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81) Last girl gone
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Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from the Boston Globe, her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job with the local paper. The work is simple, unimportant, and worst of all, boring--at least until a missing girl turns up dead, the body impeccably clean, dressed to be the picture of innocence. Years earlier, ten-year-old Patty...
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A story inspired by a true crime made famous by the Kingston Trio's folk song recording re-imagines the events surrounding the murder of North Carolina mountain girl Laura Foster and the hanging of her lover, Tom Dula, in a meticulously researched account that reveals additional information that may prove Dula's innocence.
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A New York Times Bestseller!
Critically acclaimed novelist and award-winning short story writer Michael Malone is the smart, literate, compassionate voice of the American south. His gift for crafting the great American comedy, as he did in Handling Sin, is matched only by his ability to create mystery novels ripped with tension, twists and humanity.
A woman's body has been found—murdered, mutilated, tagged and addressed
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Fairham Island volume 1
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After a painful divorce, Maisey Lazarow returns to the small island off the North Carolina coast where she grew up. Upon finding a box of old photographs, Maisey and her brother Keith begin to uncover distant memories of a little girl who they believe was their sister. Their mother claims there was no sister, but Maisey is convinced there was. So where is she now?
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When Deborah Knott's terminally ill aunt, Rachel, is found smothered to death in her bed at a hospice center, all of her Colleton County kith and kin are shocked. Who kills a dying woman? As Deborah and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, try to find Rachel's killer, they cross paths with the Designated Daughters, a support group for caregivers, not all of whom are women. Rachel's flamboyant daughter, Sally, is a member, and when a con artist...
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Judge Deborah Knott, having doubts about her impending marriage, decides to get some breathing room by agreeing to fill in for a vacationing judge in Cedar Gap, a community about five hours from her home, but she arrives just in time to preside over a murder case, and soon her theories about the killing put her own life in danger.
87) What comes after
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, but the hardest thing to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
88) Carolina moon
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The tale of a North Carolina madam, Quee Purdy, a voluptuous widow in her sixties for whom love and sex are hot commodities in which she deals. She owns Quee's Palace, specializing in repairing broken hearts, alterations and massages.
89) Summer's child
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"Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea--an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria. Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend...
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Deborah Knott mysteries volume 4
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Judge Deborah Knott looks into the murder of Dallas Stancil and finds that several people could have something to do with his death now that his land is worth a fortune.
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When Leslie Nichols returns to North Carolina after a thirty-year absence to claim the the tobacco farm left to her by her estranged grandmother Maggie, she's planning to be rid it as soon as possible, even though Peak Plantation has been in her family for generations. Leslie hopes that sundering ties with the farm will also let her separate herself from her disturbing memories of her mother's death, her father's disgrace, and her unhappy childhood....
92) Hard row
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"As Judge Deborah Knott presides over a case involving a barroom brawl, it become clear that deep resentments over race, class, and illegal immigration are summering just below the surface inColleton County." - Back cover
93) Cross justice
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Alex Cross novels volume 23
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"Alex Cross left his hometown, and some awful family tragedies, for a better life with Nana Mama in Washington, DC. He hasn't looked back. Now his cousin is accused of an unthinkable murder, and Cross returns to Starksville, North Carolina, for the first time in thirty-five years. But truth is hard to come by in a town where no one feels safe to speak. Chasing ghosts takes Cross to the sugarcane fields of Florida, where he's pulled into a case needing...
95) Running lean
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Told from their separate viewpoints, Calvin Greenlee copes with grief over his brother's recent death by racing his vintage Yamaha on rural North Carolina streets while his girlfriend, Stacey Youngblood, battles anexoria, and their relationship may not survive the strain.
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Suzanne Hart, owner of Donut Hearts in April Springs, North Carolina, cannot help but get involved in the investigation when Darlene Higgins, the woman responsible for the break-up of her marriage, is found stabbed to death at the winter carnival and her ex-husband Max becomes the main suspect.
97) Mortal sins
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FBI agent Lily Yu and her werewolf lover are embroiled in a series of murders, each linked to a form of dangerous "death magic."
98) First frost
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"Autumn has finally arrived in the small town of Bascom, North Carolina, heralded by a strange old man appearing with a beat-up suitcase. He has stories to tell, stories that could change the lives of the Waverley women forever. But the Waverleys have enough trouble on their hands. Quiet Claire Waverley has started a successful new venture, Waverley's Candies, but it's nothing like she thought it would be, and it's slowly taking over her life. Claire's...
99) Flash and bones
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Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 14
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"A body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to Lowes Motor Speedway near Charlotte just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for race week. The next day, a NASCAR crew member shares with Tempe a devastating story. Twelve years earlier his sister, Cyndi Gamble, then a high school senior who wanted to be a professional racecar driver, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right wing extremists known...
100) Belles
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Belles volume 1
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2012.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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Fifteen-year-old Isabelle loves her impoverished North Carolina beach community, but when her grandmother must enter a nursing home, Izzie is placed with distant relatives she never knew--a state senator and his preppy wife and children.
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