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21) Faking it
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English
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Matilda Goodnight and Davy Dempsy are both trying to get the upper hand with gold-digging Clea Lewis, but they forge a temporary alliance to take on an inept art collector, an exasperated hitman, and a seductive femme fatale.
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"In this thrilling new series from Edgar-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator in the Maine wilderness walks on two feet-and it is Danny Barrett's job to bring him down. Something is not right in the North Maine Woods. A small family-run lumber company should not have more than two hundred million unaccountable dollars on their books. Money like that comes from moving something other than wood across the border. The first agent...
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Series
Riley Mack volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Riley Mack and his friends, Briana, Mongo, Jake and Jamal outwit the school bully, solve the mystery of who stole the goldendoodle named Poodle, and get evidence to help the FBI catch bank robbers.
24) A twist of fate
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English
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When Kane Webster buys First Puget Bank, he knows he is buying trouble. Someone is embezzling funds, and the evidence points to the one woman he can't have. Kane never expected to feel such an intense attraction to Erin O'Toole -- or to fall in love with her. After her divorce, Erin has no desire to get involved with anyone, especially not her new boss. But she can't resist Kane Webster. Soon she's swept into a passionate affair with a man she barely...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Once-popular Rob and overachiever Maegan, both dealing with serious family issues, quickly form a bond that is threatened when Rob confides plans to repair damage his father caused.
When his dad is caught embezzling funds from half the town, Rob goes from popular lacrosse player to social pariah. Even worse, his father's failed suicide attempt leaves Rob and his mother responsible for his care. Everyone thinks of Maegan as a typical overachiever,...
26) Scarlet Street
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Publisher
Front Row Entertainment Canada, Inc
Pub. Date
�2001
Language
English
Description
A timid and unassuming middle-aged bookkeeper is pulled into a world of crime and deception by a seductive woman and her manipulative boyfriend.
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fortune from her children's private school and makes a run for it, leaving behind her trust fund poet husband, his maybe-secret lover, her two daughters, and a school board who will do anything to find her. Marion Palm prefers not to think of herself as a thief but rather "a woman who embezzles." Over the years she has managed to steal $180,000 from her...
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Dez Limerick novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the highly praised The Gatekeeper, Dez Limerick, one of the best new thriller heroes returns.
Desmond Aloysius Limerick ("Dez" to his friends and close personal enemies) is a man with a shadowy past, certain useful hard-won skills, and, if one digs deep enough, a reputation as a good man to have at your back. Now retired from his previous life, Dez is just a bloke with a winning smile, a bass guitar, and bullet wounds that paint...