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"Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, an auditing of the British Secret Service "to investigate historical over-reaching." Monochrome's mission was to ferret out any hint of misconduct by any MI5 officer--and allowed Griselda Fleet and Malcolm Kyle, the two civil servants seconded to the project, unfettered access to any and all confidential information in the Service archives in order to do so. But MI5's formidable...
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Josie Ashbury was a successful Hollywood actress with a booming career-until an on-set breakdown sends her back to her small Ohio hometown to recover. Taking a job teaching at her old high school, Josie is beginning to put the pieces of her life back together when one of her students dies under suspicious circumstances. The police close the case quickly, without any real answers. Josie is determined to find the truth behind the girl's death.At the...
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Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries--one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. When a job goes bad in New York, they head west to wait for the heat to cool down. There, a young woman named Tilda Rosenbloom hires them on behalf of wealthy landowner, Shepherd Mansfield, to track and kill a demon haunting a mansion in remote northern California. As Ford and Neuland investigate the creature they uncover...
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Winter Black series Season two volume 2
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When Private Detective Winter Black-Dalton receives a slew of messages from a mother desperate to protect her children after a traumatizing divorce, she takes the case without hesitation. Not only is it a welcome distraction from unpacking boxes, but Winter hopes to assuage the guilt still fusing her to her past. She should have known better. But the more Winter investigates, she fears something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface. And when...
6) Reflection
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In this suspense novel by the bestselling author of The Devil’s Advocate, a Catskills realtor’s life begins to unravel after discovering her doppelganger.Cynthia Palmer Warner is worried her imagination is running away with her. Her husband, Stephen, and brother, Jason, are working long hours to grow the Palmer family business, and Jason’s misogynistic attitude seems to be wearing off on Stephen. Stephen is antagonizing his wife more and more...
7) Let Her Pray
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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...
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"Peter Driscoll, an underground investigator to the wealthy, has never met anyone like Lily Temple. The beautiful silent-film actress spins fairy tales and plays frivolous roles in front of the cine-camera, but beneath the costumes and stage makeup is a woman with a quick wit--and a murky past. Peter has been tasked with locating the legendary Briarwood Teardrop, an exquisite sapphire, which Lily wears beneath her gown. In order to stay close to her...
9) Let Her Try
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Fiona Red volume 10
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When victims of a new serial killer are found with butterflies on their bodies, expert FBI forensic examiner and entomologist Fiona Red is summoned to find the link between the insects, and to outwit this killer before he strikes again....LET HER TRY is book #10 in a long-anticipated new series by #1 bestseller and USA Today bestselling author Blake Pierce, whose bestseller Once Gone (a free download) has received over 7,000 five star ratings and...
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"Obsessed with the idea that her sister's death was not a suicide, Sawyer, when she learns Willa was writing an explosive true crime book about the decades-old disappearance of a toddler, traces Willa's steps into a community where the truth could destroy her as easily as it did her sister"--
Its not that they've been all that close in the past few years, but sisters Willa and Sawyer Stannard are bonded by the ups and downs of the life they've lived...
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"With her new husband George busy on a special mission for the British Museum, Frances has taken on an assignment of her own. The dowager Viscountess Winstead needs someone to sponsor her niece, Kate, for presentation to Queen Victoria. Frances -- who understands society's quirks and constraints as only an outsider can -- is the perfect candidate. Kate is charming and intelligent, though perhaps not quite as sheltered as she might first appear. More...
12) Killing moon
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Detective Harry Hole volume 13
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"Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual signature left by the killer, giving them reason to suspect he will strike again. And exposing him calls for a detective like no other. But the legendary Harry Hole is gone--fired from the force, drinking himself to oblivion in Los Angeles. It seems that nothing...
13) The Bone House
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A Slayton Thriller volume Volume 3
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Embla Books
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2023.
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When hundreds of birds fall from the sky into Slayton's lake in a terrifying freak event, the waters are dredged - revealing a dark, long-held secret. An old pram is pulled from the depths, with the bones of a baby still strapped inside. It's the moment that new mother, Cora, has been dreading since she moved to Slayton - because someone knows, and is going to make her pay. With the help of forensic anthropologist Sophia Hudson, and the extraordinary...
14) Pilate's Blood
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The John Pilate Mystery volume Book 4
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Caroline Street Press
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2012.
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You can’t go home again…without a loaded gun.John Pilate returns to tiny Cross Township, a mutant Mayberry crushed under the rule of a hillbilly crime boss……and there's nobody to deal with it but Pilate and a ragtag band of oddballs, friends, and family. Sure, things could work out just fine...then again, it may come down to spilling Pilate's Blood...Pilate's Blood is the page-turning fourth book in the award-winning John...
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Del Rey
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[2023]
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"Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens' Empire. But when she is accused of a murder she didn't commit, her reign is thrown into turmoil. She must solve the mystery and clear her name without the support of her beloved, Sylah. Sylah braves new lands to find a solution for the hurricane that threatens to destroy her home. But in finding answers, she must make a decision: Should she sacrifice her old life in order to raise up her sword...
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Three Fold Suns volume Book 4
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Lewis Bros. Press
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2023
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A desperate race to unravel the secrets of Epo-5.Mahia Orion is playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Up against the Commandant of the InterGalactic Justice System, Mahia will have to confront her family’s dark past and the role they have played in the rise of the Sun Worshipers.But she isn’t the only Orion looking for answers.With enemies at every turn, Mahia will have to navigate a treacherous web of secrets, lies, and truths long buried....
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Hallowed Halls volume Volume 1
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Love Inspired
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[2022]
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They were a match made in the hallowed halls of Quantico. Until Death came knocking…Seven years ago, FBI Profiler Megan Iluak tapped into the mind of a serial killer—and nearly became his last victim. Her FBI colleague and then husband, Jack, put everything he had into finding the killer, but the case took its toll on Megan and Jack and destroyed their marriage. With her heart in shambles, Megan fled to the small Inuit village where she was from...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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"Twenty years ago, a nine-year-old boy was swept away by powerful waves on a remote Oregon beach, his body lost to the sea. Only a stone memorial remains to mark his tragic death. For most of her life, Amanda Dufresne had no idea she had an older brother named Dennis Owens, or that he had died. Adopted as a baby, she learned about him while looking into her late birth mother, and is curious to know more about this lost sibling. A solitary young woman,...
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Raven Street
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2024.
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The man lay on his front, his arms and legs bound and pulled up with a rope connecting the two. His head was arched back, so he faced the curtains, and there was masking tape over his mouth. Erika gingerly reached out and checked his pulse.Yep. Dead all right.When Detective Erika Foster finds politician Neville Lomas naked, hog-tied, and dead in his own bed, skittish higher-ups at the Met quickly rule the death from natural causes. Case closed . ....