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2023
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Author of the books that inspired True Blood on HBO and Midnight, Texas on NBC
Newspaper reporter Catherine Linton ignored her investigative instincts when her parents died in a mysterious car crash six months ago — grief obscuring the warning signs that something was amiss. But when she discovers the beaten body of her father’s nurse on Linton property, Catherine quickly realizes her parents’ death was no accident.
Though...
Newspaper reporter Catherine Linton ignored her investigative instincts when her parents died in a mysterious car crash six months ago — grief obscuring the warning signs that something was amiss. But when she discovers the beaten body of her father’s nurse on Linton property, Catherine quickly realizes her parents’ death was no accident.
Though...
3) Skin Dancer
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2022
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In the deep quiet of the South Dakota wilderness, a killer is on the loose. The victims are poachers and professional hunters. Their skinned and beheaded corpses are left hanging upside down. Rookie Criss County Deputy Rachel Redmond, a young woman with a troubled past and a need to prove herself, must find the killer.Native American legend speaks of a Sioux warrior who took too much pride in his ability to kill. The gods punished him by taking his...
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"Feisty, passionate Beatrice Steele has never fit the definition of a true lady, according to the strict code of conduct that reigns in Swampshire, her small English township—she is terrible at needlework, has absolutely no musical ability, and her artwork is so bad it frightens people. Nevertheless, she lives a perfectly agreeable life with her marriage-scheming mother, prankster father, and two younger sisters— beautiful Louisa and forgettable...
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It’s beginning to look a lot like murder in the sixth installment of this charming cozy mystery series, perfect for fans of Donna Andrews and Jacqueline Frost.
It’s the beginning of December in Rudolph, New York, America's Christmas Town, and business is brisk at Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, a gift and décor shop owned by Merry Wilkinson. The local amateur dramatic society is intensely preparing a special musical...
It’s the beginning of December in Rudolph, New York, America's Christmas Town, and business is brisk at Mrs. Claus’s Treasures, a gift and décor shop owned by Merry Wilkinson. The local amateur dramatic society is intensely preparing a special musical...
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Alex Morrow novels volume 5
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Detective Alex Morrow discovers that the darkest secrets never stay buried as she investigates the criminal underbelly of a seemingly tranquil seaside town.
For reasons she can't quite explain, Alex Morrow is addicted to watching surveillance footage of Roxanna Fuentecilla--a gorgeous Spanish mother of two, in a tempestuous relationship with her boyfriend, who recently relocated to Glasgow under mysterious circumstances. She is also Morrow's prime...
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Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation-and into the path of a killer.
Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper....
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A three-hundred-year-old house should be full of metaphorical skeletons, not real ones. But when Paisley Sutton is invited in to salvage the valuables from the attic of an old plantation house, she finds more than she expected amongst the Christmas decorations and trunks of old letters. As she begins to research, she discovers the story of this house has ties to almost everyone she knows, including her own family. Can Paisley be brave enough to face...
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Evidence that an aristocrat has gone missing-and was possibly murdered-near Sandringham House sets Queen Elizabeth II on the path to discover unsavory family secrets and much more in this new installment of the series the New York Times Book Review calls "sheer entertainment."
Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand...
10) Sa Dernière Peur
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De jeunes victimes en bonne santé sont découvertes mortes dans le désert du Nouveau-Mexique, leur corps mis en scène de façon théâtrale. Rachel s'engage dans une course contre la montre pour retrouver le tueur... même si cela implique de se prêter au jeu de ses fantasmes tordus.
L'agent spécial Rachel Gift compte parmi les agents les plus brillants du FBI. Sa mission : traquer les tueurs en série. Elle sait déjà qu'elle y consacrera...
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Années 1920. New York. La mort brutale d'un riche homme blanc à Harlem avive les tensions raciales à travers la ville. Ava doit se replonger dans sa vie passée, dans les clubs de jazz et les bars clandestins de New York, et se battre contre la montre avant que dans la ville tout entière, extrêmement tendue, n'explosent des émeutes raciales.
