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1) Bloodline
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Missy Hewett was a success story in the small town of Prosperity, Maine. She was smart, pleasant—and pregnant in high school. Giving the child up for adoption was the answer, but then Missy decided she wanted her baby back. Both she and reporter Jack McMorrow, writing a story on teen parents, find it's not that simple. And in Missy's case, hunting a baby is a risky business.
2) Playing god
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"Joe Burgess is the most realistically drawn and memorable police detective I've encountered in years. This is as much a moral fable as it is a whodunit." ~Edward Morris, Verified Reviewer
On an icy February night, the body of Steven Pleasant, a prominent Portland, Maine physician, grows cold in his parked Mercedes. All signs point to a john killed by a disgruntled hooker: his pants are unzipped, wallet is gone, and the good doctor...
On an icy February night, the body of Steven Pleasant, a prominent Portland, Maine physician, grows cold in his parked Mercedes. All signs point to a john killed by a disgruntled hooker: his pants are unzipped, wallet is gone, and the good doctor...
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Hester Thursby novels volume 2
Hester Thursby mystery volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Hester Thursby mystery volume 02
Hester Thursby mystery volume 2
Thorndike Press large print mystery
Hester Thursby mystery volume 02
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"Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don't want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Caring for a four-year-old is responsibility enough in a world filled with terrors Hester never could have imagined before. Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is ruggedly beautiful and remote-the kind of place tourists love...
5) Winter's end
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As a violent storm rages over the small town of Winter's End, Sheriff Dale Townsend comes upon a chilling scene-a young man, knives in his hands and the body of a woman at his feet.
But the enigmatic suspect refuses to answer any questions, and, bizarrely, there is no forensic evidence to link him to the crime.
So Sheriff Townsend he calls his childhood friend Alex Rourke back to his sleepy home town in wooded hills of north-eastern Maine. After...
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Jack McMorrow, a former New York Times reporter has come to Maine to run the weekly local newspaper. When a seemingly friendless and ineffective staff photographer is found drowned in the river, McMorrow wonders why, and wonders why the local police don't wonder more.
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Two identical women. Two identical murders. Two lives brutally cut short 108 years apart. June 1904. Aimee Garnier Whitby, a beautiful French artist and wife of one of Maine's richest and most powerful men, is found near death on the Whitby family's private summer island, the letter "A" mysteriously carved into her chest. June 2012. Veronica Aimee Whitby, the eighteen-year-old descendant and virtual double of the first Aimee, becomes the victim...
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Joseph Souza, acclaimed author of The Neighbor, brings readers into the dark heart of a small town in this riveting, relentlessly twisting new novel . . . Lucy Abbott never pictured herself coming back to Fawn Grove, Maine. Yet after losing her lower legs to a roadside bombing in Afghanistan, then years spent as a sous chef in New York, she's realized her only hope of moving on from the past involves facing it again. But Fawn Grove, like Lucy herself,...
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"Shepherd's Bay has been home to generations of lobstermen and their families. Lately, affluent newcomers have been buying up waterfront property and mingling uneasily with the locals. Tensions are high, especially since Dakota James, a teenage boy from the wealthier side of town, disappeared weeks ago. But another disturbing incident soon follows. When high school junior Katie Eaves and her friend, Willow Briggs, fail to come home after a night out,...
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"A grisly crime captivates Portland, sending John Byron and his team on a wild chase to catch the killer before it's too late. Amid the dog days of summer, Detective Sergeant John Byron is called to the scene of a horrific crime: a young woman's body, dismembered and left in an abandoned Portland lumber yard. The killing shares striking similarities with a spate of murders committed in Boston by a serial killer known only as the Horseman. As Byron's...
11) The widow
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Four days after Abigail Browning's wedding, her life changed unimaginably: her husband was fatally shot along the rocky Mount Desert Island coast. Was it a random act of violence, or could someone have wanted Christopher dead? The question has haunted Abigail, now a homicide detective, for the past seven years. Determined to find her husband's killer, she returns to the foggy Maine island after receiving an anonymous tip. Is it just another false...
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