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Settling her family into their new home in Georgia, Air Force wife and professional organizer Ellie Avery is busy. With two children, a party to plan for Mitch's promotion, and new contacts to develop, Ellie decides to relax by taking the family dog for a peaceful stroll. But what they find is an abandoned graveyard disturbed by recent flooding leaving two corpses in full view. One is that of a World War I casualty. But the second is recent. Ellie's...
2) Not my boy
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"When Hannah packs up her past and moves to the cottage next-door to her sister, she hopes the luxe neighborhood and close family ties will be the perfect escape for her son and the shadows that trail them. But when a young girl goes missing days after they unload their final boxes and her son is quickly thrown under suspicion, Hannah must do whatever it takes to protect her child. Even if that means pointing the blame her sister's way instead. With...
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Miss Julia series volume 1
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Shortly after the death of her husband, a wealthy Southern widow is visited by an impoverished young woman with a small boy. A mistress? A son? Julia Springer can't believe it, only to discover that the whole town has known for years. But she will rise to the occasion when the boy is kidnaped.
4) Dirty blonde
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about "something behind the fireplace," Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure that could spell death for either of them.
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"22-year-old Olivia has been missing for one day...and counting. She was last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley. And not coming back out again. Julia, the detective heading up the search for Olivia, thinks she knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But she has no idea just how close to home this case is going to get. Because the criminal at the heart of the disappearance...
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Another high-society thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jane Stanton Hitchcock, Trick of the Eye is a tale of art, intrigue, and murder in a world where evil tarnishes privilege and nothing is what it appears to be. Trompe l'oeil artist Faith Cromwell is hired to paint the famed ballroom of an opulent Long Island estate, but her patron is obsessed with the long-unsolved murder of a daughter, and soon Faith begins to piece together the...
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To the newly formed design team of Steve Sullivan and Erin Gilbert, it seems like a great idea: a competition to design and build the most Earth-friendly home in Crestview, Colorado. But who would have dreamed that someone's idea of saving the planet might include murder? Includes home decorating tips.
11) Electric blue
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When aspiring PI Jane Kelly is asked by the son of the town's wealthiest and strangest families to convince its senile matriarch to give up control of the family fortune, she is faced with a murderous free-for-all as each of the family members scrambles to get their hands on the money.
12) False premises
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Interior designer Erin Gilbert was dazzled by her beautiful, free-spending client and new friend, Laura Smith. Dazzled, that is, until she visits Laura's magnificent house and finds that the priceless antiques she painstakingly acquired at Laura's behest have been completely replaced with fakes! When Laura's explanations ring as false as the erstwhile Louis XVI foyer mirror, Erin begins investigating her friend's colorful life and times and then gets...
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A young widow raising two boys, Sarah Laden is struggling to keep her family together. But when a shocking revelation rips apart the family of her closest friend, Sarah finds herself welcoming yet another troubled young boy into her already tumultuous life. Jordan, a quiet, reclusive elementary school classmate of Sarah's son Danny, has survived a terrible ordeal. By agreeing to become Jordan's foster mother, Sarah will be forced to question the things...
14) Jenny Rose
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When photographer Claire Breslinsky's Irish aunt dies in a fire, she sets off to Ireland for the funeral. She tries not to think of the man with whom she almost had an affair years ago who still lives in Cork county.
However, on the day that Claire is leaving, two things happen. She discovers that her husband is having an affair. Then her mother reveals that on a visit to Ireland seventeen years ago, her sister delivered an unwanted child name Jenny...
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"The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under... 'It's something she learned years ago - the hard way - and that she knows she will never forget: even the sweetest fruit will fall and rot into the earth, eventually. No matter how deep you bury the pain, the bones of it will rise up to haunt you ... like the echoes of a summer's night, like the river flowing relentlessly on its course.' Margot Sorrell didn't want to go home. She...
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"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
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"A latest entry in the award-winning series that includes Death Makes the Cut finds Texas high-school teacher Jocelyn Shore's family Thanksgiving disrupted by violent disputes involving a cousin's imminent divorce, which is further complicated by a disappearance, a murder and numerous suspects."
18) The haunted lady
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A dowager is being scared to death in this classic whodunit by a #1 New York Times-bestselling master who "helped the mystery series grow up" (The New York Times). It's enough to stop Eliza Fairbanks's heart. At least that's what the elderly widow claims is being done to her. First, someone unleashes a cloud of bats in her locked bedroom. When that doesn't do the trick, next comes a pack of rats to claw at her toes. Special duty nurse Hilda Adams,...
19) Sanctuary Hill
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Bay Tanner mysteries volume 7
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The ancient rites of root doctors, charms, and mysticism weave spellbinding threads through a South Carolina Lowcountry community.
20) Canaan's gate
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Greed and deception drive the action in this tenth entry in the award-winning series, set in South Carolina's sultry Lowcountry.
When bank employee Cecelia Dobbs approaches Bay Tanner's inquiry agency, Bay has no idea her association with the awkward young woman will lead to murder. Concerned that one of her colleagues may be running a scam on the elderly and very wealthy Castlemains of Hilton Head Island, Cecelia is seeking proof she can take to...
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