LA VILLE DE LA MORT (Un Roman Policier Ava Gold - Tome 5) est le cinquième d'une nouvelle série...
12) Stolen in Love
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2022
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Kim Xavier steals things. She can't help it. Recovering from her shoplifting addiction has never been easy, but she's giving it a shot. When she comes home to a ransacked apartment, Kim knows she's finally taken the wrong thing from the wrong person. And she can't tell the police-especially not the cop whose heart she broke months ago.Scott Culpepper wants Kim Xavier. He can't help it. Ever since he met the smart-mouthed woman while on patrol in New...
13) Below the Fold
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Oceanview Publishing
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2023
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English
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When the murder of a "nobody" triggers an avalanche.
Every human life is supposed to be important. Everyone should matter. But that's not the case in the cutthroat TV news-rating world where Clare Carlson works. Sex, money, and power sell. Only murder victims of the right social strata are considered worth covering. Not the murder of a "nobody."
So, when the battered body of a homeless woman named Dora Gayle is found on the streets of New York...
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Kensington Publishing Corp.
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2022
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"There's nothing like a makeover story to get people hooked, and America is certainly addicted to the weight-loss saga of once celebrated actress Dona Papalardo. Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid is no exception although she can't imagine wanting to shed her own hourglass figure by undergoing gastric bypass surgery like Dona did. After Dona's personal assistant is shot dead in the star's mile-long driveway, Savannah becomes her bodyguard. The victim was...
15) Juste moi
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Avec ses tatouages et ses piercings, Cami Lark, génie de l'informatique au MIT, rebelle et anti-autoritaire, s'attire de gros ennuis lorsqu'elle pirate le FBI. Confrontée au choix de la prison ou d'aider la BAU à traquer des tueurs en série, Cami s'engage à contrecœur. Pourtant, lorsqu'elle doit traquer un tueur qui a un penchant pour la réalité augmentée, et que la vie de ses futures victimes est en jeu, Cami a peut-être trouvé plus que...
16) Girl, Trapped
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FBI Agent Ella Dark has studied serial killers from the time she could read, devastated by the murder of her own sister, and has gained an encyclopedic knowledge of murderers. But when Ella investigates a murder and realizes this is no ordinary dead body, she is at a loss: it's pieced together with parts of multiple victims. How many people has this killer killed? And can Ella discover who did this-and why-before time runs out?
GIRL, TRAPPED (An...
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A murder in a garden turns the four new owners of Yon Bonnie Books into amateur detectives, in a captivating new cozy mystery novel from Molly MacRae.
Set in the weeks before the annual Inversgail Literature Festival in Scotland, Plaid and Plagiarism begins on a morning shortly after the four women take possession of their bookshop in the Highlands. Unfortunately, the move to Inversgail hasn't gone as smoothly as they'd planned.
First, Janet Marsh...
18) Just Hope
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With her tattoos and piercings, MIT tech genius Cami Lark is rebellious and anti-authoritarian-and finds herself in deep trouble when she hacks the FBI. Faced with the choice of prison or aiding the BAU hunt down serial killers, Cami reluctantly partners. Yet a new case has Cami in over her head: a serial killer is tracking women in a mysterious way, biding his time before taking them and taunting the FBI. Cami wants to outsmart him-but she realizes...
19) Herald
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Rhys and Catrin contend with betrayal and insurrection as they resume their duties in the king's court ...
September 1284. Within moments of rejoining the king's company, Rhys and Catrin learn King Edward has not only melted down the silver seal of their murdered prince and turned it into a chalice, but the chalice itself has gone missing a matter of days before its intended consecration at Vale Royal Abbey.
Assigned to find the culprit, they discover...
20) With Vengeance
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FBI Special Agent Maeve Sharp, a rising star in the BAU, decides to leave behind a shining career when she transfers to Las Vegas to come back home to her dying mother and incarcerated brother. But the Vegas field office needs her when victims of a new killer are found, some thrown from the tallest buildings. What is the missing link? And who will this killer target next?
"A brilliant book. I couldn't put it down and I never guessed who the murderer...
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