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Providence Falls volume 3
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When Liam O'Connor stole Cora McLeod from her destined soul mate, Finley Walsh, in 1844, he changed the course of history. Now Liam has been given three months to set things right, but he has failed to reunite Cora and Finn. And with time running out, things are looking worse than ever. As the three investigate a murder case together, they are caught in a devilish love triangle. Finn has always loved Cora. She has finally realized she wants Liam....
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Providence Falls volume 2
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"Over a century ago in Ireland, Liam O'Connor changed the course of destiny when he fell in love with Cora McLeod. Their passion was intense, brief and tragic. And the angels have been trying to restore the balance of fate ever since. Now police officers in Providence Falls, North Carolina, Liam and Cora are partners on a murder investigation. The intensity of the case has drawn them closer together, but the angels have made it clear Cora must be...
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While helping town deputy Max Stanford care for his 3-year-old daughter, who was left on his doorstep, Charlotte Garrison--who has arrived in Apple Valley, Washington, to open a bakery--finally finds a place to call home in his arms, if only she can come to terms with her past.
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Homicide detective Tick Kelly turned his back on the world the day his wife and children were murdered. After holing up in Mango Key and drowning his grief in Jack Daniels, Tick is sober and a bestselling author but his brother Pete keeps trying to drag him back to the land of the living. Then special agent Kate Rush is asked to move to Mango Key to investigate human trafficking there, and the Kelly brothers seem to be suspects.
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A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People 2017
They were called sleuths in skirts, guardian mothers, copettes, and police in petticoats. It would be a long time-well over 150 years-before women in law enforcement were known simply as police officers.
Balancing the stories of trailblazers from the past with those of today's dedicated officers, chiefs, FBI agents, and forensics experts, this collection of riveting biographies traces...
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Jenn Budd, the only former U.S. Border Patrol agent to continually blow the whistle on this federal agency's rampant corruption, challenges us-as individuals and as a nation-to face the consequences of our actions. Her journey offers a vital perspective on the unfolding moral crisis of our time. She also gives harrowing testimony about rape culture, white privilege, women in law enforcement, LGBTQ issues, mental illness, survival and forgiveness.Jenn...
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On June 22, 1954, teenage friends Juliet Hulme-- better known as bestselling mystery writer Anne Perry-- and Pauline Parker went for a walk in a New Zealand park with Pauline's mother, Honorah. When Honorah Parker was found in a pool of blood with the brick used to bludgeon her to death close at hand, Juliet and Pauline confessed to the killing. Their motive: a plan to escape to the United States to become writers, and Honorah's determination to keep...
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After spending more than twenty-years years as a Special Agent with the FBI, Kathy Stearman recounts the global experiences that shaped her life-and the mixed feelings that she now holds about the sacrifices she had to make to survive in a man's world.
When former FBI Agent Kathy Stearman read in the New York Times that sixteen women were suing the FBI for discrimination at the training academy, she was surprised to see the women come forward-no...
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As one of the very first women in law enforcement in 1965 in Franklin County, Ohio, Nancy Gene Giles faced challenges in a male-dominated profession, yet managed to follow her own different path even as she encountered all the issues and prejudices of that era.
In her memoir of that formative time, The Accidental Deputy: Navigating the '60s with a Badge: Protests, Guns, Drugs, Men and Chaos, Giles begins her account with stories of her family, and...
11) A Girl, Stuck
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She wants in. He needs out.Moments from her small but pivotal role in A Very Crowded House, Harriet "Harry" Smith begins her own story where an Ivy League education, her wit, and talented two hands make no promises, least of all the promise of a happily-ever-after.A typically tough private investigator and criminology professor, Harry Smith distracts herself from heartbreak by diving headlong into her latest surveillance job. On a steamy New York...
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Malachy Corcoran takes a demotion in order to accept a front-line job far away from his old position. If he can just keep his head down, perhaps he'll avoid the worst of the personal and professional disasters headed his way. But once in Mission City, BC, he finds the woman he once walked away from. The woman he's never forgotten.Abigail Reardon manages the office at Healing Horses Ranch in Mission City. She...
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FANCHON BLAKE changed the face of policing around the country.
She joined the LAPD in 1948 and walked a beat in a skirt and heels for three years. Her ambition to rise in the ranks would be curtailed by an increasingly discriminatory agenda, until her relentless tenacity finally led to a promotion to sergeant nineteen years later. When LAPD policy barred her from rising any further and threatened to eliminate women from the department, she sued,...
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In her first book, The Accidental Deputy: Navigating the '60s with a Badge: Protests, Guns, Drugs, Men and Chaos, Nancy Gene Giles began her story of serving as one of the first women in law enforcement and facing challenges in a male-dominated profession as Deputy Sheriff in Franklin County, Ohio.
Now Giles continues her account in this next volume of her memoirs, Police, Love & Understanding: Healing in the '70s with a Badge: Police Image, Education,...
15) Murder on the home front: a true story of morgues, murderers, and mysteries during the London Blitz
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It is 1941. While the war of chaos rages in the skies above London, an unending fight against violence, murder and the criminal underworld continues on the streets below. One ordinary day, in an ordinary courtroom, forensic pathologist Dr. Keith Simpson asks a keen young journalist to be his secretary. Although the horrors of secretarial work don't appeal to Molly Lefebure, she's intrigued to know exactly what goes on behind a mortuary door. Capable...
16) No Rescue
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She went to Sydney to hide, instead she was found by love.
Recovering from a tragic hostage situation, Miri Blair escapes to Sydney, and the anonymity of a friend's apartment. She will go back into the world, just not yet.
Then, one day, she finds herself acting out a Romeo-and-Juliet balcony style scene with Sergeant Tad Robertson of the Water Police, who dares her to risk living again. With the harbor as a backdrop, Tad and Miri find romance by...
17) White Horse
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A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. 3000 years ago Iron Age people carved a White Horse on the Downs near Uffington Castle and now someone has dumped a body there. Laid out like a ceremonial killing, Detective Inspector Leo George isn't convinced that the murder is what it appears.
He suspects the young female victim may have been a member of the Children...
18) Grey Stones
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A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. Joss Stirling is a thrilling new voice in the Psychological Thriller genre Don't Trust Me was a huge bestseller on Kindle title with rave reviews from readers For fans of serial crime such as LJ Ross and Faith Martin Stunning jacket design and cover reveal Early reading copies and Netgalley to build reviewer engagement Competition:...
19) Black River
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A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. The River Thames always gives up its dead... There's a killer picking off victims from the wild swimming spots on the upper reaches of the Thames. The case takes Detective Inspector Leo George into the path of Jess Bridges, a private investigator who lives life close to the edge. Their enquiries lead them to author, Jago...
20) Red House
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A thrilling new whodunnit series, fast-paced and funny, featuring a detective as sharp as his suits and a heroine who's trouble. The compelling new mystery featuring Bridges and George has them taking on a haunting new case that will leave them doubting their judgement, and even their own eyes and ears ... Joss Stirling is a thrilling new voice in the Psychological Thriller genre Don't Trust Me was a huge bestseller on Kindle title with rave reviews...
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