath, England, detecting is best discussed around the family dinner table; everyone gets a say. The various members of the Lunghi family are old and cantankerous, young and bolshie, responsible, clever, and even artistic. But relentless curiosity is the one quality they all possess. The Lunghi Detective Agency's latest client, pretty, thirty-something...
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John Putnam Thatcher mysteries volume 18
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While watching the Oylmpic's at Lake Placid, John Putnam Thatcher, banker-detective, investigates the murder of Yves Brisson, the favored French skier who was shot in mid-air during a practice jump.
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While she chases a headline…He's chasing a serial killer.Journalist Stella Maxwell may be guilty of prying into FBI agent Brennan Colton’s past for a story, but Brennan knows she’s not guilty of murder—despite what’s being alleged. He’s prepared for the risks of protecting Stella from the notorious Landmark Killer, and yet keeping his guard up to protect his heart might prove to be a different kind of challenge.
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On the lam from a murder charge, Riordan Malloy is saved from drowning by water rescuer Darcy Ford. On land, the mysterious man has no memory of his identity or his secret past. He only knows that he’s endangering Darcy. When all clues lead the unlikely pair to a posh Vegas casino, they must fight to stay alive—and fall in love—against all odds.
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