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1) The pawn
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Special Agent Patrick Bowers had only met one man who made him truly afraid. Until now. When he's called to North Carolina to consult on the case of an area serial killer, he finds himself in a deadly game. Cunning and lethal, the killer is always one step ahead of the law, and he's about to strike again. It will take all of Bowers's instincts and training to stop this man who calls himself the Illusionist. And just when the pieces start to come together,...
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Lucy Stone mystery volume Book 24
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Besides the annual Turkey Trot 5K on Thanksgiving Day, Lucy expects the approaching holiday to be a relatively uneventful oneuntil she finds beautiful Alison Franklin dead and frozen in Blueberry Pond. No one knows much about Alison, except that she was the daughter of wealthy investor Ed Franklin and struggled quietly with drug addiction.
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Hannah Swensen mystery volume Book 14
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When someone shoots visiting Lutheran minister Matthew Walters, Hannah Swenson and cronies investigate Matthew's background, especially his relationship to his creepy, paroled convict cousin, Paul.
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Home Repair is Homicide mystery volume Book 15
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Renovating her husband's long-neglected woodland cabin in Maine, Jake and her friend, Ellie, are vengefully targeted by an escaped prisoner who takes advantage of flooded road conditions.
6) Star flight
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In 1938, Hollywood's most beloved glamour girl drowned during a scandalous love affair. Now her granddaughter Lauren has been drawn into the past by the death of her husband at the same ill-fated lake.
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Growing up in the foster system, Quinn O'Meara made a point of never getting involved. When she discovers a crying baby amid a fiery crime scene, she knows she has no choice. Suddenly in way over her head, Quinn turns to the police, unintentionally positioning herself in the crosshairs of a deadly child trafficking ring.
8) Trap door
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Home repair is homicide mystery volume Book 10
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When Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree left behind her high-powered, high-risk career on Wall Street for the charming town of Eastport, Maine, she expected a quiet life spent fixing up her 1823 Federal-style house. But there are skeletons in her closet that may prove beyond repair...Suddenly the perils of the stock market pale in comparison to the murder, mayhem, and mystery of remodeling.
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Death by chocolate mystery volume Book 3
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"When a pirate festival blows into their small town, bakeshop owners Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree and her best friend Ellie White expect they'll be busy baking up a storm, but instead they find themselves marooned in a new murder investigation after someone kills a well-known food writer and TV personality . . ." --
10) Catch as cat can
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A Mrs. Murphy mystery volume Book 10
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It was the second body that aroused suspicion. The first victim, Roger O'Bannon, had a fast-and-loose life style that would have killed a lesser man. But when Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen hears that a second corpse has turned up, she begins to suspect that the high mortality rate in Crozet, Virginia, is not exactly natural. Of course, Haristeen's investigations are enhanced once again by her very active feline menagerie, including the peerless "Mrs....
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Home repair is homicide mystery volume Book 14
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Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree discovers that the past she thought she'd laid to rest comes calling at her lovingly restored 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. Back in her days as a hotshot financial manager she did business with plenty of shady characters, but she's still baffled as to the identity of her nemesis--until she receives a photo of a murdered man.
12) Bitter medicine
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A V.I. Warshawski mystery volume Book 4
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V.I. Warshawski is confronted with the mysterious death of a young woman at a local hospital and the preliminary investigation produces horrifying results.
13) Crawlspace
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Home repair is homicide mystery volume Book 13
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Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree abandoned Wall Street to its bankruptcies and bailouts for a far more rewarding life fixing up an 1823 Federal-style house in Eastport, Maine. But in Sarah Graves's chilling new mystery thriller, Jake discovers that no matter what your address, the most terrifying crimes always hit closest to home.
The infamous Dodd murders are hardly among Eastport's proudest legacies. So when bestselling true-crime author Carolyn Rathbone...
14) Amethyst dreams
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Laurie Phillips is summoned to a historic seaport town after her best friend disappears without a trace, leaving behind a critically ill grandfather and suspicious group of relatives who now stand to inherit his money.
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"In the center of historic Edinburgh, builders are preparing to convert a disused Victorian Gothic building into luxury flats. They are understandably surprised to find skeletal remains hidden in a high pinnacle that hasn't been touched by maintenance for years. But who do the bones belong to, and how did they get there? Could the eccentric British pastime of free climbing the outside of buildings play a role? Enter cold case detective Karen Pirie,...
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When Phileas Fogg read in his newspaper that it was possible to travel around the world in only eighty days, his friends laughed. "It can't be done!" said one. So Phileas Fogg set out to prove it could. He insisted he was prepared for anything - but he can't have expected to be chased around the world by a policeman. Detective Fix is convinced Fogg has stolen a lot of money and he's determined to stop him at any cost. Text has been adapted for...
17) State of shock
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First family volume 4
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"This story picks up right where State of the Union left off with another wild ride for the First Couple as they navigate work, family and an all new and extra baffling murder mystery that has Sam pushing the boundaries to get answers before a killer can strike again. Meanwhile, Nick contends with the aftermath of his landmark State of the Union address as a person from his past threatens to undo all the progress he?s made since assuming the presidency."--Page...
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A Sharon McCone mystery volume Book 8
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Private eye Sharon McCone takes on a routine surveillance as a favor to a long-time client of her employer, the All-Souls Law Co-operative. Soon, however, the routine case turns into a murder investigation and leads to San Francisco's upper-class social activists.
19) Far gone
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To save her only brother, Andrea Finch must face down a criminal mastermind, the FBI, and her own demons in this thrilling novel from the author of the bestselling Tracers series.
20) Orchid
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Psychic romance novelist Orchid Adams has yet to meet her match on the space colony of St. Helen's--until an assignment with a lone-wolf private investigator puts her mind and her heart on a collision course.
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