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1) Rat race
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In this “impossible to stop reading” suspense thriller from a New York Times bestseller, a bomb scare lands a pilot in midst of a horse racing crime(The Telegraph).
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the...
Dick Francis, Edgar Award–winning master of mystery and suspense, takes you into the thrilling world of horse racing.
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the...
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Bernie Rhodenbarr and his dog-grooming partner in crime, Carolyn, are planning the perfect crime. Tonight, they will rob a brownstone while the well-heeled owners are out of town with their vicious watch dog. But when Bernie painstakingly picks the lock, they discover somebody has already emptied the house -- except for a valuable coin almost too hot to handle.
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As Elizabeth MacPherson recovers from the death of her husband in Cherry Hill Psychiatric Hospital, her brother Bill and his law partner, A.P. Hill, become involved in the mystery of their new law office and of the PMS Outlaws. The outlaws are a former rival of Hill's and his female client, who travel the country taking vengeance on unwary male chauvinists.
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Thanks to her recent adventures in Dying for Chocolate, Goldy Bear, the premier caterer of Aspen Meadow, Colorado, is no stranger to violence—or sudden death. But when she agrees to cater the first College Advisory Dinner for Seniors and Parents at the exclusive Elk Park Preparatory School, the last thing she expects to find at the end of the evening is the battered body of the school valedictorian.
Who could have killed Keith...
Who could have killed Keith...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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A stunning mystery set against the high-country trails of the Guadalupe Mountains of West Texas, where the age-old battle of man against nature is fought with a frightening twist. Anna Pigeon has fled New York and her memories to find work as a ranger in the country's national parks. In the remote backcountry of West Texas, however, she discovers murder and violence. Fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed, presumably by a mountain...
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When an obnoxious Nazi landworker is murdered in the small village of Comerford, Sergeant George Felse faces one of the toughest investigations of his career It is 1952, and the shadow of World War II still lies over the green fields of the small village of Comerford on the Welsh borders. When ex-prisoner of war Helmut Schauffler is murdered, local policeman Sergeant George Felse has his work cut out: Schauffler was Nazi to the core and the majority...
10) Final appeal
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Overwhelmed by her divorce, an affair with her boss, and a volatile assignment, lawyer Grace Rossi finds herself investigating a murder case involving judicial corruption.
11) The last suppers
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Goldy Bear mysteries volume 4
Goldy Schulz volume 4
Wheeler large print book
Culinary mystery volume 04
Goldy Schulz volume 4
Wheeler large print book
Culinary mystery volume 04
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Colorado caterer Goldy Bear's wedding to detective Tom Schulz is held up at the last minute when the minister is shot and the bridegroom disappears. A selection of Goldy's recipes is part of the book. By the author of Dying for Chocolate.
12) Wild horses
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As he lies on his deathbed, Valentine Clark harbors a secret he is desperate to be rid of. In his delirium he makes his last confession to Thomas Lyon, a visiting film maker shooting a movie on racing, whom he mistakes for a priest. Wild horses could not drag the secret from a priest, but in Lyon's case silence is merely an option, especially now that the secret has put his life in danger.
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A legal thriller on Rita Morrone, a Philadelphia lawyer defending a federal judge in a sexual harassment action instituted by his secretary. When the secretary is found dead the judge becomes the prime murder suspect. The case has family complications, the judge being the father of Morrone's boyfriend. By the author of Everywhere That Mary Went.
16) Vanishing act
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Jane Whitefield helps people disappear by giving them a new identity--new appearance, new social security card--and her clientele ranges from bankrupt businessmen to fleeing wives. On this occasion, things backfire and she must resort to her Native American talents to track a dangerous customer she helped disappear.
17) Cadillac jukebox
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When former Klansman and piney-woods outcast Aaron Crown is imprisoned for a decades old murder, his former friend Dave Robicheaux finds himself believing in Crown's innocence. Then a Hollywood filmmaker who has taken up Crown's case is found murdered, and the most villainous character Burke has created to date, Mookie Zerrang, brings his bloody agenda to the Cajun wetlands of South Louisiana.
18) 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....
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Successful Manhattan lawyer Jacob Schiff is shaken out of his tenous web of contentment when his wife Dana begins counseling a homeless man, dragging the entire family into a bizarre world and leading Jacob to take deserate measures to protect himself, Dana, and their son Alex.
20) Legal tender
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Bennie's former lover and current law partner, Mark Biscardi, breaks the news that he wants to oust her from the firm in favour of an ambitious and beautiful associate. When Mark is found murdered, all the evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and a dubious alibi. Suddenly her world is turned upside down, as the lawyer becomes the client, and the cops she once prosecuted are now after her with a vengeance.
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