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Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles series volume 4
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their bestselling crime-solving streak.
“Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”—Harlan Coben
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms...
“Crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best.”—Harlan Coben
Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles is shocked to discover that the murdered woman looks exactly like her. For Maura, an only child, a DNA test confirms...
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If you sense someone’s watching you from afar, or if you feel a shadow other than your own at your back, I might as well pack it up and call it a day.
It’s a job that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can’t be touched by the law.
Now, after nineteen years...
It’s a job that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can’t be touched by the law.
Now, after nineteen years...
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Little, Brown and Company
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English
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Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal murder of her former master, is sent to an isolated farm to await execution. Horrified at the prospect of housing a convicted murderer, the family at first avoids Agnes. Only Tóti, a priest Agnes has mysteriously chosen to be her spiritual guardian, seeks to understand her. But as Agnes's death looms, the farmer's wife and their...
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When a woman murders a former lover and is imprisoned for life, her daughter must navigate a new reality--that of a series of foster homes, each its own universe, each with its own limits and dangers.
A Los Angeles girl whose mother goes to jail is taken in hand by the city's foster-care program and the novel describes her experience in a series of homes, each a new adventure.
Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed...
8) Still waters
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Mark Lapslie mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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English
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Set in the magical Wessex landscape so familiar from Thomas Hardy's early work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is unique among his great novels for the intense feeling that he lavished upon his heroine, Tess, a pure woman betrayed by love. Hardy poured all of his profound empathy for both humanity and the rhythms of natural life into this story of her beauty, goodness, and tragic fate. In so doing, he created a character who, like Emma Bovary and Anna...
15) Flashpoint
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HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
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In Cincinnati, policewoman Sonora Blair becomes the target of a female serial killer she is tracking. The novel features telephone conversations between the two women, who are after the same man. When Blair sleeps with him, it's war.
16) Presumed guilty
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Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
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When her former lover is found stabbed to death in her bed with one of her knives, Miranda Wood finds herself the prime suspect in and charged with the crime, until she is released on bail that has been paid by a mysterious, unknown benefactor. .
17) Fred & Edie
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Welcome Rain Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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English
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"A sharp, biting, and irresistible debut about parties and ambition in New York City--introducing a talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, with all the glitz and grit of Bright Lights, Big City. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Louise Wilson is an expert at just barely making it. She's mastered the tricks and shortcuts that a penniless small-town girl needs to survive in New York City. When she meets the beautiful, wealthy, eccentric,...
19) Cally's war
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Baen
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Cally O'Neal has spent her life becoming an incomparable assassin, but as she ventures out of the world of shadow identities and murder-for-hire in order to reclaim her life, her former employers and old enemies try to stop her.
20) Tell me
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson creates her most electrifying thriller to date, as a mother's unspeakable crime sparks a new killing spree. The most hated woman in Savannah, Georgia, is about to be set free. Twenty years ago, Blondell O'Henry was convicted of murdering her eldest daughter and wounding her two other children. The prosecution argued that beautiful, selfish Blondell wanted to be rid of them to be with her lover. Now Blondell's...
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