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"When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right....
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"It's hard to make Diane Harbaugh flinch. A former prosecutor notorious for her aggressive tactics, she's now a DEA agent who interrogates witnesses so effectively, she has them confessing in tears. But when she hears from Gustavo, a high-ranking cartel member with an invaluable secret about the international black market, she's thrown for a loop. She heads to Mexico to meet him, and her entire understanding of justice and duty is thrown into question....
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Aurora Teagarden mysteries volume 9
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"Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town: four kids vanish from the school soccer field in an afternoon. Aurora's 15-year-old brother Phillip is one of them. Also gone are two of his friends, and an 11-year-old girl who was just hoping to get a ride home from soccer practice. And then there's an even worse discovery--at the kids' last known destination, a dead body."--
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A picture-perfect New Hampshire town hides a history of scandal and intrigue -- a legacy Annie Barnes has never shaken since growing up in tiny Middle River. Five decades ago the area was rocked by a bombshell of a book, Peyton Place, and its author, Grace Metalious, who seemed to know everyone's most intimate secrets. Now a bestselling novelist herself, Annie has come home to find answers to the strange circumstances of her mother's recent death,...
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Robin and Aurora have finally begun their adventure in parenting. With newborn Sophie proving to be quite a handful, Roe's mother pays for a partially trained nurse, Virginia Mitchell, to come help the new parents for a few weeks. Virginia proves to be especially helpful when Robin has to leave town for work and Roe is struck with a bad case of the flu. During one particularly stormy night, Roe wakes to hear her daughter crying and Virginia nowhere...
6) All mine
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Nicky Lyons, 28, a missing-persons specialist in in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, is an expert at tracking down abductees and bringing them home. The connection is personal: after Nicky's twin sister was abducted at 16, Nicky made stopping kidnappers her life's work. But when Nicky is assigned to a new task force in south Florida dedicated to finding the recently missing, she soon realizes she's up against a serial killer more diabolical than...
7) All his
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Nicky Lyons, 28, a missing-persons specialist in in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, is an expert at tracking down abductees and bringing them home. The connection is personal: after Nicky's twin sister was abducted at 16, Nicky made stopping kidnappers her life's work. But when Nicky is assigned to a new task force in south Florida dedicated to finding the recently missing, she soon realizes she's up against a serial killer more diabolical than...
8) Nemesis
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"Miss Marple receives a letter from a dead man instructing her how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime. In utter disbelief, Miss Marple reads the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel--an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left instructions for her to investigate a crime after his death. The only problem was, he had failed to tell her who was involved or where and when the crime...
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In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world's first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project--and future of time travel--in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team--erasing her contributions from history. Fifty years later, time travel is a big business. Twenty-something Ruby Rebello knows her beloved grandmother,...
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The O'Sullivan clan of County Cork, Ireland, are back to investigate another case of murder--this time at Christmas! Garda Siobhan O'Sullivan's holiday plans hit a sour note when murder rearranges the yuletide carols into unexpected eulogies... This December in Kilbane, if you're planning to warm up with a cuppa tea at Naomi's Bistro, you may have a bit of a wait--the entire O'Sullivan brood has gone off to West Cork to spend the holidays with brother...
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"Renowned theater director Cordelia Thorn is working to restore a historic theater in downtown Minneapolis that she and her actress sister, Octavia, recently bought. Cordelia has a vision for the playhouse's future, but the more she learns about the building, the more fascinated she becomes by its past. Nicknamed "The Old Deep and Dark" because of the Prohibition-era double murder that occurred in the basement--then a speakeasy--there are a wealth...
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PI and restaurateur Jane Lawless must track down two missing teenagers Although Eric and Andrew have been trying to keep up a semblance of normal life, they know their thirteen-year-old son Jack has been having a tough time of it since they separated. They've been concerned, but now they're terrified--Jack has run away from home. It happened once before, just after the separation, but then it was only a matter of hours before Eric found him. This...
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No one noticed me until the day I went missing. From that point on, they couldn't stop seeing me. My face was plastered everywhere-in the news, on social media, and on fliers tacked up around the small Minnesota town of Cedar Point.
For my entire adult life, I had been invisible. I wasn't an oops, a child my parents would eventually grow to love. I was a dammit, a baby no one would ever love. Lily and Laurel, my identical twin sisters, were my parents'...
14) All he sees
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"When a senator's daughter goes missing, it is a race against time as FBI Special Agent Nicky Lyons, 28, a fast-rising star in the BAU, is tasked with finding her--and with finding, per the senator's order, the top 10 abducted women most likely to still be alive. When a kidnapper abducts female twins, giving one a chance to escape while the other is killed, Nicky wonders: could this be the same killer who took her own sister more than a decade ago?...
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A killer terrorizes the morally bankrupt residents of an upscale neighborhood, leading them to turn to-and on-one another to survive.The neighborhood of Oleander Court is the poster child for suburban bliss. The residents compare lawns beautified by hired help. They monitor home values. They toss perfect furniture because they wanted tapioca, not beige.But when a string of murders rips through the neighborhood, suspicions abound as new secrets come...
16) No pity
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the FBI has created an elite unit to target criminally-insane killers, and when a serial killer writes taunting letters to the press, FBI Special Agent Valerie Law and her elite team are summoned. But this killer is truly deranged, and with the trail soon cold, Valerie may just be the only who can enter his mind and crack the baffling case.
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Move over Charlie's Angels, the Justice Sisters are here to take over! Three beautiful, bold, black women will stop at nothing to prove a man's innocence.
Evoni Singleton, one of Nashville's hottest family law attorneys, life has become more complicated than she would like. Dealing with a cheating fiancé, a cold mother, and annoying co-workers, Evoni is fed-up. If it weren't for her best friend, Bria Montgomery, Evoni would be at her wit's end.
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18) No fear
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"The FBI's elite new unit targeting criminally-insane killers is summoned when a series of murders occurs that bears the signature of a psychotic killer. But something bothers FBI Special Agent Valerie Law about this case: this killer, she fears, may just be more normal than anyone suspects. Faced with an unpredictable killer and a lack of information, Valerie must use her brilliant mind to connect the dots-and fast. Her only hope of catching him...
19) The appraisal
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Helena Marsh novels volume 1
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In the vein of Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels comes this year's smart new thriller with literary chops When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting,...
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"From New Zealand author Donna Malane, My Brother's Keeper is a dark and twisting mystery that leave no stone -- or page -- unturned. Diane Rowe is a missing persons expert. Ex-con Karen needs Diane's help to track down her fourteen-year-old daughter, Sunny, whom she's lost contact with while she's been in prison. To Diane, this appears at first glance to be a simple case of a mother wanting to reunite with a beloved daughter. Tracking the girl down...
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