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5821) The verdict
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Taking a high-profile murder case that may make his career, Terry Flynt is forced to confront secrets from the past when he discovers that his millionaire client, who is a former friend, brutally betrayed him years earlier.
5822) The clasp
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English
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"Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls "perfectly, relentlessly funny" Kezia, Nathaniel, and Victor are reunited for the extravagant wedding of a college friend. Now at the tail end of their twenties, they arrive completely absorbed in their own lives Kezia the second-in-command to a madwoman jewelry designer in Manhattan; Nathaniel the former literary cool kid, selling his wares in Hollywood;...
5823) Deck the hounds
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 18
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English
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"Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter doesn't usually stop to help others, but seeing a dog next to a homeless man inspires him to give the pair some money to help. It's just Andy's luck that things don't end there. Soon after Andy's encounter with them, man and dog are attacked in the middle of the night on the street. The dog defends its new owner, and the erstwhile attacker is bitten but escapes. But the dog is quarantined and the man, Don Carrigan,...
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Kate Shugak mysteries volume 20
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English
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The villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana sit across the river from each other, but Kuskulana's always thrived while Kushtaka is slowly dying out. One hundred years of bad blood between the communties threaten to come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopin gets the unenviable task of investigating -- difficult since members of both tribes refuse to speak to Jim, and yet also critical...
5825) Daughter of war: a novel
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 13
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English
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"Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called...
5826) Death with a double edge
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English
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"Daniel Pitt's investigation into his colleague's murder leads him through London's teeming underbelly to one of the Royal Navy's most powerful shipbuilders in a thrilling novel from New York Times bestselling author Anne Perry"--
5827) Shadow play
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English
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"Eve Duncan is the most sought-after artist in the field of forensic sculpting. Dedicated to her work ever since her daughter Bonnie was taken and killed at the age of seven, Eve feels a sense of duty to those whose lives were lost and whose bones are now in her hands. When a sheriff in California contacts her with a request for help on the reconstruction of the skull of a nine-year-old girl whose body has been buried for eight years, his intensity...
5830) Vagabond
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"MI5 officer Winnie Monks has never forgotten - or forgiven - the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army Major turned gangster. Now, ten years later, she learns that the Major is travelling to a villa on the popular Spanish holiday destination Costa del Sol, and she asks permission to send in a surveillance unit. They find an empty property near the Major's: the Villa Paraiso. It's perfect to spy from - and as a base...
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Hanne Wilhelmsen novels volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In a foster home outside Oslo, a twelve-year-old boy is causing havoc. The institution's steely director, Agnes Vestavik, sees something chilling in Olav's eyes: sheer hatred. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk, stabbed in the back with an Ikea kitchen knife--with Olav nowhere to be found--the case goes to maverick investigator Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to chief inspector in the Oslo Police. Could the child be a murderer? As police...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the eighth in the New York Times bestselling series by the author of Dark Chocolate Demise, the Fairy Tale Cupcake crew goes double or nothing in Vegas...Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are taking a gamble by opening their first franchise of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes Bakery, so where better to hit the jackpot than in Vegas? Business manager Tate Harper has lined up a meeting with Holly Hartzmark, a former showgirl whos looking to bring Mel and Angies...
5833) Independence Hall
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"Step-siblings Q (Quest) and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she's being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother--a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist group. But who are the good guys and who are the bad guys"--Cover, P. [4].
Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his...
5834) Inferno: una novela
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Pub. Date
2013
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Español
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"In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history's most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dante's Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science"--Provided by publisher.
5835) Rustication: a novel
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down--'rusticated'--from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading...
5836) Start shooting: a novel
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five years after a gruesome murder rocked Chicago, a local newspaper runs an exposé on new evidence in the case, a smear campaign that stirs up bad blood for officer Bobby Vargas and his brother Ruben, a high-ranking detective.
5837) Ruin Falls: a novel
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When their children mysteriously vanish while on the way to visit their paternal grandparents in western New York, Liz and Paul Daniels soon discover that it was no stranger who took their children and must unravel a twisted web of secrets to find them.
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Series
Joanna Brady mysteries volume 17
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English
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While cleaning her dying mother's home, Liza finds a fortune in hundred dollar bills hidden amongst the hoards of books and magazines in every corner. Tracing its origins will take Liza on a journey that will end in Cochise County, where Sheriff Joanna Brady is embroiled in a personal mystery of her own. A man she considers a family friend is found dead at the bottom of a hole in a limestone cavern. Now with the mystery of Liza and the money, Joanna...
5839) El sexto hombre =
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Español
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Edgar Roy, presunto asesino en serie confinado en un centro federal de máxima seguridad, está a la espera de juicio. Su condena parece segura. El abogado de Roy, Ted Bergin, viejo amigo y mentor de Sean King, pide ayuda a este y a michelle Maxwell. Pero la investigación queda desbaratada antes de empezar camino de su primera reunión con Bergin, puesto que Sean y Michelle se lo encuentran muerto. Ahora serán ellos quienes tendrán que responder...
5840) High tide
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A rising star at a Manhattan corporation, Fiona Burkenhalter accompanies the handsome Ace Montgomery on a fishing expedition in the Florida Everglades to handle a new account. After they become embroiled in a murder and end up being Florida's most wanted couple, they desperately search for the real killer, while an irresistible chemistry flares between them.
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