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Fiona Red, a brilliant but quirky FBI loner, spends most of her time in the lab or at crime scenes. She comes from a family used to being around death and bodies, her parents having run a funeral parlor, and she would have run the family business if not for a tragedy in her past: her sister was abducted when she was a teenager, and never found. Fiona remains determined to crack her sister’s case. But in the meantime, as an FBI agent, she applies...

From beyond the grave, Ashton’s mother leaves a mysterious legacy that upends her world. Eileen Darby, the heiress to the Merriweather fortune, has entrusted her oldest daughter with the family's waterfront estate on Catawba Sound in South Carolina's Lowcountry, bequeathing virtually nothing to her other three children. This lavish bequest is more than a gift; it's a cryptic message, a puzzle interlaced with the troubled history of their dysfunctional...

"Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways. But is it the work of a human killer . . . or something far darker? She and her younger sister live by a strict set of rules designed to keep them safe--which is why it's such a shock when Hope is taken. Desperate to get her back, Abby tells the police everything she knows, but they...

"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, a cosplaying thief at an anime expo has stolen a valuable print belonging to the celebrity that shy thirteen-year-old Bree Wong has come to meet. She hopes that she'll get a face-to-face with her idol if she can catch the culprit and recover the stolen print."--

"The wild west becomes even wilder as violence erupts over booze in the Texas town of Red Horse. A play, The Devil's Brew, which demands the abolition of liquor, is greeted with gunfire. The author is brutally murdered, and the cast threatened with death by the appearance of devil dolls. Detective Rance Dehner quickly discovers that no one in the cast of the play believes in abolition. They are struggling actors trying to make a living. But powerful...

The Thea Sisters are in Russia for a figure-skating championship! When their new friend is falsely accused of theft and barred from competing, the five mice resolve to clear her name. Along the way, they discover ancient love letters that could be the key to finding the real culprit! But can they solve the mystery in time?

When a shadowy enemy rises from the dead, and the heavy hand of a guilty past weighs on his marriage, John Pilate must master his own fear and marshal his resources to defend his family and his life. Soon he discovers he isn't the only one fighting a desperate battle, and that not all ghosts from his past are hostile ... Book 3 of the acclaimed John Pilate Mysteries.

"Ex-cop, ex-con Bruno Johnson stumbles into a criminal organization that exploits women and children—he must fight his way out and homeBruno Johnson is hiding out from the U.S. law in Costa Rica with his pregnant wife, Marie, and the ten kids they rescued from toxic homes in South Central Los Angeles. When Marie encounters a difficult labor and delivery, their good friend Dr. Vargas rescues both her and Bruno's infant son. So Bruno feels indebted...